OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 50. 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
Phylogenetic Analysis and Structural Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Reveals an Evolutionary Distinct and Proteolytically Sensitive Activation Loop	385
Mutations Strengthened SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity	368
AlphaFold and Implications for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	303
Structural insights into SARS-CoV-2 proteins	238
Autophagy in Parkinson's Disease	201
Moltemplate: A Tool for Coarse-Grained Modeling of Complex Biological Matter and Soft Condensed Matter Physics	191
Experimental Evidence for Enhanced Receptor Binding by Rapidly Spreading SARS-CoV-2 Variants	178
Autophagosome-Lysosome Fusion	175
Autophagy Induction as a Therapeutic Strategy for Neurodegenerative Diseases	153
FunRich enables enrichment analysis of OMICs datasets	140
The AlphaFold Database of Protein Structures: A Biologist’s Guide	126
Apoptosis, Pyroptosis, and Necroptosis—Oh My! The Many Ways a Cell Can Die	115
RCSB Protein Data Bank: Architectural Advances Towards Integrated Searching and Efficient Access to Macromolecular Structure Data from the PDB Archive	100
Molecular Interactions Between Components of the Circadian Clock and the Immune System	94
The Mechanism and Consequences of SARS-CoV-2 Spike-Mediated Fusion and Syncytia Formation	90
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Tau Driven by Hydrophobic Interaction Facilitates Fibrillization of Tau	77
A Brief History of De Novo Protein Design: Minimal, Rational, and Computational	76
Molecular Links between the Circadian Clock and the Cell Cycle	74
Crystal Structure of NLRP3 NACHT Domain With an Inhibitor Defines Mechanism of Inflammasome Inhibition	74
Integrative Modelling of Biomolecular Complexes	69
Mechanisms of Antiviral Immune Evasion of SARS-CoV-2	68
Structural Modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike/Human ACE2 Complex Interface can Identify High-Affinity Variants Associated with Increased Transmissibility	66
The Paf1 Complex: A Keystone of Nuclear Regulation Operating at the Interface of Transcription and Chromatin	65
Structure and Function of Chromatin Remodelers	64
The Ambivalent Role of Proline Residues in an Intrinsically Disordered Protein: From Disorder Promoters to Compaction Facilitators	63

Subtle Influence of ACE2 Glycan Processing on SARS-CoV-2 Recognition	63
Cation-π Interactions and their Functional Roles in Membrane Proteins	61
Structural Modeling Using Solution Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)	61
EFI-EST, EFI-GNT, and EFI-CGFP: Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) Web Resource for Genomic Enzymology Tools	59
Sequence Determinants of the Aggregation of Proteins Within Condensates Generated by Liquid-liquid Phase Separation	59
The Mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein Recognition by the Human 14-3-3 Proteins	58
SSizer: Determining the Sample Sufficiency for Comparative Biological Study	58
The Still Dark Side of the Moon: Molecular Mechanisms of Lunar-Controlled Rhythms and Clocks	58
Molecular Mechanisms for Bacterial Potassium Homeostasis	56
Energy Landscapes of Protein Aggregation and Conformation Switching in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	56
Synapsin Condensates Recruit alpha-Synuclein	55
The Persistent Question of Potassium Channel Permeation Mechanisms	54
Local c-di-GMP Signaling in the Control of Synthesis of the E. coli Biofilm Exopolysaccharide pEtN-Cellulose	53
Repetitive RNAs as Regulators of Chromatin-Associated Subcompartment Formation by Phase Separation	53
The Groovy TMEM16 Family: Molecular Mechanisms of Lipid Scrambling and Ion Conduction	53
SARS-CoV-2 Fusion Peptide has a Greater Membrane Perturbating Effect than SARS-CoV with Highly Specific Dependence on Ca2+	53
The Diverse Functions of Small Heat Shock Proteins in the Proteostasis Network	53
GeneCaRNA: A Comprehensive Gene-centric Database of Human Non-coding RNAs in the GeneCards Suite	53
Structural Basis of Drug Recognition by the Multidrug Transporter ABCG2	52
Molecular Strategies Underlying Porphyromonas gingivalis Virulence	52
Ubiquitin and Receptor-Dependent Mitophagy Pathways and Their Implication in Neurodegeneration	52
Autophagy and Protein Secretion	50
The Protein Folding Problem: The Role of Theory	50
Selective Autophagy Receptors in Neuronal Health and Disease	50
On the Potential of Machine Learning to Examine the Relationship Between Sequence, Structure, Dynamics and Function of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	50