Lucas B. Harrington

9.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
21 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Lucas B. Harrington is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucas B. Harrington has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Insect Science and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Lucas B. Harrington's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers). Lucas B. Harrington is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers). Lucas B. Harrington collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Lucas B. Harrington's co-authors include Jennifer A. Doudna, Janice S. Chen, Enbo Ma, Joel M. Palefsky, Maria Da Costa, Jillian F. Banfield, David Burstein, David Páez-Espino, Nikos C. Kyrpides and Joshua C. Cofsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Lucas B. Harrington

21 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

CRISPR-Cas12a target binding unleashes indiscriminate single-stranded DNase activity

2018 3.1k citations Janice S. Chen, Enbo Ma et al. Science profile →
Programmed DNA destruction by miniature CRISPR-Cas14 enzymes

2018 895 citations Lucas B. Harrington, David Burstein et al. Science profile →
Enhanced proofreading governs CRISPR–Cas9 targeting accuracy

2017 872 citations Janice S. Chen, Yavuz S. Dagdas et al. Nature profile →
New CRISPR–Cas systems from uncultivated microbes

2016 409 citations David Burstein, Lucas B. Harrington et al. Nature profile →
CasX enzymes comprise a distinct family of RNA-guided genome editors

2019 316 citations Junjie Liu, N. S. Orlova et al. Nature profile →
A Broad-Spectrum Inhibitor of CRISPR-Cas9

2017 191 citations Lucas B. Harrington, Kevin Doxzen et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucas B. Harrington United States	16	6.1k	1.1k	776	678	632	21	6.6k
Patrick Essletzbichler Austria	9	7.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	789 1.2×	1.0k 1.6×	11	8.4k
Janice S. Chen United States	17	7.6k 1.2×	2.1k 1.9×	697 0.9×	684 1.0×	648 1.0×	25	8.8k
Sergey Shmakov United States	23	4.9k 0.8×	305 0.3×	839 1.1×	607 0.9×	643 1.0×	30	5.3k
Ekaterina Semenova United States	34	5.8k 0.9×	274 0.2×	1.4k 1.8×	576 0.8×	560 0.9×	68	6.4k
Blake Wiedenheft United States	40	7.0k 1.1×	419 0.4×	1.6k 2.1×	660 1.0×	832 1.3×	82	8.1k
Cameron Myhrvold United States	14	3.9k 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	257 0.3×	247 0.4×	248 0.4×	28	4.6k
Karen L. Maxwell Canada	39	4.1k 0.7×	449 0.4×	879 1.1×	418 0.6×	604 1.0×	94	5.7k
Nichole M. Daringer United States	8	3.5k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	287 0.4×	235 0.3×	223 0.4×	12	4.1k
Chase L. Beisel United States	40	4.6k 0.8×	379 0.3×	1.2k 1.5×	335 0.5×	318 0.5×	99	5.2k
Catherine A. Freije United States	8	3.2k 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	238 0.3×	248 0.4×	243 0.4×	12	3.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Harrington, Lucas B., Enbo Ma, Janice S. Chen, et al.. (2020). A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems. Molecular Cell. 79(3). 416–424.e5. 58 indexed citations

Cheng, Zhi, Bianca Garcı́a, Xue Huang, et al.. (2019). Inhibition of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex assembly by anti-CRISPR AcrIIC2. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2806–2806. 54 indexed citations

Wright, Addison V., Joy Y. Wang, David Burstein, et al.. (2019). A Functional Mini-Integrase in a Two-Protein Type V-C CRISPR System. Molecular Cell. 73(4). 727–737.e3. 16 indexed citations

Liu, Junjie, N. S. Orlova, Benjamin L. Oakes, et al.. (2019). CasX enzymes comprise a distinct family of RNA-guided genome editors. Nature. 566(7743). 218–223. 316 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Janice S., Enbo Ma, Lucas B. Harrington, et al.. (2018). CRISPR-Cas12a target binding unleashes indiscriminate single-stranded DNase activity. Science. 360(6387). 436–439. 3093 indexed citations breakdown →

Harrington, Lucas B., David Burstein, Janice S. Chen, et al.. (2018). Programmed DNA destruction by miniature CRISPR-Cas14 enzymes. Science. 362(6416). 839–842. 895 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Janice S., Yavuz S. Dagdas, Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, et al.. (2018). Enhanced Proofreading Governs CRISPR-Cas9 Targeting Accuracy. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 194a–194a. 11 indexed citations

Harrington, Lucas B., David Páez-Espino, Brett T. Staahl, et al.. (2017). A thermostable Cas9 with increased lifetime in human plasma. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1424–1424. 141 indexed citations

Harrington, Lucas B., Kevin Doxzen, Enbo Ma, et al.. (2017). A Broad-Spectrum Inhibitor of CRISPR-Cas9. Cell. 170(6). 1224–1233.e15. 191 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Janice S., Yavuz S. Dagdas, Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, et al.. (2017). Enhanced proofreading governs CRISPR–Cas9 targeting accuracy. Nature. 550(7676). 407–410. 872 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burstein, David, Lucas B. Harrington, Steven Strutt, et al.. (2016). New CRISPR–Cas systems from uncultivated microbes. Nature. 542(7640). 237–241. 409 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nuñez, James K., et al.. (2016). CRISPR Immunological Memory Requires a Host Factor for Specificity. Molecular Cell. 62(6). 824–833. 121 indexed citations

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Nuñez, James K., et al.. (2016). Foreign DNA capture during CRISPR–Cas adaptive immunity. Nature. 534(7607). S13–S14. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hao, Lucas B. Harrington, Mindy Prado, et al.. (2016). Native Mass Spectrometry Characterizes the Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex from the Purple Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 28(1). 87–95. 9 indexed citations

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Nuñez, James K., Lucas B. Harrington, & Jennifer A. Doudna. (2016). Chemical and Biophysical Modulation of Cas9 for Tunable Genome Engineering. ACS Chemical Biology. 11(3). 681–688. 79 indexed citations

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Ma, Enbo, Lucas B. Harrington, Mitchell R. O’Connell, Kaihong Zhou, & Jennifer A. Doudna. (2015). Single-Stranded DNA Cleavage by Divergent CRISPR-Cas9 Enzymes. Molecular Cell. 60(3). 398–407. 89 indexed citations

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Nuñez, James K., Lucas B. Harrington, Philip J. Kranzusch, Alan Engelman, & Jennifer A. Doudna. (2015). Foreign DNA capture during CRISPR–Cas adaptive immunity. Nature. 527(7579). 535–538. 147 indexed citations

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Jiang, Jing, Hao Zhang, Gregory S. Orf, et al.. (2014). Evidence of functional trimeric chlorophyll a/c-peridinin proteins in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(11). 1904–1912. 15 indexed citations

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King, Jeremy D., et al.. (2014). Site-directed mutagenesis of the highly perturbed copper site of auracyanin D. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 564. 237–243. 7 indexed citations

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Orf, Gregory S., et al.. (2012). Characterization and deposition of various light-harvesting antenna complexes by electrospray atomization. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 404(8). 2329–2338. 18 indexed citations

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