Levon Halabelian

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 626 citations indexed

About

Levon Halabelian is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Levon Halabelian has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 626 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Oncology and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Levon Halabelian's work include RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (6 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (5 papers). Levon Halabelian is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (6 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (5 papers). Levon Halabelian collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Levon Halabelian's co-authors include C.H. Arrowsmith, Yanjun Li, Hong Zeng, Dalia Baršytė-Lovejoy, Ashley Hutchinson, Anjana Rao, L. Aravind, Serap Beldar, Daniel Kwon and François Bénard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Levon Halabelian

27 papers receiving 615 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Structure and activity of human TMPRSS2 protease implicated in SARS-CoV-2 activation

2022 134 citations Serap Beldar, Almagul Seitova et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Levon Halabelian Canada	15	438	102	100	56	48	28	626
Timothy S. Strutzenberg United States	13	463 1.1×	66 0.6×	58 0.6×	50 0.9×	27 0.6×	21	617
Y. Yosaatmadja New Zealand	16	525 1.2×	132 1.3×	137 1.4×	42 0.8×	83 1.7×	20	791
Joel P. Wagner United States	9	294 0.7×	101 1.0×	104 1.0×	32 0.6×	29 0.6×	14	477
Sameh H. Soror Egypt	15	408 0.9×	36 0.4×	66 0.7×	50 0.9×	36 0.8×	36	650
Jennifer M. Pearson Canada	13	291 0.7×	81 0.8×	61 0.6×	35 0.6×	21 0.4×	24	551
Elliott Nickbarg United States	15	579 1.3×	56 0.5×	73 0.7×	67 1.2×	51 1.1×	19	816
Frédéric Villard Switzerland	10	269 0.6×	59 0.6×	43 0.4×	88 1.6×	34 0.7×	14	504
Glenn S. Van Aller United States	10	627 1.4×	116 1.1×	37 0.4×	38 0.7×	33 0.7×	14	882
Daniel Conole United Kingdom	17	498 1.1×	82 0.8×	176 1.8×	19 0.3×	43 0.9×	34	752
Tiancen Hu China	14	546 1.2×	140 1.4×	142 1.4×	107 1.9×	139 2.9×	18	778

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Levon Halabelian

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Li, Fengling, Hong Zeng, Irene Chau, et al.. (2025). ATPase activity profiling of three human DExD/H-box RNA helicases. SLAS DISCOVERY. 32. 100229–100229.

Eguida, Merveille, Guillaume Bret, Fengling Li, et al.. (2024). Subpocket Similarity-Based Hit Identification for Challenging Targets: Application to the WDR Domain of LRRK2. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 64(13). 5344–5355. 4 indexed citations

Schapira, Matthieu, Levon Halabelian, C.H. Arrowsmith, & Rachel Harding. (2024). Big data and benchmarking initiatives to bridge the gap from AlphaFold to drug design. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(8). 937–940. 5 indexed citations

Gilleran, John, Edward B. Miller, Ashley Hutchinson, et al.. (2024). Structure–Activity Relationship of a Pyrrole Based Series of PfPKG Inhibitors as Anti-Malarials. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(5). 3467–3503. 3 indexed citations

Righetto, Germanna Lima, Yanting Yin, David M. Duda, et al.. (2024). Probing the CRL4DCAF12 interactions with MAGEA3 and CCT5 di-Glu C-terminal degrons. PNAS Nexus. 3(4). pgae153–pgae153. 1 indexed citations

Ahmad, Shabbir, Mark Mabanglo, Levon Halabelian, et al.. (2024). Development of Peptide Displacement Assays to Screen for Antagonists of DDB1 Interactions. Biochemistry. 63(10). 1297–1306. 2 indexed citations

Shen, Lei, Xiaokuang Ma, Yuanyuan Wang, et al.. (2024). Loss-of-function mutation in PRMT9 causes abnormal synapse development by dysregulation of RNA alternative splicing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2809–2809. 5 indexed citations

Kimani, Serah, Aiping Dong, Hong Zheng, et al.. (2024). A ligand discovery toolbox for the WWE domain family of human E3 ligases. Communications Biology. 7(1). 901–901. 1 indexed citations

Kimani, Serah, Sumera Perveen, Hong Zeng, et al.. (2023). The co-crystal structure of Cbl-b and a small-molecule inhibitor reveals the mechanism of Cbl-b inhibition. Communications Biology. 6(1). 1272–1272. 12 indexed citations

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Beldar, Serap, Almagul Seitova, Ashley Hutchinson, et al.. (2022). Structure and activity of human TMPRSS2 protease implicated in SARS-CoV-2 activation. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(9). 963–971. 134 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sugata, Kenji, Yukiko Matsunaga, Yūki Yamashita, et al.. (2021). Affinity-matured HLA class II dimers for robust staining of antigen-specific CD4+ T cells. Nature Biotechnology. 39(8). 958–967. 14 indexed citations

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Han, Zhen, Levon Halabelian, Xiangkun Yang, et al.. (2020). Identification of lysine isobutyrylation as a new histone modification mark. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(1). 177–189. 48 indexed citations

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Shukla, Vipul, Levon Halabelian, Daniela Samaniego‐Castruita, et al.. (2019). HMCES Functions in the Alternative End-Joining Pathway of the DNA DSB Repair during Class Switch Recombination in B Cells. Molecular Cell. 77(2). 384–394.e4. 36 indexed citations

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Halabelian, Levon, Mani Ravichandran, Yanjun Li, et al.. (2019). Structural basis of HMCES interactions with abasic DNA and multivalent substrate recognition. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(7). 607–612. 48 indexed citations

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Righetto, Germanna Lima, Dev Sriranganadane, Levon Halabelian, et al.. (2019). The C-Terminal Domains SnRK2 Box and ABA Box Have a Role in Sugarcane SnRK2s Auto-Activation and Activity. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1105–1105. 5 indexed citations

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Jakobsson, Magnus E., Jędrzej Małecki, Levon Halabelian, et al.. (2018). The dual methyltransferase METTL13 targets N terminus and Lys55 of eEF1A and modulates codon-specific translation rates. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3411–3411. 72 indexed citations

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Rosa, Matteo de, Levon Halabelian, Alberto Barbiroli, et al.. (2017). An Asp to Asn mutation is a toxic trigger in beta-2 microglobulin: structure and biophysics. Amyloid. 24(sup1). 15–16. 2 indexed citations

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Natalello, Antonino, Annalisa Relini, Amanda Penco, et al.. (2015). Wild Type Beta-2 Microglobulin and DE Loop Mutants Display a Common Fibrillar Architecture. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0122449–e0122449. 14 indexed citations

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Halabelian, Levon, Annalisa Relini, Alberto Barbiroli, et al.. (2015). A covalent homodimer probing early oligomers along amyloid aggregation. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14651–14651. 14 indexed citations

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Halabelian, Levon, Stéfano Ricagno, Sofia Giorgetti, et al.. (2013). Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex, the Trojan Horse for Secretion of Amyloidogenic β2-Microglobulin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(6). 3318–3327. 22 indexed citations

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