C.M. Dunham

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

C.M. Dunham is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, C.M. Dunham has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in C.M. Dunham's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (45 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (31 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (20 papers). C.M. Dunham is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (45 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (31 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (20 papers). C.M. Dunham collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. C.M. Dunham's co-authors include V. Ramakrishnan, Ann C. Kelley, M. Selmer, Albert Weixlbaumer, Sabine Petry, F.V. Murphy, John R. Weir, Tatsuya Maehigashi, Yong‐Gui Gao and W. G. Scott and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

C.M. Dunham

56 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Structure of the 70 S Ribosome Complexed with mRNA and tRNA

2006 1.0k citations M. Selmer, C.M. Dunham et al. Science profile →
The Structure of the Ribosome with Elongation Factor G Trapped in the Posttranslocational State

2009 395 citations M. Selmer, C.M. Dunham et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C.M. Dunham United States	27	3.0k	947	420	226	196	59	3.4k
Dominique Fourmy France	26	2.4k 0.8×	460 0.5×	283 0.7×	82 0.4×	140 0.7×	77	3.0k
Shun‐ichi Sekine Japan	32	3.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	444 1.1×	141 0.6×	292 1.5×	95	3.9k
M. Ortiz-Lombardı́a France	24	1.3k 0.5×	367 0.4×	378 0.9×	143 0.6×	159 0.8×	45	2.0k
Satoko Yoshizawa France	22	1.9k 0.6×	287 0.3×	213 0.5×	102 0.5×	136 0.7×	56	2.4k
Thomas Hartsch Germany	16	2.7k 0.9×	795 0.8×	465 1.1×	27 0.1×	286 1.5×	22	3.1k
Jannette Carey United States	31	2.5k 0.8×	786 0.8×	441 1.1×	72 0.3×	476 2.4×	87	2.9k
Lizbeth L. Videau United States	5	2.0k 0.7×	282 0.3×	192 0.5×	85 0.4×	448 2.3×	6	2.9k
L.N. Deis United States	5	2.0k 0.7×	285 0.3×	190 0.5×	83 0.4×	430 2.2×	5	2.9k
Alexander Serganov United States	36	4.8k 1.6×	1.2k 1.3×	362 0.9×	37 0.2×	261 1.3×	73	5.2k
Eric R. Geertsma Germany	22	1.5k 0.5×	448 0.5×	181 0.4×	272 1.2×	156 0.8×	48	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C.M. Dunham

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Li, Haixing, et al.. (2025). An RNA modification prevents extended codon-anticodon interactions from facilitating +1 frameshifting. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7392–7392.

Dunham, C.M., et al.. (2025). Regulation, structure, and activity of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa MexXY efflux system. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 69(5). e0182524–e0182524. 2 indexed citations

Dey, Debayan, et al.. (2025). Basis for selective drug evasion of an aminoglycoside-resistance ribosomal RNA modification. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7992–7992.

Dey, Debayan, et al.. (2025). Distant ribose 2′- O -methylation of 23S rRNA helix 69 pre-orders the capreomycin drug binding pocket at the ribosome subunit interface. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(13).

Eyler, Daniel E., Pooja Srinivas, C.M. Dunham, et al.. (2024). N1-Methylpseudouridine and pseudouridine modifications modulate mRNA decoding during translation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8119–8119. 21 indexed citations

Srinivas, Pooja, Meisam Nosrati, Natalia Zelinskaya, et al.. (2023). 30S subunit recognition and G1405 modification by the aminoglycoside-resistance 16S ribosomal RNA methyltransferase RmtC. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(25). e2304128120–e2304128120. 8 indexed citations

Alumasa, John N., et al.. (2023). Antibiotic that inhibits trans -translation blocks binding of EF-Tu to tmRNA but not to tRNA. mBio. 14(5). e0146123–e0146123. 6 indexed citations

Nguyen, Kien, et al.. (2022). Ratchet, swivel, tilt and roll: a complete description of subunit rotation in the ribosome. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(2). 919–934. 17 indexed citations

Dey, Debayan, Natalia Zelinskaya, Pooja Srinivas, et al.. (2022). 50S subunit recognition and modification by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ribosomal RNA methyltransferase TlyA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(14). e2120352119–e2120352119. 17 indexed citations

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Srinivas, Pooja, Kenneth C. Keiler, & C.M. Dunham. (2022). Druggable differences: Targeting mechanistic differences between trans‐translation and translation for selective antibiotic action. BioEssays. 44(8). e2200046–e2200046. 3 indexed citations

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Dunham, C.M., et al.. (2021). ESKAPE velocity: total synthesis platforms promise to increase the pace and diversity of antibiotic development. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(1). 3–4. 1 indexed citations

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Aron, Zachary D., Eric D. Hoffer, Kristie L. Connolly, et al.. (2021). trans-Translation inhibitors bind to a novel site on the ribosome and clear Neisseria gonorrhoeae in vivo. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1799–1799. 29 indexed citations

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Srinivas, Pooja, et al.. (2021). Oxidation alters the architecture of the phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase editing domain to confer hyperaccuracy. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(20). 11800–11809. 9 indexed citations

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Hoffer, Eric D., Samuel Hong, Tatsuya Maehigashi, et al.. (2020). Structural insights into mRNA reading frame regulation by tRNA modification and slippery codon–anticodon pairing. eLife. 9. 27 indexed citations

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Dunham, C.M., et al.. (2020). Disruption of evolutionarily correlated tRNA elements impairs accurate decoding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(28). 16333–16338. 13 indexed citations

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Nosrati, Meisam, Debayan Dey, Natalia Zelinskaya, et al.. (2019). Functionally critical residues in the aminoglycoside resistance-associated methyltransferase RmtC play distinct roles in 30S substrate recognition. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(46). 17642–17653. 33 indexed citations

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Hoffer, Eric D., et al.. (2019). Importance of a tRNA anticodon loop modification and a conserved, noncanonical anticodon stem pairing in tRNACGGPro for decoding. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(14). 5281–5291. 31 indexed citations

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Hoffer, Eric D., Stacey J. Miles, & C.M. Dunham. (2017). The structure and function of Mycobacterium tuberculosis MazF-mt6 toxin provide insights into conserved features of MazF endonucleases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(19). 7718–7726. 18 indexed citations

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Maehigashi, Tatsuya, et al.. (2017). Importance of the E. coli DinJ antitoxin carboxy terminus for toxin suppression and regulated proteolysis. Molecular Microbiology. 104(1). 65–77. 9 indexed citations

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Selmer, M., C.M. Dunham, F.V. Murphy, et al.. (2006). Structure of the 70 S Ribosome Complexed with mRNA and tRNA. Science. 313(5795). 1935–1942. 1036 indexed citations breakdown →

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