OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is 25. 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
Guanine quadruplexes and their roles in molecular processes	28
Distinct enzymatic strategies forde novogeneration of disulfide bonds in membranes	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