Karen N. Allen

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
137 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

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Karen N. Allen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen N. Allen has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Molecular Biology, 66 papers in Materials Chemistry and 29 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Karen N. Allen's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (60 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (29 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (23 papers). Karen N. Allen is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (60 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (29 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (23 papers). Karen N. Allen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Karen N. Allen's co-authors include Debra Dunaway‐Mariano, Sushmita D. Lahiri, Barbara Imperiali, Guofeng Zhang, L. Aravind, A. Maxwell Burroughs, Dagmar Ringe, N.R. Silvaggi, Jeremiah D. Farelli and Ezra Peisach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Karen N. Allen

136 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Construction and Analysis of Two Genome-Scale Deletion Libraries for Bacillus subtilis

2017 414 citations Byoung‐Mo Koo, George Kritikos et al. Cell Systems profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karen N. Allen United States	43	4.0k	1.9k	687	613	473	137	5.8k
James B. Thoden United States	45	4.7k 1.2×	2.4k 1.3×	884 1.3×	744 1.2×	392 0.8×	153	6.6k
Sherry L. Mowbray Sweden	42	3.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	521 0.8×	545 0.9×	816 1.7×	111	5.3k
Rudolf Ladenstein Sweden	47	5.8k 1.5×	2.7k 1.4×	516 0.8×	389 0.6×	583 1.2×	131	7.8k
Debra Dunaway‐Mariano United States	46	5.0k 1.3×	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	906 1.5×	413 0.9×	203	7.2k
Rik K. Wierenga Finland	48	6.7k 1.7×	2.8k 1.5×	927 1.3×	331 0.5×	526 1.1×	158	8.8k
Michail N. Isupov United Kingdom	34	3.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	445 0.6×	402 0.7×	466 1.0×	116	5.2k
Marcia E. Newcomer United States	41	3.4k 0.9×	576 0.3×	552 0.8×	663 1.1×	482 1.0×	102	5.7k
Joseph D. Schrag Canada	40	5.8k 1.5×	760 0.4×	616 0.9×	600 1.0×	417 0.9×	71	7.4k
S.E. Ealick United States	52	6.7k 1.7×	2.0k 1.1×	867 1.3×	707 1.2×	562 1.2×	246	9.3k
Urszula Derewenda United States	42	4.9k 1.2×	917 0.5×	356 0.5×	463 0.8×	374 0.8×	81	6.5k

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Imperiali, Barbara, et al.. (2025). Selection of nanobodies against liponanoparticle‐embedded membrane proteins by yeast‐surface display. Protein Science. 34(10). e70293–e70293. 1 indexed citations

Ghosh, Soumi, et al.. (2024). Proteome-wide bioinformatic annotation and functional validation of the monotopic phosphoglycosyl transferase superfamily. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(49). e2417572121–e2417572121.

Allen, Karen N., et al.. (2024). Dual Glycosyltransferases from Campylobacter concisus Diverge from the Canonical Campylobacter N-Linked Glycan Assembly Pathway. Biochemistry. 63(18). 2369–2379. 1 indexed citations

Allen, Karen N., et al.. (2023). Synergistic computational and experimental studies of a phosphoglycosyl transferase membrane/ligand ensemble. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(10). 105194–105194. 8 indexed citations

Allen, Karen N., et al.. (2023). Characterization of PglJ, a Glycosyltransferase in the Campylobacter concisus N-Linked Protein Glycosylation Pathway that Expands Glycan Diversity. Biochemistry. 63(1). 141–151. 3 indexed citations

Allen, Karen N., et al.. (2023). Co‐conserved sequence motifs are predictive of substrate specificity in a family of monotopic phosphoglycosyl transferases. Protein Science. 32(6). e4646–e4646. 5 indexed citations

Janda, Kim D., et al.. (2021). Fast Kinetics Reveals Rate-Limiting Oxidation and the Role of the Aromatic Cage in the Mechanism of the Nicotine-Degrading Enzyme NicA2. Biochemistry. 60(4). 259–273. 11 indexed citations

Beglov, Dmitri, David Hall, Amanda Wakefield, et al.. (2018). Exploring the structural origins of cryptic sites on proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(15). E3416–E3425. 93 indexed citations

Allen, Karen N., et al.. (2018). Monotopic Membrane Proteins Join the Fold. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 44(1). 7–20. 50 indexed citations

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Koo, Byoung‐Mo, George Kritikos, Jeremiah D. Farelli, et al.. (2017). Construction and Analysis of Two Genome-Scale Deletion Libraries for Bacillus subtilis. Cell Systems. 4(3). 291–305.e7. 414 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kozakov, Dima, David R. Hall, Stefan Jehle, et al.. (2015). Ligand deconstruction: Why some fragment binding positions are conserved and others are not. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(20). E2585–94. 56 indexed citations

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Rago, Florencia, Daniel J. Saltzberg, Karen N. Allen, & Dean R. Tolan. (2015). Enzyme Substrate Specificity Conferred by Distinct Conformational Pathways. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(43). 13876–13886. 12 indexed citations

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Gerlt, J.A., Karen N. Allen, Steven C. Almo, et al.. (2011). The Enzyme Function Initiative. Biochemistry. 50(46). 9950–9962. 141 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhibing, Debra Dunaway‐Mariano, & Karen N. Allen. (2011). The X‐ray crystallographic structure and specificity profile of HAD superfamily phosphohydrolase BT1666: Comparison of paralogous functions in B. thetaiotaomicron. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 79(11). 3099–3107. 14 indexed citations

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Huang, Hua, Y. Patskovsky, R. Toro, et al.. (2011). Divergence of Structure and Function in the Haloacid Dehalogenase Enzyme Superfamily: Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron BT2127 Is an Inorganic Pyrophosphatase. Biochemistry. 50(41). 8937–8949. 37 indexed citations

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Allen, Karen N. & Debra Dunaway‐Mariano. (2009). Markers of fitness in a successful enzyme superfamily. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 19(6). 658–665. 86 indexed citations

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Silvaggi, N.R., Grant E. Boldt, Mark S. Hixon, et al.. (2007). Structures of Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype A Light Chain Complexed with Small-Molecule Inhibitors Highlight Active-Site Flexibility. Chemistry & Biology. 14(5). 533–542. 102 indexed citations

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Ali, Mayssam H., Christina Taylor, Gevorg Grigoryan, et al.. (2005). Design of a Heterospecific, Tetrameric, 21-Residue Miniprotein with Mixed α/β Structure. Structure. 13(2). 225–234. 28 indexed citations

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Choi, Kyung H., Jun Shi, Christopher E. Hopkins, Dean R. Tolan, & Karen N. Allen. (2001). Snapshots of Catalysis: the Structure of Fructose-1,6-(bis)phosphate Aldolase Covalently Bound to the Substrate Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate^,. Biochemistry. 40(46). 13868–13875. 66 indexed citations

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Allen, Karen N., Arnon Lavie, Arthur Glasfeld, et al.. (1994). Role of the Divalent Metal Ion in Sugar Binding, Ring Opening, and Isomerization by D-Xylose Isomerase: Replacement of a Catalytic Metal by an Amino Acid. Biochemistry. 33(6). 1488–1494. 64 indexed citations

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