Felipe Merino

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Felipe Merino is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Felipe Merino has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Materials Chemistry and 6 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Felipe Merino's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers). Felipe Merino is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers). Felipe Merino collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Chile and United States. Felipe Merino's co-authors include Stefan Raunser, Christos Gatsogiannis, Sabrina Pospich, Markus Stabrin, Thorsten Wagner, Toshio Moriya, Oleg Sitsel, Daniel Roderer, Amir Apelbaum and Daniel Prumbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Felipe Merino

31 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

  1. SPHIRE-crYOLO is a fast and accurate fully automated particle picker for cryo-EM
    2019 785 citations Thorsten Wagner, Felipe Merino et al. Communications Biology profile →

Peers

Felipe Merino
Christos Gatsogiannis Germany
Joseph A. Mindell United States
Kazuhiro Mio Japan
Arne Moeller Germany
Markus Stabrin Germany
Dari Kimanius United Kingdom
Prabuddha Sengupta United States
Yao Cong China
Alexis Rohou United States
Kliment A. Verba United States
Christos Gatsogiannis Germany
Felipe Merino
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Felipe Merino

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

All Works

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Raisch, Tobias, Giuseppe Ciossani, Stefano Maffini, et al.. (2022). Structure of the RZZ complex and molecular basis of Spindly‐driven corona assembly at human kinetochores. The EMBO Journal. 41(9). e110411–e110411. 27 indexed citations
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Merino, Felipe, et al.. (2022). Exploring protein-protein interactions at the proteome level. Structure. 30(4). 462–475. 26 indexed citations
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Funk, Johanna, Felipe Merino, Matthias Schaks, et al.. (2021). A barbed end interference mechanism reveals how capping protein promotes nucleation in branched actin networks. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5329–5329. 59 indexed citations
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Belyy, Alexander, Felipe Merino, Oleg Sitsel, & Stefan Raunser. (2020). Structure of the Lifeact–F-actin complex. PLoS Biology. 18(11). e3000925–e3000925. 45 indexed citations
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Quentin, Dennis, Oleg Sitsel, Felipe Merino, et al.. (2020). Structural basis of TRPC4 regulation by calmodulin and pharmacological agents. eLife. 9. 49 indexed citations
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Gatsogiannis, Christos, Dóra Balogh, Felipe Merino, Stephan A. Sieber, & Stefan Raunser. (2019). Cryo-EM structure of the ClpXP protein degradation machinery. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(10). 946–954. 67 indexed citations
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Wagner, Thorsten, Felipe Merino, Markus Stabrin, et al.. (2019). SPHIRE-crYOLO is a fast and accurate fully automated particle picker for cryo-EM. Communications Biology. 2(1). 218–218. 785 indexed citations breakdown →
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Merino, Felipe, Sabrina Pospich, Johanna Funk, et al.. (2018). Structural transitions of F-actin upon ATP hydrolysis at near-atomic resolution revealed by cryo-EM. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 25(6). 528–537. 146 indexed citations
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Merino, Felipe, et al.. (2018). Protein topology determines substrate-binding mechanism in homologous enzymes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1862(12). 2869–2878. 6 indexed citations
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Moriya, Toshio, Michael Saur, Markus Stabrin, et al.. (2017). High-resolution Single Particle Analysis from Electron Cryo-microscopy Images Using SPHIRE. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 132 indexed citations
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Gatsogiannis, Christos, Felipe Merino, Daniel Prumbaum, et al.. (2016). Membrane insertion of a Tc toxin in near-atomic detail. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(10). 884–890. 73 indexed citations
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Merino, Felipe, Benjamin Bouvier, & Vlad Cojocaru. (2015). Cooperative DNA Recognition Modulated by an Interplay between Protein-Protein Interactions and DNA-Mediated Allostery. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(6). e1004287–e1004287. 23 indexed citations
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Merino, Felipe, et al.. (2014). Structural Basis for the SOX-Dependent Genomic Redistribution of OCT4 in Stem Cell Differentiation. Structure. 22(9). 1274–1286. 36 indexed citations
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Merino, Felipe, et al.. (2013). OCT4: Dynamic DNA binding pioneers stem cell pluripotency. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1839(3). 138–154. 122 indexed citations
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Guixé, Victoria & Felipe Merino. (2009). The ADP‐dependent sugar kinase family: Kinetic and evolutionary aspects. IUBMB Life. 61(7). 753–761. 39 indexed citations
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Currie, Mark A., Felipe Merino, T. Skarina, et al.. (2009). ADP-dependent 6-Phosphofructokinase from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(34). 22664–22671. 22 indexed citations
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Merino, Felipe, et al.. (2008). MICRONUTRIMENTOS SOLUBLES EN VERMICOMPOSTA. 29–36.
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Báez, Mauricio, et al.. (2008). Uncoupling the MgATP‐induced inhibition and aggregation of Escherichia coli phosphofructokinase‐2 by C‐terminal mutations. FEBS Letters. 582(13). 1907–1912. 8 indexed citations

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