Eugene V. Koonin

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Eugene V. Koonin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Eugene V. Koonin has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Eugene V. Koonin's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers). Eugene V. Koonin is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers). Eugene V. Koonin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and France. Eugene V. Koonin's co-authors include L. Aravind, Yuri I. Wolf, Svetlana A. Shabalina, Alexander E. Gorbalenya, Michael Y. Galperin, Alexei P. Donchenko, Vladimir M. Blinov, Roman L. Tatusov, Vishva M. Dixit and Nick V. Grishin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Eugene V. Koonin

42 papers receiving 4.8k citations

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Conserved sequence motifs in the initiator proteins for rolling circle DNA replication encoded by diverse replicons from eubacteria, eucaryotes and archaebacteria

1992 501 citations Eugene V. Koonin et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eugene V. Koonin United States	32	3.4k	1.1k	1.0k	910	528	42	4.9k
Eugene V. Koonin United States	17	2.2k 0.7×	962 0.9×	678 0.7×	678 0.7×	345 0.7×	24	3.5k
Vivek Anantharaman United States	44	4.9k 1.4×	877 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	541 1.0×	75	7.2k
Eugene V. Koonin United States	11	2.4k 0.7×	949 0.9×	752 0.7×	373 0.4×	254 0.5×	11	3.6k
Adrian R. Tivey United Kingdom	7	3.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	628 0.6×	677 0.7×	605 1.1×	7	5.5k
Nicola Buso United Kingdom	5	3.1k 0.9×	944 0.9×	594 0.6×	582 0.6×	558 1.1×	5	5.2k
Sakol Panyim Thailand	45	4.8k 1.4×	878 0.8×	911 0.9×	642 0.7×	335 0.6×	209	9.1k
Fábio Madeira United Kingdom	9	3.2k 1.0×	916 0.8×	600 0.6×	573 0.6×	552 1.0×	14	5.4k
Nandana Madhusoodanan United Kingdom	5	3.0k 0.9×	898 0.8×	583 0.6×	545 0.6×	546 1.0×	5	5.0k
A. Biegert Germany	12	4.3k 1.3×	653 0.6×	725 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	319 0.6×	13	5.7k
Kin‐ichiro Miura Japan	34	4.2k 1.2×	798 0.7×	870 0.9×	898 1.0×	212 0.4×	147	5.4k

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Yutin, Natalya, Igor Tolstoy, Pascal Mutz, et al.. (2024). DNA polymerase swapping in Caudoviricetes bacteriophages. Virology Journal. 21(1). 200–200. 2 indexed citations

Lemak, Sofia, Greg Brown, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, & Alexander F. Yakunin. (2024). Biochemical plasticity of the Escherichia coliCRISPR Cascade revealed by in vitro reconstitution of Cascade activities from purified Cas proteins. FEBS Journal. 291(23). 5177–5194. 1 indexed citations

Koonin, Eugene V., et al.. (2022). Thermodynamic selection: mechanisms and scenarios. New Journal of Physics. 24(5). 53006–53006. 3 indexed citations

Desnues, Christelle, Bernard La Scola, Natalya Yutin, et al.. (2012). Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(44). 18078–18083. 159 indexed citations

Iyer, Lakshminarayan M., L. Aravind, Peer Bork, et al.. (2001). Quod erat demonstrandum?The mystery of experimental validation of apparently erroneous computational analyses of protein sequences. Genome biology. 2(12). RESEARCH0051–RESEARCH0051. 53 indexed citations

Anantharaman, Vivek, Eugene V. Koonin, & L. Aravind. (2001). TRAM, a predicted RNA-binding domain, common to tRNA uracil methylation and adenine thiolation enzymes. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 197(2). 215–221. 58 indexed citations

Aravind, L. & Eugene V. Koonin. (2000). Eukaryote-specific Domains in Translation Initiation Factors: Implications for Translation Regulation and Evolution of the Translation System. Genome Research. 10(8). 1172–1184. 74 indexed citations

Wolf, Yuri I., Nick V. Grishin, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2000). Estimating the number of protein folds and families from complete genome data 1 1Edited by J. Thornton. Journal of Molecular Biology. 299(4). 897–905. 137 indexed citations

Wolf, Yuri I., Alexey S. Kondrashov, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2000). Interkingdom gene fusions. Genome biology. 1(6). RESEARCH0013–RESEARCH0013. 24 indexed citations

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Makarova, Kira S., L. Aravind, Michael J. Daly, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2000). Specific Expansion of Protein Families in the Radioresistant Bacterium Deinococcus Radiodurans. Genetica. 108(1). 25–34. 29 indexed citations

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Natale, Darren A., Uma Shankavaram, Michael Y. Galperin, et al.. (2000). Towards understanding the first genome sequence of a crenarchaeon by genome annotation using clusters of orthologous groups of proteins (COGs). Genome biology. 1(5). RESEARCH0009–RESEARCH0009. 129 indexed citations

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Makarova, Kira S., L. Aravind, Michael Y. Galperin, et al.. (1999). Comparative Genomics of the Archaea (Euryarchaeota): Evolution of Conserved Protein Families, the Stable Core, and the Variable Shell. Genome Research. 9(7). 608–628. 224 indexed citations

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Ponting, Chris P., L. Aravind, J. Schultz, Peer Bork, & Eugene V. Koonin. (1999). Eukaryotic Signalling Domain Homologues in Archaea and Bacteria. Ancient Ancestry and Horizontal Gene Transfer. Journal of Molecular Biology. 289(4). 729–745. 260 indexed citations

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Koonin, Eugene V.. (1995). A protein splice-junction motif in hedgehog family proteins. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 20(4). 141–142. 37 indexed citations

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Koonin, Eugene V., et al.. (1994). A Poxvirus Protein with a RING Zinc Finger Motif Is of Crucial Importance for Virulence. Virology. 198(1). 118–128. 68 indexed citations

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Koonin, Eugene V. & Murray P. Deutscher. (1993). RNase T shares conserved sequence motifs with DNA proofreading exonucleases. Nucleic Acids Research. 21(10). 2521–2522. 32 indexed citations

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Koonin, Eugene V., et al.. (1992). Conserved sequence motifs in the initiator proteins for rolling circle DNA replication encoded by diverse replicons from eubacteria, eucaryotes and archaebacteria. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(13). 3279–3285. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

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Koonin, Eugene V., et al.. (1992). Vaccinia virus encodes four putative DNA and/or RNA helicases distantly related to each other. Journal of General Virology. 73(4). 989–993. 38 indexed citations

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Agranovsky, Alexey A., et al.. (1991). Putative 65 kDa protein of beet yellows closterovirus is a homologue of HSP70 heat shock proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology. 217(4). 603–610. 60 indexed citations

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Gorbalenya, Alexander E., Eugene V. Koonin, Alexei P. Donchenko, & Vladimir M. Blinov. (1989). Coronavirus genome: prediction of putative functional domains in the non-structural polyprotein by comparative amino acid sequence analysis. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(12). 4847–4861. 262 indexed citations

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