Alexander S. Mankin

12.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
151 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

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Alexander S. Mankin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander S. Mankin has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Molecular Biology, 67 papers in Genetics and 24 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alexander S. Mankin's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (130 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (76 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (67 papers). Alexander S. Mankin is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (130 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (76 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (67 papers). Alexander S. Mankin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Alexander S. Mankin's co-authors include Nora Vázquez‐Laslop, Liqun Xiong, Tanel Tenson, Dorota Klepacki, Norbert Polacek, Haripriya Ramu, Krishna Kannan, J.A. Dunkle, J.H.D. Cate and Dean L. Shinabarger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Alexander S. Mankin

151 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome

2025 24 citations Manoj Jangra, Dmitrii Y. Travin et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander S. Mankin United States	56	6.9k	2.1k	1.6k	1.2k	985	151	9.1k
Dominique Mengin‐Lecreulx France	59	5.2k 0.7×	3.0k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	167	10.1k
Andréa Dessen France	47	3.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	2.3k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	749 0.8×	119	8.2k
Daniel N. Wilson Germany	68	10.5k 1.5×	2.9k 1.4×	887 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.5×	181	12.6k
Deborah T. Hung United States	42	6.4k 0.9×	957 0.5×	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	732 0.7×	118	10.6k
Thierry Vernet France	48	4.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	981 0.6×	890 0.7×	566 0.6×	160	7.9k
Bernard Joris Belgium	45	3.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	2.8k 2.3×	889 0.9×	186	8.3k
Robert K. Ernst United States	59	6.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	2.8k 2.4×	945 1.0×	255	13.3k
Tanel Tenson Estonia	49	4.9k 0.7×	2.5k 1.2×	879 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	153	7.5k
David E. Heinrichs Canada	56	3.7k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 0.9×	543 0.6×	128	7.0k
Malcolm E. Winkler United States	56	4.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	900 0.6×	790 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	140	8.0k

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Jangra, Manoj, Dmitrii Y. Travin, Elena V. Aleksandrova, et al.. (2025). A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome. Nature. 640(8060). 1022–1030. 24 indexed citations breakdown →

Aleksandrova, Elena V., Dorota Klepacki, Nora Vázquez‐Laslop, et al.. (2024). Macrolones target bacterial ribosomes and DNA gyrase and can evade resistance mechanisms. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(12). 1680–1690. 14 indexed citations

Huang, Weiping, et al.. (2024). Sequence diversity of apidaecin-like peptides arresting the terminating ribosome. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(15). 8967–8978. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Kelvin J. Y., Dorota Klepacki, Alexander S. Mankin, & Andrew G. Myers. (2023). A method for tritiation of iboxamycin permits measurement of its ribosomal binding. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 91. 129364–129364. 3 indexed citations

Johnson, T., A’Lester C. Allen, Elena V. Aleksandrova, et al.. (2023). Structure–Activity Relationships of the Antimicrobial Peptide Natural Product Apidaecin. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 66(17). 11831–11842. 15 indexed citations

Shao, Xinhao, Adam J. Hockenberry, Yu Gao, et al.. (2022). Discovery of Unannotated Small Open Reading Frames in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 Involved in Quorum Sensing and Virulence Using Ribosome Profiling. mBio. 13(4). e0124722–e0124722. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Yan, Nikolay A. Aleksashin, Dorota Klepacki, et al.. (2022). The context of the ribosome binding site in mRNAs defines specificity of action of kasugamycin, an inhibitor of translation initiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 15 indexed citations

Beckert, Bertrand, Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam, Lars V. Bock, et al.. (2021). Structural and mechanistic basis for translation inhibition by macrolide and ketolide antibiotics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4466–4466. 58 indexed citations

Svetlov, Maxim S., Egor A. Syroegin, Elena V. Aleksandrova, et al.. (2021). Structure of Erm-modified 70S ribosome reveals the mechanism of macrolide resistance. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(4). 412–420. 90 indexed citations

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Huang, Shijie, Nikolay A. Aleksashin, A.B. Loveland, et al.. (2020). Ribosome engineering reveals the importance of 5S rRNA autonomy for ribosome assembly. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2900–2900. 25 indexed citations

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Svetlov, Maxim S., et al.. (2020). A long-distance rRNA base pair impacts the ability of macrolide antibiotics to kill bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(4). 1971–1975. 12 indexed citations

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Florin, Tanja, Xinhao Shao, Dorota Klepacki, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide effects of the antimicrobial peptide apidaecin on translation termination in bacteria. eLife. 9. 31 indexed citations

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Carlson, Erik D., Anne E. d’Aquino, Do Soon Kim, et al.. (2019). Engineered ribosomes with tethered subunits for expanding biological function. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3920–3920. 55 indexed citations

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Choi, Junhong, James Marks, Jingji Zhang, et al.. (2019). Dynamics of the context-specific translation arrest by chloramphenicol and linezolid. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(3). 310–317. 34 indexed citations

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Svetlov, Maxim S., Nora Vázquez‐Laslop, & Alexander S. Mankin. (2017). Kinetics of drug–ribosome interactions defines the cidality of macrolide antibiotics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(52). 13673–13678. 54 indexed citations

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Florin, Tanja, Cristina Maracci, Michael Graf, et al.. (2017). An antimicrobial peptide that inhibits translation by trapping release factors on the ribosome. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 24(9). 752–757. 133 indexed citations

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LaMarre, Jacqueline M., Benjamin P. Howden, & Alexander S. Mankin. (2011). Inactivation of the Indigenous Methyltransferase RlmN in Staphylococcus aureus Increases Linezolid Resistance. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 55(6). 2989–2991. 39 indexed citations

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Kannan, Krishna & Alexander S. Mankin. (2011). Macrolide antibiotics in the ribosome exit tunnel: species‐specific binding and action. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1241(1). 33–47. 88 indexed citations

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Siibak, Triinu, Lauri Peil, Liqun Xiong, et al.. (2008). Erythromycin- and Chloramphenicol-Induced Ribosomal Assembly Defects Are Secondary Effects of Protein Synthesis Inhibition. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 53(2). 563–571. 62 indexed citations

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Tenson, Tanel & Alexander S. Mankin. (1995). Comparison of functional peptide encoded in the Escherichia coli 23S rRNA with other peptides involved in cis-regulation of translation. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 73(11-12). 1061–1070. 16 indexed citations

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