Margaret Kielian

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

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Margaret Kielian is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Margaret Kielian has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 78 papers in Infectious Diseases and 36 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Margaret Kielian's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (93 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (60 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (36 papers). Margaret Kielian is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (93 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (60 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (36 papers). Margaret Kielian collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. Margaret Kielian's co-authors include Ari Helenius, F.A. Rey, Judith M. White, Maofu Liao, Zanvil A. Cohn, Don L. Gibbons, Yanping Lu, Timothy Phalen, Chantal Chanel‐Vos and Prodyot K. Chatterjee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Margaret Kielian

120 papers receiving 6.7k citations

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Membrane fusion proteins of enveloped animal viruses

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Margaret Kielian United States	49	3.3k	3.3k	2.0k	1.8k	1.2k	124	6.8k
Henrik Garoff Sweden	54	3.2k 1.0×	3.7k 1.1×	3.2k 1.6×	2.3k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	130	9.2k
Leevi Kääriäinen Finland	58	3.5k 1.1×	3.7k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	152	8.3k
Jacomine Krijnse‐Locker Germany	34	1.4k 0.4×	1.7k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	48	5.7k
Jason M. Mackenzie Australia	42	3.4k 1.0×	3.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	935 0.5×	906 0.8×	95	6.5k
Stephen D. Fuller Germany	41	1.4k 0.4×	2.1k 0.7×	2.9k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	62	6.8k
Ilya Frolov United States	50	4.0k 1.2×	4.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	865 0.7×	107	6.9k
Sondra Schlesinger United States	49	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	547 0.5×	105	7.0k
Arnab Pain Saudi Arabia	48	3.0k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	2.9k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	275 0.2×	194	8.3k
Ellen G. Strauss United States	43	5.4k 1.6×	5.3k 1.6×	2.0k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	77	9.4k
Margo A. Brinton United States	44	3.1k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	673 0.4×	790 0.7×	120	6.2k

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Yin, Peiqi, Nicholas May, Sainan Wang, et al.. (2025). Mutations in chikungunya virus nsP4 decrease viral fitness and sensitivity to the broad-spectrum antiviral 4′-Fluorouridine. PLoS Pathogens. 21(1). e1012859–e1012859. 3 indexed citations

Das, Pratyush Kumar, et al.. (2024). A single-point mutation in the rubella virus E1 glycoprotein promotes rescue of recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus. mBio. 15(3). e0237323–e0237323. 1 indexed citations

Martin, Caroline, Peiqi Yin, & Margaret Kielian. (2024). The sticky business of Alphavirus capsid–host interactions. Trends in Microbiology. 33(3). 321–339.

Dowd, Kimberly A., Devika Sirohi, Scott D. Speer, et al.. (2023). prM-reactive antibodies reveal a role for partially mature virions in dengue virus pathogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(3). e2218899120–e2218899120. 12 indexed citations

Yin, Peiqi, Bennett Davenport, Arthur S. Kim, et al.. (2023). Chikungunya virus cell-to-cell transmission is mediated by intercellular extensions in vitro and in vivo. Nature Microbiology. 8(9). 1653–1667. 20 indexed citations

Singh, Kamini, María Guadalupe Martínez, Jianan Lin, et al.. (2022). Transcriptional and Translational Dynamics of Zika and Dengue Virus Infection. Viruses. 14(7). 1418–1418. 14 indexed citations

Brown, Rebecca S., Dimitrios G. Anastasakis, Markus Hafner, & Margaret Kielian. (2020). Multiple capsid protein binding sites mediate selective packaging of the alphavirus genomic RNA. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4693–4693. 33 indexed citations

Acosta, Mariano, et al.. (2019). Surface (S) Layer Proteins of Lactobacillus acidophilus Block Virus Infection via DC-SIGN Interaction. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 810–810. 41 indexed citations

Vanegas, Juan M., Frank Heinrich, David Rogers, et al.. (2017). Study of Insertion of Dengue E into Lipid Bilayers by Neutron Reflectivity and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 35a–35a.

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Kielian, Margaret, et al.. (2015). Interactions involved in pH protection of the alphavirus fusion protein. Virology. 486. 173–179. 7 indexed citations

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Zheng, Aihua, Fei Yuan, Lara M. Kleinfelter, & Margaret Kielian. (2014). A toggle switch controls the low pH-triggered rearrangement and maturation of the dengue virus envelope proteins. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3877–3877. 52 indexed citations

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Martínez, María Guadalupe, et al.. (2014). Imaging the Alphavirus Exit Pathway. Journal of Virology. 88(12). 6922–6933. 42 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yan & Margaret Kielian. (2013). Imaging of the Alphavirus Capsid Protein during Virus Replication. Journal of Virology. 87(17). 9579–9589. 31 indexed citations

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Kielian, Margaret, et al.. (2012). Identification of a Specific Region in the E1 Fusion Protein Involved in Zinc Inhibition of Semliki Forest Virus Fusion. Journal of Virology. 86(7). 3588–3594. 17 indexed citations

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Taylor, Gwen M., Phyllis I. Hanson, & Margaret Kielian. (2007). Ubiquitin Depletion and Dominant-Negative VPS4 Inhibit Rhabdovirus Budding without Affecting Alphavirus Budding. Journal of Virology. 81(24). 13631–13639. 71 indexed citations

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Kielian, Margaret, et al.. (1998). The Role of Low pH and Disulfide Shuffling in the Entry and Fusion of Semliki Forest Virus and Sindbis Virus. Virology. 248(2). 372–381. 71 indexed citations

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Andemariam, Biree, Kathryn Underwood, Kanagasabai Panchalingam, et al.. (1997). Analysis of a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant with defective mobilization of cholesterol from the plasma membrane to the endoplasmic reticulum. Journal of Lipid Research. 38(10). 1973–1987. 29 indexed citations

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Kielian, Margaret. (1995). Membrane fusion And the Alphavirus Life Cycle. Advances in virus research. 45. 113–151. 121 indexed citations

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Kielian, Margaret & Zanvil A. Cohn. (1981). Phorbol myristate acetate stimulates phagosome-lysosome fusion in mouse macrophages.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 154(1). 101–111. 25 indexed citations

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Kielian, Margaret & Zanvil A. Cohn. (1979). Characterization of phagosome-lysosome fusion in mouse macrophages. The Journal of Cell Biology. 83. 1 indexed citations

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