Eugene V. Koonin

206.4k total citations · 59 hit papers
903 papers, 118.0k citations indexed

About

Eugene V. Koonin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eugene V. Koonin has authored 903 papers receiving a total of 118.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 663 papers in Molecular Biology, 260 papers in Genetics and 256 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Eugene V. Koonin's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (259 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (250 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (221 papers). Eugene V. Koonin is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (259 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (250 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (221 papers). Eugene V. Koonin collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Russia. Eugene V. Koonin's co-authors include Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, L. Aravind, Michael Y. Galperin, Roman L. Tatusov, Feng Zhang, Alexander E. Gorbalenya, Igor B. Rogozin, Valerian V. Dolja and Mart Krupovìč and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Eugene V. Koonin

888 papers receiving 115.7k citations

Hit Papers

The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes 1989 2026 2001 2013 2003 2015 1997 2017 2015 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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  1. The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes
    2003 3.6k citations Eugene V. Koonin, Sergei Mekhedov et al. profile →
  2. Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System
    2015 3.4k citations Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Omar O. Abudayyeh et al. profile →
  3. A Genomic Perspective on Protein Families
    1997 2.8k citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  4. Nucleic acid detection with CRISPR-Cas13a/C2c2
    2017 2.7k citations Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Omar O. Abudayyeh et al. Science profile →
  5. In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9
    2015 2.0k citations Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Kira S. Makarova et al. profile →
  6. Small CRISPR RNAs Guide Antiviral Defense in Prokaryotes
    2008 1.9k citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  7. Evolution and classification of the CRISPR–Cas systems
    2011 1.9k citations Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf et al. profile →
  8. C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector
    2016 1.7k citations Omar O. Abudayyeh, Jonathan S. Gootenberg et al. Science profile →
  9. De-ubiquitination and ubiquitin ligase domains of A20 downregulate NF-κB signalling
    2004 1.5k citations L. Aravind, Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  10. Genome Sequence of an Obligate Intracellular Pathogen of Humans: Chlamydia trachomatis
    1998 1.3k citations L. Aravind, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  11. Expanded microbial genome coverage and improved protein family annotation in the COG database
    2014 1.1k citations Michael Y. Galperin, Kira S. Makarova et al. profile →
  12. Bacterial Rhodopsin: Evidence for a New Type of Phototrophy in the Sea
    2000 1.1k citations L. Aravind, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  13. Diversity, classification and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems
    2017 1.0k citations Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova et al. profile →
  14. Helicases: amino acid sequence comparisons and structure-function relationships
    1993 977 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  15. Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems
    2015 919 citations Sergey Shmakov, Omar O. Abudayyeh et al. profile →
  16. Classification and evolution of P-loop GTPases and related ATPases
    2002 901 citations Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  17. A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action
    2006 881 citations Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf et al. profile →
  18. Orthologs, Paralogs, and Evolutionary Genomics
    2005 875 citations Eugene V. Koonin profile →
  19. Two related superfamilies of putative helicases involved in replication, recombination, repair and expression of DNA and RNA genomes
    1989 869 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  20. Horizontal Gene Transfer in Prokaryotes: Quantification and Classification
    2001 825 citations Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova et al. profile →
  21. Microbial culturomics: paradigm shift in the human gut microbiome study
    2012 819 citations Isabelle Pagnier, Ghislain Fournous et al. profile →
  22. Role of Rpn11 Metalloprotease in Deubiquitination and Degradation by the 26 S Proteasome
    2002 810 citations Rati Verma, L. Aravind et al. Science profile →
  23. A comprehensive evolutionary classification of proteins encoded in complete eukaryotic genomes
    2004 794 citations Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova et al. profile →
  24. Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems
    2017 761 citations Sergey Shmakov, David Cox et al. profile →
  25. The phylogeny of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases of positive-strand RNA viruses
    1991 732 citations Eugene V. Koonin profile →
  26. Cleavage of Cohesin by the CD Clan Protease Separin Triggers Anaphase in Yeast
    2000 656 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  27. Genome Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Solvent-Producing BacteriumClostridium acetobutylicum
    2001 634 citations Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf et al. Journal of Bacteriology profile →
  28. Evolutionary history and higher order classification of AAA+ ATPases
    2003 626 citations Eugene V. Koonin, L. Aravind et al. profile →
  29. Regeneration of Peroxiredoxins by p53-Regulated Sestrins, Homologs of Bacterial AhpD
    2004 622 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  30. A superfamily of conserved domains in DNA damage‐ responsive cell cycle checkpoint proteins
    1997 617 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  31. Selection in the evolution of gene duplications
    2002 586 citations Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  32. Iterated profile searches with PSI-BLAST—a tool for discovery in protein databases
    1998 575 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  33. Role of Predicted Metalloprotease Motif of Jab1/Csn5 in Cleavage of Nedd8 from Cul1
    2002 571 citations Gregory A. Cope, Greg S. B. Suh et al. Science profile →
  34. Genome of the Extremely Radiation-Resistant Bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans Viewed from the Perspective of Comparative Genomics
    2001 558 citations Kira S. Makarova, L. Aravind et al. profile →
  35. Crystal Structure of Cpf1 in Complex with Guide RNA and Target DNA
    2016 552 citations Ian M. Slaymaker, Kira S. Makarova et al. profile →
  36. COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens
    2020 530 citations Michael Y. Galperin, Yuri I. Wolf et al. profile →
  37. Novel domains of the prokaryotic two-component signal transduction systems
    2001 513 citations Michael Y. Galperin, Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  38. Evolutionary genomics of nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses
    2006 478 citations Eugene V. Koonin, L. Aravind et al. profile →
  39. Diverse evolutionary roots and mechanistic variations of the CRISPR-Cas systems
    2016 476 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  40. RNA-guided DNA insertion with CRISPR-associated transposases
    2019 455 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  41. Cas13b Is a Type VI-B CRISPR-Associated RNA-Guided RNase Differentially Regulated by Accessory Proteins Csx27 and Csx28
    2017 434 citations David Cox, Ian M. Slaymaker et al. profile →
  42. Functional and evolutionary implications of gene orthology
    2013 409 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  43. Viral proteins containing the purine NTP-binding sequence pattern
    1989 384 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  44. Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World
    2020 381 citations Eugene V. Koonin, Valerian V. Dolja et al. profile →
  45. The evolutionary journey of Argonaute proteins
    2014 381 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  46. Functionally diverse type V CRISPR-Cas systems
    2018 373 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  47. Origins and evolution of viruses of eukaryotes: The ultimate modularity
    2015 365 citations Eugene V. Koonin, Valerian V. Dolja et al. profile →
  48. Classification and evolution of type II CRISPR-Cas systems
    2014 362 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  49. Cas13d Is a Compact RNA-Targeting Type VI CRISPR Effector Positively Modulated by a WYL-Domain-Containing Accessory Protein
    2018 350 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  50. Diverse enzymatic activities mediate antiviral immunity in prokaryotes
    2020 342 citations Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf et al. Science profile →
  51. Origins and Evolution of the Global RNA Virome
    2018 330 citations Yuri I. Wolf, Jaime Iranzo et al. profile →
  52. Origins and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems
    2019 305 citations Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova profile →
  53. Mammalian retrovirus-like protein PEG10 packages its own mRNA and can be pseudotyped for mRNA delivery
    2021 289 citations Sergei Mekhedov, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  54. Phylogeny of Cas9 determines functional exchangeability of dual-RNA and Cas9 among orthologous type II CRISPR-Cas systems
    2013 256 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  55. The widespread IS200/IS605 transposon family encodes diverse programmable RNA-guided endonucleases
    2021 239 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  56. Prokaryotic innate immunity through pattern recognition of conserved viral proteins
    2022 138 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  57. Uncovering the functional diversity of rare CRISPR-Cas systems with deep terascale clustering
    2023 81 citations Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin et al. Science profile →
  58. Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease
    2024 50 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →
  59. Bacterial defense systems exhibit synergistic anti-phage activity
    2024 48 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. profile →

Peers

Eugene V. Koonin
David J. Lipman United States
Desmond G. Higgins Ireland
Julie Thompson France
Stephen F. Altschul United States
Toby J. Gibson Germany
Steven L. Salzberg United States
Joseph Sambrook United States
Peer Bork Germany
Heng Li China
Richard Durbin United Kingdom
David J. Lipman United States
Eugene V. Koonin
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All Works

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Vanchurin, Vitaly, Yuri I. Wolf, M. I. Katsnelson, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2022). Toward a theory of evolution as multilevel learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(6). 54 indexed citations
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Li, Ming, Feiyue Cheng, Haiying Yu, et al.. (2021). Toxin-antitoxin RNA pairs safeguard CRISPR-Cas systems. Science. 372(6541). 73 indexed citations
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Rochman, Nash D., Yuri I. Wolf, Guilhem Faure, et al.. (2021). Ongoing global and regional adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(29). 157 indexed citations
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Auslander, Noam, Yuri I. Wolf, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2019). In silico learning of tumor evolution through mutational time series. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(19). 9501–9510. 18 indexed citations
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Koonin, Eugene V. & Natalya Yutin. (2018). Evolution of the Large Nucleocytoplasmic DNA Viruses of Eukaryotes and Convergent Origins of Viral Gigantism. Advances in virus research. 103. 167–202. 119 indexed citations
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Iranzo, Jaime, Iñigo Martincorena, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2018). Cancer-mutation network and the number and specificity of driver mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(26). E6010–E6019. 90 indexed citations
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Persi, Erez, Yuri I. Wolf, Mark D.M. Leiserson, Eugene V. Koonin, & Eytan Ruppin. (2018). Criticality in tumor evolution and clinical outcome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(47). E11101–E11110. 19 indexed citations
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Shmakov, Sergey, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Konstantin Severinov, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2018). Systematic prediction of genes functionally linked to CRISPR-Cas systems by gene neighborhood analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(23). E5307–E5316. 104 indexed citations
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Galperin, Michael Y., David M. Kristensen, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2017). Microbial genome analysis: the COG approach. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 20(4). 1063–1070. 198 indexed citations
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Iranzo, Jaime, José A. Cuesta, Susanna C. Manrubia, M. I. Katsnelson, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2017). Disentangling the effects of selection and loss bias on gene dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(28). 43 indexed citations
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Galperin, Michael Y., Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2017). Phyletic Distribution and Lineage-Specific Domain Architectures of Archaeal Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems. Journal of Bacteriology. 200(7). 40 indexed citations
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Peters, Joseph E., Kira S. Makarova, Sergey Shmakov, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2017). Recruitment of CRISPR-Cas systems by Tn7-like transposons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(35). E7358–E7366. 186 indexed citations
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Kurth, Elizabeth G., Valera V. Peremyslov, Hannah L. Turner, et al.. (2017). Myosin-driven transport network in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(8). E1385–E1394. 50 indexed citations
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Abudayyeh, Omar O., Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Silvana Konermann, et al.. (2016). C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector. Science. 353(6299). aaf5573–aaf5573. 1689 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boyer, Mickaël, Natalya Yutin, Isabelle Pagnier, et al.. (2009). Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(51). 21848–21853. 304 indexed citations
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Avisar, Dror, Alexey I. Prokhnevsky, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, & Valerian V. Dolja. (2008). Myosin XI-K Is Required for Rapid Trafficking of Golgi Stacks, Peroxisomes, and Mitochondria in Leaf Cells of Nicotiana benthamiana    . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 146(3). 1098–1108. 180 indexed citations
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Novichkov, Pavel S., Yuri I. Wolf, Inna Dubchak, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2008). Trends in Prokaryotic Evolution Revealed by Comparison of Closely Related Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes. Journal of Bacteriology. 191(1). 65–73. 104 indexed citations
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Elkins, James G., Mircea Podar, David E. Graham, et al.. (2008). A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(23). 8102–8107. 199 indexed citations
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Verma, Rati, L. Aravind, Robert Oania, et al.. (2002). Role of Rpn11 Metalloprotease in Deubiquitination and Degradation by the 26 S Proteasome. Science. 298(5593). 611–615. 810 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cope, Gregory A., Greg S. B. Suh, L. Aravind, et al.. (2002). Role of Predicted Metalloprotease Motif of Jab1/Csn5 in Cleavage of Nedd8 from Cul1. Science. 298(5593). 608–611. 571 indexed citations breakdown →

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