Simon E. Moroney

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Simon E. Moroney is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon E. Moroney has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Pharmacology and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Simon E. Moroney's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (2 papers). Simon E. Moroney is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (2 papers). Simon E. Moroney collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United Kingdom. Simon E. Moroney's co-authors include Steven A. Benner, Joseph A. Piccirilli, Tilman Krauch, Christopher Switzer, Liming Ge, Klaus Schneider, Jack E. Baldwin, Hong-Hoi Ting, Christophe Marchand and Christian Bailly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Simon E. Moroney

15 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Enzymatic incorporation of a new base pair into DNA and RNA extends the genetic alphabet

1990 521 citations Joseph A. Piccirilli, Tilman Krauch et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon E. Moroney Switzerland	11	1.3k	165	138	121	108	15	1.4k
Tsuneo Mitsui Japan	18	1.5k 1.1×	196 1.2×	80 0.6×	36 0.3×	100 0.9×	30	1.6k
Theodore M. Tarasow United States	19	1.1k 0.8×	185 1.1×	40 0.3×	90 0.7×	58 0.5×	36	1.3k
Michiko Kimoto Japan	34	3.1k 2.3×	353 2.1×	154 1.1×	70 0.6×	173 1.6×	80	3.2k
Goutam Gupta United States	23	1.2k 0.9×	141 0.9×	91 0.7×	134 1.1×	121 1.1×	54	1.4k
Thomas Lavergne France	19	1.5k 1.2×	195 1.2×	44 0.3×	37 0.3×	160 1.5×	36	1.7k
Christopher J. Wilds Canada	27	1.9k 1.5×	195 1.2×	72 0.5×	17 0.1×	74 0.7×	88	2.1k
З.А. Шабарова Russia	19	1.1k 0.8×	131 0.8×	42 0.3×	18 0.1×	138 1.3×	80	1.1k
Denis A. Malyshev United States	20	1.5k 1.1×	753 4.6×	41 0.3×	34 0.3×	161 1.5×	23	2.1k
János Sági Hungary	21	1.4k 1.1×	125 0.8×	102 0.7×	16 0.1×	43 0.4×	71	1.5k
Johan H. van de Sande Canada	19	1.3k 1.0×	111 0.7×	38 0.3×	30 0.2×	131 1.2×	36	1.5k

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15 of 15 papers shown

Moroney, Simon E.. (1998). The startup balancing act: Hiring the right talent. Nature Biotechnology. 16(S1). 39–40. 6 indexed citations

Ge, Liming, et al.. (1994). Trinucleotide phosphoramidites: ideal reagents for the synthesis of mixed oligonucleotides for random mutagenesis. Nucleic Acids Research. 22(25). 5600–5607. 170 indexed citations

Moroney, Simon E., et al.. (1993). Enzymic recognition of the base pair between isocytidine and isoguanosine. Biochemistry. 32(39). 10489–10496. 225 indexed citations

Marchand, Christophe, Christian Bailly, Michael J. McLean, Simon E. Moroney, & Michael J. Waring. (1992). The 2-amino group of guanine is absolutely required for specific binding of the anti-cancer antibiotic echinomycin to DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(21). 5601–5606. 31 indexed citations

Piccirilli, Joseph A., Simon E. Moroney, & Steven A. Benner. (1991). A C-nucleotide base pair: methylpseudouridine-directed incorporation of formycin triphosphate into RNA catalyzed by T7 RNA polymerase. Biochemistry. 30(42). 10350–10356. 37 indexed citations

Moroney, Simon E. & Joseph A. Piccirilli. (1991). Abortive products as initiating nucleotides during transcription by T7 RNA polymerase. Biochemistry. 30(42). 10343–10349. 29 indexed citations

Piccirilli, Joseph A., et al.. (1990). Enzymatic incorporation of a new base pair into DNA and RNA extends the genetic alphabet. Nature. 343(6253). 33–37. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

Switzer, Christopher, Simon E. Moroney, & Steven A. Benner. (1989). Enzymatic incorporation of a new base pair into DNA and RNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 111(21). 8322–8323. 292 indexed citations

Benner, Steven A., Rudolf K. Allemann, Andrew D. Ellington, et al.. (1987). Natural Selection, Protein Engineering, and the Last Riboorganism: Rational Model Building in Biochemistry. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 53–63. 58 indexed citations

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Bartelt, Diana C., Simon E. Moroney, & Donald J. Wolff. (1987). Purification, characterization and substrate specificity of calmodulin-dependent myosin light-chain kinase from bovine brain. Biochemical Journal. 247(3). 747–756. 15 indexed citations

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Moroney, Simon E., et al.. (1987). Modification of the binding site(s) of lectins by an affinity column carrying an activated galactose-terminated ligand. Biochemistry. 26(25). 8390–8398. 7 indexed citations

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Baldwin, Jack E., Simon E. Moroney, & Hong-Hoi Ting. (1985). A coupled enzyme assay for isopenicillin N synthetase. Analytical Biochemistry. 145(1). 183–187. 10 indexed citations

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Baldwin, Jack E., Robert M. Adlington, Simon E. Moroney, Leslie D. Field, & Hong-Hoi Ting. (1984). Stepwise ring closure in penicillin biosynthesis. Intitial β-lactam formation. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 984–986. 27 indexed citations

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Adlington, Robert M., Jack E. Baldwin, Bulbul Chakravarti, et al.. (1983). Conversion of 3-exomethylene cephalosporin C into deacetyl cephalosporin C in a cell-free extract from Cephalosporium acremonium(CW-19). Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 153–153. 2 indexed citations

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Moroney, Simon E., et al.. (1981). Depsidone constituents from the quintaria group of Nephroma species. Phytochemistry. 20(4). 787–789. 5 indexed citations

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