Gregory L. Dignon

6.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
26 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Gregory L. Dignon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory L. Dignon has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Gregory L. Dignon's work include RNA Research and Splicing (22 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers). Gregory L. Dignon is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (22 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers). Gregory L. Dignon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Gregory L. Dignon's co-authors include Jeetain Mittal, Robert B. Best, Wenwei Zheng, Young C. Kim, Nicolas L. Fawzi, Gül H. Zerze, Alexander E. Conicella, Veronica H. Ryan, Anastasia C. Murthy and Sapun H. Parekh and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gregory L. Dignon

23 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Phosphorylation of the FUS low‐complexity domain disrupts... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2019 2020 2018 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Phosphorylation of the FUS low‐complexity domain disrupts phase separation, aggregation, and toxicity
    2017 520 citations Zachary Monahan, Veronica H. Ryan et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
  2. Molecular interactions underlying liquid−liquid phase separation of the FUS low-complexity domain
    2019 483 citations Anastasia C. Murthy, Gregory L. Dignon et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →
  3. Biomolecular Phase Separation: From Molecular Driving Forces to Macroscopic Properties
    2020 427 citations Gregory L. Dignon, Robert B. Best et al. profile →
  4. Sequence determinants of protein phase behavior from a coarse-grained model
    2018 426 citations Gregory L. Dignon, Wenwei Zheng et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
  5. Mechanistic View of hnRNPA2 Low-Complexity Domain Structure, Interactions, and Phase Separation Altered by Mutation and Arginine Methylation
    2018 301 citations Veronica H. Ryan, Gregory L. Dignon et al. Molecular Cell profile →
  6. TDP-43 α-helical structure tunes liquid–liquid phase separation and function
    2020 254 citations Alexander E. Conicella, Gregory L. Dignon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 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 L. Dignon United States 17 3.4k 434 342 263 194 26 3.7k
Erik Martin United States 17 3.3k 1.0× 362 0.8× 300 0.9× 231 0.9× 306 1.6× 38 3.7k
Diana M. Mitrea United States 23 4.3k 1.3× 296 0.7× 332 1.0× 436 1.7× 373 1.9× 36 5.0k
Gül H. Zerze United States 21 2.7k 0.8× 606 1.4× 231 0.7× 446 1.7× 179 0.9× 42 3.4k
Shambaditya Saha Germany 7 3.0k 0.9× 202 0.5× 247 0.7× 390 1.5× 429 2.2× 7 3.4k
Shana Elbaum‐Garfinkle United States 15 2.6k 0.8× 239 0.6× 261 0.8× 144 0.5× 260 1.3× 27 3.0k
Avinash Patel Germany 9 2.9k 0.8× 184 0.4× 238 0.7× 455 1.7× 465 2.4× 10 3.3k
Pilong Li China 28 4.2k 1.2× 216 0.5× 412 1.2× 134 0.5× 574 3.0× 58 4.9k
Joshua A. Riback United States 13 2.8k 0.8× 289 0.7× 202 0.6× 75 0.3× 334 1.7× 23 3.1k
Sudeep Banjade United States 10 3.1k 0.9× 177 0.4× 331 1.0× 82 0.3× 596 3.1× 14 3.6k
Alaji Bah United States 21 2.5k 0.7× 381 0.9× 170 0.5× 58 0.2× 226 1.2× 40 3.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cubuk, Jasmine, Arjun Singh, César E. Ramírez, et al.. (2025). Phosphorylation toggles the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein between two membrane-associated condensate states. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7970–7970.
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Kelley, Fleurie M., et al.. (2025). Controlled and orthogonal partitioning of large particles into biomolecular condensates. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3521–3521. 6 indexed citations
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Brini, Emiliano, et al.. (2022). Accelerating Protein Folding Molecular Dynamics Using Inter-Residue Distances from Machine Learning Servers. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(3). 1929–1935. 10 indexed citations
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Dignon, Gregory L., et al.. (2021). The Protein Folding Problem: The Role of Theory. Journal of Molecular Biology. 433(20). 167126–167126. 65 indexed citations
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Perdikari, Theodora Myrto, Nina Jovic, Gregory L. Dignon, et al.. (2021). A predictive coarse-grained model for position-specific effects of post-translational modifications. Biophysical Journal. 120(7). 1187–1197. 48 indexed citations
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Regy, Roshan Mammen, Gregory L. Dignon, Wenwei Zheng, Young C. Kim, & Jeetain Mittal. (2020). Sequence dependent phase separation of protein-polynucleotide mixtures elucidated using molecular simulations. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(22). 12593–12603. 81 indexed citations
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Conicella, Alexander E., Gregory L. Dignon, Gül H. Zerze, et al.. (2020). TDP-43 α-helical structure tunes liquid–liquid phase separation and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(11). 5883–5894. 254 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schuster, Benjamin S., Gregory L. Dignon, Wai Shing Tang, et al.. (2020). Identifying sequence perturbations to an intrinsically disordered protein that determine its phase-separation behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(21). 11421–11431. 212 indexed citations
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Conicella, Alexander E., Gregory L. Dignon, Gül H. Zerze, et al.. (2020). Alpha-Helical Structure in TDP-43 Tunes Liquid-liquid Phase Separation and Cellular Function. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 5a–6a. 2 indexed citations
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Zheng, Wenwei, Gregory L. Dignon, Matthew F. Brown, Young C. Kim, & Jeetain Mittal. (2020). Hydropathy Patterning Complements Charge Patterning to Describe Conformational Preferences of Disordered Proteins. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(9). 3408–3415. 81 indexed citations
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Murthy, Anastasia C., Gregory L. Dignon, Gül H. Zerze, et al.. (2019). Molecular interactions underlying liquid−liquid phase separation of the FUS low-complexity domain. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(7). 637–648. 483 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dignon, Gregory L., Wenwei Zheng, Youngchan Kim, & Jeetain Mittal. (2019). A High-Throughput Approach to Phase Separation of Disordered Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 350a–350a. 1 indexed citations
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Schuster, Benjamin S., et al.. (2019). Sequence Determinants of Protein Phase Separation of the Intrinsically Disordered RGG Domain from LAF-1. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 453a–454a. 1 indexed citations
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Dignon, Gregory L., Wenwei Zheng, & Jeetain Mittal. (2019). Simulation methods for liquid–liquid phase separation of disordered proteins. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering. 23. 92–98. 86 indexed citations
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Dignon, Gregory L., Wenwei Zheng, Robert B. Best, Young C. Kim, & Jeetain Mittal. (2018). Relation between single-molecule properties and phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(40). 9929–9934. 261 indexed citations
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Ryan, Veronica H., Gregory L. Dignon, Gül H. Zerze, et al.. (2018). Mechanistic View of hnRNPA2 Low-Complexity Domain Structure, Interactions, and Phase Separation Altered by Mutation and Arginine Methylation. Molecular Cell. 69(3). 465–479.e7. 301 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dignon, Gregory L., Wenwei Zheng, Young C. Kim, Robert B. Best, & Jeetain Mittal. (2018). Sequence determinants of protein phase behavior from a coarse-grained model. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(1). e1005941–e1005941. 426 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dignon, Gregory L., Wenwei Zheng, Young C. Kim, Jeetain Mittal, & Robert B. Best. (2018). Coarse-Grained Simulations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in the Context of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 431a–432a. 2 indexed citations
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Dignon, Gregory L., Wenwei Zheng, Robert B. Best, & Jeetain Mittal. (2017). A Novel Coarse-Grained Model to Study Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Disordered Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 200a–200a. 1 indexed citations
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Monahan, Zachary, Veronica H. Ryan, Kathleen A. Burke, et al.. (2017). Phosphorylation of the FUS low‐complexity domain disrupts phase separation, aggregation, and toxicity. The EMBO Journal. 36(20). 2951–2967. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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