David Aragão

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

David Aragão is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, David Aragão has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in David Aragão's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (7 papers). David Aragão is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (7 papers). David Aragão collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. David Aragão's co-authors include Martin Caffrey, Joseph A. Lyons, Nathan Cowieson, Jason R. Price∥, Alan Riboldi‐Tunnicliffe, Daniel J. Ericsson, Santosh Panjikar, M Clift, Christine L. Gee and Rachel Williamson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David Aragão

39 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Structure and function of an irreversible agonist-β2 adrenoceptor complex

2011 643 citations Daniel M. Rosenbaum, Cheng Zhang et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Aragão Australia	19	1.4k	441	392	259	214	39	2.1k
Kengo Okada Japan	22	2.2k 1.5×	576 1.3×	228 0.6×	175 0.7×	318 1.5×	43	3.0k
Koji Inaka Japan	22	959 0.7×	541 1.2×	140 0.4×	117 0.5×	99 0.5×	75	1.6k
Raphael Stoll Germany	24	1.2k 0.8×	334 0.8×	160 0.4×	270 1.0×	539 2.5×	97	2.3k
Arwen R. Pearson United Kingdom	29	1.4k 1.0×	779 1.8×	63 0.2×	357 1.4×	172 0.8×	91	2.3k
Nikos S. Hatzakis Denmark	32	2.5k 1.8×	502 1.1×	146 0.4×	95 0.4×	690 3.2×	89	3.7k
Eric M. Brustad United States	26	1.9k 1.3×	478 1.1×	113 0.3×	382 1.5×	1.2k 5.6×	36	3.0k
Federico I. Rosell Canada	25	1.4k 1.0×	323 0.7×	162 0.4×	217 0.8×	116 0.5×	44	2.1k
Melinda Balbirnie United States	8	3.5k 2.5×	787 1.8×	169 0.4×	112 0.4×	237 1.1×	11	4.6k
Matthew M. Benning United States	28	2.8k 2.0×	775 1.8×	157 0.4×	405 1.6×	432 2.0×	45	4.6k
Jonathan A. R. Worrall United Kingdom	27	1.5k 1.0×	468 1.1×	96 0.2×	227 0.9×	59 0.3×	79	2.1k

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Edwards, Megan R., S. Tsimbalyuk, O. A. Vogel, et al.. (2022). MERS-CoV ORF4b employs an unusual binding mechanism to target IMPα and block innate immunity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1604–1604. 18 indexed citations

Edwards, Megan R., Kylie M. Wagstaff, David Aragão, et al.. (2021). Structural basis for nuclear import selectivity of pioneer transcription factor SOX2. Nature Communications. 12(1). 28–28. 27 indexed citations

Adams, Felise G., et al.. (2021). Insights into Acinetobacter baumannii fatty acid synthesis 3-oxoacyl-ACP reductases. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 7050–7050. 18 indexed citations

Mills, Stuart J., Jun Aishima, David Aragão, et al.. (2020). Crystal structure of posnjakite formed in the first crystal water-cooling line of the ANSTO Melbourne Australian Synchrotron MX1 Double Crystal Monochromator. Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications. 76(7). 1136–1138. 1 indexed citations

Nakatani, Yoshio, M.G. Montgomery, Scott Ferguson, et al.. (2019). Structure of F ₁ -ATPase from the obligate anaerobe Fusobacterium nucleatum. Open Biology. 9(6). 5 indexed citations

Smith, K.M., S. Tsimbalyuk, Megan R. Edwards, et al.. (2018). Structural basis for importin alpha 3 specificity of W proteins in Hendra and Nipah viruses. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3703–3703. 55 indexed citations

Aragão, David, et al.. (2018). The structure and activity of the glutathione reductase fromStreptococcus pneumoniae. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 75(1). 54–61. 10 indexed citations

Khandokar, Yogesh, Nathan Cowieson, Subir Sarker, et al.. (2017). Structural insights into GDP-mediated regulation of a bacterial acyl-CoA thioesterase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(50). 20461–20471. 8 indexed citations

Khandokar, Yogesh, Subir Sarker, Crystall M. D. Swarbrick, et al.. (2015). Structural and Functional Characterization of the PaaI Thioesterase from Streptococcus pneumoniae Reveals a Dual Specificity for Phenylacetyl-CoA and Medium-chain Fatty Acyl-CoAs and a Novel CoA-induced Fit Mechanism. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(4). 1866–1876. 6 indexed citations

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Aragão, David, Tom T. Caradoc-Davies, Sheena McGowan, et al.. (2014). Operation of the Australian Store.Synchrotron for macromolecular crystallography. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 70(10). 2510–2519. 17 indexed citations

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Cowieson, Nathan, David Aragão, M Clift, et al.. (2014). MX1: a bending-magnet crystallography beamline serving both chemical and macromolecular crystallography communities at the Australian Synchrotron. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 22(1). 187–190. 342 indexed citations

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Li, Dianfan, Joseph A. Lyons, Valerie E. Pye, et al.. (2013). Crystal structure of the integral membrane diacylglycerol kinase. Nature. 497(7450). 521–524. 80 indexed citations

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Aragão, David, et al.. (2011). The Lipidic Cubic Phase as a Membrane Mimetic. Biophysical Journal. 100(8). 2075–2075. 2 indexed citations

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Rosenbaum, Daniel M., Cheng Zhang, Joseph A. Lyons, et al.. (2011). Structure and function of an irreversible agonist-β2 adrenoceptor complex. Nature. 469(7329). 236–240. 643 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aragão, David, et al.. (2010). Crystallizing Transmembrane Peptides in Lipidic Mesophases. Biophysical Journal. 99(3). L23–L25. 37 indexed citations

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Aragão, David, Edward P. Mitchell, Carlos Frazão, M.A. Carrondo, & Peter F. Lindley. (2008). Structural and functional relationships in the hybrid cluster protein family: structure of the anaerobically purified hybrid cluster protein fromDesulfovibrio vulgarisat 1.35 Å resolution. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 64(6). 665–674. 24 indexed citations

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Frazão, Carlos, David Aragão, R. Coelho, et al.. (2008). Crystallographic analysis of the intact metal centres [3Fe–4S]^1+/0 and [4Fe–4S]^2+/1+ in a Zn²⁺‐containing ferredoxin. FEBS Letters. 582(5). 763–767. 8 indexed citations

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Aragão, David, Ana Pimenta-Marques, Carlos Frazão, et al.. (2006). Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary structure determination of glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (UgpG) fromSphingomonas elodeaATCC 31461 bound to glucose-1-phosphate. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 62(9). 930–934. 6 indexed citations

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Macedo, Sofia, David Aragão, Edward P. Mitchell, & Peter F. Lindley. (2003). Structure of the hybrid cluster protein (HCP) fromDesulfovibrio desulfuricansATCC 27774 containing molecules in the oxidized and reduced states. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 59(12). 2065–2071. 9 indexed citations

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Aragão, David, Carlos Frazão, Larry C. Sieker, et al.. (2003). Structure of dimeric cytochromec₃fromDesulfovibrio gigasat 1.2 Å resolution. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 59(4). 644–653. 21 indexed citations

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