Thomas A. Johnson

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas A. Johnson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Johnson has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Johnson's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (17 papers), Estrogen and related hormone effects (17 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Thomas A. Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (17 papers), Estrogen and related hormone effects (17 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Thomas A. Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and Spain. Thomas A. Johnson's co-authors include Gordon L. Hager, Sam John, Myong‐Hee Sung, Simon C. Biddie, J Stamatoyannopoulos, Robert E. Thurman, R. Louis Schiltz, Peter J. Sabo, Ty C. Voss and Stafford L. Lightman and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Johnson

50 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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Chromatin accessibility pre-determines glucocorticoid receptor binding patterns

2011 696 citations Sam John, Peter J. Sabo et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Johnson United States	28	2.3k	979	778	514	346	54	3.9k
Vincent Raymond Canada	30	1.5k 0.7×	417 0.4×	170 0.2×	457 0.9×	476 1.4×	67	3.4k
Guangyu Wu United States	41	4.2k 1.9×	238 0.2×	277 0.4×	110 0.2×	333 1.0×	119	5.7k
Zhiao Shi United States	18	2.9k 1.3×	636 0.6×	512 0.7×	87 0.2×	522 1.5×	35	4.9k
Hans H. Bock Germany	36	1.9k 0.8×	420 0.4×	339 0.4×	105 0.2×	258 0.7×	71	4.4k
Chunlei Wu United States	24	2.7k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	471 0.6×	97 0.2×	303 0.9×	58	4.5k
Massimo De Felici Italy	51	4.1k 1.8×	1.7k 1.7×	548 0.7×	96 0.2×	397 1.1×	240	7.6k
Enrico Petretto United Kingdom	36	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	522 0.7×	145 0.3×	294 0.8×	127	5.0k
Doulaye Dembélé France	29	2.0k 0.9×	253 0.3×	654 0.8×	64 0.1×	367 1.1×	64	3.2k
Hiroshi Maruyama Japan	29	753 0.3×	512 0.5×	321 0.4×	736 1.4×	548 1.6×	239	3.3k
Anson Maitland Canada	5	2.1k 0.9×	428 0.4×	402 0.5×	63 0.1×	396 1.1×	11	3.3k

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Fettweis, Grégory, Kaustubh Wagh, Diana A. Stavreva, et al.. (2025). Transcription factors form a ternary complex with NIPBL/MAU2 to localize cohesin at enhancers. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(9). 2 indexed citations

Johnson, Thomas A., Montserrat Abella, Sohyoung Kim, et al.. (2025). The multimerization pathway of the glucocorticoid receptor. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(19).

Rosa, Diego Álvarez de la, et al.. (2024). The impact of mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor interaction on corticosteroid transcriptional outcomes. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 594. 112389–112389. 6 indexed citations

Johnson, Thomas A., Grégory Fettweis, Kaustubh Wagh, et al.. (2024). The glucocorticoid receptor potentiates aldosterone-induced transcription by the mineralocorticoid receptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(47). 9 indexed citations

Fettweis, Grégory, et al.. (2023). The mineralocorticoid receptor forms higher order oligomers upon DNA binding. Protein Science. 33(3). e4890–e4890. 8 indexed citations

Fettweis, Grégory, Montserrat Abella, Rosa Antón, et al.. (2022). The multivalency of the glucocorticoid receptor ligand-binding domain explains its manifold physiological activities. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(22). 13063–13082. 19 indexed citations

Rinaldi, Lorenzo, Grégory Fettweis, Sohyoung Kim, et al.. (2022). The glucocorticoid receptor associates with the cohesin loader NIPBL to promote long-range gene regulation. Science Advances. 8(13). eabj8360–eabj8360. 30 indexed citations

Garcia, David A., Thomas A. Johnson, Diego M. Presman, et al.. (2021). An intrinsically disordered region-mediated confinement state contributes to the dynamics and function of transcription factors. Molecular Cell. 81(7). 1484–1498.e6. 99 indexed citations

Johnson, Thomas A., Ville Paakinaho, Sohyoung Kim, Gordon L. Hager, & Diego M. Presman. (2021). Genome-wide binding potential and regulatory activity of the glucocorticoid receptor’s monomeric and dimeric forms. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1987–1987. 46 indexed citations

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Paakinaho, Ville, Thomas A. Johnson, Diego M. Presman, & Gordon L. Hager. (2019). Glucocorticoid receptor quaternary structure drives chromatin occupancy and transcriptional outcome. Genome Research. 29(8). 1223–1234. 49 indexed citations

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Stavreva, Diana A., David A. Garcia, Grégory Fettweis, et al.. (2019). Transcriptional Bursting and Co-bursting Regulation by Steroid Hormone Release Pattern and Transcription Factor Mobility. Molecular Cell. 75(6). 1161–1177.e11. 89 indexed citations

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Johnson, Thomas A., Răzvan V. Chereji, Diana A. Stavreva, et al.. (2017). Conventional and pioneer modes of glucocorticoid receptor interaction with enhancer chromatin in vivo. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(1). 203–214. 60 indexed citations

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Morris, Stephanie A., Songjoon Baek, Myong‐Hee Sung, et al.. (2013). Overlapping chromatin-remodeling systems collaborate genome wide at dynamic chromatin transitions. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 21(1). 73–81. 112 indexed citations

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Voss, Ty C., R. Louis Schiltz, Myong‐Hee Sung, et al.. (2011). Dynamic Exchange at Regulatory Elements during Chromatin Remodeling Underlies Assisted Loading Mechanism. Cell. 146(4). 544–554. 257 indexed citations

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Biddie, Simon C., Sam John, Robert E. Thurman, et al.. (2011). Transcription Factor AP1 Potentiates Chromatin Accessibility and Glucocorticoid Receptor Binding. Molecular Cell. 43(1). 145–155. 367 indexed citations

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John, Sam, Peter J. Sabo, Robert E. Thurman, et al.. (2011). Chromatin accessibility pre-determines glucocorticoid receptor binding patterns. Nature Genetics. 43(3). 264–268. 696 indexed citations breakdown →

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Paredis, Christiaan J. J. & Thomas A. Johnson. (2008). Using OMG's SysML to support simulation. Winter Simulation Conference. 2350–2352. 21 indexed citations

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John, Sam, Peter J. Sabo, Thomas A. Johnson, et al.. (2008). Interaction of the Glucocorticoid Receptor with the Chromatin Landscape. Molecular Cell. 29(5). 611–624. 257 indexed citations

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Hager, Gordon L., Akhilesh K. Nagaich, Thomas A. Johnson, Dawn A. Walker, & Sam John. (2003). Dynamics of nuclear receptor movement and transcription. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 1677(1-3). 46–51. 71 indexed citations

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Johnson, Thomas A., et al.. (1998). INTEGRATION IS THE KEY. Traffic Technology International. 4 indexed citations

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