OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Essays in Biochemistry is 34. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
CRISPR screening in cancer stem cells	200
How viral proteins bind short linear motifs and intrinsically disordered domains	162
Phase separation of the microtubule-associated protein tau	159
Heterologous expression of NRPS and PKS pathways in Escherichia coli : from bottlenecks to biosynthetic platforms	115
Inter-species horizontal transfer of biosynthetic gene clusters: an evolutionary driver for chemical diversity in bacterial communities	85
CaMKK2: bridging the gap between Ca2+ signaling and energy-sensing	85
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid crosstalk in plant immunity	83
Butyrate-producing colonic clostridia: picky glycan utilization specialists	73
The role of methionine synthases in fungal metabolism and virulence	71
The dual role of the ubiquitin–proteasome system in photomorphogenesis	69
Astrocytes in memory formation and maintenance	68
Expanding perspectives on specialized metabolism in Streptomyces bacteria	63
Bacterial–fungal interactions: connections and consequences	58
Apoplastic and vascular defences	58
Can changes in 3D genome architecture create new regulatory landscapes that contribute to phenotypic evolution?	55
Versatile roles of inositol hexakisphosphate in the ubiquitin-proteasome system	54
Malate dehydrogenase: a story of diverse evolutionary radiation	52
DNA sensing in cancer: Pro-tumour and anti-tumour functions of cGAS–STING signalling	52
The cGAS-STING pathway in cancer immunity: dual roles, therapeutic strategies, and clinical challenges	51
O-Mucin-degrading carbohydrate-active enzymes and their possible implication in inflammatory bowel diseases	51
Mass spectrometric insights into protein aggregation	51
A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on evolutionary developmental biology	51
Translating biosynthetic gene cluster architecture into biosensor design for microbial natural product discovery	51
Colony politics to chemical warfare: phenotypic plasticity in Streptomyces	47
Intra- and inter-biosynthetic gene cluster allelic variation as drivers of chemical diversification in Streptomyces	46

Shapeshifting proteins: the role of structural disorder and conformational plasticity in physiology and disease	44
Functional amyloid in a lipid-like environment: a merry dance of many steps	44
Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis in fungi	44
Astrocytes regulate inhibitory neurotransmission through GABA uptake, metabolism, and recycling	43
Harnessing extremophilic carboxylesterases for applications in polyester depolymerisation and plastic waste recycling	40
Hemicellulolytic enzymes in lignocellulose processing	40
Modulating immune cells within pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via nanomedicine	39
Nitrification in acidic and alkaline environments	36
Prostate cancer as a dedifferentiated organ: androgen receptor, cancer stem cells, and cancer stemness	35
Imaging of biofilms using cryo-scanning electron microscopy	34