Dukas Jurėnas

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 739 citations indexed

About

Dukas Jurėnas is a scholar working on Genetics, Endocrinology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dukas Jurėnas has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 739 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Genetics, 14 papers in Endocrinology and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Dukas Jurėnas's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (14 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (12 papers) and Escherichia coli research studies (7 papers). Dukas Jurėnas is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (14 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (12 papers) and Escherichia coli research studies (7 papers). Dukas Jurėnas collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and Lithuania. Dukas Jurėnas's co-authors include Laurence Van Melderen, Nathan Fraikin, Frédéric Goormaghtigh, Laure Journet, Abel García-Pino, Abel Garcia‐Pino, Eric Cascalès, Frank Sobott, Albert Konijnenberg and Sneha Chatterjee and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Dukas Jurėnas

22 papers receiving 733 citations

Hit Papers

Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150 200
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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. Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems
    2022 239 citations Dukas Jurėnas, Nathan Fraikin et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dukas Jurėnas Belgium 14 365 290 271 215 187 25 739
Nathan Fraikin France 7 334 0.9× 323 1.1× 232 0.9× 256 1.2× 187 1.0× 13 701
Andrew K. Fenton United Kingdom 14 479 1.3× 321 1.1× 200 0.7× 261 1.2× 116 0.6× 20 795
Lynne R. Prost United States 10 586 1.6× 281 1.0× 233 0.9× 154 0.7× 137 0.7× 10 986
Manuel Pazos United Kingdom 15 387 1.1× 375 1.3× 150 0.6× 199 0.9× 167 0.9× 20 722
Clasien J. Oomen Netherlands 10 343 0.9× 270 0.9× 192 0.7× 159 0.7× 114 0.6× 12 650
Mikkel Girke Jørgensen Denmark 10 566 1.6× 602 2.1× 208 0.8× 404 1.9× 188 1.0× 19 942
Laura Monlezun France 13 430 1.2× 208 0.7× 372 1.4× 84 0.4× 372 2.0× 18 876
Liselot Dewachter Belgium 14 472 1.3× 436 1.5× 183 0.7× 181 0.8× 242 1.3× 19 833
Cristina Machón Spain 15 498 1.4× 364 1.3× 101 0.4× 276 1.3× 168 0.9× 24 810
Disa L. Hammarlöf Sweden 12 331 0.9× 231 0.8× 271 1.0× 289 1.3× 83 0.4× 18 794

Countries citing papers authored by Dukas Jurėnas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dukas Jurėnas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dukas Jurėnas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dukas Jurėnas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dukas Jurėnas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dukas Jurėnas. Dukas Jurėnas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kieffer, Nicolas, Paula Blanco, Francisco Ojeda, et al.. (2025). Mobile integrons encode phage defense systems. Science. 388(6747). eads0915–eads0915. 5 indexed citations
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Terradot, Laurent, et al.. (2025). Widespread deployment of the human CD38 ADP-ribosyl cyclase fold in antibacterial and anti-eukaryotic polymorphic toxins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(11). 110775–110775.
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Terradot, Laurent, et al.. (2024). Thioredoxin 1 moonlights as a chaperone for an interbacterial ADP-ribosyltransferase toxin. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10388–10388. 4 indexed citations
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Armalytė, Julija, Jūratė Skerniškytė, Chloé Martens, et al.. (2023). A polyamine acetyltransferase regulates the motility and biofilm formation of Acinetobacter baumannii. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3531–3531. 17 indexed citations
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Flaugnatti, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). The tip protein PAAR is required for the function of the type VI secretion system. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(6). e0147823–e0147823. 2 indexed citations
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Jurėnas, Dukas, Martial Rey, Deborah Byrne, et al.. (2022). Salmonella antibacterial Rhs polymorphic toxin inhibits translation through ADP-ribosylation of EF-Tu P-loop. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(22). 13114–13127. 13 indexed citations
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Jurėnas, Dukas, Nathan Fraikin, Frédéric Goormaghtigh, & Laurence Van Melderen. (2022). Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20(6). 335–350. 239 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jurėnas, Dukas, et al.. (2021). Mounting, structure and autocleavage of a type VI secretion-associated Rhs polymorphic toxin. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6998–6998. 35 indexed citations
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Jurėnas, Dukas & Eric Cascalès. (2021). T6SS: killing two bugs with one stone. Trends in Microbiology. 30(1). 1–2. 4 indexed citations
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Jurėnas, Dukas & Laurence Van Melderen. (2020). The Variety in the Common Theme of Translation Inhibition by Type II Toxin–Antitoxin Systems. Frontiers in Genetics. 11. 262–262. 27 indexed citations
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Turnbull, Kathryn Jane, et al.. (2019). The E. coli HicB Antitoxin Contains a Structurally Stable Helix-Turn-Helix DNA Binding Domain. Structure. 27(11). 1675–1685.e3. 16 indexed citations
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Bruyn, Pieter De, et al.. (2019). 1H, 13C, and 15N backbone and side chain chemical shift assignment of YdaS, a monomeric member of the HigA family. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 14(1). 25–30.
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Acker, Heleen Van, Aurélie Crabbé, Dukas Jurėnas, et al.. (2019). The role of small proteins in Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 biofilm formation, persistence and intracellular growth. Biofilm. 1. 100001–100001. 7 indexed citations
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Jurėnas, Dukas, Laurence Van Melderen, & Abel García-Pino. (2019). Mechanism of regulation and neutralization of the AtaR–AtaT toxin–antitoxin system. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(3). 285–294. 35 indexed citations
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Soin, Romuald, Dukas Jurėnas, Nadège Delacourt, et al.. (2018). ARE-mediated decay controls gene expression and cellular metabolism upon oxygen variations. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5211–5211. 14 indexed citations
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Jurėnas, Dukas, Laurence Van Melderen, & Abel García-Pino. (2018). Crystallization and X-ray analysis of all of the players in the autoregulation of theataRTtoxin–antitoxin system. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 74(7). 391–401. 4 indexed citations
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Jurėnas, Dukas, Sneha Chatterjee, Albert Konijnenberg, et al.. (2017). AtaT blocks translation initiation by N-acetylation of the initiator tRNAfMet. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(6). 640–646. 61 indexed citations
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Hadži, San, Abel Garcia‐Pino, Sarah Haesaerts, et al.. (2017). Ribosome-dependent Vibrio cholerae mRNAse HigB2 is regulated by a β-strand sliding mechanism. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(8). 4972–4983. 42 indexed citations
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Melderen, Laurence Van, Dukas Jurėnas, & Abel Garcia‐Pino. (2017). Messing up translation from the start: How AtaT inhibits translation initiation in E. coli. RNA Biology. 15(3). 303–307. 9 indexed citations

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