Shaun Rawson

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Shaun Rawson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaun Rawson has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Structural Biology and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Shaun Rawson's work include Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (9 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (8 papers) and ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (8 papers). Shaun Rawson is often cited by papers focused on Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (9 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (8 papers) and ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (8 papers). Shaun Rawson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Shaun Rawson's co-authors include Richard M. Walsh, Stephen P. Muench, Sarah M. Sterling, Jun Zhang, Yongfei Cai, Tianshu Xiao, Sophia Rits‐Volloch, Bing Chen, Hanqin Peng and Chen Shen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Shaun Rawson

42 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

Distinct conformational states of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

2020 765 citations Yongfei Cai, Jun Zhang et al. Science profile →
NLRP3 cages revealed by full-length mouse NLRP3 structure control pathway activation

2021 179 citations Liudmila Andreeva, Liron David et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shaun Rawson United States	21	1.6k	850	222	190	171	44	2.6k
Yao Cong China	30	2.2k 1.3×	742 0.9×	226 1.0×	138 0.7×	265 1.5×	68	3.2k
Antoni G. Wrobel United Kingdom	17	669 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	190 0.9×	120 0.6×	165 1.0×	25	1.6k
Tai-huang Huang Taiwan	25	1.6k 1.0×	999 1.2×	218 1.0×	220 1.2×	87 0.5×	58	2.8k
Thomas S. Walter United Kingdom	28	1.4k 0.8×	643 0.8×	230 1.0×	196 1.0×	112 0.7×	52	2.7k
Edward T. Eng United States	26	1.2k 0.7×	421 0.5×	186 0.8×	112 0.6×	105 0.6×	54	2.4k
Miao Gui China	18	774 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	88 0.4×	160 0.8×	229 1.3×	25	1.9k
Youwei Yan United States	22	1.1k 0.7×	625 0.7×	282 1.3×	271 1.4×	294 1.7×	34	2.4k
Lorenzo Casalino United States	21	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	154 0.7×	276 1.5×	46 0.3×	33	2.1k
Jeremiah S. Joseph United States	26	1.4k 0.9×	719 0.8×	186 0.8×	113 0.6×	156 0.9×	35	2.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ha, Byung Hak, et al.. (2025). Cryo-EM structures of CRAF/MEK1/14-3-3 complexes in autoinhibited and open-monomer states reveal features of RAF regulation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8150–8150.

Skiba, Meredith A., Sarah M. Sterling, Shaun Rawson, et al.. (2024). Antibodies expand the scope of angiotensin receptor pharmacology. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(12). 1577–1585. 13 indexed citations

Walsh, Richard M., Shaun Rawson, Aida Razi, et al.. (2024). Mechanism of autocatalytic activation during proteasome assembly. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(8). 1167–1175. 10 indexed citations

Adolf, Frank, Jiale Du, Ellen A. Goodall, et al.. (2024). Visualizing chaperone-mediated multistep assembly of the human 20S proteasome. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(8). 1176–1188. 9 indexed citations

Erlandson, Sarah C., Shaun Rawson, James Osei‐Owusu, et al.. (2023). The relaxin receptor RXFP1 signals through a mechanism of autoinhibition. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(8). 1013–1021. 11 indexed citations

Walsh, Richard M., et al.. (2023). Structure of the preholoproteasome reveals late steps in proteasome core particle biogenesis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30(10). 1516–1524. 9 indexed citations

Rawson, Shaun, et al.. (2023). Tethered agonist activated ADGRF1 structure and signalling analysis reveal basis for G protein coupling. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2490–2490. 7 indexed citations

Zheng, Wang, Chen Shen, Longfei Wang, et al.. (2022). pH regulates potassium conductance and drives a constitutive proton current in human TMEM175. Science Advances. 8(12). eabm1568–eabm1568. 35 indexed citations

Walsh, Richard M., Megan L. Mayer, Shaun Rawson, et al.. (2022). Practices for running a research-oriented shared cryo-EM facility. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 960940–960940. 4 indexed citations

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Walsh, Richard M., Shaun Rawson, Mandeep Kaur, et al.. (2021). Structures of chaperone-associated assembly intermediates reveal coordinated mechanisms of proteasome biogenesis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(5). 418–425. 26 indexed citations

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Rawson, Shaun, et al.. (2021). Cryo-EM structure of the B cell co-receptor CD19 bound to the tetraspanin CD81. Science. 371(6526). 300–305. 45 indexed citations

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Cai, Yongfei, Jun Zhang, Tianshu Xiao, et al.. (2021). Structural basis for enhanced infectivity and immune evasion of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Science. 373(6555). 642–648. 154 indexed citations

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Andreeva, Liudmila, Liron David, Shaun Rawson, et al.. (2021). NLRP3 cages revealed by full-length mouse NLRP3 structure control pathway activation. Cell. 184(26). 6299–6312.e22. 179 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Yongfei, Jun Zhang, Tianshu Xiao, et al.. (2020). Distinct conformational states of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Science. 369(6511). 1586–1592. 765 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tomasek, David, Shaun Rawson, James Lee, et al.. (2020). Structure of a nascent membrane protein as it folds on the BAM complex. Nature. 583(7816). 473–478. 110 indexed citations

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Sadeghpour, Amin, Shaun Rawson, Stephen A. Baldwin, et al.. (2018). Spherical-supported membranes as platforms for screening against membrane protein targets. Analytical Biochemistry. 549. 58–65. 5 indexed citations

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Thompson, Rebecca F., M.G. Iadanza, Emma L. Hesketh, Shaun Rawson, & Neil A. Ranson. (2018). Collection, pre-processing and on-the-fly analysis of data for high-resolution, single-particle cryo-electron microscopy. Nature Protocols. 14(1). 100–118. 77 indexed citations

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Amporndanai, Kangsa, Paul M. O’Neill, Colin W. G. Fishwick, et al.. (2018). X-ray and cryo-EM structures of inhibitor-bound cytochromebc₁complexes for structure-based drug discovery. IUCrJ. 5(2). 200–210. 20 indexed citations

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Postis, Vincent L. G., Shaun Rawson, Jennifer K. Mitchell, et al.. (2014). The use of SMALPs as a novel membrane protein scaffold for structure study by negative stain electron microscopy. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1848(2). 496–501. 130 indexed citations

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McPhillie, Martin J., Ying Zhou, Stuart Woods, et al.. (2013). The benzimidazole based drugs show good activity against T. gondii but poor activity against its proposed enoyl reductase enzyme target. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 24(3). 911–916. 4 indexed citations

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