Margaret C. M. Smith

7.5k citations

120 papers · 5.3k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 37

Molecular Biology top 2%
Ecology top 0.5%
Genetics top 1%
Pharmacology top 1%
Plant Science top 2%

Co-authors: Graham F. Hatfull Roger W. Hendrix Robin Burns Michael E. Ford Rob Till Matthew A. Gregory S. Baumberg Andrew McEwan
Topics: Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (46 papers)Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers)RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (25 papers)
Cited by: Ecology Endocrinology Molecular Biology
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nucleic Acids Research Journal of Biological Chemistry
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

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Margaret C. M. Smith

117 papers receiving 5.1k citations

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Evolutionary relationships among diverse bacteriophages and prophages: All the world’s a phage

1999 811 citations Roger W. Hendrix, Margaret C. M. Smith et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Framing synthetic biology as an innovation-driven market 2025 ·Trends in biotechnology ·Jerome Ramirez,Margaret C. M. Smith,Robert Speight,Ian M. O’Hara	2
2	Enhancing pre-release studies for weed biocontrol agents: A review of existing and emerging tools 2024 ·Biological Control ·Hariet L. Hinz,Guillermo Cabrera Walsh,Iain D. Paterson,Quentin Paynter,Mark Schwarzländer,Margaret C. M. Smith,Philip Weyl	3
3	Functional diversity increases the efficacy of phage combinations 2021 ·Microbiology ·Rosanna C. T. Wright,Ville‐Petri Friman,Margaret C. M. Smith,Michael A. Brockhurst	15
4	Cross-resistance is modular in bacteria–phage interactions 2018 ·PLoS Biology ·Rosanna C. T. Wright,Ville‐Petri Friman,Margaret C. M. Smith,Michael A. Brockhurst	98
5	Multipart DNA Assembly Using Site-Specific Recombinases from the Large Serine Integrase Family 2017 ·Methods in molecular biology ·Femi J. Olorunniji,(unknown),Susan J. Rosser,Margaret C. M. Smith,W. Marshall Stark,Sean D. Colloms	12
6	An Efficient Method for the In Vitro Production of Azol(in)e‐Based Cyclic Peptides 2014 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Wael E. Houssen,Andrew F. Bent,Andrew McEwan,(unknown),Jioji N. Tabudravu,Jesko Koehnke,Greg Mann,(unknown),Louise Thomas,Usama W. Hawas,Huanting Liu,Ulrich Schwarz‐Linek,Margaret C. M. Smith,James H. Naismith,Marcel Jaspars	53
7	Evolutionary Relationships among Actinophages and a Putative Adaptation for Growth in Streptomyces spp 2013 ·Journal of Bacteriology ·Margaret C. M. Smith,Roger W. Hendrix,Rebekah M. Dedrick,Kaitlin F. Mitchell,Ching‐Chung Ko,Daniel A. Russell,Emma Bell,Matthew A. Gregory,Maureen J. Bibb,(unknown),Deborah Jacobs‐Sera,Paul Herron,Mark J. Buttner,Graham F. Hatfull	27
8	Accuracy and efficiency define Bxb1 integrase as the best of fifteen candidate serine recombinases for the integration of DNA into the human genome 2013 ·BMC Biotechnology ·Zhengyao Xu,Louise Thomas,Benjamin Davies,Ronald Chalmers,Margaret C. M. Smith,William R. Brown	74
9	Structure of PatF fromProchloron didemni 2013 ·Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications ·Andrew F. Bent,Jesko Koehnke,Wael E. Houssen,Margaret C. M. Smith,Marcel Jaspars,James H. Naismith	26
10	An Enzymatic Route to Selenazolines 2013 ·ChemBioChem ·Jesko Koehnke,(unknown),Andrew F. Bent,Wael E. Houssen,Sally L. Shirran,Matthew Fuszard,(unknown),Catherine H. Botting,Margaret C. M. Smith,Marcel Jaspars,James H. Naismith	23
11	Universal NGS Library Preparation on the Apollo 324 TM System: Automated Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine Library Preparation 2012 ·Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT ·(unknown),(unknown),Steven W. Smith,Jacob Berger,Shanavaz Nasarabadi,(unknown),Margaret C. M. Smith,Michael A. Quail,Michael Tanner	1
12	The Discovery of New Cyanobactins from Cyanothece PCC 7425 Defines a New Signature for Processing of Patellamides 2012 ·ChemBioChem ·Wael E. Houssen,Jesko Koehnke,David Zollman,Jérémie Vendôme,Andrea Raab,Margaret C. M. Smith,James H. Naismith,Marcel Jaspars	36
13	Transcriptomic studies of phosphate control of primary and secondary metabolism in Streptomyces coelicolor 2012 ·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Juan F. Martı́n,Fernando Santos‐Beneit,Antonio Rodríguez‐García,Alberto Sola‐Landa,Margaret C. M. Smith,Trond E. Ellingsen,Kay Nieselt,Nigel J. Burroughs,Elizabeth M. H. Wellington	46
14	Glycosylation of the phosphate binding protein, PstS, in Streptomyces coelicolor by a pathway that resembles protein O‐mannosylation in eukaryotes 2008 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Silvia Wehmeier,(unknown),Sudagar S. Gurcha,Bérangère Tissot,Maria Panico,Paul G. Hitchen,Howard R. Morris,Gurdyal S. Besra,Anne Dell,Margaret C. M. Smith	47
15	A motif in the C-terminal domain of ϕC31 integrase controls the directionality of recombination 2008 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Paul A. Rowley,Matthew C. A. Smith,(unknown),Margaret C. M. Smith	54
16	Switching the polarity of a bacteriophage integration system (vol 51, pg 1719, 2004) 2004 ·Molecular Microbiology ·(unknown),Rob Till,Margaret C. M. Smith	1
17	An operator associated with autoregulation of the repressor gene in actinophage øC31 is found in highly conserved copies in intergenic regions in the phage genome 1994 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown),Charles Owen,(unknown),(unknown),Margaret C. M. Smith	11
18	Multiple novel promoters from the early region in the Streptomyces temperate phage φC31 are activated during lytic development 1993 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Colin J. Ingham,(unknown),Celia J. Bruton,Keith Chater,Nigel M. Hartley,George J. Murphy,Margaret C. M. Smith	12
19	A diallel analysis of germination in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.). 1990 ·Seed Science and Technology ·Margaret C. M. Smith,Ian Mackay,M A Cornish	5
20	MIC2 : a human pseudoautosomal gene 1988 ·Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences ·Peter N. Goodfellow,B. Pym,Catrin Pritchard,Nathan A. Ellis,Mark S. Palmer,Margaret C. M. Smith,Paul J. Goodfellow	23

About Margaret C. M. Smith

Margaret C. M. Smith is a scholar working on Microbiology, Ecology and Molecular Biology, having authored 120 papers that have together received 5.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (46 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (2.0k citations), Endocrinology (316 citations) and Molecular Biology (3.8k citations). Margaret C. M. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Graham F. Hatfull, Roger W. Hendrix, Robin Burns, Michael E. Ford, Rob Till, Matthew A. Gregory, S. Baumberg, Andrew McEwan, William R. Brown and Ville‐Petri Friman. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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