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Biology and Biochemistry
Russia
2023

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D-Index
63
Citations
11850
World Ranking
2794
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Russia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Russia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Russia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Russia Leader Award

Overview

Vadim I. Agol is affiliated with Lomonosov Moscow State University in the Russian Federation. Their research spans medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular focus on viral infections, molecular biology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • The Baltimore Classification of Viruses 50 Years Later: How Does It Stand in the Light of Virus Evolution? (2021, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews)
  • Non-Canonical Translation Initiation Mechanisms Employed by Eukaryotic Viral mRNAs (2021, Biochemistry (Moscow))
  • Polio eradication at the crossroads (2021, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Неканонические механизмы инициации трансляции мРНК вирусов эукариот (2021, Биохимия)
  • Existence and significance of viral nonreplicative RNA recombination (2023, PLoS Biology)

Frequent co-authors with whom Vadim I. Agol has collaborated include Sergey E. Dmitriev, Ivan I. Sorokin, Ilya M. Terenin, Natalia O. Kalinina, and Artem S. Kushchenko.

Their work appears across several publication venues with multiple contributions to:

  • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  • Biochemistry (Moscow)
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • Биохимия
  • PLoS Biology

Vadim I. Agol's research draws on topics within the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Key areas of study include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

Research themes center around viral infections and immunology, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, plant virus research studies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and RNA research and splicing.

  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Best Publications

  • Molecular mechanisms of translation initiation in eukaryotes.

    Tatyana V. Pestova;Victoria G. Kolupaeva;Ivan B. Lomakin;Evgeny V. Pilipenko

  • La autoantigen enhances and corrects aberrant translation of poliovirus RNA in reticulocyte lysate.

    K. Meerovitch;Y. V. Svitkin;H. S. Lee;F. Lejbkowicz

  • A cell cycle-dependent protein serves as a template-specific translation initiation factor.

    Evgeny V. Pilipenko;Tatyana V. Pestova;Victoria G. Kolupaeva;Elena V. Khitrina

  • Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses: current state of knowledge

    Olen M. Kew;Peter F. Wright;Vadim I. Agol;Francis Delpeyroux

  • Prokaryotic-like cis elements in the cap-independent internal initiation of translation on picornavirus RNA.

    Evgeny V. Pilipenko;Anatoly P. Gmyl;Svetlana V. Maslova;Yuri V. Svitkin

  • Conserved structural domains in the 5'-untranslated region of picornaviral genomes: an analysis of the segment controlling translation and neurovirulence.

    Evgeny V. Pilipenko;Vladimir M. Blinov;Lyudmila I. Romanova;Alexander N. Sinyakov

  • Apoptosis-inducing and apoptosis-preventing functions of poliovirus.

    E A Tolskaya;L I Romanova;M S Kolesnikova;T A Ivannikova

  • Conservation of the secondary structure elements of the 5' untranslated region of cardio- and aphthovirus RNAs

    E.V. Pilipenko;V.M. Blinov;B.K. Chernov;T.M. Dmitrieva

  • Kissing of the two predominant hairpin loops in the coxsackie B virus 3' untranslated region is the essential structural feature of the origin of replication required for negative-strand RNA synthesis.

    W.J.G. Melchers;J.G.J. Hoenderop;H.J. Bruins Slot;C.W.A. Pleij

  • Internal translation initiation on poliovirus RNA: further characterization of La function in poliovirus translation in vitro.

    Yuri V. Svitkin;Karen Meerovitch;Han S. Lee;Jaydev N. Dholakia

  • Towards identification of cis-acting elements involved in the replication of enterovirus and rhinovirus RNAs: a proposal for the existence of tRNA-like terminal structures

    Evgeny V. Pilipenko;Svetlana V. Maslova;Alexander N. Sinyakov;Vadim I. Agol

  • The Genomes of attenuated and virulent poliovirus strains differ in their in vitro translation efficiencies

    Yuri V. Svitkin;Svetlana V. Maslova;Vadim I. Agol

  • Poliovirus Protein 3A Inhibits Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF)-Induced Apoptosis by Eliminating the TNF Receptor from the Cell Surface

    Nickolay Neznanov;Anna Kondratova;Anna Kondratova;Konstantin M. Chumakov;Brigitte Angres

  • Nonreplicative RNA recombination in poliovirus.

    Anatoly P. Gmyl;Evgeny V. Belousov;Evgeny V. Belousov;Svetlana V. Maslova;Elena V. Khitrina

  • Point mutations modify the response of poliovirus RNA to a translation initiation factor: a comparison of neurovirulent and attenuated strains

    Yuri V. Svitkin;Tatyana V. Pestova;Svetlana V. Maslova;Vadim I. Agol;Vadim I. Agol

  • The primary structure of crossover regions of intertypic poliovirus recombinants: a model of recombination between RNA genomes

    Lyudmila I. Romanova;Vladimir M. Blinov;Elena A. Tolskaya;Ekaterina G. Viktorova

  • Paradoxes of the replication of picornaviral genomes.

    Vadim I Agol;Aniko V Paul;Eckard Wimmer

  • Cis-element, oriR, involved in the initiation of (-)strand poliovirus RNA: a quasi-globular multi-domain RNA structure maintained by tertiary ("kissing") interactions

    E V Pilipenko;K V Poperechny;S V Maslova;W J Melchers

  • Evolution of circulating wild poliovirus and of vaccine-derived poliovirus in an immunodeficient patient: a unifying model.

    Gene V. Gavrilin;Elena A. Cherkasova;Galina Y. Lipskaya;Olen M. Kew

  • The 5'-untranslated region of picornaviral genomes.

    Vadim I. Agol

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuri V. Svitkin
Yuri V. Svitkin McGill University
Alexander E. Gorbalenya
Alexander E. Gorbalenya Leiden University
Konstantin Chumakov
Konstantin Chumakov US Food and Drug Administration
Willem J. G. Melchers
Willem J. G. Melchers Radboud University
Olen M. Kew
Olen M. Kew Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld
Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld Utrecht University
Ellie Ehrenfeld
Ellie Ehrenfeld National Institutes of Health
Tatyana V. Pestova
Tatyana V. Pestova SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Eckard Wimmer
Eckard Wimmer Stony Brook University
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health

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