A. James Link

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

A. James Link is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, A. James Link has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Pharmacology and 16 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in A. James Link's work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (31 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (30 papers) and Biochemical and Structural Characterization (26 papers). A. James Link is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (31 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (30 papers) and Biochemical and Structural Characterization (26 papers). A. James Link collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. A. James Link's co-authors include David A. Tirrell, Mikhail O. Maksimov, Johannes Graumann, Daniela C. Dieterich, Si Jia Pan, Erin M. Schuman, Wai Ling Cheung‐Lee, Mandy K. S. Vink, Marissa Mock and Siyan Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

A. James Link

90 papers receiving 5.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Selective identification of newly synthesized proteins in mammalian cells using bioorthogonal noncanonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT)

2006 644 citations Daniela C. Dieterich, A. James Link et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. James Link United States	37	4.0k	1.5k	1.1k	658	650	92	5.3k
Christian Heinis Switzerland	37	4.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	247 0.2×	416 0.6×	1.5k 2.3×	99	5.5k
Dehua Pei United States	50	6.0k 1.5×	1.1k 0.8×	188 0.2×	692 1.1×	829 1.3×	171	7.5k
Keykavous Parang United States	39	3.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	236 0.2×	511 0.8×	150 0.2×	234	5.4k
Kalina Hristova United States	47	6.4k 1.6×	531 0.4×	195 0.2×	1.5k 2.3×	444 0.7×	188	8.1k
Enríque Pérez‐Payá Spain	41	3.3k 0.8×	525 0.4×	193 0.2×	756 1.1×	170 0.3×	151	5.3k
Knud J. Jensen Denmark	39	3.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.5×	117 0.1×	299 0.5×	488 0.8×	199	5.6k
Gijsbert A. van der Marel Netherlands	45	4.5k 1.1×	4.5k 3.0×	244 0.2×	233 0.4×	216 0.3×	201	6.4k
Bradley L. Pentelute United States	40	4.6k 1.2×	2.6k 1.8×	116 0.1×	358 0.5×	868 1.3×	153	6.2k
Sylvie E. Blondelle United States	37	3.8k 1.0×	910 0.6×	238 0.2×	1.8k 2.8×	773 1.2×	74	5.0k
Yuki Goto Japan	35	3.7k 0.9×	758 0.5×	817 0.8×	304 0.5×	564 0.9×	130	4.5k

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Choi, Brian, Toby G. Johnson, A. Ulises Acuña, Hader E. Elashal, & A. James Link. (2025). Peptide and Protein Cyclization by a Promiscuous Graspetide Synthetase. ACS Central Science. 11(7). 1111–1121. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Fang, Frank Hansen, Toby G. Johnson, et al.. (2025). Biosynthesis, Structure, and Antibiotic Properties of Gelatinamin A, a Triculamin-like Lasso Peptide. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Guarracino, Danielle A., et al.. (2025). Probing Thrombosis Initiation with Lasso Peptide Variants as Inhibitors to the von Willebrand Protein–Collagen Interaction. ChemBioChem. 26(12). e202500188–e202500188.

Cao, Li, et al.. (2025). Cysimiditides: RiPPs with a Zn-Tetracysteine Motif and Aspartimidylation. Biochemistry. 64(2). 479–489. 1 indexed citations

Ouyang, Xingyu, et al.. (2025). LassoPred: a tool to predict the 3D structure of lasso peptides. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5497–5497. 3 indexed citations

Baquero, Fernando, Konstantinos Beis, David J. Craik, et al.. (2024). The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide. Natural Product Reports. 41(3). 469–511. 21 indexed citations

Choi, Brian & A. James Link. (2023). Discovery, function, and engineering of graspetides. Trends in Chemistry. 5(8). 620–633. 8 indexed citations

Elashal, Hader E., Joseph D. Koos, Wai Ling Cheung‐Lee, et al.. (2022). Biosynthesis and characterization of fuscimiditide, an aspartimidylated graspetide. Nature Chemistry. 14(11). 1325–1334. 22 indexed citations

Schröder, Hendrik V., Yi Zhang, & A. James Link. (2021). Dynamic covalent self-assembly of mechanically interlocked molecules solely made from peptides. Nature Chemistry. 13(9). 850–857. 89 indexed citations

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Cheung‐Lee, Wai Ling, et al.. (2019). Discovery and structure of the antimicrobial lasso peptide citrocin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(17). 6822–6830. 64 indexed citations

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Maksimov, Mikhail O., et al.. (2015). Elucidating the Specificity Determinants of the AtxE2 Lasso Peptide Isopeptidase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(52). 30806–30812. 27 indexed citations

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Futran, Alan, A. James Link, Rony Seger, & Stanislav Y. Shvartsman. (2013). ERK as a Model for Systems Biology of Enzyme Kinetics in Cells. Current Biology. 23(21). R972–R979. 47 indexed citations

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Chan, Kiat Hwa, et al.. (2012). Synthesis and Evaluation of Clickable Block Copolymers for Targeted Nanoparticle Drug Delivery. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 9(8). 2228–2236. 26 indexed citations

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Maksimov, Mikhail O., István Pelczer, & A. James Link. (2012). Precursor-centric genome-mining approach for lasso peptide discovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(38). 15223–15228. 115 indexed citations

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Pan, Si Jia, Jakub Rajniak, Wai Ling Cheung‐Lee, & A. James Link. (2011). Construction of a Single Polypeptide that Matures and Exports the Lasso Peptide Microcin J25. ChemBioChem. 13(3). 367–370. 29 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Andrew L., Siyan Zhang, Igor Dikiy, et al.. (2010). An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Spontaneous Lasso Formation in Microcin J25. Biophysical Journal. 99(9). 3056–3065. 58 indexed citations

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Sun, Jingjing, et al.. (2009). Reconstitution and Engineering of Apoptotic Protein Interactions on the Bacterial Cell Surface. Journal of Molecular Biology. 394(2). 297–305. 10 indexed citations

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Link, A. James, et al.. (2008). Efficient production of membrane‐integrated and detergent‐soluble G protein‐coupled receptors inEscherichia coli. Protein Science. 17(10). 1857–1863. 56 indexed citations

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Dieterich, Daniela C., A. James Link, Johannes Graumann, David A. Tirrell, & Erin M. Schuman. (2006). Selective identification of newly synthesized proteins in mammalian cells using bioorthogonal noncanonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(25). 9482–9487. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Link, A. James & David A. Tirrell. (2003). Cell Surface Labeling of Escherichia coli via Copper(I)-Catalyzed [3+2] Cycloaddition. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125(37). 11164–11165. 489 indexed citations

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