Yonatan Chemla

506 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 319 citations indexed

About

Yonatan Chemla is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yonatan Chemla has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 319 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yonatan Chemla's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers). Yonatan Chemla is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers). Yonatan Chemla collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Denmark. Yonatan Chemla's co-authors include Lital Alfonta, Eden Ozer, Orr Schlesinger, Vincent Noireaux, Christopher A. Voigt, Idan Frumkin, Mogens H. Jensen, Yuma Ishigami, Takeshi Chujo and Nenad Ban and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Nature Communications and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Yonatan Chemla

13 papers receiving 318 citations

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Design and regulation of engineered bacteria for environmental release

2025 25 citations Yonatan Chemla, Christopher A. Voigt et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yonatan Chemla Israel	9	286	58	38	38	11	14	319
Stephanie J. Culler United States	7	355 1.2×	44 0.8×	12 0.3×	16 0.4×	8 0.7×	10	392
Elena Yakubovskaya United States	10	540 1.9×	35 0.6×	15 0.4×	34 0.9×	24 2.2×	13	587
Preston Williams United States	8	244 0.9×	39 0.7×	23 0.6×	19 0.5×	14 1.3×	11	291
Ilya Vainberg Slutskin Israel	5	301 1.1×	73 1.3×	9 0.2×	53 1.4×	8 0.7×	7	326
Matthieu Landon United States	5	134 0.5×	53 0.9×	16 0.4×	10 0.3×	8 0.7×	7	162
Nicholas T. Perry United States	7	220 0.8×	62 1.1×	12 0.3×	8 0.2×	34 3.1×	10	263
Kyung Yeon Han South Korea	6	183 0.6×	18 0.3×	10 0.3×	56 1.5×	7 0.6×	8	244
Kyle Kaniecki United States	9	260 0.9×	35 0.6×	9 0.2×	42 1.1×	30 2.7×	9	277
Heather M. Rothfuss United States	8	151 0.5×	67 1.2×	38 1.0×	20 0.5×	8 0.7×	9	204
Babatunde Ekundayo Switzerland	9	216 0.8×	26 0.4×	14 0.4×	7 0.2×	50 4.5×	12	264

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14 of 14 papers shown

Chemla, Yonatan, et al.. (2026). Synthetic Biology of Plants and Microbes for Agriculture, Environment, and Future Applications. Chemical Reviews. 126(2). 895–1109.

Zarivach, Raz, Yonatan Chemla, Felix Popp, et al.. (2025). A Two‐Protein Chemoreceptor Complex Regulates Oxygen Thresholds in Bacterial Magneto‐Aerotaxis. Advanced Science. 12(34). e17315–e17315. 1 indexed citations

Chemla, Yonatan, et al.. (2025). Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria. Nature Biotechnology. 44(2). 258–268. 7 indexed citations

Chemla, Yonatan, et al.. (2025). Design and regulation of engineered bacteria for environmental release. Nature Microbiology. 10(2). 281–300. 25 indexed citations breakdown →

Chemla, Yonatan, F. B. Kaufman, Miriam Amiram, & Lital Alfonta. (2024). Expanding the Genetic Code of Bioelectrocatalysis and Biomaterials. Chemical Reviews. 124(20). 11187–11241. 8 indexed citations

Chemla, Yonatan, Yuval Dorfan, Sarah M. Glaven, et al.. (2022). Parallel engineering of environmental bacteria and performance over years under jungle-simulated conditions. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0278471–e0278471. 8 indexed citations

Chemla, Yonatan, Mathias Luidor Heltberg, Jerry Eichler, et al.. (2020). A possible universal role for mRNA secondary structure in bacterial translation revealed using a synthetic operon. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4827–4827. 11 indexed citations

Chemla, Yonatan, et al.. (2019). Simplified methodology for a modular and genetically expanded protein synthesis in cell-free systems. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 4(4). 189–196. 10 indexed citations

Chemla, Yonatan, et al.. (2018). Context effects of genetic code expansion by stop codon suppression. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 46. 146–155. 41 indexed citations

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Schlesinger, Orr, Yonatan Chemla, Mathias Luidor Heltberg, et al.. (2017). Tuning of Recombinant Protein Expression in Escherichia coli by Manipulating Transcription, Translation Initiation Rates, and Incorporation of Noncanonical Amino Acids. ACS Synthetic Biology. 6(6). 1076–1085. 19 indexed citations

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Chemla, Yonatan, Mathias Luidor Heltberg, Anna Bakhrat, et al.. (2017). Expanding the Genetic Code of a Photoautotrophic Organism. Biochemistry. 56(16). 2161–2165. 15 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Idan Frumkin, Yuka Yashiro, et al.. (2016). Mitochondrial 16S rRNA Is Methylated by tRNA Methyltransferase TRMT61B in All Vertebrates. PLoS Biology. 14(9). e1002557–e1002557. 101 indexed citations

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Ozer, Eden, Yonatan Chemla, Orr Schlesinger, et al.. (2016). In vitro suppression of two different stop codons. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 114(5). 1065–1073. 25 indexed citations

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Chemla, Yonatan, Eden Ozer, Orr Schlesinger, Vincent Noireaux, & Lital Alfonta. (2015). Genetically expanded cell‐free protein synthesis using endogenous pyrrolysyl orthogonal translation system. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 112(8). 1663–1672. 48 indexed citations

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