Alan Engelman

22.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
202 papers, 16.9k citations indexed

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Alan Engelman is a scholar working on Virology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Engelman has authored 202 papers receiving a total of 16.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Virology, 131 papers in Molecular Biology and 129 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Alan Engelman's work include HIV Research and Treatment (175 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (128 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (57 papers). Alan Engelman is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (175 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (128 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (57 papers). Alan Engelman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Alan Engelman's co-authors include Robert Craigie, Peter Cherepanov, Kenneth A. Matreyek, Alison B. Hickman, Kiyoshi Mizuuchi, S. Hare, Frederic D. Bushman, Nick Vandegraaff, Judy Lieberman and Nan Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Alan Engelman

199 papers receiving 16.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Identification of Host Proteins Required for HIV Infection Through a Functional Genomic Screen

2008 1.1k citations Abraham L. Brass, Derek M. Dykxhoorn et al. Science profile →
Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Domain of HIV-1 Integrase: Similarity to Other Polynucleotidyl Transferases

1994 667 citations Alan Engelman, Robert Craigie et al. Science profile →
HIV-1 DNA integration: Mechanism of viral DNA cleavage and DNA strand transfer

1991 542 citations Alan Engelman, Robert Craigie et al. profile →
Retroviral intasome assembly and inhibition of DNA strand transfer

2010 539 citations S. Hare, Saumya Gupta et al. profile →
Haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from human pluripotent stem cells

2017 337 citations Erik Serrao, Alan Engelman et al. profile →
Integrase-mediated spacer acquisition during CRISPR–Cas adaptive immunity

2015 263 citations Alan Engelman et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Engelman United States	74	11.8k	10.6k	9.7k	2.5k	1.9k	202	16.9k
Eric O. Freed United States	68	11.3k 1.0×	6.3k 0.6×	6.3k 0.7×	3.4k 1.3×	1.4k 0.7×	212	15.9k
Ronald Swanstrom United States	62	6.9k 0.6×	4.1k 0.4×	5.0k 0.5×	2.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	185	11.5k
Peter Cherepanov United Kingdom	53	5.3k 0.5×	6.5k 0.6×	5.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	2.2k 1.1×	107	10.1k
Robert Craigie United States	51	6.0k 0.5×	7.5k 0.7×	5.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	93	10.5k
Michael H. Malim United Kingdom	78	15.1k 1.3×	10.7k 1.0×	8.3k 0.9×	5.7k 2.3×	2.8k 1.5×	180	24.3k
Michael Emerman United States	67	11.3k 1.0×	7.4k 0.7×	6.2k 0.6×	4.0k 1.6×	3.6k 1.9×	149	17.1k
Vinay K. Pathak United States	54	5.0k 0.4×	3.8k 0.4×	3.5k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	160	8.0k
Christos J. Petropoulos United States	62	9.2k 0.8×	3.2k 0.3×	7.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	188	13.1k
Christopher Aiken United States	52	7.0k 0.6×	3.6k 0.3×	4.2k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	739 0.4×	130	9.4k
Dani P. Bolognesi United States	53	7.5k 0.6×	4.0k 0.4×	5.3k 0.5×	3.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	175	13.5k

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Jang, Sooin, Parmit K. Singh, Jiong Shi, et al.. (2025). CPSF6 promotes HIV-1 preintegration complex function. Journal of Virology. 99(5). e0049025–e0049025.

Shen, Y., Juan Shen, Jiong Shi, et al.. (2025). HIV-1 nuclear import is selective and depends on both capsid elasticity and nuclear pore adaptability. Nature Microbiology. 10(8). 1868–1885. 5 indexed citations

Kline, Christopher E., Parmit K. Singh, Ravi S. Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal binding of cyclophilin A and CPSF6 to capsid regulates HIV-1 nuclear entry and integration. mBio. 16(4). e0016925–e0016925. 2 indexed citations

Annamalai, Arun S., S.M. Bester, Guochao Wei, et al.. (2025). Structural and mechanistic bases for resistance of the M66I capsid variant to lenacapavir. mBio. 16(5). e0361324–e0361324. 6 indexed citations

Grandgenett, Duane P. & Alan Engelman. (2024). Brief Histories of Retroviral Integration Research and Associated International Conferences. Viruses. 16(4). 604–604. 3 indexed citations

Li, Zhen, et al.. (2024). HIV-1 Intasomes Assembled with Excess Integrase C-Terminal Domain Protein Facilitate Structural Studies by Cryo-EM and Reveal the Role of the Integrase C-Terminal Tail in HIV-1 Integration. Viruses. 16(7). 1166–1166.

Annamalai, Arun S., Nicola Cook, Valerie E. Pye, et al.. (2023). The Drug-Induced Interface That Drives HIV-1 Integrase Hypermultimerization and Loss of Function. mBio. 14(1). e0356022–e0356022. 5 indexed citations

Wei, Guochao, Valentine V. Courouble, Ashwanth C. Francis, et al.. (2022). Prion-like low complexity regions enable avid virus-host interactions during HIV-1 infection. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5879–5879. 32 indexed citations

Ballandras-Colas, Allison, Dominika T. Gruszka, Parmit K. Singh, et al.. (2022). Multivalent interactions essential for lentiviral integrase function. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2416–2416. 10 indexed citations

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Maehigashi, Tatsuya, Jared Lindenberger, Adrian Oo, et al.. (2021). A highly potent and safe pyrrolopyridine-based allosteric HIV-1 integrase inhibitor targeting host LEDGF/p75-integrase interaction site. PLoS Pathogens. 17(7). e1009671–e1009671. 21 indexed citations

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Maertens, Goedele N., Alan Engelman, & Peter Cherepanov. (2021). Structure and function of retroviral integrase. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20(1). 20–34. 62 indexed citations

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Bester, S.M., Guochao Wei, Haiyan Zhao, et al.. (2020). Structural and mechanistic bases for a potent HIV-1 capsid inhibitor. Science. 370(6514). 360–364. 159 indexed citations

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Ni, Tao, Gongpu Zhao, Kyle C. Dent, et al.. (2020). Intrinsic curvature of the HIV-1 CA hexamer underlies capsid topology and interaction with cyclophilin A. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(9). 855–862. 49 indexed citations

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Cook, Nicola, Wen Li, Dénes Berta, et al.. (2020). Structural basis of second-generation HIV integrase inhibitor action and viral resistance. Science. 367(6479). 806–810. 74 indexed citations

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Achuthan, Vasudevan, Kathryn Gilroy, Gillian Borland, et al.. (2019). Disrupting MLV integrase:BET protein interaction biases integration into quiescent chromatin and delays but does not eliminate tumor activation in a MYC/Runx2 mouse model. PLoS Pathogens. 15(12). e1008154–e1008154. 8 indexed citations

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Lesbats, Paul, Erik Serrao, Daniel P. Maskell, et al.. (2017). Structural basis for spumavirus GAG tethering to chromatin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(21). 5509–5514. 43 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Frances Joan D., Shaoda He, Juan R. Perilla, et al.. (2017). CryoEM structure of MxB reveals a novel oligomerization interface critical for HIV restriction. Science Advances. 3(9). e1701264–e1701264. 49 indexed citations

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Maertens, Goedele N., Nicola Cook, Weifeng Wang, et al.. (2014). Structural basis for nuclear import of splicing factors by human Transportin 3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(7). 2728–2733. 111 indexed citations

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Brass, Abraham L., Derek M. Dykxhoorn, Yair Benita, et al.. (2008). Identification of Host Proteins Required for HIV Infection Through a Functional Genomic Screen. Science. 319(5865). 921–926. 1149 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cherepanov, Peter, A.L.B. Ambrosio, Shaila Rahman, Tom Ellenberger, & Alan Engelman. (2005). Structural basis for the recognition between HIV-1 integrase and transcriptional coactivator p75. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(48). 17308–17313. 325 indexed citations

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