Shawn M. Lyons

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Shawn M. Lyons is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shawn M. Lyons has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cancer Research and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Shawn M. Lyons's work include RNA Research and Splicing (22 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers). Shawn M. Lyons is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (22 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers). Shawn M. Lyons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and France. Shawn M. Lyons's co-authors include Pavel Ivanov, Marta M. Fay, Paul Anderson, Nancy Kedersha, Anaïs Aulas, Judy Lieberman, Marshall Thomas, Gerald M. McInerney, Tyler Hickman and Marc D. Panas and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Shawn M. Lyons

44 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Competing Protein-RNA Interaction Networks Control Multiphase Intracellular Organization

2020 538 citations David W. Sanders, Nancy Kedersha et al. Cell profile →
G3BP–Caprin1–USP10 complexes mediate stress granule condensation and associate with 40S subunits

2016 460 citations Nancy Kedersha, Shawn M. Lyons et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shawn M. Lyons United States	23	2.8k	558	223	153	106	44	3.1k
Yongsheng Shi United States	28	3.2k 1.2×	440 0.8×	101 0.5×	160 1.0×	29 0.3×	65	3.6k
Dierk Niessing Germany	30	2.3k 0.8×	184 0.3×	247 1.1×	128 0.8×	126 1.2×	70	2.6k
Woan‐Yuh Tarn Taiwan	35	3.3k 1.2×	285 0.5×	119 0.5×	179 1.2×	51 0.5×	70	3.6k
Saumya Jain United States	11	3.4k 1.2×	158 0.3×	435 2.0×	158 1.0×	220 2.1×	19	3.7k
Isabelle Behm‐Ansmant France	24	3.9k 1.4×	1.2k 2.2×	90 0.4×	187 1.2×	46 0.4×	41	4.2k
Daniel P. Szeto United States	17	2.6k 0.9×	218 0.4×	231 1.0×	124 0.8×	33 0.3×	22	3.4k
Bérangère Lombard France	20	1.8k 0.6×	386 0.7×	561 2.5×	506 3.3×	77 0.7×	34	2.5k
Michael Sheets United States	25	2.6k 0.9×	211 0.4×	300 1.3×	191 1.2×	30 0.3×	51	3.1k
Catherine M. Abbott United Kingdom	27	1.8k 0.6×	170 0.3×	208 0.9×	172 1.1×	69 0.7×	96	2.4k
Geoffrey Childs United States	33	2.5k 0.9×	341 0.6×	173 0.8×	184 1.2×	43 0.4×	76	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shawn M. Lyons

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Kharel, Prakash, et al.. (2025). G-quadruplex topologies determine the functional outcome of guanine-rich bioactive oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(12). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Wenhan, Regina Cencic, J. J. Patten, et al.. (2024). Amidino-rocaglates (ADRs), a class of synthetic rocaglates, are potent inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 replication through inhibition of viral protein synthesis. Antiviral Research. 230. 105976–105976. 2 indexed citations

Ruciński, Marcin, Małgorzata Andrzejewska, Michał Nowicki, et al.. (2024). Stress granule-mediated sequestration of EGR1 mRNAs correlates with lomustine-induced cell death prevention. Journal of Cell Science. 137(12). 3 indexed citations

Lyons, Shawn M., et al.. (2024). Roles of ribosomal RNA in health and disease. 1. 4 indexed citations

Gao, Yuan, Julian Kwan, Tingyu Fan, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of K63 ubiquitination by G-Protein pathway suppressor 2 (GPS2) regulates mitochondria-associated translation. Pharmacological Research. 207. 107336–107336. 2 indexed citations

Cadena, Cristhian, Sadeem Ahmad, Haitao Wang, et al.. (2023). Stress granules are shock absorbers that prevent excessive innate immune responses to dsRNA. Molecular Cell. 83(7). 1180–1196.e8. 74 indexed citations

Keegan, Joshua, et al.. (2023). The exoribonuclease XRN2 mediates degradation of the long non‐coding telomeric RNA TERRA. FEBS Letters. 597(14). 1818–1836. 7 indexed citations

Werder, Rhiannon B., Carlos Villacorta-Martín, Feiya Wang, et al.. (2023). The COPD GWAS gene ADGRG6 instructs function and injury response in human iPSC-derived type II alveolar epithelial cells. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 110(10). 1735–1749. 3 indexed citations

Nelson, Emily V., Judith Olejnik, Adam J. Hume, et al.. (2023). The 3′ Untranslated Regions of Ebola Virus mRNAs Contain AU-Rich Elements Involved in Posttranscriptional Stabilization and Decay. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 228(Supplement_7). S488–S497. 2 indexed citations

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Aulas, Anaïs, et al.. (2021). Translation inhibition and suppression of stress granules formation by cisplatin. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 145. 112382–112382. 21 indexed citations

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Smith, Jean A., R. Eric Blue, Christine Roden, et al.. (2020). FXR1 splicing is important for muscle development and biomolecular condensates in muscle cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 219(4). 33 indexed citations

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Sanders, David W., Nancy Kedersha, Daniel S.W. Lee, et al.. (2020). Competing Protein-RNA Interaction Networks Control Multiphase Intracellular Organization. Cell. 181(2). 306–324.e28. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aulas, Anaïs, Shawn M. Lyons, Marta M. Fay, Paul Anderson, & Pavel Ivanov. (2018). Nitric oxide triggers the assembly of “type II” stress granules linked to decreased cell viability. Cell Death and Disease. 9(11). 1129–1129. 31 indexed citations

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Johnson, Michael E., Andrew V. Grassetti, Jaclyn Taroni, et al.. (2016). Stress granules and RNA processing bodies are novel autoantibody targets in systemic sclerosis. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 18(1). 27–27. 16 indexed citations

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Lyons, Shawn M., Clark H. Cunningham, Joshua D. Welch, et al.. (2016). A subset of replication-dependent histone mRNAs are expressed as polyadenylated RNAs in terminally differentiated tissues. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(19). gkw620–gkw620. 51 indexed citations

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Mineo, Marco, Franz Ricklefs, Arun K. Rooj, et al.. (2016). The Long Non-coding RNA HIF1A-AS2 Facilitates the Maintenance of Mesenchymal Glioblastoma Stem-like Cells in Hypoxic Niches. Cell Reports. 15(11). 2500–2509. 156 indexed citations

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Brooks, Lionel, Shawn M. Lyons, J. Matthew Mahoney, et al.. (2015). A multiprotein occupancy map of the mRNP on the 3′ end of histone mRNAs. RNA. 21(11). 1943–1965. 19 indexed citations

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Terzo, Esteban, Shawn M. Lyons, Joanna Poulton, et al.. (2015). Distinct self-interaction domains promote Multi Sex Combs accumulation in and formation of theDrosophilahistone locus body. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 26(8). 1559–1574. 29 indexed citations

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Lyons, Shawn M., et al.. (2013). The C-terminal extension of Lsm4 interacts directly with the 3′ end of the histone mRNP and is required for efficient histone mRNA degradation. RNA. 20(1). 88–102. 22 indexed citations

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Yang, Tingting, Shawn M. Lyons, Carmen Aguilar, Russell L. Cuhel, & Andreas Teske. (2011). Microbial Communities and Chemosynthesis in Yellowstone Lake Sublacustrine Hydrothermal Vent Waters. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2. 130–130. 36 indexed citations

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