Molecular Cell

Papers
(The median citation count of Molecular Cell is 12. 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.)
ArticleCitations
A Multibasic Cleavage Site in the Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Is Essential for Infection of Human Lung Cells1467
Targeting Metabolism to Improve the Tumor Microenvironment for Cancer Immunotherapy465
Resolving the 3D Landscape of Transcription-Linked Mammalian Chromatin Folding388
Ultrastructural Details of Mammalian Chromosome Architecture358
Redox metabolism: ROS as specific molecular regulators of cell signaling and function332
Membrane Damage during Ferroptosis Is Caused by Oxidation of Phospholipids Catalyzed by the Oxidoreductases POR and CYB5R1286
Coronavirus RNA Proofreading: Molecular Basis and Therapeutic Targeting286
Ferroptosis at the intersection of lipid metabolism and cellular signaling276
A conceptual framework for understanding phase separation and addressing open questions and challenges262
Genomic RNA Elements Drive Phase Separation of the SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid250
Phosphoregulation of Phase Separation by the SARS-CoV-2 N Protein Suggests a Biophysical Basis for its Dual Functions246
Increased demand for NAD+ relative to ATP drives aerobic glycolysis236
Intrinsically Disordered Regions Direct Transcription Factor In Vivo Binding Specificity205
Lactylation-driven METTL3-mediated RNA m6A modification promotes immunosuppression of tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells194
Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Inhibition Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Replication193
Cell Death in the Origin and Treatment of Cancer186
Comprehensive in vivo secondary structure of the SARS-CoV-2 genome reveals novel regulatory motifs and mechanisms185
METTL3 and N6-Methyladenosine Promote Homologous Recombination-Mediated Repair of DSBs by Modulating DNA-RNA Hybrid Accumulation184
Molecular mechanisms of early plant pattern-triggered immune signaling181
From Association to Causality: the Role of the Gut Microbiota and Its Functional Products on Host Metabolism178
Engineered miniature CRISPR-Cas system for mammalian genome regulation and editing178
DNA Damage and Cancer Immunotherapy: A STING in the Tale165
N6-Deoxyadenosine Methylation in Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA160
The CRISPR-Cas toolbox and gene editing technologies159
R-2-hydroxyglutarate attenuates aerobic glycolysis in leukemia by targeting the FTO/m6A/PFKP/LDHB axis159
AMPK: restoring metabolic homeostasis over space and time156
Integrated lncRNA function upon genomic and epigenomic regulation155
METTL1-mediated m7G modification of Arg-TCT tRNA drives oncogenic transformation155
Spatiotemporal Proteomic Analysis of Stress Granule Disassembly Using APEX Reveals Regulation by SUMOylation and Links to ALS Pathogenesis154
Biomarker-Guided Development of DNA Repair Inhibitors154
Nonstructural Protein 1 of SARS-CoV-2 Is a Potent Pathogenicity Factor Redirecting Host Protein Synthesis Machinery toward Viral RNA153
The Short- and Long-Range RNA-RNA Interactome of SARS-CoV-2149
Integrating Old and New Paradigms of G1/S Control146
Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex144
N7-Methylguanosine tRNA modification enhances oncogenic mRNA translation and promotes intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma progression144
Cuproptosis: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying copper-induced cell death143
Replication gaps are a key determinant of PARP inhibitor synthetic lethality with BRCA deficiency138
Highly Parallel Profiling of Cas9 Variant Specificity135
Enhancer RNA m6A methylation facilitates transcriptional condensate formation and gene activation135
Human Condensin I and II Drive Extensive ATP-Dependent Compaction of Nucleosome-Bound DNA134
Ca2+ Fluxes and Cancer133
High-resolution structure and strain comparison of infectious mammalian prions132
Amino Acids and Their Transporters in T Cell Immunity and Cancer Therapy131
Molecular mechanisms and functions of pyroptosis in inflammation and antitumor immunity131
Functional landscape of SARS-CoV-2 cellular restriction127
Lipid metabolism in sickness and in health: Emerging regulators of lipotoxicity126
HLTF Promotes Fork Reversal, Limiting Replication Stress Resistance and Preventing Multiple Mechanisms of Unrestrained DNA Synthesis126
Stress Induces Dynamic, Cytotoxicity-Antagonizing TDP-43 Nuclear Bodies via Paraspeckle LncRNA NEAT1-Mediated Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation124
Cytokine-like Roles for Metabolites in Immunity123
Ectosomal PKM2 Promotes HCC by Inducing Macrophage Differentiation and Remodeling the Tumor Microenvironment122
Disome and Trisome Profiling Reveal Genome-wide Targets of Ribosome Quality Control121
The ASC-1 Complex Disassembles Collided Ribosomes118
Phosphorylation of PDHA by AMPK Drives TCA Cycle to Promote Cancer Metastasis118
Nanopore Sequencing Enables Comprehensive Transposable Element Epigenomic Profiling117
Structural diversity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike117
Structured elements drive extensive circular RNA translation116
Interferon-γ induces tumor resistance to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy by promoting YAP phase separation116
Cryo-EM Structure of the Fork Protection Complex Bound to CMG at a Replication Fork116
Reshaping endoplasmic reticulum quality control through the unfolded protein response115
NAD+ Controls Circadian Reprogramming through PER2 Nuclear Translocation to Counter Aging115
Differential GLP-1R Binding and Activation by Peptide and Non-peptide Agonists114
GIGYF2 and 4EHP Inhibit Translation Initiation of Defective Messenger RNAs to Assist Ribosome-Associated Quality Control114
A Structure-Based Mechanism for DNA Entry into the Cohesin Ring113
Hidden codes in mRNA: Control of gene expression by m6A113
3D Culture Models with CRISPR Screens Reveal Hyperactive NRF2 as a Prerequisite for Spheroid Formation via Regulation of Proliferation and Ferroptosis112
Robust Hi-C Maps of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Reveal the Function of Non-coding Genome in Neural Development and Diseases112
Synthetic Lethal and Resistance Interactions with BET Bromodomain Inhibitors in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer112
ATP-Driven Separation of Liquid Phase Condensates in Bacteria112
High-resolution quantitative profiling of tRNA abundance and modification status in eukaryotes by mim-tRNAseq112
Hallmarks of DNA replication stress111
Primary Role of the Nucleosome110
Impact of chromatin context on Cas9-induced DNA double-strand break repair pathway balance110
Acetyl-CoA Derived from Hepatic Peroxisomal β-Oxidation Inhibits Autophagy and Promotes Steatosis via mTORC1 Activation109
4D Genome Rewiring during Oncogene-Induced and Replicative Senescence108
Co-transcriptional splicing regulates 3′ end cleavage during mammalian erythropoiesis107
Single-Cell Analyses Reveal Megakaryocyte-Biased Hematopoiesis in Myelofibrosis and Identify Mutant Clone-Specific Targets107
Integrator Recruits Protein Phosphatase 2A to Prevent Pause Release and Facilitate Transcription Termination106
Deubiquitinases: From mechanisms to their inhibition by small molecules105
Non-canonical autophagy drives alternative ATG8 conjugation to phosphatidylserine105
Structure of the miniature type V-F CRISPR-Cas effector enzyme104
Global analysis of protein-RNA interactions in SARS-CoV-2-infected cells reveals key regulators of infection103
The SARS-CoV-2 RNA interactome103
Rationally Designed APOBEC3B Cytosine Base Editors with Improved Specificity103
Rational Cancer Treatment Combinations: An Urgent Clinical Need101
Two Aldehyde Clearance Systems Are Essential to Prevent Lethal Formaldehyde Accumulation in Mice and Humans100
Persister cancer cells: Iron addiction and vulnerability to ferroptosis99
Energy status dictates PD-L1 protein abundance and anti-tumor immunity to enable checkpoint blockade99
Selective Translation Complex Profiling Reveals Staged Initiation and Co-translational Assembly of Initiation Factor Complexes99
Structural Insights of Transcriptionally Active, Full-Length Androgen Receptor Coactivator Complexes98
The Configuration of RPA, RAD51, and DMC1 Binding in Meiosis Reveals the Nature of Critical Recombination Intermediates98
Selective 40S Footprinting Reveals Cap-Tethered Ribosome Scanning in Human Cells97
Opposing Functions of BRD4 Isoforms in Breast Cancer96
LRRC8A:C/E Heteromeric Channels Are Ubiquitous Transporters of cGAMP96
Tuning levels of low-complexity domain interactions to modulate endogenous oncogenic transcription96
ZAKα Recognizes Stalled Ribosomes through Partially Redundant Sensor Domains96
Transcription activation is enhanced by multivalent interactions independent of phase separation96
ISRIB Blunts the Integrated Stress Response by Allosterically Antagonising the Inhibitory Effect of Phosphorylated eIF2 on eIF2B95
Enhancers are activated by p300/CBP activity-dependent PIC assembly, RNAPII recruitment, and pause release94
Inhibition of Glutamine Utilization Synergizes with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor to Promote Antitumor Immunity94
Structures of a Complete Human V-ATPase Reveal Mechanisms of Its Assembly94
cGAS phase separation inhibits TREX1-mediated DNA degradation and enhances cytosolic DNA sensing94
Walking a tightrope: The complex balancing act of R-loops in genome stability93
ER-directed TREX1 limits cGAS activation at micronuclei93
XRCC1 prevents toxic PARP1 trapping during DNA base excision repair92
CRISPR-based genome editing through the lens of DNA repair92
Temporally distinct post-replicative repair mechanisms fill PRIMPOL-dependent ssDNA gaps in human cells92
Gene Architecture and Sequence Composition Underpin Selective Dependency of Nuclear Export of Long RNAs on NXF1 and the TREX Complex91
Remdesivir is a delayed translocation inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 replication91
Two-Parameter Mobility Assessments Discriminate Diverse Regulatory Factor Behaviors in Chromatin89
Ribosome quality control antagonizes the activation of the integrated stress response on colliding ribosomes89
The interplay between BAX and BAK tunes apoptotic pore growth to control mitochondrial-DNA-mediated inflammation88
Unbiased spatial proteomics with single-cell resolution in tissues88
Stress Can Induce Transcription of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems without Activating Toxin88
Multivalent Proteins Rapidly and Reversibly Phase-Separate upon Osmotic Cell Volume Change87
An intrinsically disordered region-mediated confinement state contributes to the dynamics and function of transcription factors87
The expanding universe of PARP1-mediated molecular and therapeutic mechanisms86
Co-condensation between transcription factor and coactivator p300 modulates transcriptional bursting kinetics86
REV1-Polζ maintains the viability of homologous recombination-deficient cancer cells through mutagenic repair of PRIMPOL-dependent ssDNA gaps86
Integrator is a genome-wide attenuator of non-productive transcription85
Interaction of tau with HNRNPA2B1 and N6-methyladenosine RNA mediates the progression of tauopathy85
Loss of TAX1BP1-Directed Autophagy Results in Protein Aggregate Accumulation in the Brain85
Stabilization of ERK-Phosphorylated METTL3 by USP5 Increases m6A Methylation85
Inhibition of YTHDF2 triggers proteotoxic cell death in MYC-driven breast cancer84
H3 K27M and EZHIP Impede H3K27-Methylation Spreading by Inhibiting Allosterically Stimulated PRC284
Absolute Quantification of Transcription Factors Reveals Principles of Gene Regulation in Erythropoiesis83
Actionable Cytopathogenic Host Responses of Human Alveolar Type 2 Cells to SARS-CoV-283
Molecular Co-occupancy Identifies Transcription Factor Binding Cooperativity In Vivo82
A Selective Autophagy Pathway for Phase-Separated Endocytic Protein Deposits82
Stress-induced nuclear condensation of NELF drives transcriptional downregulation81
Liquid-liquid phase separation: Orchestrating cell signaling through time and space81
SUCLA2-coupled regulation of GLS succinylation and activity counteracts oxidative stress in tumor cells81
Pseudouridine synthases modify human pre-mRNA co-transcriptionally and affect pre-mRNA processing80
scDART-seq reveals distinct m6A signatures and mRNA methylation heterogeneity in single cells80
A phage-encoded anti-activator inhibits quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa80
Structure of an activated DNA-PK and its implications for NHEJ79
mTORC1 stimulates cell growth through SAM synthesis and m6A mRNA-dependent control of protein synthesis78
An Insulin-Sensitive Circular RNA that Regulates Lifespan in Drosophila78
Poison Exon Splicing Regulates a Coordinated Network of SR Protein Expression during Differentiation and Tumorigenesis78
Deciphering the multi-scale, quantitative cis-regulatory code78
Distinct Structures and Dynamics of Chromatosomes with Different Human Linker Histone Isoforms77
Ribosome states signal RNA quality control77
Toward Understanding Microbiome-Neuronal Signaling76
Characterization of Metabolic Patterns in Mouse Oocytes during Meiotic Maturation76
The Nuclear SUMO-Targeted Ubiquitin Quality Control Network Regulates the Dynamics of Cytoplasmic Stress Granules76
Cdk1 Controls Global Epigenetic Landscape in Embryonic Stem Cells75
Shutoff of host transcription triggers a toxin-antitoxin system to cleave phage RNA and abort infection75
Cellular pathways influenced by protein arginine methylation: Implications for cancer75
Defective ALC1 nucleosome remodeling confers PARPi sensitization and synthetic lethality with HRD74
Crystal Structure of the LSD1/CoREST Histone Demethylase Bound to Its Nucleosome Substrate74
The SARS-CoV-2 subgenome landscape and its novel regulatory features73
Dynamic control of chromatin-associated m6A methylation regulates nascent RNA synthesis73
Bump-and-Hole Engineering Identifies Specific Substrates of Glycosyltransferases in Living Cells73
A High-Throughput Screen for Transcription Activation Domains Reveals Their Sequence Features and Permits Prediction by Deep Learning73
Kinase Interaction Network Expands Functional and Disease Roles of Human Kinases73
Cryo-EM Structures of Human Drosha and DGCR8 in Complex with Primary MicroRNA72
Systematically defining selective autophagy receptor-specific cargo using autophagosome content profiling72
RNA m6A methylation across the transcriptome71
Maintenance of organellar protein homeostasis by ER-associated degradation and related mechanisms71
Integration of light and temperature sensing by liquid-liquid phase separation of phytochrome B70
Increasing cell size remodels the proteome and promotes senescence69
Exclusion of m6A from splice-site proximal regions by the exon junction complex dictates m6A topologies and mRNA stability69
Saturation of the mitochondrial NADH shuttles drives aerobic glycolysis in proliferating cells69
Structural Basis of Tail-Anchored Membrane Protein Biogenesis by the GET Insertase Complex69
Large DNA Methylation Nadirs Anchor Chromatin Loops Maintaining Hematopoietic Stem Cell Identity69
Stress-Induced Translation Inhibition through Rapid Displacement of Scanning Initiation Factors69
Proteome-wide mapping of short-lived proteins in human cells68
Hyperosmotic stress alters the RNA polymerase II interactome and induces readthrough transcription despite widespread transcriptional repression68
Endogenous DNA 3′ Blocks Are Vulnerabilities for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Deficiency and Are Reversed by the APE2 Nuclease68
Intrinsic bias at non-canonical, β-arrestin-coupled seven transmembrane receptors68
Physiological hypoxia restrains the senescence-associated secretory phenotype via AMPK-mediated mTOR suppression68
Vesicle Tethering on the Surface of Phase-Separated Active Zone Condensates68
In Vivo Evidence for Serine Biosynthesis-Defined Sensitivity of Lung Metastasis, but Not of Primary Breast Tumors, to mTORC1 Inhibition67
BUB1 and CENP-U, Primed by CDK1, Are the Main PLK1 Kinetochore Receptors in Mitosis67
Structural basis of SARM1 activation, substrate recognition, and inhibition by small molecules67
MYC Controls the Epstein-Barr Virus Lytic Switch67
Nascent RNA scaffolds contribute to chromosome territory architecture and counter chromatin compaction67
The Oncogenic Helicase ALC1 Regulates PARP Inhibitor Potency by Trapping PARP2 at DNA Breaks67
Discovery of Widespread Host Protein Interactions with the Pre-replicated Genome of CHIKV Using VIR-CLASP67
BR-Bodies Provide Selectively Permeable Condensates that Stimulate mRNA Decay and Prevent Release of Decay Intermediates66
Pre-termination Transcription Complex: Structure and Function65
Ribosome-associated quality-control mechanisms from bacteria to humans64
Genome-wide Nucleotide-Resolution Mapping of DNA Replication Patterns, Single-Strand Breaks, and Lesions by GLOE-Seq64
Identification and functional characterization of transcriptional activators in human cells64
Single-strand DNA breaks cause replisome disassembly64
CRISPR-Cas13 Inhibitors Block RNA Editing in Bacteria and Mammalian Cells64
Human NLRP1 is a sensor of pathogenic coronavirus 3CL proteases in lung epithelial cells64
Chaperones directly and efficiently disperse stress-triggered biomolecular condensates63
Viral tegument proteins restrict cGAS-DNA phase separation to mediate immune evasion63
Simultaneous profiling of multiple chromatin proteins in the same cells63
DNA Methylation Regulates Alternative Polyadenylation via CTCF and the Cohesin Complex62
Sequence-Independent Self-Assembly of Germ Granule mRNAs into Homotypic Clusters62
Transcription-mediated supercoiling regulates genome folding and loop formation62
Structural Basis of the Activation of Heterotrimeric Gs-Protein by Isoproterenol-Bound β1-Adrenergic Receptor62
TopBP1 assembles nuclear condensates to switch on ATR signaling62
Cryo-EM of NHEJ supercomplexes provides insights into DNA repair61
Proteome dynamics at broken replication forks reveal a distinct ATM-directed repair response suppressing DNA double-strand break ubiquitination61
Moonlighting functions of metabolic enzymes and metabolites in cancer61
A UPR-Induced Soluble ER-Phagy Receptor Acts with VAPs to Confer ER Stress Resistance60
H3K27ac bookmarking promotes rapid post-mitotic activation of the pluripotent stem cell program without impacting 3D chromatin reorganization60
Tethered agonist exposure in intact adhesion/class B2 GPCRs through intrinsic structural flexibility of the GAIN domain60
Negative regulation of AMPK signaling by high glucose via E3 ubiquitin ligase MG5360
ALS/FTLD-Linked Mutations in FUS Glycine Residues Cause Accelerated Gelation and Reduced Interactions with Wild-Type FUS60
Effector-mediated membrane disruption controls cell death in CBASS antiphage defense60
Structural Insights into Pseudokinase Domains of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases60
CARM1 regulates replication fork speed and stress response by stimulating PARP160
A unified atlas of CD8 T cell dysfunctional states in cancer and infection59
Targeting histone acetylation dynamics and oncogenic transcription by catalytic P300/CBP inhibition59
Spatiotemporal coordination of transcription preinitiation complex assembly in live cells59
Unrestrained poly-ADP-ribosylation provides insights into chromatin regulation and human disease58
Stressful steps: Progress and challenges in understanding stress-induced mRNA condensation and accumulation in stress granules58
Coronavirus RNA Proofreading: Molecular Basis and Therapeutic Targeting58
Alternative lengthening of telomeres is a self-perpetuating process in ALT-associated PML bodies58
SPT5 stabilizes RNA polymerase II, orchestrates transcription cycles, and maintains the enhancer landscape57
Genome-wide mapping of human DNA replication by optical replication mapping supports a stochastic model of eukaryotic replication57
Itaconate is a lysosomal inducer that promotes antibacterial innate immunity57
eIF3 Associates with 80S Ribosomes to Promote Translation Elongation, Mitochondrial Homeostasis, and Muscle Health57
Immune-regulated IDO1-dependent tryptophan metabolism is source of one-carbon units for pancreatic cancer and stellate cells56
Impact of Lineage Plasticity to and from a Neuroendocrine Phenotype on Progression and Response in Prostate and Lung Cancers56
The phosphorylation switch that regulates ticking of the circadian clock56
Acetylation-Dependent Deubiquitinase OTUD3 Controls MAVS Activation in Innate Antiviral Immunity56
Structural Basis for pri-miRNA Recognition by Drosha55
Replication gaps are a key determinant of PARP inhibitor synthetic lethality with BRCA deficiency55
Histone Deacetylase 3 Couples Mitochondria to Drive IL-1β-Dependent Inflammation by Configuring Fatty Acid Oxidation55
Structural Basis for the Modulation of Human KCNQ4 by Small-Molecule Drugs55
Structural Insights into the Mechanism of Mitoribosomal Large Subunit Biogenesis55
Regulation of PTEN translation by PI3K signaling maintains pathway homeostasis55
Heterotrimeric G Protein Subunit Gαq Is a Master Switch for Gβγ-Mediated Calcium Mobilization by Gi-Coupled GPCRs54
Phase Separation in Cell Division54
Transcription Dynamics Regulate Poly(A) Tails and Expression of the RNA Degradation Machinery to Balance mRNA Levels54
Transient non-specific DNA binding dominates the target search of bacterial DNA-binding proteins54
Translation stress and collided ribosomes are co-activators of cGAS54
ATF7-Dependent Epigenetic Changes Are Required for the Intergenerational Effect of a Paternal Low-Protein Diet54
To skip or not to skip: choosing repriming to tolerate DNA damage54
Choline kinase alpha 2 acts as a protein kinase to promote lipolysis of lipid droplets53
Large Drosophila germline piRNA clusters are evolutionarily labile and dispensable for transposon regulation53
RNA circles with minimized immunogenicity as potent PKR inhibitors53
Temporal proteomics during neurogenesis reveals large-scale proteome and organelle remodeling via selective autophagy53
Ferroptosis: A flexible constellation of related biochemical mechanisms53
DNA hypomethylating agents increase activation and cytolytic activity of CD8+ T cells53
POINT technology illuminates the processing of polymerase-associated intact nascent transcripts53
TFIID Enables RNA Polymerase II Promoter-Proximal Pausing53
Compendium of human transcription factor effector domains53
Cryo-EM in molecular and cellular biology53
A Mechanism for microRNA Arm Switching Regulated by Uridylation52
Two distinct mechanisms of RNA polymerase II elongation stimulation in vivo52
The SMC-family Wadjet complex protects bacteria from plasmid transformation by recognition and cleavage of closed-circular DNA52
Structures of the human dopamine D3 receptor-Gi complexes52
Structure of the human signal peptidase complex reveals the determinants for signal peptide cleavage52
ATG9A and ATG2A form a heteromeric complex essential for autophagosome formation52
Dysregulation of BRD4 Function Underlies the Functional Abnormalities of MeCP2 Mutant Neurons52
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