S. Banu Ozkan

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

S. Banu Ozkan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Banu Ozkan has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in S. Banu Ozkan's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (44 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers). S. Banu Ozkan is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (44 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers). S. Banu Ozkan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Saudi Arabia. S. Banu Ozkan's co-authors include Ken A. Dill, Thomas R. Weikl, M. Scott Shell, Z. Nevin Gerek, İvet Bahar, Sudhir Kumar, Tushar Modi, Paul Campitelli, John D. Chodera and José M. Sánchez‐Ruiz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

S. Banu Ozkan

73 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

The Protein Folding Problem

2008 813 citations Ken A. Dill, S. Banu Ozkan et al. Annual Review of Biophysics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Banu Ozkan United States	28	2.7k	1.0k	334	308	264	76	3.2k
David D. Boehr United States	21	3.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	266 0.8×	611 2.0×	315 1.2×	61	4.0k
John Karanicolas United States	29	3.6k 1.3×	988 1.0×	163 0.5×	284 0.9×	463 1.8×	66	4.3k
Elan Eisenmesser United States	30	3.3k 1.2×	813 0.8×	198 0.6×	487 1.6×	137 0.5×	76	4.5k
Magnus Wolf‐Watz Sweden	24	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	205 0.6×	522 1.7×	164 0.6×	56	3.6k
Yves‐Henri Sanejouand France	24	2.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	185 0.6×	317 1.0×	219 0.8×	51	3.4k
José L. Neira Spain	38	3.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	287 0.9×	365 1.2×	103 0.4×	195	4.4k
Jörg Gsponer Canada	30	3.0k 1.1×	707 0.7×	264 0.8×	294 1.0×	156 0.6×	68	3.7k
Bojan Žagrović Austria	33	3.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.4×	177 0.5×	535 1.7×	270 1.0×	83	4.4k
Steven Hayward United Kingdom	31	3.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.9×	250 0.7×	402 1.3×	225 0.9×	79	4.2k
Daniel R. Ripoll United States	39	3.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	279 0.8×	449 1.5×	400 1.5×	100	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Banu Ozkan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ozkan, S. Banu, et al.. (2025). Coarse-grained RNA model for the Martini 3 force field. Biophysical Journal. 125(2). 445–456.

Mana, Miyeko, et al.. (2024). Evidence that the cold- and menthol-sensing functions of the human TRPM8 channel evolved separately. Science Advances. 10(25). eadm9228–eadm9228. 3 indexed citations

Campitelli, Paul, et al.. (2024). Some mechanistic underpinnings of molecular adaptations of SARS-COV-2 spike protein by integrating candidate adaptive polymorphisms with protein dynamics. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations

Campitelli, Paul, et al.. (2023). Some mechanistic underpinnings of molecular adaptations of SARS-COV-2 spike protein by integrating candidate adaptive polymorphisms with protein dynamics. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Mills, Jeremy H., et al.. (2023). Allosteric regulatory control in dihydrofolate reductase is revealed by dynamic asymmetry. Protein Science. 32(8). e4700–e4700. 11 indexed citations

Sharma, Prerna, et al.. (2022). Design of novel cyanovirin-N variants by modulation of binding dynamics through distal mutations. eLife. 11. 14 indexed citations

Campitelli, Paul, Tushar Modi, Sudhir Kumar, & S. Banu Ozkan. (2020). The Role of Conformational Dynamics and Allostery in Modulating Protein Evolution. Annual Review of Biophysics. 49(1). 267–288. 122 indexed citations

Campitelli, Paul, Liskin Swint‐Kruse, & S. Banu Ozkan. (2020). Substitutions at Nonconserved Rheostat Positions Modulate Function by Rewiring Long-Range, Dynamic Interactions. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(1). 201–214. 32 indexed citations

Kumar, Avishek, et al.. (2020). Dynamic Allosteric Residue Coupling Reveals Disease Mechanism for Gaucher Disease and NSNVS Across the Proteome. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 53a–53a. 2 indexed citations

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Modi, Tushar, Jonathan Huihui, Kingshuk Ghosh, & S. Banu Ozkan. (2018). Ancient thioredoxins evolved to modern-day stability–function requirement by altering native state ensemble. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1749). 20170184–20170184. 46 indexed citations

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Campitelli, Paul, Jingjing Guo, Huan‐Xiang Zhou, & S. Banu Ozkan. (2018). Hinge-Shift Mechanism Modulates Allosteric Regulations in Human Pin1. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(21). 5623–5629. 27 indexed citations

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Larrimore, Katherine E., Latha Kannan, Stephen Brimijoin, et al.. (2017). Plant-expressed cocaine hydrolase variants of butyrylcholinesterase exhibit altered allosteric effects of cholinesterase activity and increased inhibitor sensitivity. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10419–10419. 24 indexed citations

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Kumar, Avishek, et al.. (2015). The Role of Conformational Dynamics and Allostery in the Disease Development of Human Ferritin. Biophysical Journal. 109(6). 1273–1281. 49 indexed citations

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Wang, Xu, et al.. (2014). A Flexible Docking Scheme Efficiently Captures the Energetics of Glycan-Cyanovirin Binding. Biophysical Journal. 106(5). 1142–1151. 11 indexed citations

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Farrell, Damien, et al.. (2012). Collective Dynamics Differentiates Functional Divergence in Protein Evolution. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(3). e1002428–e1002428. 25 indexed citations

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Gerek, Z. Nevin, et al.. (2011). Perturbation Response Scanning Method for Identifying Allosteric Transitions and Utilizing in Flexible Docking. Biophysical Journal. 100(3). 372a–373a. 2 indexed citations

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Ozkan, S. Banu, et al.. (2010). Union of Geometric Constraint-Based Simulations with Molecular Dynamics for Protein Structure Prediction. Biophysical Journal. 98(6). 1046–1054. 6 indexed citations

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Shell, M. Scott, S. Banu Ozkan, Vincent A. Voelz, Guohong Wu, & Ken A. Dill. (2009). Blind Test of Physics-Based Prediction of Protein Structures. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 917–924. 36 indexed citations

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Gerek, Z. Nevin, Özlem Keskin, & S. Banu Ozkan. (2009). Identification of specificity and promiscuity of PDZ domain interactions through their dynamic behavior. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 77(4). 796–811. 54 indexed citations

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Engen, John R., Thomas E. Wales, James Michael Hochrein, et al.. (2008). Structure and dynamic regulation of Src-family kinases. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 65(19). 3058–3073. 145 indexed citations

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