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87
Citations
25081
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1216
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579

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Rachel Green is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research focuses primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology.

Their work spans several specialized subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Plant Science.

Main topics addressed in their research include:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms

Frequent publication venues for Rachel Green's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Cell
  • eLife
  • The EMBO Journal
  • Cell

Recent papers include:

  • Ribosome Collisions Trigger General Stress Responses to Regulate Cell Fate (2020, Cell)
  • Stop codon context influences genome-wide stimulation of termination codon readthrough by aminoglycosides (2020, eLife)
  • Translational control of stem cell function (2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)
  • EDF1 coordinates cellular responses to ribosome collisions (2020, eLife)
  • GIGYF2 and 4EHP Inhibit Translation Initiation of Defective Messenger RNAs to Assist Ribosome-Associated Quality Control (2020, Molecular Cell)

Rachel Green has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Nancy L. Craig
  • Carol W. Greider
  • Gisela Storz
  • Cynthia Wolberger
  • Orna Cohen-Fix

They have contributed to book publications as well, with a notable work titled Molecular Biology, published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Throughout their career, Rachel Green has received recognition through awards such as:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012)

Best Publications

  • Inhibition of eukaryotic translation elongation by cycloheximide and lactimidomycin

    Tilman Schneider-Poetsch;Jianhua Ju;Daniel E Eyler;Yongjun Dang

  • miRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing by Translational Repression Followed by mRNA Deadenylation and Decay

    Sergej Djuranovic;Ali Nahvi;Rachel Green

  • RIBOSOMES AND TRANSLATION

    Rachel Green;Harry F. Noller

  • A Parsimonious Model for Gene Regulation by miRNAs

    Sergej Djuranovic;Ali Nahvi;Rachel Green

  • Hypusine-containing protein eIF5A promotes translation elongation

    Preeti Saini;Daniel E. Eyler;Rachel Green;Thomas E. Dever

  • The Elongation, Termination, and Recycling Phases of Translation in Eukaryotes

    Thomas E. Dever;Rachel Green

  • The guanosine binding site of the Tetrahymena ribozyme

    François Michel;Maya Hanna;Rachel Green;David P. Bartel

  • Fidelity at the Molecular Level: Lessons from Protein Synthesis

    Hani S. Zaher;Rachel Green

  • Translation drives mRNA quality control.

    Christopher J Shoemaker;Rachel Green

  • eIF5A Functions Globally in Translation Elongation and Termination

    Anthony P. Schuller;Colin Chih Chien Wu;Thomas E. Dever;Allen R. Buskirk

  • Ribosomopathies: There’s strength in numbers

    Eric W. Mills;Rachel Green

  • The Active Site of the Ribosome Is Composed of Two Layers of Conserved Nucleotides with Distinct Roles in Peptide Bond Formation and Peptide Release

    Elaine M. Youngman;Julie L. Brunelle;Anna B. Kochaniak;Rachel Green

  • Dom34 Rescues Ribosomes in 3′ Untranslated Regions

    Nicholas R. Guydosh;Rachel Green

  • Substrate-assisted catalysis of peptide bond formation by the ribosome

    Joshua S Weinger;K Mark Parnell;Silke Dorner;Rachel Green

  • Ribosome Collisions Trigger General Stress Responses to Regulate Cell Fate

    Colin Chih Chien Wu;Amy Peterson;Boris Zinshteyn;Sergi Regot

  • Dom34:Hbs1 Promotes Subunit Dissociation and Peptidyl-tRNA Drop-Off to Initiate No-Go Decay

    Christopher J. Shoemaker;Daniel E. Eyler;Rachel Green

  • A base pair between tRNA and 23S rRNA in the peptidyl transferase centre of the ribosome.

    Raymond R. Samaha;Rachel Green;Harry F. Noller

  • The DEAD-Box Protein Dhh1p Couples mRNA Decay and Translation by Monitoring Codon Optimality

    Aditya Radhakrishnan;Ying Hsin Chen;Sophie Martin;Najwa Alhusaini

  • Kinetic analysis reveals the ordered coupling of translation termination and ribosome recycling in yeast

    Christopher J. Shoemaker;Rachel Green

  • PROTEIN KINASE CK2 INTERACTS WITH AND PHOSPHORYLATES THE ARABIDOPSIS CIRCADIAN CLOCK-ASSOCIATED 1 PROTEIN

    Shoji Sugano;Christos Andronis;Rachel M. Green;Zhi-Yong Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry F. Noller
Harry F. Noller University of California, Santa Cruz
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank Columbia University
Geraldine Seydoux
Geraldine Seydoux Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jack W. Szostak
Jack W. Szostak University of Chicago
Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roland Beckmann
Roland Beckmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Daniel N. Wilson
Daniel N. Wilson Universität Hamburg
Otto Berninghausen
Otto Berninghausen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thomas Becker
Thomas Becker Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Joseph D. Puglisi
Joseph D. Puglisi Stanford University

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