OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biophysical Journal is 34. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying crucial E-protein residues responsible for unusual stability of Zika virus envelope	176
Protein target search diffusion-association/dissociation free energy landscape around DNA binding site with flanking sequences	148
Water-protein interactions as a driver of phase separation, biology, and disease	142
Unraveling the hydration dynamics of ACC1–13K24 with ATP: From liquid to droplet to amyloid fibril	140
Hyperactive deoxy-PIEZO1 shapes the circulatory life cycle of irreversibly sickled cells	103
Sensing membrane voltage by reorientation of dipolar transmembrane peptides	81
Quantitative insights into processivity of an Hsp100 protein disaggregase on folded proteins	78
FRETsael: Nanometer localization of biomolecular interactions using fluorescence lifetime imaging	70
Dry mass photometry of single bacteria using quantitative wavefront microscopy	63
Both the transcriptional activator, Bcd, and repressor, Cic, form small mobile oligomeric clusters	61
Molecular mechanism of regulation of RhoA GTPase by phosphorylation of RhoGDI	59
Enhanced compaction and folding of RNAs in apolar chemical environments	58
Escherichia coli JM109 in LB as a model bacterial system to study magnetic field effect in recombination of non-correlated pair of biologically relevant radicals nitric oxide and superoxide anion in h	58
LIS1, an RNA-binding protein, regulates the physical properties of embryonic stem cells	57
Rapid inducible decay of RNA (RIDR) reveals roles of processing bodies	55
Stem-loop II motif (s2m) structural and dynamical differences between SARS-CoV-2 and b.1.617.2 (Delta) variant	54
Molecular movements underlying voltage-dependent regulation of the CaV2.1 channel	53
Bioluminescent platform for tracking intercellular interactions	51
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) for tracking RNA dynamics in live mammalian cells	48
Spatial parameterization of attachment processes in molecular motor-cargo systems	47
Dissecting the structural basis of Huntingtin pathogenesis: one molecule at the time	46
A proposed mechanism for Vibrio export monitoring polypeptide folding in the ribosome exit tunnel	43
The MIDAS domain of AAA mechanoenzyme MDN1 forms catch bonds with two different substrates	42
Nobias: analyzing anomalous diffusion in single-molecule tracks with nonparametric Bayesian inference	41
Kinetics and spatial organisation of the SRP pathway in live bacteria resolved by single-molecule tracking	41

Structural studies of human FIS1 reveal a dynamic region important for DRP1 recruitment and mitochondrial fission	39
Proline isomerization in molecular dynamics simulations of a proline-rich signaling peptide	39
Motor guidance by long-range communication through the microtubule highway	39
Cooperativity and competition in cortical actin wave formation	38
Kinesin-binding protein remodels the kinesin motor to prevent microtubule-binding	37
Mechanisms of dysfunction in patient-derived cardiomyocytes with the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-myosin binding protein-C e258K mutation	36
Topologies of synthetic gene circuit for optimal fold change activation in bacterial biosensors	36
Changes in cell volume are drivers of plasticity in disordered proteins	35
Measuring the dynamics of glucose-stimulated oxygen consumption in individual pancreatic islets using islet-on-a-chip	35
Direct visualization of TRPV2 intrinsic disordered regions and interactions with cannabinoids	34
Engineered heart tissues for studying twitch tension and inotropic pharmacological interventions	34
The molecular nature of temperature dependence of the TRPM2 channel	34
pH-dependent compaction of intrinsically disordered poly-E motif in titin	34
Hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy-associatedTNNT2 pathogenic variants induce nucleus remodeling in hiPSC-CM models	34