Christopher Aiken

11.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
130 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

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Christopher Aiken is a scholar working on Virology, Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Aiken has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Virology, 62 papers in Infectious Diseases and 49 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Aiken's work include HIV Research and Treatment (116 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (59 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (23 papers). Christopher Aiken is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (116 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (59 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (23 papers). Christopher Aiken collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Christopher Aiken's co-authors include Didier Trono, Jing Zhou, Uta von Schwedler, Jiong Shi, Brett M. Forshey, Wesley I. Sundquist, Peijun Zhang, Angela M. Gronenborn, Jin-Woo Ahn and Jason Konner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Aiken

127 papers receiving 9.3k citations

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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.

Mature HIV-1 capsid structure by cryo-electron microscopy and all-atom molecular dynamics

2013 630 citations Gongpu Zhao, Juan R. Perilla et al. profile →
Nef induces CD4 endocytosis: Requirement for a critical dileucine motif in the membrane-proximal CD4 cytoplasmic domain

1994 604 citations Christopher Aiken, Didier Trono et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Aiken United States	52	7.0k	4.2k	3.6k	2.1k	1.9k	130	9.4k
Ronald Swanstrom United States	62	6.9k 1.0×	5.0k 1.2×	4.1k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	185	11.5k
Robert J. Gorelick United States	52	5.8k 0.8×	3.5k 0.8×	5.0k 1.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	133	8.6k
Klaus Strebel United States	61	7.9k 1.1×	4.1k 1.0×	4.2k 1.2×	3.3k 1.6×	3.3k 1.7×	128	11.4k
Julian W. Bess United States	42	5.3k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	3.0k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	68	7.6k
Vineet N. KewalRamani United States	44	6.8k 1.0×	3.2k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	4.6k 2.2×	1.7k 0.9×	76	9.9k
Greg J. Towers United Kingdom	54	4.9k 0.7×	2.9k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	3.5k 1.7×	2.5k 1.3×	118	8.9k
Jeremy Luban United States	68	7.2k 1.0×	3.6k 0.9×	7.5k 2.1×	4.8k 2.4×	2.8k 1.4×	155	14.3k
Winfríed Weissenhorn France	47	2.6k 0.4×	3.0k 0.7×	3.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	114	8.2k
Simon Wain–Hobson France	57	6.5k 0.9×	3.9k 0.9×	3.9k 1.1×	3.7k 1.8×	3.8k 2.0×	190	12.8k
Eric O. Freed United States	68	11.3k 1.6×	6.3k 1.5×	6.3k 1.7×	3.2k 1.6×	3.4k 1.7×	212	15.9k

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Rousso, Itay, et al.. (2026). The host protein cyclophilin A restricts nuclear entry of HIV-1 mutants by reducing the elasticity of the viral capsid. PLoS Pathogens. 22(1). e1013910–e1013910.

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

Wu, Chunxiang, Megan E. Meuser, Swapnil C. Devarkar, et al.. (2025). Distinct Target Site of Lenacapavir in Immature HIV-1 and Concurrent Binding with the Maturation Inhibitor Bevirimat. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(46). 42685–42700. 1 indexed citations

Badieyan, Somayesadat, Michael P. Andreas, Wang Peng, et al.. (2025). HIV-1 binds dynein directly to hijack microtubule transport machinery. Science Advances. 11(25). eadn6796–eadn6796. 2 indexed citations

Lai, Kin Kui, Siddhartha A.K. Datta, Demetria Harvin, et al.. (2024). Essential functions of inositol hexakisphosphate (IP6) in murine leukemia virus replication. mBio. 15(7). e0115824–e0115824. 1 indexed citations

Gres, A.T., Karen A. Kirby, Haijuan Du, et al.. (2023). Multidisciplinary studies with mutated HIV-1 capsid proteins reveal structural mechanisms of lattice stabilization. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5614–5614. 11 indexed citations

Sowd, Gregory A., et al.. (2023). HIV-1 capsid stability enables inositol phosphate-independent infection of target cells and promotes integration into genes. PLoS Pathogens. 19(6). e1011423–e1011423. 11 indexed citations

Balasubramaniam, Muthukumar, Chaoyi Xu, Jiong Shi, et al.. (2022). HIV-1 mutants that escape the cytotoxic T-lymphocytes are defective in viral DNA integration. PNAS Nexus. 1(2). pgac064–pgac064. 9 indexed citations

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Mendonça, Luiza, Dapeng Sun, Jiying Ning, et al.. (2021). CryoET structures of immature HIV Gag reveal six-helix bundle. Communications Biology. 4(1). 481–481. 32 indexed citations

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Sowd, Gregory A., Jiong Shi, & Christopher Aiken. (2021). HIV-1 CA Inhibitors Are Antagonized by Inositol Phosphate Stabilization of the Viral Capsid in Cells. Journal of Virology. 95(24). e0144521–e0144521. 13 indexed citations

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Sowd, Gregory A. & Christopher Aiken. (2021). Inositol phosphates promote HIV-1 assembly and maturation to facilitate viral spread in human CD4+ T cells. PLoS Pathogens. 17(1). e1009190–e1009190. 20 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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Ning, Jiying, Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, Ernest L. Yufenyuy, et al.. (2016). In vitro protease cleavage and computer simulations reveal the HIV-1 capsid maturation pathway. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13689–13689. 45 indexed citations

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Shi, Jiong, David B. Friedman, & Christopher Aiken. (2013). Retrovirus Restriction by TRIM5 Proteins Requires Recognition of Only a Small Fraction of Viral Capsid Subunits. Journal of Virology. 87(16). 9271–9278. 19 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhiheng, Megan J. Dobro, Cora L. Woodward, et al.. (2012). Unclosed HIV-1 Capsids Suggest a Curled Sheet Model of Assembly. Journal of Molecular Biology. 425(1). 112–123. 56 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jing, Chin Ho Chen, & Christopher Aiken. (2006). Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Resistance to the Small Molecule Maturation Inhibitor 3- O -(3′,3′-Dimethylsuccinyl)-Betulinic Acid Is Conferred by a Variety of Single Amino Acid Substitutions at the CA-SP1 Cleavage Site in Gag. Journal of Virology. 80(24). 12095–12101. 51 indexed citations

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Pion, Marjorie, Jean‐François Arrighi, Jiyang Jiang, et al.. (2006). Analysis of HIV-1-X4 Fusion with Immature Dendritic Cells Identifies a Specific Restriction that Is Independent of CXCR4 Levels. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 127(2). 319–323. 23 indexed citations

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Shi, Jiong & Christopher Aiken. (2006). Saturation of TRIM5α-mediated restriction of HIV-1 infection depends on the stability of the incoming viral capsid. Virology. 350(2). 493–500. 63 indexed citations

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Mangasarian, Aram, Michelangelo Foti, Christopher Aiken, et al.. (1997). The HIV-1 Nef Protein Acts as a Connector with Sorting Pathways in the Golgi and at the Plasma Membrane. Immunity. 6(1). 67–77. 140 indexed citations

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