Virginia M. Pain

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

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Virginia M. Pain is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia M. Pain has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Cell Biology and 8 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Virginia M. Pain's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (33 papers), Muscle metabolism and nutrition (17 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (11 papers). Virginia M. Pain is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (33 papers), Muscle metabolism and nutrition (17 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (11 papers). Virginia M. Pain collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Virginia M. Pain's co-authors include Simon Morley, Peter J. Garlick, Michael J. Clemens, Michael Rau, A J Ashford, Edgar C. Henshaw, Théophile Ohlmann, Martin Bushell, Ian W. Jeffrey and Peter S. Curtis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Virginia M. Pain

67 papers receiving 3.7k citations

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Initiation of Protein Synthesis in Eukaryotic Cells

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginia M. Pain United Kingdom	32	2.9k	800	508	426	281	68	3.8k
Mary McKee United States	34	2.3k 0.8×	584 0.7×	173 0.3×	489 1.1×	288 1.0×	51	4.0k
Edgar C. Henshaw United States	33	2.8k 1.0×	637 0.8×	93 0.2×	204 0.5×	348 1.2×	55	3.6k
Herbert L. Cooper United States	42	3.4k 1.2×	578 0.7×	229 0.5×	256 0.6×	577 2.1×	102	5.2k
Arie B. Vaandrager Netherlands	37	1.9k 0.6×	271 0.3×	324 0.6×	769 1.8×	200 0.7×	90	3.8k
Herman Lambert Canada	25	4.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	137 0.3×	613 1.4×	166 0.6×	38	4.8k
J Hempel United States	36	2.0k 0.7×	752 0.9×	82 0.2×	373 0.9×	250 0.9×	94	4.1k
Gavin Brooks United Kingdom	35	1.8k 0.6×	218 0.3×	538 1.1×	201 0.5×	379 1.3×	97	3.0k
Irene K. Berezesky United States	25	1.5k 0.5×	254 0.3×	159 0.3×	220 0.5×	321 1.1×	59	3.0k
L A Weber United States	15	2.3k 0.8×	422 0.5×	86 0.2×	268 0.6×	157 0.6×	16	2.6k
Elisabeth Christians France	31	2.4k 0.8×	480 0.6×	121 0.2×	384 0.9×	406 1.4×	61	3.0k

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Hinton, Tracey M., Mark J. Coldwell, Gillian Carpenter, Simon Morley, & Virginia M. Pain. (2006). Functional Analysis of Individual Binding Activities of the Scaffold Protein eIF4G. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(3). 1695–1708. 53 indexed citations

Morley, Simon, et al.. (2003). Overproduction of a conserved domain of fission yeast and mammalian translation initiation factor eIF4G causes aberrant cell morphology and results in disruption of the localization of F‐actin and the organization of microtubules. Genes to Cells. 8(2). 163–178. 10 indexed citations

Pain, Virginia M., et al.. (2003). Analysis of Translational Activity of Extracts Derived from Oocytes and Eggs of Xenopus laevis. Humana Press eBooks. 77. 195–210.

Ling, Jun, Simon Morley, Virginia M. Pain, William F. Marzluff, & Daniel Gallie. (2002). The Histone 3′-Terminal Stem-Loop-Binding Protein Enhances Translation through a Functional and Physical Interaction with Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4G (eIF4G) and eIF3. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 22(22). 7853–7867. 67 indexed citations

McKendrick, Linda, Simon Morley, Virginia M. Pain, Rosemary Jagus, & Bhavesh Joshi. (2001). Phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) at Ser209 is not required for protein synthesis in vitro and in vivo. European Journal of Biochemistry. 268(20). 5375–5385. 70 indexed citations

Morley, Simon & Virginia M. Pain. (2001). Proteasome inhibitors and immunosuppressive drugs promote the cleavage of eIF4GI and eIF4GII by caspase‐8‐independent mechanisms in Jurkat T cell lines. FEBS Letters. 503(2-3). 206–212. 10 indexed citations

Morley, Simon, Ian W. Jeffrey, Martin Bushell, Virginia M. Pain, & Michael J. Clemens. (2000). Differential requirements for caspase‐8 activity in the mechanism of phosphorylation of eIF2α, cleavage of eIF4GI and signaling events associated with the inhibition of protein synthesis in apoptotic Jurkat T cells. FEBS Letters. 477(3). 229–236. 41 indexed citations

Rau, Michael, Théophile Ohlmann, Simon Morley, & Virginia M. Pain. (1996). A Reevaluation of the Cap-binding Protein, eIF4E, as a Rate-limiting Factor for Initiation of Translation in Reticulocyte Lysate. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(15). 8983–8990. 121 indexed citations

Morley, Simon & Virginia M. Pain. (1995). Hormone-induced meiotic maturation in Xenopus oocytes occurs independently of p70s6k activation and is associated with enhanced initiation factor (eIF)-4F phosphorylation and complex formation. Journal of Cell Science. 108(4). 1751–1760. 56 indexed citations

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Pain, Virginia M.. (1994). Translational control during amino acid starvation. Biochimie. 76(8). 718–728. 52 indexed citations

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Morley, Simon, Michael Rau, John E. Kay, & Virginia M. Pain. (1993). Increased phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 4α during early activation of T lymphocytes correlates with increased initiation factor 4F complex formation. European Journal of Biochemistry. 218(1). 39–48. 61 indexed citations

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Jeffrey, Ian W., Frank J. Kelly, Roger Duncan, John W.B. Hershey, & Virginia M. Pain. (1990). Effect of starvation and diabetes on the activity of the eukaryotic initiation factor eIF-2 in rat skeletal muscle. Biochimie. 72(10). 751–757. 33 indexed citations

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Ashford, A J & Virginia M. Pain. (1986). Effect of diabetes on the rates of synthesis and degradation of ribosomes in rat muscle and liver in vivo.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 261(9). 4059–4065. 151 indexed citations

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Pain, Virginia M. & Michael J. Clemens. (1983). Assembly and breakdown of mammalian protein synthesis initiation complexes: regulation by guanine nucleotides and by phosphorylation of initiation factor eIF-2. Biochemistry. 22(4). 726–733. 42 indexed citations

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Unsworth, Brian R. & Virginia M. Pain. (1983). Radioactive puromycin formation as an assay for the proportion of active ribosomes in mammalian cells: Correlation with polysome profiles under different physiological conditions. Life Sciences. 33(6). 525–531. 7 indexed citations

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Pain, Virginia M., et al.. (1982). Investigation of the Role of Uncharged tRNA in the Regulation of Polypeptide Chain Initiation by Amino Acid Starvation in Cultured Mammalian Cells; a Reappraisal. European Journal of Biochemistry. 122(3). 519–526. 22 indexed citations

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Proud, Christopher G., Michael J. Clemens, & Virginia M. Pain. (1982). Regulation of binding of initiator tRNA to eukaryotic initiation factor eIF‐2. FEBS Letters. 148(2). 214–220. 23 indexed citations

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Clemens, Michael J., et al.. (1982). Phosphorylation inhibits guanine nucleotide exchange on eukaryotic initiation factor 2. Nature. 296(5852). 93–95. 117 indexed citations

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McNurlan, Margaret A., Virginia M. Pain, & Peter J. Garlick. (1980). Conditions that alter rates of tissue protein synthesis in vivo. Biochemical Society Transactions. 8(3). 283–285. 23 indexed citations

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Pain, Virginia M. & Peter J. Garlick. (1974). Effect of Streptozotocin Diabetes and Insulin Treatment on the Rate of Protein Synthesis in Tissues of the Rat in Vivo. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 249(14). 4510–4514. 185 indexed citations

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