Shmuel Pietrokovski

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
87 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Shmuel Pietrokovski is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shmuel Pietrokovski has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Shmuel Pietrokovski's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (43 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers). Shmuel Pietrokovski is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (43 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers). Shmuel Pietrokovski collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Shmuel Pietrokovski's co-authors include Steven Henikoff, Jorja G. Henikoff, Moran Gershoni, Gil Amitai, Timothy M. Rose, Tomer Shpilka, Zvulun Elazar, Hilla Weidberg, C. Michael McCallum and Emily Schultz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Shmuel Pietrokovski

85 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Consensus-degenerate hybrid oligonucleotide primers for amplification of distantly related sequences

1998 605 citations Shmuel Pietrokovski, Steven Henikoff et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Atg8: an autophagy-related ubiquitin-like protein family

2011 405 citations Shmuel Pietrokovski et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shmuel Pietrokovski Israel	42	4.3k	818	743	587	571	87	5.7k
Erich M. Schwarz United States	33	3.2k 0.8×	836 1.0×	677 0.9×	630 1.1×	376 0.7×	61	5.1k
C. Geourjon France	28	3.7k 0.9×	683 0.8×	786 1.1×	376 0.6×	449 0.8×	48	5.6k
Balaji Santhanam United States	35	4.2k 1.0×	596 0.7×	676 0.9×	514 0.9×	354 0.6×	59	5.5k
Lewis Y. Geer United States	20	4.7k 1.1×	646 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	648 1.1×	301 0.5×	33	7.2k
Nicola Buso United Kingdom	5	3.1k 0.7×	594 0.7×	944 1.3×	582 1.0×	394 0.7×	5	5.2k
Haim Ashkenazy Israel	23	4.7k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	890 1.2×	772 1.3×	395 0.7×	39	6.9k
Fabian Glaser Israel	34	4.6k 1.1×	707 0.9×	479 0.6×	529 0.9×	367 0.6×	76	6.2k
Fábio Madeira United Kingdom	9	3.2k 0.8×	600 0.7×	916 1.2×	573 1.0×	394 0.7×	14	5.4k
Kevin Bryson United Kingdom	21	5.4k 1.3×	758 0.9×	617 0.8×	530 0.9×	471 0.8×	41	7.1k
Yoshitaka Moriwaki Japan	13	3.7k 0.9×	615 0.8×	649 0.9×	494 0.8×	294 0.5×	32	5.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pietrokovski, Shmuel, et al.. (2025). Three‐Segment Protein Labeling Using a Highly Efficient and Cysteine‐Less Split Intein Identified with Computational Prediction of Aggregation Properties. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(51). e202515821–e202515821.

Florentin, Anat, Ofra Golani, Nili Dezorella, et al.. (2024). Egg multivesicular bodies elicit an LC3-associated phagocytosis-like pathway to degrade paternal mitochondria after fertilization. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5715–5715. 4 indexed citations

Jose, Polpass Arul, et al.. (2024). Flagellar stator genes control a trophic shift from obligate to facultative predation and biofilm formation in a bacterial predator. mBio. 15(8). e0071524–e0071524. 1 indexed citations

Eisenstein, Miriam, Alon Savidor, Yishai Levin, et al.. (2023). Loss-of-function cancer-linked mutations in the EIF4G2 non-canonical translation initiation factor. Life Science Alliance. 7(3). e202302338–e202302338. 3 indexed citations

Gershoni, Moran, Ron Hauser, Ofer Lehavi, et al.. (2023). A pathogenic variant in the uncharacterized RNF212B gene results in severe aneuploidy male infertility and repeated IVF failure. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 4(3). 100189–100189. 6 indexed citations

Eisenstein, Miriam, et al.. (2023). Structural and biochemical analysis of a novel atypically split intein reveals a conserved histidine specific to cysteine-less inteins. Chemical Science. 14(19). 5204–5213. 4 indexed citations

Castro, Inês Gomes, Eden Yifrach, Chen Bibi, et al.. (2022). Pls1 Is a Peroxisomal Matrix Protein with a Role in Regulating Lysine Biosynthesis. Cells. 11(9). 1426–1426. 6 indexed citations

Bhagawati, Maniraj, et al.. (2019). A mesophilic cysteine-less split intein for protein trans -splicing applications under oxidizing conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(44). 22164–22172. 34 indexed citations

Gershoni, Moran, Ron Hauser, Leah Yogev, et al.. (2017). A familial study of azoospermic men identifies three novel causative mutations in three new human azoospermia genes. Genetics in Medicine. 19(9). 998–1006. 108 indexed citations

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Pasternak, Zohar, Ryan M. Chanyi, Or Rotem, et al.. (2013). In and out: an analysis of epibiotic vs periplasmic bacterial predators. The ISME Journal. 8(3). 625–635. 56 indexed citations

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Tori, Kazuo, Bareket Dassa, Margaret A. Johnson, et al.. (2009). Splicing of the Mycobacteriophage Bethlehem DnaB Intein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(4). 2515–2526. 70 indexed citations

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Dori-Bachash, Mally, Bareket Dassa, Ofer Peleg, et al.. (2009). Bacterial intein-like domains of predatory bacteria: a new domain type characterized in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Functional & Integrative Genomics. 9(2). 153–166. 9 indexed citations

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Salzberg, Yehuda, et al.. (2009). Meig1 deficiency causes a severe defect in mouse spermatogenesis. Developmental Biology. 338(2). 158–167. 21 indexed citations

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Citri, Ami, Daniel Harari, Galit Shohat-Ophir, et al.. (2006). Hsp90 Recognizes a Common Surface on Client Kinases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(20). 14361–14369. 194 indexed citations

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Yao, Youli, et al.. (2005). The autophagy-associated Atg8 gene family operates both under favourable growth conditions and under starvation stresses in Arabidopsis plants. Journal of Experimental Botany. 56(421). 2839–2849. 142 indexed citations

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Sitbon, Einat & Shmuel Pietrokovski. (2003). New types of conserved sequence domains in DNA-binding regions of homing endonucleases. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 28(9). 473–477. 36 indexed citations

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Kunin, Victor, Bob Chan, Einat Sitbon, Lithwick Gila, & Shmuel Pietrokovski. (2001). Consistency analysis of similarity between multiple alignments: prediction of protein function and fold structure from analysis of local sequence motifs. Journal of Molecular Biology. 307(3). 939–949. 29 indexed citations

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Pietrokovski, Shmuel, Jorja G. Henikoff, & Steven Henikoff. (1998). Exploring protein homology with the Blocks server. Trends in Genetics. 14(4). 162–163. 9 indexed citations

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Pietrokovski, Shmuel. (1996). Searching databases of conserved sequence regions by aligning protein multiple-alignments [published erratum appears in Nucleic Acids Res 1996 Nov 1;24(21):4372]. Nucleic Acids Research. 24(19). 3836–3845. 177 indexed citations

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Pietrokovski, Shmuel. (1994). Comparing nucleotide and protein sequences by linguistic methods. Journal of Biotechnology. 35(2-3). 257–272. 8 indexed citations

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