Anthony L. Fink

34.4k total citations · 11 hit papers
231 papers, 28.7k citations indexed

About

Anthony L. Fink is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anthony L. Fink has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 28.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Molecular Biology, 60 papers in Neurology and 58 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Anthony L. Fink's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (73 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (60 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (50 papers). Anthony L. Fink is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (73 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (60 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (50 papers). Anthony L. Fink collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Japan. Anthony L. Fink's co-authors include Vladimir N. Uversky, Jie Li, Yuji Goto, J. R. Gillespie, Larissa A. Munishkina, R. Khurana, Daniel R. Palleros, Min Zhu, Sebastian Doniach and Min Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Anthony L. Fink

230 papers receiving 28.1k citations

Hit Papers

Why are ?natively unfolded? proteins unstructured under p... 1990 2026 2002 2014 2000 2001 1998 2001 2001 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Why are ?natively unfolded? proteins unstructured under physiologic conditions?
    2000 1.7k citations Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink et al. profile →
  2. Effect of Environmental Factors on the Kinetics of Insulin Fibril Formation:  Elucidation of the Molecular Mechanism
    2001 1.0k citations Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink et al. Biochemistry profile →
  3. Protein aggregation: folding aggregates, inclusion bodies and amyloid
    1998 955 citations Anthony L. Fink profile →
  4. Evidence for a Partially Folded Intermediate in α-Synuclein Fibril Formation
    2001 909 citations Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  5. Metal-triggered Structural Transformations, Aggregation, and Fibrillation of Human α-Synuclein
    2001 892 citations Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  6. Conformational constraints for amyloid fibrillation: the importance of being unfolded
    2004 875 citations Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink profile →
  7. Chaperone-Mediated Protein Folding
    1999 862 citations Anthony L. Fink profile →
  8. Natively unfolded proteins
    2005 569 citations Anthony L. Fink profile →
  9. Mechanism of acid-induced folding of proteins
    1990 518 citations Yuji Goto, Anthony L. Fink et al. Biochemistry profile →
  10. The Herbicide Paraquat Causes Up-regulation and Aggregation of α-Synuclein in Mice
    2002 507 citations Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  11. Acid-induced folding of proteins.
    1990 507 citations Yuji Goto, Anthony L. Fink et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anthony L. Fink United States 86 17.8k 9.1k 7.0k 4.7k 3.0k 231 28.7k
Fabrizio Chiti Italy 57 16.5k 0.9× 11.4k 1.2× 2.1k 0.3× 3.6k 0.8× 2.7k 0.9× 183 22.1k
Peter T. Lansbury United States 81 18.1k 1.0× 16.9k 1.9× 11.3k 1.6× 2.2k 0.5× 3.3k 1.1× 222 35.2k
Roland Riek Switzerland 73 17.2k 1.0× 8.1k 0.9× 2.8k 0.4× 3.3k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 285 25.1k
Tuomas P. J. Knowles United Kingdom 88 19.2k 1.1× 14.8k 1.6× 4.0k 0.6× 4.0k 0.8× 2.4k 0.8× 465 32.9k
Daniel E. Otzen Denmark 73 13.5k 0.8× 5.8k 0.6× 2.3k 0.3× 3.3k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 435 20.9k
M.R. Sawaya United States 84 21.3k 1.2× 7.4k 0.8× 1.7k 0.2× 4.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.6× 243 27.9k
Jeffery W. Kelly United States 106 29.0k 1.6× 11.7k 1.3× 1.5k 0.2× 3.4k 0.7× 8.7k 2.9× 424 39.8k
Sara Linse Sweden 79 14.6k 0.8× 9.2k 1.0× 1.9k 0.3× 5.4k 1.1× 1.6k 0.5× 340 27.6k
David B. Teplow United States 93 20.2k 1.1× 20.6k 2.3× 1.4k 0.2× 1.6k 0.3× 2.6k 0.9× 217 33.1k
Markus Zweckstetter Germany 78 12.8k 0.7× 6.0k 0.7× 4.0k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 2.2k 0.7× 293 19.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhou, Wenbo, Chunmei Long, Anthony L. Fink, & Vladimir N. Uversky. (2010). Calbindin-D28K acts as a calcium-dependent chaperone suppressing α-synuclein fibrillation in vitro. Open Life Sciences. 5(1). 11–20. 1 indexed citations
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Ulrih, Nataša Poklar, et al.. (2008). Impact of Tyr to Ala mutations on α-synuclein fibrillation and structural properties. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1782(10). 581–585. 55 indexed citations
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Munishkina, Larissa A. & Anthony L. Fink. (2007). Fluorescence as a method to reveal structures and membrane-interactions of amyloidogenic proteins. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1768(8). 1862–1885. 248 indexed citations
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Uversky, Vladimir N. & Anthony L. Fink. (2007). Molecular mechanisms of conformational diseases. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Uversky, Vladimir N. & Anthony L. Fink. (2006). Protein aggregation and conformational diseases. Springer eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Schneider, Gerald J., Anthony L. Fink, Reinhard Rachel, & D. Göritz. (2005). Three-dimensional structure of precipitated silica as determined by electron tomography. Civil War Book Review. 58(9). 461–463. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, I‐Hsuan, Vladimir N. Uversky, Larissa A. Munishkina, et al.. (2005). Agrin binds α-synuclein and modulates α-synuclein fibrillation. Glycobiology. 15(12). 1320–1331. 60 indexed citations
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Zhu, Min, Shubo Han, Feimeng Zhou, Sue A. Carter, & Anthony L. Fink. (2004). Annular Oligomeric Amyloid Intermediates Observed by in Situ Atomic Force Microscopy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(23). 24452–24459. 71 indexed citations
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Denning, Daniel P., Samir S. Patel, Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink, & Michael Rexach. (2003). Disorder in the nuclear pore complex: The FG repeat regions of nucleoporins are natively unfolded. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(5). 2450–2455. 389 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Atta, Ian S. Millett, Sebastian Doniach, Vladimir N. Uversky, & Anthony L. Fink. (2003). Partially Folded Intermediates in Insulin Fibrillation. Biochemistry. 42(39). 11404–11416. 203 indexed citations
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Goers, John, Vladimir N. Uversky, & Anthony L. Fink. (2003). Polycation‐induced oligomerization and accelerated fibrillation of human α‐synuclein in vitro. Protein Science. 12(4). 702–707. 100 indexed citations
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Uversky, Vladimir N. & Anthony L. Fink. (2002). The chicken–egg scenario of protein folding revisited. FEBS Letters. 515(1-3). 79–83. 54 indexed citations
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Santos, Javier, et al.. (2000). Export and folding of signal‐sequenceless Bacillus licheniformisβ‐lactamase in Escherichia coli. European Journal of Biochemistry. 267(12). 3836–3847. 21 indexed citations
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Uversky, Vladimir N., Anton S. Karnoup, Daniel J. Segel, et al.. (1998). Anion-induced folding of Staphylococcal nuclease: characterization of multiple equilibrium partially folded intermediates. Journal of Molecular Biology. 278(4). 879–894. 102 indexed citations
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Fink, Anthony L., et al.. (1998). Molecular chaperones in the life cycle of proteins : structure, function, and mode of action. Marcel Dekker eBooks. 64 indexed citations
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Nakano, Takayuki, et al.. (1993). Effect of proline mutations on the stability and kinetics of folding of staphylococcal nuclease. Biochemistry. 32(10). 2534–2541. 32 indexed citations
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Fink, Anthony L., et al.. (1993). Characterization of the stable, acid‐induced, molten globule‐like state of staphylococcal nuclease. Protein Science. 2(7). 1155–1160. 54 indexed citations
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Biringer, Roger G., et al.. (1988). Intermediates in the refolding of ribonuclease at subzero temperatures. 2. Monitoring by inhibitor binding and catalytic activity. Biochemistry. 27(1). 311–315. 9 indexed citations
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Fink, Anthony L., et al.. (1974). Effect of dimethyl sulfoxide on the interaction of proflavine with α-chymotrypsin. Biochemistry. 13(2). 277–280. 36 indexed citations

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