Robert M. Vernon

6.8k citations

36 papers · 4.6k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 1%
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Biochemistry top 2%
- Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis

Papers in

Molecular Biology 33
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 21
- RNA Research and Splicing 10
- RNA modifications and cancer 8
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 7
Materials Chemistry 15
- Enzyme Structure and Function 15

Co-authors: Julie D. Forman‐Kay David Baker Alaji Bah P. Andrew Chong Brian Tsang Nahum Sonenberg Lewis E. Kay Tae Hun Kim
Journals: Journal of Biomolecular NMR (3 papers)Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics (3 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (3 papers)Journal of the American Chemical Society (2 papers)Molecular Cell (2 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Robert M. Vernon

36 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Pi-Pi contacts are an overlooked protein feature relevant to phase separation 2018 · 587 citations

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 eLife
2014 Nature
2011 PLoS ONE
2009 Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics

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1	Idpconformergenerator: A flexible software suite for sampling the conformational space of disordered protein states Biophysical Journal ·João M. C. Teixeira, HK Pak, K. Lahlou, Jie Li, Robert M. Vernon, Mickaël Krzeminski, 李华琼, Oufan Zhang, Mojtaba Haghighatlari, Lei Yu, Teresa Head‐Gordon, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2023	1
2	An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions Biomolecules ·Hao Cai, Robert M. Vernon, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2022	34
3	IDPConformerGenerator: A Flexible Software Suite for Sampling the Conformational Space of Disordered Protein States The Journal of Physical Chemistry A ·João M. C. Teixeira, HK Pak, K. Lahlou, Jie Li, Robert M. Vernon, Mickaël Krzeminski, 李华琼, Oufan Zhang, Mojtaba Haghighatlari, A. Fujimori, Teresa Head‐Gordon, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2022	39
4	Global Proximity Interactome of the Human Macroautophagy Pathway Autophagy ·小松由佳, Andrew M. Sydor, Étienne Coyaud, Estelle Laurent, Ruitong Xiao, Nora Mellouk, Jonathan St‐Germain, Robert M. Vernon, Julie D. Forman‐Kay, Taoyingnan Li, R. H. Parker, Kexin Zhao, Neale D. Ridgway, Peter K. Kim, Brian Raught, John H. Brumell	2021	11
5	Configurational Entropy of Folded Proteins and Its Importance for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins International Journal of Molecular Sciences ·Meili Liu, Akshaya Kumar Das, Aurora Elizondo Huerta, Bortolot, Sara Y. Cheng, Robert M. Vernon, Julie D. Forman‐Kay, Teresa Head‐Gordon	2021	12
6	Non-cooperative 4E-BP2 folding with exchange between eIF4E-binding and binding-incompatible states tunes cap-dependent translation inhibition Nature Communications ·Jennifer E. Dawson, Alaji Bah, Zhenfu Zhang, Robert M. Vernon, Hong Lin, P. Andrew Chong, 奈穂美清水, Nahum Sonenberg, Claudiu C. Gradinaru, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2020	19
7	Comparative roles of charge, π , and hydrophobic interactions in sequence-dependent phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Suman Das, Yi‐Hsuan Lin, Robert M. Vernon, Julie D. Forman‐Kay, Hue Sun Chan	2020	214
8	Entropy and Information within Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions Entropy ·Iva Pritišanac, Robert M. Vernon, Alan M Moses, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2019	28
9	Phospho-dependent phase separation of FMRP and CAPRIN1 recapitulates regulation of translation and deadenylation Science ·Tae Hun Kim, Brian Tsang, Robert M. Vernon, Nahum Sonenberg, Lewis E. Kay, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2019	244
10	Phosphoregulated FMRP phase separation models activity-dependent translation through bidirectional control of mRNA granule formation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Brian Tsang, Jason Arsenault, Robert M. Vernon, Hong Lin, Nahum Sonenberg, Lu‐Yang Wang, Alaji Bah, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2019	244
11	Properties of Stress Granule and P-Body Proteomes Molecular Cell ·Ji‐Young Youn, Boris J.A. Dyakov, Jianping Zhang, James D.R. Knight, Robert M. Vernon, Julie D. Forman‐Kay, Anne‐Claude Gingras	2019	285
12	First-generation predictors of biological protein phase separation Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Robert M. Vernon, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2019	98
13	Pi-Pi contacts are an overlooked protein feature relevant to phase separation eLife ·Robert M. Vernon, P. Andrew Chong, Brian Tsang, Tae Hun Kim, Alaji Bah, Patrick Farber, Hong Lin, Julie D. Forman‐Kay Hit paper breakdown →	2018	587
14	Deletion of Phenylalanine 508 in the First Nucleotide-binding Domain of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Increases Conformational Exchange and Inhibits Dimerization Journal of Biological Chemistry ·P. Andrew Chong, Patrick Farber, Robert M. Vernon, Rhea P. Hudson, Anthony Mittermaier, Julie D. Forman‐Kay	2015	18
15	Folding of an intrinsically disordered protein by phosphorylation as a regulatory switch Nature ·Alaji Bah, Robert M. Vernon, Zeba Rahman Siddiqui, Mickaël Krzeminski, Ranjith Muhandiram, Charlie W. Zhao, Nahum Sonenberg, Lewis E. Kay, Julie D. Forman‐Kay Hit paper breakdown →	2014	432
16	The dual role of fragments in fragment‐assembly methods for de novo protein structure prediction Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Julia Handl, Joshua Knowles, Robert M. Vernon, David Baker, Simon C. Lovell	2011	38
17	The Acidic Transcription Activator Gcn4 Binds the Mediator Subunit Gal11/Med15 Using a Simple Protein Interface Forming a Fuzzy Complex Molecular Cell ·Peter S. Brzović, Clemens C. Heikaus, Abdul Hafeez Joya, Robert M. Vernon, 哲史天野, Derek Pacheco, Linda Warfield, Peter Littlefield, David Baker, Rachel E. Klevit, Steven Hahn	2011	155
18	Prediction of structures of zinc‐binding proteins through explicit modeling of metal coordination geometry Protein Science ·Chu Wang, Robert M. Vernon, Oliver F. Lange, Michael D. Tyka, David Baker	2010	38
19	Structure prediction for CASP8 with all‐atom refinement using Rosetta Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Srivatsan Raman, Robert M. Vernon, James Thompson, Michael D. Tyka, Ruslan I. Sadreyev, Jimin Pei, David E. Kim, Elizabeth H. Kellogg, Frank DiMaio, Oliver F. Lange, Lisa N. Kinch, William Sheffler, Bong‐Hyun Kim, Rhiju Das, Nick V. Grishin, David Baker Hit paper breakdown →	2009	380
20	Structure prediction for CASP7 targets using extensive all-atom refinement with Rosetta@home Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Rhiju Das, Bin Qian, Srivatsan Raman, Robert M. Vernon, James Thompson, Philip Bradley, Sagar D. Khare, Michael D. Tyka, Rachel Tuck, Dylan Chivian, David E. Kim, William Sheffler, Lars Malmström, Andrew M. Wollacott, Chu Wang, Ingemar André, David Baker	2007	145

About Robert M. Vernon

Robert M. Vernon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Cell Biology, having authored 36 papers that have together received 4.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (21 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (15 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (3 papers), Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (4.0k citations), Biochemistry (223 citations), Spectroscopy (427 citations), Biophysics (123 citations) and Materials Chemistry (852 citations). Robert M. Vernon has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Julie D. Forman‐Kay, David Baker, Alaji Bah, P. Andrew Chong, Brian Tsang, Nahum Sonenberg, Lewis E. Kay, Tae Hun Kim, Patrick Farber and Hong Lin. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biomolecular NMR, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Molecular Cell.

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