Shaun Webb

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Shaun Webb is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaun Webb has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Shaun Webb's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). Shaun Webb is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). Shaun Webb collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Shaun Webb's co-authors include Alastair Kerr, Adrian Bird, Robert S. Illingworth, Robert Andrews, Keith James, Daniel J. Turner, Peter J. Skene, Thomas Clouaire, Jacky Guy and Aimée M. Deaton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Shaun Webb

34 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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Neuronal MeCP2 Is Expressed at Near Histone-Octamer Levels and Globally Alters the Chromatin State

2010 526 citations Peter J. Skene, Robert S. Illingworth et al. Molecular Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shaun Webb United Kingdom	24	2.9k	1.1k	251	201	201	34	3.3k
Robert S. Illingworth United Kingdom	22	3.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	203 0.8×	251 1.2×	162 0.8×	29	4.2k
Alastair Kerr United Kingdom	32	4.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	231 0.9×	234 1.2×	163 0.8×	59	4.7k
Peter J. Skene United States	14	2.7k 0.9×	757 0.7×	179 0.7×	224 1.1×	244 1.2×	22	3.1k
Gert Jan C. Veenstra Netherlands	32	4.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	234 0.9×	364 1.8×	240 1.2×	70	5.4k
Bernard Ramsahoye United Kingdom	26	3.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	87 0.3×	328 1.6×	251 1.2×	38	4.3k
Peri Tate United Kingdom	16	1.9k 0.7×	728 0.6×	132 0.5×	225 1.1×	102 0.5×	21	2.3k
Nathalie G. Bérubé Canada	32	1.9k 0.6×	932 0.8×	104 0.4×	183 0.9×	219 1.1×	71	2.6k
Ni Huang United Kingdom	21	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	123 0.5×	174 0.9×	114 0.6×	33	2.4k
Danielle Vermaak United States	18	3.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	227 0.9×	153 0.8×	160 0.8×	22	3.7k
Daniel J. Sussman United States	24	2.5k 0.9×	567 0.5×	116 0.5×	124 0.6×	172 0.9×	36	3.2k

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Zoch, Ansgar, Shaun Webb, Rebecca V. Berrens, et al.. (2024). Two-factor authentication underpins the precision of the piRNA pathway. Nature. 634(8035). 979–985. 15 indexed citations

Wapenaar, Hannah, Ruofan Chen, Hayden Burdett, et al.. (2023). Histone divergence in trypanosomes results in unique alterations to nucleosome structure. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(15). 7882–7899. 12 indexed citations

Heras, Jose I. de las, Stefan Hintze, Rafal Czapiewski, et al.. (2022). Metabolic, fibrotic and splicing pathways are all altered in Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy spectrum patients to differing degrees. Human Molecular Genetics. 32(6). 1010–1031. 4 indexed citations

Blackburn, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2021). Activity of Lymphostatin, A Lymphocyte Inhibitory Virulence Factor of Pathogenic Escherichia coli, is Dependent on a Cysteine Protease Motif. Journal of Molecular Biology. 433(19). 167200–167200. 3 indexed citations

Tillotson, Rebekah, Justyna Cholewa-Waclaw, John Connelly, et al.. (2021). Neuronal non-CG methylation is an essential target for MeCP2 function. Molecular Cell. 81(6). 1260–1275.e12. 29 indexed citations

Connelly, John, et al.. (2020). Absence of MeCP2 binding to non-methylated GT-rich sequences in vivo. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(7). 3542–3552. 12 indexed citations

Lagger, Sabine, John Connelly, Gabriele Schweikert, et al.. (2017). MeCP2 recognizes cytosine methylated tri-nucleotide and di-nucleotide sequences to tune transcription in the mammalian brain. PLoS Genetics. 13(5). e1006793–e1006793. 101 indexed citations

Choudhury, Nila Roy, Gregory Heikel, Jakub Nowak, et al.. (2017). RNA-binding activity of TRIM25 is mediated by its PRY/SPRY domain and is required for ubiquitination. BMC Biology. 15(1). 105–105. 122 indexed citations

Thomson, John P., Raffaele Ottaviano, Harri Lempiäinen, et al.. (2016). Loss of Tet1-Associated 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Is Concomitant with Aberrant Promoter Hypermethylation in Liver Cancer. Cancer Research. 76(10). 3097–3108. 69 indexed citations

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Robson, Michael I., Jose I. de las Heras, Rafal Czapiewski, et al.. (2016). Tissue-Specific Gene Repositioning by Muscle Nuclear Membrane Proteins Enhances Repression of Critical Developmental Genes during Myogenesis. Molecular Cell. 62(6). 834–847. 133 indexed citations

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Selfridge, Jim, Sabine Lagger, John Connelly, et al.. (2015). The molecular basis of variable phenotypic severity among common missense mutations causing Rett syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics. 25(3). 558–570. 72 indexed citations

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Illingworth, Robert S., Dina De Sousa, Shaun Webb, et al.. (2015). Inter-individual variability contrasts with regional homogeneity in the human brain DNA methylome. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(2). 732–744. 34 indexed citations

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Clouaire, Thomas, Shaun Webb, & Adrian Bird. (2014). Cfp1 is required for gene expression-dependent H3K4 trimethylation and H3K9 acetylation in embryonic stem cells. Genome biology. 15(9). 451–451. 58 indexed citations

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Barrass, J. David, et al.. (2014). A Splicing-Dependent Transcriptional Checkpoint Associated with Prespliceosome Formation. Molecular Cell. 53(5). 779–790. 71 indexed citations

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Hage, Aziz El, Shaun Webb, Alastair Kerr, & David Tollervey. (2014). Genome-Wide Distribution of RNA-DNA Hybrids Identifies RNase H Targets in tRNA Genes, Retrotransposons and Mitochondria. PLoS Genetics. 10(10). e1004716–e1004716. 166 indexed citations

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Clouaire, Thomas, Shaun Webb, Robert S. Illingworth, et al.. (2012). Cfp1 integrates both CpG content and gene activity for accurate H3K4me3 deposition in embryonic stem cells. Genes & Development. 26(15). 1714–1728. 198 indexed citations

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Deaton, Aimée M., Shaun Webb, Alastair Kerr, et al.. (2011). Cell type–specific DNA methylation at intragenic CpG islands in the immune system. Genome Research. 21(7). 1074–1086. 216 indexed citations

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Illingworth, Robert S., Shaun Webb, Alastair Kerr, et al.. (2010). Orphan CpG Islands Identify Numerous Conserved Promoters in the Mammalian Genome. PLoS Genetics. 6(9). e1001134–e1001134. 384 indexed citations

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Skene, Peter J., Robert S. Illingworth, Shaun Webb, et al.. (2010). Neuronal MeCP2 Is Expressed at Near Histone-Octamer Levels and Globally Alters the Chromatin State. Molecular Cell. 37(4). 457–468. 526 indexed citations breakdown →

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Webb, Shaun, Teun J. de Vries, & M. H. Kaufman. (1992). The differential staining pattern of the X chromosome in the embryonic and extraembryonic tissues of postimplantation homozygous tetraploid mouse embryos. Genetics Research. 59(3). 205–214. 28 indexed citations

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