2026 Michael B. Mathews: 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	93	679	605	371	324	233	30979

Research.com Recognitions

1992 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael B. Mathews is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Health Informatics, and Materials Chemistry.

Their scholarly output includes topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, machine learning applications in bioinformatics, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, circular RNAs in diseases, and CRISPR alongside genetic engineering.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Alexander M. Ille, S.K. Burley, Venkat Gopalan, Christopher Markosian, and Renata Pasqualini.

Michael B. Mathews has contributed to numerous scientific journals, often publishing in The EMBO Journal, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Scientific Reports, and RNA.

A guide to naming human non-coding RNA genes (2020, The EMBO Journal)
The Central Dogma revisited: Insights from protein synthesis, CRISPR, and beyond (2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA)
AI interprets the Central Dogma and Genetic Code (2023, Trends in Biochemical Sciences)
Generative artificial intelligence performs rudimentary structural biology modeling (2024, Scientific Reports)
Tribute to Sidney AltmanSIDNEY ALTMAN: AN EXEMPLARY SCIENTIST, TEACHER, AND FRIEND (1939-2022)SIDNEY ALTMAN'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTA SHORT HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE ESSENTIAL RNA COMPONENT OF RNase PRECOLLECTIONS OF A GRADUATE STUDENT IN SIDNEY ALTMAN'S LABORATORYMEMORIES FROM THE EARLY YEARS OF THE SIDNEY ALTMAN LABORATORYTHE SPINACH CHLOROPLAST RNase P: THE FIRST PROTEIN-ONLY RNase P!SIDNEY ALTMAN: A BRIEF MEMOIRSIDNEY ALTMAN: IN MEMORIAM ET GRATITUDINEMTALES OF THE UNEXPECTED IN SIDNEY ALTMAN'S LABORATORYTO CLEAVE OR NOT TO CLEAVE, THAT IS THE QUESTIONSIDNEY ALTMAN: CHALLENGING AUTHORITY AND BEING AN ERUDITE SCHOLARTRIBUTE TO MY BELOVED MENTOR, SIDNEY ALTMANHAVING A MENTOR FOR AN ERAIN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR SIDNEY ALTMAN: INSPIRING PEOPLE TO THE FULLHALF A CENTURY WITH SIDNEY ALTMANRECOLLECTIONS OF MY FRIENDSHIP WITH SID ALTMANPERSONAL MEMORIES OF SIDNEY ALTMANA REMARKABLE CATALYSTREMEMBERING SIDNEY ALTMANSIDNEY ALTMAN-A SCIENTIFIC ODYSSEYSID ALTMAN: FRIEND, COLLEAGUE, AND GODFATHERSIDNEY ALTMAN-A REMEMBRANCERECOLLECTIONS OF MY SCIENTIFIC INTERACTIONS WITH SIDNEY ALTMANSIDNEY ALTMAN'S TIES TO CHINATARGETING RNA TO FIGHT ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIASIDNEY ALTMAN: IN HIS OWN WORDS (2022, RNA)

In recognition of their work, Michael B. Mathews was awarded a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1992.

Best Publications

Translational control of gene expression

Nahum Sonenberg;John W. B. Hershey;Michael B. Mathews

2252
Citations
Functional identity of proliferating cell nuclear antigen and a DNA polymerase-δ auxiliary protein

Gregory Prelich;Cheng-Keat Tan;Matthew Kostura;Michael B. Mathews

1417
Citations
Transcription elongation factor P-TEFb is required for HIV-1 Tat transactivation in vitro

Yuerong Zhu;Tsafrira Pe’ery;Junmin Peng;Yegnanarayana Ramanathan

898
Citations
Identity of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen and cyclin.

Mathews Mb;Bernstein Rm;Bernstein Rm;Franza Br;Garrels Ji

880
Citations
HIV-1 Tat protein increases transcriptional initiation and stabilizes elongation.

Michael F. Laspia;Andrew P. Rice;Michael B. Mathews

798
Citations
Interactions between double-stranded RNA regulators and the protein kinase DAI.

Lisa Manche;Simon R. Green;Christian Schmedt;Michael B. Mathews

794
Citations
A possible precursor of immunoglobulin light chains

C. Milstein;G. G. Brownlee;T. M. Harrison;M. B. Mathews;M. B. Mathews

765
Citations
The cell-cycle regulated proliferating cell nuclear antigen is required for SV40 DNA replication in vitro.

Gregory Prelich;Matthew Kostura;Daniel R. Marshak;Michael B. Mathews

614
Citations
Regulation of proliferating cell nuclear antigen during the cell cycle.

G F Morris;M B Mathews

595
Citations
Myositis autoantibody inhibits histidyl-tRNA synthetase: a model for autoimmunity

Michael B. Mathews;Robert M. Bernstein

495
Citations
Multiple functional domains in the adenovirus E1A gene.

Elizabeth Moran;Michael B. Mathews

479
Citations
Adenovirus virus-associated RNA and translation control.

M B Mathews;T Shenk

474
Citations
Translational control in biology and medicine

Michael B. Mathews;Nahum Sonenberg;John W. B. Hershey

437
Citations
Autophosphorylation in the Activation Loop Is Required for Full Kinase Activity In Vivo of Human and Yeast Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2α Kinases PKR and GCN2

Patrick R. Romano;Minerva T. Garcia-Barrio;Xiaolong Zhang;Qizhi Wang

367
Citations
The double-stranded-RNA-binding motif: interference and much more

Bin Tian;Philip C. Bevilacqua;Amy Diegelman-Parente;Michael B. Mathews

341
Citations
A mechanism for the control of protein synthesis by adenovirus VA RNAI

Robert P. O'Malley;Thomas M. Mariano;John Siekierka;Michael B. Mathews

341
Citations
Two RNA-binding motifs in the double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase, DAI.

S R Green;M B Mathews

336
Citations
Identification of separate domains in the adenovirus E1A gene for immortalization activity and the activation of virus early genes.

E Moran;B Zerler;T M Harrison;M B Mathews

330
Citations
Mammalian Cell‐Free Protein Synthesis Directed by Viral Ribonucleic Acid

Michael B. Mathews;Asher Korner

324
Citations
Proteins binding to duplexed RNA: one motif, multiple functions

Ivo Fierro-Monti;Michael B. Mathews

319
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nahum Sonenberg McGill University

John W. B. Hershey University of California, Davis

Andrew P. Rice Baylor College of Medicine

Bin Tian The Wistar Institute

Hugh D. Robertson Cornell University

Bruce Stillman Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Ulf Pettersson Uppsala University

Alan G. Hinnebusch National Institutes of Health

Richard J. Roberts New England Biolabs

Elspeth A. Bruford University of Cambridge

External Links

Personal website of Michael B. Mathews

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