Richard J. McKenney

4.0k total citations
45 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Richard J. McKenney is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard J. McKenney has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Cell Biology, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Richard J. McKenney's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (42 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (15 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (12 papers). Richard J. McKenney is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (42 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (15 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (12 papers). Richard J. McKenney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Netherlands. Richard J. McKenney's co-authors include Richard B. Vallee, Walter Huynh, Michael Vershinin, Kassandra M Ori-McKenney, Ronald D. Vale, Marvin E. Tanenbaum, Gira Bhabha, Steven P. Gross, Ambarish Kunwar and Ronald D. Vale and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard J. McKenney

41 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard J. McKenney United States 25 1.9k 1.7k 213 211 126 45 2.4k
T. Lynne Blasius United States 12 978 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 193 0.9× 369 1.7× 75 0.6× 18 1.8k
Jennetta W. Hammond United States 15 1.0k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 217 1.0× 328 1.6× 78 0.6× 18 1.9k
Yuko Mimori‐Kiyosue Japan 25 1.7k 0.9× 2.3k 1.4× 225 1.1× 223 1.1× 83 0.7× 40 3.4k
Eugene A. Katrukha Netherlands 28 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 286 1.3× 156 0.7× 84 0.7× 47 2.3k
Dieter R. Klopfenstein Germany 17 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 236 1.1× 70 0.3× 142 1.1× 22 1.9k
Gary J. Brouhard Canada 22 2.2k 1.2× 2.1k 1.3× 154 0.7× 137 0.6× 58 0.5× 36 3.0k
Mihály Kovács Hungary 30 1.4k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 181 0.8× 134 0.6× 113 0.9× 75 3.2k
Andrés E. Leschziner United States 27 955 0.5× 2.1k 1.3× 126 0.6× 292 1.4× 71 0.6× 62 2.7k
Akatsuki Kimura Japan 28 935 0.5× 2.0k 1.2× 92 0.4× 217 1.0× 120 1.0× 60 2.6k
Samara L. Reck‐Peterson United States 33 3.6k 1.9× 3.8k 2.3× 358 1.7× 352 1.7× 132 1.0× 75 5.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard J. McKenney

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All Works

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Rao, Lu, et al.. (2026). Adaptor-mediated recruitment of three dyneins to dynactin enhances force generation. Nature Cell Biology. 28(3). 480–491.
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Tan, Tracy, Yusheng Shen, Barbara Mitchell, et al.. (2024). Microtubule-associated protein, MAP1B, encodes functionally distinct polypeptides. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(11). 107792–107792. 2 indexed citations
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Guo, Xiaojiang, Takashi Akagi, Shinsuke Niwa, et al.. (2024). An Arabidopsis Kinesin-14D motor is associated with midzone microtubules for spindle morphogenesis. Current Biology. 34(16). 3747–3762.e6.
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Ori-McKenney, Kassandra M & Richard J. McKenney. (2023). Tau oligomerization on microtubules in health and disease. Cytoskeleton. 81(1). 35–40. 3 indexed citations
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Tan, Ruensern, Lenka Libusová, Samuel E. Lacey, et al.. (2022). Microtubule lattice spacing governs cohesive envelope formation of tau family proteins. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(11). 1224–1235. 41 indexed citations
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Chiba, Kyoko, Kassandra M Ori-McKenney, Shinsuke Niwa, & Richard J. McKenney. (2022). Synergistic autoinhibition and activation mechanisms control kinesin-1 motor activity. Cell Reports. 39(9). 110900–110900. 32 indexed citations
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Rao, Lu, Kyoko Okada, Kyoko Chiba, et al.. (2021). A highly conserved 3 10 helix within the kinesin motor domain is critical for kinesin function and human health. Science Advances. 7(18). 24 indexed citations
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Tan, Ruensern, Tracy Tan, Jisoo S. Han, et al.. (2020). Microtubules Gate Tau Condensation to Spatially Regulate Microtubule Functions. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 31a–31a. 1 indexed citations
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Bodrug, Tatyana, Elizabeth M. Wilson-Kubalek, Stanley Nithianantham, et al.. (2020). The kinesin-5 tail domain directly modulates the mechanochemical cycle of the motor domain for anti-parallel microtubule sliding. eLife. 9. 31 indexed citations
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Wormser, Ohad, Anna Bakhrat, Silvia Bonaccorsi, et al.. (2020). Absence of SCAPER causes male infertility in humans and Drosophila by modulating microtubule dynamics during meiosis. Journal of Medical Genetics. 58(4). 254–263. 10 indexed citations
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Chiba, Kyoko, H. Takahashi, Min Chen, et al.. (2019). Disease-associated mutations hyperactivate KIF1A motility and anterograde axonal transport of synaptic vesicle precursors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(37). 18429–18434. 71 indexed citations
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Charafeddine, Rabab A., Wilian A. Cortopassi, Parnian Lak, et al.. (2019). Tau repeat regions contain conserved histidine residues that modulate microtubule-binding in response to changes in pH. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(22). 8779–8790. 15 indexed citations
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McKenney, Richard J.. (2019). The tail wags the motor. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(11). 1033–1034. 1 indexed citations
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Tan, Ruensern, Tracy Tan, Jisoo S. Han, et al.. (2019). Microtubules gate tau condensation to spatially regulate microtubule functions. Nature Cell Biology. 21(9). 1078–1085. 144 indexed citations
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Karasmanis, Eva, et al.. (2018). Polarity of Neuronal Membrane Traffic Requires Sorting of Kinesin Motor Cargo during Entry into Dendrites by a Microtubule-Associated Septin. Developmental Cell. 46(2). 204–218.e7. 62 indexed citations
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Amin, Mohammed A., Richard J. McKenney, & Dileep Varma. (2018). Antagonism between the dynein and Ndc80 complexes at kinetochores controls the stability of kinetochore–microtubule attachments during mitosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(16). 5755–5765. 12 indexed citations
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McKenney, Richard J., Walter Huynh, Ronald D. Vale, & Minhajuddin Sirajuddin. (2016). Tyrosination of α‐tubulin controls the initiation of processive dynein–dynactin motility. The EMBO Journal. 35(11). 1175–1185. 158 indexed citations
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McKenney, Richard J., Walter Huynh, Marvin E. Tanenbaum, Gira Bhabha, & Ronald D. Vale. (2014). Activation of cytoplasmic dynein motility by dynactin-cargo adapter complexes. Science. 345(6194). 337–341. 398 indexed citations
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Yi, Julie, Kassandra M Ori-McKenney, Richard J. McKenney, et al.. (2011). High-resolution imaging reveals indirect coordination of opposite motors and a role for LIS1 in high-load axonal transport. The Journal of Cell Biology. 195(2). 193–201. 86 indexed citations
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McKenney, Richard J., Michael Vershinin, Ambarish Kunwar, Richard B. Vallee, & Steven P. Gross. (2010). LIS1 and NudE Induce a Persistent Dynein Force-Producing State. Cell. 141(2). 304–314. 261 indexed citations

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