OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Cell Biology is 20. 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
Pay attention to membrane tension: Mechanobiology of the cell surface	119
Loop extrusion: theory meets single-molecule experiments	117
Causes and consequences of micronuclei	106
The role of liquid–liquid phase separation in regulating enzyme activity	101
Caveolae: Formation, dynamics, and function	100
The state of the septin cytoskeleton from assembly to function	83
The extracellular matrix viscoelasticity as a regulator of cell and tissue dynamics	82
Mechanics of the cellular actin cortex: From signalling to shape change	79
Fluid-like chromatin: Toward understanding the real chromatin organization present in the cell	77
Mitochondrial dynamics: Shaping and remodeling an organelle network	75
Autophagosomes are formed at a distinct cellular structure	70
Tunneling nanotubes: Reshaping connectivity	70
The cell pushes back: The Arp2/3 complex is a key orchestrator of cellular responses to environmental forces	66
Macropinocytosis: Insights from immunology and cancer	61
Unconventional endocytic mechanisms	61
FtsZ dynamics in bacterial division: What, how, and why?	58
Membrane supply and remodeling during autophagosome biogenesis	57
Recent insight into intermediate filament structure	57
Caveolae: Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction devices linking membrane trafficking to mechanoadaptation	56
Microtubule nucleation: The waltz between γ-tubulin ring complex and associated proteins	52
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and different migration strategies as viewed from the neural crest	50
Tracking and interpreting long-range chromatin interactions with super-resolution live-cell imaging	50
Protein quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum	50
Recognising the signals for endosomal trafficking	48
Clathrin-independent endocytosis, retrograde trafficking, and cell polarity	47

The multifaceted roles of microRNAs in differentiation	46
Simulating realistic membrane shapes	46
Three-dimensional chromatin in disease: What holds us together and what drives us apart?	45
Live-cell imaging in the era of too many microscopes	45
Chromatin and transcriptional regulation by reversible RNA methylation	44
Pluripotent stem cell models of early mammalian development	44
Inter-organelle lipid transfer: a channel model for Vps13 and chorein-N motif proteins	43
A mechanical perspective on phagocytic cup formation	42
Progress in deciphering trophoblast cell differentiation during human placentation	42
A matter of time: Using dynamics and theory to uncover mechanisms of transcriptional bursting	42
Endosomal microdomains: Formation and function	42
Jamming and arrest of cell motion in biological tissues	42
Karyopherins and condensates	41
Filament formation by metabolic enzymes—A new twist on regulation	41
Insulin stimulated GLUT4 translocation – Size is not everything!	40
Nuclear hubs built on RNAs and clustered organization of the genome	40
A single-cell view of spermatogonial stem cells	40
Xist drives spatial compartmentalization of DNA and protein to orchestrate initiation and maintenance of X inactivation	39
Aligned forces: Origins and mechanisms of cancer dissemination guided by extracellular matrix architecture	39
The dazzling rise of neurofilaments: Physiological functions and roles as biomarkers	39
Key phases in the formation of caveolae	36
On the choreography of genome folding: A grand pas de deux of cohesin and CTCF	36
Roles of PIKfyve in multiple cellular pathways	36
Lamina-associated domains: Tethers and looseners	35
Microtubule self-repair	35
Intermediate filaments as effectors of differentiation	34
Biomolecular condensates in membrane receptor signaling	34
Regulation of nuclear actin dynamics in development and disease	33
The Integrator complex at the crossroad of coding and noncoding RNA	32
Mechanobiology of neural development	32
Regulating specificity in enhancer–promoter communication	32
SMC complexes: Lifting the lid on loop extrusion	32
Building consensus in neuromesodermal research: Current advances and future biomedical perspectives	32
CHMPions of repair: Emerging perspectives on sensing and repairing the nuclear envelope barrier	32
Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of sterol homeostasis	31
Computational approaches from polymer physics to investigate chromatin folding	31
Liquid-like interactions in heterochromatin: Implications for mechanism and regulation	30
Advanced models of human skeletal muscle differentiation, development and disease: Three-dimensional cultures, organoids and beyond	30
Phosphorylation-dependent regulation of messenger RNA transcription, processing and translation within biomolecular condensates	30
Basement membrane remodeling guides cell migration and cell morphogenesis during development	30
How to maintain the genome in nuclear space	30
ESCRT puts its thumb on the nanoscale: Fixing tiny holes in endolysosomes	29
Decoding mechanical cues by molecular mechanotransduction	29
Biophysical and molecular mechanisms of ESCRT functions, and their implications for disease	29
Organoid models for mammary gland dynamics and breast cancer	29
The emergence of genome architecture and zygotic genome activation	29
Sending out molecules from the TGN	29
Nuclear envelope remodelling during mitosis	29
Regulatory mechanisms governing chromatin organization and function	29
Neocortex expansion in development and evolution—from genes to progenitor cell biology	28

Interplay between membrane curvature and the actin cytoskeleton	28
Mechanically tuning actin filaments to modulate the action of actin-binding proteins	28
Lights, cytoskeleton, action: Optogenetic control of cell dynamics	28
Design principles of tissue organisation: How single cells coordinate across scales	28
Extensive GTPase crosstalk regulates Golgi trafficking and maturation	27
Cell–cell contact and signaling in the muscle stem cell niche	26
Oligodendrocyte progenitor cell fate and function in development and disease	26
Clathrin’s life beyond 40: Connecting biochemistry with physiology and disease	26
Mythical origins of the actin cytoskeleton	26
Functional organization of RNA polymerase II in nuclear subcompartments	25
Nuclear fragility, blaming the blebs	25
Control of mitosis, inflammation, and cell motility by limited leakage of lysosomes	25
Mitotic memories of gene activity	25
An amuse-bouche of stem cell regulation: Underlying principles and mechanisms from adult Drosophila intestinal stem cells	25
How DNA loop extrusion mediated by cohesin enables V(D)J recombination	25
"The nuclear envelope, a meiotic jack-of-all-trades"	25
The multifunctional nature of mitochondrial contact site proteins	24
Intermediate filaments against actomyosin: the david and goliath of cell migration	24
Dealing with DNA lesions: When one cell cycle is not enough	23
Nuclear deformations, from signaling to perturbation and damage	23
Asymmetric inheritance of epigenetic states in asymmetrically dividing stem cells	23
Organelle distribution in neurons: Logistics behind polarized transport	23
Xist-mediated chromatin changes that establish silencing of an entire X chromosome in mammals	22
Using optogenetics to tackle systems-level questions of multicellular morphogenesis	22
Circadian clock effects on cellular proliferation: Insights from theory and experiments	21
Nuclear mechanotransduction in stem cells	21
Biomolecular condensates in autophagy regulation	21
Forced to communicate: Integration of mechanical and biochemical signaling in morphogenesis	21
Mechanosensing in embryogenesis	20
From the inside out: Ion fluxes at the centre of endocytic traffic	20
Mechanisms of signalling-memory governing progression through the eukaryotic cell cycle	20
Regulation of nutrient transporters by metabolic and environmental stresses	20
Mechanobiology of leader–follower dynamics in epithelial cell migration	20
New directions for the clathrin adaptor AP-1 in cell biology and human disease	20