OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 51. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Coevolution-Guided Mapping of the Type VI Secretion Membrane Complex-Baseplate Interface	479
Gasdermin D and Beyond – Gasdermin-mediated Pyroptosis in Bacterial Infections	272
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Solution Structural Studies of Pre-amyloid Oligomer States of the Biofilm Protein Aap	131
An Alternative Role of RluD in the Fidelity of Translation Initiation in Escherichia coli	119
Structural Basis for Blocked Excited State Proton Transfer in a Fluorescent, Photoacidic Non-Canonical Amino Acid-Containing Antibody Fragment	117
Amyloid Aggregation Is Potently Slowed Down by Osmolytes Due to Compaction of Partially Folded State	115
Structural Model of the Human BTG2–PABPC1 Complex by Combining Mutagenesis, NMR Chemical Shift Perturbation Data and Molecular Docking	114
Respiratory Syncytial Virus NS1 Protein Targets the Transactivator Binding Domain of MED25	104
Unusual Guide-binding Pockets in RNA-targeting pAgo Nucleases	98
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RiboVision2: A Web Server for Advanced Visualization of Ribosomal RNAs	92
NNDB: An Expanded Database of Nearest Neighbor Parameters for Predicting Stability of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures	90
Intein-based Design Expands Diversity of Selenocysteine Reporters	87
Step-by-Step Regulation of Productive and Abortive Transcription Initiation by Pyrophosphorolysis	83
The Disordered MAX N-terminus Modulates DNA Binding of the Transcription Factor MYC:MAX	82
HIV-Induced CPSF6 Condensates	82
Site-specific Phosphorylation of Histone H3K36 Methyltransferase Set2p and Demethylase Jhd1p is Required for Stress Responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	81
MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes	81
Minireview: What is Known about SUMOylation Among NR4A Family Members?	79
Mechanisms of PAS Domain Signalling, from Sensing Varied Small Molecules and Peptides to Approved Pharmaceuticals and Use in Optogenetics	79
Structural Insight Into the Conversion of DhNik1, A Hybrid Histidine Kinase From Debaryomyces hansenii to a Cytotoxic Phosphatase Conformation for Novel Antifungal Agent	78

Misfolding-Associated Exposure of Natively Buried Residues in Mutant SOD1 Facilitates Binding to TRAF6	78
Kinetic Investigation of Resistance to Islatravir Conferred by Mutations in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase	78
Improving Signal and Transit Peptide Predictions Using AlphaFold2-predicted Protein Structures	77
Molecular Basis of Interchain Disulfide Bond Formation in BMP-9 and BMP-10	75
ERK Allosteric Activation: The Importance of Two Ordered Phosphorylation Events	73
Ligand-mediated Structural Dynamics of a Mammalian Pancreatic KATP Channel	71
The Biofilm Regulatory Network from Bacillus subtilis: A Structure-Function Analysis	67
Mechanisms of Transcription Elongation Factor DSIF (Spt4–Spt5)	64
In vivo Profiling of the Alk Proximitome in the Developing Drosophila Brain	63
Mechanisms of Gasdermin Recognition by Proteases	63
Highly Performing Automatic Detection of Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities Using Siamese Architecture	63
Identification of Functional Spo0A Residues Critical for Sporulation in Clostridioides difficile	62
Decoding Allosteric Effects of Missense Variations in Drug Metabolism: Afrocentric CYP3A4 Alleles Explored	62
Membrane-associated mRNAs: A Post-transcriptional Pathway for Fine-turning Gene Expression	62
IIFS2.0: An Improved Incremental Feature Selection Method for Protein Sequence Processing Based on a Caching Strategy	61
The Inherent Dynamics and Interaction Sites of the SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid N-Terminal Region	58
Ribosome-nascent Chain Interaction Regulates N-terminal Protein Modification	56
Single-molecule tracking and kinetic analysis in living cells and multicellular organisms	55
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Gasdermins	55
The PHY Domain Dimer Interface of Bacteriophytochromes Mediates Cross-talk between Photosensory Modules and Output Domains	55
Free Energy Landscape of H2A-H2B Displacement From Nucleosome	54
Structural Insights into Transporter-Mediated Drug Resistance in Infectious Diseases	54
Pyroptosis, and its Role in Central Nervous System Disease	53
Biomolecular Condensates as Novel Antiviral Targets	53
Mechanisms of Translation-coupled Quality Control	52
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