Neil P. Blackledge

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Neil P. Blackledge is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil P. Blackledge has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Neil P. Blackledge's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (30 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (26 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers). Neil P. Blackledge is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (30 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (26 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers). Neil P. Blackledge collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Neil P. Blackledge's co-authors include Robert J. Klose, Anca M. Farcas, Hannah K. Long, Nathan R. Rose, Haruhiko Koseki, Neil Brockdorff, Nadezda A. Fursova, Hamish W. King, Sarah Cooper and Benedikt M. Kessler and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Neil P. Blackledge

34 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Variant PRC1 Complex-Dependent H2A Ubiquitylation Drives PRC2 Recruitment and Polycomb Domain Formation

2014 553 citations Neil P. Blackledge, Anca M. Farcas et al. Cell profile →
The molecular principles of gene regulation by Polycomb repressive complexes

2021 254 citations Neil P. Blackledge, Robert J. Klose Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Neil P. Blackledge United Kingdom	25	3.4k	615	357	245	221	34	3.7k
Jian Yan China	17	3.2k 1.0×	580 0.9×	282 0.8×	418 1.7×	221 1.0×	30	4.0k
Gabriel E. Zentner United States	30	2.9k 0.9×	484 0.8×	439 1.2×	215 0.9×	284 1.3×	55	3.5k
Henriette O’Geen United States	28	2.4k 0.7×	527 0.9×	275 0.8×	202 0.8×	49 0.2×	43	2.7k
Marek Bartkuhn Germany	28	2.5k 0.7×	515 0.8×	551 1.5×	216 0.9×	78 0.4×	65	3.0k
Bernd Schuettengruber France	20	3.8k 1.1×	560 0.9×	826 2.3×	357 1.5×	72 0.3×	27	4.2k
Dione K. Bailey United States	9	2.3k 0.7×	733 1.2×	284 0.8×	727 3.0×	88 0.4×	10	2.8k
Andrew J. Saurin France	23	2.9k 0.9×	386 0.6×	289 0.8×	191 0.8×	125 0.6×	39	3.3k
Jafar Sharif Japan	26	3.1k 0.9×	706 1.1×	318 0.9×	382 1.6×	59 0.3×	44	3.4k
Dana J. Huebert United States	8	5.0k 1.5×	833 1.4×	427 1.2×	459 1.9×	98 0.4×	8	5.5k
Benjamin Leblanc France	12	4.0k 1.2×	584 0.9×	930 2.6×	439 1.8×	127 0.6×	15	4.4k

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Nakagawa, Rinako, Miriam Llorian, Probir Chakravarty, et al.. (2024). Epi-microRNA mediated metabolic reprogramming counteracts hypoxia to preserve affinity maturation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10516–10516. 4 indexed citations

Kelley, Jessica R., Emilia Dimitrova, Hieu Nguyen, et al.. (2024). The PNUTS phosphatase complex controls transcription pause release. Molecular Cell. 84(24). 4843–4861.e8. 6 indexed citations

Szczurek, Aleksander, Emilia Dimitrova, Jessica R. Kelley, Neil P. Blackledge, & Robert J. Klose. (2024). The Polycomb system sustains promoters in a deep OFF state by limiting pre-initiation complex formation to counteract transcription. Nature Cell Biology. 26(10). 1700–1711. 10 indexed citations

Szczurek, Aleksander, Jessica R. Kelley, Anne H. Turberfield, et al.. (2023). A CpG island-encoded mechanism protects genes from premature transcription termination. Nature Communications. 14(1). 726–726. 35 indexed citations

Sugishita, Hiroki, Takashi Kondo, Shinsuke Ito, et al.. (2021). Variant PCGF1-PRC1 links PRC2 recruitment with differentiation-associated transcriptional inactivation at target genes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5341–5341. 22 indexed citations

Blackledge, Neil P. & Robert J. Klose. (2021). The molecular principles of gene regulation by Polycomb repressive complexes. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 22(12). 815–833. 254 indexed citations breakdown →

Blackledge, Neil P. & Robert J. Klose. (2021). Getting under the skin of Polycomb-dependent gene regulation. Genes & Development. 35(5-6). 301–303. 7 indexed citations

Long, Hannah K., Nathan R. Rose, Neil P. Blackledge, & Robert J. Klose. (2018). Biochemical Identification of Nonmethylated DNA by BioCAP-Seq. Methods in molecular biology. 1766. 15–29. 1 indexed citations

King, Hamish W., Nadezda A. Fursova, Neil P. Blackledge, & Robert J. Klose. (2018). Polycomb repressive complex 1 shapes the nucleosome landscape but not accessibility at target genes. Genome Research. 28(10). 1494–1507. 49 indexed citations

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Brown, David A., Vincenzo Di Cerbo, Angelika Feldmann, et al.. (2017). The SET1 Complex Selects Actively Transcribed Target Genes via Multivalent Interaction with CpG Island Chromatin. Cell Reports. 20(10). 2313–2327. 67 indexed citations

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Kerry, Jon, Laura Godfrey, Emmanouela Repapi, et al.. (2017). MLL-AF4 Spreading Identifies Binding Sites that Are Distinct from Super-Enhancers and that Govern Sensitivity to DOT1L Inhibition in Leukemia. Cell Reports. 18(2). 482–495. 51 indexed citations

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Blackledge, Neil P., Anca M. Farcas, Takashi Kondo, et al.. (2014). Variant PRC1 Complex-Dependent H2A Ubiquitylation Drives PRC2 Recruitment and Polycomb Domain Formation. Cell. 157(6). 1445–1459. 553 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cooper, Sarah, Martin Dienstbier, Lothar Schermelleh, et al.. (2014). Targeting Polycomb to Pericentric Heterochromatin in Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals a Role for H2AK119u1 in PRC2 Recruitment. Cell Reports. 7(5). 1456–1470. 251 indexed citations

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Klose, Robert J., Sarah Cooper, Anca M. Farcas, Neil P. Blackledge, & Neil Brockdorff. (2013). Chromatin Sampling—An Emerging Perspective on Targeting Polycomb Repressor Proteins. PLoS Genetics. 9(8). e1003717–e1003717. 97 indexed citations

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Long, Hannah K., Neil P. Blackledge, & Robert J. Klose. (2013). ZF-CxxC domain-containing proteins, CpG islands and the chromatin connection. Biochemical Society Transactions. 41(3). 727–740. 178 indexed citations

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Blackledge, Neil P., John P. Thomson, & Peter J. Skene. (2013). CpG Island Chromatin Is Shaped by Recruitment of ZF-CxxC Proteins. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 5(11). a018648–a018648. 32 indexed citations

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Blackledge, Neil P., Jinchuan Zhou, Michael Tolstorukov, et al.. (2010). CpG Islands Recruit a Histone H3 Lysine 36 Demethylase. Molecular Cell. 38(2). 179–190. 241 indexed citations

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Blackledge, Neil P. & Robert J. Klose. (2010). Histone Lysine Methylation: An Epigenetic Modification?. Epigenomics. 2(1). 151–161. 18 indexed citations

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Blackledge, Neil P., Christopher J. Ott, Austin E. Gillen, & Ann Harris. (2009). An insulator element 3′ to the CFTR gene binds CTCF and reveals an active chromatin hub in primary cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(4). 1086–1094. 51 indexed citations

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Ott, Christopher J., et al.. (2008). A complex intronic enhancer regulates expression of the CFTR gene by direct interaction with the promoter. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 13(4). 680–692. 58 indexed citations

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