Péter Várnai

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Péter Várnai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Péter Várnai has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cell Biology and 6 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Péter Várnai's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (14 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers). Péter Várnai is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (14 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers). Péter Várnai collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Péter Várnai's co-authors include Tamás Balla, Anikó Ilona Nagy, Katiuscia Bianchi, György Szabadkai, Mariusz R. Wiȩckowski, Diego De Stefani, Rosario Rizzuto, Derek T. A. Lamport, David Weaver and György Csordás and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Péter Várnai

44 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Chaperone-mediated coupling of endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondrial Ca2+ channels

2006 1.1k citations Péter Várnai, Tamás Balla et al. profile →
Structural and functional features and significance of the physical linkage between ER and mitochondria

2006 1.1k citations Péter Várnai, Tamás Balla et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Péter Várnai United Kingdom	23	3.8k	1.0k	483	419	396	44	4.7k
Judit Ovádi Hungary	40	3.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	400 0.8×	753 1.8×	476 1.2×	150	5.5k
Akio Ito Japan	39	2.7k 0.7×	548 0.5×	293 0.6×	295 0.7×	232 0.6×	166	5.1k
Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew United Kingdom	34	4.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	150 0.3×	569 1.4×	303 0.8×	67	5.3k
Frank Löhr Germany	41	4.3k 1.1×	768 0.7×	1.2k 2.6×	300 0.7×	329 0.8×	150	6.1k
Mischa Machius United States	47	4.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	161 0.3×	420 1.0×	641 1.6×	90	6.6k
Masaru Miyagi United States	37	3.8k 1.0×	339 0.3×	196 0.4×	506 1.2×	242 0.6×	128	5.9k
Carola Hunte Germany	41	5.6k 1.5×	465 0.5×	237 0.5×	272 0.6×	502 1.3×	94	6.8k
Kong‐Joo Lee South Korea	38	3.3k 0.9×	563 0.5×	235 0.5×	513 1.2×	178 0.4×	149	4.9k
Danny M. Hatters Australia	35	2.6k 0.7×	524 0.5×	196 0.4×	1.1k 2.5×	549 1.4×	79	4.0k
Immo E. Scheffler United States	42	4.8k 1.3×	385 0.4×	304 0.6×	420 1.0×	181 0.5×	102	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Péter Várnai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Péter Várnai

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rentel, Maike, et al.. (2021). A 10-year impact assessment of the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme: an independent mixed-method evaluation study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(20). 1–106. 1 indexed citations

Davé, Anoushka, et al.. (2017). Evidence on mechanisms and tools for use of health information for decision-making. 4 indexed citations

Lamport, Derek T. A., Péter Várnai, & Charlotte E. Seal. (2014). Back to the future with the AGP–Ca2+ flux capacitor. Annals of Botany. 114(6). 1069–1085. 71 indexed citations

Tan, Li, Péter Várnai, Derek T. A. Lamport, et al.. (2010). Plant O-Hydroxyproline Arabinogalactans Are Composed of Repeating Trigalactosyl Subunits with Short Bifurcated Side Chains. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(32). 24575–24583. 96 indexed citations

Timsit, Youri & Péter Várnai. (2010). Helical Chirality: a Link between Local Interactions and Global Topology in DNA. PLoS ONE. 5(2). e9326–e9326. 31 indexed citations

Várnai, Péter & Youri Timsit. (2010). Differential stability of DNA crossovers in solution mediated by divalent cations. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(12). 4163–4172. 39 indexed citations

Marco, Giuseppe De & Péter Várnai. (2009). Molecular simulation of conformational transitions in biomolecules using a combination of structure-based potential and empirical valence bond theory. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(45). 10694–10694. 10 indexed citations

Gáspári, Zoltán, Péter Várnai, Balázs Szappanos, & András Perczel. (2009). Reconciling the lock‐and‐key and dynamic views of canonical serine protease inhibitor action. FEBS Letters. 584(1). 203–206. 20 indexed citations

Hsu, Shang‐Te Danny, Péter Várnai, Anthony Bugaut, et al.. (2009). A G-Rich Sequence within the c-kit Oncogene Promoter Forms a Parallel G-Quadruplex Having Asymmetric G-Tetrad Dynamics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(37). 13399–13409. 190 indexed citations

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Várnai, Péter & Tamás Balla. (2006). Live cell imaging of phosphoinositide dynamics with fluorescent protein domains. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1761(8). 957–967. 128 indexed citations

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Dixit, Surjit B., David L. Beveridge, Thomas E. Cheatham, et al.. (2005). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the 136 Unique Tetranucleotide Sequences of DNA Oligonucleotides. II: Sequence Context Effects on the Dynamical Structures of the 10 Unique Dinucleotide Steps. Biophysical Journal. 89(6). 3721–3740. 197 indexed citations

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Várnai, Péter. (2004). DNA and its counterions: a molecular dynamics study. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(14). 4269–4280. 208 indexed citations

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Beveridge, David L., Gabriela Barreiro, David A. Case, et al.. (2004). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the 136 Unique Tetranucleotide Sequences of DNA Oligonucleotides. I. Research Design and Results on d(CpG) Steps. Biophysical Journal. 87(6). 3799–3813. 222 indexed citations

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Topf, Maya, Péter Várnai, Christopher J. Schofield, & W. Graham Richards. (2002). Molecular dynamics simulations of the acyl‐enzyme and the tetrahedral intermediate in the deacylation step of serine proteases. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 47(3). 357–369. 22 indexed citations

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Várnai, Péter. (2002). alpha/gamma Transitions in the B-DNA backbone. Nucleic Acids Research. 30(24). 5398–5406. 104 indexed citations

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Giudice, Emmanuel, Péter Várnai, & Richard Lavery. (2001). Energetic and Conformational Aspects of A:T Base-Pair Opening within the DNA Double Helix. ChemPhysChem. 2(11). 673–677. 38 indexed citations

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Várnai, Péter & Arieh Warshel. (2000). Computer Simulation Studies of the Catalytic Mechanism of Human Aldose Reductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122(16). 3849–3860. 54 indexed citations

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Várnai, Péter, William G. Richards, & Paul D. Lyne. (1999). Modelling the catalytic reaction in human aldose reductase. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 37(2). 218–227. 35 indexed citations

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Nyulászi, László, Péter Várnai, Wolfgang Eisfeld, & Manfred Regitz. (1997). Regioselectivity in cycloaddition reaction between phosphaacetylene and diazomethane: Anab initio study. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 18(5). 609–616. 15 indexed citations

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Nyulászi, László, Péter Várnai, & Tamás Veszprémi. (1995). About the aromaticity of five-membered heterocycles. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 358(1-3). 55–61. 84 indexed citations

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