2026 Anh Tuân Phan: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Chemistry	62	8700	7891	63	58	193	18332
Molecular Biology	64	1721	1544	12	12	199	18625

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his significant contributions in understanding noncanonical nucleic acid motifs, particularly the imotif and the Gquadruplex by developing novel NMR techniques

Overview

Anh Tuân Phan is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and has a research focus primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology. Their work extends into subfields including Ecology, Immunology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Cancer Research.

Their research topics cover a variety of scientific areas such as:

Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Extracellular vesicles in disease
RNA modifications and cancer

Multiple publications by Anh Tuân Phan have appeared in journals and venues that include:

Chemical Communications
Nucleic Acids Research
Circulation
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some examples of recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Anh Tuân Phan are:

Post-translational formation of strained cyclophanes in bacteria (2020, Nature Chemistry)
The biofilm matrix scaffold of Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains G-quadruplex extracellular DNA structures (2021, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes)
Extracellular Vesicle-Encapsulated Adeno-Associated Viruses for Therapeutic Gene Delivery to the Heart (2023, Circulation)
Synergistic effect for the degradation of tetracycline by rGO-Co3O4 assisted persulfate activation (2021, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids)
G4-PROTAC: targeted degradation of a G-quadruplex binding protein (2021, Chemical Communications)

Frequent collaborators with whom Anh Tuân Phan has published include:

Fernaldo Richtia Winnerdy
Kah Wai Lim
Susmita Sahoo
Xisheng Li
Nikhil Raisinghani

In recognition of their work, Anh Tuân Phan received the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) award in 2014 for contributions to understanding noncanonical nucleic acid motifs, including the imotif and G-quadruplex, with the development of novel NMR techniques.

Best Publications

Human telomere, oncogenic promoter and 5′-UTR G-quadruplexes: diverse higher order DNA and RNA targets for cancer therapeutics

Dinshaw J. Patel;Anh Tuân Phan;Vitaly Kuryavyi

1020
Citations
Structure of the Human Telomere in K+ Solution: An Intramolecular (3 + 1) G-Quadruplex Scaffold

Kim Ngoc Luu;Anh Tuân Phan;Vitaly Kuryavyi;Laurent Lacroix

951
Citations
Following G-quartet formation by UV-spectroscopy

Jean-Louis Mergny;Anh-Tuan Phan;Laurent Lacroix

846
Citations
Structural Basis for Discriminative Regulation of Gene Expression by Adenine- and Guanine-Sensing mRNAs

Alexander Serganov;Yu Ren Yuan;Olga Pikovskaya;Anna Polonskaia

678
Citations
Propeller-type parallel-stranded G-quadruplexes in the human c-myc promoter.

Anh Tuân Phan;Yasha S. Modi;Dinshaw J. Patel

605
Citations
Human telomeric G-quadruplex: structures of DNA and RNA sequences.

Anh Tuân Phan

595
Citations
Human telomeric DNA: G‐quadruplex, i‐motif and Watson–Crick double helix

Anh Tuân Phan;Jean‐Louis Mergny

581
Citations
Small-molecule interaction with a five-guanine-tract G-quadruplex structure from the human MYC promoter

Anh Tuân Phan;Vitaly Kuryavyi;Hai Yan Gaw;Dinshaw J Patel

579
Citations
Structure of two intramolecular G-quadruplexes formed by natural human telomere sequences in K+ solution

Anh Tuân Phan;Vitaly Kuryavyi;Kim Ngoc Luu;Dinshaw J. Patel

577
Citations
Structure of the human telomere in K+ solution: a stable basket-type G-quadruplex with only two G-tetrad layers

Kah Wai Lim;Samir Amrane;Serge Bouaziz;Weixin Xu

539
Citations
Structure of an unprecedented G-quadruplex scaffold in the human c-kit promoter.

Anh Tuân Phan;Vitaly Kuryavyi;Sarah Burge;Stephen Neidle

532
Citations
Structural basis for gene regulation by a thiamine pyrophosphate-sensing riboswitch.

Alexander Serganov;Anna Polonskaia;Anh Tuân Phan;Ronald R. Breaker

526
Citations
NMR spectroscopy of G-quadruplexes.

Michael Adrian;Brahim Heddi;Anh Tuân Phan

391
Citations
Structure of human telomeric DNA in crowded solution.

Brahim Heddi;Anh Tuân Phan

382
Citations
Different loop arrangements of intramolecular human telomeric (3+1) G-quadruplexes in K+ solution

Anh Tuân Phan;Kim Ngoc Luu;Dinshaw J. Patel

382
Citations
Two-repeat human telomeric d(TAGGGTTAGGGT) sequence forms interconverting parallel and antiparallel G-quadruplexes in solution: distinct topologies, thermodynamic properties, and folding/unfolding kinetics.

Anh Tuân Phan;Dinshaw J. Patel

381
Citations
Bulges in G-quadruplexes: broadening the definition of G-quadruplex-forming sequences.

Vineeth Thachappilly Mukundan;Anh Tuân Phan

341
Citations
DNA architecture: from G to Z.

Anh Tuân Phan;Vitaly Kuryavyi;Dinshaw J Patel

337
Citations
An interlocked dimeric parallel-stranded DNA quadruplex: a potent inhibitor of HIV-1 integrase

Anh Tuân Phan;Vitaly Kuryavyi;Jin-Biao Ma;Aurélie Faure

289
Citations
Structure of Propeller-Type Parallel-Stranded RNA G-Quadruplexes, Formed by Human Telomeric RNA Sequences in K+ Solution

Herry Martadinata;Anh Tuân Phan

282
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dinshaw J. Patel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Yves Mechulam École Polytechnique

Valentina Tereshko University of Chicago

Ronald Micura University of Innsbruck

Jean-Louis Mergny Inserm

Andres Jäschke Heidelberg University

Alexander A. Voityuk Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

Kazuo Nagasawa Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Ronald R. Breaker Yale University

Robert B. Darnell Rockefeller University

External Links

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