Jonathan P. Staley

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Jonathan P. Staley is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan P. Staley has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan P. Staley's work include RNA Research and Splicing (32 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (30 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (27 papers). Jonathan P. Staley is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (32 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (30 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (27 papers). Jonathan P. Staley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. Jonathan P. Staley's co-authors include Christine Guthrie, Peter S. Kim, Daniel R. Semlow, Joseph A. Piccirilli, Prakash Koodathingal, Eliza C. Small, Hiroshi Maita, John L. Woolford, Angela K. Hilliker and Sebastian M. Fica and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan P. Staley

39 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Mechanical Devices of the Spliceosome: Motors, Clocks, Sp... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 250 500 750
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.

  1. Mechanical Devices of the Spliceosome: Motors, Clocks, Springs, and Things
    1998 902 citations Jonathan P. Staley, Christine Guthrie Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan P. Staley United States 29 3.6k 195 119 119 113 39 3.8k
Anna Niedźwiecka Poland 18 1.8k 0.5× 162 0.8× 182 1.5× 61 0.5× 109 1.0× 47 2.0k
Reinhard Lührmann Germany 35 4.0k 1.1× 201 1.0× 201 1.7× 96 0.8× 97 0.9× 65 4.3k
Séverine Boulon France 17 2.0k 0.6× 111 0.6× 156 1.3× 90 0.8× 267 2.4× 21 2.3k
Jingdong Cheng Germany 28 2.8k 0.8× 222 1.1× 247 2.1× 61 0.5× 182 1.6× 50 3.3k
Céline Verheggen France 24 2.3k 0.6× 80 0.4× 116 1.0× 93 0.8× 128 1.1× 36 2.4k
Fabien Bonneau Germany 24 1.9k 0.5× 62 0.3× 96 0.8× 54 0.5× 136 1.2× 37 2.2k
Denise Muhlrad United States 25 3.7k 1.0× 61 0.3× 142 1.2× 54 0.5× 282 2.5× 26 3.9k
Andrew J. Newman United Kingdom 31 3.2k 0.9× 58 0.3× 190 1.6× 90 0.8× 77 0.7× 48 3.4k
Marc Mirande France 33 3.0k 0.8× 209 1.1× 355 3.0× 178 1.5× 62 0.5× 73 3.2k
Elisabeth Petfalski United Kingdom 26 4.3k 1.2× 95 0.5× 178 1.5× 50 0.4× 103 0.9× 30 4.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jonathan P. Staley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan P. Staley

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All Works

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Clark, Nathaniel E., Chaorui Duan, Allison J. Taggart, et al.. (2024). The debranching enzyme Dbr1 regulates lariat turnover and intron splicing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4617–4617. 8 indexed citations
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Fair, Benjamin, Junxing Zhao, Austin M. Reilly, et al.. (2024). Global impact of unproductive splicing on human gene expression. Nature Genetics. 56(9). 1851–1861. 23 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yi, et al.. (2022). Profiling lariat intermediates reveals genetic determinants of early and late co-transcriptional splicing. Molecular Cell. 82(24). 4681–4699.e8. 33 indexed citations
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Toroney, Rebecca, Klaus Nielsen, & Jonathan P. Staley. (2019). Termination of pre-mRNA splicing requires that the ATPase and RNA unwindase Prp43p acts on the catalytic snRNA U6. Genes & Development. 33(21-22). 1555–1574. 23 indexed citations
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Staley, Jonathan P., et al.. (2017). Structure of the DEAH/RHA ATPase Prp43p bound to RNA implicates a pair of hairpins and motif Va in translocation along RNA. RNA. 23(7). 1110–1124. 37 indexed citations
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Semlow, Daniel R., Mario R. Blanco, Nils G. Walter, & Jonathan P. Staley. (2016). Spliceosomal DEAH-Box ATPases Remodel Pre-mRNA to Activate Alternative Splice Sites. Cell. 164(5). 985–998. 120 indexed citations
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Qin, Daoming, et al.. (2015). Sequencing of lariat termini in S. cerevisiae reveals 5′ splice sites, branch points, and novel splicing events. RNA. 22(2). 237–253. 28 indexed citations
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Fica, Sebastian M., et al.. (2014). Evidence for a group II intron–like catalytic triplex in the spliceosome. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 21(5). 464–471. 85 indexed citations
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Kannan, Ram, et al.. (2013). Intronic sequence elements impede exon ligation and trigger a discard pathway that yields functional telomerase RNA in fission yeast. Genes & Development. 27(6). 627–638. 21 indexed citations
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Guisbert, Karen S. Kim, Yong Zhang, Jared Flatow, et al.. (2012). Meiosis-induced alterations in transcript architecture and noncoding RNA expression in S. cerevisiae. RNA. 18(6). 1142–1153. 19 indexed citations
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Koodathingal, Prakash, Thaddeus J. Novak, Joseph A. Piccirilli, & Jonathan P. Staley. (2010). The DEAH Box ATPases Prp16 and Prp43 Cooperate to Proofread 5′ Splice Site Cleavage during Pre-mRNA Splicing. Molecular Cell. 39(3). 385–395. 99 indexed citations
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Staley, Jonathan P., et al.. (2009). Evidence that U2/U6 helix I promotes both catalytic steps of pre-mRNA splicing and rearranges in between these steps. RNA. 15(7). 1386–1397. 64 indexed citations
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Zhao, Chen, Deepti L. Bellur, Shasha Lu, et al.. (2009). Autosomal-Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa Caused by a Mutation in SNRNP200, a Gene Required for Unwinding of U4/U6 snRNAs. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 85(5). 617–627. 115 indexed citations
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Bellare, Priya, Eliza C. Small, Xinhua Huang, et al.. (2008). A role for ubiquitin in the spliceosome assembly pathway. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 15(5). 444–451. 96 indexed citations
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Hilliker, Angela K., et al.. (2007). U2 toggles iteratively between the stem IIa and stem IIc conformations to promote pre-mRNA splicing. Genes & Development. 21(7). 821–834. 89 indexed citations
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Maita, Hiroshi, et al.. (2006). Exon ligation is proofread by the DExD/H-box ATPase Prp22p. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 13(6). 482–490. 133 indexed citations
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Staley, Jonathan P. & Christine Guthrie. (1999). An RNA Switch at the 5′ Splice Site Requires ATP and the DEAD Box Protein Prp28p. Molecular Cell. 3(1). 55–64. 267 indexed citations
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Staley, Jonathan P. & Christine Guthrie. (1998). Mechanical Devices of the Spliceosome: Motors, Clocks, Springs, and Things. Cell. 92(3). 315–326. 902 indexed citations breakdown →
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Staley, Jonathan P. & Peter S. Kim. (1990). Role of a subdomain in the folding of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor. Nature. 344(6267). 685–688. 87 indexed citations

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