OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Protein Science is 36. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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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	225
Molecular mechanism of Fe³⁺ binding inhibition to Vibrio metschnikovii ferric ion‐binding protein, FbpA, by rosmarinic acid and its hydrolysate, danshensu	192
Helicobacter pylori FlgN binds its substrate FlgK and the flagellum ATPase FliI in a similar manner observed for the FliT chaperone	154
Fine‐tuned interactions between globular and disordered regions of single‐stranded DNA binding (SSB) protein are required for dynamic condensation under physiological conditions	143
Issue information	139
Extrinsic and intrinsic factors affect copper‐induced protein precipitation across eukaryotic and prokaryotic proteomes	119
Similar protein segments shared between domains of different evolutionary lineages	109
Structure–function mapping and mechanistic insights on the SARS CoV2 Nsp1	105
Torsion angles to map and visualize the conformational space of a protein	99
Contributions of the N‐terminal intrinsically disordered region of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 nucleocapsid protein to RNA‐induced phase separation	92
Soluble SARS‐CoV‐2 RBD and human ACE2 peptidase domain produced in DrosophilaS2 cells show functions evoking virus–cell interface	89
The Phenix‐AlphaFold webservice: Enabling AlphaFold predictions for use in Phenix	84
Structural polymorphism and cytotoxicity of brain‐derived β‐amyloid extracts	80
Two residues determine nicotinic acetylcholine receptor requirement for RIC ‐3	78
Impact of local unfolding fluctuations on the evolution of regional sequence preferences in proteins	67
Structural and functional validation of a highly specific Smurf2 inhibitor	61
Torsional twist of the SARS ‐ CoV and SARS ‐	60
Kinetic evidence for multiple aggregation pathways in antibody light chain variable domains	54
Structural hierarchy of mechanical extensibility in human von Willebrand factor multimers	51
Substrate binding in the allosteric site mimics homotropic cooperativity in the SIS‐fold glucosamine‐6‐phosphate deaminases	51
Evolution of affinity between p53 transactivation domain and MDM2 across the animal kingdom demonstrates high plasticity of motif‐mediated interactio	48

Predicting compatibility between ferredoxins and the Fe protein of nitrogenase using in silico protein modeling	45
In and out of the mitochondrial intermembrane space	42
Detergents alter the stability and lipid binding properties of the CD1d immunoreceptor	41
Biophysical insights into the dimer formation of human Sirtuin 2	41
CsgA gatekeeper residues control nucleation but not stability of functional amyloid	41
An open axial channel of the AAA ClpXP protease enhances degradation of specific classes of protein substrates	41
The peptidyl‐prolyl cis‐trans isomerase, Pin1, is a regulator of the protein kinase C θ ( PKCθ ) catal	40
Active site architecture of coproporphyrin ferrochelatase with its physiological substrate coproporphyrin III: Propionate interactions and porphyrin core deformation	40
In vitro, cellular and in vivo studies of amyloid oligomers structure and toxicity: Challenges and advances	39
Epitope‐directed anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 scFv engineered against the key spike protein region could block membrane fusion	38
A novel method for expressing and purifying large quantities of functional and stable human voltage‐gated proton channel (hH_v1)	36
Biophysical characterization of RelA–p52 NF‐κB dimer—A link between the canonical and the non‐canonical NF‐κB pathway	36
Competing chaperone pathways in α‐synuclein disaggregation and aggregation dynamics	36