OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Cell Biology is 22. 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
Emerging Mechanisms and Disease Relevance of Ferroptosis	627
EMT, MET, Plasticity, and Tumor Metastasis	498
Lipid Rafts: Controversies Resolved, Mysteries Remain	380
The Complex Interplay between Antioxidants and ROS in Cancer	351
Tight Junction Structure and Function Revisited	321
The Roles of CD8+ T Cell Subsets in Antitumor Immunity	261
Cytoskeletal Crosstalk in Cell Migration	241
Lipid Metabolism in Regulation of Macrophage Functions	204
Mitochondrial Fusion: The Machineries In and Out	180
ER-Phagy: Quality Control and Turnover of Endoplasmic Reticulum	171
p53 and Tumor Suppression: It Takes a Network	155
Conformational Basis of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling Versatility	152
Polyploidy: A Biological Force From Cells to Ecosystems	142
A Senescence-Centric View of Aging: Implications for Longevity and Disease	139
Cell cycle on the crossroad of tumorigenesis and cancer therapy	139
Folding the Mitochondrial UPR into the Integrated Stress Response	137
Actin Cell Cortex: Structure and Molecular Organization	117
Extracellular vesicles and nanoparticles: emerging complexities	116
Classical and Nonclassical Intercellular Communication in Senescence and Ageing	111
Cholesterol Handling in Lysosomes and Beyond	102
All Roads Lead to Directional Cell Migration	100
Lipid Droplet Contact Sites in Health and Disease	93
Cell biology of inflammasome activation	93
Extracellular Vesicle-Associated Proteins in Tissue Repair	91
Poly(ADP-ribose): A Dynamic Trigger for Biomolecular Condensate Formation	90

Lipid Droplet Nucleation	89
Cristae Membrane Dynamics – A Paradigm Change	89
Punching Holes in Cellular Membranes: Biology and Evolution of Gasdermins	83
Transcription Factors and DNA Play Hide and Seek	81
The heterogeneity of cellular senescence: insights at the single-cell level	80
Cardiolipin in Immune Signaling and Cell Death	78
Actin on and around the Nucleus	77
Nucleation, stabilization, and disassembly of branched actin networks	77
Mechanical Regulation of Transcription: Recent Advances	77
Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) Stress Response Failure in Diseases	73
Toward a Consensus View of Mammalian Adipocyte Stem and Progenitor Cell Heterogeneity	72
Nitrogen Metabolism in Cancer and Immunity	72
The amoeboid state as part of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition programme	71
Mechanical communication in fibrosis progression	69
Balancing ER-Mitochondrial Ca2+ Fluxes in Health and Disease	69
Principles of Leukocyte Migration Strategies	68
Noncanonical Cell Fate Regulation by Bcl-2 Proteins	68
The Ways of Actin: Why Tunneling Nanotubes Are Unique Cell Protrusions	68
The dark proteome: translation from noncanonical open reading frames	68
Metabolic Coordination of Cell Fate by α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenases	65
3D gastruloids: a novel frontier in stem cell-based in vitro modeling of mammalian gastrulation	64
Phase separation in genome organization across evolution	62
DNA single-strand break repair and human genetic disease	61
New Insights into CDK Regulators: Novel Opportunities for Cancer Therapy	60
Cell–3D matrix interactions: recent advances and opportunities	58
Cellular functions of cGAS-STING signaling	58
Heterogeneity in mRNA Translation	57
Peroxisomes as cellular adaptors to metabolic and environmental stress	56
Cyclin E in normal physiology and disease states	56
Mitotic disassembly and reassembly of nuclear pore complexes	56
Calcium homeostasis and cancer: insights from endoplasmic reticulum-centered organelle communications	55
Regulation and Consequences of cGAS Activation by Self-DNA	55
CARM1/PRMT4: Making Its Mark beyond Its Function as a Transcriptional Coactivator	55
Dynamic Plasma Membrane Organization: A Complex Symphony	55
Expanding the View of IKK: New Substrates and New Biology	54
Photoreceptor Discs: Built Like Ectosomes	54
When Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteostasis Meets the DNA Damage Response	53
LncRNAs in human cancers: signal from noise	52
Cutting, Amplifying, and Aligning Microtubules with Severing Enzymes	51
Membrane Protein Quality Control Mechanisms in the Endo-Lysosome System	51
Crowning the Kinetochore: The Fibrous Corona in Chromosome Segregation	51
Translocation of Proteins through a Distorted Lipid Bilayer	50
A Dynamical Paradigm for Molecular Cell Biology	50
Transcription-Coupled DNA Repair: From Mechanism to Human Disorder	50
Tau liquid–liquid phase separation in neurodegenerative diseases	50
Quantitative Data Analysis in Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	47
A novel superfamily of bridge-like lipid transfer proteins	47
Principles of membrane remodeling by dynamic ESCRT-III polymers	46
Circadian regulation of cancer cell and tumor microenvironment crosstalk	46
Golgi Apparatus: An Emerging Platform for Innate Immunity	46

Transsulfuration, minor player or crucial for cysteine homeostasis in cancer	44
Non-canonical mTORC1 signaling at the lysosome	44
Phase Separation during Germline Development	44
Sirtuin 6: linking longevity with genome and epigenome stability	44
Connecting the Dots: Linking Caenorhabditis elegans Small RNA Pathways and Germ Granules	43
Metabolic Regulation of Tissue Stem Cells	43
Primary ciliary signaling: links with the cell cycle	43
Complex Cartography: Regulation of E2F Transcription Factors by Cyclin F and Ubiquitin	42
Regulation of gene expression by glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes	42
Turning the Oxygen Dial: Balancing the Highs and Lows	41
Regulation of ferroptosis by lipid metabolism	40
Muscle Stem Cell Quiescence: Controlling Stemness by Staying Asleep	39
The multifaceted role of kidney tubule mitochondrial dysfunction in kidney disease development	39
Golgi Outposts Nucleate Microtubules in Cells with Specialized Shapes	39
The Complex Dance of Organelles during Mitochondrial Division	37
MYC: a complex problem	37
Human embryonic development: from peri-implantation to gastrulation	37
DNA replication: the recombination connection	36
Chromatin mobility and relocation in DNA repair	36
Controlling Cell Death through Post-translational Modifications of DED Proteins	35
The Endothelium: An Active Regulator of Lipid and Glucose Homeostasis	35
Nucleus segmentation: towards automated solutions	33
CDK1, the Other ‘Master Regulator’ of Autophagy	33
Mitochondrial regulation and white adipose tissue homeostasis	32
J-domain protein chaperone circuits in proteostasis and disease	32
Quality control of protein complex assembly by the ubiquitin–proteasome system	32
The elegant complexity of mammalian ecto-5′-nucleotidase (CD73)	32
Long Noncoding RNAs in Human Stemness and Differentiation	31
A Condensed View of the Chromosome Passenger Complex	31
Lysosomal functions of progranulin and implications for treatment of frontotemporal dementia	31
Role of N7-methylguanosine (m7G) in cancer	31
Differentiation of the tumor microenvironment: are CAFs the Organizer?	31
Structural Insights into STING Signaling	30
Fueling Cell Invasion through Extracellular Matrix	30
A New Paradigm in Catalase Research	29
A long look at short prokaryotic Argonautes	29
Rigidity transitions in development and disease	29
Roles of YAP/TAZ in ferroptosis	29
Chromatin basis of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype	28
Physics of liquid crystals in cell biology	28
Building GLUT4 Vesicles: CHC22 Clathrin’s Human Touch	28
REV7: Jack of many trades	28
Mechanisms of cellular mRNA transcript homeostasis	27
Emerging roles of peroxisomes in viral infections	27
Insights into peptidylarginine deiminase expression and citrullination pathways	27
REV7 directs DNA repair pathway choice	26
Built to last: lysosome remodeling and repair in health and disease	26
Cohesin: behind dynamic genome topology and gene expression reprogramming	26
Phenotypic plasticity during metastatic colonization	25
The Warburg effect: a signature of mitochondrial overload	25
Chromatin Tracing: Imaging 3D Genome and Nucleome	24
Tight Junction Structure and Function Revisited	24
Investigating the Structure of Neurotoxic Protein Aggregates Inside Cells	24
Structure-Mediated Degradation of CircRNAs	24
Role of GTPases in Driving Mitoribosome Assembly	24
Molecular Evaluation of Endoplasmic Reticulum Homeostasis Meets Humoral Immunity	23
Mitochondrial DNA Dynamics in Reprogramming to Pluripotency	23
Targeting STING to promote antitumor immunity	23
A glitch in the matrix: organ-specific matrisomes in metastatic niches	23
The autophagy–NAD axis in longevity and disease	23
Cellular mechanisms of connexin-based inherited diseases	23
Shared genetic and epigenetic changes link aging and cancer	22
Ferroptosis: mechanisms and implications for cancer development and therapy response	22
Interphase microtubules in nuclear organization and genome maintenance	22
Histone Variants and Histone Modifications in Neurogenesis	22
Targeting ferroptosis to treat colorectal cancer	22