Brian R. Crane

12.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
166 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Brian R. Crane is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian R. Crane has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 34 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Brian R. Crane's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (39 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (31 papers) and Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects (30 papers). Brian R. Crane is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (39 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (31 papers) and Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects (30 papers). Brian R. Crane collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Brian R. Crane's co-authors include A.M. Bilwes, Elizabeth D. Getzoff, Dennis J. Stuehr, Brian D. Zoltowski, Jawahar Sudhamsu, John A. Tainer, Lewis M. Siegel, Harry B. Gray, Dipak Ghosh and A.S. Arvai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Brian R. Crane

160 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

Structure of Nitric Oxide Synthase Oxygenase Dimer with P... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Structure of Nitric Oxide Synthase Oxygenase Dimer with Pterin and Substrate
    1998 548 citations Brian R. Crane et al. Science profile →

Peers

Brian R. Crane
Elizabeth D. Getzoff United States
Andrea Mattevi Italy
Amy E. Palmer United States
So Iwata Japan
Tomitake Tsukihara Japan
Ilme Schlichting Germany
Eiki Yamashita Japan
Nigel S. Scrutton United Kingdom
Matti Saraste Germany
A.S. Arvai United States
Elizabeth D. Getzoff United States
Brian R. Crane
Citations per year, relative to Brian R. Crane Brian R. Crane (= 1×) peers Elizabeth D. Getzoff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian R. Crane

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian R. Crane. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian R. Crane based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian R. Crane. Brian R. Crane is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chandrasekaran, Siddarth, et al.. (2023). Phosphorylation, disorder, and phase separation govern the behavior of Frequency in the fungal circadian clock. eLife. 12. 5 indexed citations
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Chandrasekaran, Siddarth, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic insight into light-dependent recognition of Timeless by Drosophila Cryptochrome. Structure. 30(6). 851–861.e5. 14 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yugang, Dan Su, Boris Dzikovski, et al.. (2021). Dph3 Enables Aerobic Diphthamide Biosynthesis by Donating One Iron Atom to Transform a [3Fe–4S] to a [4Fe–4S] Cluster in Dph1–Dph2. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(25). 9314–9319. 9 indexed citations
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Muok, Alise R., Madhur Srivastava, Wen Yang, et al.. (2020). Engineered chemotaxis core signaling units indicate a constrained kinase-off state. Science Signaling. 13(657). 11 indexed citations
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Muok, Alise R., Davi R. Ortega, Wen Yang, et al.. (2020). Atypical chemoreceptor arrays accommodate high membrane curvature. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5763–5763. 18 indexed citations
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Muok, Alise R., Yijie Deng, Vadim M. Gumerov, et al.. (2019). A di-iron protein recruited as an Fe[II] and oxygen sensor for bacterial chemotaxis functions by stabilizing an iron-peroxy species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(30). 14955–14960. 21 indexed citations
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Jiang, Nan, Aleksey E. Kuznetsov, Judith M. Nocek, et al.. (2013). Distance-Independent Charge Recombination Kinetics in Cytochrome c –Cytochrome c Peroxidase Complexes: Compensating Changes in the Electronic Coupling and Reorganization Energies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 117(31). 9129–9141. 22 indexed citations
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Briegel, Ariane, Xiaoxiao Li, A.M. Bilwes, et al.. (2012). Bacterial chemoreceptor arrays are hexagonally packed trimers of receptor dimers networked by rings of kinase and coupling proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10). 3766–3771. 208 indexed citations
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Blanco‐Rodríguez, Ana María, Angel J. Di Bilio, Anna Katrine Museth, et al.. (2011). Phototriggering Electron Flow through ReI‐modified Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurins. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(19). 5350–5361. 49 indexed citations
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Paul, Koushik, Gabriela Gonzalez-Bonet, A.M. Bilwes, Brian R. Crane, & David F. Blair. (2011). Architecture of the flagellar rotor. The EMBO Journal. 30(14). 2962–2971. 83 indexed citations
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Patel, Bhumit A., Magali Moreau, Joanne Widom, et al.. (2009). Endogenous nitric oxide regulates the recovery of the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans from exposure to UV light. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(43). 18183–18188. 51 indexed citations
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Sudhamsu, Jawahar & Brian R. Crane. (2009). Bacterial nitric oxide synthases: what are they good for?. Trends in Microbiology. 17(5). 212–218. 125 indexed citations
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Museth, Anna Katrine, Malin Abrahamsson, Ana María Blanco‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2008). Tryptophan-Accelerated Electron Flow Through Proteins. Science. 320(5884). 1760–1762. 357 indexed citations
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Bhatnagar, Jaya, Jack H. Freed, & Brian R. Crane. (2007). Rigid Body Refinement of Protein Complexes with Long‐Range Distance Restraints from Pulsed Dipolar ESR. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 423. 117–133. 35 indexed citations
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Bilwes, A.M., et al.. (2006). Structure of FliM provides insight into assembly of the switch complex in the bacterial flagella motor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(32). 11886–11891. 86 indexed citations
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Park, Sang‐Youn, et al.. (2004). In different organisms, the mode of interaction between two signaling proteins is not necessarily conserved. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(32). 11646–11651. 51 indexed citations
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Crane, Brian R., et al.. (2004). An unusual tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase interacts with nitric oxide synthase in Deinococcus radiodurans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(45). 15881–15886. 36 indexed citations
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Tao, Tao, et al.. (2004). Regioselective Nitration of Tryptophan by a Complex between Bacterial Nitric-oxide Synthase and Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(48). 49567–49570. 61 indexed citations
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Park, Sang‐Youn, et al.. (2004). Structure and Function of an Unusual Family of Protein Phosphatases. Molecular Cell. 16(4). 563–574. 59 indexed citations
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