Rhiannon K. Macrae

3.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
33 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Rhiannon K. Macrae is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rhiannon K. Macrae has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Rhiannon K. Macrae's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (24 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (8 papers). Rhiannon K. Macrae is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (24 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (8 papers). Rhiannon K. Macrae collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Rhiannon K. Macrae's co-authors include Feng Zhang, Eugene V. Koonin, Han Altae-Tran, Kira S. Makarova, Blake Lash, Soumya Kannan, Makoto Saito, Guilhem Faure, Max E. Wilkinson and Alim Ladha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Rhiannon K. Macrae

29 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Mammalian retrovirus-like protein PEG10 packages its own mRNA and can be pseudotyped for mRNA delivery

2021 289 citations Michael Segel, Blake Lash et al. Science profile →
The widespread IS200/IS605 transposon family encodes diverse programmable RNA-guided endonucleases

2021 239 citations Han Altae-Tran, Soumya Kannan et al. Science profile →
Prokaryotic innate immunity through pattern recognition of conserved viral proteins

2022 138 citations Linyi Gao, Max E. Wilkinson et al. Science profile →
Programmable protein delivery with a bacterial contractile injection system

2023 137 citations Mirco Friedrich, Blake Lash et al. Nature profile →
Fanzor is a eukaryotic programmable RNA-guided endonuclease

2023 120 citations Makoto Saito, Peiyu Xu et al. Nature profile →
Uncovering the functional diversity of rare CRISPR-Cas systems with deep terascale clustering

2023 81 citations Han Altae-Tran, Soumya Kannan et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rhiannon K. Macrae United States	18	1.3k	299	179	165	113	33	1.6k
Ross C. Wilson United States	13	1.3k 1.0×	229 0.8×	164 0.9×	87 0.5×	104 0.9×	21	1.5k
Christopher A. Lino United States	5	900 0.7×	260 0.9×	70 0.4×	206 1.2×	91 0.8×	6	1.2k
Elitza Deltcheva United Kingdom	7	1.9k 1.4×	423 1.4×	180 1.0×	172 1.0×	49 0.4×	10	2.0k
Jason Carte United States	6	1.6k 1.2×	377 1.3×	101 0.6×	172 1.0×	35 0.3×	6	1.6k
Alexandra East-Seletsky United States	7	2.0k 1.5×	224 0.7×	187 1.0×	95 0.6×	35 0.3×	7	2.1k
Fedor V. Karginov United States	17	1.8k 1.4×	160 0.5×	120 0.7×	135 0.8×	144 1.3×	28	2.0k
Qi Pan China	17	1.1k 0.8×	329 1.1×	80 0.4×	156 0.9×	117 1.0×	35	1.4k
Yen Choo United Kingdom	22	2.3k 1.7×	314 1.1×	187 1.0×	183 1.1×	65 0.6×	43	2.5k
Shannon M. Miller United States	14	1.8k 1.4×	483 1.6×	213 1.2×	38 0.2×	292 2.6×	18	2.5k
Alexandra East Singapore	4	1.7k 1.3×	385 1.3×	166 0.9×	36 0.2×	35 0.3×	4	1.8k

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Faure, Guilhem, Makoto Saito, Max E. Wilkinson, et al.. (2025). TIGR-Tas: A family of modular RNA-guided DNA-targeting systems in prokaryotes and their viruses. Science. 388(6746). eadv9789–eadv9789. 17 indexed citations

Friedrich, Mirco, Chris King, Chau-Duy-Tam Vo, et al.. (2025). Rational engineering of minimally immunogenic nucleases for gene therapy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 105–105. 15 indexed citations

Kappel, Kalli, Daniel Strebinger, Chau-Duy-Tam Vo, et al.. (2025). Characterizing protein sequence determinants of nuclear condensates by high-throughput pooled imaging with CondenSeq. Nature Methods. 22(7). 1464–1475. 1 indexed citations

Friedrich, Mirco, Julie Pham, Jiakun Tian, et al.. (2025). Transient hepatic reconstitution of trophic factors enhances aged immunity. Nature. 650(8101). 481–489.

Wilkinson, Max E., Daniel Strebinger, Blake Lash, et al.. (2025). Structure and biochemistry-guided engineering of an all-RNA system for DNA insertion with R2 retrotransposons. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6079–6079.

Kannan, Soumya, Han Altae-Tran, Peiyu Xu, et al.. (2025). Evolution-guided protein design of IscB for persistent epigenome editing in vivo. Nature Biotechnology. 8 indexed citations

Wilkinson, Max E., David Li, Linyi Gao, Rhiannon K. Macrae, & Feng Zhang. (2024). Phage-triggered reverse transcription assembles a toxic repetitive gene from a noncoding RNA. Science. 386(6717). eadq3977–eadq3977. 21 indexed citations

Hirano, Seiichi, Han Altae-Tran, Soumya Kannan, Rhiannon K. Macrae, & Feng Zhang. (2024). Structural determinants of DNA cleavage by a CRISPR HNH-Cascade system. Molecular Cell. 84(16). 3154–3162.e5. 4 indexed citations

Xu, Peiyu, Makoto Saito, Guilhem Faure, et al.. (2024). Structural insights into the diversity and DNA cleavage mechanism of Fanzor. Cell. 187(19). 5238–5252.e20. 5 indexed citations

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Strebinger, Daniel, Chris J. Frangieh, Mirco Friedrich, et al.. (2023). Cell type-specific delivery by modular envelope design. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5141–5141. 43 indexed citations

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Saito, Makoto, Peiyu Xu, Guilhem Faure, et al.. (2023). Fanzor is a eukaryotic programmable RNA-guided endonuclease. Nature. 620(7974). 660–668. 120 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nety, Suchita P., Han Altae-Tran, Soumya Kannan, et al.. (2023). The Transposon-Encoded Protein TnpB Processes Its Own mRNA into ωRNA for Guided Nuclease Activity. The CRISPR Journal. 6(3). 232–242. 18 indexed citations

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Hirano, Seiichi, Kalli Kappel, Han Altae-Tran, et al.. (2022). Structure of the OMEGA nickase IsrB in complex with ωRNA and target DNA. Nature. 610(7932). 575–581. 27 indexed citations

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Strecker, Jonathan, F. Esra Demircioglu, David Li, et al.. (2022). RNA-activated protein cleavage with a CRISPR-associated endopeptidase. Science. 378(6622). 874–881. 48 indexed citations

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Cui, Naiwen, et al.. (2022). Microfluidic Enrichment and Computational Analysis of Rare Sequences from Mixed Genomic Samples for Metagenomic Mining. The CRISPR Journal. 5(5). 677–684.

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Gao, Linyi, Max E. Wilkinson, Jonathan Strecker, et al.. (2022). Prokaryotic innate immunity through pattern recognition of conserved viral proteins. Science. 377(6607). eabm4096–eabm4096. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kato, Kazuki, Sae Okazaki, Soumya Kannan, et al.. (2022). Structure of the IscB–ωRNA ribonucleoprotein complex, the likely ancestor of CRISPR-Cas9. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6719–6719. 27 indexed citations

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Altae-Tran, Han, Soumya Kannan, F. Esra Demircioglu, et al.. (2021). The widespread IS200/IS605 transposon family encodes diverse programmable RNA-guided endonucleases. Science. 374(6563). 57–65. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Segel, Michael, Blake Lash, Alim Ladha, et al.. (2021). Mammalian retrovirus-like protein PEG10 packages its own mRNA and can be pseudotyped for mRNA delivery. Science. 373(6557). 882–889. 289 indexed citations breakdown →

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Saito, Makoto, Alim Ladha, Jonathan Strecker, et al.. (2021). Dual modes of CRISPR-associated transposon homing. Cell. 184(9). 2441–2453.e18. 91 indexed citations

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