Yaakov Levy

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Yaakov Levy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaakov Levy has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Materials Chemistry and 23 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yaakov Levy's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (70 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (44 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (37 papers). Yaakov Levy is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (70 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (44 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (37 papers). Yaakov Levy collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Canada. Yaakov Levy's co-authors include José N. Onuchic, Peter G. Wolynes, Dalit Shental-Bechor, Dana Vuzman, Samuel S. Cho, Ariel Azia, Oren M. Becker, Amir Marcovitz, Lavi S. Bigman and Joshua Jortner and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yaakov Levy

156 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

WATER MEDIATION IN PROTEIN FOLDING AND MOLECULAR RECOGNITION

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaakov Levy Israel	47	6.0k	1.9k	932	653	527	161	7.4k
Martin Zacharias Germany	53	8.2k 1.4×	1.7k 0.9×	748 0.8×	493 0.8×	554 1.1×	346	10.4k
Bruce Tidor United States	52	6.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	856 0.9×	907 1.4×	397 0.8×	130	9.0k
Susan Marqusee United States	46	7.0k 1.2×	2.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	1.0k 1.6×	636 1.2×	128	8.3k
Emil Alexov United States	50	7.2k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	617 0.9×	572 1.1×	196	9.3k
Zaida Luthey‐Schulten United States	50	8.1k 1.4×	3.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.3×	786 1.2×	539 1.0×	133	9.6k
Catherine A. Royer United States	49	6.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	824 0.9×	710 1.1×	935 1.8×	192	8.2k
Adrian H. Elcock United States	38	4.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	695 0.7×	391 0.6×	389 0.7×	88	5.4k
Carlo Camilloni Italy	41	6.3k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	553 1.0×	126	8.6k
José M. Sánchez‐Ruiz Spain	49	6.2k 1.0×	2.8k 1.5×	746 0.8×	575 0.9×	752 1.4×	140	7.5k
Xavier Daura Spain	42	7.1k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	339 0.6×	138	9.3k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Levy, Yaakov, et al.. (2025). How the Extent of Protein Folding and Oligomerization Modulate Condensate Formation and Properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(43). 11248–11258.

Levy, Yaakov, et al.. (2024). Aromatic Residues in Proteins: Re-Evaluating the Geometry and Energetics of π–π, Cation−π, and CH−π Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128(36). 8687–8700. 12 indexed citations

Levy, Yaakov, et al.. (2024). Histidine in Proteins: pH-Dependent Interplay between π–π, Cation–π, and CH–π Interactions. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(15). 6930–6945. 20 indexed citations

Hazra, Milan Kumar, et al.. (2023). Not Only Expansion: Proline Content and Density Also Induce Disordered Protein Conformation Compaction. Journal of Molecular Biology. 435(17). 168196–168196. 7 indexed citations

Hazra, Milan Kumar & Yaakov Levy. (2022). Affinity of disordered protein complexes is modulated by entropy–energy reinforcement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(26). e2120456119–e2120456119. 27 indexed citations

Elf, Johan, et al.. (2022). Conformational Change of Transcription Factors from Search to Specific Binding: A lac Repressor Case Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 126(48). 9971–9984. 7 indexed citations

Seal, Manas, Dragana Despotović, Dan S. Tawfik, et al.. (2022). Peptide-RNA Coacervates as a Cradle for the Evolution of Folded Domains. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(31). 14150–14160. 31 indexed citations

Wang, Xi, Harry M. Greenblatt, Lavi S. Bigman, et al.. (2021). Dynamic Autoinhibition of the HMGB1 Protein via Electrostatic Fuzzy Interactions of Intrinsically Disordered Regions. Journal of Molecular Biology. 433(18). 167122–167122. 30 indexed citations

Bigman, Lavi S., Harry M. Greenblatt, & Yaakov Levy. (2021). What Are the Molecular Requirements for Protein Sliding along DNA?. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125(12). 3119–3131. 16 indexed citations

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Hazra, Milan Kumar & Yaakov Levy. (2021). Biophysics of Phase Separation of Disordered Proteins Is Governed by Balance between Short- And Long-Range Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125(9). 2202–2211. 50 indexed citations

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Pal, Arumay & Yaakov Levy. (2020). Balance between asymmetry and abundance in multi-domain DNA-binding proteins may regulate the kinetics of their binding to DNA. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(5). e1007867–e1007867. 7 indexed citations

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Shen, Koning, Yulian Gavrilov, Pieter E. S. Smith, et al.. (2018). Huntingtin’s N-Terminus Rearrangements in the Presence of Membranes: A Joint Spectroscopic and Computational Perspective. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 10(1). 472–481. 16 indexed citations

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Bigman, Lavi S. & Yaakov Levy. (2018). Stability Effects of Protein Mutations: The Role of Long-Range Contacts. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(49). 11450–11459. 13 indexed citations

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Gavrilov, Yulian, et al.. (2017). On the coupling between the dynamics of protein and water. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(12). 8243–8257. 29 indexed citations

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Levy, Yaakov. (2017). Protein Assembly and Building Blocks: Beyond the Limits of the LEGO Brick Metaphor. Biochemistry. 56(38). 5040–5048. 23 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Goutam, Arumay Pal, & Yaakov Levy. (2017). Mechanism of the formation of the RecA–ssDNA nucleoprotein filament structure: a coarse-grained approach. Molecular BioSystems. 13(12). 2697–2703. 5 indexed citations

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Vuzman, Dana & Yaakov Levy. (2010). DNA search efficiency is modulated by charge composition and distribution in the intrinsically disordered tail. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(49). 21004–21009. 105 indexed citations

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Rahat, Ofer, Uri Alon, Yaakov Levy, & Gideon Schreiber. (2009). Understanding hydrogen-bond patterns in proteins using network motifs. Bioinformatics. 25(22). 2921–2928. 16 indexed citations

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Cho, Samuel S., Yaakov Levy, & Peter G. Wolynes. (2008). Quantitative criteria for native energetic heterogeneity influences in the prediction of protein folding kinetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(2). 434–439. 61 indexed citations

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Whitford, Paul C., Osamu Miyashita, Yaakov Levy, & José N. Onuchic. (2006). Conformational Transitions of Adenylate Kinase: Switching by Cracking. Journal of Molecular Biology. 366(5). 1661–1671. 246 indexed citations

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