Mark Safro

1.6k total citations
48 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Mark Safro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Safro has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Mark Safro's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (29 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers). Mark Safro is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (29 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers). Mark Safro collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Russia and United Kingdom. Mark Safro's co-authors include Nina Moor, Liron Klipcan, Lidia Mosyak, L. Reshetnikova, Yehuda Goldgur, Dmitry Tworowski, Naama Kessler, V.N. Ankilova, Olga I. Lavrik and Marc Delarue and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Mark Safro

48 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark Safro Israel 20 1.2k 206 152 55 38 48 1.3k
Sue Ellen Gerchman United States 19 1.5k 1.3× 240 1.2× 192 1.3× 52 0.9× 35 0.9× 23 1.6k
Rosemarie Raffen United States 11 774 0.7× 136 0.7× 162 1.1× 72 1.3× 31 0.8× 12 949
Roman H. Szczepanowski Poland 18 609 0.5× 142 0.7× 99 0.7× 43 0.8× 13 0.3× 31 720
Ravindra D. Makde India 13 732 0.6× 150 0.7× 117 0.8× 120 2.2× 33 0.9× 66 932
P McPhie United States 20 712 0.6× 127 0.6× 101 0.7× 86 1.6× 33 0.9× 31 1.0k
Christian O. A. Reiser Germany 12 793 0.7× 220 1.1× 144 0.9× 68 1.2× 25 0.7× 22 976
Kin‐ichiro Miura Japan 20 827 0.7× 81 0.4× 96 0.6× 51 0.9× 65 1.7× 41 1.1k
Ágnes Tóth-Petróczy Germany 18 1.2k 1.0× 209 1.0× 279 1.8× 49 0.9× 34 0.9× 34 1.4k
P Dessen France 5 573 0.5× 110 0.5× 86 0.6× 161 2.9× 37 1.0× 7 756
Takashi Kanamori Japan 19 1.2k 1.0× 216 1.0× 78 0.5× 31 0.6× 38 1.0× 29 1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Safro

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All Works

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Moor, Nina, Liron Klipcan, & Mark Safro. (2011). Bacterial and Eukaryotic Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetases Catalyze Misaminoacylation of tRNAPhe with 3,4-Dihydroxy-L-Phenylalanine. Chemistry & Biology. 18(10). 1221–1229. 28 indexed citations
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Klipcan, Liron, et al.. (2011). Crystal Structure of Human Mitochondrial PheRS Complexed with tRNAPhe in the Active “Open” State. Journal of Molecular Biology. 415(3). 527–537. 40 indexed citations
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Gottlieb, Assaf, Milana Frenkel‐Morgenstern, Mark Safro, & D. Horn. (2011). Common Peptides Study of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e20361–e20361. 5 indexed citations
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Lustig, Yaniv, Chaim Wachtel, Mark Safro, Li Liu, & Shulamit Michaeli. (2009). ‘RNA walk’ a novel approach to study RNA–RNA interactions between a small RNA and its target. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(1). e5–e5. 19 indexed citations
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Moor, Nina, et al.. (2009). Crystallization and X-ray analysis of human cytoplasmic phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 65(2). 93–97. 2 indexed citations
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Klipcan, Liron, et al.. (2008). The tRNA-Induced Conformational Activation of Human Mitochondrial Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase. Structure. 16(7). 1095–1104. 50 indexed citations
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Klipcan, Liron, Milana Frenkel‐Morgenstern, & Mark Safro. (2008). Presence of tRNA-dependent pathways correlates with high cysteine content in methanogenic Archaea. Trends in Genetics. 24(2). 59–63. 18 indexed citations
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Levin, Inna, Naama Kessler, Nina Moor, et al.. (2007). Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of a human mitochondrial phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 63(9). 761–764. 6 indexed citations
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Kotik-Kogan, Olga, Nina Moor, Dmitry Tworowski, & Mark Safro. (2005). Structural Basis for Discrimination of L-Phenylalanine from L-Tyrosine by Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase. Structure. 13(12). 1799–1807. 64 indexed citations
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Tworowski, Dmitry, et al.. (2005). Electrostatic Potential of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Navigates tRNA on its Pathway to the Binding Site. Journal of Molecular Biology. 350(5). 866–882. 37 indexed citations
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Klipcan, Liron & Mark Safro. (2004). Amino acid biogenesis, evolution of the genetic code and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 228(3). 389–396. 46 indexed citations
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Tworowski, Dmitry & Mark Safro. (2003). The long‐range electrostatic interactions control tRNA–aminoacyl‐tRNA synthetase complex formation. Protein Science. 12(6). 1247–1251. 17 indexed citations
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Yakobson, Emanuel, Shlomit Eisenberg, David Halle, et al.. (2003). A single Mediterranean, possibly Jewish, origin for the Val59Gly CDKN2A mutation in four melanoma-prone families. European Journal of Human Genetics. 11(4). 288–296. 19 indexed citations
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Yakobson, Emanuel, Esther Azizi, Eyal Winkler, et al.. (2000). Two p16 (CDKN2A) germline mutations in 30 Israeli melanoma families. European Journal of Human Genetics. 8(8). 590–596. 21 indexed citations
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Goldgur, Yehuda, Lidia Mosyak, L. Reshetnikova, et al.. (1997). The crystal structure of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase from Thermus thermophilus complexed with cognate tRNAPhe. Structure. 5(1). 59–68. 167 indexed citations
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Safro, Mark & Lidia Mosyak. (1995). Structural similarities in the noncatalytic domains of phenylalanyl‐tRNA and biotin synthetases. Protein Science. 4(11). 2429–2432. 22 indexed citations
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Mosyak, Lidia & Mark Safro. (1993). Phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase from Thermus thermophilus has four antiparallel folds of which only two are catalytically functional. Biochimie. 75(12). 1091–1098. 37 indexed citations
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Reshetnikova, L., С. Н. Ходырева, Olga I. Lavrik, et al.. (1993). Crystals of the Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase from Thermus thermophilus HB8 Complexed with tRNAPhe. Journal of Molecular Biology. 231(3). 927–929. 11 indexed citations

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