OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Essays in Biochemistry is 15. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Non-coding RNA in cancer	271
Ferroptosis and NRF2: an emerging battlefield in the neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease	78
Advances in metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum to produce high-value active ingredients for food, feed, human health, and well-being	76
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid crosstalk in plant immunity	67
Mammalian lipids: structure, synthesis and function	64
Estrogen receptors and the aging brain	63
Nuclear receptors: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutics	58
WNT signaling and cancer stemness	57
Circular RNAs as microRNA sponges: evidence and controversies	51
Towards robust Pseudomonas cell factories to harbour novel biosynthetic pathways	50
Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains used industrially for bioethanol production	48
Enhancer RNA: biogenesis, function, and regulation	43
Something old, something new: challenges and developments in Aspergillus niger biotechnology	42
Halomonasas a chassis	41
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 as a bacterial platform for electro-biotechnology	40
How phosphorylation impacts intrinsically disordered proteins and their function	38
The physiological role of estrogen receptor functional domains	38
Metabolic engineering of Vibrio natriegens	34
Direct recognition of pathogen effectors by plant NLR immune receptors and downstream signalling	33
Bioprinting of kidney in vitro models: cells, biomaterials, and manufacturing techniques	32
Single-molecule optical genome mapping in nanochannels: multidisciplinarity at the nanoscale	31
Nanopores: a versatile tool to study protein dynamics	31
Show me your ID: NLR immune receptors with integrated domains in plants	29
Uncovering protein function: from classification to complexes	29
Recombinant protein secretion by Bacillus subtilis and Lactococcus lactis: pathways, applications, and innovation potential	29

Organization and function of paraspeckles	28
Escherichia coli as a platform microbial host for systems metabolic engineering	28
Cross-talk between energy and redox metabolism in astrocyte-neuron functional cooperation	27
Harnessing adult-plant resistance genes to deploy durable disease resistance in crops	27
Targeting RNA structures in diseases with small molecules	27
Concerted actions of PRR- and NLR-mediated immunity	27
Immune priming in plants: from the onset to transgenerational maintenance	26
Biological soft matter: intrinsically disordered proteins in liquid–liquid phase separation and biomolecular condensates	25
Inflammasome activation in neurodegenerative diseases	25
Nuclear receptor Nur77: its role in chronic inflammatory diseases	24
Astrocyte heterogeneity and interactions with local neural circuits	24
Volatile uptake, transport, perception, and signaling shape a plant’s nose	24
Use of electroconductive biomaterials for engineering tissues by 3D printing and 3D bioprinting	24
Principles of synthetic biology	23
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases: enzymes for controlled and site-specific Fenton-like chemistry	23
Plant immunity by damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs)	23
Orphan nuclear receptor 4A1 (NR4A1) and novel ligands	23
Detection methods of epitranscriptomic mark N6-methyladenosine	22
Production of proteins and commodity chemicals using engineered Bacillus subtilis platform strain	20
Interplay between phytohormone signalling pathways in plant defence – other than salicylic acid and jasmonic acid	20
Molecular plant immunity against biotrophic, hemibiotrophic, and necrotrophic fungi	19
Established tools and emerging trends for the production of recombinant proteins and metabolites in Pichia pastoris	19
Membrane lipid raft homeostasis is directly linked to neurodegeneration	19
Laser-based bioprinting for multilayer cell patterning in tissue engineering and cancer research	19
Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1—naturally competent for synthetic biology	18
Knowing me, knowing you: Self and non-self recognition in plant immunity	18
The Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle for metabolic engineering of Streptomycetes	18
Microbial cell factories for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates	17
Comparative genomics in the search for conserved long noncoding RNAs	17
Mucin utilization by gut microbiota: recent advances on characterization of key enzymes	17
The diversity of post-transcriptional gene silencing mediated by small silencing RNAs in plants	17
Cryo-EM structures of τ filaments from human brain	17
Astrocytes regulate inhibitory neurotransmission through GABA uptake, metabolism, and recycling	17
On the impact of carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) in lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs)	17
An emerging role of chromatin-interacting RNA-binding proteins in transcription regulation	16
Cross-linking mass spectrometry for mapping protein complex topologies in situ	16
New molecules in plant defence against pathogens	16
Butyrate-producing colonic clostridia: picky glycan utilization specialists	16
Progesterone receptors in normal breast development and breast cancer	16
SINEUPs: a novel toolbox for RNA therapeutics	16
Functional annotation of lncRNA in high-throughput screening	16
So you want to express your protein in Escherichia coli?	16
Insight into the structure and molecular mode of action of plant paired NLR immune receptors	16
Transcriptional regulation of plant innate immunity	16
What’s new in protein kinase/phosphatase signalling in the control of plant immunity?	16
Harnessing the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of fungal secondary metabolites	16
Non-coding RNA dysregulation in skin cancers	15
NLR receptor networks in plants	15
Handheld bioprinting strategies for in situ wound dressing	15
Recent advances in microarray 3D bioprinting for high-throughput spheroid and tissue culture and analysis	15

Rab GTPases in Parkinson's disease: a primer	15
Review of 3D-printing technologies for wearable and implantable bio-integrated sensors	15
Fundamentals of HDX-MS	15
Challenges of analysing stochastic gene expression in bacteria using single-cell time-lapse experiments	15
NMR insights into dynamic, multivalent interactions of intrinsically disordered regions: from discrete complexes to condensates	15