Marlene Belfort

13.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
190 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Marlene Belfort is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marlene Belfort has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 176 papers in Molecular Biology, 76 papers in Ecology and 59 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Marlene Belfort's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (146 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (76 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (57 papers). Marlene Belfort is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (146 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (76 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (57 papers). Marlene Belfort collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Marlene Belfort's co-authors include Alan M. Lambowitz, Richard A. Lease, Victoria Derbyshire, Alan M. Lambowitz, Frank Maley, Gladys F. Maley, David A. Shub, Dorie Smith, Georg Mohr and David R. Edgell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Marlene Belfort

188 papers receiving 10.3k citations

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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.

INTRONS AS MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS

1993 525 citations Marlene Belfort et al. profile →
Structural conventions for group I introns

1987 261 citations Marlene Belfort et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marlene Belfort United States	59	9.5k	3.2k	2.8k	989	457	190	10.5k
Stanley Tabor United States	30	7.9k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	3.7k 1.3×	891 0.9×	250 0.5×	63	10.1k
Margarita Salas Spain	56	8.4k 0.9×	4.8k 1.5×	4.4k 1.6×	786 0.8×	290 0.6×	302	10.4k
Alan H. Rosenberg United States	18	7.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	2.8k 1.0×	816 0.8×	427 0.9×	19	9.5k
Alan R. Davidson Canada	57	7.9k 0.8×	3.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.6×	843 0.9×	424 0.9×	141	9.8k
Werner Arber Switzerland	47	4.8k 0.5×	3.1k 1.0×	3.4k 1.2×	901 0.9×	199 0.4×	156	6.8k
Michael J. Chamberlin United States	66	11.7k 1.2×	4.0k 1.2×	6.7k 2.4×	624 0.6×	170 0.4×	135	13.3k
Uttam L. RajBhandary United States	62	10.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.3×	1.9k 0.7×	851 0.9×	173 0.4×	199	11.8k
John W. Drake United States	37	5.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	3.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	166 0.4×	123	8.6k
Harrison Echols United States	56	8.3k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	4.8k 1.7×	612 0.6×	207 0.5×	123	9.8k
Norton D. Zinder United States	52	5.7k 0.6×	3.9k 1.2×	2.8k 1.0×	565 0.6×	774 1.7×	137	7.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marlene Belfort

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20 of 20 papers shown

Contreras, Lydia M. & Marlene Belfort. (2024). RNA dynamics in oxidative stress: From obscurity to mechanistic understanding in health and disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(46). e2420445121–e2420445121. 1 indexed citations

Wood, David W., Marlene Belfort, & Christopher W. Lennon. (2023). Inteins—mechanism of protein splicing, emerging regulatory roles, and applications in protein engineering. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1305848–1305848. 13 indexed citations

Smith, Dorie, Carol Lyn Piazza, E. Bailey, et al.. (2021). Methylation of rRNA as a host defense against rampant group II intron retrotransposition. Mobile DNA. 12(1). 9–9. 1 indexed citations

Lennon, Christopher W., Matthew J. Stanger, & Marlene Belfort. (2019). Mechanism of Single-Stranded DNA Activation of Recombinase Intein Splicing. Biochemistry. 58(31). 3335–3339. 9 indexed citations

Nemati, Reza, Binbin Liu, Jing Zhang, et al.. (2018). Structure of an engineered intein reveals thiazoline ring and provides mechanistic insight. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 116(4). 709–721. 1 indexed citations

Lennon, Christopher W. & Marlene Belfort. (2017). Inteins. Current Biology. 27(6). R204–R206. 26 indexed citations

Li, Zhong, Jing Zhang, Georges Belfort, et al.. (2016). Exploring Intein Inhibition by Platinum Compounds as an Antimicrobial Strategy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(43). 22661–22670. 29 indexed citations

Belfort, Georges, et al.. (2014). Backbone assignments of mini-RecA intein with short native exteins and an active N-terminal catalytic cysteine. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 9(2). 235–238. 1 indexed citations

Edgell, David R., Venkata R. Chalamcharla, & Marlene Belfort. (2011). Learning to live together: mutualism between self-splicing introns and their hosts. BMC Biology. 9(1). 22–22. 64 indexed citations

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Pereira, Brian J.G., Philip Shemella, Gil Amitai, et al.. (2010). Spontaneous Proton Transfer to a Conserved Intein Residue Determines On-Pathway Protein Splicing. Journal of Molecular Biology. 406(3). 430–442. 22 indexed citations

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Gutgsell, Nancy S., et al.. (2007). Functional defects in transfer RNAs lead to the accumulation of ribosomal RNA precursors. RNA. 13(4). 597–605. 9 indexed citations

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Mohr, Georg, et al.. (2004). Domain structure and three-dimensional model of a group II intron-encoded reverse transcriptase. RNA. 11(1). 14–28. 73 indexed citations

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Roey, Patrick Van, et al.. (2002). Catalytic domain structure and hypothesis for function of GIY-YIG intron endonuclease I-TevI. Nature Structural Biology. 9(11). 806–11. 77 indexed citations

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Belfort, Marlene. (2001). The win-win potential for motherhood and science. Current Biology. 11(2). R41–R42.

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Lease, Richard A. & Marlene Belfort. (2000). Riboregulation by DsrA RNA: trans‐actions for global economy. Molecular Microbiology. 38(4). 667–672. 86 indexed citations

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Mueller, John, Mary Bryk, Nick Loizos, & Marlene Belfort. (1993). 4 Homing Endonucleases. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 25. 111–143. 49 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Renée, Uwe von Ahsen, & Marlene Belfort. (1991). Effects of mutations of the bulged nucleotide in the conserved P7 pairing element of the phage T4 td intron on ribozyme function. Biochemistry. 30(13). 3295–3303. 25 indexed citations

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Storms, Reginald, et al.. (1984). Cell Cycle-Dependent Expression of Thymidylate Synthase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 4(12). 2858–2864. 74 indexed citations

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Oppenheim, Ariella, et al.. (1977). Interaction of cII, cIII, and cro gene products in the regulation of early and late functions of phage λ. Virology. 79(2). 426–436. 21 indexed citations

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Belfort, Marlene & Daniel L. Wulff. (1971). A Mutant of Escherichia coli That Is Lysogenized with High Frequency. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 2. 739–742. 19 indexed citations

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