Roberto El-Khoury

647 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 474 citations indexed

About

Roberto El-Khoury is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto El-Khoury has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 474 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Organic Chemistry and 2 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Roberto El-Khoury's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (7 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (5 papers). Roberto El-Khoury is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (7 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (5 papers). Roberto El-Khoury collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Spain and France. Roberto El-Khoury's co-authors include Masad J. Damha, Marcel Hollenstein, Luke K. McKenzie, Carlos González, Hala Abou Assi, John-Carl Olsen, Ali Trabolsi, Thirumurugan Prakasam, Rana A. Bilbeisi and Loı̈c J. Charbonnière and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Roberto El-Khoury

11 papers receiving 472 citations

Hit Papers

Recent progress in non-native nucleic acid modifications 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Recent progress in non-native nucleic acid modifications
    2021 217 citations Luke K. McKenzie, Roberto El-Khoury et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers

Roberto El-Khoury
Irene Gómez‐Pinto Spain
Saswata Karmakar United States
Rafael del Villar‐Guerra United States
Takahiro Nakama Japan
Maxim S. Kupryushkin Russia
Joachim Schnabl Switzerland
Veronika Raindlová Czechia
Chun‐Yin Chan Hong Kong
Arun A. Tanpure India
Rafael Claveria‐Gimeno Spain
Irene Gómez‐Pinto Spain
Roberto El-Khoury
Citations per year, relative to Roberto El-Khoury Roberto El-Khoury (= 1×) peers Irene Gómez‐Pinto

Countries citing papers authored by Roberto El-Khoury

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roberto El-Khoury

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto El-Khoury

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roberto El-Khoury. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roberto El-Khoury based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Roberto El-Khoury. Roberto El-Khoury is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Ryneš, Jan, Šimon Džatko, Tomáš Loja, et al.. (2024). In-cell NMR suggests that DNA i-motif levels are strongly depleted in living human cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1992–1992. 36 indexed citations
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El-Khoury, Roberto, et al.. (2023). Telomeric i-motifs and C-strands inhibit parallel G-quadruplex extension by telomerase. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(19). 10395–10410. 12 indexed citations
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El-Khoury, Roberto, Christopher Hennecker, Anthony Mittermaier, et al.. (2023). i-Motif folding intermediates with zero-nucleotide loops are trapped by 2′-fluoroarabinocytidine via F···H and O···H hydrogen bonds. Communications Chemistry. 6(1). 31–31. 10 indexed citations
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El-Khoury, Roberto & Masad J. Damha. (2023). End-ligation can dramatically stabilize i-motifs at neutral pH. Chemical Communications. 59(25). 3715–3718. 5 indexed citations
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Harikrishna, S., et al.. (2022). Nucleoside Analogues with a Seven-Membered Sugar Ring: Synthesis and Structural Compatibility in DNA–RNA Hybrids. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 87(5). 2367–2379. 12 indexed citations
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McKenzie, Luke K., et al.. (2021). Recent progress in non-native nucleic acid modifications. Chemical Society Reviews. 50(8). 5126–5164. 217 indexed citations breakdown →
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El-Khoury, Roberto & Masad J. Damha. (2021). 2′-Fluoro-arabinonucleic Acid (FANA): A Versatile Tool for Probing Biomolecular Interactions. Accounts of Chemical Research. 54(9). 2287–2297. 43 indexed citations
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Paudel, Bishnu P., Aaron L. Moye, Hala Abou Assi, et al.. (2020). A mechanism for the extension and unfolding of parallel telomeric G-quadruplexes by human telomerase at single-molecule resolution. eLife. 9. 43 indexed citations
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Assi, Hala Abou, Roberto El-Khoury, Carlos González, & Masad J. Damha. (2017). 2′-Fluoroarabinonucleic acid modification traps G-quadruplex and i-motif structures in human telomeric DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(20). 11535–11546. 35 indexed citations
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Prakasam, Thirumurugan, Rana A. Bilbeisi, Roberto El-Khoury, et al.. (2017). Topological transformation of a trefoil knot into a [2]catenane. Dalton Transactions. 46(47). 16474–16479. 9 indexed citations
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Bilbeisi, Rana A., Thirumurugan Prakasam, Matteo Lusi, et al.. (2016). [C–H⋯anion] interactions mediate the templation and anion binding properties of topologically non-trivial metal–organic structures in aqueous solutions. Chemical Science. 7(4). 2524–2531. 52 indexed citations

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