David A. Shub

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

David A. Shub is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Shub has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Ecology and 32 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in David A. Shub's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (46 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (41 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (31 papers). David A. Shub is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (46 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (41 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (31 papers). David A. Shub collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. David A. Shub's co-authors include Heidi Goodrich‐Blair, Marlene Belfort, Markus Landthaler, Ming‐Qun Xu, Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek, Richard P. Bonocora, Jonatha M. Gott, David R. Edgell, Sandra A. Nierzwicki‐Bauer and Scott D. Kathe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

David A. Shub

55 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Structural conventions for group I introns
    1987 261 citations John M. Burke, Marlene Belfort et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David A. Shub United States 32 2.4k 1.4k 661 265 74 56 2.7k
Akira Muto Japan 32 2.9k 1.2× 794 0.6× 1.2k 1.9× 586 2.2× 117 1.6× 93 3.5k
Diana F. Hill New Zealand 21 1.5k 0.6× 682 0.5× 890 1.3× 250 0.9× 47 0.6× 51 2.2k
Hyouta Himeno Japan 38 3.1k 1.3× 598 0.4× 1.0k 1.6× 159 0.6× 29 0.4× 94 3.3k
Nicholas Delihas United States 25 1.4k 0.6× 462 0.3× 522 0.8× 276 1.0× 35 0.5× 76 1.9k
Steven Zimmerly Canada 27 2.7k 1.1× 1.0k 0.7× 581 0.9× 519 2.0× 23 0.3× 35 3.0k
Leendert Bosch Netherlands 28 1.9k 0.8× 575 0.4× 639 1.0× 549 2.1× 43 0.6× 80 2.7k
David R. F. Leach United Kingdom 34 3.2k 1.4× 518 0.4× 1.4k 2.2× 451 1.7× 50 0.7× 85 3.7k
E. Boy de la Tour Switzerland 17 1.7k 0.7× 951 0.7× 569 0.9× 284 1.1× 37 0.5× 17 2.1k
Gisela Mosig United States 28 2.1k 0.9× 1.6k 1.2× 1.1k 1.7× 321 1.2× 128 1.7× 69 2.6k
Sumiko Inouye United States 32 2.5k 1.0× 859 0.6× 1.4k 2.1× 185 0.7× 40 0.5× 72 2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David A. Shub

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zeng, Qinglu, Richard P. Bonocora, & David A. Shub. (2009). A Free-Standing Homing Endonuclease Targets an Intron Insertion Site in the psbA Gene of Cyanophages. Current Biology. 19(3). 218–222. 42 indexed citations
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Bonocora, Richard P. & David A. Shub. (2009). A Likely Pathway for Formation of Mobile Group I Introns. Current Biology. 19(3). 223–228. 35 indexed citations
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Zhao, Lei, Richard P. Bonocora, David A. Shub, & Barry Stoddard. (2007). The restriction fold turns to the dark side: a bacterial homing endonuclease with a PD‐(D/E)‐XK motif. The EMBO Journal. 26(9). 2432–2442. 51 indexed citations
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Landthaler, Markus, Betty Shen, Barry Stoddard, & David A. Shub. (2006). I-BasI and I-HmuI: Two Phage Intron-encoded Endonucleases with Homologous DNA Recognition Sequences but Distinct DNA Specificities. Journal of Molecular Biology. 358(4). 1137–1151. 24 indexed citations
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Shen, Betty, Markus Landthaler, David A. Shub, & Barry Stoddard. (2004). DNA Binding and Cleavage by the HNH Homing Endonuclease I-HmuI. Journal of Molecular Biology. 342(1). 43–56. 91 indexed citations
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Edgell, David R., Victoria Derbyshire, Patrick Van Roey, et al.. (2004). Intron-encoded homing endonuclease I-TevI also functions as a transcriptional autorepressor. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 11(10). 936–944. 35 indexed citations
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Shub, David A.. (2003). Q & A. Current Biology. 13(22). R858–R859. 1 indexed citations
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Bonocora, Richard P. & David A. Shub. (2001). A novel group I intron‐encoded endonuclease specific for the anticodon region of tRNAfMet genes. Molecular Microbiology. 39(5). 1299–1306. 34 indexed citations
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Goodrich‐Blair, Heidi & David A. Shub. (1996). Beyond Homing: Competition between Intron Endonucleases Confers a Selective Advantage on Flanking Genetic Markers. Cell. 84(2). 211–221. 86 indexed citations
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Shub, David A., Heidi Goodrich‐Blair, & Sean R. Eddy. (1994). Amino acid sequence motif of group I intron endonucleases is conserved in open reading frames of group II introns. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 19(10). 402–404. 126 indexed citations
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Bechhofer, David H., et al.. (1994). An intron in the thymidylate synthase gene of Bacillus bacteriophage beta 22: evidence for independent evolution of a gene, its group I intron, and the intron open reading frame.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(24). 11669–11673. 38 indexed citations
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Shub, David A.. (1994). Bacterial Viruses: Bacterial altruism?. Current Biology. 4(6). 555–556. 37 indexed citations
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Reinhold‐Hurek, Barbara & David A. Shub. (1993). [35] Experimental approaches for detecting self-splicing group I introns. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 224. 491–502. 4 indexed citations
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Shub, David A. & Heidi Goodrich‐Blair. (1992). Protein introns: A new home for endonucleases. Cell. 71(2). 183–186. 69 indexed citations
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Reinhold‐Hurek, Barbara & David A. Shub. (1992). Self-splicing introns in tRNA genes of widely divergent bacteria. Nature. 357(6374). 173–176. 163 indexed citations
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Shub, David A.. (1991). The antiquity of group I introns. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 1(4). 478–484. 8 indexed citations
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Goodrich‐Blair, Heidi, Vincenzo Scarlato, Jonatha M. Gott, Ming‐Qun Xu, & David A. Shub. (1990). A self-splicing group I intron in the DNA polymerase gene of bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPO1. Cell. 63(2). 417–424. 69 indexed citations
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Liu, Ying, et al.. (1989). Exon shuffling by recombination between self-splicing introns of bacteriophage T4. Nature. 340(6234). 574–576. 27 indexed citations
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Burke, John M., Marlene Belfort, Thomas R. Cech, et al.. (1987). Structural conventions for group I introns. Nucleic Acids Research. 15(18). 7217–7221. 261 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shub, David A., et al.. (1987). A Family of Autocatalytic Group I Introns in Bacteriophage T4. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 193–200. 19 indexed citations

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