Mark Johnston

39.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
154 papers, 22.9k citations indexed

About

Mark Johnston is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Johnston has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 22.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 17 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Mark Johnston's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (76 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (24 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (20 papers). Mark Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (76 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (24 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (20 papers). Mark Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Mark Johnston's co-authors include Ronald W. Davis, Sabire Özcan, Jim Dover, Ali Shilatifard, Jeffrey S. Flick, Jessica Schneider, Adam Wood, Stanley Fields, Jack Greenblatt and Nevan J. Krogan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark Johnston

152 papers receiving 22.2k 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.

A comprehensive analysis of protein–protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

2000 3.6k citations Mark Johnston et al. profile →
Life with 6000 Genes

1996 3.0k citations Mark Johnston et al. Science profile →
Sequences That Regulate the Divergent GAL1-GAL10 Promoter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1984 906 citations Mark Johnston et al. Molecular and Cellular Biology profile →
Finding Functional Features in Saccharomyces Genomes by Phylogenetic Footprinting

2003 655 citations Paul F. Cliften, Priya Sudarsanam et al. Science profile →
A model fungal gene regulatory mechanism: the GAL genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1987 602 citations Mark Johnston profile →
The Paf1 Complex Is Required for Histone H3 Methylation by COMPASS and Dot1p: Linking Transcriptional Elongation to Histone Methylation

2003 581 citations Jim Dover, Mark Johnston et al. profile →
Function and Regulation of Yeast Hexose Transporters

1999 557 citations Sabire Özcan, Mark Johnston profile →
Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast

2011 473 citations Diego Libkind, Chris Todd Hittinger et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Mark Johnston

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James R. Broach United States

Ira Herskowitz United States

John R. Pringle United States

Peter Philippsen Switzerland

Leland H. Hartwell United States

Jeremy Thorner United States

Charles Boone Canada

James Hicks United States

Bernard Dujon France

Erin K. O’Shea United States

James R. Broach United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Mark Johnston

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Johnston

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Johnston

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mark Johnston. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mark Johnston based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mark Johnston. Mark Johnston is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Han, Daniel, Nickolay Korabel, Runze Chen, et al.. (2020). Deciphering anomalous heterogeneous intracellular transport with neural networks. eLife. 9. 47 indexed citations

Johnston, Mark, et al.. (2016). A novel role for yeast casein kinases in glucose sensing and signaling. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 27(21). 3369–3375. 29 indexed citations

Libkind, Diego, Chris Todd Hittinger, Elisabete Valério, et al.. (2011). Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(35). 14539–14544. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

Scannell, Devin R., Oliver A. Zill, Antonis Rokas, et al.. (2011). The Awesome Power of Yeast Evolutionary Genetics: New Genome Sequences and Strain Resources for theSaccharomyces sensu strictoGenus. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 1(1). 11–25. 237 indexed citations

Johnston, Mark. (2011). Saving God. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Haoyi, David Mayhew, Xuhua Chen, Mark Johnston, & Robi D. Mitra. (2011). Calling Cards enable multiplexed identification of the genomic targets of DNA-binding proteins. Genome Research. 21(5). 748–755. 37 indexed citations

O’Shaughnessy, Peter J., et al.. (2007). Altered Expression of Genes Involved in Regulation of Vitamin A Metabolism, Solute Transportation, and Cytoskeletal Function in the Androgen-Insensitive Tfm Mouse Testis. Endocrinology. 148(6). 2914–2924. 52 indexed citations

Cliften, Paul F., Robert S. Fulton, Richard K. Wilson, & Mark Johnston. (2005). After the Duplication: Gene Loss and Adaptation in Saccharomyces Genomes. Genetics. 172(2). 863–872. 67 indexed citations

Cliften, Paul F., Priya Sudarsanam, Lucinda A. Fulton, et al.. (2003). Finding Functional Features in Saccharomyces Genomes by Phylogenetic Footprinting. Science. 301(5629). 71–76. 655 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Jeong‐Ho, et al.. (2003). Specificity and Regulation of DNA Binding by the Yeast Glucose Transporter Gene Repressor Rgt1. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(15). 5208–5216. 101 indexed citations

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O’Shaughnessy, Peter J., et al.. (2003). Identification of Developmentally Regulated Genes in the Somatic Cells of the Mouse Testis Using Serial Analysis of Gene Expression1. Biology of Reproduction. 69(3). 797–808. 41 indexed citations

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Landry, Joseph W., Ann Sutton, Jinrong Min, et al.. (2003). Set2-Catalyzed Methylation of Histone H3 Represses Basal Expression of GAL4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(17). 5972–5978. 53 indexed citations

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Johnston, Mark, Linda Riles, & Johannes H. Hegemann. (2002). Gene disruption. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 350. 290–315. 36 indexed citations

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Johnston, Mark. (1998). Gene chips: Array of hope for understanding gene regulation. Current Biology. 8(5). R171–R174. 40 indexed citations

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Vít, Martin, James A. Waddle, & Mark Johnston. (1997). Regulated nuclear translocation of the Mig1 glucose repressor.. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 8(8). 1603–1618. 287 indexed citations

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Özcan, Sabire & Mark Johnston. (1996). Two Different Repressors Collaborate To Restrict Expression of the Yeast Glucose Transporter Genes HXT2 and HXT4 to Low Levels of Glucose. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 16(10). 5536–5545. 86 indexed citations

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Özcan, Sabire, et al.. (1996). Rgt1p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae , a Key Regulator of Glucose-Induced Genes, Is both an Activator and a Repressor of Transcription. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 16(11). 6419–6426. 132 indexed citations

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Stokes, Gordon S., et al.. (1992). An Na, K ATPase inhibitor from ultrafiltrate obtained by hemodialysis of patients with uremia.. PubMed. 120(2). 264–71. 10 indexed citations

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Johnston, Mark & Marian Carlson. (1992). 5 Regulation of Carbon and Phosphate Utilization. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 193–281. 47 indexed citations

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Flick, Jeffrey S. & Mark Johnston. (1991). GRR1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Is Required for Glucose Repression and Encodes a Protein with Leucine-Rich Repeats. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(10). 5101–5112. 53 indexed citations

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