2026 Jens Lykke-Andersen: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	45	2835	2575	1358	1219	68	12524

Overview

Jens Lykke-Andersen is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. Their scientific work covers areas such as RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, and RNA regulation and disease.

The scientist has contributed articles to various publication venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
RNA
Nature Chemical Biology
Genes & Development
Molecular and Cellular Biology

Recent notable papers by Jens Lykke-Andersen include:

"Assigning functionality to cysteines by base editing of cancer dependency genes," published in 2023 in Nature Chemical Biology
"Competition between maturation and degradation drives human snRNA 3' end quality control," published in 2020 in Genes & Development
"The Conserved CNOT1 Interaction Motif of Tristetraprolin Regulates ARE-mRNA Decay Independently of the p38 MAPK-MK2 Kinase Pathway," published in 2022 in Molecular and Cellular Biology
"Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes," expected in 2025 in Nature Reviews Genetics
"Sm complex assembly and 5' cap trimethylation promote selective processing of snRNAs by the 3' exonuclease TOE1," published in 2024 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors of Jens Lykke-Andersen include:

Timothy Shaw
Tiantai Ma
Rea M. Lardelli
Megan E. Dowdle
Alberto Carreño

Best Publications

Stress granules and processing bodies are dynamically linked sites of mRNP remodeling

Nancy Kedersha;Georg Stoecklin;Maranatha Ayodele;Patrick Yacono

1701
Citations
A Family of Insulin-Like Growth Factor II mRNA-Binding Proteins Represses Translation in Late Development

Jacob Nielsen;Jan Christiansen;Jens Lykke-Andersen;Anders H. Johnsen

865
Citations
Human Upf proteins target an mRNA for nonsense-mediated decay when bound downstream of a termination codon.

Jens Lykke-Andersen;Mei-Di Shu;Joan A. Steitz

662
Citations
Recruitment and activation of mRNA decay enzymes by two ARE-mediated decay activation domains in the proteins TTP and BRF-1

Jens Lykke-Andersen;Eileen Wagner

655
Citations
Multiple Processing Body Factors and the ARE Binding Protein TTP Activate mRNA Decapping

Martin Fenger-Grøn;Christy Fillman;Bodil Norrild;Jens Lykke-Andersen

582
Citations
The control of mRNA decapping and P-body formation.

Tobias M. Franks;Jens Lykke-Andersen

541
Citations
Communication of the Position of Exon-Exon Junctions to the mRNA Surveillance Machinery by the Protein RNPS1

Jens Lykke-Andersen;Mei-Di Shu;Joan A. Steitz

536
Citations
Identification of a human decapping complex associated with hUpf proteins in nonsense-mediated decay.

Jens Lykke-Andersen

507
Citations
A competition between stimulators and antagonists of Upf complex recruitment governs human nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.

Guramrit Singh;Indrani Rebbapragada;Jens Lykke-Andersen

388
Citations
Execution of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: what defines a substrate?

Indrani Rebbapragada;Jens Lykke-Andersen

376
Citations
TTP and BRF proteins nucleate processing body formation to silence mRNAs with AU-rich elements.

Tobias M. Franks;Jens Lykke-Andersen

336
Citations
mRNA surveillance: the perfect persist

Eileen Wagner;Jens Lykke-Andersen

330
Citations
A human microprotein that interacts with the mRNA decapping complex

Nadia G D'Lima;Jiao Ma;Lauren Winkler;Qian Chu

257
Citations
Translational coregulation of 5′TOP mRNAs by TIA-1 and TIAR

Christian Kroun Damgaard;Jens Lykke-Andersen

255
Citations
Upf1 ATPase-Dependent mRNP Disassembly Is Required for Completion of Nonsense- Mediated mRNA Decay

Tobias M. Franks;Tobias M. Franks;Guramrit Singh;Jens Lykke-Andersen;Jens Lykke-Andersen

254
Citations
Phosphorylation of Tristetraprolin by MK2 Impairs AU-Rich Element mRNA Decay by Preventing Deadenylase Recruitment

Sandra L. Clement;Claudia Scheckel;Claudia Scheckel;Georg Stoecklin;Jens Lykke-Andersen;Jens Lykke-Andersen

231
Citations
mRNA decapping factors and the exonuclease Xrn2 function in widespread premature termination of RNA polymerase II transcription

Kris Brannan;Hyunmin Kim;Benjamin Erickson;Kira Glover-Cutter

222
Citations
H19 RNA binds four molecules of insulin-like growth factor II mRNA-binding protein.

Steffen Runge;Finn Cilius Nielsen;Jacob Nielsen;Jens Lykke-Andersen

197
Citations
Post-transcriptional regulation of satellite cell quiescence by TTP-mediated mRNA decay

Melissa A Hausburg;Jason D Doles;Sandra L Clement;Adam B Cadwallader

166
Citations
Protein-RNA Networks Regulated by Normal and ALS-Associated Mutant HNRNPA2B1 in the Nervous System

Fernando J. Martinez;Gabriel A. Pratt;Eric L. Van Nostrand;Ranjan Batra

164
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger A. Garrett University of Copenhagen

Gene W. Yeo University of California, San Diego

Perry J. Blackshear National Institutes of Health

Finn Cilius Nielsen Copenhagen University Hospital

Georg Stoecklin Heidelberg University

Randal J. Kaufman Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Ulla M. Wewer University of Copenhagen

Joan A. Steitz Yale University

Hirotomo Saitsu Hamamatsu University

Joseph G. Gleeson University of California, San Diego

External Links

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