OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Protein Science is 33. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
	3086
	580
Soluble SARS‐CoV‐2 RBD and human ACE2 peptidase domain produced in DrosophilaS2 cells show functions evoking virus–cell interface	351
Effects of N‐ and C‐terminal regions on oligomeric formation of blue light sensor protein SyPixD	288
BEAN and HABAS: Polyphyletic insertions in the DNA‐directed RNA polymerase	196
Structure–function mapping and mechanistic insights on the SARS CoV2 Nsp1	170
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An ankyrin repeat chaperone targets toxic oligomers during amyloidogenesis	130
Design of an effective small expression tag to enhance GPCR production in E. coli‐based cell‐free and whole cell expression systems	126
Molecular mechanism of Fe³⁺ binding inhibition to Vibrio metschnikovii ferric ion‐binding protein, FbpA, by rosmarinic acid and its hydrolysate, danshensu	98
Helicobacter pylori FlgN binds its substrate FlgK and the flagellum ATPase FliI in a similar manner observed for the FliT chaperone	88
Fine‐tuned interactions between globular and disordered regions of single‐stranded DNA binding (SSB) protein are required for dynamic condensation under physiological conditions	84
Substrate binding in the allosteric site mimics homotropic cooperativity in the SIS‐fold glucosamine‐6‐phosphate deaminases	81
Impact of local unfolding fluctuations on the evolution of regional sequence preferences in proteins	73
Issue information	73
Extrinsic and intrinsic factors affect copper‐induced protein precipitation across eukaryotic and prokaryotic proteomes	71
Torsional twist of the SARS ‐ CoV and SARS ‐	65
Similar protein segments shared between domains of different evolutionary lineages	62
Kinetic evidence for multiple aggregation pathways in antibody light chain variable domains	62
Active site architecture of coproporphyrin ferrochelatase with its physiological substrate coproporphyrin III: Propionate interactions and porphyrin core deformation	54
Competing chaperone pathways in α‐synuclein disaggregation and aggregation dynamics	50
A multi‐pore model of the blood–brain barrier tight junction strands recapitulates the permeability features of wild‐type and mutant claudin‐5	47
Two residues determine nicotinic acetylcholine receptor requirement for RIC ‐3	46
Evolution of affinity between p53 transactivation domain and MDM2 across the animal kingdom demonstrates high plasticity of motif‐mediated interactio	46
Torsion angles to map and visualize the conformational space of a protein	45

Solution structure of the Z0 domain from transcription repressor BCL11A sheds light on the sequenc	42
Biophysical insights into the dimer formation of human Sirtuin 2	40
Xplor‐NIH: Better parameters and protocols for NMR protein structure determination	39
The Phenix‐AlphaFold webservice: Enabling AlphaFold predictions for use in Phenix	38
Structural hierarchy of mechanical extensibility in human von Willebrand factor multimers	38
Epitope‐directed anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 scFv engineered against the key spike protein region could block membrane fusion	36
Biophysical characterization of RelA–p52 NF‐κB dimer—A link between the canonical and the non‐canonical NF‐κB pathway	34
CSM‐peptides: A computational approach to rapid identification of therapeutic peptides	34
Gating residues govern ligand unbinding kinetics from the buried cavity in HIF‐2α PAS‐B	33