Alexander S. Powers

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Alexander S. Powers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander S. Powers has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alexander S. Powers's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (4 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (4 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (3 papers). Alexander S. Powers is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (4 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (4 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (3 papers). Alexander S. Powers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Alexander S. Powers's co-authors include A. Paul Alivisatos, Ron O. Dror, Noah D. Bronstein, Shane Gonen, Tara Arvedson, Yifan Cheng, Caleigh M. Azumaya, Rachael C. Kretsch, Christian B. Billesbølle and Aashish Manglik and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alexander S. Powers

21 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Structure of hepcidin-bound ferroportin reveals iron homeostatic mechanisms

2020 242 citations Christian B. Billesbølle, Caleigh M. Azumaya et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander S. Powers United States	15	398	372	184	170	131	21	1.2k
Maria Fittipaldi Italy	23	557 1.4×	302 0.8×	184 1.0×	220 1.3×	66 0.5×	59	1.4k
Orestis Faklaris France	19	758 1.9×	894 2.4×	406 2.2×	75 0.4×	26 0.2×	32	1.9k
Tai‐Yen Chen United States	14	355 0.9×	298 0.8×	135 0.7×	182 1.1×	12 0.1×	35	983
Shuhei Yasuda Japan	19	353 0.9×	295 0.8×	123 0.7×	74 0.4×	12 0.1×	77	1.2k
D.J. van den Heuvel Netherlands	18	849 2.1×	640 1.7×	273 1.5×	409 2.4×	48 0.4×	30	1.8k
Luděk Šefc Czechia	17	226 0.6×	289 0.8×	327 1.8×	57 0.3×	124 0.9×	86	1.2k
Kay E. Gottschalk Germany	16	134 0.3×	564 1.5×	64 0.3×	61 0.4×	67 0.5×	21	1.1k
Danek Elbaum Poland	19	287 0.7×	272 0.7×	174 0.9×	175 1.0×	38 0.3×	51	1.1k
Damien Alcor France	15	201 0.5×	701 1.9×	143 0.8×	38 0.2×	123 0.9×	17	1.2k
Andrea Callegari United States	25	403 1.0×	623 1.7×	349 1.9×	151 0.9×	6 0.0×	49	2.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Powers, Alexander S., Joseph M. Paggi, Naomi R. Latorraca, et al.. (2024). A non-canonical mechanism of GPCR activation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9938–9938. 10 indexed citations

Li, Qiongyu, Deniz Aydın, Alexander S. Powers, et al.. (2024). Signaling Modulation Mediated by Ligand Water Interactions with the Sodium Site at μOR. ACS Central Science. 10(8). 1490–1503. 5 indexed citations

Pham, Vi, Ziva Vuckovic, Alexander S. Powers, et al.. (2023). Xanomeline displays concomitant orthosteric and allosteric binding modes at the M4 mAChR. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5440–5440. 24 indexed citations

Neelands, Torben R., Alexander S. Powers, Yan Liu, et al.. (2023). CryoEM structures of the human CLC-2 voltage-gated chloride channel reveal a ball-and-chain gating mechanism. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations

Kumar, Kaavya Krishna, Michael J. Robertson, Haoqing Wang, et al.. (2023). Structural basis for activation of CB1 by an endocannabinoid analog. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2672–2672. 29 indexed citations

Powers, Alexander S., Vi Pham, Geoff Thompson, et al.. (2023). Structural basis of efficacy-driven ligand selectivity at GPCRs. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(7). 805–814. 28 indexed citations

Powers, Alexander S., et al.. (2023). Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Ligand Design. ACS Central Science. 9(12). 2257–2267. 25 indexed citations

Zhang, Kaiming, Naoki Horikoshi, Shanshan Li, et al.. (2022). Cryo-EM, Protein Engineering, and Simulation Enable the Development of Peptide Therapeutics against Acute Myeloid Leukemia. ACS Central Science. 8(2). 214–222. 9 indexed citations

Paggi, Joseph M., Julia A. Belk, Scott A. Hollingsworth, et al.. (2021). Leveraging nonstructural data to predict structures and affinities of protein–ligand complexes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(51). 21 indexed citations

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Yabukarski, Filip, J.T. Biel, Margaux M. Pinney, et al.. (2020). Assessment of enzyme active site positioning and tests of catalytic mechanisms through X-ray–derived conformational ensembles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(52). 33204–33215. 51 indexed citations

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Billesbølle, Christian B., Caleigh M. Azumaya, Rachael C. Kretsch, et al.. (2020). Structure of hepcidin-bound ferroportin reveals iron homeostatic mechanisms. Nature. 586(7831). 807–811. 242 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lou, Hsin-Ya, Wenting Zhao, Xiao Li, et al.. (2019). Membrane curvature underlies actin reorganization in response to nanoscale surface topography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(46). 23143–23151. 154 indexed citations

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Powers, Alexander S., et al.. (2018). Azide–Alkyne Click Conjugation on Quantum Dots by Selective Copper Coordination. ACS Nano. 12(5). 4469–4477. 29 indexed citations

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Koc, Matthew A., Shilpa N. Raja, Lindsey Hanson, et al.. (2017). Characterizing Photon Reabsorption in Quantum Dot-Polymer Composites for Use as Displacement Sensors. ACS Nano. 11(2). 2075–2084. 34 indexed citations

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Wichner, Sara, Alexander S. Powers, Mustafa Mir, et al.. (2017). Covalent Protein Labeling and Improved Single-Molecule Optical Properties of Aqueous CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots. ACS Nano. 11(7). 6773–6781. 39 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yilong, Alexander S. Powers, Xiaowei Zhang, et al.. (2017). Growth and assembly of cobalt oxide nanoparticle rings at liquid nanodroplets with solid junction. Nanoscale. 9(37). 13915–13921. 6 indexed citations

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Ye, Xingchen, Matthew R. Jones, Layne B. Frechette, et al.. (2016). Single-particle mapping of nonequilibrium nanocrystal transformations. Science. 354(6314). 874–877. 217 indexed citations

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Powers, Alexander S., Hong‐Gang Liao, Shilpa N. Raja, et al.. (2016). Tracking Nanoparticle Diffusion and Interaction during Self-Assembly in a Liquid Cell. Nano Letters. 17(1). 15–20. 89 indexed citations

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Raja, Shilpa N., Danylo Zherebetskyy, Siva Wu, et al.. (2016). Mechanisms of Local Stress Sensing in Multifunctional Polymer Films Using Fluorescent Tetrapod Nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 16(8). 5060–5067. 23 indexed citations

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Bronstein, Noah D., Yuan Yao, Lu Xu, et al.. (2015). Quantum Dot Luminescent Concentrator Cavity Exhibiting 30-fold Concentration. ACS Photonics. 2(11). 1576–1583. 110 indexed citations

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