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Thomas A. Steitz

Active 1966–2021

159
Papers
47,643
Citations
121
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 5,376 citing papers, 41.6% of this breakdownGermany: 1,018 citing papers, 7.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 954 citing papers, 7.4% of this breakdownFrance: 696 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownChina: 678 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownJapan: 394 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownCanada: 377 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 273 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownRussia: 247 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSweden: 222 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdownSpain: 217 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdownIndia: 207 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdown
0%41.6%Other 17.4%

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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology73.2%
  • Medicine10.9%
  • Immunology and Microbiology3.5%
  • Materials Science2.6%
  • Environmental Science2.3%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.8%
  • Other5.7%

Topics

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms15.7%
  • RNA modifications and cancer8.7%
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology5.6%
  • RNA Research and Splicing5%
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry4.5%
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms3.2%
  • Other57.3%

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  1. Ribosome-Targeting Antibiotics: Modes of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance, and Implications for Drug Design

    Authors: Jinzhong Lin, Dejian Zhou, Thomas A. Steitz, Yury S. Polikanov, Matthieu G. Gagnon - Annual Review of Biochemistry 2018 cited by 393

  2. The Structural Basis of Ribosome Activity in Peptide Bond Synthesis

    Authors: Poul Nissen, Jeffrey C. Hansen, Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz - Science 2000 cited by 2,275

  3. The Complete Atomic Structure of the Large Ribosomal Subunit at 2.4 Å Resolution

    Authors: Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey C. Hansen, Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz - Science 2000 cited by 3,309

  4. Structural insights into the role of rRNA modifications in protein synthesis and ribosome assembly

    Authors: Yury S. Polikanov, Sergey Melnikov, Dieter Söll, Thomas A. Steitz - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2015 cited by 278

  5. Structural insights into the stabilization of MALAT1 noncoding RNA by a bipartite triple helix

    Authors: Jessica A. Brown, David Bulkley, Jimin Wang, Max L. Valenstein, Therese A. Yario, Thomas A. Steitz, Joan A. Steitz - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2014 cited by 290

  6. A general two-metal-ion mechanism for catalytic RNA.

    Authors: Thomas A. Steitz, Joan A. Steitz - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1993 cited by 1,154

  7. A proton wire to couple aminoacyl-tRNA accommodation and peptide-bond formation on the ribosome

    Authors: Yury S. Polikanov, Thomas A. Steitz, C.A. Innis - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2014 cited by 247

  8. A new system for naming ribosomal proteins

    Authors: Nenad Ban, Roland Beckmann, J.H.D. Cate, Jonathan D. Dinman, François Dragon, Steven R. Ellis, Denis L. J. Lafontaine, Lasse Lindahl, Anders Liljas, Jeffrey M. Lipton, Michael A. McAlear, Peter B. Moore, Harry F. Noller, Joaquín Ortega, Vikram Govind Panse, V. Ramakrishnan, C.M.T. Spahn, Thomas A. Steitz, Marek Tchórzewski, David Tollervey, Alan J. Warren, James R. Williamson, Daniel N. Wilson, Ada Yonath, Marat Yusupov - Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2014 cited by 575

  9. Structures of proline-rich peptides bound to the ribosome reveal a common mechanism of protein synthesis inhibition

    Authors: Matthieu G. Gagnon, Raktim N. Roy, Ivan B. Lomakin, Tanja Florin, Alexander S. Mankin, Thomas A. Steitz - Nucleic Acids Research 2016 cited by 184

  10. A structural understanding of the dynamic ribosome machine

    Authors: Thomas A. Steitz - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2008 cited by 442

  11. The mechanism of inhibition of protein synthesis by the proline-rich peptide oncocin

    Authors: Raktim N. Roy, Ivan B. Lomakin, Matthieu G. Gagnon, Thomas A. Steitz - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2015 cited by 186

  12. Revisiting the structures of several antibiotics bound to the bacterial ribosome

    Authors: David Bulkley, C.A. Innis, Gregor Blaha, Thomas A. Steitz - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2010 cited by 309

  13. Structures of MLSBK Antibiotics Bound to Mutated Large Ribosomal Subunits Provide a Structural Explanation for Resistance

    Authors: Daqi Tu, Gregor Blaha, Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz - Cell 2005 cited by 439

  14. How Hibernation Factors RMF, HPF, and YfiA Turn Off Protein Synthesis

    Authors: Yury S. Polikanov, Gregor Blaha, Thomas A. Steitz - Science 2012 cited by 235

  15. DNA Polymerases: Structural Diversity and Common Mechanisms

    Authors: Thomas A. Steitz - Journal of Biological Chemistry 1999 cited by 853

  16. U2504 Determines the Species Specificity of the A-Site Cleft Antibiotics:

    Authors: G. Gurel, Gregor Blaha, Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz - Journal of Molecular Biology 2009 cited by 188

  17. Structural basis of bacterial transcription activation

    Authors: Bin Liu, Chuan Hong, Rick Huang, Zhiheng Yu, Thomas A. Steitz - Science 2017 cited by 99

  18. Crystal Structure of the Oxazolidinone Antibiotic Linezolid Bound to the 50S Ribosomal Subunit

    Authors: Joseph A. Ippolito, Z.F. Kanyo, Deping Wang, F. Franceschi, Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz, Erin M. Duffy - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2008 cited by 301

  19. A mechanism for all polymerases

    Authors: Thomas A. Steitz - Nature 1998 cited by 596

  20. The Structures of Four Macrolide Antibiotics Bound to the Large Ribosomal Subunit

    Authors: J.L. Hansen, Joseph A. Ippolito, Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz - Molecular Cell 2002 cited by 569

  21. An induced-fit mechanism to promote peptide bond formation and exclude hydrolysis of peptidyl-tRNA

    Authors: T. Martin Schmeing, Kevin S. Huang, Scott A. Strobel, Thomas A. Steitz - Nature 2005 cited by 354

  22. Formation of the First Peptide Bond: The Structure of EF-P Bound to the 70 S Ribosome

    Authors: Gregor Blaha, Robin E. Stanley, Thomas A. Steitz - Science 2009 cited by 228

  23. Structure of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase, an archaeal enzyme for genetic code innovation

    Authors: Jennifer M. Kavran, Sarath Gundllapalli, Patrick O’Donoghue, Markus Englert, Dieter Söll, Thomas A. Steitz - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 cited by 222

  24. Polyspecific pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetases from directed evolution

    Authors: Li-Tao Guo, Yane‐Shih Wang, Akiyoshi Nakamura, Daniel Eiler, Jennifer M. Kavran, Margaret L. Wong, Laura L. Kiessling, Thomas A. Steitz, Patrick O’Donoghue, Dieter Söll - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 cited by 122