Rula Zain

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Rula Zain is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rula Zain has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Organic Chemistry and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rula Zain's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (30 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (20 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (17 papers). Rula Zain is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (30 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (20 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (17 papers). Rula Zain collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Denmark and Egypt. Rula Zain's co-authors include Smith Rjh, Jacek Stawiński, Anna Berglöf, H. Yesid Estupiñán, Mats Thelin, Mauno Vihinen, Karin E. Lundin, Eric Westman, Jian‐Sheng Sun and Chi-Hung Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Rula Zain

59 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Comparative Analysis of BTK Inhibitors and Mechanisms Underlying Adverse Effects

2021 166 citations H. Yesid Estupiñán, Anna Berglöf et al. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rula Zain Sweden	20	987	280	219	168	128	61	1.4k
Gerjan de Bruin Netherlands	20	767 0.8×	162 0.6×	156 0.7×	97 0.6×	365 2.9×	33	1.0k
Chester A. Metcalf United States	19	648 0.7×	198 0.7×	187 0.9×	71 0.4×	353 2.8×	29	1.2k
Jimmy A. Blair United States	12	1.0k 1.1×	154 0.6×	169 0.8×	75 0.4×	812 6.3×	16	1.7k
Kathleen Haskell United States	12	884 0.9×	71 0.3×	133 0.6×	95 0.6×	351 2.7×	18	1.2k
Daniel Lietha Spain	23	1.2k 1.2×	55 0.2×	148 0.7×	32 0.2×	327 2.6×	31	2.1k
Laurence Choulier France	26	984 1.0×	120 0.4×	57 0.3×	31 0.2×	190 1.5×	51	1.6k
Yung‐Mae Yao United States	12	757 0.8×	76 0.3×	26 0.1×	184 1.1×	279 2.2×	25	1.2k
Manuel M. Müller United States	19	2.1k 2.1×	375 1.3×	305 1.4×	19 0.1×	164 1.3×	45	2.4k
Lori O'Connell United States	7	1.2k 1.2×	84 0.3×	110 0.5×	22 0.1×	150 1.2×	7	1.8k
Torbjörn Gräslund Sweden	24	1.1k 1.1×	64 0.2×	52 0.2×	49 0.3×	450 3.5×	67	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rula Zain

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Saher, Osama, Марек Напиерала, Jill S. Napierala, et al.. (2025). Anti-gene oligonucleotides targeting Friedreich’s ataxia expanded GAA⋅TTC repeats increase Frataxin expression. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 36(2). 102541–102541.

Rjh, Smith, Jan A. Burger, & Rula Zain. (2024). Estimating the Number of Polygenic Diseases Among Six Mutually Exclusive Entities of Non-Tumors and Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(22). 11968–11968. 1 indexed citations

Estupiñán, H. Yesid, Thibault Bouderlique, Chenfei He, et al.. (2024). In BTK, phosphorylated Y223 in the SH3 domain mirrors catalytic activity, but does not influence biological function. Blood Advances. 8(8). 1981–1990. 3 indexed citations

Lundin, Karin E., Yi Hao, Samantha Roudi, et al.. (2024). Anti-gene oligonucleotide clamps invade dsDNA and downregulate huntingtin expression. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 35(4). 102348–102348. 1 indexed citations

Rjh, Smith, et al.. (2023). Large-scale expansions of Friedreich's ataxia GAA•TTC repeats in an experimental human system: role of DNA replication and prevention by LNA-DNA oligonucleotides and PNA oligomers. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(16). 8532–8549. 11 indexed citations

Honcharenko, Dmytro, Karin E. Lundin, Jyotirmoy Maity, et al.. (2022). 2′- O -( N -(Aminoethyl)carbamoyl)methyl Modification Allows for Lower Phosphorothioate Content in Splice-Switching Oligonucleotides with Retained Activity. Nucleic Acid Therapeutics. 32(3). 221–233. 2 indexed citations

Bost, Jeremy, Osama Saher, Daniel W. Hagey, et al.. (2021). Growth Media Conditions Influence the Secretion Route and Release Levels of Engineered Extracellular Vesicles. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 11(5). e2101658–e2101658. 40 indexed citations

Estupiñán, H. Yesid, Qing Wang, Anna Berglöf, et al.. (2021). BTK gatekeeper residue variation combined with cysteine 481 substitution causes super-resistance to irreversible inhibitors acalabrutinib, ibrutinib and zanubrutinib. Leukemia. 35(5). 1317–1329. 49 indexed citations

Bogdanović, Gordana, Marcus Buggert, Yu Gao, et al.. (2021). Covid-19 in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: clinical outcome and B- and T-cell immunity during 13 months in consecutive patients. Leukemia. 36(2). 476–481. 23 indexed citations

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Estupiñán, H. Yesid, Anna Berglöf, Rula Zain, & Smith Rjh. (2021). Comparative Analysis of BTK Inhibitors and Mechanisms Underlying Adverse Effects. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 630942–630942. 166 indexed citations breakdown →

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Olsson, Thomas, Olof Gissberg, Osama Saher, et al.. (2021). Oligonucleotides Targeting DNA Repeats Downregulate Huntingtin Gene Expression in Huntington's Patient-Derived Neural Model System. Nucleic Acid Therapeutics. 31(6). 443–456. 5 indexed citations

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Estupiñán, H. Yesid, Thibault Bouderlique, Chenfei He, et al.. (2020). Novel mouse model resistant to irreversible BTK inhibitors: a tool identifying new therapeutic targets and side effects. Blood Advances. 4(11). 2439–2450. 18 indexed citations

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Zain, Rula & Smith Rjh. (2019). Targeted Oligonucleotides for Treating Neurodegenerative Tandem Repeat Diseases. Neurotherapeutics. 16(2). 248–262. 17 indexed citations

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Lundin, Karin E., Olof Gissberg, Smith Rjh, & Rula Zain. (2019). Chemical Development of Therapeutic Oligonucleotides. Methods in molecular biology. 2036. 3–16. 11 indexed citations

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Xu, You, Olof Gissberg, Jesper Wengel, et al.. (2019). The ability of locked nucleic acid oligonucleotides to pre-structure the double helix: A molecular simulation and binding study. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0211651–e0211651. 8 indexed citations

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Wengel, Jesper, et al.. (2019). Oligonucleotide Binding to Non-B-DNA in MYC. Molecules. 24(5). 1000–1000. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, You, Alessandra Villa, Karin E. Lundin, et al.. (2017). LNA effects on DNA binding and conformation: from single strand to duplex and triplex structures. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11043–11043. 29 indexed citations

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Nikravesh, Abbas, Rikard Dryselius, Omid R. Faridani, et al.. (2007). Antisense PNA Accumulates in Escherichia coli and Mediates a Long Post-antibiotic Effect. Molecular Therapy. 15(8). 1537–1542. 52 indexed citations

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Zaid, Ahmed, Jian‐Sheng Sun, Émile Bisagni, et al.. (2004). Triple‐Helix Directed Cleavage of Double‐Stranded DNA by Benzoquinoquinoxaline‐1,10‐phenanthroline Conjugates. ChemBioChem. 5(11). 1550–1557. 31 indexed citations

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Zain, Rula, Y. Blouquit, Émile Bisagni, et al.. (2003). Optimization of Triple‐Helix‐Directed DNA Cleavage by Benzoquinoquinoxaline–Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid Conjugates. ChemBioChem. 4(9). 856–862. 9 indexed citations

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