Kalli Kappel

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Kalli Kappel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kalli Kappel has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Infectious Diseases and 3 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Kalli Kappel's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers). Kalli Kappel is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers). Kalli Kappel collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Poland. Kalli Kappel's co-authors include Rhiju Das, J. Andrew McCammon, Roland L. Dunbrack, Jason W. Labonte, Frank DiMaio, Rebecca F. Alford, Maxim V. Shapovalov, Andrew Leaver‐Fay, Matthew J. O’Meara and Philip Bradley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kalli Kappel

26 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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The Rosetta All-Atom Energy Function for Macromolecular Modeling and Design

2017 942 citations Rebecca F. Alford, Andrew Leaver‐Fay et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →

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Siniša Urban United States

Marc Graille France

Stephen C. Harrison United States

Isabelle Phan United States

Maria Harkiolaki United Kingdom

Grigore Pintilie United States

Li-Min Ting United States

Hassan Belrhali France

Jonathan J. Ward United Kingdom

Bálint Mészáros Hungary

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kappel, Kalli, Daniel Strebinger, Chau-Duy-Tam Vo, et al.. (2025). Characterizing protein sequence determinants of nuclear condensates by high-throughput pooled imaging with CondenSeq. Nature Methods. 22(7). 1464–1475. 1 indexed citations

Hirano, Seiichi, Kalli Kappel, Han Altae-Tran, et al.. (2022). Structure of the OMEGA nickase IsrB in complex with ωRNA and target DNA. Nature. 610(7932). 575–581. 27 indexed citations

Pham, Phillip, Bingnan Luo, Ramya Rangan, et al.. (2022). Auto-DRRAFTER: Automated RNA Modeling Based on Cryo-EM Density. Methods in molecular biology. 2568. 193–211. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Xin, Tao Sun, Anna Shcherbina, et al.. (2021). Learning cis-regulatory principles of ADAR-based RNA editing from CRISPR-mediated mutagenesis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2165–2165. 17 indexed citations

Su, Zhaoming, Kaiming Zhang, Kalli Kappel, et al.. (2021). Cryo-EM structures of full-length Tetrahymena ribozyme at 3.1 Å resolution. Nature. 596(7873). 603–607. 68 indexed citations

Kappel, Kalli, Kaiming Zhang, Zhaoming Su, et al.. (2020). Accelerated cryo-EM-guided determination of three-dimensional RNA-only structures. Nature Methods. 17(7). 699–707. 120 indexed citations

Larsen, Kevin P., Junhong Choi, Kalli Kappel, et al.. (2020). Distinct Conformational States Underlie Pausing during Initiation of HIV-1 Reverse Transcription. Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(16). 4499–4522. 3 indexed citations

Kappel, Kalli, Inga Jarmoskaite, Pavanapuresan P. Vaidyanathan, et al.. (2019). Blind tests of RNA–protein binding affinity prediction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(17). 8336–8341. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Kaiming, Shanshan Li, Kalli Kappel, et al.. (2019). Cryo-EM structure of a 40 kDa SAM-IV riboswitch RNA at 3.7 Å resolution. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5511–5511. 86 indexed citations

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Magnus, Marcin, Kalli Kappel, Rhiju Das, & Janusz M. Bujnicki. (2019). RNA 3D structure prediction guided by independent folding of homologous sequences. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(1). 512–512. 18 indexed citations

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Jarmoskaite, Inga, Sarah K. Denny, Pavanapuresan P. Vaidyanathan, et al.. (2019). A Quantitative and Predictive Model for RNA Binding by Human Pumilio Proteins. Molecular Cell. 74(5). 966–981.e18. 41 indexed citations

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Li, Xueni, Shiheng Liu, Lingdi Zhang, et al.. (2019). A unified mechanism for intron and exon definition and back-splicing. Nature. 573(7774). 375–380. 126 indexed citations

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Kappel, Kalli, Shiheng Liu, Kevin P. Larsen, et al.. (2018). De novo computational RNA modeling into cryo-EM maps of large ribonucleoprotein complexes. Nature Methods. 15(11). 947–954. 48 indexed citations

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Larsen, Kevin P., Kalli Kappel, Dong-Hua Chen, et al.. (2018). Structural Characterization of the HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Initiation Complex. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 193a–193a. 1 indexed citations

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Larsen, Kevin P., Kalli Kappel, Dong-Hua Chen, et al.. (2018). Architecture of an HIV-1 reverse transcriptase initiation complex. Nature. 557(7703). 118–122. 50 indexed citations

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Alford, Rebecca F., Andrew Leaver‐Fay, Jeliazko R. Jeliazkov, et al.. (2017). The Rosetta All-Atom Energy Function for Macromolecular Modeling and Design. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 13(6). 3031–3048. 942 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chou, Fang‐Chieh, Wipapat Kladwang, Kalli Kappel, & Rhiju Das. (2016). Blind tests of RNA nearest-neighbor energy prediction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(30). 8430–8435. 22 indexed citations

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Parks, Joseph W., Kalli Kappel, Rhiju Das, & Michael D. Stone. (2016). Single-molecule FRET-Rosetta reveals RNA structural rearrangements during human telomerase catalysis. RNA. 23(2). 175–188. 21 indexed citations

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Kappel, Kalli, Yinglong Miao, & J. Andrew McCammon. (2015). Accelerated molecular dynamics simulations of ligand binding to a muscarinic G-protein-coupled receptor. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 48(4). 479–487. 119 indexed citations

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Kappel, Kalli, Jeff Wereszczynski, Robert Clubb, & J. Andrew McCammon. (2012). The binding mechanism, multiple binding modes, and allosteric regulation of Staphylococcus aureus Sortase A probed by molecular dynamics simulations. Protein Science. 21(12). 1858–1871. 34 indexed citations

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