Sean Munro

28.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
107 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Sean Munro is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Munro has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Cell Biology, 79 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Sean Munro's work include Cellular transport and secretion (78 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (34 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (18 papers). Sean Munro is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (78 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (34 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (18 papers). Sean Munro collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Sean Munro's co-authors include Hugh R.B. Pelham, Kerrie L. Thomas, Muna Abu-Shaar, Alison K. Gillingham, Tim P. Levine, Mark S. Bretscher, Rudy Behnia, Tim J. Stevens, Hayley J. Sharpe and B. Panić and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sean Munro

105 papers receiving 20.6k 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.

Molecular characterization of a peripheral receptor for cannabinoids

1993 4.1k citations Sean Munro et al. profile →
A C-terminal signal prevents secretion of luminal ER proteins

1987 1.9k citations Sean Munro et al. profile →
Lipid Rafts

2003 1.3k citations Sean Munro profile →
An hsp70-like protein in the ER: Identity with the 78 kd glucose-regulated protein and immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein

1986 1.3k citations Sean Munro et al. profile →
Essentials of Glycobiology

2000 779 citations Sean Munro profile →
Cholesterol and the Golgi Apparatus

1993 683 citations Sean Munro et al. Science profile →
Furin cleavage of SARS-CoV-2 Spike promotes but is not essential for infection and cell-cell fusion

2021 215 citations Guido Papa, Donna L. Mallery et al. PLoS Pathogens profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sean Munro	12.7k	8.7k	4.0k	2.8k	2.0k	107	21.0k
Anthony R. Means	23.7k 1.9×	4.7k 0.5×	931 0.2×	3.6k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	379	33.9k
John D. Scott	21.6k 1.7×	4.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	5.4k 1.9×	1.8k 0.9×	337	28.2k
Michael N. Hall	34.3k 2.7×	6.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	3.9k 1.9×	246	44.9k
Enrique Rozengurt	22.2k 1.8×	5.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	5.2k 1.9×	2.5k 1.2×	504	32.9k
Henry R. Bourne	21.3k 1.7×	6.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.3×	5.8k 2.1×	2.0k 1.0×	215	29.7k
Eisuke Nishida	26.9k 2.1×	9.9k 1.1×	878 0.2×	2.7k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	332	37.5k
Akitsugu Yamamoto	14.1k 1.1×	7.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	3.6k 1.8×	210	29.5k
Jeremy Thorner	19.4k 1.5×	6.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	2.1k 0.7×	558 0.3×	231	22.5k
Alfred Wittinghofer	25.9k 2.0×	8.3k 0.9×	623 0.2×	2.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	296	31.2k
Junken Aoki	16.0k 1.3×	4.6k 0.5×	541 0.1×	1.5k 0.5×	3.1k 1.5×	396	21.5k

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Welch, Lawrence G., Nadine Muschalik, & Sean Munro. (2024). The FAM114A proteins are adaptors for the recycling of Golgi enzymes. Journal of Cell Science. 137(17). 2 indexed citations

Munro, Sean, et al.. (2024). New players and targets in mannose 6-phosphate-dependent lysosomal sorting. The EMBO Journal. 43(24). 6233–6235. 1 indexed citations

Welch, Lawrence G., Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew, Farida Begum, Tim J. Stevens, & Sean Munro. (2021). GOLPH3 and GOLPH3L are broad-spectrum COPI adaptors for sorting into intra-Golgi transport vesicles. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(10). 42 indexed citations

Papa, Guido, Donna L. Mallery, Anna Albecka, et al.. (2021). Furin cleavage of SARS-CoV-2 Spike promotes but is not essential for infection and cell-cell fusion. PLoS Pathogens. 17(1). e1009246–e1009246. 215 indexed citations breakdown →

Tremel, Shirley, Yohei Ohashi, Dustin R. Morado, et al.. (2021). Structural basis for VPS34 kinase activation by Rab1 and Rab5 on membranes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1564–1564. 76 indexed citations

Galindo, Antonio, Vicente J. Planelles-Herrero, Gianluca Degliesposti, & Sean Munro. (2021). Cryo‐EM structure of metazoan TRAPPIII, the multi‐subunit complex that activates the GTPase Rab1. The EMBO Journal. 40(12). e107608–e107608. 30 indexed citations

Weill, Uri, Eric Clement Arakel, Matan Golan, et al.. (2018). Toolbox: Creating a systematic database of secretory pathway proteins uncovers new cargo for COPI. Traffic. 19(5). 370–379. 13 indexed citations

Muschalik, Nadine & Sean Munro. (2018). Golgins. Current Biology. 28(8). R374–R376. 32 indexed citations

Galindo, Antonio, et al.. (2017). The two TRAPP complexes of metazoans have distinct roles and act on different Rab GTPases. The Journal of Cell Biology. 217(2). 601–617. 50 indexed citations

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Wong, Mie & Sean Munro. (2014). The specificity of vesicle traffic to the Golgi is encoded in the golgin coiled-coil proteins. Science. 346(6209). 1256898–1256898. 192 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Michelle M., Daniel J. Goetschius, Alexis T. Weiner, et al.. (2014). γ-Tubulin controls neuronal microtubule polarity independently of Golgi outposts. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(13). 2039–2050. 88 indexed citations

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Christis, Chantal & Sean Munro. (2012). The small G protein Arl1 directs the trans-Golgi–specific targeting of the Arf1 exchange factors BIG1 and BIG2. The Journal of Cell Biology. 196(3). 327–335. 51 indexed citations

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Ohashi, Yohei & Sean Munro. (2010). Membrane Delivery to the Yeast Autophagosome from the Golgi–Endosomal System. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21(22). 3998–4008. 147 indexed citations

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Rabouille, Cathérine, et al.. (2005). The exocyst component Sec5 is present on endocytic vesicles in the oocyte of Drosophila melanogaster. The Journal of Cell Biology. 169(6). 953–963. 54 indexed citations

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Gillingham, Alison K. & Sean Munro. (2003). Long coiled-coil proteins and membrane traffic. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1641(2-3). 71–85. 175 indexed citations

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Gillingham, Alison K., Andréa Pfeifer, & Sean Munro. (2002). CASP, the Alternatively Spliced Product of the Gene Encoding the CCAAT-Displacement Protein Transcription Factor, Is a Golgi Membrane Protein Related to Giantin. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 13(11). 3761–3774. 97 indexed citations

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Levine, Tim P. & Sean Munro. (2002). Targeting of Golgi-Specific Pleckstrin Homology Domains Involves Both PtdIns 4-Kinase-Dependent and -Independent Components. Current Biology. 12(9). 695–704. 413 indexed citations

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Munro, Sean, et al.. (2001). A yeast homolog of the mammalian mannose 6-phosphate receptors contributes to the sorting of vacuolar hydrolases. Current Biology. 11(13). 1074–1078. 34 indexed citations

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Levine, Tim P. & Sean Munro. (2001). Dual Targeting of Osh1p, a Yeast Homologue of Oxysterol-binding Protein, to both the Golgi and the Nucleus-Vacuole Junction. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 12(6). 1633–1644. 170 indexed citations

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Munro, Sean & Ben Nichols. (1999). The GRIP domain – a novel Golgi-targeting domain found in several coiled-coil proteins. Current Biology. 9(7). 377–380. 159 indexed citations

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