OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biochemistry is 29. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrasting Mechanisms of Aromatic and Aryl-Methyl Substituent Hydroxylation by the Rieske Monooxygenase Salicylate 5-Hydroxylase	135
Transient-State Kinetic Analysis of the RNA Polymerase II Nucleotide Incorporation Mechanism	103
The Fascinating Intricacy of pSer/Thr-Specific Phosphatases and Their Higher-Order Complexes: Emerging Concepts	97
Molecular Evolution and Origins of Antibiotic Resistance Genes	92
AmorProt: Amino Acid Molecular Fingerprints Repurposing-Based Protein Fingerprint	91
Determining the Sequence Dependency of Self-Assembly of Elastin-Like Peptides Using Short Peptide Analogues with Shuffled Repetitive Sequences	86
Signal Transmission in Escherichia coli Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein for Survival in Extreme Acidic Conditions	83
Genome Engineering for Next-Generation Cellular Immunotherapies	67
Identification of Filamin A Mechanobinding Partner III: SAV1 Specifically Interacts with Filamin A Mechanosensitive Domain 21	60
¹³C Electron Nuclear Double Resonance Spectroscopy-Guided Molecular Dynamics Computations Reveal the Structure of the Enzyme–Substrate Complex of an Active, N-Linked Glycosylated Lip	56
RNA Polymerase Ribozyme That Recognizes the Template–Primer Complex through Tertiary Interactions	52
Distinguishing Different Hydrogen-Bonded Helices in Proteins by Efficient ¹H-Detected Three-Dimensional Solid-State NMR	49
Electrostatic Interactions Dictate Bile Salt Hydrolase Substrate Preference	44
Two-Component System Sensor Kinase Inhibitors Target the ATP-Lid of PmrB to Disrupt Colistin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii	44
Inside-Out Design of Zinc-Binding Proteins with Non-Native Backbones	42
Structure and Mechanism of a Cold-Adapted Bacterial Lipase	42
Glycerol 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Catalyzed Hydride Transfer: Enzyme Activation by Cofactor Pieces	41
A High-Throughput Screening Pipeline to Identify Methyltransferase and Exonuclease Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 NSP14	41
Parameterizing the Binding Properties of XNA Aptamers Isolated from a Low Stringency Selection	40
Computational Approaches for Development of Engineered Therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2	40
Multitasking Proteins: Exploring Noncanonical Functions of Proteins during Mitosis	38
Molecular Insights into the Inhibition of Dialysis-Related β2m Amyloidosis Orchestrated by a Bispidine Peptidomimetic Analogue	36
C3- and C3/C5-Epimerases Required for the Biosynthesis of the Capsular Polysaccharides from Campylobacter jejuni	34
Modifying the Basicity of the dNTP Leaving Group Modulates Precatalytic Conformational Changes of DNA Polymerase β	33
Human Translesion Synthesis Polymerases polκ and polη Perform Error-Free Replication across N²-dG Methyleugenol and Estragole DNA Adducts	33

Modification of the 4Fe-4S Cluster Charge Transport Pathway Alters RNA Synthesis by Yeast DNA Primase	32
A Novel Gene Alignment in Dorea sp. AM58-8 Produces 7-Dehydroxy-3β Bile Acids from Primary Bile Acids	30
Putative Protein Interactome of the Rhomboid Protease RHBDL4	30
Issue Editorial Masthead	29