Barrie W. Bycroft

12.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
162 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

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Barrie W. Bycroft is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Barrie W. Bycroft has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Organic Chemistry and 34 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Barrie W. Bycroft's work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (28 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (26 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (24 papers). Barrie W. Bycroft is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (28 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (26 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (24 papers). Barrie W. Bycroft collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Barrie W. Bycroft's co-authors include Paul Williams, Gordon S.A.B. Stewart, Siri Ram Chhabra, Michael K. Winson, George P. C. Salmond, Simon Swift, Weng C. Chan, Miguel Cámara, Mavis Daykin and Nigel J. Bainton 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

Barrie W. Bycroft

160 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Quorum sensing and Chromobacterium violaceum: exploitation of violacein production and inhibition for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones

1997 1.5k citations Michael K. Winson, Siri Ram Chhabra et al. Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barrie W. Bycroft United Kingdom	44	7.5k	2.4k	1.6k	1.3k	1.0k	162	10.2k
Siri Ram Chhabra United Kingdom	42	7.9k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	797 0.8×	78	10.1k
Gordon S.A.B. Stewart United Kingdom	52	8.0k 1.1×	2.9k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	397 0.4×	110	11.4k
P. Lynne Howell Canada	55	6.9k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	911 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	874 0.9×	202	9.5k
John E. Cronan United States	88	17.5k 2.3×	4.8k 2.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	2.6k 2.5×	389	24.6k
Miguel A. de Pedro Spain	45	4.7k 0.6×	3.3k 1.4×	647 0.4×	868 0.6×	526 0.5×	114	7.8k
Bernard Joris Belgium	45	3.9k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	607 0.5×	650 0.6×	186	8.3k
N.C.J. Strynadka Canada	69	8.5k 1.1×	3.3k 1.4×	855 0.5×	2.3k 1.7×	1.9k 1.8×	219	15.5k
Dominique Mengin‐Lecreulx France	59	5.2k 0.7×	3.0k 1.2×	550 0.3×	633 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	167	10.1k
Charles O. Rock United States	82	13.6k 1.8×	2.7k 1.1×	919 0.6×	544 0.4×	2.9k 2.8×	273	20.5k
Tomofusa Tsuchiya Japan	55	5.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	968 0.7×	470 0.5×	279	10.5k

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Pritchard, David I., Ian Todd, Alan Brown, et al.. (2005). Alleviation of insulitis and moderation of diabetes in NOD mice following treatment with a synthetic Pseudomonas aeruginosasignal molecule, N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone. Acta Diabetologica. 42(3). 119–122. 21 indexed citations

Winson, Michael K., Simon Swift, Philip J. Hill, et al.. (1998). Engineering theluxCDABEgenes fromPhotorhabdus luminescensto provide a bioluminescent reporter for constitutive and promoter probe plasmids and mini-Tn5constructs. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 163(2). 193–202. 221 indexed citations

Jiang, Yan, Miguel Cámara, Kim R. Hardie, et al.. (1998). In vitro biosynthesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum‐sensing signal molecule N‐butanoyl‐L‐homoserine lactone. Molecular Microbiology. 28(1). 193–203. 68 indexed citations

McGowan, Simon J., Mohammed Sebaihia, Kim R. Hardie, et al.. (1997). Analysis of the carbapenem gene cluster of Erwinia carotovora: definition of the antibiotic biosynthetic genes and evidence for a novel β‐lactam resistance mechanism. Molecular Microbiology. 26(3). 545–556. 79 indexed citations

Eberl, Leo, Michael K. Winson, Claus Sternberg, et al.. (1996). Involvement of N‐acyl‐l‐homoserine lactone autoinducers in controlling the multicellular behaviour of Serratia liquefaciens. Molecular Microbiology. 20(1). 127–136. 281 indexed citations

Bycroft, Barrie W., et al.. (1996). Dde — A selective primary amine protecting group: A facile solid phase synthetic approach to polyamine conjugates. Tetrahedron Letters. 37(15). 2625–2628. 79 indexed citations

Dodd, H. M., Nikki Horn, Weng C. Chan, et al.. (1996). Molecular analysis of the regulation of nisin immunity. Microbiology. 142(9). 2385–2392. 44 indexed citations

Throup, John, Miguel Cámara, Geoffrey S. Briggs, et al.. (1995). Characterisation of the yenI/yenR locus from Yersinia enterocolitica mediating the synthesis of two N‐acylhomoserine lactone signal molecules. Molecular Microbiology. 17(2). 345–356. 125 indexed citations

Salmond, George P. C., Barrie W. Bycroft, Gordon S.A.B. Stewart, & Paul Williams. (1995). The bacterial ‘enigma’: cracking the code of cell–cell communication. Molecular Microbiology. 16(4). 615–624. 321 indexed citations

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Bycroft, Barrie W., Weng C. Chan, Siri Ram Chhabra, Paul Teesdale‐Spittle, & Paul M. Hardy. (1993). A novel amino protection–deprotection procedure and its application in solid phase peptide synthesis. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 776–777. 20 indexed citations

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Chan, Weng C., Barrie W. Bycroft, Mark L. Leyland, et al.. (1992). Sequence‐specific resonance assignment and conformational analysis of subtilin by 2D NMR. FEBS Letters. 300(1). 56–62. 27 indexed citations

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Blagbrough, Ian S., Lorraine D. Buckberry, Barrie W. Bycroft, & P. Nicholas Shaw. (1990). Human renal C-S lyase: structure-activity relationships of cytosolic and mitochondrial enzymes. Toxicology Letters. 53(1-2). 257–259. 8 indexed citations

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Buckberry, Lorraine D., Ian S. Blagbrough, Barrie W. Bycroft, & P. Nicholas Shaw. (1990). Human renal C-S lyases: two cytosolic isoenzymes. Toxicology Letters. 53(1-2). 253–255. 16 indexed citations

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Shute, Richard E., David E. Jackson, & Barrie W. Bycroft. (1989). Highly conformationally constrained halogenated 6-spiroepoxypenicillins as probes for the bioactive side-chain conformation of benzylpenicillin. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 3(2). 149–164. 2 indexed citations

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Bycroft, Barrie W., et al.. (1988). The biosynthetic implications of acetate and glutamate incorporation into (3R,5R)-carbapenam-3-carboxylic acid and (5R)-carbapen-2-em-3-carboxylic acid by Serratia sp.. The Journal of Antibiotics. 41(9). 1231–1242. 42 indexed citations

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Bycroft, Barrie W., et al.. (1988). Dictionary of antibiotics and related substances. 68 indexed citations

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Bycroft, Barrie W., Richard E. Shute, & Michael J. Begley. (1988). Novel β-lactamase inhibitory and antibacterial 6-spiro-epoxypenicillins. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 274–276. 11 indexed citations

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Blagbrough, Ian S., Barrie W. Bycroft, David C. Evans, & P. Nicholas Shaw. (1988). INHIBITION OF RAT RENAL C-S LYASE: ASSESSMENT USING KIDNEY SLICE METHODOLOGY. Drug metabolism and drug interactions. 6(3-4). 303–316.

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Bycroft, Barrie W., et al.. (1965). Notiz über Limatin aus Aspidosperma limae WOODS. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 48(4). 822–825. 2 indexed citations

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Bycroft, Barrie W. & John Roberts. (1963). The Structure of Nidulin. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 28(5). 1429–1430. 10 indexed citations

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