John B. MacMillan

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

John B. MacMillan is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John B. MacMillan has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Pharmacology, 48 papers in Organic Chemistry and 40 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John B. MacMillan's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (48 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (33 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (27 papers). John B. MacMillan is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (48 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (33 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (27 papers). John B. MacMillan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Korea. John B. MacMillan's co-authors include Zhijian J. Chen, Yu‐Hsin Chiu, Tadeusz F. Molinski, Youcai Hu, Peng Fu, William Fenical, Paul R. Jensen, Susana P. Gaudêncio, Chambers C. Hughes and Nathaniel W. Oswald and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John B. MacMillan

103 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

RNA Polymerase III Detects Cytosolic DNA and Induces Type I Interferons through the RIG-I Pathway

2009 935 citations Yu‐Hsin Chiu, John B. MacMillan et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John B. MacMillan United States	36	1.9k	1.0k	925	897	725	104	4.1k
Jinku Bao China	38	3.4k 1.8×	516 0.5×	926 1.0×	467 0.5×	421 0.6×	136	5.3k
Vicky M. Avery Australia	43	2.0k 1.1×	2.1k 2.0×	337 0.4×	685 0.8×	768 1.1×	220	6.1k
John A. Beutler United States	41	3.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	237 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	745 1.0×	180	5.6k
Zhengchao Tu China	36	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	274 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	665 0.9×	176	4.4k
John H. Cardellina United States	46	2.8k 1.5×	2.3k 2.2×	404 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	103	6.6k
Alexander W. Schüttelkopf United Kingdom	25	4.1k 2.2×	1.3k 1.3×	573 0.6×	438 0.5×	355 0.5×	32	6.3k
Masaaki Ishizuka Japan	35	2.0k 1.1×	963 0.9×	406 0.4×	919 1.0×	416 0.6×	141	4.0k
Masayoshi Arai Japan	29	1.5k 0.8×	642 0.6×	180 0.2×	905 1.0×	633 0.9×	132	3.3k
Satoshi Ōmura Japan	35	2.3k 1.2×	909 0.9×	172 0.2×	1.5k 1.7×	457 0.6×	121	4.0k
Hans‐Martin Dahse Germany	36	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	524 0.6×	1.4k 1.5×	516 0.7×	148	4.3k

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Khadilkar, Aswad, Jessica Wagoner, Trevor N. Clark, et al.. (2023). Modulation of in Vitro SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Stephania tetrandra and Its Alkaloid Constituents. Journal of Natural Products. 86(4). 1061–1073. 6 indexed citations

MacMillan, John B., et al.. (2022). Antibiotic natural product hunanamycin A: Lead identification towards anti-Salmonella agents. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 236. 114245–114245. 3 indexed citations

Hight, Suzie K., Trevor N. Clark, Kenji L. Kurita, et al.. (2022). High-throughput functional annotation of natural products by integrated activity profiling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(49). e2208458119–e2208458119. 15 indexed citations

Kumar, Aman, Regan M. Russell, Reed Pifer, et al.. (2020). The Serotonin Neurotransmitter Modulates Virulence of Enteric Pathogens. Cell Host & Microbe. 28(1). 41–53.e8. 91 indexed citations

Oswald, Nathaniel W., Elizabeth A. McMillan, Kathleen McGlynn, et al.. (2018). HORMAD1 Is a Negative Prognostic Indicator in Lung Adenocarcinoma and Specifies Resistance to Oxidative and Genotoxic Stress. Cancer Research. 78(21). 6196–6208. 47 indexed citations

Neilsen, Beth K., Kurt W. Fisher, Youcai Hu, et al.. (2018). A Functional Signature Ontology (FUSION) screen detects an AMPK inhibitor with selective toxicity toward human colon tumor cells. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 3770–3770. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Chensu, Hanspeter Niederstrasser, Peter M. Douglas, et al.. (2017). Small-molecule TFEB pathway agonists that ameliorate metabolic syndrome in mice and extend C. elegans lifespan. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2270–2270. 120 indexed citations

Oswald, Nathaniel W., et al.. (2016). Ikarugamycin: A Natural Product Inhibitor of Clathrin‐Mediated Endocytosis. Traffic. 17(10). 1139–1149. 62 indexed citations

Scheuermann, Thomas H., Liela Bayeh, Hanzhi Wang, et al.. (2015). Isoform-Selective and Stereoselective Inhibition of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-2. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 58(15). 5930–5941. 61 indexed citations

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Li, Hui, Charles W. Chapman, Haoran Xue, et al.. (2015). Total Syntheses and Biological Evaluation of Both Enantiomers of Several Hydroxylated Dimeric Nuphar Alkaloids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(36). 10604–10607. 21 indexed citations

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Potts, Malia B., Elizabeth A. McMillan, Hyun Seok Kim, et al.. (2015). Mode of action and pharmacogenomic biomarkers for exceptional responders to didemnin B. Nature Chemical Biology. 11(6). 401–408. 52 indexed citations

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Hu, Youcai, Malia B. Potts, Dominic A. Colosimo, et al.. (2013). Discoipyrroles A–D: Isolation, Structure Determination, and Synthesis of Potent Migration Inhibitors from Bacillus hunanensis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(36). 13387–13392. 62 indexed citations

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Oswald, Nathaniel W., et al.. (2012). Precursor-directed generation of amidine containing ammosamide analogs: ammosamides E–P. Chemical Science. 4(1). 482–488. 74 indexed citations

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Chiu, Yu‐Hsin, John B. MacMillan, & Zhijian J. Chen. (2009). RNA Polymerase III Detects Cytosolic DNA and Induces Type I Interferons through the RIG-I Pathway. Cell. 138(3). 576–591. 935 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hughes, Chambers C., John B. MacMillan, Susana P. Gaudêncio, William Fenical, & James J. La Clair. (2008). Ammosamides A and B Target Myosin. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(4). 728–732. 88 indexed citations

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Hughes, Chambers C., John B. MacMillan, Susana P. Gaudêncio, Paul R. Jensen, & William Fenical. (2008). The Ammosamides: Structures of Cell Cycle Modulators from a Marine‐Derived Streptomyces Species. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(4). 725–727. 153 indexed citations

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Newton, Gerald L., Paul R. Jensen, John B. MacMillan, William Fenical, & Robert C. Fahey. (2008). An N-acyl homolog of mycothiol is produced in marine actinomycetes. Archives of Microbiology. 190(5). 547–557. 15 indexed citations

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Masuno, Makoto N., et al.. (2004). Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)‐Milnamide A and Evidence of Its Autoxidation to (+)‐Milnamide D. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43(44). 5951–5954. 39 indexed citations

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MacMillan, John B.. (1994). The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological Disease. Journal of Medical Genetics. 31(5). 427–427. 8 indexed citations

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Kofoed, Lial & John B. MacMillan. (1989). Darwinian Evolution of Social Behavior: Implications for Group Psychotherapy. Psychiatry. 52(4). 475–481. 1 indexed citations

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