OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Structure is 31. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Crystal structure of the alternative complex III from the phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus	88
ATP-site inhibitors induce unique conformations of the acute myeloid leukemia-associated Src-family kinase, Fgr	85
Phosphorylation at Ser65 modulates ubiquitin conformational dynamics	76
Conformational dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike trimers during fusion activation at single molecule resolution	76
GuaB3, an overlooked enzyme in cyanobacteria's toolbox that sheds light on IMP dehydrogenase evolution	72
The structures of the peptide transporters SLC15A3 and SLC15A4 reveal the recognition mechanisms for substrate and TASL	67
The next decade in structural biology	60
Gentle ions for cryo-FIB milling	55
A mesophilic Argonaute from Clostridium formicaceticum with efficient DNA cleavage activity guided by small DNA	49
Structural and functional insights into the mechanism by which MutS2 recognizes a DNA junction	48
The hitchhiker's guide to the periplasm: Unexpected molecular interactions of polymyxin B1 in E. coli	46
Pocket delipidation induced by membrane tension or modification leads to a structurally analogous mechanosensitive channel state	44
Cryo-EM structure of an open conformation of a gap junction hemichannel in lipid bilayer nanodiscs	44
Structure of Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicles revealed by cryo-ET	43
Structural insight into CD93 recognition by IGFBP7	40
Cryo-EM structure of the SPFH-NfeD family protein complex QmcA-YbbJ	39
Structures of an active type III-A CRISPR effector complex	39
Crystal structure of the lipid flippase MurJ in a “squeezed” form distinct from its inward- and outward-facing forms	38
Architecture of a PKS-NRPS hybrid megaenzyme involved in the biosynthesis of the genotoxin colibactin	38
One bead per residue can describe all-atom protein structures	38
Structural comparison of typical and atypical E2 pestivirus glycoproteins	38
Cryo-EM structure of a DNA-PK trimer: higher order oligomerisation in NHEJ	35
High-resolution crystal structures of transient intermediates in the phytochrome photocycle	35
The structure of the R2T complex reveals a different architecture from the related HSP90 cochaperone R2TP	35
Computational design and improvement of a broad influenza virus HA stem targeting antibody	34

Structural basis of phage transcriptional regulation	33
PMSPcnn: Predicting protein stability changes upon single point mutations with convolutional neural network	33
Structural basis of selective beta-carotene binding by a soluble protein	33
Structural insights into the convergent evolution of sulfoxide synthase EgtB-IV, an ergothioneine-biosynthetic homolog of ovothiol synthase OvoA	33
Macromolecular refinement of X-ray and cryoelectron microscopy structures with Phenix/OPLS3e for improved structure and ligand quality	32
Interplay between hevin, SPARC, and MDGAs: Modulators of neurexin-neuroligin transsynaptic bridges	31
Benchmarking AlphaFold2 on peptide structure prediction	31
The HisRS-like domain of GCN2 is a pseudoenzyme that can bind uncharged tRNA	31
Desensitization dynamics of the AMPA receptor	31