Douglas A. Mitchell

15.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
159 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Douglas A. Mitchell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas A. Mitchell has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Molecular Biology, 65 papers in Pharmacology and 21 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Douglas A. Mitchell's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (65 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (31 papers) and Biochemical and Structural Characterization (29 papers). Douglas A. Mitchell is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (65 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (31 papers) and Biochemical and Structural Characterization (29 papers). Douglas A. Mitchell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Douglas A. Mitchell's co-authors include Graham A. Hudson, Christopher J. Schwalen, Michael A. Marletta, Kyle L. Dunbar, Brandon J. Burkhart, Joel O. Melby, William J. Teague, Wilfred A. van der Donk, Nilkamal Mahanta and Jonathan I. Tietz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Douglas A. Mitchell

156 papers receiving 8.2k 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.

antiSMASH 4.0—improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification

2017 920 citations Douglas A. Mitchell et al. profile →
A new genome-mining tool redefines the lasso peptide biosynthetic landscape

2017 365 citations Douglas A. Mitchell et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas A. Mitchell United States	52	5.2k	3.3k	1.1k	761	718	159	8.3k
Jianhua Ju China	46	3.6k 0.7×	3.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.9×	405 0.5×	1.8k 2.5×	241	7.8k
David E. Williams United States	65	5.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.5×	2.1k 1.9×	583 0.8×	1.6k 2.2×	298	13.5k
William W. Metcalf United States	57	6.4k 1.2×	2.0k 0.6×	826 0.8×	234 0.3×	732 1.0×	150	10.6k
Marcel Jaspars United Kingdom	48	3.9k 0.7×	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	196 0.3×	2.0k 2.8×	297	8.9k
Johannes F. Imhoff Germany	55	4.4k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	687 0.6×	931 1.2×	2.1k 3.0×	248	9.1k
Anthony D. Wright Germany	48	1.7k 0.3×	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	566 0.7×	2.3k 3.2×	229	6.7k
Robert J. Capon Australia	49	2.7k 0.5×	3.3k 1.0×	3.3k 3.0×	192 0.3×	3.3k 4.6×	369	9.2k
Anthony R. Carroll Australia	50	3.1k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	2.9k 2.7×	231 0.3×	3.0k 4.1×	261	9.7k
John L. Harwood United Kingdom	58	6.9k 1.3×	420 0.1×	1.4k 1.3×	629 0.8×	285 0.4×	395	14.7k
Graziano Guella Italy	45	1.9k 0.4×	563 0.2×	1.4k 1.3×	294 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	269	6.7k

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Rice, Andrew J., et al.. (2025). Cell-free synthetic biology for natural product biosynthesis and discovery. Chemical Society Reviews. 54(9). 4314–4352. 12 indexed citations

Ren, Hengqian, Dominic Luciano, David Šarlah, et al.. (2025). A Versatile Enzymatic Pathway for Modification of Peptide C-Termini. ACS Central Science. 11(11). 2143–2153.

Nguyen, Dinh Thanh, Lingyang Zhu, Danielle L. Gray, et al.. (2024). Biosynthesis of Macrocyclic Peptides with C-Terminal β-Amino-α-keto Acid Groups by Three Different Metalloenzymes. ACS Central Science. 10(5). 1022–1032. 20 indexed citations

Song, Yin, Peter Jordan, John K. Brunson, et al.. (2024). Substrate interactions guide cyclase engineering and lasso peptide diversification. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(3). 412–419. 17 indexed citations

Peccati, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Darobactin Substrate Engineering and Computation Show Radical Stability Governs Ether versus C–C Bond Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(20). 14328–14340. 12 indexed citations

Saad, Hamada, et al.. (2024). Tryptophan-Centric Bioinformatics Identifies New Lasso Peptide Modifications. Biochemistry. 63(7). 865–879. 15 indexed citations

Shi, Chengyou, et al.. (2024). Enterolyin S, a Polythiazole‐containing Hemolytic Peptide from Enterococcus caccae. ChemBioChem. 25(12). e202400212–e202400212. 1 indexed citations

Chadwick, Grayson L., et al.. (2023). McrD binds asymmetrically to methyl-coenzyme M reductase improving active-site accessibility during assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(25). e2302815120–e2302815120. 9 indexed citations

Ren, Hengqian, Chunshuai Huang, Haiyang Cui, et al.. (2023). Genome mining unveils a class of ribosomal peptides with two amino termini. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1624–1624. 29 indexed citations

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DiCaprio, Adam J., et al.. (2023). Peptidase Activation by a Leader Peptide-Bound RiPP Recognition Element. Biochemistry. 62(4). 956–967. 23 indexed citations

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Saad, Hamada, Dinh Thanh Nguyen, Markus Krämer, et al.. (2023). Bioinformatics-guided discovery of biaryl-linked lasso peptides. Chemical Science. 14(45). 13176–13183. 16 indexed citations

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Ramesh, Sangeetha, et al.. (2023). Catalytic Site Proximity Profiling for Functional Unification of Sequence-Diverse Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Enzymes. PubMed. 3(3). 240–251. 12 indexed citations

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Shi, Chengyou, Sara M. Eslami, Sangeetha Ramesh, et al.. (2022). A scalable platform to discover antimicrobials of ribosomal origin. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6135–6135. 63 indexed citations

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Guo, Xiaorui, et al.. (2020). Reactivity-Based Screening for Citrulline-Containing Natural Products Reveals a Family of Bacterial Peptidyl Arginine Deiminases. ACS Chemical Biology. 15(12). 3167–3175. 25 indexed citations

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Walker, Mark C., et al.. (2020). Precursor peptide-targeted mining of more than one hundred thousand genomes expands the lanthipeptide natural product family. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 387–387. 107 indexed citations

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Lee, Shaun W., Douglas A. Mitchell, Andrew L. Markley, et al.. (2008). Discovery of a widely distributed toxin biosynthetic gene cluster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(15). 5879–5884. 169 indexed citations

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Gould, Richard, et al.. (2005). Analysis of the Spectral Backscattering Coefficient Variability on the Northeastern shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Douglas A., et al.. (2005). Current Measurements Under Hurricane Ivan. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Lazo, John S., Kaoru Nemoto, Katharine Pestell, et al.. (2002). Identification of a Potent and Selective Pharmacophore for Cdc25 Dual Specificity Phosphatase Inhibitors.. Molecular Pharmacology. 61(4). 720–728. 162 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Douglas A., et al.. (1985). PAGE-1: A Troubleshooting Aid for Nonimpact Page Printing Systems.. 68–75. 2 indexed citations

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