María J. Macias

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

María J. Macias is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, María J. Macias has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cell Biology and 9 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in María J. Macias's work include Cancer-related gene regulation (13 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (11 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers). María J. Macias is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related gene regulation (13 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (11 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers). María J. Macias collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and United States. María J. Macias's co-authors include Hartmut Oschkinat, Joan Massagué, Michaël Nilges, Marius Sudol, Pau Martín-Malpartida, Silke Wiesner, Qiaoran Xi, Séan O’Donoghue, Sheng Gao and Matti Saraste and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

María J. Macias

77 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Nuclear CDKs Drive Smad Transcriptional Activation and Turnover in BMP and TGF-β Pathways

2009 597 citations Qiaoran Xi, María J. Macias et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
María J. Macias Spain	29	4.1k	928	682	440	372	79	5.0k
M. Teresa Pisabarro Germany	38	3.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	537 0.8×	443 1.0×	421 1.1×	100	5.0k
John H. Bushweller United States	44	4.9k 1.2×	657 0.7×	545 0.8×	453 1.0×	369 1.0×	113	6.1k
Shuya Fukai Japan	42	4.4k 1.1×	796 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	319 0.7×	664 1.8×	94	5.5k
Matthias Frech Germany	24	3.6k 0.9×	918 1.0×	583 0.9×	378 0.9×	325 0.9×	33	4.9k
Piers Nash Canada	31	3.8k 0.9×	935 1.0×	698 1.0×	252 0.6×	435 1.2×	43	5.0k
John J. Correia United States	33	2.6k 0.6×	938 1.0×	649 1.0×	418 0.9×	328 0.9×	99	3.9k
Bhushan Nagar Canada	30	4.2k 1.0×	792 0.9×	609 0.9×	275 0.6×	221 0.6×	60	6.2k
Richard A. Kammerer Switzerland	43	3.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	271 0.4×	419 1.0×	372 1.0×	101	5.2k
Shawn S.‐C. Li Canada	39	3.7k 0.9×	593 0.6×	641 0.9×	172 0.4×	295 0.8×	105	4.8k
Tomasz Cierpicki United States	40	3.5k 0.9×	390 0.4×	567 0.8×	258 0.6×	285 0.8×	113	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of María J. Macias

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Brunetti‐Pierri, Nicola, et al.. (2025). Navigating Drug Discovery for Myhre Syndrome: The Complexity of a Multisystemic Rare Disease. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics.

Couceiro, José R., Pau Martín-Malpartida, María J. Macias, et al.. (2025). Streamlined Identification of Metallopeptides for Intracellular Catalysis Using Positionally Addressable Combinatorial Libraries. ACS Catalysis. 15(10). 8624–8632. 1 indexed citations

Martín-Malpartida, Pau, María Tomás‐Gamasa, José R. Couceiro, et al.. (2024). De Novo Engineering of Pd-Metalloproteins and Their Use as Intracellular Catalysts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(7). 2630–2639. 6 indexed citations

Macias, María J., et al.. (2024). Overcoming challenges in structural biology with integrative approaches and nanobody-derived technologies. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 84. 102764–102764. 3 indexed citations

Fernández‐Carneado, Jimena, Ana Almazán-Moga, María J. Macias, et al.. (2024). First Generic Teriparatide: Structural and Biological Sameness to Its Reference Medicinal Product. Pharmaceutics. 16(4). 537–537. 3 indexed citations

González, Lorena, Lucía Díaz, Joan Pous, et al.. (2023). Characterization of p38α autophosphorylation inhibitors that target the non-canonical activation pathway. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3318–3318. 8 indexed citations

Pous, Joan, Błażej Bagiński, Pau Martín-Malpartida, et al.. (2023). Structural basis of a redox-dependent conformational switch that regulates the stress kinase p38α. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7920–7920. 5 indexed citations

Aragón, Eric, Lidia Ruíz, Błażej Bagiński, et al.. (2022). Molecular basis for DNA recognition by the maternal pioneer transcription factor FoxH1. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7279–7279. 11 indexed citations

Martín-Malpartida, Pau, Josep Farrera‐Sinfreu, Rudolf Lucas, et al.. (2022). Conformational ensemble of the TNF-derived peptide solnatide in solution. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 20. 2082–2090. 5 indexed citations

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Martín-Malpartida, Pau, Elena González‐Rey, Eric Aragón, et al.. (2021). Structure-based design of a Cortistatin analogue with immunomodulatory activity in models of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1869–1869. 23 indexed citations

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Gomes, Tiago, Pau Martín-Malpartida, Lidia Ruíz, et al.. (2021). Conformational landscape of multidomain SMAD proteins. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 19. 5210–5224. 16 indexed citations

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Ruíz, Lidia, Zuzanna Kaczmarska, Tiago Gomes, et al.. (2021). Unveiling the dimer/monomer propensities of Smad MH1-DNA complexes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 19. 632–646. 8 indexed citations

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Aragón, Eric, Błażej Bagiński, Pau Martín-Malpartida, et al.. (2021). Structures of the germline-specific Deadhead and thioredoxin T proteins from Drosophila melanogaster reveal unique features among thioredoxins. IUCrJ. 8(2). 281–294. 4 indexed citations

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Pulido, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of Stable Cholesteryl–Polyethylene Glycol–Peptide Conjugates with Non-Disperse Polyethylene Glycol Lengths. ACS Omega. 5(10). 5508–5519. 2 indexed citations

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Wright, Roni H. G., Antonios Lioutas, François Le Dily, et al.. (2016). ADP-ribose–derived nuclear ATP synthesis by NUDIX5 is required for chromatin remodeling. Science. 352(6290). 1221–1225. 127 indexed citations

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Riéra, Antoni, et al.. (2015). Addition of HOBt improves the conversion of thioester‐Amine chemical ligation. Biopolymers. 104(6). 693–702. 1 indexed citations

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Durán, Jordi, Caroline Mauvezin, Endalkachew A. Alemu, et al.. (2012). Correction: DOR/Tp53inp2 and Tp53inp1 Constitute a Metazoan Gene Family Encoding Dual Regulators of Autophagy and Transcription. PLoS ONE. 7(5). 4 indexed citations

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Aragón, Eric, Nina Goerner, Alexia-Ileana Zaromytidou, et al.. (2011). A Smad action turnover switch operated by WW domain readers of a phosphoserine code. Genes & Development. 25(12). 1275–1288. 206 indexed citations

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Civera, Concepción, et al.. (1999). A tale of two secondary structure elements: when a β-hairpin becomes an α-helix 1 1Edited by A. R. Fersht. Journal of Molecular Biology. 292(2). 389–401. 25 indexed citations

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Schultz, Johan, Gerd Krause, Jennifer Ashurst, et al.. (1998). Specific interactions between the syntrophin PDZ domain and voltage-gated sodium channels. Nature Structural Biology. 5(1). 19–24. 195 indexed citations

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