Ronald A. Butow

12.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
137 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Ronald A. Butow is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald A. Butow has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Ronald A. Butow's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (69 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (57 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (41 papers). Ronald A. Butow is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (69 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (57 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (41 papers). Ronald A. Butow collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Ronald A. Butow's co-authors include Philip S. Perlman, Zhengchang Liu, Narayan G. Avadhani, Xin Jie Chen, Janet M. Thornton, Xinsheng Liao, Michael G. Douglas, Gottfried Schatz, Venita F. Allison and Brett A. Kaufman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ronald A. Butow

136 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mitochondrial Signaling

2004 744 citations Ronald A. Butow et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Mitochondrial Retrograde Signaling

2006 531 citations Zhengchang Liu, Ronald A. Butow profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald A. Butow United States	57	9.8k	1.1k	773	742	685	137	10.7k
K.W.A. Wirtz Netherlands	55	8.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	355 0.5×	2.6k 3.5×	1.6k 2.3×	218	11.4k
Alexander Tzagoloff United States	77	16.8k 1.7×	1.6k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	647 0.9×	219	19.0k
Richard A. Rachubinski Canada	61	8.9k 0.9×	579 0.5×	385 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.8×	185	10.1k
Bernard Guiard France	68	11.8k 1.2×	2.4k 2.2×	344 0.4×	1.4k 1.9×	382 0.6×	156	12.6k
Chris Meisinger Germany	63	11.3k 1.1×	2.2k 2.1×	324 0.4×	1.4k 1.8×	686 1.0×	119	12.5k
Ian M. Fearnley United Kingdom	60	9.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	249 0.3×	753 1.0×	1.5k 2.1×	128	11.1k
Heinz D. Osiewacz Germany	44	4.6k 0.5×	387 0.4×	943 1.2×	599 0.8×	651 1.0×	152	5.9k
Benedikt Westermann Germany	47	10.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.7×	344 0.4×	3.2k 4.3×	1.2k 1.7×	94	12.0k
Miriam L. Greenberg United States	44	5.6k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	366 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	600 0.9×	137	7.0k
Carla M. Koehler United States	38	6.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	142 0.2×	701 0.9×	706 1.0×	65	7.0k

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Iacovino, Michelina, Hiroshi Sembongi, Monika Bokori-Brown, et al.. (2008). The conserved translocase Tim17 prevents mitochondrial DNA loss. Human Molecular Genetics. 18(1). 65–74. 20 indexed citations

Jin, Can, Antoni Barrientos, Charles B. Epstein, Ronald A. Butow, & Alexander Tzagoloff. (2007). SIT4 regulation of Mig1p‐mediated catabolite repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Letters. 581(29). 5658–5663. 15 indexed citations

Chen, Xin Jie, Xiaowen Wang, Brett A. Kaufman, & Ronald A. Butow. (2005). Aconitase Couples Metabolic Regulation to Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance. Science. 307(5710). 714–717. 257 indexed citations

Liu, Zhengchang, Mário Špı́rek, Janet M. Thornton, & Ronald A. Butow. (2005). A Novel Degron-mediated Degradation of the RTG Pathway Regulator, Mks1p, by SCF^Grr1. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16(10). 4893–4904. 38 indexed citations

Guaragnella, Nicoletta & Ronald A. Butow. (2003). ATO3 Encoding a Putative Outward Ammonium Transporter Is an RTG-independent Retrograde Responsive Gene Regulated by GCN4 and the Ssy1-Ptr3-Ssy5 Amino Acid Sensor System. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(46). 45882–45887. 43 indexed citations

Liu, Zhengchang, Takayuki Sekito, Mário Špı́rek, Janet M. Thornton, & Ronald A. Butow. (2003). Retrograde Signaling Is Regulated by the Dynamic Interaction between Rtg2p and Mks1p. Molecular Cell. 12(2). 401–411. 114 indexed citations

McCammon, Mark T., Charles B. Epstein, Beata Przybyla‐Zawislak, Lee McAlister-Henn, & Ronald A. Butow. (2003). Global Transcription Analysis of Krebs Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Mutants Reveals an Alternating Pattern of Gene Expression and Effects on Hypoxic and Oxidative Genes. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 14(3). 958–972. 85 indexed citations

Wren, Jonathan D., et al.. (2002). Cross-hybridization on PCR-spotted microarrays. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine. 21(2). 71–75. 22 indexed citations

Sekito, Takayuki, Zhengchang Liu, Janet M. Thornton, & Ronald A. Butow. (2002). RTG-dependent Mitochondria-to-Nucleus Signaling Is Regulated byMKS1and Is Linked to Formation of Yeast Prion [URE3]. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 13(3). 795–804. 5 indexed citations

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Okamoto, Koji, Philip S. Perlman, & Ronald A. Butow. (2001). Chapter 16 Targeting of green fluorescent protein to mitochondria. Methods in cell biology. 65. 277–283. 21 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhengchang & Ronald A. Butow. (1999). A Transcriptional Switch in the Expression of Yeast Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Genes in Response to a Reduction or Loss of Respiratory Function. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 19(10). 6720–6728. 218 indexed citations

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Butow, Ronald A. & El Mustapha Bahassi. (1999). Adaptive thermogenesis: Orchestrating mitochondrial biogenesis. Current Biology. 9(20). R767–R769. 28 indexed citations

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Jia, Yankai, Beverly A. Rothermel, Janet M. Thornton, & Ronald A. Butow. (1997). A Basic Helix-Loop-Helix–Leucine Zipper Transcription Complex in Yeast Functions in a Signaling Pathway from Mitochondria to the Nucleus. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 17(3). 1110–1117. 182 indexed citations

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Small, William, et al.. (1995). Enzymic and metabolic studies on retrograde regulation mutants of yeast. Biochemistry. 34(16). 5569–5576. 46 indexed citations

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Azpiroz, Ricardo & Ronald A. Butow. (1995). [33] Mitochondrial inheritance in yeast. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 260. 453–465. 5 indexed citations

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Moran, John V., Steven Zimmerly, Robert Eskes, et al.. (1995). Mobile Group II Introns of Yeast Mitochondrial DNA Are Novel Site-Specific Retroelements. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 15(5). 2828–2838. 97 indexed citations

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Liao, Xinsheng & Ronald A. Butow. (1993). RTG1 and RTG2: Two yeast genes required for a novel path of communication from mitochondria to the nucleus. Cell. 72(1). 61–71. 355 indexed citations

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Perlman, Philip S., et al.. (1989). Functional Expression of a Yeast Mitochondrial Intron-Encoded Protein Requires RNA Processing at a Conserved Dodecamer Sequence at the 3′ End of the Gene. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 9(4). 1507–1512. 17 indexed citations

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Zassenhaus, Hans Peter & Ronald A. Butow. (1984). Expression of GC clusters in the yeast mitochondrial var 1 gene. Transcription into stable RNAs.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 259(13). 8417–8421. 7 indexed citations

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Butow, Ronald A., Frances W. Farrelly, Hans Peter Zassenhaus, et al.. (1982). var1 Determinant Region of Yeast Mitochondrial DNA. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 12. 241–253. 3 indexed citations

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