Christopher W. Leonard

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher W. Leonard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Virology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher W. Leonard has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Virology and 2 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Christopher W. Leonard's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (4 papers). Christopher W. Leonard is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (4 papers). Christopher W. Leonard collaborates with scholars based in United States and India. Christopher W. Leonard's co-authors include Kevin M. Weeks, Robert J. Gorelick, Julian W. Bess, Ronald Swanstrom, Joseph Watts, Kristen K. Dang, Christina L. Burch, Christine E. Hajdin, David H. Mathews and Stanislav Bellaousov 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

Christopher W. Leonard

11 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Architecture and secondary structure of an entire HIV-1 RNA genome

2009 625 citations Joseph Watts, Kristen K. Dang et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher W. Leonard United States	10	1.0k	237	146	107	86	11	1.2k
Bruno Sargueil France	20	1.0k 1.0×	166 0.7×	122 0.8×	324 3.0×	127 1.5×	46	1.2k
Morgan C. Giddings United States	12	1.1k 1.1×	152 0.6×	62 0.4×	87 0.8×	299 3.5×	23	1.3k
Sarah C. Keane United States	13	598 0.6×	184 0.8×	270 1.8×	90 0.8×	41 0.5×	25	876
Siarhei Kharytonchyk United States	10	643 0.6×	410 1.7×	137 0.9×	80 0.7×	25 0.3×	16	774
Kuan-Teh Jeang United States	8	541 0.5×	293 1.2×	124 0.8×	66 0.6×	137 1.6×	8	813
Simon Pennell United Kingdom	11	542 0.5×	77 0.3×	69 0.5×	73 0.7×	19 0.2×	13	673
Glen A. Coburn Canada	12	1.1k 1.1×	171 0.7×	69 0.5×	46 0.4×	65 0.8×	14	1.3k
Karine Triques France	9	686 0.7×	554 2.3×	395 2.7×	45 0.4×	65 0.8×	12	1.2k
Roland Iványi-Nagy France	14	403 0.4×	228 1.0×	172 1.2×	71 0.7×	13 0.2×	18	638
Karin J. von Eije Netherlands	12	599 0.6×	192 0.8×	112 0.8×	32 0.3×	93 1.1×	18	734

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Rice, Greggory M., Christopher W. Leonard, & Kevin M. Weeks. (2014). RNA secondary structure modeling at consistent high accuracy using differential SHAPE. RNA. 20(6). 846–854. 75 indexed citations

Leonard, Christopher W., Christine E. Hajdin, Fethullah Karabiber, et al.. (2013). Principles for Understanding the Accuracy of SHAPE-Directed RNA Structure Modeling. Biochemistry. 52(4). 588–595. 33 indexed citations

Hajdin, Christine E., Stanislav Bellaousov, Wayne Huggins, et al.. (2013). Accurate SHAPE-directed RNA secondary structure modeling, including pseudoknots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(14). 5498–5503. 247 indexed citations

Weeks, Kevin M., Ben Berkhout, Julian W. Bess, et al.. (2011). Applications of RNA structure analysis to retroviral packaging and anti-retroviral therapeutic discovery. Retrovirology. 8(S2). O1–P89. 1 indexed citations

Leonard, Christopher W., Siddhartha A.K. Datta, Julian W. Bess, et al.. (2010). Definition of a high-affinity Gag recognition structure mediating packaging of a retroviral RNA genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(45). 19248–19253. 59 indexed citations

Gherghe, Costin M., Christopher W. Leonard, Feng Ding, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, & Kevin M. Weeks. (2009). Native-like RNA Tertiary Structures Using a Sequence-Encoded Cleavage Agent and Refinement by Discrete Molecular Dynamics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(7). 2541–2546. 57 indexed citations

Leonard, Christopher W., et al.. (2009). Secondary Structure of the Mature Ex Virio Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus Genomic RNA Dimerization Domain. Journal of Virology. 84(2). 898–906. 22 indexed citations

Watts, Joseph, Kristen K. Dang, Robert J. Gorelick, et al.. (2009). Architecture and secondary structure of an entire HIV-1 RNA genome. Nature. 460(7256). 711–716. 625 indexed citations breakdown →

Maity, Tuhin, et al.. (2006). Compartmentalization Directs Assembly of the Signal Recognition Particle. Biochemistry. 45(50). 14955–14964. 14 indexed citations

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Leonard, Christopher W., Gurminder S. Bassi, Daniel Berndt, et al.. (2005). Evolution from DNA to RNA recognition by the bI3 LAGLIDADG maturase. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 12(9). 779–787. 23 indexed citations

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Heise, Mark T., Laura White, Dennis A. Simpson, et al.. (2002). An Attenuating Mutation in nsP1 of the Sindbis-Group Virus S.A.AR86 Accelerates Nonstructural Protein Processing and Up-Regulates Viral 26S RNA Synthesis. Journal of Virology. 77(2). 1149–1156. 29 indexed citations

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