Nenad Ban

24.8k citations

173 papers · 17.8k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.1%
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- RNA modifications and cancer
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
Structural Biology top 0.5%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 134
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 105
- RNA modifications and cancer 65
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 25
- RNA Research and Splicing 14
Hepatology 12

Co-authors: Peter B. Moore Thomas A. Steitz Poul Nissen J.L. Hansen Marc Leibundgut Daniel Boehringer Timm Maier Simon Jenni
Journals: Science (22 papers)Nature (12 papers)Molecular Cell (12 papers)Nature Communications (10 papers)Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (10 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland United States Russia

In The Last Decade

Nenad Ban

170 papers receiving 17.5k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Mechanisms and regulation of protein synthesis in mitochondria 2021 · 223 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2021 Science
2020 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
2002 Molecular Cell
2001 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2000 Science
2000 Science

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All Works

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1	ZNF574 is a quality control factor for defective ribosome biogenesis intermediates Molecular Cell ·Jared F. Akers, Michael LaScola, Adrian Bothe, Hanna Suh, C.S. Jung, Zachary D. Stolp, Tanushree Ghosh, Liewei L. Yan, Yuming Wang, Michelle Macurak, A. V. Devan, Mary Cathleen McKinney, TaraBryn S Grismer, Andres V. Reyes, Eric Ross, Tianyi Hu, Shou‐Ling Xu, Nenad Ban, Kamena K. Kostova	2025	1
2	A highly optimized human in vitro translation system Cell Reports Methods ·Adrian Bothe, Nenad Ban	2024	7
3	Antibiotic hyper-resistance in a class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase with altered active site signature motif Nature Communications ·A. Brkic, Marc Leibundgut, Jagoda Jabłońska, Vladimir Zanki, Željka Car, Vesna Petrović Peroković, Aleksandra Maršavelski, Nenad Ban, Ita Gruic‐Sovulj	2023	5
4	Universal features of Nsp1-mediated translational shutdown by coronaviruses Molecular Cell ·Katharina Schubert, Evangelos D. Karousis, Ivo Ban, Christopher P. Lapointe, Marc Leibundgut, Emilie Bäumlin, Eric Kummerant, Alain Scaiola, Tanja Schönhut, Jana Ziegelmüller, Joseph D. Puglisi, Oliver Mühlemann, Nenad Ban	2023	24
5	Mechanism of signal sequence handover from NAC to SRP on ribosomes during ER-protein targeting Science ·Ahmad Jomaa, Martin Gamerdinger, Hao-Hsuan Hsieh, Annalena Wallisch, Viswanathan Chandrasekaran, Zeynel Ulusoy, Alain Scaiola, Ramanujan S. Hegde, Shu‐ou Shan, Nenad Ban, Elke Deuerling	2022	56
6	Structural basis of successive adenosine modifications by the conserved ribosomal methyltransferase KsgA Nucleic Acids Research ·Niklas C Stephan, Anne B. Ries, Daniel Boehringer, Nenad Ban	2021	18
7	Structures of prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein Pup in complex with depupylase Dop reveal the mechanism of catalytic phosphate formation Nature Communications ·H. Cui, Andreas U. Müller, Marc Leibundgut, Jiawen Tian, Nenad Ban, Eilika Weber‐Ban	2021	8
8	Structural basis of ribosomal frameshifting during translation of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome Science ·Pramod R. Bhatt, Alain Scaiola, Gary Loughran, Marc Leibundgut, Annika Kratzel, Romane Meurs, René Dreos, Kate M. O’Connor, Angus E. McMillan, Jeffrey W. Bode, Volker Thiel, David Gatfield, John F. Atkins, Nenad Ban Hit paper breakdown →	2021	176
9	Evolution of a virus-like architecture and packaging mechanism in a repurposed bacterial protein Science ·Stephan Tetter, Naohiro Terasaka, Angela Steinauer, Richard J. Bingham, Sam Clark, Andrew J. P. Scott, Nikesh Patel, Marc Leibundgut, Emma Wroblewski, Nenad Ban, Peter G. Stockley, Reidun Twarock, Donald Hilvert	2021	61
10	SARS-CoV-2 Nsp1 binds the ribosomal mRNA channel to inhibit translation Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Katharina Schubert, Evangelos D. Karousis, Ahmad Jomaa, Alain Scaiola, Blanca Echeverria, Lukas‐Adrian Gurzeler, Marc Leibundgut, Volker Thiel, Oliver Mühlemann, Nenad Ban Hit paper breakdown →	2020	383
11	The molecular mechanism of cotranslational membrane protein recognition and targeting by SecA Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Shuai Wang, Ahmad Jomaa, Mateusz Jaskółowski, Chien‐I Yang, Nenad Ban, Shu‐ou Shan	2019	25
12	Dissecting ribosomal particles throughout the kingdoms of life using advanced hybrid mass spectrometry methods Nature Communications ·Michiel van de Waterbeemd, Sem Tamara, Kyle L. Fort, Eugen Damoc, Vojtěch Franc, P. Bieri, Martin Peter Itten, Alexander Makarov, Nenad Ban, Albert J. R. Heck	2018	63
13	Architecture of human mTOR complex 1 Science ·C.H.S. Aylett, Evelyn Sauer, Stefan Imseng, Daniel Boehringer, Michael N. Hall, Nenad Ban, Timm Maier	2015	264
14	Structural Probing of a Protein Phosphatase 2A Network by Chemical Cross-Linking and Mass Spectrometry Science ·Franz Herzog, Abdullah Kahraman, Daniel Boehringer, Raymond Mak, Andreas Bracher, Thomas Walzthoeni, Alexander Leitner, Martin Beck, F. Ulrich Hartl, Nenad Ban, Lars Malmström, Ruedi Aebersold	2012	326
15	Crystal Structure of the Eukaryotic 40 S Ribosomal Subunit in Complex with Initiation Factor 1 Science ·Julius Rabl, Marc Leibundgut, Sandro F. Ataide, Andrea Haag, Nenad Ban	2010	364
16	Structure of Fungal Fatty Acid Synthase and Implications for Iterative Substrate Shuttling Science ·Simon Jenni, Marc Leibundgut, Daniel Boehringer, Christian Frick, B. Mikolasek, Nenad Ban	2007	174
17	Architecture of a Fungal Fatty Acid Synthase at 5 A Resolution Science ·Simon Jenni, Marc Leibundgut, Timm Maier, Nenad Ban	2006	109
18	Structure of the Eukaryotic Thiamine Pyrophosphate Riboswitch with Its Regulatory Ligand Science ·Stéphane Thore, Marc Leibundgut, Nenad Ban	2006	278
19	Target-directed proteolysis at the ribosome Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tanja Henrichs, Natasha Mikhaleva, Charlotte Conz, Elke Deuerling, Dana Boyd, Adrian M. Zelazny, Eitan Bibi, Nenad Ban, Michael Ehrmann	2005	20
20	RNA tertiary interactions in the large ribosomal subunit: The A-minor motif Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Poul Nissen, Joseph A. Ippolito, Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz Hit paper breakdown →	2001	533

About Nenad Ban

Nenad Ban is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Hepatology, Structural Biology, Equine and Genetics, having authored 173 papers that have together received 17.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (105 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (65 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (27 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (18 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers) and Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (15.1k citations), Structural Biology (294 citations), Genetics (2.8k citations), Ecology (1.4k citations) and Cell Biology (804 citations). Nenad Ban has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz, Poul Nissen, J.L. Hansen, Marc Leibundgut, Daniel Boehringer, Timm Maier, Simon Jenni, Basil J. Greber and Bernd Bukau. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Nature, Molecular Cell, Nature Communications and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

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