OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Protein Science is 37. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Cover Image	418
An ankyrin repeat chaperone targets toxic oligomers during amyloidogenesis	309
Design of an effective small expression tag to enhance GPCR production in E. coli‐based cell‐free and whole cell expression systems	233
Molecular mechanism of Fe³⁺ binding inhibition to Vibrio metschnikovii ferric ion‐binding protein, FbpA, by rosmarinic acid and its hydrolysate, danshensu	161
Helicobacter pylori FlgN binds its substrate FlgK and the flagellum ATPase FliI in a similar manner observed for the FliT chaperone	147
Issue information	141
Extrinsic and intrinsic factors affect copper‐induced protein precipitation across eukaryotic and prokaryotic proteomes	122
Structure–function mapping and mechanistic insights on the SARS CoV2 Nsp1	118
Contributions of the N‐terminal intrinsically disordered region of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 nucleocapsid protein to RNA‐induced phase separation	110
Soluble SARS‐CoV‐2 RBD and human ACE2 peptidase domain produced in DrosophilaS2 cells show functions evoking virus–cell interface	103
The Phenix‐AlphaFold webservice: Enabling AlphaFold predictions for use in Phenix	94
Structural polymorphism and cytotoxicity of brain‐derived β‐amyloid extracts	91
Two residues determine nicotinic acetylcholine receptor requirement for RIC ‐3	84
Impact of local unfolding fluctuations on the evolution of regional sequence preferences in proteins	83
Structural and functional validation of a highly specific Smurf2 inhibitor	80
Torsional twist of the SARS ‐ CoV and SARS ‐	70
Structural hierarchy of mechanical extensibility in human von Willebrand factor multimers	62
Kinetic evidence for multiple aggregation pathways in antibody light chain variable domains	62
Substrate binding in the allosteric site mimics homotropic cooperativity in the SIS‐fold glucosamine‐6‐phosphate deaminases	54
Evolution of affinity between p53 transactivation domain and MDM2 across the animal kingdom demonstrates high plasticity of motif‐mediated interactio	54
Predicting compatibility between ferredoxins and the Fe protein of nitrogenase using in silico protein modeling	53
CsgA gatekeeper residues control nucleation but not stability of functional amyloid	49
Large library docking for novel SARS‐CoV ‐2 main protease non‐covalent and covalent inhibitors	49

A multi‐pore model of the blood–brain barrier tight junction strands recapitulates the permeability features of wild‐type and mutant claudin‐5	47
Solution structure of the Z0 domain from transcription repressor BCL11A sheds light on the sequenc	46
Similar protein segments shared between domains of different evolutionary lineages	44
The peptidyl‐prolyl cis‐trans isomerase, Pin1, is a regulator of the protein kinase C θ ( PKCθ ) catal	41
Torsion angles to map and visualize the conformational space of a protein	41
BEAN and HABAS: Polyphyletic insertions in the DNA‐directed RNA polymerase	41
Protein–lipid interplay governs ion channel gating and bioenergetics in human mitochondrial VDAC3	41
Xplor‐NIH: Better parameters and protocols for NMR protein structure determination	41
Epitope‐directed anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 scFv engineered against the key spike protein region could block membrane fusion	40
Detergents alter the stability and lipid binding properties of the CD1d immunoreceptor	39
Competing chaperone pathways in α‐synuclein disaggregation and aggregation dynamics	39
An open axial channel of the AAA ClpXP protease enhances degradation of specific classes of protein substrates	38
Biophysical insights into the dimer formation of human Sirtuin 2	37