John E. Cronan

30.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
389 papers, 24.6k citations indexed

About

John E. Cronan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Cronan has authored 389 papers receiving a total of 24.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 290 papers in Molecular Biology, 133 papers in Genetics and 86 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in John E. Cronan's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (132 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (104 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (86 papers). John E. Cronan is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (132 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (104 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (86 papers). John E. Cronan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. John E. Cronan's co-authors include Charles O. Rock, John W. Campbell, Dennis W. Grogan, Anne Chapman‐Smith, Diego de Mendoza, Youjun Feng, P. Roy Vagelos, Suzanne Jackowski, Edward P. Gelmann and Dale L. Val and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John E. Cronan

385 papers receiving 23.6k 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.

Detecting and characterizing N -acyl-homoserine lactone signal molecules by thin-layer chromatography

1997 656 citations John E. Cronan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Regulation of fatty acid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli

1993 525 citations John E. Cronan et al. profile →
Cyclopropane ring formation in membrane lipids of bacteria

1997 498 citations John E. Cronan et al. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John E. Cronan United States	88	17.5k	4.8k	3.6k	3.6k	2.6k	389	24.6k
Ben de Kruijff Netherlands	84	22.3k 1.3×	3.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	2.4k 0.7×	818 0.3×	378	28.0k
Wim G. J. Hol United States	82	15.6k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	3.9k 1.5×	316	23.2k
Keith S. Wilson United Kingdom	73	21.4k 1.2×	3.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	2.0k 0.6×	8.2k 3.1×	387	30.3k
Jagannathan Netherlands	3	13.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	4	24.3k
Georg E. Schulz Germany	77	15.3k 0.9×	2.2k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	4.4k 1.7×	242	20.9k
Gary J. Kapral United States	11	25.5k 1.5×	4.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.3×	3.0k 0.8×	6.3k 2.4×	12	35.1k
Charles O. Rock United States	82	13.6k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	924 0.3×	1.9k 0.7×	273	20.5k
Li‐Wei Hung United States	30	21.2k 1.2×	3.6k 0.7×	927 0.3×	2.5k 0.7×	5.5k 2.1×	68	29.4k
Alexei A. Vagin United Kingdom	21	17.7k 1.0×	2.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	1.9k 0.5×	6.8k 2.6×	24	24.6k
Malcolm W. MacArthur United Kingdom	18	18.7k 1.1×	2.4k 0.5×	1.0k 0.3×	1.8k 0.5×	5.7k 2.2×	20	25.5k

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Cronan, John E., et al.. (2025). Defining the Enterococcus faecalis Fatty Acid Kinase System of Exogeneous Fatty Acid Utilization. Molecular Microbiology. 124(5). 400–412.

Chen, Bo, et al.. (2024). The puzzle of two tandem acyl-CoA ligases of Pseudomonas putida F1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(11). e0126724–e0126724. 1 indexed citations

Cronan, John E., et al.. (2024). The Enteric Bacterium Enterococcus faecalis Elongates and Incorporates Exogenous Short and Medium Chain Fatty Acids Into Membrane Lipids. Molecular Microbiology. 122(5). 757–771. 2 indexed citations

Cronan, John E.. (2024). Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 88(2). e0000524–e0000524. 8 indexed citations

Cronan, John E.. (2023). Unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in bacteria: Mechanisms and regulation of canonical and remarkably noncanonical pathways. Biochimie. 218. 137–151. 18 indexed citations

Cronan, John E., et al.. (2023). Suppressor mutants demonstrate the metabolic plasticity of unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Microbiology. 169(10).

Cronan, John E., et al.. (2022). Unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in Enterococcus faecalis requires a specific enoyl‐ACP reductase. Molecular Microbiology. 118(5). 541–551. 8 indexed citations

Hong, Yaoqin, Jilong Qin, Anthony D. Verderosa, et al.. (2022). Loss of β-Ketoacyl Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase III Activity Restores Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli Sensitivity to Previously Ineffective Antibiotics. mSphere. 7(3). e0011722–e0011722. 9 indexed citations

Cronan, John E., et al.. (2022). The Two Acyl Carrier Proteins of Enterococcus faecalis Have Nonredundant Functions. Journal of Bacteriology. 204(9). e0020222–e0020222. 5 indexed citations

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Song, Xuejiao & John E. Cronan. (2021). A conserved and seemingly redundant Escherichia coli biotin biosynthesis gene expressed only during anaerobic growth. Molecular Microbiology. 116(5). 1315–1327. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Jincheng, et al.. (2021). A cryptic long-chain 3-ketoacyl-ACP synthase in the Pseudomonas putida F1 unsaturated fatty acid synthesis pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(2). 100920–100920. 12 indexed citations

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Cronan, John E.. (2021). The Classical, Yet Controversial, First Enzyme of Lipid Synthesis: Escherichia coli Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 85(3). e0003221–e0003221. 27 indexed citations

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Cronan, John E., et al.. (2020). The primary step of biotin synthesis in mycobacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(38). 23794–23801. 11 indexed citations

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Cronan, John E.. (2020). The Escherichia coli FadR transcription factor: Too much of a good thing?. Molecular Microbiology. 115(6). 1080–1085. 23 indexed citations

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Srinivas, Swaminath & John E. Cronan. (2019). Coping with inadvertent lysis of Escherichia coli cultures: Strains resistant to lysogeny and infection by the stealthy lysogenic phage Φ80. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 116(7). 1820–1826.

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Cronan, John E.. (2018). Advances in synthesis of biotin and assembly of lipoic acid. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 47. 60–66. 32 indexed citations

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Cao, Xinyun, et al.. (2018). Lipoate-binding proteins and specific lipoate-protein ligases in microbial sulfur oxidation reveal an atpyical role for an old cofactor. eLife. 7. 37 indexed citations

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Bi, Hongkai, Haihong Wang, & John E. Cronan. (2013). FabQ, a Dual-Function Dehydratase/Isomerase, Circumvents the Last Step of the Classical Fatty Acid Synthesis Cycle. Chemistry & Biology. 20(9). 1157–1167. 18 indexed citations

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Wier, Andrew M., Spencer V. Nyholm, Mark J. Mandel, et al.. (2010). Transcriptional patterns in both host and bacterium underlie a daily rhythm of anatomical and metabolic change in a beneficial symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(5). 2259–2264. 134 indexed citations

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Jordan, Sean W. & John E. Cronan. (1997). [19] Biosynthesis of lipoic acid and posttranslational modification with lipoic acid in Escherichia coli. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 279. 176–183. 33 indexed citations

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