Boris Zinshteyn

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Boris Zinshteyn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris Zinshteyn has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Boris Zinshteyn's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (16 papers). Boris Zinshteyn is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (16 papers). Boris Zinshteyn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Boris Zinshteyn's co-authors include Wendy V. Gilbert, Kazuko Nishikura, Yukio Kawahara, Rachel Green, María F. Rojas-Durán, Thomas M. Carlile, Kristen M. Bartoli, Colin Chih‐Chien Wu, Hisashi Iizasa and Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Boris Zinshteyn

23 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Pseudouridine profiling reveals regulated mRNA pseudouridylation in yeast and human cells

2014 789 citations Thomas M. Carlile, María F. Rojas-Durán et al. Nature profile →
Redirection of Silencing Targets by Adenosine-to-Inosine Editing of miRNAs

2007 617 citations Yukio Kawahara, Boris Zinshteyn et al. Science profile →
Ribosome Collisions Trigger General Stress Responses to Regulate Cell Fate

2020 307 citations Colin Chih‐Chien Wu, Boris Zinshteyn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boris Zinshteyn United States	19	2.9k	866	133	125	116	24	3.1k
Jiao Ma United States	13	1.6k 0.6×	432 0.5×	91 0.7×	54 0.4×	94 0.8×	24	2.0k
Haihong Shen South Korea	22	1.9k 0.6×	274 0.3×	136 1.0×	56 0.4×	63 0.5×	66	2.1k
Mathieu Durand Canada	19	1.4k 0.5×	260 0.3×	115 0.9×	53 0.4×	81 0.7×	26	1.6k
Céline Verheggen France	24	2.3k 0.8×	252 0.3×	80 0.6×	42 0.3×	93 0.8×	36	2.4k
Daniel E. Eyler United States	10	1.7k 0.6×	149 0.2×	113 0.8×	82 0.7×	131 1.1×	15	1.9k
Chunxiao Xu China	15	964 0.3×	586 0.7×	198 1.5×	52 0.4×	120 1.0×	31	1.6k
Abul Arif United States	18	1.1k 0.4×	141 0.2×	217 1.6×	75 0.6×	115 1.0×	28	1.4k
Andrew P. VanDemark United States	23	1.7k 0.6×	193 0.2×	101 0.8×	48 0.4×	188 1.6×	42	2.0k
Nathaniel Robichaud Canada	12	1.6k 0.5×	252 0.3×	205 1.5×	28 0.2×	266 2.3×	14	1.9k
Ivan Tarassov France	30	2.5k 0.9×	154 0.2×	49 0.4×	54 0.4×	47 0.4×	67	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Boris Zinshteyn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boris Zinshteyn

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Allen, George E., et al.. (2024). Cytosolic N6AMT1- dependent translation supports mitochondrial RNA processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(47). e2414187121–e2414187121. 4 indexed citations

Niederer, Rachel O., María F. Rojas-Durán, Boris Zinshteyn, & Wendy V. Gilbert. (2022). Direct analysis of ribosome targeting illuminates thousand-fold regulation of translation initiation. Cell Systems. 13(3). 256–264.e3. 32 indexed citations

Zinshteyn, Boris, et al.. (2021). Translational repression of NMD targets by GIGYF2 and EIF4E2. PLoS Genetics. 17(10). e1009813–e1009813. 26 indexed citations

Zinshteyn, Boris, Daniel Goldman, Madeline Cassani, et al.. (2020). Puromycin reactivity does not accurately localize translation at the subcellular level. eLife. 9. 60 indexed citations

Sinha, Niladri K., Alban Ordureau, James A. Saba, et al.. (2020). EDF1 coordinates cellular responses to ribosome collisions. eLife. 9. 113 indexed citations

Zinshteyn, Boris, Jamie R Wangen, Boyang Hua, & Rachel Green. (2020). Nuclease-mediated depletion biases in ribosome footprint profiling libraries. RNA. 26(10). 1481–1488. 29 indexed citations

Blanchard, Scott C., Chad M. Kurylo, Manuel F. Juette, et al.. (2019). Endogenously Encoded Ribosomal RNA Sequence Variation within the Assemble Ribosome can Regulate Stress Response Gene Expression and Phenotype. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 12a–12a.

Carlile, Thomas M., Nicole M. Martínez, Cassandra Schaening-Burgos, et al.. (2019). mRNA structure determines modification by pseudouridine synthase 1. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(10). 966–974. 116 indexed citations

Wu, Colin Chih‐Chien, Boris Zinshteyn, Karen A. Wehner, & Rachel Green. (2019). High-Resolution Ribosome Profiling Defines Discrete Ribosome Elongation States and Translational Regulation during Cellular Stress. Molecular Cell. 73(5). 959–970.e5. 188 indexed citations

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Kurylo, Chad M., Matthew Parks, Manuel F. Juette, et al.. (2018). Endogenous rRNA Sequence Variation Can Regulate Stress Response Gene Expression and Phenotype. Cell Reports. 25(1). 236–248.e6. 78 indexed citations

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Zinshteyn, Boris, Mélanie Meyer, Simone Pellegrino, et al.. (2017). Inhibition of Eukaryotic Translation by the Antitumor Natural Product Agelastatin A. Cell chemical biology. 24(5). 605–613.e5. 36 indexed citations

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Zinshteyn, Boris, María F. Rojas-Durán, & Wendy V. Gilbert. (2017). Translation initiation factor eIF4G1 preferentially binds yeast transcript leaders containing conserved oligo-uridine motifs. RNA. 23(9). 1365–1375. 25 indexed citations

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Schuller, Anthony P., et al.. (2017). Directed hydroxyl radical probing reveals Upf1 binding to the 80S ribosomal E site rRNA at the L1 stalk. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(4). 2060–2073. 15 indexed citations

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Paggi, Joseph M., Yuchun Guo, Boris Zinshteyn, et al.. (2016). Identification of new branch points and unconventional introns in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RNA. 22(10). 1522–1534. 27 indexed citations

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Zinshteyn, Boris & Rachel Green. (2016). When stop makes sense. Science. 354(6316). 1106–1106. 3 indexed citations

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Carlile, Thomas M., et al.. (2014). Pseudouridine profiling reveals regulated mRNA pseudouridylation in yeast and human cells. Nature. 515(7525). 143–146. 789 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vaidyanathan, Pavanapuresan P., Boris Zinshteyn, Mary Kay Thompson, & Wendy V. Gilbert. (2014). Protein kinase A regulates gene-specific translational adaptation in differentiating yeast. RNA. 20(6). 912–922. 19 indexed citations

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Zinshteyn, Boris & Wendy V. Gilbert. (2013). Loss of a Conserved tRNA Anticodon Modification Perturbs Cellular Signaling. PLoS Genetics. 9(8). e1003675–e1003675. 164 indexed citations

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Zinshteyn, Boris & Kazuko Nishikura. (2009). Adenosine‐to‐inosine RNA editing. WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine. 1(2). 202–209. 85 indexed citations

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Kawahara, Yukio, Boris Zinshteyn, Praveen Sethupathy, et al.. (2007). Redirection of Silencing Targets by Adenosine-to-Inosine Editing of miRNAs. Science. 315(5815). 1137–1140. 617 indexed citations breakdown →

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