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70
Citations
13385
World Ranking
7182
National Ranking
3295

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sarah A. Woodson is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology and Genetics. Additional subfields of study include Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their work covers a range of topics centered on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and interactions involving bacteriophages and microbes. They have also contributed to studies in genetic neurodegenerative diseases and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Sarah A. Woodson has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • "A roadmap for rRNA folding and assembly during transcription," 2021, Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • "Stabilization of Hfq-mediated translational repression by the co-repressor Crc in Pseudomonas aeruginosa," 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Small RNAs and Hfq capture unfolded RNA target sites during transcription," 2023, Molecular Cell
  • "Stepwise sRNA targeting of structured bacterial mRNAs leads to abortive annealing," 2021, Molecular Cell
  • "Diversity of bacterial small RNAs drives competitive strategies for a mutual chaperone," 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors working alongside Sarah A. Woodson include Ewelina M. Małecka, Jorjethe Roca, Roumita Moulick, Margaret L. Rodgers, and Brett O'Brien. Collaboration with these researchers has contributed to multiple publications.

Their research is often published in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Sarah A. Woodson has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2011.

Best Publications

  • RNA folding at millisecond intervals by synchrotron hydroxyl radical footprinting

    Bianca Sclavi;Michael Sullivan;Mark R. Chance;Michael Brenowitz

  • Metal ions and RNA folding: a highly charged topic with a dynamic future.

    Sarah A Woodson

  • Positive regulation by small RNAs and the role of Hfq

    Toby Soper;Pierre Mandin;Nadim Majdalani;Susan Gottesman

  • Structures of riboswitch RNA reaction states by mix-and-inject XFEL serial crystallography

    J. R. Stagno;Y. Liu;Y. R. Bhandari;C. E. Conrad

  • Kinetics of Folding of Proteins and RNA

    D. Thirumalai;D. Thirumalai;D. Thirumalai;S. A. Woodson

  • Early events in RNA folding.

    D Thirumalai;Namkyung Lee;Sarah A Woodson;DK Klimov

  • Reverse self-splicing of the tetrahymena group I intron: Implication for the directionality of splicing and for intron transposition

    Sarah A. Woodson;Thomas R. Cech

  • FOLDING OF RNA INVOLVES PARALLEL PATHWAYS

    Jie Pan;D. Thirumalai;Sarah A. Woodson

  • Folding intermediates of a self-splicing RNA: Mispairing of the catalytic core

    Jie Pan;Sarah A Woodson

  • The rpoS mRNA leader recruits Hfq to facilitate annealing with DsrA sRNA

    Toby J. Soper;Sarah A. Woodson

  • Compact Intermediates in RNA Folding

    Sarah A. Woodson

  • Concurrent nucleation of 16S folding and induced fit in 30S ribosome assembly

    Tadepalli Adilakshmi;Deepti L. Bellur;Sarah A. Woodson

  • Molecular crowding stabilizes folded RNA structure by the excluded volume effect.

    Duncan Kilburn;Joon Ho Roh;Liang Guo;Robert M. Briber

  • Cycling of the Sm-like Protein Hfq on the DsrA Small Regulatory RNA

    Richard A. Lease;Sarah A. Woodson

  • Role of counterion condensation in folding of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. I. Equilibrium stabilization by cations.

    Susan L Heilman-Miller;D Thirumalai;Sarah A Woodson;Sarah A Woodson

  • Time-resolved synchrotron X-ray "footprinting", a new approach to the study of nucleic acid structure and function: application to protein-DNA interactions and RNA folding.

    Bianca Sclavi;Sarah Woodson;Michael Sullivan;Mark R. Chance

  • Charge density of divalent metal cations determines RNA stability

    Eda Koculi;Changbong Hyeon;D. Thirumalai;Sarah A. Woodson

  • Recent insights on RNA folding mechanisms from catalytic RNA

    S. A. Woodson

  • Assembly of core helices and rapid tertiary folding of a small bacterial group I ribozyme

    Prashanth Rangan;Benoît Masquida;Eric Westhof;Sarah A. Woodson

  • Protein-guided RNA dynamics during early ribosome assembly

    Hajin Kim;Hajin Kim;Hajin Kim;Sanjaya C. Abeysirigunawarden;Ke Chen;Megan Mayerle;Megan Mayerle

Frequent Co-Authors

Taekjip Ha
Taekjip Ha Johns Hopkins University
D. Thirumalai
D. Thirumalai The University of Texas at Austin
Alexei P. Sokolov
Alexei P. Sokolov University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Mark R. Chance
Mark R. Chance Case Western Reserve University
Jie Pan
Jie Pan University of Western Australia
Donald M. Crothers
Donald M. Crothers Yale University
Michael Brenowitz
Michael Brenowitz Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Thomas R. Cech
Thomas R. Cech University of Colorado Boulder
Zaida Luthey-Schulten
Zaida Luthey-Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan Gottesman
Susan Gottesman National Institutes of Health

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