John Carbon

12.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
137 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

John Carbon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Carbon has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Molecular Biology, 54 papers in Plant Science and 18 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in John Carbon's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (57 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (43 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (31 papers). John Carbon is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (57 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (43 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (31 papers). John Carbon collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. John Carbon's co-authors include Louise Clarke, Ian N. Clarke, Kerry Bloom, Paul Berg, Molly Fitzgerald‐Hayes, Mary Baum, Chu-Lai Hsiao, Johannes Lechner, Thomas Shenk and Craig Squires and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

John Carbon

136 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A colony bank containing synthetic CoI EI hybrid plasmids representative of the entire E. coli genome

1976 1.1k citations Louise Clarke, John Carbon Cell profile →
Isolation of a yeast centromere and construction of functional small circular chromosomes

1980 664 citations Louise Clarke, John Carbon Nature profile →
Sequence of a yeast DNA fragment containing a chromosomal replicator and the TRP1 gene

1980 482 citations John Carbon et al. profile →
Construction and analysis of viable deletion mutants of simian virus 40

1976 333 citations John Carbon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Carbon United States	58	9.2k	3.7k	1.7k	1.7k	759	137	10.8k
Reed B. Wickner United States	73	13.1k 1.4×	3.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	702 0.4×	1.4k 1.8×	277	16.0k
Alan H. Rosenberg United States	18	7.3k 0.8×	816 0.2×	773 0.4×	2.8k 1.7×	1.7k 2.3×	19	9.5k
H. Fraenkel‐Conrat United States	45	4.1k 0.4×	2.7k 0.7×	406 0.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 2.5×	182	8.0k
Paul T. Englund United States	59	7.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	671 0.4×	921 0.5×	667 0.9×	187	12.0k
Walton L. Fangman United States	48	7.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	301 0.4×	89	8.4k
Donald J. Tipper United States	47	3.5k 0.4×	1.1k 0.3×	464 0.3×	948 0.6×	705 0.9×	102	5.5k
T. Kigawa Japan	46	6.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.3×	784 0.4×	717 0.4×	382 0.5×	181	7.5k
Jeffrey N. Strathern United States	44	8.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	950 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	146 0.2×	113	8.9k
John W. Dubendorff United States	7	4.8k 0.5×	579 0.2×	623 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	794 1.0×	8	6.4k
Akio Sugino United States	49	7.1k 0.8×	575 0.2×	913 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	577 0.8×	100	7.7k

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Mishra, Prashant, Mary Baum, & John Carbon. (2011). DNA methylation regulates phenotype-dependent transcriptional activity in Candida albicans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(29). 11965–11970. 68 indexed citations

Baum, Mary, et al.. (2006). Formation of functional centromeric chromatin is specified epigenetically in Candida albicans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(40). 14877–14882. 76 indexed citations

T, King, et al.. (1999). Point Mutations in Yeast CBF5 Can Abolish In Vivo Pseudouridylation of rRNA. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 19(11). 7461–7472. 189 indexed citations

Pietrasanta, Lı́a I., Douglas Thrower, Olaf Stemmann, et al.. (1999). Probing the Saccharomyces cerevisiae centromeric DNA ( CEN DNA)–binding factor 3 (CBF3) kinetochore complex by using atomic force microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(7). 3757–3762. 77 indexed citations

Phillips, Bart, Andrew N. Billin, Craig Cadwell, et al.. (1998). The Nop60B gene of Drosophila encodes an essential nucleolar protein that functions in yeast. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 260(1). 20–29. 55 indexed citations

Cadwell, Craig, et al.. (1997). The Yeast Nucleolar Protein Cbf5p Is Involved in rRNA Biosynthesis and Interacts Genetically with the RNA Polymerase I Transcription Factor RRN3. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 17(10). 6175–6183. 88 indexed citations

Yoon, Hye‐Joo & John Carbon. (1995). Genetic and Biochemical Interactions between an Essential Kinetochore Protein, Cbf2p/Ndc10p, and the CDC34 Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 15(9). 4835–4842. 25 indexed citations

Jiang, Weidong, et al.. (1995). Overexpression of the yeast MCK1 protein kinase suppresses conditional mutations in centromere-binding protein genes CBF2 and CBF5. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 246(3). 360–366. 24 indexed citations

Jiang, Wei & John Carbon. (1993). Molecular Analysis of the Budding Yeast Centromere/Kinetochore. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 58(0). 669–676. 12 indexed citations

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Carbon, John, et al.. (1992). A colony color assay for Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants defective in kinetochore structure and function.. Genetics. 132(1). 39–51. 11 indexed citations

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Hyman, Anthony A., Kim Middleton, Michael Centola, Timothy J. Mitchison, & John Carbon. (1992). Microtubule-motor activity of a yeast centromere-binding protein complex. Nature. 359(6395). 533–536. 96 indexed citations

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Lechner, Johannes & John Carbon. (1991). A 240 kd multisubunit protein complex, CBF3, is a major component of the budding yeast centromere. Cell. 64(4). 717–725. 282 indexed citations

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Fishel, Barbara R., Hanspeter Amstutz, Mary Baum, John Carbon, & Louise Clarke. (1988). Structural Organization and Functional Analysis of Centromeric DNA in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 8(2). 754–763. 89 indexed citations

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Carbon, John, et al.. (1987). Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants that tolerate centromere plasmids at high copy number.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(20). 7203–7207. 9 indexed citations

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Yeh, Elaine, John Carbon, & Kerry Bloom. (1986). Tightly Centromere-Linked Gene ( SPO15 ) Essential for Meiosis in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 6(1). 158–167. 10 indexed citations

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Clarke, Louise, Chu-Lai Hsiao, & John Carbon. (1983). [20] Selection procedure for isolation of centromere DNAs from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 101. 300–307. 3 indexed citations

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Buell, Gary, Marvin Wickens, John Carbon, & Robert Schimke. (1979). Isolation of recombinant plasmids bearing cDNA to hen ovomucoid and lysozyme mRNAs.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 254(18). 9277–9283. 13 indexed citations

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Carbon, John, et al.. (1975). Nucleotide sequence studies of normal and genetically altered glycine transfer ribonucleic acids from Escherichia coli.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 250(14). 5530–5541. 45 indexed citations

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Carbon, John, Catherine L. Squires, & Charles W. L. Hill. (1969). Genetically Altered tRNAGly Subspecies in E. coli. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 34(0). 505–512. 25 indexed citations

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Carbon, John. (1960). Synthesis of Some Imidazo[4,5-d]pyridazines and Imidazo[4,5-d]triazolo[4,3-b]pyridazines. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 25(4). 579–582. 10 indexed citations

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