Max E. Wilkinson

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
25 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Max E. Wilkinson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Max E. Wilkinson has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Max E. Wilkinson's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers). Max E. Wilkinson is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers). Max E. Wilkinson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Max E. Wilkinson's co-authors include Kiyoshi Nagai, Clément Charenton, Sebastian M. Fica, Andrew J. Newman, Wojciech P. Galej, Chris Oubridge, Rhiannon K. Macrae, Feng Zhang, Jonathan Strecker and Linyi Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Max E. Wilkinson

23 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

RNA Splicing by the Spliceosome

2019 426 citations Max E. Wilkinson, Clément Charenton et al. Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →
Prokaryotic innate immunity through pattern recognition of conserved viral proteins

2022 138 citations Linyi Gao, Max E. Wilkinson et al. Science profile →
Data-driven regularization lowers the size barrier of cryo-EM structure determination

2024 88 citations Dari Kimanius, Max E. Wilkinson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Max E. Wilkinson United States	16	1.4k	151	111	92	91	25	1.6k
Célia Plisson‐Chastang France	18	1.1k 0.8×	269 1.8×	143 1.3×	95 1.0×	87 1.0×	25	1.5k
Philip Mitchell United Kingdom	24	2.7k 1.9×	153 1.0×	100 0.9×	140 1.5×	206 2.3×	33	2.9k
Rhiannon K. Macrae United States	18	1.3k 0.9×	179 1.2×	165 1.5×	56 0.6×	299 3.3×	33	1.6k
Jasminka Boskovic Spain	17	610 0.4×	116 0.8×	59 0.5×	72 0.8×	118 1.3×	35	933
Michaela Rode Germany	13	1.5k 1.1×	122 0.8×	113 1.0×	53 0.6×	149 1.6×	15	1.7k
Andrey V. Pisarev United States	18	2.0k 1.4×	123 0.8×	87 0.8×	38 0.4×	130 1.4×	22	2.2k
Bryan Gibb United States	12	987 0.7×	70 0.5×	120 1.1×	68 0.7×	180 2.0×	14	1.1k
Karim‐Jean Armache United States	17	2.1k 1.5×	233 1.5×	191 1.7×	53 0.6×	358 3.9×	26	2.3k
Prashant Bhat United States	10	1.3k 0.9×	212 1.4×	41 0.4×	165 1.8×	165 1.8×	13	1.4k
Ivan N. Shatsky Russia	22	1.8k 1.3×	130 0.9×	83 0.7×	76 0.8×	170 1.9×	36	2.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wilkinson, Max E., Daniel Strebinger, Blake Lash, et al.. (2025). Structure and biochemistry-guided engineering of an all-RNA system for DNA insertion with R2 retrotransposons. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6079–6079.

Faure, Guilhem, Makoto Saito, Max E. Wilkinson, et al.. (2025). TIGR-Tas: A family of modular RNA-guided DNA-targeting systems in prokaryotes and their viruses. Science. 388(6746). eadv9789–eadv9789. 17 indexed citations

Zilberzwige‐Tal, Shai, Han Altae-Tran, Soumya Kannan, et al.. (2025). Reprogrammable RNA-targeting CRISPR systems evolved from RNA toxin-antitoxins. Cell. 188(7). 1925–1940.e20. 9 indexed citations

Wilkinson, Max E., et al.. (2024). Control of 3′ splice site selection by the yeast splicing factor Fyv6. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Wilkinson, Max E., et al.. (2024). Control of 3′ splice site selection by the yeast splicing factor Fyv6. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Frangieh, Chris J., Max E. Wilkinson, Daniel Strebinger, et al.. (2024). Internal initiation of reverse transcription in a Penelope-like retrotransposon. Mobile DNA. 15(1). 12–12.

Xu, Peiyu, Makoto Saito, Guilhem Faure, et al.. (2024). Structural insights into the diversity and DNA cleavage mechanism of Fanzor. Cell. 187(19). 5238–5252.e20. 5 indexed citations

Birkholz, Nils, Max E. Wilkinson, Christian Cuba Samaniego, et al.. (2024). Phage anti-CRISPR control by an RNA- and DNA-binding helix–turn–helix protein. Nature. 631(8021). 670–677. 12 indexed citations

Wilkinson, Max E., David Li, Linyi Gao, Rhiannon K. Macrae, & Feng Zhang. (2024). Phage-triggered reverse transcription assembles a toxic repetitive gene from a noncoding RNA. Science. 386(6717). eadq3977–eadq3977. 21 indexed citations

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Madigan, Victoria J., Yugang Zhang, Max E. Wilkinson, et al.. (2024). Human paraneoplastic antigen Ma2 (PNMA2) forms icosahedral capsids that can be engineered for mRNA delivery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(11). e2307812120–e2307812120. 15 indexed citations

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Strecker, Jonathan, F. Esra Demircioglu, David Li, et al.. (2022). RNA-activated protein cleavage with a CRISPR-associated endopeptidase. Science. 378(6622). 874–881. 48 indexed citations

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Hirano, Seiichi, Kalli Kappel, Han Altae-Tran, et al.. (2022). Structure of the OMEGA nickase IsrB in complex with ωRNA and target DNA. Nature. 610(7932). 575–581. 27 indexed citations

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Gao, Linyi, Max E. Wilkinson, Jonathan Strecker, et al.. (2022). Prokaryotic innate immunity through pattern recognition of conserved viral proteins. Science. 377(6607). eabm4096–eabm4096. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wilkinson, Max E., Sebastian M. Fica, Wojciech P. Galej, & Kiyoshi Nagai. (2021). Structural basis for conformational equilibrium of the catalytic spliceosome. Molecular Cell. 81(7). 1439–1452.e9. 37 indexed citations

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Fica, Sebastian M., Chris Oubridge, Max E. Wilkinson, Andrew J. Newman, & Kiyoshi Nagai. (2019). A human postcatalytic spliceosome structure reveals essential roles of metazoan factors for exon ligation. Science. 363(6428). 710–714. 88 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Max E., Clément Charenton, & Kiyoshi Nagai. (2019). RNA Splicing by the Spliceosome. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 89(1). 359–388. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fica, Sebastian M., Chris Oubridge, Wojciech P. Galej, et al.. (2017). Structure of a spliceosome remodelled for exon ligation. Nature. 542(7641). 377–380. 140 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Max E., Sebastian M. Fica, Wojciech P. Galej, et al.. (2017). Postcatalytic spliceosome structure reveals mechanism of 3′–splice site selection. Science. 358(6368). 1283–1288. 89 indexed citations

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Galej, Wojciech P., Max E. Wilkinson, Sebastian M. Fica, et al.. (2016). Cryo-EM structure of the spliceosome immediately after branching. Nature. 537(7619). 197–201. 180 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Max E., Yoshio Nakatani, Raymond H.J. Staals, et al.. (2016). Structural plasticity and in vivo activity of Cas1 from the type I-F CRISPR–Cas system. Biochemical Journal. 473(8). 1063–1072. 9 indexed citations

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