OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is 9. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The biogenesis of potassium transporters: implications of disease-associated mutations	118
The general transcription factors (GTFs) of RNA polymerase II and their roles in plant development and stress responses	108
The common chemical logic of ‘bridged’ peroxo species in mononuclear non-heme iron systems	86
Discovery, functional characterization, and structural studies of the NRPS-independent siderophore synthetases	59
The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle: a malleable metabolic network to counter cellular stress	57
A structural view of nickel-pincer nucleotide cofactor-related biochemistry	51
Collaborators or competitors: the communication between RNA polymerase II and the nucleosome during eukaryotic transcription	43
Diverse triterpene skeletons are derived from the expansion and divergent evolution of 2,3-oxidosqualene cyclases in plants	41
Overview of physiological, biochemical, and regulatory aspects of nitrogen fixation in Azotobacter vinelandii	34
Regulation of protein function and degradation by heme, heme responsive motifs, and CO	33
Catalase-peroxidase (KatG): a potential frontier in tuberculosis drug development	32
G-quadruplexes in bacteria: insights into the regulatory roles and interacting proteins of non-canonical nucleic acid structures	29
Distinct enzymatic strategies forde novogeneration of disulfide bonds in membranes	28
Guanine quadruplexes and their roles in molecular processes	28
Biosynthesis and trafficking of heme o and heme a: new structural insights and their implications for reaction mechanisms and prenylated heme transfer	27
Elucidating the chain of command: our current understanding of critical target genes for p53-mediated tumor suppression	27
Mechanisms of immune evasion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis : the impact of T7SS and cell wall lipids on host defenses	25
The evolutionary history of the HUP domain	24
Miro proteins connect mitochondrial function and intercellular transport	23
Mechanisms of hexameric helicases	19
Mitochondrial acute oxygen sensing and signaling	17
Mitochondrial sirtuin 3 and role of natural compounds: the effect of post-translational modifications on cellular metabolism	16
Emerging biological functions of ribonuclease 1 and angiogenin	14
Protein targeting to the ER membrane: multiple pathways and shared machinery	14
Unraveling the multifaceted role of extracellular DNA (eDNA) of biofilm in bacterial physiology, biofilm formation, and matrixome architecture	14

Regulation of loop extrusion on the interphase genome	13
Methanogens and what they tell us about how life might survive on Mars	13
Reversible and bidirectional signaling of notch ligands	13
Evolution, classification, and mechanisms of transport, activity regulation, and substrate specificity of ZIP metal transporters	12
Energetics, kinetics, and pathways of SNARE assembly in membrane fusion	11
Structures, mechanisms, and kinetic advantages of the SgrAI filament forming mechanism	11
2-5A-Mediated decay (2-5AMD): from antiviral defense to control of host RNA	11
The AAA+ superfamily: a review of the structural and mechanistic principles of these molecular machines	9
Translation complex stabilization on messenger RNA and footprint profiling to study the RNA responses and dynamics of protein biosynthesis in the cells	9
Unraveling the complex regulatory networks in biofilm formation in bacteria and relevance of biofilms in environmental remediation	9