Rafael E. Herrera

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Rafael E. Herrera is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael E. Herrera has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Oncology and 4 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Rafael E. Herrera's work include Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (8 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Rafael E. Herrera is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (8 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Rafael E. Herrera collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Rafael E. Herrera's co-authors include Robert A. Weinberg, Alfred Nordheim, Peter E. Shaw, Ashby J. Morrison, Felix H. Lam, René H. Medema, Tomi P. Mäkelä, Robert Schneider, Thomas Jenuwein and Tony Kouzarides and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rafael E. Herrera

23 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Rb targets histone H3 methylation and HP1 to promoters

2001 706 citations Søren Jensby Nielsen, Robert Schneider et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael E. Herrera United States	16	2.2k	969	277	261	249	23	2.6k
Yasuhiko Takahashi Japan	13	1.7k 0.8×	853 0.9×	218 0.8×	259 1.0×	217 0.9×	32	2.2k
Maria Cristina Moroni Italy	15	2.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	269 1.0×	347 1.3×	299 1.2×	19	2.5k
Regina Groisman France	15	3.0k 1.4×	776 0.8×	376 1.4×	373 1.4×	260 1.0×	27	3.2k
Lili Yamasaki United States	19	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	211 0.8×	254 1.0×	380 1.5×	23	2.3k
Laura Magnaghi-Jaulin France	17	2.0k 0.9×	751 0.8×	267 1.0×	148 0.6×	584 2.3×	26	2.3k
Andrea Cocito Italy	9	2.0k 0.9×	683 0.7×	184 0.7×	332 1.3×	274 1.1×	11	2.3k
Larisa Litovchick United States	24	1.4k 0.6×	669 0.7×	151 0.5×	245 0.9×	293 1.2×	54	1.8k
Andrea C. Carrano United States	15	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	269 1.0×	297 1.1×	576 2.3×	17	3.1k
Irina Naguibneva France	18	2.2k 1.0×	601 0.6×	261 0.9×	703 2.7×	126 0.5×	21	2.5k
Elena Díaz‐Rodríguez Spain	23	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	198 0.7×	412 1.6×	915 3.7×	45	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael E. Herrera

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20 of 20 papers shown

King, D., et al.. (2022). Retinoblastoma protein regulates carcinogen susceptibility at heterochromatic cancer driver loci. Life Science Alliance. 5(4). e202101134–e202101134. 4 indexed citations

Schwartz, Erin K., et al.. (2021). Genome-wide profiles of UV lesion susceptibility, repair, and mutagenic potential in melanoma. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 823. 111758–111758. 6 indexed citations

García-Nieto, Pablo E., Erin K. Schwartz, D. King, et al.. (2017). Carcinogen susceptibility is regulated by genome architecture and predicts cancer mutagenesis. The EMBO Journal. 36(19). 2829–2843. 64 indexed citations

Hale, Tracy K., Alejandro Contreras, Ashby J. Morrison, & Rafael E. Herrera. (2006). Phosphorylation of the Linker Histone H1 by CDK Regulates Its Binding to HP1α. Molecular Cell. 22(5). 693–699. 68 indexed citations

Contreras, Alejandro, Tracy K. Hale, David L. Stenoien, et al.. (2003). The Dynamic Mobility of Histone H1 Is Regulated by Cyclin/CDK Phosphorylation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(23). 8626–8636. 133 indexed citations

Morrison, Ashby J., et al.. (2003). Dominant-Negative Nuclear Receptor Corepressor Relieves Transcriptional Inhibition of Retinoic Acid Receptor but Does Not Alter the Agonist/Antagonist Activities of the Tamoxifen-Bound Estrogen Receptor. Molecular Endocrinology. 17(8). 1543–1554. 11 indexed citations

Nielsen, Søren Jensby, Robert Schneider, Uta‐Maria Bauer, et al.. (2001). Rb targets histone H3 methylation and HP1 to promoters. Nature. 412(6846). 561–565. 706 indexed citations breakdown →

Herrera, Rafael E., Michael Yang, John Ludes-Meyers, et al.. (2001). Forkhead Homologue in Rhabdomyosarcoma Functions as a Bifunctional Nuclear Receptor-interacting Protein with Both Coactivator and Corepressor Functions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(30). 27907–27912. 143 indexed citations

Gooch, Jennifer L., Rafael E. Herrera, & Douglas Yee. (2000). The role of p21 in interferon gamma-mediated growth inhibition of human breast cancer cells.. PubMed. 11(6). 335–42. 50 indexed citations

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Herrera, Rafael E., Alfred Nordheim, & A. Francis Stewart. (1997). Chromatin structure analysis of the human c- fos promoter reveals a centrally positioned nucleosome. Chromosoma. 106(5). 284–292. 27 indexed citations

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Herrera, Rafael E., Tomi P. Mäkelä, & Robert A. Weinberg. (1996). TGF beta-induced growth inhibition in primary fibroblasts requires the retinoblastoma protein.. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 7(9). 1335–1342. 67 indexed citations

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Herrera, Rafael E., Feng Chen, & R A Weinberg. (1996). Increased histone H1 phosphorylation and relaxed chromatin structure in Rb-deficient fibroblasts.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 93(21). 11510–11515. 83 indexed citations

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Herrera, Rafael E., Valerie P. Sah, Bart O. Williams, et al.. (1996). Altered Cell Cycle Kinetics, Gene Expression, and G ₁ Restriction Point Regulation in Rb -Deficient Fibroblasts. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 16(5). 2402–2407. 270 indexed citations

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Runkel, Laura, Peter E. Shaw, Rafael E. Herrera, Robert A. Hipskind, & Alfred Nordheim. (1991). Multiple Basal Promoter Elements Determine the Level of Human c- fos Transcription. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(3). 1270–1280. 14 indexed citations

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Runkel, Laura, Peter E. Shaw, Rafael E. Herrera, Robert A. Hipskind, & Alfred Nordheim. (1991). Multiple basal promoter elements determine the level of human c-fos transcription.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(3). 1270–1280. 45 indexed citations

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Stewart, A. Francis, et al.. (1990). Rapid induction of c-fos transcription reveals quantitative linkage of RNA polymerase II and DNA topoisomerase I enzyme activities. Cell. 60(1). 141–149. 121 indexed citations

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Herrera, Rafael E., Peter E. Shaw, & Alfred Nordheim. (1989). Occupation of the c-fos serum response element in vivo by a multi-protein complex is unaltered by growth factor induction. Nature. 340(6228). 68–70. 309 indexed citations

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Herrera, Rafael E. & Peter E. Shaw. (1989). UV shadowing provides a simple means to quantify nucleic acid transferred to hybridization membranes. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(21). 8892–8892. 5 indexed citations

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Nordheim, Alfred, Rafael E. Herrera, & Alexander Rich. (1987). Binding of anti-Z-DNA antibodies to negatively supercoiled SV40 DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 15(4). 1661–1677. 10 indexed citations

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Darby, Martyn K., Rafael E. Herrera, Hans-Peter Vosberg, & Alfred Nordheim. (1986). DNA topoisomerase II cleaves at specific sites in the 5′ flanking region of c-fos proto-oncogenes in vitro.. The EMBO Journal. 5(9). 2257–2265. 38 indexed citations

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