Melanie J. Dobson

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Melanie J. Dobson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie J. Dobson has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Melanie J. Dobson's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (27 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (8 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers). Melanie J. Dobson is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (27 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (8 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers). Melanie J. Dobson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Melanie J. Dobson's co-authors include Susan M. Kingsman, Alan J. Kingsman, Mick F. Tuite, Jane Mellor, Nigel Roberts, Stephen C. Conroy, Linda A. Fothergill, Ronald E. Pearlman, Peter B. Møens and Angelo Karaiskakis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Melanie J. Dobson

55 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Conservation of high efficiency promoter sequences inSaccharomyces cerevisiae

1982 388 citations Melanie J. Dobson, Alan J. Kingsman et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melanie J. Dobson Canada	29	2.8k	879	528	377	315	55	3.5k
Jane Mellor United Kingdom	43	5.9k 2.1×	1.3k 1.5×	547 1.0×	241 0.6×	322 1.0×	78	6.8k
Andrew R. Buchman United States	20	3.0k 1.1×	493 0.6×	485 0.9×	310 0.8×	208 0.7×	23	3.6k
David Shin United States	26	2.6k 0.9×	294 0.3×	547 1.0×	222 0.6×	155 0.5×	49	4.3k
Marco Biggiogera Italy	35	2.7k 1.0×	395 0.4×	449 0.9×	212 0.6×	267 0.8×	158	3.9k
Hans Lehrach Germany	9	2.4k 0.9×	425 0.5×	577 1.1×	249 0.7×	332 1.1×	10	3.7k
Jürgen J. Heinisch Germany	39	3.2k 1.1×	952 1.1×	148 0.3×	318 0.8×	1.0k 3.3×	120	4.3k
Mike A. Singer United States	6	1.9k 0.7×	308 0.4×	191 0.4×	111 0.3×	423 1.3×	6	2.4k
Ting‐Fang Wang Taiwan	30	2.3k 0.8×	315 0.4×	438 0.8×	107 0.3×	477 1.5×	104	3.5k
Ken Kitajima Japan	45	4.3k 1.5×	298 0.3×	482 0.9×	299 0.8×	1.3k 4.0×	184	5.6k
Vivian L. MacKay United States	31	3.5k 1.2×	432 0.5×	303 0.6×	165 0.4×	581 1.8×	51	3.9k

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Dobson, Melanie J., et al.. (2022). The yeast 2-micron plasmid Rep2 protein has Rep1-independent partitioning function. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(18). 10571–10585. 4 indexed citations

Dobson, Melanie J., et al.. (2020). Use of Yeast Plasmids: Transformation and Inheritance Assays. Methods in molecular biology. 2196. 1–13. 3 indexed citations

Dobson, Melanie J., et al.. (2019). Insights into the DNA sequence elements required for partitioning and copy number control of the yeast 2-micron plasmid. Current Genetics. 65(4). 887–892. 6 indexed citations

Zencir, Sevil, Monimoy Banerjee, Melanie J. Dobson, et al.. (2013). New partner proteins containing novel internal recognition motif for human glutaminase interacting protein (hGIP). Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 432(1). 10–15. 5 indexed citations

Zencir, Sevil, et al.. (2012). Identification of transcriptional and phosphatase regulators as interaction partners of human ADA3, a component of histone acetyltransferase complexes. Biochemical Journal. 450(2). 311–320. 8 indexed citations

Zencir, Sevil, et al.. (2011). Identification of brain-specific angiogenesis inhibitor 2 as an interaction partner of glutaminase interacting protein. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 411(4). 792–797. 20 indexed citations

Renault, Nisa, Sarah Dyack, Melanie J. Dobson, et al.. (2007). Heritable skewed X-chromosome inactivation leads to haemophilia A expression in heterozygous females. European Journal of Human Genetics. 15(6). 628–637. 61 indexed citations

Oliveira, Cláudio, et al.. (1999). A LINE2 repetitive DNA sequence from the cichlid fish, Oreochromis niloticus: sequence analysis and chromosomal distribution. Chromosoma. 108(7). 457–468. 35 indexed citations

Dobson, Melanie J., et al.. (1999). Mutations in NPC1 Highlight a Conserved NPC1-Specific Cysteine-Rich Domain. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 65(5). 1252–1260. 86 indexed citations

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Riddell, D. Christie, et al.. (1998). The Nova Scotia (Type D) Form of Niemann-Pick Disease Is Caused by a G3097→T Transversion in NPC1. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 63(1). 52–54. 80 indexed citations

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Greer, Wenda, et al.. (1998). FISH mapping and inter-Alu fingerprinting define the YAC contig map around the centromeric region of human chromosome 18. Genome. 41(3). 468–470. 1 indexed citations

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Chute, Ian C., Yun-Zheng Le, Terry Ashley, & Melanie J. Dobson. (1997). The Telomere-Associated DNA from Human Chromosome 20p Contains a Pseudotelomere Structure and Shares Sequences with the Subtelomeric Regions of 4q and 18p. Genomics. 46(1). 51–60. 14 indexed citations

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Brown, William R., Philip J. MacKinnon, Alfredo Villasanté, et al.. (1990). Structure and polymorphism of human telomere-associated DNA. Cell. 63(1). 119–132. 321 indexed citations

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Rech, Elíbio, Melanie J. Dobson, M. R. Davey, & B. J. Mulligan. (1990). Introduction of a yeast artificial chromosome vector intoSaccharomyces cerevisiaecells by electropotation. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(5). 1313–1313. 16 indexed citations

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Brown, William R., Melanie J. Dobson, & Philip J. MacKinnon. (1990). Telomere cloning and mammalian chromosome analysis. Journal of Cell Science. 95(4). 521–526. 7 indexed citations

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Smith, A. W., et al.. (1990). Regulation of Isopenicillin N Synthetase (IPNS) Gene Expression in Acremonium Chrysogenum. Nature Biotechnology. 8(3). 237–240. 13 indexed citations

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Dobson, Melanie J., Fiona E. Yull, Marı́a Molina, Susan M. Kingsman, & Alan J. Kingsman. (1988). Reconstruction of the yeast 2μm plasmid partitioning mechanism. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(14). 7103–7117. 13 indexed citations

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Fulton, Alexandra M., Jane Mellor, Melanie J. Dobson, et al.. (1985). Variants within the yeast Ty sequence family encode a class of structurally conserved proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 13(11). 4097–4112. 39 indexed citations

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Dobson, Melanie J., A. B. Futcher, & Brian S. Cox. (1980). Loss of 2 um DNA from Saccharomyces cerevisiae transformed with the chimaeric plasmid pJDB219. Current Genetics. 2(3). 201–205. 62 indexed citations

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Dobson, Melanie J., A. B. Futcher, & Brian S. Cox. (1980). Control of recombination within and between DNA plasmids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Current Genetics. 2(3). 193–200. 23 indexed citations

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