David M.J. Lilley

24.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
350 papers, 19.8k citations indexed

About

David M.J. Lilley is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David M.J. Lilley has authored 350 papers receiving a total of 19.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 316 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Genetics and 41 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David M.J. Lilley's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (181 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (169 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (85 papers). David M.J. Lilley is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (181 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (169 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (85 papers). David M.J. Lilley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. David M.J. Lilley's co-authors include Alastair I.H. Murchie, Timothy J. Wilson, Fritz Eckstein, Robert M. Clegg, D. Norman, Derek R. Duckett, Taekjip Ha, Anne‐Cécile Déclais, Lin Huang and Malcolm F. White and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

David M.J. Lilley

349 papers receiving 19.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology

1994 558 citations David M.J. Lilley et al. profile →
DNA replication, 2nd edn

1992 521 citations David M.J. Lilley profile →
The inverted repeat as a recognizable structural feature in supercoiled DNA molecules.

1980 454 citations David M.J. Lilley Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Human MutSalpha recognizes damaged DNA base pairs containing O6-methylguanine, O4-methylthymine, or the cisplatin-d(GpG) adduct.

1996 354 citations David M.J. Lilley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David M.J. Lilley United Kingdom	74	18.1k	3.1k	2.0k	862	857	350	19.8k
Timothy M. Lohman United States	76	16.3k 0.9×	5.6k 1.8×	2.0k 1.0×	798 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	195	18.1k
Éric Westhof France	85	21.5k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	976 1.1×	1.6k 1.8×	334	24.6k
Rolf Boelens Netherlands	64	13.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	763 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	2.6k 3.1×	318	17.1k
Joseph D. Puglisi United States	61	11.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	340 0.4×	511 0.6×	173	13.3k
Paul T. Wingfield United States	67	9.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	509 0.6×	2.0k 2.3×	238	16.5k
Douglas H. Turner United States	67	18.6k 1.0×	2.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	856 1.0×	248	20.8k
Peter B. Moore United States	54	14.0k 0.8×	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	576 0.7×	1.8k 2.1×	206	16.3k
Peter H. von Hippel United States	82	23.1k 1.3×	6.5k 2.1×	3.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	2.3k 2.7×	250	28.3k
Paul Schimmel United States	82	21.9k 1.2×	3.5k 1.2×	783 0.4×	587 0.7×	1.6k 1.8×	422	24.3k
Steven J. Ludtke United States	59	9.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	406 0.5×	2.0k 2.4×	138	13.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhan, Xuelin, Timothy J. Wilson, Zhenzhen Li, et al.. (2024). The structure and catalytic mechanism of a pseudoknot-containing hammerhead ribozyme. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6628–6628. 5 indexed citations

Wilson, Timothy J., Şölen Ekesan, Timothy J. Giese, et al.. (2024). The Role of General Acid Catalysis in the Mechanism of an Alkyl Transferase Ribozyme. ACS Catalysis. 14(20). 15294–15305. 5 indexed citations

Saito, Renata de Freitas, Hui Wei, David M.J. Lilley, et al.. (2024). Cracking the Code: Enhancing Molecular Tools for Progress in Nanobiotechnology. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 7(6). 3587–3604. 7 indexed citations

Huang, Lin, et al.. (2023). Linking folding dynamics and function of SAM/SAH riboswitches at the single molecule level. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(17). 8957–8969. 5 indexed citations

Ekesan, Şölen, Timothy J. Giese, Timothy J. Wilson, et al.. (2023). Catalytic mechanism and pH dependence of a methyltransferase ribozyme (MTR1) from computational enzymology. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(9). 4508–4518. 9 indexed citations

Deng, Jie, Xuemei Peng, Jia Wang, et al.. (2023). Structure and ion-dependent folding of k-junctions. RNA. 29(9). 1411–1422. 3 indexed citations

Peng, Xuemei, et al.. (2023). Crystal structures of the NAD+-II riboswitch reveal two distinct ligand-binding pockets. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(6). 2904–2914. 18 indexed citations

Deng, Jie, Xuemei Peng, Yuanlin He, et al.. (2022). Ribocentre: a database of ribozymes. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D262–D268. 17 indexed citations

Deng, Jie, Timothy J. Wilson, Jia Wang, et al.. (2022). Structure and mechanism of a methyltransferase ribozyme. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(5). 556–564. 32 indexed citations

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Huang, Lin, Jia Wang, Andrew M. Watkins, Rhiju Das, & David M.J. Lilley. (2019). Structure and ligand binding of the glutamine-II riboswitch. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(14). 7666–7675. 20 indexed citations

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Huang, Lin, et al.. (2019). Effect of methylation of adenine N⁶ on kink turn structure depends on location. RNA Biology. 16(10). 1377–1385. 7 indexed citations

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Preus, Søren, et al.. (2017). Fluorescent RNA cytosine analogue – an internal probe for detailed structure and dynamics investigations. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2393–2393. 23 indexed citations

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Lilley, David M.J.. (2012). The structure and folding of kink turns in RNA. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA. 3(6). 797–805. 30 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Kersten T., Peter Daldrop, Scott A. McPhee, & David M.J. Lilley. (2012). Structure and folding of a rare, natural kink turn in RNA with an A•A pair at the 2b•2n position. RNA. 18(6). 1257–1266. 18 indexed citations

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Wilson, Timothy J., Nan‐Sheng Li, Jun Lu, et al.. (2010). Nucleobase-mediated general acid-base catalysis in the Varkud satellite ribozyme. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(26). 11751–11756. 64 indexed citations

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Poulet, Anaïs, Rémi Buisson, Cendrine Faivre-Moskalenko, et al.. (2009). TRF2 promotes, remodels and protects telomeric Holliday junctions. The EMBO Journal. 28(6). 641–651. 93 indexed citations

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McKinney, Sean, Alasdair D. J. Freeman, David M.J. Lilley, & Taekjip Ha. (2005). Observing spontaneous branch migration of Holliday junctions one step at a time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(16). 5715–5720. 75 indexed citations

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Lilley, David M.J.. (1999). RNA folding and catalysis. Genetica. 106(1-2). 95–102. 4 indexed citations

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Bianchi, Marco E. & David M.J. Lilley. (1995). DNA--protein interactions. Applying a genetic cantilever.. Nature. 375(6532). 1 indexed citations

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Lilley, David M.J.. (1983). Structural perturbation in supercoiled DNA: hypersensitivity to modification by a single-strand-selective chemical reagent conferred by inverted repeat sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 11(10). 3097–3112. 63 indexed citations

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