Henry L. Levin

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Henry L. Levin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Henry L. Levin has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Molecular Biology, 54 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Henry L. Levin's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (50 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (26 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (25 papers). Henry L. Levin is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (50 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (26 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (25 papers). Henry L. Levin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Cameroon. Henry L. Levin's co-authors include John V. Moran, Jef D. Boeke, Daniel C. Weaver, Hirotaka Ebina, Guillaume Bourque, Cédric Feschotte, Dixie L. Mager, Mary Gehring, Vera Gorbunova and Todd S. Macfarlan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Henry L. Levin

68 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Ten things you should know about transposable elements

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Henry L. Levin United States	30	2.7k	2.2k	440	181	180	69	3.5k
Michaël Imbeault Switzerland	22	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	412 0.9×	259 1.4×	120 0.7×	23	2.4k
Marcelo Valle de Sousa Brazil	31	1.3k 0.5×	567 0.3×	696 1.6×	187 1.0×	490 2.7×	145	3.0k
Paul D. Friesen United States	38	3.2k 1.2×	687 0.3×	515 1.2×	57 0.3×	218 1.2×	66	3.9k
Jade K. Forwood Australia	30	2.1k 0.8×	492 0.2×	631 1.4×	197 1.1×	436 2.4×	153	3.6k
Ian A. Hope United Kingdom	28	3.2k 1.2×	444 0.2×	700 1.6×	55 0.3×	160 0.9×	57	4.4k
Frank Schwach United Kingdom	21	2.0k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	108 0.2×	88 0.5×	276 1.5×	27	3.8k
N. Kyle Tanner France	19	2.5k 0.9×	286 0.1×	294 0.7×	86 0.5×	163 0.9×	36	2.9k
Crisanto Gutiérrez Spain	48	5.1k 1.9×	5.4k 2.5×	580 1.3×	35 0.2×	91 0.5×	159	7.3k
Charlotta Funaya Germany	19	1.3k 0.5×	620 0.3×	153 0.3×	67 0.4×	230 1.3×	32	1.9k
Steven G. Sedgwick United Kingdom	30	3.2k 1.2×	525 0.2×	829 1.9×	39 0.2×	153 0.8×	63	3.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Levin, Henry L., et al.. (2025). The 5′ truncation of retrotransposon L1: a process of genome integrity. Genetics. 231(4).

Arkhipova, Irina R., Kathleen H. Burns, Katherine B. Chiappinelli, et al.. (2023). Meeting report: transposable elements at the crossroads of evolution, health and disease 2023. Mobile DNA. 14(1). 19–19. 1 indexed citations

Ahn, Hyo Won, Lindsay M. Payer, Tongguang Wang, et al.. (2022). Retrotransposon insertions associated with risk of neurologic and psychiatric diseases. EMBO Reports. 24(1). e55197–e55197. 3 indexed citations

Li, Feng, Caroline Esnault, Yabin Guo, et al.. (2022). Identification of an integrase-independent pathway of retrotransposition. Science Advances. 8(26). eabm9390–eabm9390. 6 indexed citations

Jeffares, Daniel, Christoph Sadée, Maria Rodríguez‐López, et al.. (2019). Fitness Landscape of the Fission Yeast Genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(8). 1612–1623. 9 indexed citations

Esnault, Caroline, Michael Lee, C. Ham, & Henry L. Levin. (2018). Transposable element insertions in fission yeast drive adaptation to environmental stress. Genome Research. 29(1). 85–95. 31 indexed citations

Kumar, Sudhir, et al.. (2018). High-Frequency Lithium Acetate Transformation of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Methods in molecular biology. 1721. 167–177. 14 indexed citations

Kumar, Sudhir, et al.. (2018). Duplication and Transformation of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Collection of Deletion Strains. Methods in molecular biology. 1721. 197–215. 2 indexed citations

Abrams, John, Irina R. Arkhipova, Marlene Belfort, et al.. (2018). Meeting report: mobile genetic elements and genome plasticity 2018. Mobile DNA. 9(1). 21–21. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Sudhir, et al.. (2017). Host factors that promote retrotransposon integration are similar in distantly related eukaryotes. PLoS Genetics. 13(12). e1006775–e1006775. 6 indexed citations

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Singh, Parmit K., Matthew Plumb, Andrea L. Ferris, et al.. (2015). LEDGF/p75 interacts with mRNA splicing factors and targets HIV-1 integration to highly spliced genes. Genes & Development. 29(21). 2287–2297. 83 indexed citations

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Tanaka, Atsunari, Hideki Tanizawa, Sira Sriswasdi, et al.. (2012). Epigenetic Regulation of Condensin-Mediated Genome Organization during the Cell Cycle and upon DNA Damage through Histone H3 Lysine 56 Acetylation. Molecular Cell. 48(4). 532–546. 65 indexed citations

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Levin, Henry L. & John V. Moran. (2011). Dynamic interactions between transposable elements and their hosts. Nature Reviews Genetics. 12(9). 615–627. 416 indexed citations

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Guo, Yabin & Henry L. Levin. (2009). High-throughput sequencing of retrotransposon integration provides a saturated profile of target activity in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genome Research. 20(2). 239–248. 53 indexed citations

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Ebina, Hirotaka, et al.. (2008). The GP(Y/F) Domain of TF1 Integrase Multimerizes when Present in a Fragment, and Substitutions in This Domain Reduce Enzymatic Activity of the Full-length Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(23). 15965–15974. 6 indexed citations

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Ebina, Hirotaka & Henry L. Levin. (2007). Stress Management: How Cells Take Control of Their Transposons. Molecular Cell. 27(2). 180–181. 16 indexed citations

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Levin, Henry L., et al.. (2000). Nuclear Import of the Retrotransposon Tf1 Is Governed by a Nuclear Localization Signal That Possesses a Unique Requirement for the FXFG Nuclear Pore Factor Nup124p. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 20(20). 7798–7812. 39 indexed citations

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Levin, Henry L., et al.. (1998). Schizosaccharomyces pombe Retrotransposon Tf2 Mobilizes Primarily through Homologous cDNA Recombination. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 18(11). 6839–6852. 30 indexed citations

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Levin, Henry L.. (1997). It's Prime Time for Reverse Transcriptase. Cell. 88(1). 5–8. 36 indexed citations

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Lin, Jennifer & Henry L. Levin. (1997). A complex structure in the mRNA of Tf1 is recognized and cleaved to generate the primer of reverse transcription.. Genes & Development. 11(2). 270–285. 38 indexed citations

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