OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Biochemistry is 24. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
RNA Splicing by the Spliceosome	359
Structural and Mechanistic Principles of ABC Transporters	264
Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Iron-Sulfur Protein Biogenesis	230
Mucins and the Microbiome	194
Role of Mammalian DNA Methyltransferases in Development	184
Long Noncoding RNAs: Molecular Modalities to Organismal Functions	183
Transcription in Living Cells: Molecular Mechanisms of Bursting	156
The Wnt Pathway: From Signaling Mechanisms to Synthetic Modulators	139
Evaluating Enhancer Function and Transcription	128
Mitochondrial Proteases: Multifaceted Regulators of Mitochondrial Plasticity	127
Single-Molecule Studies of Protein Folding with Optical Tweezers	125
Current Understanding of the Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosystem II and Its Relation to XFEL Data	122
Ribonucleotide Reductases: Structure, Chemistry, and Metabolism Suggest New Therapeutic Targets	122
Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligase Regulatory Circuits: A Quarter Century Beyond the F-Box Hypothesis	116
Structure and Mechanism of P-Type ATPase Ion Pumps	106
Checkpoint Responses to DNA Double-Strand Breaks	102
Dynamic Competition of Polycomb and Trithorax in Transcriptional Programming	92
Anti-CRISPRs: Protein Inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas Systems	91
The Initiation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication	80
Understanding the Function of Mammalian Sirtuins and Protein Lysine Acylation	78
Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks by the Nonhomologous End Joining Pathway	76
Mechanisms of Vertebrate DNA Interstrand Cross-Link Repair	73
Synonymous but Not Silent: The Codon Usage Code for Gene Expression and Protein Folding	73
Molecular Mechanisms of Natural Rubber Biosynthesis	68
Chaperoning SNARE Folding and Assembly	68

How Is Precursor Messenger RNA Spliced by the Spliceosome?	65
The Form and Function of PIEZO2	63
Detection and Degradation of Stalled Nascent Chains via Ribosome-Associated Quality Control	61
Mechanisms for Regulating and Organizing Receptor Signaling by Endocytosis	56
A Natural Product Chemist's Guide to Unlocking Silent Biosynthetic Gene Clusters	55
Molecular Mechanisms of Facultative Heterochromatin Formation: An X-Chromosome Perspective	55
Better, Faster, Cheaper: Recent Advances in Cryo–Electron Microscopy	52
MAPK-Activated Protein Kinases: Servant or Partner?	51
Zona Pellucida Proteins, Fibrils, and Matrix	50
How Does the Ribosome Fold the Proteome?	50
HLAs, TCRs, and KIRs, a Triumvirate of Human Cell-Mediated Immunity	49
Synthetic Genomes	48
Tunnels for Protein Export from the Endoplasmic Reticulum	48
The Myosin Family of Mechanoenzymes: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches	47
Driving E3 Ligase Substrate Specificity for Targeted Protein Degradation: Lessons from Nature and the Laboratory	46
Repair of DNA Breaks by Break-Induced Replication	44
Quantifying Target Occupancy of Small Molecules Within Living Cells	42
Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Pathophysiology of the Innate Immune cGAS–cGAMP–STING Pathway	41
Imaging of DNA and RNA in Living Eukaryotic Cells to Reveal Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Gene Expression	40
DNA–Protein Crosslinks and Their Resolution	39
Posttranslational Regulation of HMG CoA Reductase, the Rate-Limiting Enzyme in Synthesis of Cholesterol	38
Structural Mechanism of Transport of Mitochondrial Carriers	35
Structural Insights Accelerate the Discovery of Opioid Alternatives	34
Preparing Better Samples for Cryo–Electron Microscopy: Biochemical Challenges Do Not End with Isolation and Purification	34
Role of the TOM Complex in Protein Import into Mitochondria: Structural Views	32
mRNA Regulation by RNA Modifications	32
Chemical Biology Framework to Illuminate Proteostasis	31
Membrane Exporters of Fluoride Ion	31
Optobiochemistry: Genetically Encoded Control of Protein Activity by Light	31
Structural Mechanisms for Replicating DNA in Eukaryotes	30
Encapsulins	30
Designing Biological Circuits: Synthetic Biology Within the Operon Model and Beyond	29
The Proteins of mRNA Modification: Writers, Readers, and Erasers	29
The Function, Structure, and Origins of the ER Membrane Protein Complex	28
Biosynthesis and Export of Bacterial Glycolipids	28
Molecules from the Microbiome	28
Influence of Nonspecific Interactions on Protein Associations: Implications for Biochemistry In Vivo	26
The Role of DEAD-Box ATPases in Gene Expression and the Regulation of RNA–Protein Condensates	26
High-Resolution Single-Molecule Magnetic Tweezers	25
Sensory TRP Channels in Three Dimensions	25
Evolutionary Dynamics and Molecular Mechanisms of HORMA Domain Protein Signaling	24
Mitochondrial DNA Release in Innate Immune Signaling	24