Neil Billington

4.0k total citations
70 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Neil Billington is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil Billington has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 29 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Neil Billington's work include Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (29 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (21 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (18 papers). Neil Billington is often cited by papers focused on Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (29 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (21 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (18 papers). Neil Billington collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hungary. Neil Billington's co-authors include Paul D. N. Hebert, James R. Sellers, Yasuharu Takagi, Aibing Wang, Robert Ward, Robert Adelstein, Jian Mao, Sarah M. Heissler, Peter J. Knight and Peter M. Grewe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Neil Billington

66 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Neil Billington United States 28 1.0k 610 596 511 481 70 2.1k
Chi‐Kuo Hu United States 14 1.0k 1.0× 858 1.4× 160 0.3× 229 0.4× 27 0.1× 17 1.9k
Kazunori Takano Japan 29 613 0.6× 422 0.7× 349 0.6× 547 1.1× 106 0.2× 93 2.3k
Koji Tamura Japan 43 4.4k 4.3× 687 1.1× 1.1k 1.8× 166 0.3× 80 0.2× 207 5.6k
Kevin A. Edwards United States 23 1.9k 1.9× 1.6k 2.6× 258 0.4× 27 0.1× 277 0.6× 37 3.6k
Masakatsu Watanabe Japan 27 1.3k 1.3× 393 0.6× 316 0.5× 147 0.3× 16 0.0× 65 2.3k
Akihiro Shima Japan 38 2.7k 2.7× 751 1.2× 2.8k 4.7× 410 0.8× 19 0.0× 183 6.1k
Yukio Hiramoto Japan 34 1.4k 1.3× 1.2k 1.9× 295 0.5× 47 0.1× 33 0.1× 100 3.4k
John Philip Trinkaus United States 31 1.5k 1.4× 1.2k 2.0× 347 0.6× 166 0.3× 28 0.1× 43 3.0k
Yves Benyamin France 29 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.8× 110 0.2× 15 0.0× 572 1.2× 108 2.2k
Douglas M. Swank United States 22 709 0.7× 130 0.2× 59 0.1× 191 0.4× 685 1.4× 58 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neil Billington

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Billington, Neil, et al.. (2026). Mechanical states of a motor protein in the spindle. Current Biology. 36(3). 615–628.e7.
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Han, David, Neil Billington, Christian A. Combs, et al.. (2025). Effect of Load on Non‐Muscle Myosin 2 Paralog Filaments in a Biomimetic Contractile Actin Array. Small. 22(3). e07772–e07772.
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Fineberg, Adam, Yasuharu Takagi, Kavitha Thirumurugan, et al.. (2024). Myosin-5 varies its step length to carry cargo straight along the irregular F-actin track. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(13). e2401625121–e2401625121. 9 indexed citations
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Schupp, Jane E., et al.. (2024). Therapeutic potential of archaeal unfoldase PANet and the gateless T20S proteasome in P23H rhodopsin retinitis pigmentosa mice. PLoS ONE. 19(10). e0308058–e0308058. 1 indexed citations
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Cannon, Kevin S., José M. Vargas-Muñiz, Neil Billington, et al.. (2023). A gene duplication of a septin reveals a developmentally regulated filament length control mechanism. The Journal of Cell Biology. 222(3). 5 indexed citations
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Billington, Neil, et al.. (2023). Mechanistic insights into the regulation of human myosin-7a. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 259a–260a.
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Liu, Rong, Neil Billington, Brian J. Galletta, et al.. (2022). Pericentrin interacts with Kinesin-1 to drive centriole motility. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(9). 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Rong, Neil Billington, Yi Yang, et al.. (2021). A binding protein regulates myosin-7a dimerization and actin bundle assembly. Nature Communications. 12(1). 563–563. 16 indexed citations
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Heissler, Sarah M., Amandeep Singh Arora, Neil Billington, James R. Sellers, & Krishna Chinthalapudi. (2021). Cryo-EM structure of the autoinhibited state of myosin-2. Science Advances. 7(52). eabk3273–eabk3273. 25 indexed citations
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Billington, Neil, et al.. (2020). The BAR domain of the Arf GTPase-activating protein ASAP1 directly binds actin filaments. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(32). 11303–11315. 21 indexed citations
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Lü, Wen, Margot Lakonishok, Rong Liu, et al.. (2020). Competition between kinesin-1 and myosin-V defines Drosophila posterior determination. eLife. 9. 31 indexed citations
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Melli, Luca, Neil Billington, Sara A. Sun, et al.. (2018). Bipolar filaments of human nonmuscle myosin 2-A and 2-B have distinct motile and mechanical properties. eLife. 7. 51 indexed citations
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Melli, Luca, Neil Billington, Attila Nagy, et al.. (2018). Tuning the Mechanical Output of Nonmuscle Myosin-2 Filaments. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 319a–319a. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Rong, Yi Yang, Amy Hong, et al.. (2018). The Enzymatic Activity and Cellular Localization of Drosophila Myosin 7a is Regulated by a Novel Binding Protein. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 210a–211a. 1 indexed citations
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Heissler, Sarah M., Neil Billington, Xuefei Ma, Robert Adelstein, & James R. Sellers. (2018). Tools to Study Nonmuscle Myosin-2 Motor Function Revisited. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 318a–318a. 2 indexed citations
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Billington, Neil, Gergő Gógl, Bence Kiss, et al.. (2018). Multiple S100 protein isoforms and C-terminal phosphorylation contribute to the paralog-selective regulation of nonmuscle myosin 2 filaments. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(38). 14850–14867. 15 indexed citations
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Baird, Michelle A., Neil Billington, Aibing Wang, et al.. (2016). Local pulsatile contractions are an intrinsic property of the myosin 2A motor in the cortical cytoskeleton of adherent cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 28(2). 240–251. 43 indexed citations
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Billington, Neil, Jordan R. Beach, Sarah M. Heissler, et al.. (2015). Myosin 18A Coassembles with Nonmuscle Myosin 2 to Form Mixed Bipolar Filaments. Current Biology. 25(7). 942–948. 72 indexed citations
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Billington, Neil, et al.. (2013). Flexibility within the Heads of Muscle Myosin-2 Molecules. Journal of Molecular Biology. 426(4). 894–907. 19 indexed citations
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