Florence J. Hardy

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 891 citations indexed

About

Florence J. Hardy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Florence J. Hardy has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 891 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 2 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Florence J. Hardy's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers), Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (6 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers). Florence J. Hardy is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers), Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (6 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers). Florence J. Hardy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and France. Florence J. Hardy's co-authors include Anthony P. Green, Colin Levy, Gerard Venema, Vincent G. H. Eijsink, Gert Vriend, Jake Foster, Saranarayanan Ramachandran, Arthur Garforth, Michael P. Shaver and Oene R. Veltman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Florence J. Hardy

19 papers receiving 882 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.

Directed evolution of an efficient and thermostable PET depolymerase

2022 281 citations Elizabeth L. Bell, Jake Foster et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Florence J. Hardy United Kingdom	13	438	194	173	158	142	19	891
Lixin Ma China	13	405 0.9×	168 0.9×	135 0.8×	47 0.3×	49 0.3×	20	755
Nuno M. Micaêlo Portugal	15	417 1.0×	134 0.7×	171 1.0×	133 0.8×	83 0.6×	27	959
Jun Ohtsuka Japan	14	344 0.8×	143 0.7×	97 0.6×	60 0.4×	163 1.1×	42	601
Sigrid Deller Austria	11	251 0.6×	168 0.9×	131 0.8×	39 0.2×	69 0.5×	12	562
Barindra Sana Singapore	18	485 1.1×	46 0.2×	120 0.7×	56 0.4×	567 4.0×	33	1.3k
Martin Siemann‐Herzberg Germany	16	752 1.7×	43 0.2×	81 0.5×	61 0.4×	130 0.9×	28	1.0k
Jae Kwang Song South Korea	17	698 1.6×	94 0.5×	155 0.9×	42 0.3×	56 0.4×	48	951
Anne Nicolas France	10	577 1.3×	149 0.8×	158 0.9×	70 0.4×	144 1.0×	23	812
Neha Singh India	14	236 0.5×	47 0.2×	77 0.4×	81 0.5×	71 0.5×	34	588
Lal Mohan Kundu India	14	267 0.6×	51 0.3×	71 0.4×	67 0.4×	171 1.2×	32	649

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19 of 19 papers shown

Crawshaw, Rebecca, Johannes Hofer, Florence J. Hardy, et al.. (2025). Efficient and selective energy transfer photoenzymes powered by visible light. Nature Chemistry. 17(7). 1083–1090. 9 indexed citations

Lister, Thomas M., George W. Roberts, Fei Zhao, et al.. (2025). Engineered enzymes for enantioselective nucleophilic aromatic substitutions. Nature. 639(8054). 375–381. 3 indexed citations

Hardy, Florence J., Yuanxin Cao, Linus O. Johannissen, et al.. (2025). Photosensitizer Repositioning Affords an Enantiocomplementary Enzyme for [2 + 2]‐Cycloadditions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(35). e202503576–e202503576. 1 indexed citations

Hardy, Florence J., Matthew G. Quesne, Jingming Zhao, et al.. (2024). Probing Ferryl Reactivity in a Nonheme Iron Oxygenase Using an Expanded Genetic Code. ACS Catalysis. 14(15). 11584–11590. 5 indexed citations

Foster, Jake, Rebecca Crawshaw, Florence J. Hardy, et al.. (2024). A non-canonical nucleophile unlocks a new mechanistic pathway in a designed enzyme. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1956–1956. 20 indexed citations

Hardy, Florence J., et al.. (2024). Noncanonical Amino Acids in Biocatalysis. Chemical Reviews. 124(14). 8740–8786. 42 indexed citations

Taylor, Christopher J., Florence J. Hardy, Ashleigh J. Burke, et al.. (2023). Engineering mutually orthogonal PylRS/tRNA pairs for dual encoding of functional histidine analogues. Protein Science. 32(5). e4640–e4640. 10 indexed citations

Hardy, Florence J., et al.. (2023). Building Enzymes through Design and Evolution. ACS Catalysis. 13(19). 12436–12444. 36 indexed citations

Bell, Elizabeth L., Jake Foster, Florence J. Hardy, et al.. (2022). Directed evolution of an efficient and thermostable PET depolymerase. Nature Catalysis. 5(8). 673–681. 281 indexed citations breakdown →

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Crawshaw, Rebecca, Florence J. Hardy, Colin Levy, et al.. (2022). A designed photoenzyme for enantioselective [2+2] cycloadditions. Nature. 611(7937). 709–714. 149 indexed citations

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Ortmayer, Mary, Florence J. Hardy, Matthew G. Quesne, et al.. (2021). A Noncanonical Tryptophan Analogue Reveals an Active Site Hydrogen Bond Controlling Ferryl Reactivity in a Heme Peroxidase. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(7). 913–918. 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhihong, Hwanho Choi, Florence J. Hardy, et al.. (2017). Structural and stereoelectronic insights into oxygenase-catalyzed formation of ethylene from 2-oxoglutarate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(18). 4667–4672. 54 indexed citations

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Hardy, Florence J., et al.. (2007). Mapping to completeness and transplantation of a group-specific, discontinuous, neutralizing epitope in the envelope protein of dengue virus. Journal of General Virology. 88(9). 2387–2397. 53 indexed citations

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Frigerio, Francesco, Guido Grandi, Gert Vriend, et al.. (1997). Model building of a thermolysin-like protease by mutagenesis. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 10(3). 223–230. 3 indexed citations

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Veltman, Oene R., Gert Vriend, Florence J. Hardy, et al.. (1997). Mutational Analysis of a Surface Area that is Critical for the Thermal Stability of Thermolysin‐Like Proteases. European Journal of Biochemistry. 248(2). 433–440. 31 indexed citations

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Hardy, Florence J., Lisa Djavadi‐Ohaniance, & Michel Goldberg. (1997). Measurement of antibody/antigen association rate constants in solution by a method based on the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Journal of Immunological Methods. 200(1-2). 155–159. 44 indexed citations

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Veltman, Oene R., Gert Vriend, Bertus van den Burg, et al.. (1997). Engineering thermolysin‐like proteases whose stability is largely independent of calcium. FEBS Letters. 405(2). 241–244. 14 indexed citations

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Hardy, Florence J., Gert Vriend, Francesco Frigerio, et al.. (1994). The effect of engineering surface loops on the thermal stability of Bacillus subtilis neutral protease. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 7(3). 425–430. 31 indexed citations

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Hardy, Florence J., et al.. (1993). Stabilization of Bacillus stearothermophilus neutral protease by introduction of prolines. FEBS Letters. 317(1-2). 89–92. 90 indexed citations

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