Thomas Christian

1.2k total citations
31 papers, 889 citations indexed

About

Thomas Christian is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computer Networks and Communications and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Christian has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 889 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Christian's work include RNA modifications and cancer (20 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (8 papers). Thomas Christian is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (20 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (8 papers). Thomas Christian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and Japan. Thomas Christian's co-authors include Ya‐Ming Hou, Caryn Evilia, Roger M. Wakimoto, Howard Gamper, Cuiping Liu, Milana Frenkel‐Morgenstern, John J. Perona, Lars Juhl Jensen, Tamar Danon and Takao Igarashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Christian

30 papers receiving 875 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Christian United States 19 698 56 47 45 44 31 889
Tamás Szabó Hungary 13 108 0.2× 18 0.3× 65 1.4× 37 0.8× 83 1.9× 39 503
Sicong Li China 10 179 0.3× 29 0.5× 12 0.3× 22 0.5× 15 0.3× 31 412
Rahuman S. Malik‐Sheriff United Kingdom 11 409 0.6× 44 0.8× 6 0.1× 3 0.1× 24 0.5× 20 727
David B. Dahl United States 15 438 0.6× 54 1.0× 5 0.1× 21 0.5× 5 0.1× 31 849
Linfeng Li China 11 108 0.2× 7 0.1× 32 0.7× 28 0.6× 6 0.1× 27 399
Guangming Tan China 7 279 0.4× 14 0.3× 17 0.4× 3 0.1× 13 0.3× 37 431
Ludwig Krippahl Portugal 13 441 0.6× 28 0.5× 64 1.4× 3 0.1× 4 0.1× 28 746
Yifeng Liu China 12 207 0.3× 19 0.3× 33 0.7× 3 0.1× 12 0.3× 31 431
Lixian Liu China 14 106 0.2× 22 0.4× 4 0.1× 39 0.9× 21 0.5× 51 434

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Christian

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Christian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Christian

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Christian. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Christian based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thomas Christian. Thomas Christian is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Christian, Thomas, Isao Masuda, Jingxuan Jia, et al.. (2025). m6A modification is incorporated into bacterial mRNA without specific functional benefit. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(10). 3 indexed citations
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Gamper, Howard, Thomas Christian, Robert Y. Henley, et al.. (2024). Post-transcriptional methylation of mitochondrial-tRNA differentially contributes to mitochondrial pathology. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9008–9008.
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Augustyniak, Rafał, et al.. (2023). Nucleolar Essential Protein 1 (Nep1): Elucidation of enzymatic catalysis mechanism by molecular dynamics simulation and quantum mechanics study. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 21. 3999–4008. 4 indexed citations
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Masuda, Isao, Somnath Tagore, Yuko Nakano, et al.. (2022). tRNA methylation resolves codon usage bias at the limit of cell viability. Cell Reports. 41(4). 111539–111539. 13 indexed citations
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Masuda, Isao, Thomas Christian, Fuad Mohammad, et al.. (2021). Loss of N1-methylation of G37 in tRNA induces ribosome stalling and reprograms gene expression. eLife. 10. 25 indexed citations
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Gamper, Howard, Haixing Li, Isao Masuda, et al.. (2021). Insights into genome recoding from the mechanism of a classic +1-frameshifting tRNA. Nature Communications. 12(1). 328–328. 26 indexed citations
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Masuda, Isao, Thomas Christian, Enrique Rojas, et al.. (2019). tRNA Methylation Is a Global Determinant of Bacterial Multi-drug Resistance. Cell Systems. 8(4). 302–314.e8. 47 indexed citations
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Christian, Thomas, Reiko Sakaguchi, Takuhiro Ito, et al.. (2016). Methyl transfer by substrate signaling from a knotted protein fold. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(10). 941–948. 71 indexed citations
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Liu, Cuiping, Aaron J. Stonestrom, Thomas Christian, et al.. (2016). Molecular Basis and Consequences of the Cytochrome c-tRNA Interaction. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(19). 10426–10436. 13 indexed citations
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Falk, Marni J., Xiaowu Gai, Megumi Shigematsu, et al.. (2016). A novelHSD17B10mutation impairing the activities of the mitochondrial RNase P complex causes X-linked intractable epilepsy and neurodevelopmental regression. RNA Biology. 13(5). 477–485. 41 indexed citations
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Sakaguchi, Reiko, et al.. (2014). A Divalent Metal Ion-Dependent N1-Methyl Transfer to G37-tRNA. Chemistry & Biology. 21(10). 1351–1360. 26 indexed citations
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Christian, Thomas, Howard Gamper, & Ya‐Ming Hou. (2013). Conservation of structure and mechanism by Trm5 enzymes. RNA. 19(9). 1192–1199. 30 indexed citations
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Christian, Thomas, et al.. (2010). Mechanism of N-methylation by the tRNA m1G37 methyltransferase Trm5. RNA. 16(12). 2484–2492. 31 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chunmei, Cuiping Liu, Thomas Christian, et al.. (2008). Pyrrolo-C as a molecular probe for monitoring conformations of the tRNA 3′ end. RNA. 14(10). 2245–2253. 18 indexed citations
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Christian, Thomas & Ya‐Ming Hou. (2007). Distinct Determinants of tRNA Recognition by the TrmD and Trm5 Methyl Transferases. Journal of Molecular Biology. 373(3). 623–632. 81 indexed citations
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Christian, Thomas, et al.. (2004). Distinct Origins of tRNA(m1G37) Methyltransferase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 339(4). 707–719. 66 indexed citations
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Christian, Thomas, et al.. (2004). vBlades: optimized paravirtualization for the Itanium processor family. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 6–6. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chunmei, Thomas Christian, Kate J. Newberry, John J. Perona, & Ya‐Ming Hou. (2003). Zinc-mediated Amino Acid Discrimination in Cysteinyl-tRNA Synthetase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 327(5). 911–917. 47 indexed citations
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Christian, Thomas, et al.. (2000). Alternative design of a tRNA core for aminoacylation 1 1Edited by D. Draper. Journal of Molecular Biology. 303(4). 503–514. 18 indexed citations
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Christian, Thomas, et al.. (1975). The CLIPR display terminal experiment system. Behavior Research Methods. 7(2). 107–112. 6 indexed citations

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