OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Structure 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
The structures of the peptide transporters SLC15A3 and SLC15A4 reveal the recognition mechanisms for substrate and TASL	111
Gentle ions for cryo-FIB milling	109
GuaB3, an overlooked enzyme in cyanobacteria's toolbox that sheds light on IMP dehydrogenase evolution	100
Structural and functional insights into the mechanism by which MutS2 recognizes a DNA junction	89
The next decade in structural biology	89
A mesophilic Argonaute from Clostridium formicaceticum with efficient DNA cleavage activity guided by small DNA	56
Conformational dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike trimers during fusion activation at single molecule resolution	52
Crystal structure of the alternative complex III from the phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus	50
Phosphorylation at Ser65 modulates ubiquitin conformational dynamics	48
Structures of an active type III-A CRISPR effector complex	47
Structural comparison of typical and atypical E2 pestivirus glycoproteins	46
Pocket delipidation induced by membrane tension or modification leads to a structurally analogous mechanosensitive channel state	46
Architecture of a PKS-NRPS hybrid megaenzyme involved in the biosynthesis of the genotoxin colibactin	45
One bead per residue can describe all-atom protein structures	44
High throughput cryo-EM provides structural understanding for modulators of the lysosomal ion channel TRPML1	44
Structure of Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicles revealed by cryo-ET	44
Crystal structure of the lipid flippase MurJ in a “squeezed” form distinct from its inward- and outward-facing forms	44
Design of a selective peptide inhibitor targeting KDM5C demethylase activity	43
ATP-site inhibitors induce unique conformations of the acute myeloid leukemia-associated Src-family kinase, Fgr	43
Cryo-EM structure of the SPFH-NfeD family protein complex QmcA-YbbJ	41
Desensitization dynamics of the AMPA receptor	40
Structural insight into CD93 recognition by IGFBP7	40
PMSPcnn: Predicting protein stability changes upon single point mutations with convolutional neural network	39
The relationship between interfacial overlap and functional divergence in the yeast protein-protein interaction network	39
Structural basis of phage transcriptional regulation	38

Nanobodies restore stability to cancer-associated mutants of tumor suppressor protein p16INK4a	38
Benchmarking AlphaFold2 on peptide structure prediction	38
The structure of the R2T complex reveals a different architecture from the related HSP90 cochaperone R2TP	37
Seeing is believing—Plasmodium falciparum translation in action	37
Structural insights into ZBTB20 action at the AFP promoter	37
Structural insights into the convergent evolution of sulfoxide synthase EgtB-IV, an ergothioneine-biosynthetic homolog of ovothiol synthase OvoA	35
Cryo-EM structure of a DNA-PK trimer: higher order oligomerisation in NHEJ	34
Computational design and improvement of a broad influenza virus HA stem targeting antibody	34
Structural basis of selective beta-carotene binding by a soluble protein	33
Cryo-EM structure of the vault from human brain reveals symmetry mismatch at its caps	33