Sua Myong

9.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
111 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Sua Myong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sua Myong has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Physiology and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Sua Myong's work include RNA Research and Splicing (39 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (34 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (33 papers). Sua Myong is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (39 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (34 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (33 papers). Sua Myong collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. Sua Myong's co-authors include Taekjip Ha, Helen Hwang, Clifford P. Brangwynne, Shana Elbaum‐Garfinkle, Christian R. Eckmann, Younghoon Kim, Krzysztof Szczepaniak, Ramreddy Tippana, Ivan Rasnik and Timothy M. Lohman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sua Myong

104 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

The disordered P granule protein LAF-1 drives phase separation into droplets with tunable viscosity and dynamics

2015 925 citations Shana Elbaum‐Garfinkle, Younghoon Kim et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
mRNA structure determines specificity of a polyQ-driven phase separation

2018 382 citations Erin M. Langdon, Yupeng Qiu et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sua Myong United States	41	5.6k	580	430	416	397	111	6.6k
Lynne Regan United States	52	7.7k 1.4×	391 0.7×	373 0.9×	334 0.8×	735 1.9×	173	9.2k
Ulrich Rothbauer Germany	38	4.7k 0.8×	561 1.0×	366 0.9×	123 0.3×	532 1.3×	91	6.3k
Tanja Mittag United States	34	10.7k 1.9×	395 0.7×	172 0.4×	361 0.9×	357 0.9×	75	12.1k
Hidehito Tochio Japan	36	3.4k 0.6×	491 0.8×	250 0.6×	229 0.6×	321 0.8×	89	5.0k
Karsten Rippe Germany	56	9.7k 1.7×	543 0.9×	585 1.4×	480 1.2×	1.2k 3.0×	167	11.3k
Pau Bernadó France	44	5.2k 0.9×	334 0.6×	178 0.4×	379 0.9×	360 0.9×	131	6.4k
Alex S. Holehouse United States	42	8.5k 1.5×	283 0.5×	139 0.3×	235 0.6×	315 0.8×	109	9.8k
Erdinç Sezgin United Kingdom	38	4.6k 0.8×	449 0.8×	776 1.8×	479 1.2×	189 0.5×	101	6.2k
Gabriel Cornilescu United States	31	6.5k 1.2×	398 0.7×	235 0.5×	271 0.7×	674 1.7×	62	8.2k
Kurt S. Thorn United States	26	4.1k 0.7×	322 0.6×	397 0.9×	305 0.7×	285 0.7×	35	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Sua Myong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sua Myong

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Paul, Tapas, I‐Ren Lee, Fahad Rashid, et al.. (2025). Mechanistic insights into direct DNA and RNA strand transfer and dynamic protein exchange of SSB and RPA. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(12).

Lee, Chun‐Ying, et al.. (2025). High-frequency transcription leads to rapid R-loop formation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(6). 108514–108514.

Ha, Taekjip, et al.. (2024). DNA supercoiling-mediated G4/R-loop formation tunes transcription by controlling the access of RNA polymerase. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 167a–167a. 1 indexed citations

Myong, Sua, et al.. (2024). Simultaneous probing of transcription, G-quadruplex, and R-loop. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 705. 377–396. 3 indexed citations

Lee, Chun‐Ying, Meera Joshi, Ashley Wang, & Sua Myong. (2024). 5′UTR G-quadruplex structure enhances translation in size dependent manner. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3963–3963. 26 indexed citations

Mekonnen, Gemechu, et al.. (2023). Advanced imaging techniques for studying protein phase separation in living cells and at single-molecule level. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 76. 102371–102371. 13 indexed citations

Sarthak, Kumar, et al.. (2023). Benchmarking Molecular Dynamics Force Fields for All-Atom Simulations of Biological Condensates. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(12). 3721–3740. 33 indexed citations

Chang, Matthew T., et al.. (2023). Nucleation and dissolution mechanism underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal lobar dementia-linked fused in sarcoma condensates. iScience. 26(4). 106537–106537. 5 indexed citations

Myong, Sua, et al.. (2022). Protocol for generation and regeneration of PEG-passivated slides for single-molecule measurements. STAR Protocols. 3(1). 101152–101152. 17 indexed citations

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Opresko, Patricia L., et al.. (2021). TRF2 promotes dynamic and stepwise looping of POT1 bound telomeric overhang. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(21). 12377–12393. 15 indexed citations

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Narlikar, Geeta J., Sua Myong, Daniel R. Larson, et al.. (2021). Is transcriptional regulation just going through a phase?. Molecular Cell. 81(8). 1579–1585. 29 indexed citations

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Ma, Kevin, et al.. (2020). R-loop induced G-quadruplex in non-template promotes transcription by successive R-loop formation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3392–3392. 92 indexed citations

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Langdon, Erin M., Yupeng Qiu, Amirhossein Ghanbari Niaki, et al.. (2018). mRNA structure determines specificity of a polyQ-driven phase separation. Science. 360(6391). 922–927. 382 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sarkar, Jaya & Sua Myong. (2018). Single-Molecule and Ensemble Methods to Probe Initial Stages of RNP Granule Assembly. Methods in molecular biology. 1814. 325–338. 9 indexed citations

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Doğanay, Sultan, Alina Baum, Joo-Yeon Yoo, et al.. (2017). Single-cell analysis of early antiviral gene expression reveals a determinant of stochastic IFNB1 expression. Integrative Biology. 9(11). 857–867. 15 indexed citations

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Bell, Robert J.A., H. Tomas Rube, Alex Kreig, et al.. (2015). The transcription factor GABP selectively binds and activates the mutant TERT promoter in cancer. Science. 348(6238). 1036–1039. 398 indexed citations

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Elbaum‐Garfinkle, Shana, Younghoon Kim, Krzysztof Szczepaniak, et al.. (2015). The disordered P granule protein LAF-1 drives phase separation into droplets with tunable viscosity and dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(23). 7189–7194. 925 indexed citations breakdown →

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Qiu, Yupeng, Hengyao Niu, Lela Vuković, Patrick Sung, & Sua Myong. (2015). Molecular Mechanism of Resolving Trinucleotide Repeat Hairpin by Helicases. Structure. 23(6). 1018–1027. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinlei, Lela Vuković, Hye Ran Koh, Klaus Schulten, & Sua Myong. (2015). Dynamic profiling of double-stranded RNA binding proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(15). 7566–7576. 46 indexed citations

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Gack, Michaela U., Axel Kirchhofer, Young C. Shin, et al.. (2008). Roles of RIG-I N-terminal tandem CARD and splice variant in TRIM25-mediated antiviral signal transduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(43). 16743–16748. 215 indexed citations

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