Arthur J. Zaug

9.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
48 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Arthur J. Zaug is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arthur J. Zaug has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Physiology and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Arthur J. Zaug's work include Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (22 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (19 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers). Arthur J. Zaug is often cited by papers focused on Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (22 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (19 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers). Arthur J. Zaug collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Israel. Arthur J. Zaug's co-authors include Thomas R. Cech, Paula J. Grabowski, Daniel E. Gottschling, Kelly Kruger, Elaine R. Podell, Ming Lei, Michael D. Been, Thomas R. Cech, Yuting Yang and Feng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Arthur J. Zaug

48 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of tetrahymena

1982 1.6k citations Arthur J. Zaug, Thomas R. Cech et al. Cell profile →
In vitro splicing of the ribosomal RNA precursor of tetrahymena: Involvement of a guanosine nucleotide in the excision of the intervening sequence

1981 645 citations Thomas R. Cech, Arthur J. Zaug et al. Cell profile →
The POT1–TPP1 telomere complex is a telomerase processivity factor

2007 545 citations Elaine R. Podell, Arthur J. Zaug et al. Nature profile →
The Intervening Sequence RNA of Tetrahymena Is an Enzyme

1986 375 citations Arthur J. Zaug, Thomas R. Cech Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arthur J. Zaug United States	36	6.5k	2.0k	768	691	492	48	7.3k
Thomas R. Cech United States	22	5.0k 0.8×	431 0.2×	573 0.7×	404 0.6×	138 0.3×	27	5.4k
Nancy Maizels United States	50	7.8k 1.2×	241 0.1×	436 0.6×	889 1.3×	116 0.2×	130	8.9k
Robert L. Ratliff United States	34	5.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	571 0.7×	888 1.3×	19 0.0×	79	7.0k
Alan M. Weiner United States	50	8.0k 1.2×	165 0.1×	439 0.6×	1.3k 1.8×	175 0.4×	113	9.1k
Paula J. Grabowski United States	34	7.6k 1.2×	128 0.1×	429 0.6×	719 1.0×	336 0.7×	47	8.4k
Susan M. Freier United States	53	14.3k 2.2×	347 0.2×	741 1.0×	850 1.2×	95 0.2×	96	16.1k
Aidan J. Doherty United Kingdom	46	5.9k 0.9×	159 0.1×	448 0.6×	1.4k 2.0×	44 0.1×	96	6.7k
José B. Pereira‐Leal Portugal	33	3.7k 0.6×	269 0.1×	326 0.4×	629 0.9×	16 0.0×	69	4.9k
Stephen H. McLaughlin United Kingdom	36	3.3k 0.5×	136 0.1×	142 0.2×	354 0.5×	58 0.1×	74	4.0k
Tomoo Funayama Japan	26	959 0.1×	348 0.2×	118 0.2×	211 0.3×	45 0.1×	100	2.3k

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Takai, Hiroyuki, et al.. (2024). POT1 recruits and regulates CST-Polα/primase at human telomeres. Cell. 187(14). 3638–3651.e18. 8 indexed citations

Zaug, Arthur J., et al.. (2022). Reconstitution of a telomeric replicon organized by CST. Nature. 608(7924). 819–825. 35 indexed citations

Zaug, Arthur J., et al.. (2021). CST does not evict elongating telomerase but prevents initiation by ssDNA binding. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(20). 11653–11665. 22 indexed citations

Lim, Ci Ji, et al.. (2020). The structure of human CST reveals a decameric assembly bound to telomeric DNA. Science. 368(6495). 1081–1085. 68 indexed citations

Schmidt, Jens C., Arthur J. Zaug, & Thomas R. Cech. (2016). Live Cell Imaging Reveals the Dynamics of Telomerase Recruitment to Telomeres. Cell. 166(5). 1188–1197.e9. 138 indexed citations

Xi, Linghe, et al.. (2015). A novel two-step genome editing strategy with CRISPR-Cas9 provides new insights into telomerase action and TERT gene expression. Genome biology. 16(1). 231–231. 82 indexed citations

Zaug, Arthur J., et al.. (2013). Many disease-associated variants of hTERT retain high telomerase enzymatic activity. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(19). 8969–8978. 56 indexed citations

Nandakumar, Jayakrishnan, Caitlin Bell, Ina Weidenfeld, et al.. (2012). The TEL patch of telomere protein TPP1 mediates telomerase recruitment and processivity. Nature. 492(7428). 285–289. 267 indexed citations

Batista, Luís F.Z., Matthew F. Pech, Franklin L. Zhong, et al.. (2011). Telomere shortening and loss of self-renewal in dyskeratosis congenita induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. 474(7351). 399–402. 207 indexed citations

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Zaug, Arthur J., Elaine R. Podell, & Thomas R. Cech. (2008). Mutation in TERT separates processivity from anchor-site function. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 15(8). 870–872. 49 indexed citations

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Lei, Ming, Arthur J. Zaug, Elaine R. Podell, & Thomas R. Cech. (2005). Switching Human Telomerase On and Off with hPOT1 Protein in Vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(21). 20449–20456. 135 indexed citations

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Seto, Anita G., et al.. (1999). Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomerase is an Sm small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle. Nature. 401(6749). 177–180. 232 indexed citations

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Zaug, Arthur J. & Thomas R. Cech. (1995). Analysis of the structure of Tetrahymena nuclear RNAs in vivo: telomerase RNA, the self-splicing rRNA intron, and U2 snRNA.. PubMed. 1(4). 363–74. 154 indexed citations

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Zaug, Arthur J., et al.. (1994). Catalysis of RNA Cleavage by a Ribozyme Derived from the Group I Intron of Anabaena Pre-tRNALeu. Biochemistry. 33(49). 14935–14947. 28 indexed citations

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Zaug, Arthur J., Megan M. McEvoy, & Thomas R. Cech. (1993). Self-splicing of the group I intron from Anabaena pre-tRNA: Requirement for base-pairing of the exons in the anticodon stem. Biochemistry. 32(31). 7946–7953. 51 indexed citations

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Piccirilli, Joseph A., Timothy McConnell, Arthur J. Zaug, Harry F. Noller, & Thomas R. Cech. (1992). Aminoacyl Esterase Activity of the Tetrahymena Ribozyme. Science. 256(5062). 1420–1424. 141 indexed citations

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Zaug, Arthur J., et al.. (1988). Sequence-specific endoribonuclease activity of the Tetrahymena ribozyme: enhanced cleavage of certain oligonucleotide substrates that form mismatched ribozyme-substrate complexes. Biochemistry. 27(25). 8924–8931. 227 indexed citations

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Been, Michael D., James M. Burke, James V. Price, et al.. (1987). Structures Involved in Tetrahymena rRNA Self-splicing and RNA Enzyme Activity. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 147–157. 37 indexed citations

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Zaug, Arthur J. & Thomas R. Cech. (1980). In vitro splicing of the ribosomal RNA precursor in nuclei of tetrahymena. Cell. 19(2). 331–338. 87 indexed citations

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Allewell, Norma M., Glen E. Hofmann, Arthur J. Zaug, & Michael Lennick. (1979). Bohr effect of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamylase. Linkages between substrate binding, proton binding, and conformational transitions. Biochemistry. 18(14). 3008–3015. 16 indexed citations

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