Ruby I. MacDonald

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ruby I. MacDonald is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruby I. MacDonald has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Physiology and 5 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ruby I. MacDonald's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (17 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (14 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers). Ruby I. MacDonald is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (17 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (14 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers). Ruby I. MacDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Ruby I. MacDonald's co-authors include Robert C. MacDonald, Keizo Takeshita, Nanda K. Subbarao, Bert Ph. M. Menco, Alfonso Mondragón, Dongning Li, Hideki Kusunoki, Heather Mortiboys, Katy Barnes and Francis J. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ruby I. MacDonald

36 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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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.

Small-volume extrusion apparatus for preparation of large, unilamellar vesicles

1991 1.3k citations Robert C. MacDonald, Ruby I. MacDonald et al. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruby I. MacDonald United States	22	2.1k	593	341	257	237	36	2.8k
Mamoru Nakanishi Japan	34	2.2k 1.1×	355 0.6×	395 1.2×	145 0.6×	153 0.6×	191	3.9k
Michel Seigneuret France	28	2.2k 1.1×	385 0.6×	385 1.1×	195 0.8×	162 0.7×	53	3.2k
Thomas J. Jess United Kingdom	14	2.4k 1.1×	376 0.6×	281 0.8×	119 0.5×	239 1.0×	21	3.7k
Gerardo D. Fidelio Argentina	32	2.6k 1.3×	589 1.0×	431 1.3×	279 1.1×	470 2.0×	100	3.4k
Jimmy B. Feix United States	29	1.8k 0.9×	255 0.4×	204 0.6×	174 0.7×	212 0.9×	80	2.9k
Takashi Fujii Japan	37	1.8k 0.9×	217 0.4×	475 1.4×	201 0.8×	540 2.3×	196	4.5k
Quet F. Ahkong United Kingdom	27	1.4k 0.7×	357 0.6×	210 0.6×	114 0.4×	90 0.4×	43	2.1k
Thomas W. Tillack United States	27	2.4k 1.2×	826 1.4×	626 1.8×	233 0.9×	207 0.9×	38	3.2k
Zenon Grabarek United States	34	3.4k 1.6×	258 0.4×	581 1.7×	313 1.2×	109 0.5×	70	4.9k
Alexander Fedorov Portugal	26	1.6k 0.8×	302 0.5×	230 0.7×	263 1.0×	461 1.9×	76	2.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

MacDonald, Ruby I., et al.. (2018). Mitochondrial abnormalities in Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease: can mitochondria be targeted therapeutically?. Biochemical Society Transactions. 46(4). 891–909. 161 indexed citations

Viana, Joana, Eilís Hannon, Emma Dempster, et al.. (2016). Schizophrenia-associated methylomic variation: molecular signatures of disease and polygenic risk burden across multiple brain regions. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(1). ddw373–ddw373. 73 indexed citations

Murphy, Therese M., Chloe C. Y. Wong, Louise Arseneault, et al.. (2015). Methylomic markers of persistent childhood asthma: a longitudinal study of asthma-discordant monozygotic twins. Clinical Epigenetics. 7(1). 130–130. 30 indexed citations

Ipsaro, Jonathan J., et al.. (2008). Molecular Epitopes of the Ankyrin−Spectrin Interaction. Biochemistry. 47(28). 7452–7464. 27 indexed citations

Kusunoki, Hideki, Ruby I. MacDonald, & Alfonso Mondragón. (2004). Structural Insights into the Stability and Flexibility of Unusual Erythroid Spectrin Repeats. Structure. 12(4). 645–656. 67 indexed citations

Kusunoki, Hideki, G. Minasov, Ruby I. MacDonald, & Alfonso Mondragón. (2004). Independent Movement, Dimerization and Stability of Tandem Repeats of Chicken Brain α-Spectrin. Journal of Molecular Biology. 344(2). 495–511. 88 indexed citations

MacDonald, Ruby I., et al.. (2004). Stabilities of folding of clustered, two-repeat fragments of spectrin reveal a potential hinge in the human erythroid spectrin tetramer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(6). 1502–1507. 40 indexed citations

Li, Dongning, et al.. (2001). Structural and Thermodynamic Studies of Cloned Fragments of Spectrin.. PubMed. 6(2). 218–218. 1 indexed citations

Li, Dongning, et al.. (1999). Structures of Two Repeats of Spectrin Suggest Models of Flexibility. Cell. 98(4). 523–535. 216 indexed citations

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Pantazatos, Dennis & Ruby I. MacDonald. (1997). Site-directed Mutagenesis of Either the Highly Conserved Trp-22 or the Moderately Conserved Trp-95 to a Large, Hydrophobic Residue Reduces the Thermodynamic Stability of a Spectrin Repeating Unit. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(34). 21052–21059. 31 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Ruby I., et al.. (1997). Cytoskeletal protein binding kinetics at planar phospholipid membranes. Biophysical Journal. 73(4). 1987–1998. 29 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Ruby I., et al.. (1993). Band 4.1 Enhances Spectrin Binding to Phosphatidylserine Vesicles. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 191(1). 165–171. 12 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Ruby I.. (1993). Temperature and ionic effects on the interaction of erythroid spectrin with phosphatidylserine membranes. Biochemistry. 32(27). 6957–6964. 28 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Robert C., et al.. (1991). Small-volume extrusion apparatus for preparation of large, unilamellar vesicles. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1061(2). 297–303. 1335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Subbarao, Nanda K., Ruby I. MacDonald, Keizo Takeshita, & Robert C. MacDonald. (1991). Characteristics of spectrin-induced leakage of extruded, phosphatidylserine vesicles. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1063(1). 147–154. 32 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Ruby I.. (1988). Phosphatidylserine vesicle lysis by sendai virus at low pH is not due to virus-vesicle fusion. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 265(1). 62–72. 1 indexed citations

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Peng, Jian, M. Prakash, Ruby I. MacDonald, Pulak Dutta, & J. B. Ketterson. (1987). Formation of multilayers of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine using the Langmuir-Blodgett technique. Langmuir. 3(6). 1096–1097. 31 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Robert C., et al.. (1984). Inhibition of Sendai virus-induced hemolysis by long chain fatty acids. Virology. 134(1). 103–117. 13 indexed citations

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Kundrot, Craig E., Elizabeth A. Spangler, Debra A. Kendall, Robert C. MacDonald, & Ruby I. MacDonald. (1983). Sendai virus-mediated lysis of liposomes requires cholesterol.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 80(6). 1608–1612. 30 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Ruby I. & A. Körner. (1971). Growth hormone stimulation of protein synthetic activity of membrane‐bound ribosomes. FEBS Letters. 13(1). 62–64. 9 indexed citations

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