Rein Aasland

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Rein Aasland is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rein Aasland has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Rein Aasland's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (8 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers). Rein Aasland is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (8 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers). Rein Aasland collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Germany and United Kingdom. Rein Aasland's co-authors include Harald Stenmark, Lisbeth C. Olsen, Toby J. Gibson, Ban‐Hock Toh, Antonello D’Arrigo, Anders Fjose, Dag E. Helland, Hans E. Krokan, A. Francis Stewart and Alexander Brehm and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Rein Aasland

56 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

The PHD finger: Implications for chromatin-mediated transcriptional regulation

1995 723 citations Rein Aasland Trends in Biochemical Sciences profile →
Structure of mammalian AMPK and its regulation by ADP

2011 712 citations Rein Aasland, Stephen R. Martin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rein Aasland Norway	32	4.2k	902	705	684	438	58	5.4k
Anne Marie Quinn United States	17	5.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	825 1.2×	583 0.9×	791 1.8×	32	6.7k
Rachel Toth United Kingdom	43	4.0k 1.0×	737 0.8×	641 0.9×	393 0.6×	776 1.8×	84	5.6k
Alan M. Tartakoff United States	41	3.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	277 0.4×	390 0.6×	285 0.7×	113	6.0k
N. Rao Movva Switzerland	29	4.8k 1.2×	610 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	629 0.9×	790 1.8×	41	5.9k
Thomas H. Plummer United States	40	4.4k 1.0×	699 0.8×	391 0.6×	314 0.5×	709 1.6×	76	5.9k
Raúl Méndez Spain	38	4.9k 1.2×	841 0.9×	287 0.4×	455 0.7×	298 0.7×	71	6.1k
Craig V. Byus United States	30	2.8k 0.7×	335 0.4×	322 0.5×	516 0.8×	331 0.8×	65	4.6k
Guangwei Du United States	36	3.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	253 0.4×	265 0.4×	307 0.7×	90	4.6k
Caroline E. Shamu United States	19	2.8k 0.7×	1.8k 2.0×	260 0.4×	792 1.2×	177 0.4×	22	4.4k
Heiko Blaser Germany	17	2.3k 0.5×	751 0.8×	508 0.7×	416 0.6×	747 1.7×	17	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rein Aasland

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Strømland, Øyvind, Stephen R. Martin, Valeria De Marco, et al.. (2020). The Arabidopsis (ASHH2) CW domain binds monomethylated K4 of the histone H3 tail through conformational selection. FEBS Journal. 287(20). 4458–4480. 3 indexed citations

Rack, J.G.M., et al.. (2014). The PHD finger of p300 Influences Its Ability to Acetylate Histone and Non-Histone Targets. Journal of Molecular Biology. 426(24). 3960–3972. 23 indexed citations

Justin, N., Valeria De Marco, Rein Aasland, & S.J. Gamblin. (2010). Reading, writing and editing methylated lysines on histone tails: new insights from recent structural studies. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 20(6). 730–738. 52 indexed citations

Pánek, Josef, Ingvar Eidhammer, & Rein Aasland. (2007). Using hydropathy features for function prediction of membrane proteins. Molecular Membrane Biology. 24(4). 304–312. 4 indexed citations

Slagsvold, Thomas, Rein Aasland, Satoshi Hirano, et al.. (2005). Eap45 in Mammalian ESCRT-II Binds Ubiquitin via a Phosphoinositide-interacting GLUE Domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(20). 19600–19606. 144 indexed citations

Pánek, Josef, Ingvar Eidhammer, & Rein Aasland. (2005). A new method for identification of protein (sub)families in a set of proteins based on hydropathy distribution in proteins. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 58(4). 923–934. 38 indexed citations

Brehm, Alexander, et al.. (2004). The many colours of chromodomains. BioEssays. 26(2). 133–140. 136 indexed citations

Valvatne, Håvard, Kamilla Breen, Anne M. Øyan, et al.. (2004). Nucleosome Binding by the Bromodomain and PHD Finger of the Transcriptional Cofactor p300. Journal of Molecular Biology. 337(4). 773–788. 99 indexed citations

Korenjak, Michael, Barbie Taylor‐Harding, Ulrich K. Binné, et al.. (2004). Native E2F/RBF Complexes Contain Myb-Interacting Proteins and Repress Transcription of Developmentally Controlled E2F Target Genes. Cell. 119(2). 181–193. 242 indexed citations

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Conklin, Darrell, Inge Jonassen, Rein Aasland, & William R. Taylor. (2002). Association of nucleotide patterns with gene function classes: application to human 3′ untranslated sequences. Bioinformatics. 18(1). 182–189. 27 indexed citations

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Stenmark, Harald, Rein Aasland, & Paul C. Driscoll. (2002). The phosphatidylinositol 3‐phosphate‐binding FYVE finger. FEBS Letters. 513(1). 77–84. 164 indexed citations

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Mittnacht, Sibylle, Serge Roche, Rein Aasland, et al.. (2000). Genetics and development. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 10(1). 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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Olsen, Lisbeth C., Rein Aasland, & Anders Fjose. (1997). A vasa-like gene in zebrafish identifies putative primordial germ cells. Mechanisms of Development. 66(1-2). 95–105. 221 indexed citations

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Stenmark, Harald, Rein Aasland, Ban‐Hock Toh, & Antonello D’Arrigo. (1996). Endosomal Localization of the Autoantigen EEA1 Is Mediated by a Zinc-binding FYVE Finger. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(39). 24048–24054. 398 indexed citations

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Aasland, Rein. (1996). The SANT domain: a putative DNA-binding domain in the SWI-SNF and ADA complexes, the transcriptional co-repressor N-CoR and TFIIIB. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 21(3). 87–89. 82 indexed citations

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Olsen, Lisbeth C., Rein Aasland, Hans E. Krokan, & Dag E. Helland. (1991). Human uracil-DNA glycosylase complementsE.coli ungmutants. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(16). 4473–4478. 31 indexed citations

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Wyllie, Fiona S., Johan R. Lillehaug, Christine M. Hughes, et al.. (1990). Absence of abnormalities of the c-erbB-1 and c-erbB-2 proto-oncogenes in human thyroid neoplasia. European Journal of Cancer and Clinical Oncology. 26(7). 777–779. 39 indexed citations

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Aasland, Rein, Lars A. Akslen, Jan Erik Varhaug, & J.R. Lillehaug. (1990). Co‐expression of the genes encoding transforming growth factor‐α and its receptor in papillary carcinomas of the thyroid. International Journal of Cancer. 46(3). 382–387. 52 indexed citations

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Krokan, Hans E., Lisbeth C. Olsen, Rein Aasland, et al.. (1990). DNA Repair in Mammalian Tissues and Cells. PubMed. 53. 175–190. 2 indexed citations

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Haukanes, Bjørn Ivar, et al.. (1988). Optimal conditions for hybridization with oligonucleotides: A study with myc-oncogene DNA probes. Analytical Biochemistry. 170(1). 193–202. 47 indexed citations

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