Houra Merrikh

3.0k total citations
38 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Houra Merrikh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Houra Merrikh has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Houra Merrikh's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (28 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (21 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers). Houra Merrikh is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (28 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (21 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers). Houra Merrikh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Houra Merrikh's co-authors include Christopher N. Merrikh, Alan D. Grossman, Kevin S. Lang, Yan Zhang, Jue D. Wang, Samuel Million‐Weaver, Jennifer Normanly, Gromoslaw A. Smolen, John L. Celenza and Judith Bender and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Houra Merrikh

37 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Houra Merrikh United States 26 1.6k 958 302 270 247 38 2.1k
Julia E. Grimwade United States 24 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 1.3× 98 0.3× 254 0.9× 253 1.0× 35 1.8k
A. Simon Lynch United States 16 1.3k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 116 0.4× 223 0.8× 347 1.4× 18 1.7k
J. Gowrishankar India 26 1.5k 0.9× 1.3k 1.3× 124 0.4× 156 0.6× 417 1.7× 66 2.0k
A J Pittard Australia 27 1.5k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 137 0.5× 149 0.6× 218 0.9× 65 1.8k
Josette Pidoux France 9 1.1k 0.7× 779 0.8× 175 0.6× 108 0.4× 285 1.2× 12 1.7k
Doreen E. Culham Canada 22 1.1k 0.7× 650 0.7× 297 1.0× 82 0.3× 154 0.6× 40 1.6k
Byoung‐Mo Koo United States 17 1.4k 0.9× 916 1.0× 106 0.4× 129 0.5× 450 1.8× 26 1.8k
Mirjam E. G. Aarsman Netherlands 18 916 0.6× 884 0.9× 133 0.4× 143 0.5× 456 1.8× 28 1.2k
Marcin Filutowicz United States 28 1.6k 0.9× 1.3k 1.4× 158 0.5× 307 1.1× 535 2.2× 66 2.0k
Evelyne Richet France 22 1.0k 0.6× 747 0.8× 115 0.4× 95 0.4× 255 1.0× 33 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Houra Merrikh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Houra Merrikh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Houra Merrikh 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 Houra Merrikh. Houra Merrikh 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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Carvajal-Garcia, Juan, et al.. (2024). A small molecule that inhibits the evolution of antibiotic resistance. PubMed. 1(1). ugae001–ugae001. 3 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Houra, et al.. (2023). Pathogenic bacteria experience pervasive RNA polymerase backtracking during infection. mBio. 15(1). e0273723–e0273723. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Anna E., et al.. (2023). The in vivo measurement of replication fork velocity and pausing by lag-time analysis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1762–1762. 11 indexed citations
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Stoy, Henriette, Katharina Zwicky, Kevin S. Lang, et al.. (2023). Direct visualization of transcription-replication conflicts reveals post-replicative DNA:RNA hybrids. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30(3). 348–359. 40 indexed citations
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Stoy, Henriette, Kevin S. Lang, Houra Merrikh, & Massimo Lopes. (2022). Locus-Specific Analysis of Replication Dynamics and Detection of DNA–RNA Hybrids by Immuno Electron Microscopy. Methods in molecular biology. 2528. 67–89.
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Merrikh, Christopher N., et al.. (2020). Mfd regulates RNA polymerase association with hard-to-transcribe regions in vivo, especially those with structured RNAs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(1). 16 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Houra, et al.. (2019). The enigmatic role of Mfd in replication-transcription conflicts in bacteria. DNA repair. 81. 102659–102659. 7 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Christopher N. & Houra Merrikh. (2018). Gene inversion potentiates bacterial evolvability and virulence. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4662–4662. 51 indexed citations
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Ma, Dan, Zhizhi Wang, Christopher N. Merrikh, et al.. (2018). Crystal structure of a membrane-bound O-acyltransferase. Nature. 562(7726). 286–290. 81 indexed citations
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Thomason, Maureen K., Chris Hsu, John Gage, et al.. (2018). Inhibiting the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance. Molecular Cell. 73(1). 157–165.e5. 137 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Houra, et al.. (2018). DNA gyrase activity regulates DnaA‐dependent replication initiation in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 108(2). 115–127. 14 indexed citations
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Mangiameli, Sarah, et al.. (2017). The Replisomes Remain Spatially Proximal throughout the Cell Cycle in Bacteria. PLoS Genetics. 13(1). e1006582–e1006582. 39 indexed citations
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Loftie‐Eaton, Wesley, Hannah Quinn, Jack Millstein, et al.. (2017). Compensatory mutations improve general permissiveness to antibiotic resistance plasmids. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(9). 1354–1363. 132 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Houra. (2017). Spatial and Temporal Control of Evolution through Replication–Transcription Conflicts. Trends in Microbiology. 25(7). 515–521. 27 indexed citations
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Million‐Weaver, Samuel, M. Brittnacher, Eli J. Weiss, et al.. (2015). An underlying mechanism for the increased mutagenesis of lagging-strand genes in Bacillus subtilis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(10). E1096–105. 67 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Christopher N., Bonita J. Brewer, & Houra Merrikh. (2015). The B. subtilis Accessory Helicase PcrA Facilitates DNA Replication through Transcription Units. PLoS Genetics. 11(6). e1005289–e1005289. 38 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Christopher N. & Houra Merrikh. (2014). The B. subtilis accessory helicase PcrA facilitates replication through transcription units genome‐wide (LB126). The FASEB Journal. 28(S1). 1 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Houra, et al.. (2011). Co-directional replication–transcription conflicts lead to replication restart. Nature. 470(7335). 554–557. 142 indexed citations
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Merrikh, Houra, Alexander E. Ferrazzoli, Alexandre Bougdour, Anique Olivier-Mason, & Susan T. Lovett. (2009). A DNA damage response in Escherichia coli involving the alternative sigma factor, RpoS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(2). 611–616. 68 indexed citations
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Dower, Ken, Nicolas Kuperwasser, Houra Merrikh, & Michael Rosbash. (2004). A synthetic A tail rescues yeast nuclear accumulation of a ribozyme-terminated transcript. RNA. 10(12). 1888–1899. 96 indexed citations

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