2026 John Shanklin: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	62	10659	9839	4633	4162	177	16241

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

1112
Citations
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

967
Citations
Catalytic Plasticity of Fatty Acid Modification Enzymes Underlying Chemical Diversity of Plant Lipids

Pierre Broun;John Shanklin;Ed Whittle;Chris Somerville

922
Citations
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

573
Citations
A fatty acid desaturase modulates the activation of defense signaling pathways in plants.

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

481
Citations
Stearoyl-acyl-carrier-protein desaturase from higher plants is structurally unrelated to the animal and fungal homologs.

John Shanklin;Chris Somerville

429
Citations
Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein delta 9 desaturase from Ricinus communis is a diiron-oxo protein.

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

393
Citations
The Spirodela polyrhiza genome reveals insights into its neotenous reduction fast growth and aquatic lifestyle

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

369
Citations
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

366
Citations
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

299
Citations
Expression of a coriander desaturase results in petroselinic acid production in transgenic tobacco.

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

298
Citations
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

297
Citations
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

293
Citations
Red light-induced formation of ubiquitin-phytochrome conjugates: Identification of possible intermediates of phytochrome degradation.

John Shanklin;Merten Jabben;Richard D. Vierstra

286
Citations
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

281
Citations
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

269
Citations
Oil accumulation is controlled by carbon precursor supply for fatty acid synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Jilian Fan;Chengshi Yan;Carl Andre;John Shanklin

266
Citations
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

253
Citations
Triacylglycerol Metabolism, Function, and Accumulation in Plant Vegetative Tissues.

Changcheng Xu;John Shanklin

252
Citations
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

235
Citations