Gregory Bokinsky

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Gregory Bokinsky is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory Bokinsky has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gregory Bokinsky's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (7 papers). Gregory Bokinsky is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (7 papers). Gregory Bokinsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. Gregory Bokinsky's co-authors include Jay D. Keasling, Eric J. Steen, Stephen B. del Cardayré, Yisheng Kang, Xiaowei Zhuang, Amy McClure, Zhihao Hu, Andreas Schirmer, Nils G. Walter and David Rueda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gregory Bokinsky

23 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Microbial production of fatty-acid-derived fuels and chem... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 250 500 750 1000
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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. Microbial production of fatty-acid-derived fuels and chemicals from plant biomass
    2010 1.0k citations Eric J. Steen, Yisheng Kang et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gregory Bokinsky United States 16 1.9k 914 211 144 120 24 2.2k
Federico Katzen United States 20 1.6k 0.9× 188 0.2× 378 1.8× 43 0.3× 150 1.3× 30 2.4k
Christian Sund United States 20 768 0.4× 232 0.3× 60 0.3× 61 0.4× 139 1.2× 63 1.4k
Patrice Soumillion Belgium 24 1.3k 0.7× 205 0.2× 226 1.1× 89 0.6× 254 2.1× 58 2.0k
Alexander Grünberger Germany 33 2.0k 1.1× 1.3k 1.4× 350 1.7× 103 0.7× 189 1.6× 106 3.0k
Joseph P. Torella United States 13 827 0.4× 192 0.2× 169 0.8× 235 1.6× 81 0.7× 19 1.3k
Satoko Yoshizawa France 22 1.9k 1.0× 366 0.4× 287 1.4× 28 0.2× 136 1.1× 56 2.4k
Jon E. Ness United States 13 1.4k 0.7× 181 0.2× 280 1.3× 31 0.2× 126 1.1× 14 1.7k
Sang Kyung Kim South Korea 25 792 0.4× 841 0.9× 68 0.3× 112 0.8× 202 1.7× 71 1.8k
Venkat Gopalan United States 28 1.8k 1.0× 283 0.3× 443 2.1× 18 0.1× 314 2.6× 117 2.5k
Erwin Flaschel Germany 25 1.0k 0.5× 303 0.3× 253 1.2× 163 1.1× 89 0.7× 123 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Gregory Bokinsky

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gregory Bokinsky

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Gregory Bokinsky. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Gregory Bokinsky. The network helps show where Gregory Bokinsky may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gregory Bokinsky

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Berg, Stefan, et al.. (2024). A temperature-sensitive metabolic valve and a transcriptional feedback loop drive rapid homeoviscous adaptation in Escherichia coli. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9386–9386. 9 indexed citations
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Shomar, Helena & Gregory Bokinsky. (2024). Harnessing iron‑sulfur enzymes for synthetic biology. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1871(5). 119718–119718. 4 indexed citations
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Simpson, Brent W., et al.. (2024). PlsX and PlsY: Additional roles beyond glycerophospholipid synthesis in Gram-negative bacteria. mBio. 15(12). e0296924–e0296924. 3 indexed citations
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D’Angelo, Francesca, Elena Fernández‐Fueyo, Pierre Garcia, et al.. (2022). Cellular assays identify barriers impeding iron-sulfur enzyme activity in a non-native prokaryotic host. eLife. 11. 15 indexed citations
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Grilli, Jacopo, et al.. (2022). ppGpp is a bacterial cell size regulator. Current Biology. 32(4). 870–877.e5. 26 indexed citations
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Imholz, Nicole C. E., Marek Noga, Niels J. F. van den Broek, & Gregory Bokinsky. (2020). Calibrating the Bacterial Growth Rate Speedometer: A Re-evaluation of the Relationship Between Basal ppGpp, Growth, and RNA Synthesis in Escherichia coli. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 574872–574872. 16 indexed citations
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Shomar, Helena, et al.. (2018). Metabolic engineering of a carbapenem antibiotic synthesis pathway in Escherichia coli. Nature Chemical Biology. 14(8). 794–800. 22 indexed citations
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Noga, Marek, et al.. (2016). Mass-Spectrometry-Based Quantification of Protein-Bound Fatty Acid Synthesis Intermediates from Escherichia coli. Journal of Proteome Research. 15(10). 3617–3623. 10 indexed citations
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Bokinsky, Gregory, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Helcio Burd, et al.. (2013). HipA-Triggered Growth Arrest and  -Lactam Tolerance in Escherichia coli Are Mediated by RelA-Dependent ppGpp Synthesis. Journal of Bacteriology. 195(14). 3173–3182. 74 indexed citations
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Groff, Dan, Peter I. Benke, Tanveer S. Batth, et al.. (2012). Supplementation of Intracellular XylR Leads to Coutilization of Hemicellulose Sugars. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78(7). 2221–2229. 27 indexed citations
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Steen, Eric J., Yisheng Kang, Gregory Bokinsky, et al.. (2010). Microbial production of fatty-acid-derived fuels and chemicals from plant biomass. Nature. 463(7280). 559–562. 1040 indexed citations breakdown →
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Abbondanzieri, Elio A., et al.. (2008). Dynamic binding orientations direct activity of HIV reverse transcriptase. Nature. 453(7192). 184–189. 141 indexed citations
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Liu, Shixin, Gregory Bokinsky, Nils G. Walter, & Xiaowei Zhuang. (2007). Dissecting the multistep reaction pathway of an RNA enzyme by single-molecule kinetic “fingerprinting”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(31). 12634–12639. 75 indexed citations
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Bokinsky, Gregory, et al.. (2006). Two Distinct Binding Modes of a Protein Cofactor with its Target RNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 361(4). 771–784. 46 indexed citations
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Bokinsky, Gregory & Xiaowei Zhuang. (2005). Single‐Molecule RNA Folding. ChemInform. 36(39).
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Rueda, David, et al.. (2004). Single-molecule enzymology of RNA: Essential functional groups impact catalysis from a distance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(27). 10066–10071. 117 indexed citations
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Bokinsky, Gregory, David Rueda, Vinod K. Misra, et al.. (2003). Single-molecule transition-state analysis of RNA folding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(16). 9302–9307. 163 indexed citations
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Bokinsky, Gregory, et al.. (1999). A Caged Hydrophobic Inhibitor of Carbonic Anhydrase II. Organic Letters. 1(2). 187–188. 11 indexed citations

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