OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Cell Biology is 21. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The ATG conjugation systems in autophagy	267
Pay attention to membrane tension: Mechanobiology of the cell surface	118
Novel roles of phosphoinositides in signaling, lipid transport, and disease	114
Loop extrusion: theory meets single-molecule experiments	113
Receptor tyrosine kinase activation: From the ligand perspective	110
New insights into the regulation of apoptosis, necroptosis, and pyroptosis by receptor interacting protein kinase 1 and caspase-8	106
Causes and consequences of micronuclei	101
Caveolae: Formation, dynamics, and function	99
The role of liquid–liquid phase separation in regulating enzyme activity	97
Advances in elucidating the function of leucine-rich repeat protein kinase-2 in normal cells and Parkinson's disease	94
The role of the cell nucleus in mechanotransduction	82
The state of the septin cytoskeleton from assembly to function	82
The extracellular matrix viscoelasticity as a regulator of cell and tissue dynamics	80
Fluid-like chromatin: Toward understanding the real chromatin organization present in the cell	76
Mechanics of the cellular actin cortex: From signalling to shape change	75
Mitochondrial dynamics: Shaping and remodeling an organelle network	72
Tunneling nanotubes: Reshaping connectivity	68
Autophagosomes are formed at a distinct cellular structure	67
The cell pushes back: The Arp2/3 complex is a key orchestrator of cellular responses to environmental forces	66
New perspectives on integrin-dependent adhesions	65
Unconventional endocytic mechanisms	60
FtsZ dynamics in bacterial division: What, how, and why?	57
Membrane supply and remodeling during autophagosome biogenesis	56
Macropinocytosis: Insights from immunology and cancer	56
Caveolae: Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction devices linking membrane trafficking to mechanoadaptation	53

Mechanistic advances in axon pathfinding	51
Recent insight into intermediate filament structure	51
Advances in understanding molecular regulation of innate immune memory	50
Protein quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum	50
Tracking and interpreting long-range chromatin interactions with super-resolution live-cell imaging	48
Recognising the signals for endosomal trafficking	48
Clathrin-independent endocytosis, retrograde trafficking, and cell polarity	47
Microtubule nucleation: The waltz between γ-tubulin ring complex and associated proteins	46
Three-dimensional chromatin in disease: What holds us together and what drives us apart?	45
Simulating realistic membrane shapes	45
The multifaceted roles of microRNAs in differentiation	45
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and different migration strategies as viewed from the neural crest	43
Pluripotent stem cell models of early mammalian development	43
Chromatin and transcriptional regulation by reversible RNA methylation	43
Endosomal microdomains: Formation and function	42
A mechanical perspective on phagocytic cup formation	42
Live-cell imaging in the era of too many microscopes	42
Inter-organelle lipid transfer: a channel model for Vps13 and chorein-N motif proteins	41
Progress in deciphering trophoblast cell differentiation during human placentation	41
Dissecting the signaling pathways involved in the function of sperm flagellum	41
Filament formation by metabolic enzymes—A new twist on regulation	40
Insulin stimulated GLUT4 translocation – Size is not everything!	40
Jamming and arrest of cell motion in biological tissues	40
Karyopherins and condensates	40
Nuclear hubs built on RNAs and clustered organization of the genome	39
Reign in the membrane: How common lipids govern mitochondrial function	39
Xist drives spatial compartmentalization of DNA and protein to orchestrate initiation and maintenance of X inactivation	38
A matter of time: Using dynamics and theory to uncover mechanisms of transcriptional bursting	38
Aligned forces: Origins and mechanisms of cancer dissemination guided by extracellular matrix architecture	37
A single-cell view of spermatogonial stem cells	36
Key phases in the formation of caveolae	36
The dazzling rise of neurofilaments: Physiological functions and roles as biomarkers	36
Roles of PIKfyve in multiple cellular pathways	35
Microtubule self-repair	35
Lamina-associated domains: Tethers and looseners	35
Not all cancers are created equal: Tissue specificity in cancer genes and pathways	35
Biomolecular condensates in membrane receptor signaling	33
The Integrator complex at the crossroad of coding and noncoding RNA	33
Intermediate filaments as effectors of differentiation	33
Regulating specificity in enhancer–promoter communication	32
Regulation of nuclear actin dynamics in development and disease	32
On the choreography of genome folding: A grand pas de deux of cohesin and CTCF	31
Mechanobiology of neural development	31
Endoplasmic reticulum–plasma membrane contacts: Principals of phosphoinositide and calcium signaling	31
CHMPions of repair: Emerging perspectives on sensing and repairing the nuclear envelope barrier	31
Advanced models of human skeletal muscle differentiation, development and disease: Three-dimensional cultures, organoids and beyond	30
Basement membrane remodeling guides cell migration and cell morphogenesis during development	30
Computational approaches from polymer physics to investigate chromatin folding	30
Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of sterol homeostasis	30
Nuclear envelope remodelling during mitosis	29

Phosphorylation-dependent regulation of messenger RNA transcription, processing and translation within biomolecular condensates	29
ESCRT puts its thumb on the nanoscale: Fixing tiny holes in endolysosomes	29
Biophysical and molecular mechanisms of ESCRT functions, and their implications for disease	29
Liquid-like interactions in heterochromatin: Implications for mechanism and regulation	29
Building consensus in neuromesodermal research: Current advances and future biomedical perspectives	29
SMC complexes: Lifting the lid on loop extrusion	29
How to maintain the genome in nuclear space	29
Organoid models for mammary gland dynamics and breast cancer	28
Decoding mechanical cues by molecular mechanotransduction	28
Interplay between membrane curvature and the actin cytoskeleton	28
Design principles of tissue organisation: How single cells coordinate across scales	28
Neocortex expansion in development and evolution—from genes to progenitor cell biology	28
Lights, cytoskeleton, action: Optogenetic control of cell dynamics	27
Mechanically tuning actin filaments to modulate the action of actin-binding proteins	27
Cyclic dinucleotides at the forefront of innate immunity	27
Regulatory mechanisms governing chromatin organization and function	26
The emergence of genome architecture and zygotic genome activation	26
Sending out molecules from the TGN	26
Extensive GTPase crosstalk regulates Golgi trafficking and maturation	26
Mythical origins of the actin cytoskeleton	26
Oligodendrocyte progenitor cell fate and function in development and disease	26
Clathrin’s life beyond 40: Connecting biochemistry with physiology and disease	25
Control of mitosis, inflammation, and cell motility by limited leakage of lysosomes	25
An amuse-bouche of stem cell regulation: Underlying principles and mechanisms from adult Drosophila intestinal stem cells	25
Cell–cell contact and signaling in the muscle stem cell niche	24
How DNA loop extrusion mediated by cohesin enables V(D)J recombination	24
The multifunctional nature of mitochondrial contact site proteins	24
Intermediate filaments against actomyosin: the david and goliath of cell migration	24
"The nuclear envelope, a meiotic jack-of-all-trades"	24
Higher-order assemblies in innate immune and inflammatory signaling: A general principle in cell biology	24
Nuclear fragility, blaming the blebs	23
Mitotic memories of gene activity	23
Dealing with DNA lesions: When one cell cycle is not enough	23
Organelle distribution in neurons: Logistics behind polarized transport	22
Nuclear deformations, from signaling to perturbation and damage	22
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
Functional organization of RNA polymerase II in nuclear subcompartments	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
Advances into understanding metabolites as signaling molecules in cancer progression	21