Mario R. Blanco

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Mario R. Blanco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mario R. Blanco has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cancer Research and 1 paper in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mario R. Blanco's work include RNA Research and Splicing (17 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). Mario R. Blanco is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (17 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). Mario R. Blanco collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Mario R. Blanco's co-authors include Nils G. Walter, Mitchell Guttman, Amy Chow, Patrick McDonel, Christine Surka, Kathrin Plath, Julia Su, Colleen A. McHugh, Chun‐Kan Chen and A.A. Shishkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Mario R. Blanco

19 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

The Xist lncRNA interacts directly with SHARP to silence transcription through HDAC3

2015 837 citations Colleen A. McHugh, Chun‐Kan Chen et al. Nature profile →
RNA promotes the formation of spatial compartments in the nucleus

2021 231 citations Sofia A. Quinodoz, Joanna W. Jachowicz 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
Mario R. Blanco United States	14	1.8k	716	293	99	96	19	2.1k
Christine Clemson United States	11	2.7k 1.5×	1.7k 2.4×	648 2.2×	121 1.2×	202 2.1×	27	3.5k
Song Guo China	13	1.1k 0.6×	375 0.5×	257 0.9×	88 0.9×	93 1.0×	20	1.6k
Pierre‐Luc Germain Switzerland	18	861 0.5×	185 0.3×	169 0.6×	40 0.4×	31 0.3×	42	1.3k
Charles R. Bradshaw United Kingdom	26	2.5k 1.4×	125 0.2×	394 1.3×	47 0.5×	187 1.9×	45	3.4k
Rockwell Anyoha United States	5	863 0.5×	98 0.1×	226 0.8×	61 0.6×	88 0.9×	5	1.2k
Jörg Heierhorst Australia	33	2.3k 1.3×	328 0.5×	221 0.8×	229 2.3×	126 1.3×	73	2.9k
Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou United States	10	2.2k 1.2×	708 1.0×	403 1.4×	20 0.2×	158 1.6×	11	2.8k
Kathleen A. Worringer United States	11	2.0k 1.1×	302 0.4×	685 2.3×	20 0.2×	133 1.4×	14	2.8k
Anna C. Groner Switzerland	14	1.1k 0.6×	114 0.2×	185 0.6×	115 1.2×	100 1.0×	19	1.6k
Suzanne Rademakers Netherlands	19	1.7k 1.0×	307 0.4×	408 1.4×	124 1.3×	114 1.2×	23	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mario R. Blanco

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19 of 19 papers shown

Guo, Jimmy K., Mario R. Blanco, Isabel N. Goronzy, et al.. (2025). SPIDR enables multiplexed mapping of RNA-protein interactions and uncovers a mechanism for selective translational suppression upon cell stress. Cell. 188(19). 5384–5402.e25. 3 indexed citations

Guo, Jimmy K., Mario R. Blanco, Ward G. Walkup, et al.. (2024). Denaturing purifications demonstrate that PRC2 and other widely reported chromatin proteins do not appear to bind directly to RNA in vivo. Molecular Cell. 84(7). 1271–1289.e12. 44 indexed citations

Perez, Andrew, et al.. (2024). ChIP-DIP maps binding of hundreds of proteins to DNA simultaneously and identifies diverse gene regulatory elements. Nature Genetics. 56(12). 2827–2841. 7 indexed citations

Bhat, Prashant, Amy Chow, Benjamin Emert, et al.. (2024). Genome organization around nuclear speckles drives mRNA splicing efficiency. Nature. 629(8014). 1165–1173. 51 indexed citations

Guo, Jimmy K., Mario R. Blanco, & Mitchell Guttman. (2024). PRC2-RNA interactions: Viewpoint from Jimmy K. Guo, Mario R. Blanco, and Mitchell Guttman. Molecular Cell. 84(19). 3578–3585. 2 indexed citations

Jachowicz, Joanna W., et al.. (2022). Xist spatially amplifies SHARP/SPEN recruitment to balance chromosome-wide silencing and specificity to the X chromosome. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(3). 239–249. 70 indexed citations

Quinodoz, Sofia A., Joanna W. Jachowicz, Prashant Bhat, et al.. (2021). RNA promotes the formation of spatial compartments in the nucleus. Cell. 184(23). 5775–5790.e30. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

Zelikowsky, Moriel, May Hui, Tomomi Karigo, et al.. (2018). The Neuropeptide Tac2 Controls a Distributed Brain State Induced by Chronic Social Isolation Stress. Cell. 173(5). 1265–1279.e19. 190 indexed citations

Blanco, Mario R., Erik Aznauryan, Noah Ollikainen, et al.. (2016). Xist recruits the X chromosome to the nuclear lamina to enable chromosome-wide silencing. Science. 354(6311). 468–472. 193 indexed citations

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Semlow, Daniel R., Mario R. Blanco, Nils G. Walter, & Jonathan P. Staley. (2016). Spliceosomal DEAH-Box ATPases Remodel Pre-mRNA to Activate Alternative Splice Sites. Cell. 164(5). 985–998. 120 indexed citations

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Blanco, Mario R., et al.. (2016). Putting Humpty–Dumpty Together. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 581. 257–283. 2 indexed citations

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Lund, Paul E., et al.. (2016). The Shine-Dalgarno sequence of riboswitch-regulated single mRNAs shows ligand-dependent accessibility bursts. Nature Communications. 7(1). 8976–8976. 51 indexed citations

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McHugh, Colleen A., Chun‐Kan Chen, Amy Chow, et al.. (2015). The Xist lncRNA interacts directly with SHARP to silence transcription through HDAC3. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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McHugh, Colleen A., Chun‐Kan Chen, Amy Chow, et al.. (2015). The Xist lncRNA interacts directly with SHARP to silence transcription through HDAC3. Nature. 521(7551). 232–236. 837 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blanco, Mario R., Joshua S. Martin, Ramya Krishnan, et al.. (2015). Single Molecule Cluster Analysis dissects splicing pathway conformational dynamics. Nature Methods. 12(11). 1077–1084. 29 indexed citations

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Krishnan, Ramya, et al.. (2013). Biased Brownian ratcheting leads to pre-mRNA remodeling and capture prior to first-step splicing. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 20(12). 1450–1457. 56 indexed citations

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Abelson, John, Mario R. Blanco, Mark A. Ditzler, et al.. (2010). Conformational dynamics of single pre-mRNA molecules during in vitro splicing. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 17(4). 504–512. 79 indexed citations

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Blanco, Mario R. & Nils G. Walter. (2010). Analysis of Complex Single-Molecule FRET Time Trajectories. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 472. 153–178. 125 indexed citations

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Liang, Bo, Elliot Kahen, Kate Calvin, et al.. (2008). Long-distance placement of substrate RNA by H/ACA proteins. RNA. 14(10). 2086–2094. 22 indexed citations

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