Erbay Yigit

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Erbay Yigit is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Erbay Yigit has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Erbay Yigit's work include RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers). Erbay Yigit is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers). Erbay Yigit collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Netherlands. Erbay Yigit's co-authors include Craig C. Mello, Hiroaki Tabara, Haruhiko Siomi, Pedro J. Batista, Yanxia Bei, Shohei Mitani, Niraj H. Tolia, Martin J. Simard, Ka Ming Pang and Leemor Joshua‐Tor and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Erbay Yigit

20 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Analysis of the C. elegans Argonaute Family Reveals that Distinct Argonautes Act Sequentially during RNAi

2006 492 citations Erbay Yigit, Pedro J. Batista et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erbay Yigit United States	12	1.1k	348	302	147	113	22	1.4k
Gina Broitman-Maduro United States	15	670 0.6×	188 0.5×	523 1.7×	25 0.2×	175 1.5×	24	1.1k
Zaid Ahmed Pirzada Pakistan	8	1.9k 1.7×	185 0.5×	124 0.4×	17 0.1×	425 3.8×	11	2.1k
Travis N. Mavrich United States	12	2.0k 1.9×	509 1.5×	25 0.1×	59 0.4×	157 1.4×	13	2.2k
Mingxue Cui United States	14	430 0.4×	43 0.1×	356 1.2×	47 0.3×	68 0.6×	25	868
Paul Keese Australia	16	747 0.7×	983 2.8×	37 0.1×	18 0.1×	155 1.4×	24	1.7k
David R. Cheng United States	4	882 0.8×	104 0.3×	46 0.2×	13 0.1×	177 1.6×	6	1.0k
Verena Pfeiffer Germany	17	1.4k 1.3×	131 0.4×	40 0.1×	59 0.4×	894 7.9×	28	2.0k
Susanne Erdmann Germany	18	1.1k 1.0×	190 0.5×	24 0.1×	33 0.2×	233 2.1×	34	1.4k
Basem Al-Shayeb United States	17	1.4k 1.3×	355 1.0×	42 0.1×	13 0.1×	214 1.9×	19	1.8k
Nicholas Paquette United States	12	416 0.4×	88 0.3×	35 0.1×	45 0.3×	97 0.9×	14	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Erbay Yigit

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erbay Yigit

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Erbay Yigit. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Erbay Yigit 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 Erbay Yigit. Erbay Yigit is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Nakano, Yuko, Howard Gamper, Jiatong Li, et al.. (2025). Genome-wide profiling of tRNA modifications by Induro-tRNAseq reveals coordinated changes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1047–1047. 2 indexed citations

Vaisvila, Romualdas, Sean R. Johnson, Bo Yan, et al.. (2024). Discovery of cytosine deaminases enables base-resolution methylome mapping using a single enzyme. Molecular Cell. 84(5). 854–866.e7. 13 indexed citations

Grünberg, Sebastian, Lindsey Doyle, Nan Dai, et al.. (2023). The structural basis of mRNA recognition and binding by yeast pseudouridine synthase PUS1. PLoS ONE. 18(11). e0291267–e0291267. 4 indexed citations

Grünberg, Sebastian, et al.. (2022). Human RNase 4 improves mRNA sequence characterization by LC–MS/MS. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(18). e106–e106. 31 indexed citations

Xu, Shuang-yong, et al.. (2021). Expression of Human ACE2 N-terminal Domain, Part of the Receptor for SARS-CoV-2, in Fusion With Maltose-Binding Protein, E. coli Ribonuclease I and Human RNase A. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 660149–660149. 1 indexed citations

Grünberg, Sebastian, Mehul B. Ganatra, Cristian Ruse, et al.. (2021). Enhanced expression and purification of nucleotide-specific ribonucleases MC1 and Cusativin. Protein Expression and Purification. 190. 105987–105987. 5 indexed citations

Grünberg, Sebastian, Nan Dai, Lana Saleh, et al.. (2021). E. coli RNase I exhibits a strong Ca2+-dependent inherent double-stranded RNase activity. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(9). 5265–5277. 14 indexed citations

Torun, Hamdi, et al.. (2018). GAMMA-AMINO BUTYRIC ACID METABOLISM UNDER HIGH TEMPERATURE STRESS IN TWO LICHEN SPECIES. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 16(5). 5529–5538. 4 indexed citations

Ettwiller, Laurence, J. A. Buswell, Erbay Yigit, & Ira Schildkraut. (2016). A novel enrichment strategy reveals unprecedented number of novel transcription start sites at single base resolution in a model prokaryote and the gut microbiome. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 199–199. 100 indexed citations

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Yigit, Erbay, George R. Feehery, Bradley W. Langhorst, et al.. (2016). A Microbiome DNA Enrichment Method for Next‐Generation Sequencing Sample Preparation. Current Protocols in Molecular Biology. 115(1). 7.26.1–7.26.14. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Quanwei, Erbay Yigit, Rebecca Kim, et al.. (2014). High-Density Nucleosome Occupancy Map of Human Chromosome 9p21–22 Reveals Chromatin Organization of the Type I Interferon Gene Cluster. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 34(9). 676–685. 14 indexed citations

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Yigit, Erbay, et al.. (2014). Genome and metagenome sequencing: Using the human methyl‐binding domain to partition genomic DNA derived from plant tissues. Applications in Plant Sciences. 2(11). 9 indexed citations

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Feehery, George R., Erbay Yigit, Samuel O. Oyola, et al.. (2013). A Method for Selectively Enriching Microbial DNA from Contaminating Vertebrate Host DNA. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76096–e76096. 141 indexed citations

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Yigit, Erbay, Jared M. Bischof, Zhaolin Zhang, et al.. (2013). Nucleosome mapping across the CFTR locus identifies novel regulatory factors. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(5). 2857–2868. 17 indexed citations

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Yigit, Erbay, Quanwei Zhang, Liqun Xi, et al.. (2013). High-resolution nucleosome mapping of targeted regions using BAC-based enrichment. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(7). e87–e87. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Pingfang, Gregory J. S. Lohman, Eric J. Cantor, et al.. (2012). A fast solution to NGS library preparation with low nanogram DNA input. BMC Proceedings. 6(S6).

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Lu, Rui, Erbay Yigit, Wan-Xiang Li, & Shou‐Wei Ding. (2009). An RIG-I-Like RNA Helicase Mediates Antiviral RNAi Downstream of Viral siRNA Biogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Pathogens. 5(2). e1000286–e1000286. 96 indexed citations

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Yigit, Erbay, Pedro J. Batista, Yanxia Bei, et al.. (2006). Analysis of the C. elegans Argonaute Family Reveals that Distinct Argonautes Act Sequentially during RNAi. Cell. 127(4). 747–757. 492 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tabara, Hiroaki, Erbay Yigit, Haruhiko Siomi, & Craig C. Mello. (2002). The dsRNA Binding Protein RDE-4 Interacts with RDE-1, DCR-1, and a DExH-Box Helicase to Direct RNAi in C. elegans. Cell. 109(7). 861–871. 372 indexed citations

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Yigit, Erbay, et al.. (2000). The Amino Terminus of the Coat Protein of Turnip crinkle virus Is the AVR Factor Recognized by Resistant Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 13(9). 1015–1018. 39 indexed citations

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