Gemma C. Atkinson

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Gemma C. Atkinson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gemma C. Atkinson has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Gemma C. Atkinson's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (46 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (21 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (19 papers). Gemma C. Atkinson is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (46 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (21 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (19 papers). Gemma C. Atkinson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Estonia and Germany. Gemma C. Atkinson's co-authors include Vasili Hauryliuk, Tanel Tenson, Katsuhiko Murakami, Kenn Gerdes, Daniel N. Wilson, Chayan Kumar Saha, Victoriia Murina, Sandra L. Baldauf, Hiraku Takada and Alex J. O’Neill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Gemma C. Atkinson

61 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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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.

Recent functional insights into the role of (p)ppGpp in bacterial physiology

2015 587 citations Vasili Hauryliuk, Gemma C. Atkinson et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gemma C. Atkinson Sweden	30	2.3k	1.0k	631	490	312	62	3.1k
Vasili Hauryliuk Sweden	35	3.1k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	821 1.3×	658 1.3×	425 1.4×	92	4.3k
Douglas F. Browning United Kingdom	30	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.6×	757 1.2×	309 0.6×	323 1.0×	71	3.6k
Natalie Verstraeten Belgium	24	1.5k 0.7×	966 0.9×	422 0.7×	635 1.3×	267 0.9×	52	2.6k
Pierre Genevaux France	31	2.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	548 0.9×	304 0.6×	419 1.3×	64	3.2k
Jue D. Wang United States	32	2.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.9×	771 1.2×	348 0.7×	271 0.9×	58	3.6k
Agata L. Starosta Germany	24	2.4k 1.1×	734 0.7×	405 0.6×	461 0.9×	296 0.9×	40	3.2k
Philippe Bouloc France	31	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.6×	839 1.3×	299 0.6×	430 1.4×	73	3.3k
Irine Ronin Israel	12	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	394 0.6×	874 1.8×	375 1.2×	14	2.6k
Kenneth C. Keiler United States	27	2.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	680 1.1×	180 0.4×	213 0.7×	54	2.9k
Jan‐Willem De Gier Sweden	38	3.3k 1.5×	2.0k 1.9×	883 1.4×	263 0.5×	201 0.6×	68	4.2k

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Tenson, Tanel, et al.. (2025). The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Science Advances. 11(40). eadz8560–eadz8560. 2 indexed citations

Egorov, Artyom A. & Gemma C. Atkinson. (2025). LoVis4u: a locus visualization tool for comparative genomics and coverage profiles. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 7(1). lqaf009–lqaf009. 6 indexed citations

Egorov, Artyom A., Alicia M. Cole, Toomas Mets, et al.. (2025). Characterization of five environmental phages infecting Escherichia coli K-12 isolated during a phage biology training course. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(12). e0227425–e0227425.

Takada, Hiraku, Keigo Fujiwara, Gemma C. Atkinson, Shinobu Chiba, & Vasili Hauryliuk. (2024). Resolution of ribosomal stalling by EF-P and ABCF ATPases YfmR and YkpA/YbiT. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(16). 9854–9866. 9 indexed citations

Svetlov, Maxim S., Gemma C. Atkinson, Haaris Ahsan Safdari, et al.. (2024). Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase is the nascent chain release factor in bacterial ribosome-associated quality control. Molecular Cell. 84(4). 715–726.e5. 10 indexed citations

Huang, Weiping, Elena V. Aleksandrova, Gemma C. Atkinson, et al.. (2024). Activity, structure, and diversity of Type II proline-rich antimicrobial peptides from insects. EMBO Reports. 25(11). 5194–5211. 5 indexed citations

Tesson, Florian, Rémi Planel, Artyom A. Egorov, et al.. (2024). A Comprehensive Resource for Exploring Antiphage Defense: DefenseFinder Webservice,Wiki and Databases. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 27 indexed citations

Takada, Hiraku, Gabriel Mazzucchelli, Iva Pichová, et al.. (2023). The structure of DarB in complex with Rel ^NTD reveals nonribosomal activation of Rel stringent factors. Science Advances. 9(3). eade4077–eade4077. 7 indexed citations

Obana, Nozomu, Hiraku Takada, Caillan Crowe‐McAuliffe, et al.. (2023). Genome-encoded ABCF factors implicated in intrinsic antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive bacteria: VmlR2, Ard1 and CplR. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(9). 4536–4554. 16 indexed citations

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Egorov, Artyom A. & Gemma C. Atkinson. (2023). uORF4u: a tool for annotation of conserved upstream open reading frames. Bioinformatics. 39(5). 4 indexed citations

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Crowe‐McAuliffe, Caillan, Victoriia Murina, Kathryn Jane Turnbull, et al.. (2022). Structural basis for PoxtA-mediated resistance to phenicol and oxazolidinone antibiotics. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1860–1860. 41 indexed citations

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Kurata, Tatsuaki, Chayan Kumar Saha, Toomas Mets, et al.. (2022). A hyperpromiscuous antitoxin protein domain for the neutralization of diverse toxin domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(6). 22 indexed citations

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Tamman, Hedvig, Tatsuaki Kurata, Michele LeRoux, et al.. (2022). Direct activation of a bacterial innate immune system by a viral capsid protein. Nature. 612(7938). 132–140. 93 indexed citations

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Marks, James, Dorota Klepacki, Chayan Kumar Saha, et al.. (2022). Context-based sensing of orthosomycin antibiotics by the translating ribosome. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(11). 1277–1286. 6 indexed citations

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Tamman, Hedvig, Mohammad Roghanian, Ariel Talavera, et al.. (2022). Structure of SpoT reveals evolutionary tuning of catalysis via conformational constraint. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(3). 334–345. 8 indexed citations

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Svetlov, Maxim S., Egor A. Syroegin, Elena V. Aleksandrova, et al.. (2021). Structure of Erm-modified 70S ribosome reveals the mechanism of macrolide resistance. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(4). 412–420. 90 indexed citations

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Saha, Chayan Kumar, Tatsuaki Kurata, Sofia Raquel Alves Oliveira, et al.. (2020). A widespread toxin−antitoxin system exploiting growth control via alarmone signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(19). 10500–10510. 74 indexed citations

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Kuzmenko, Anton, Stoyan Tankov, Gemma C. Atkinson, et al.. (2016). Aim-less translation: loss of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial translation initiation factor mIF3/Aim23 leads to unbalanced protein synthesis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 18749–18749. 22 indexed citations

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Kuzmenko, Anton, С. А. Левицкий, Gemma C. Atkinson, et al.. (2013). Protein biosynthesis in mitochondria. Biochemistry (Moscow). 78(8). 855–866. 11 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Gemma C. & Sandra L. Baldauf. (2010). Evolution of Elongation Factor G and the Origins of Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Forms. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(3). 1281–1292. 32 indexed citations

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