Dan McElheny

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Dan McElheny is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan McElheny has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Spectroscopy and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dan McElheny's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (14 papers), Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (13 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (10 papers). Dan McElheny is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (14 papers), Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (13 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (10 papers). Dan McElheny collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Japan. Dan McElheny's co-authors include Peter E. Wright, H. Jane Dyson, David D. Boehr, Yoshitaka Ishii, Sudhakar Parthasarathy, Yiling Xiao, Fei Long, Buyong Ma, Ruth Nussinov and Minako Hoshi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Dan McElheny

36 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

The Dynamic Energy Landscape of Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalysis

2006 775 citations David D. Boehr, Dan McElheny et al. Science profile →
Aβ(1–42) fibril structure illuminates self-recognition and replication of amyloid in Alzheimer's disease

2015 698 citations Yiling Xiao, Buyong Ma et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan McElheny United States	19	2.0k	779	701	514	287	37	2.7k
Masaru Hoshino Japan	34	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	716 1.0×	372 0.7×	324 1.1×	86	3.7k
Jens Danielsson Sweden	30	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	364 0.5×	264 0.5×	313 1.1×	53	2.6k
Jinfa Ying United States	31	2.3k 1.2×	547 0.7×	644 0.9×	961 1.9×	112 0.4×	75	3.3k
Andrij Baumketner United States	23	1.5k 0.7×	812 1.0×	650 0.9×	369 0.7×	243 0.8×	59	2.2k
Henrike Heise Germany	29	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	887 1.3×	1.4k 2.8×	350 1.2×	66	3.8k
John Christodoulou United Kingdom	39	3.7k 1.9×	1.0k 1.3×	922 1.3×	505 1.0×	308 1.1×	111	5.5k
Christiane Ritter Germany	21	2.2k 1.1×	1.8k 2.4×	403 0.6×	564 1.1×	565 2.0×	35	3.3k
Nicholas Dupuis United States	16	1.4k 0.7×	976 1.3×	244 0.3×	708 1.4×	263 0.9×	34	2.3k
Hongxing Lei United States	26	1.5k 0.8×	581 0.7×	562 0.8×	251 0.5×	191 0.7×	61	2.1k
Ian S. Millett United States	26	2.9k 1.5×	769 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	332 0.6×	147 0.5×	29	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan McElheny

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Li, Matthew, Dan McElheny, Seoung‐Bum Son, et al.. (2025). Dimolybdenum Paddlewheel Complexes with Cation Binding Sites as Electrolyte Additives to Manipulate the Solid-Electrolyte Interphase at Lithium Metal Anodes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(23). 33889–33901.

McElheny, Dan, et al.. (2024). Crystallography Reveals Metal‐Triggered Restructuring of β‐Hairpins. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(59). e202402101–e202402101. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Linhua, et al.. (2024). One-Step Solvothermal Synthesis of Perovskite-Type Li_3xLa_2/3–x□_1/3–2xTiO₃ Nanomaterials. Chemistry of Materials. 36(17). 8349–8358. 1 indexed citations

Matsuda, Isamu, Atsushi Yamagata, Mayuko Sato, et al.. (2024). E22G Aβ40 fibril structure and kinetics illuminate how Aβ40 rather than Aβ42 triggers familial Alzheimer’s. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7045–7045. 5 indexed citations

McElheny, Dan, et al.. (2022). Peptidic Scaffolds Enable Rapid and Multivariate Secondary Sphere Evolution for an Abiotic Metallocatalyst. Inorganic Chemistry. 61(17). 6679–6687. 2 indexed citations

Yoo, Byong Kwon, Yiling Xiao, Dan McElheny, & Yoshitaka Ishii. (2018). E22G Pathogenic Mutation of β-Amyloid (Aβ) Enhances Misfolding of Aβ40 by Unexpected Prion-like Cross Talk between Aβ42 and Aβ40. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(8). 2781–2784. 27 indexed citations

Xiao, Yiling, Dan McElheny, Minako Hoshi, & Yoshitaka Ishii. (2018). Solid-State NMR Studies of Amyloid Materials: A Protocol to Define an Atomic Model of Aβ(1–42) in Amyloid Fibrils. Methods in molecular biology. 1777. 407–428. 2 indexed citations

Xiao, Yiling, Buyong Ma, Dan McElheny, et al.. (2015). Aβ(1–42) fibril structure illuminates self-recognition and replication of amyloid in Alzheimer's disease. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 22(6). 499–505. 698 indexed citations breakdown →

Parthasarathy, Sudhakar, Byong Kwon Yoo, Dan McElheny, William M. Tay, & Yoshitaka Ishii. (2014). Capturing a Reactive State of Amyloid Aggregates. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(14). 9998–10010. 47 indexed citations

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Wu, Ling, Dan McElheny, Vladimı́r Setnička, Jovencio Hilario, & Timothy A. Keiderling. (2011). Role of different β‐turns in β‐hairpin conformation and stability studied by optical spectroscopy. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 80(1). 44–60. 32 indexed citations

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Shemon, Anne N., Gary L. Heil, Alexey E. Granovsky, et al.. (2010). Characterization of the Raf Kinase Inhibitory Protein (RKIP) Binding Pocket: NMR-Based Screening Identifies Small-Molecule Ligands. PLoS ONE. 5(5). e10479–e10479. 25 indexed citations

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Wang, Jia, Dan McElheny, Yanwen Fu, et al.. (2009). A 3₁₀‐helical pentapeptide in water: Interplay of α,α‐disubstituted amino acids and the central residue on structure formation. Biopolymers. 92(5). 452–464. 4 indexed citations

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Huang, Rong, et al.. (2009). Cross-Strand Coupling and Site-Specific Unfolding Thermodynamics of a Trpzip β-Hairpin Peptide Using ¹³C Isotopic Labeling and IR Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 113(16). 5661–5674. 55 indexed citations

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Long, Fei, Dan McElheny, Shaokai Jiang, et al.. (2007). Conformational change of erythroid α‐spectrin at the tetramerization site upon binding β‐spectrin. Protein Science. 16(11). 2519–2530. 18 indexed citations

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Boehr, David D., Dan McElheny, H. Jane Dyson, & Peter E. Wright. (2006). The Dynamic Energy Landscape of Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalysis. Science. 313(5793). 1638–1642. 775 indexed citations breakdown →

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Grant, Christopher V., Dan McElheny, Veronica Frydman, & Lucio Frydman. (2006). Solid‐state NMR investigation of sodium nucleotide complexes. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. 44(3). 366–374. 10 indexed citations

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McElheny, Dan, Jason R. Schnell, Jonathan C. Lansing, H. Jane Dyson, & Peter E. Wright. (2005). Defining the role of active-site loop fluctuations in dihydrofolate reductase catalysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(14). 5032–5037. 138 indexed citations

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McElheny, Dan, Veronica Frydman, & Lucio Frydman. (2005). A solid-state 13C NMR analysis of molecular dynamics in aramide polymers. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. 29(1-3). 132–141. 1 indexed citations

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McElheny, Dan, Min Zhou, & Lucio Frydman. (2001). Two-Dimensional Dynamic-Director 13C NMR of Liquid Crystals. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 148(2). 436–441. 9 indexed citations

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McElheny, Dan, et al.. (2001). A variable-director C13 NMR analysis of lyotropic aramide solutions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 114(12). 5415–5424. 3 indexed citations

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