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2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
21549
World Ranking
6914
National Ranking
7

Yuriy A. Knirel publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yuriy A. Knirel sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 771 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Yuriy A. Knirel D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yuriy A. Knirel sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Yuriy A. Knirel is affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian Federation, contributing extensively to research in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their work spans several subfields, notably ecology, molecular biology, organic chemistry, molecular medicine, and plant science. The principal topics of their investigation are bacteriophages and microbial interactions, carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, genomics and phylogenetic studies, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, infections and bacterial resistance, and bacterial genetics and biotechnology.

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated with Yuriy A. Knirel, including:

  • Mikhail M. Shneider
  • Alexander S. Shashkov
  • Anastasiya V. Popova
  • Johanna J. Kenyon
  • Anastasiya A. Kasimova

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Carbohydrate Research
  • International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Microbiology Spectrum
  • Biochemistry (Moscow)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Yuriy A. Knirel demonstrate a focus on bacteriophage interactions with bacterial capsular polysaccharides and enzymatic mechanisms related to depolymerases, such as:

  • Specific Interaction of Novel Friunavirus Phages Encoding Tailspike Depolymerases with Corresponding Acinetobacter baumannii Capsular Types (2020, Journal of Virology)
  • Characterization and Therapeutic Potential of Bacteriophage-Encoded Polysaccharide Depolymerases with β Galactosidase Activity against Klebsiella pneumoniae K57 Capsular Type (2020, Antibiotics)
  • Mechanisms of Acinetobacter baumannii Capsular Polysaccharide Cleavage by Phage Depolymerases (2020, Biochemistry (Moscow))
  • Morphologically Different Pectobacterium brasiliense Bacteriophages PP99 and PP101: Deacetylation of O-Polysaccharide by the Tail Spike Protein of Phage PP99 Accompanies the Infection (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Comparison of the Therapeutic Potential of Bacteriophage KpV74 and Phage-Derived Depolymerase (β-glucosidase) against Klebsiella pneumoniae Capsular Type K2 (2022, Virus Research)

The research conducted by Yuriy A. Knirel is situated firmly within biochemical and molecular biological frameworks, particularly emphasizing microbial interactions mediated by bacteriophages and enzymatic modification of bacterial polysaccharides.

Best Publications

  • A computer-assisted structural analysis of regular polysaccharides on the basis of 13C-n.m.r. data.

    Grigory M. Lipkind;Alexander S. Shashkov;Yuriy A. Knirel;Evgeny V. Vinogradov

  • CHARMM-GUI Membrane Builder for Complex Biological Membrane Simulations with Glycolipids and Lipoglycans.

    Jumin Lee;Dhilon S Patel;Jonas Ståhle;Sang-Jun Park

  • Updates to the Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans guidelines.

    Sriram Neelamegham;Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita;Evan Bolton;Martin Frank

  • Stereochemical factors determining the effects of glycosylation on the 13C chemical shifts in carbohydrates

    Alexander S. Shashkov;Grigory M. Lipkind;Yuriy A. Knirel;Nikolay K. Kochetkov

  • A lectin S-domain receptor kinase mediates lipopolysaccharide sensing in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Stefanie Ranf;Nicolas Gisch;Milena Schäffer;Tina Illig

  • Structure and genetics of Shigella O antigens

    Bin Liu;Yuriy A. Knirel;Lu Feng;Lu Feng;Andrei V. Perepelov

  • Structure and genetics of Escherichia coli O antigens.

    Bin Liu;Bin Liu;Axel Furevi;Andrei V Perepelov;Xi Guo;Xi Guo

  • A Single Nucleotide Exchange in the wzy Gene Is Responsible for the Semirough O6 Lipopolysaccharide Phenotype and Serum Sensitivity of Escherichia coli Strain Nissle 1917

    Lubomir Grozdanov;Ulrich Zähringer;Gabriele Blum-Oehler;Lore Brade

  • Polysaccharide Antigens of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

    Yuriy A. Knirel

  • Microbial glycan microarrays define key features of host-microbial interactions

    Sean R Stowell;Connie M Arthur;Ryan McBride;Oren Berger

  • Structural diversity in Salmonella O antigens and its genetic basis

    Bin Liu;Bin Liu;Yuriy A. Knirel;Lu Feng;Lu Feng;Andrei V. Perepelov

  • The structure of the O-specific chain of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 lipopolysaccharide

    Yuriy A. Knirel;Ernst Th. Rietschel;Reinhard Marre;Ulrich Zähringer

  • 5,7-diamino-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxynon-2-ulosonic acids in bacterial glycopolymers: chemistry and biochemistry.

    Yuriy A. Knirel;AleXander S. Shashkov;Yury E. Tsvetkov;Per-Erik Jansson

  • Structural analysis of two glycosphingolipids from the lipopolysaccharide-lacking bacterium Sphingomonas capsulata.

    Kazuyoshi Kawahara;Hermann Moll;Yuriy A. Knirel;Ulrich Seydel

  • Innovations in host and microbial sialic acid biosynthesis revealed by phylogenomic prediction of nonulosonic acid structure

    Amanda L. Lewis;Nolan Desa;Elizabeth E. Hansen;Yuriy A. Knirel

  • Temperature-dependent variations and intraspecies diversity of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide of Yersinia pestis.

    Yuriy A. Knirel;Buko Lindner;Evgeny V. Vinogradov;Nina A. Kocharova

  • Conserved and variable structural features in the lipopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Yuriy A. Knirel;Olga V. Bystrova;Nina A. Kocharova;Ulrich Zähringer

  • Statistical analysis of the Bacterial Carbohydrate Structure Data Base (BCSDB): characteristics and diversity of bacterial carbohydrates in comparison with mammalian glycans.

    Stephan Herget;Philip V Toukach;René Ranzinger;William E Hull

  • Structural Basis for Langerin Recognition of Diverse Pathogen and Mammalian Glycans through a Single Binding Site

    Hadar Feinberg;Maureen E. Taylor;Nahid Razi;Ryan McBride

  • Structure of the polysaccharide chains of Pseudomonas pseudomallei lipopolysaccharides

    Yuriy A. Knirel;Nikolay A. Paramonov;Alexander S. Shashkov;Nikolay K. Kochetkov

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander S. Shashkov
Alexander S. Shashkov Russian Academy of Sciences
Lei Wang
Lei Wang Nankai University
Bin Liu
Bin Liu National University of Singapore
Lu Feng
Lu Feng Nankai University
Nikolay K. Kochetkov
Nikolay K. Kochetkov Russian Academy of Sciences
Ulrich Zähringer
Ulrich Zähringer Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Buko Lindner
Buko Lindner Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Ruth M. Hall
Ruth M. Hall University of Sydney
Evgeny Vinogradov
Evgeny Vinogradov National Research Council Canada
Sergei A. Nedospasov
Sergei A. Nedospasov Lomonosov Moscow State University

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