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John Shanklin publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Shanklin sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 177 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

John Shanklin D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Shanklin sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John Shanklin is affiliated with Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology as well as agricultural and biological sciences.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

More specifically, they have contributed extensively to the following subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Biochemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Spectroscopy

Their research topics cover a range of subjects including:

  • Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Plant responses to water stress

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John Shanklin include:

  • "Mechanisms and functions of membrane lipid remodeling in plants," 2021, The Plant Journal
  • "Towards oilcane: Engineering hyperaccumulation of triacylglycerol into sugarcane stems," 2020, GCB Bioenergy
  • "Structural basis for SARS-CoV-2 envelope protein recognition of human cell junction protein PALS1," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Structural basis for Ca2+-dependent activation of a plant metacaspase," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Metabolic and functional connections between cytoplasmic and chloroplast triacylglycerol storage," 2020, Progress in Lipid Research

John Shanklin frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • New Phytologist
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates often with a set of co-authors, including:

  • Jin Chai
  • Hui Liu
  • Qun Liu
  • Fredy Altpeter
  • Xiaohong Yu

John Shanklin is recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor received in 2007.

Best Publications

  • DESATURATION AND RELATED MODIFICATIONS OF FATTY ACIDS1

    John Shanklin;Edgar B. Cahoon

  • Eight histidine residues are catalytically essential in a membrane-associated iron enzyme, stearoyl-CoA desaturase, and are conserved in alkane hydroxylase and xylene monooxygenase

    John Shanklin;Edward Whittle;Brian G. Fox

  • Catalytic Plasticity of Fatty Acid Modification Enzymes Underlying Chemical Diversity of Plant Lipids

    Pierre Broun;John Shanklin;Ed Whittle;Chris Somerville

  • Crystal structure of delta9 stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase from castor seed and its relationship to other di-iron proteins.

    Y. Lindqvist;W. Huang;G. Schneider;J. Shanklin

  • A fatty acid desaturase modulates the activation of defense signaling pathways in plants.

    Pradeep Kachroo;John Shanklin;Jyoti Shah;Edward J. Whittle

  • Stearoyl-acyl-carrier-protein desaturase from higher plants is structurally unrelated to the animal and fungal homologs.

    John Shanklin;Chris Somerville

  • Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein delta 9 desaturase from Ricinus communis is a diiron-oxo protein.

    Brian G. Fox;John Shanklin;Chris Somerville;Eckard Munck

  • The Spirodela polyrhiza genome reveals insights into its neotenous reduction fast growth and aquatic lifestyle

    W. Wang;G. Haberer;H. Gundlach;C. Gläßer

  • Identification of amino acid residues involved in substrate specificity of plant acyl-ACP thioesterases using a bioinformatics-guided approach

    Kimberly M Mayer;Kimberly M Mayer;John Shanklin

  • Mössbauer studies of alkane ω-hydroxylase: Evidence for a diiron cluster in an integral-membrane enzyme

    John Shanklin;Catalina Achim;Hermann Schmidt;Brian G. Fox

  • Expression of a coriander desaturase results in petroselinic acid production in transgenic tobacco.

    Edgar B. Cahoon;John Shanklin;John Shanklin;John B. Ohlrogge

  • Defective Pollen Wall Is Required for Anther and Microspore Development in Rice and Encodes a Fatty Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase

    Jing Shi;Hexin Tan;Xiao Hong Yu;Yuanyun Liu;Yuanyun Liu

  • Resonance Raman evidence for an Fe-O-Fe center in stearoyl-ACP desaturase. Primary sequence identity with other diiron-oxo proteins.

    Brian G. Fox;John Shanklin;Jingyuan Ai;Thomas M. Loehr

  • Red light-induced formation of ubiquitin-phytochrome conjugates: Identification of possible intermediates of phytochrome degradation.

    John Shanklin;Merten Jabben;Richard D. Vierstra

  • The Arabidopsis stearoyl-acyl carrier protein-desaturase family and the contribution of leaf isoforms to oleic acid synthesis.

    Aardra Kachroo;John Shanklin;Edward Whittle;Ludmila Lapchyk

  • The stroma of higher plant plastids contain ClpP and ClpC, functional homologs of Escherichia coli ClpP and ClpA: an archetypal two-component ATP-dependent protease.

    John Shanklin;Natalie D. DeWitt;John M. Flanagan

  • Oil accumulation is controlled by carbon precursor supply for fatty acid synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Jilian Fan;Chengshi Yan;Carl Andre;John Shanklin

  • Male Sterile2 Encodes a Plastid-Localized Fatty Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase Required for Pollen Exine Development in Arabidopsis

    Weiwei Chen;Xiao-Hong Yu;Kaisi Zhang;Jianxin Shi

  • Triacylglycerol Metabolism, Function, and Accumulation in Plant Vegetative Tissues.

    Changcheng Xu;John Shanklin

  • Redesign of soluble fatty acid desaturases from plants for altered substrate specificity and double bond position

    Edgar B. Cahoon;Ylva Lindqvist;Gunter Schneider;John Shanklin

Frequent Co-Authors

Edgar B. Cahoon
Edgar B. Cahoon University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Ylva Lindqvist
Ylva Lindqvist Karolinska Institute
Brian G. Fox
Brian G. Fox University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chris Somerville
Chris Somerville University of California, Berkeley
Richard D. Vierstra
Richard D. Vierstra Washington University in St. Louis
John B. Ohlrogge
John B. Ohlrogge Michigan State University
Lukas Schreiber
Lukas Schreiber University of Bonn
John Browse
John Browse Washington State University
Dabing Zhang
Dabing Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Robert A. Martienssen
Robert A. Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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