OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 46. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Unusual Guide-binding Pockets in RNA-targeting pAgo Nucleases	333
Editorial Board	318
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Extracellular uncoating of bacteriophage MS2	112
Structural and Functional Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence Factor AaaA, an Autotransporter with Arginine-Specific Aminopeptidase Activity	100
Kinetic Investigation of Resistance to Islatravir Conferred by Mutations in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase	95
Solution Structural Studies of Pre-amyloid Oligomer States of the Biofilm Protein Aap	90
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Gasdermins	87
Identification of Functional Spo0A Residues Critical for Sporulation in Clostridioides difficile	86
IIFS2.0: An Improved Incremental Feature Selection Method for Protein Sequence Processing Based on a Caching Strategy	86
The Biofilm Regulatory Network from Bacillus subtilis: A Structure-Function Analysis	86
Gasdermin D and Beyond – Gasdermin-mediated Pyroptosis in Bacterial Infections	85
Membrane-associated mRNAs: A Post-transcriptional Pathway for Fine-turning Gene Expression	78
Molecular Basis of Interchain Disulfide Bond Formation in BMP-9 and BMP-10	75
An Alternative Role of RluD in the Fidelity of Translation Initiation in Escherichia coli	74
Site-specific Phosphorylation of Histone H3K36 Methyltransferase Set2p and Demethylase Jhd1p is Required for Stress Responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	72
Misfolding-Associated Exposure of Natively Buried Residues in Mutant SOD1 Facilitates Binding to TRAF6	72
Intein-based Design Expands Diversity of Selenocysteine Reporters	70
Coevolution-Guided Mapping of the Type VI Secretion Membrane Complex-Baseplate Interface	64
Respiratory Syncytial Virus NS1 Protein Targets the Transactivator Binding Domain of MED25	63
Free Energy Landscape of H2A-H2B Displacement From Nucleosome	61

NNDB: An Expanded Database of Nearest Neighbor Parameters for Predicting Stability of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures	61
Step-by-Step Regulation of Productive and Abortive Transcription Initiation by Pyrophosphorolysis	61
Structural Insight Into the Conversion of DhNik1, A Hybrid Histidine Kinase From Debaryomyces hansenii to a Cytotoxic Phosphatase Conformation for Novel Antifungal Agent	61
Structural Basis for Blocked Excited State Proton Transfer in a Fluorescent, Photoacidic Non-Canonical Amino Acid-Containing Antibody Fragment	61
HIV-Induced CPSF6 Condensates	58
Ribosome-nascent Chain Interaction Regulates N-terminal Protein Modification	58
Mechanisms of Gasdermin Recognition by Proteases	58
Mechanisms of PAS Domain Signalling, from Sensing Varied Small Molecules and Peptides to Approved Pharmaceuticals and Use in Optogenetics	58
Single-molecule Tracking and Kinetic Analysis in Living Cells and Multicellular Organisms	58
Decoding Allosteric Effects of Missense Variations in Drug Metabolism: Afrocentric CYP3A4 Alleles Explored	57
Highly Performing Automatic Detection of Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities Using Siamese Architecture	57
MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes	54
RiboVision2: A Web Server for Advanced Visualization of Ribosomal RNAs	53
Improving Signal and Transit Peptide Predictions Using AlphaFold2-predicted Protein Structures	52
Distinct Cis-acting Elements Combinatorically Mediate Co-localization of mRNAs Encoding for Co-translational Interactors in Cytoplasmic Clusters in S. cerevisiae	51
Biomolecular Condensates as Novel Antiviral Targets	49
Doxorubicin Recognition and Transport by the MATE Multidrug Transporter NorM From Vibrio cholerae	49
Amyloid Aggregation Is Potently Slowed Down by Osmolytes Due to Compaction of Partially Folded State	49
ERK Allosteric Activation: The Importance of Two Ordered Phosphorylation Events	48
Pyroptosis, and its Role in Central Nervous System Disease	48
The Disordered MAX N-terminus Modulates DNA Binding of the Transcription Factor MYC:MAX	46