Chris Tantillo

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Chris Tantillo is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Virology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Tantillo has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Infectious Diseases, 10 papers in Virology and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Chris Tantillo's work include HIV Research and Treatment (10 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (10 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (4 papers). Chris Tantillo is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (10 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (10 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (4 papers). Chris Tantillo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Netherlands. Chris Tantillo's co-authors include Eddy Arnold, Alfredo Jacobo‐Molina, Jianping Ding, Raymond G. Nanni, Stephen H. Hughes, Arthur D. Clark, Paul L. Boyer, Lu Xiao, Andrea L. Ferris and Kalyan Das and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The EMBO Journal and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Chris Tantillo

11 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Crystal structure of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 ... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 250 500 750
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.

  1. Crystal structure of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase complexed with double-stranded DNA at 3.0 A resolution shows bent DNA.
    1993 966 citations Alfredo Jacobo‐Molina, Jianping Ding et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chris Tantillo United States 11 2.2k 2.0k 1.5k 386 171 11 2.7k
Alfredo Jacobo‐Molina United States 15 2.3k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 379 1.0× 203 1.2× 18 2.9k
Raymond G. Nanni United States 10 1.7k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 284 0.7× 184 1.1× 12 2.2k
Lori A. Kohlstaedt United States 17 1.7k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 310 0.8× 188 1.1× 23 2.7k
Jill C. Heimbach United States 7 1.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.8× 958 0.6× 203 0.5× 423 2.5× 10 2.3k
Karl Salzwedel United States 23 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 826 0.6× 410 1.1× 79 0.5× 27 2.4k
Wade Blair United States 26 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 664 0.4× 458 1.2× 146 0.9× 45 2.1k
Paul L. Boyer United States 38 3.8k 1.7× 3.5k 1.8× 1.9k 1.3× 810 2.1× 604 3.5× 77 4.8k
E.A. Nalivaika United States 24 1.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 911 0.6× 276 0.7× 199 1.2× 39 2.1k
Olivier Delelis France 27 1.6k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 339 0.9× 119 0.7× 66 2.2k
Timothy M. Jenkins United Kingdom 10 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 171 0.4× 108 0.6× 18 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Tantillo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Tantillo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris Tantillo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris Tantillo based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chris Tantillo. Chris Tantillo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Sarafianos, Stefan G., Kalyan Das, Chris Tantillo, et al.. (2001). Crystal structure of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase in complex with a polypurine tract RNA:DNA. The EMBO Journal. 20(6). 1449–1461. 341 indexed citations
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Ding, Jianping, Kalyan Das, Y. Hsiou, et al.. (1998). Structure and functional implications of the polymerase active site region in a complex of HIV-1 RT with a double-stranded DNA template-primer and an antibody fab fragment at 2.8 Å resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 284(4). 1095–1111. 288 indexed citations
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Tantillo, Chris, et al.. (1995). An Expanded Model of Replicating Human Immunodeficiency Virus Reverse Transcriptase. Biochemistry. 34(16). 5343–5350. 67 indexed citations
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Tantillo, Chris, et al.. (1995). Iron repletion attenuates the protective effects of iron deficiency in DMBA‐induced mammary tumors in rats. Nutrition and Cancer. 24(2). 133–142. 11 indexed citations
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Patel, Premal H., Alfredo Jacobo‐Molina, Jianping Ding, et al.. (1995). Insights into DNA Polymerization Mechanisms from Structure and Function Analysis of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase. Biochemistry. 34(16). 5351–5363. 150 indexed citations
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Ding, Jianping, Kalyan Das, Chris Tantillo, et al.. (1995). Structure of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase in a complex with the non-nucleoside inhibitor α-APA R 95845 at 2.8 å resolution. Structure. 3(4). 365–379. 187 indexed citations
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Boyer, Paul L., Andrea L. Ferris, Peter Frank, et al.. (1994). Mutational Analysis of the Fingers and Palm Subdomains of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 243(3). 472–483. 76 indexed citations
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Tantillo, Chris, Alfredo Jacobo‐Molina, Raymond G. Nanni, et al.. (1994). Locations of Anti-AIDS Drug Binding Sites and Resistance Mutations in the Three-dimensional Structure of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 243(3). 369–387. 455 indexed citations
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Ding, Jianping, Alfredo Jacobo‐Molina, Chris Tantillo, et al.. (1994). Buried surface analysis of HIV‐1 reverse transcriptase p66/p51 heterodimer and its interaction with dsDNA template/primer. Journal of Molecular Recognition. 7(2). 157–161. 26 indexed citations
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Boyer, Paul L., Chris Tantillo, Alfredo Jacobo‐Molina, et al.. (1994). Sensitivity of wild-type human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase to dideoxynucleotides depends on template length; the sensitivity of drug-resistant mutants does not.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(11). 4882–4886. 138 indexed citations
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Jacobo‐Molina, Alfredo, Jianping Ding, Raymond G. Nanni, et al.. (1993). Crystal structure of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase complexed with double-stranded DNA at 3.0 A resolution shows bent DNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 90(13). 6320–6324. 966 indexed citations breakdown →

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