Rafael E. Luna

1.3k total citations
21 papers, 744 citations indexed

About

Rafael E. Luna is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael E. Luna has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 744 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Oncology and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Rafael E. Luna's work include RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Rafael E. Luna is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Rafael E. Luna collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and France. Rafael E. Luna's co-authors include Gerhard Wagner, Tingfang Yi, Konstantin G. Kousoulas, Haribabu Arthanari, Timothy P. Foster, Jeffrey M. Melancon, Koh Takeuchi, Steven P. Gygi, Manza B. J. Atkinson and Martin Thuo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rafael E. Luna

21 papers receiving 736 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael E. Luna United States	16	462	126	117	85	64	21	744
A. D. B. Malcolm United Kingdom	15	448 1.0×	145 1.2×	131 1.1×	43 0.5×	45 0.7×	42	833
Hidehiko Iwabuki Japan	10	379 0.8×	87 0.7×	90 0.8×	52 0.6×	80 1.3×	11	613
Yeon‐Tae Jeong South Korea	14	634 1.4×	95 0.8×	208 1.8×	100 1.2×	79 1.2×	28	926
Kerrie‐Ann McMahon Australia	18	709 1.5×	66 0.5×	43 0.4×	103 1.2×	91 1.4×	27	1.2k
Henk E. Moorlag Netherlands	17	421 0.9×	54 0.4×	144 1.2×	67 0.8×	76 1.2×	24	913
Dawn R. Christianson United States	10	308 0.7×	82 0.7×	78 0.7×	61 0.7×	29 0.5×	13	542
K. Tatsumi Japan	8	803 1.7×	218 1.7×	262 2.2×	59 0.7×	63 1.0×	8	1.0k
Renpeng Liu United States	14	776 1.7×	80 0.6×	54 0.5×	29 0.3×	83 1.3×	26	1.1k
Henry E. Pelish United States	10	594 1.3×	37 0.3×	130 1.1×	44 0.5×	84 1.3×	22	913
R. I. Christopherson Australia	14	604 1.3×	79 0.6×	74 0.6×	54 0.6×	54 0.8×	28	808

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20 of 20 papers shown

Luna, Rafael E.. (2020). The art of scientific storytelling: framing stories to get where you want to go. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 21(11). 653–654. 3 indexed citations

Boeszoermenyi, Andras, Haribabu Arthanari, Rafael E. Luna, et al.. (2015). Structure of a CGI-58 Motif Provides the Molecular Basis of Lipid Droplet Anchoring. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(44). 26361–26372. 42 indexed citations

Yi, Tingfang, Haribabu Arthanari, Barak Akabayov, et al.. (2015). eIF1A augments Ago2-mediated Dicer-independent miRNA biogenesis and RNA interference. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7194–7194. 40 indexed citations

Luna, Rafael E., et al.. (2015). Scientific Storytelling: From up in the clouds to down to earth… A new approach to mentoring. 18. 252–257. 2 indexed citations

Papadopoulos, Evangelos, Simon Jenni, Khuloud Takrouri, et al.. (2014). Structure of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E in complex with 4EGI-1 reveals an allosteric mechanism for dissociating eIF4G. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(31). E3187–95. 72 indexed citations

Gal, Maayan, Shuai Li, Rafael E. Luna, Koh Takeuchi, & Gerhard Wagner. (2014). The LxVP and PxIxIT NFAT Motifs Bind Jointly to Overlapping Epitopes on Calcineurin’s Catalytic Domain Distant to the Regulatory Domain. Structure. 22(7). 1016–1027. 15 indexed citations

Yi, Tingfang, Bo Zhai, Yonghao Yu, et al.. (2014). Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis reveals system-wide signaling pathways downstream of SDF-1/CXCR4 in breast cancer stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(21). E2182–90. 102 indexed citations

Atkinson, Manza B. J., Stephanie Oyola‐Reynoso, Rafael E. Luna, David K. Bwambok, & Martin Thuo. (2014). Pot-in-pot reactions: a simple and green approach to efficient organic synthesis. RSC Advances. 5(1). 597–607. 19 indexed citations

Tevis, Ian D., et al.. (2014). Odd–Even Effect in the Hydrophobicity of n-Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers Depends upon the Roughness of the Substrate and the Orientation of the Terminal Moiety. Langmuir. 30(40). 11985–11992. 42 indexed citations

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Martín-Marcos, Pilar, Jagpreet S. Nanda, Rafael E. Luna, et al.. (2013). Enhanced eIF1 binding to the 40S ribosome impedes conformational rearrangements of the preinitiation complex and elevates initiation accuracy. RNA. 20(2). 150–167. 31 indexed citations

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Martín-Marcos, Pilar, Jagpreet S. Nanda, Rafael E. Luna, et al.. (2013). β-Hairpin Loop of Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 1 (eIF1) Mediates 40 S Ribosome Binding to Regulate Initiator tRNAMet Recruitment and Accuracy of AUG Selection in Vivo. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(38). 27546–27562. 41 indexed citations

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Luna, Rafael E.. (2013). The art of scientific storytelling: transform your research manuscript using a step-by-step formula. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations

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Luna, Rafael E., Sabine R. Akabayov, Joshua J. Ziarek, & Gerhard Wagner. (2013). Examining weak protein–protein interactions in start codon recognition via NMR spectroscopy. FEBS Journal. 281(8). 1965–1973. 8 indexed citations

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Luna, Rafael E., Haribabu Arthanari, Hiroyuki Hiraishi, et al.. (2013). The Interaction between Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 1A and eIF5 Retains eIF1 within Scanning Preinitiation Complexes. Biochemistry. 52(52). 9510–9518. 31 indexed citations

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Milbradt, Alexander G., Madhura Kulkarni, Tingfang Yi, et al.. (2011). Structure of the VP16 transactivator target in the Mediator. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 18(4). 410–415. 68 indexed citations

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Reibarkh, Mikhail, Yasufumi Yamamoto, Chingakham Ranjit Singh, et al.. (2007). Eukaryotic Initiation Factor (eIF) 1 Carries Two Distinct eIF5-binding Faces Important for Multifactor Assembly and AUG Selection. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(2). 1094–1103. 52 indexed citations

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Luna, Rafael E., Fuchun Zhou, Vladimir N. Chouljenko, et al.. (2004). Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Glycoprotein K8.1 Is Dispensable for Virus Entry. Journal of Virology. 78(12). 6389–6398. 44 indexed citations

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Melancon, Jeffrey M., Rafael E. Luna, Timothy P. Foster, & Konstantin G. Kousoulas. (2004). Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 gK Is Required for gB-Mediated Virus-Induced Cell Fusion, While neither gB and gK nor gB and UL20p Function Redundantly in Virion De-Envelopment. Journal of Virology. 79(1). 299–313. 50 indexed citations

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Galateau-Sallé, Françoise, Rafael E. Luna, Koji Horiba, et al.. (2000). Matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases in bronchial squamous preinvasive lesions. Human Pathology. 31(3). 296–305. 44 indexed citations

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Hilbert, Stephen L., Rafael E. Luna, Jun Zhang, et al.. (1999). Allograft heart valves: The role of apoptosis-mediated cell loss. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 117(3). 454–462. 32 indexed citations

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