Dan S. Tawfik

29.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
199 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

Dan S. Tawfik is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan S. Tawfik has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 29 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dan S. Tawfik's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (38 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (34 papers) and Paraoxonase enzyme and polymorphisms (31 papers). Dan S. Tawfik is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (38 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (34 papers) and Paraoxonase enzyme and polymorphisms (31 papers). Dan S. Tawfik collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Dan S. Tawfik's co-authors include Nobuhiko Tokuriki, Olga Khersonsky, Andrew D. Griffiths, Leo C. James, Cintia Roodveldt, Leonid Gaidukov, Amir Aharoni, Moshe Goldsmith, Shimon Bershtein and Orly Dym and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Dan S. Tawfik

196 papers receiving 21.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Kemp elimination catalysts by computational enzyme design

2008 975 citations Daniela Röthlisberger, Olga Khersonsky et al. profile →
The Moderately Efficient Enzyme: Evolutionary and Physicochemical Trends Shaping Enzyme Parameters

2011 729 citations Dan Davidi, Dan S. Tawfik et al. profile →
Protein Dynamism and Evolvability

2009 707 citations Dan S. Tawfik et al. profile →
Man-made cell-like compartments for molecular evolution

1998 705 citations Dan S. Tawfik et al. profile →
The 'evolvability' of promiscuous protein functions

2004 660 citations Olga Khersonsky, Cintia Roodveldt et al. profile →
Stability effects of mutations and protein evolvability

2009 587 citations Dan S. Tawfik et al. profile →
Antibody Multispecificity Mediated by Conformational Diversity

2003 581 citations Dan S. Tawfik et al. profile →
Structure and evolution of the serum paraoxonase family of detoxifying and anti-atherosclerotic enzymes

2004 501 citations Olga Khersonsky, Israel Silman et al. profile →
Automated Structure- and Sequence-Based Design of Proteins for High Bacterial Expression and Stability

2016 411 citations Moshe Goldsmith, Yacov Ashani et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan S. Tawfik Israel	82	15.0k	3.3k	2.8k	2.3k	2.1k	199	21.5k
Stephen J. Benkovic United States	84	20.8k 1.4×	4.4k 1.3×	2.7k 1.0×	863 0.4×	897 0.4×	457	28.6k
Georg E. Schulz Germany	77	15.3k 1.0×	4.4k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	779 0.4×	242	20.9k
T. Alwyn Jones Sweden	66	21.1k 1.4×	6.0k 1.8×	2.9k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	415 0.2×	181	29.7k
Wim G. J. Hol United States	82	15.6k 1.0×	3.9k 1.2×	2.8k 1.0×	984 0.4×	994 0.5×	316	23.2k
John E. Walker United Kingdom	100	30.8k 2.1×	2.7k 0.8×	2.9k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	3.8k 1.8×	356	38.7k
Jagannathan Netherlands	3	13.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	2.1k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	1.0k 0.5×	4	24.3k
Keith S. Wilson United Kingdom	73	21.4k 1.4×	8.2k 2.4×	3.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	465 0.2×	387	30.3k
Carol V. Robinson United Kingdom	116	33.4k 2.2×	6.5k 2.0×	3.1k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	428 0.2×	597	46.6k
Warren L. DeLano United States	15	24.4k 1.6×	6.4k 1.9×	3.7k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	471 0.2×	17	33.1k
Andrew G. W. Leslie United Kingdom	57	23.9k 1.6×	5.7k 1.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	438 0.2×	97	30.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan S. Tawfik

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Deshmukh, Fanindra Kumar, Gili Ben‐Nissan, Maya A. Olshina, et al.. (2023). Allosteric regulation of the 20S proteasome by the Catalytic Core Regulators (CCRs) family. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3126–3126. 22 indexed citations

Despotović, Dragana, Yacov Ashani, Haim Leader, et al.. (2022). Utilization of diverse organophosphorus pollutants by marine bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2203604119–e2203604119. 15 indexed citations

Seal, Manas, Dragana Despotović, Dan S. Tawfik, et al.. (2022). Peptide-RNA Coacervates as a Cradle for the Evolution of Folded Domains. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(31). 14150–14160. 31 indexed citations

Mallik, Saurav, Dan S. Tawfik, & Emmanuel D. Levy. (2022). How gene duplication diversifies the landscape of protein oligomeric state and function. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 76. 101966–101966. 20 indexed citations

Kolodny, Rachel, Sergey Nepomnyachiy, Dan S. Tawfik, & Nir Ben‐Tal. (2021). Bridging Themes: Short Protein Segments Found in Different Architectures. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(6). 2191–2208. 41 indexed citations

Rebeaud, Mathieu E., Saurav Mallik, Pierre Goloubinoff, & Dan S. Tawfik. (2021). On the evolution of chaperones and cochaperones and the expansion of proteomes across the Tree of Life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(21). 70 indexed citations

Stojković, Vanja, Lianet Noda‐García, I.D. Young, et al.. (2021). Directed evolution of the rRNA methylating enzyme Cfr reveals molecular basis of antibiotic resistance. eLife. 11. 17 indexed citations

Longo, Liam M., et al.. (2021). Helicase-like functions in phosphate loop containing beta-alpha polypeptides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(16). 19 indexed citations

Longo, Liam M., et al.. (2020). On the emergence of P-Loop NTPase and Rossmann enzymes from a Beta-Alpha-Beta ancestral fragment. eLife. 9. 64 indexed citations

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Ben‐David, Moshe, Misha Soskine, Orly Dym, et al.. (2019). Enzyme Evolution: An Epistatic Ratchet versus a Smooth Reversible Transition. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(4). 1133–1147. 25 indexed citations

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Despotović, Dragana, et al.. (2019). A mixture of three engineered phosphotriesterases enables rapid detoxification of the entire spectrum of known threat nerve agents. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 32(4). 169–174. 12 indexed citations

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Noda‐García, Lianet, Dan Davidi, Elisa Korenblum, et al.. (2019). Chance and pleiotropy dominate genetic diversity in complex bacterial environments. Nature Microbiology. 4(7). 1221–1230. 16 indexed citations

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Alcolombri, Uria, et al.. (2018). Biochemical Profiling of DMSP Lyases. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 605. 269–289. 1 indexed citations

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Stojković, Vanja, Lianet Noda‐García, Dan S. Tawfik, & Danica Galonić Fujimori. (2016). Antibiotic resistance evolved via inactivation of a ribosomal RNA methylating enzyme. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(18). 8897–8907. 38 indexed citations

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Khersonsky, Olga, Gert Kiss, Daniela Röthlisberger, et al.. (2012). Bridging the gaps in design methodologies by evolutionary optimization of the stability and proficiency of designed Kemp eliminase KE59. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(26). 10358–10363. 189 indexed citations

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Goldsmith, Moshe, Yacov Ashani, Moshe Ben‐David, et al.. (2012). Evolved Stereoselective Hydrolases for Broad-Spectrum G-Type Nerve Agent Detoxification. Chemistry & Biology. 19(4). 456–466. 72 indexed citations

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Elias, Mikael & Dan S. Tawfik. (2011). Divergence and Convergence in Enzyme Evolution: Parallel Evolution of Paraoxonases from Quorum-quenching Lactonases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(1). 11–20. 99 indexed citations

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Goldsmith, Moshe & Dan S. Tawfik. (2009). Potential role of phenotypic mutations in the evolution of protein expression and stability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(15). 6197–6202. 63 indexed citations

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Roodveldt, Cintia & Dan S. Tawfik. (2005). Directed evolution of phosphotriesterase from Pseudomonas diminuta for heterologous expression in Escherichia coli results in stabilization of the metal-free state. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 18(1). 51–58. 92 indexed citations

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Tawfik, Dan S., Zelig Eshhar, & Bernard S. Green. (1994). Catalytic antibodies: A critical assessment. Molecular Biotechnology. 1(1). 87–103. 19 indexed citations

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