G. Michael Blackburn

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
242 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

G. Michael Blackburn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, G. Michael Blackburn has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Molecular Biology, 92 papers in Organic Chemistry and 28 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in G. Michael Blackburn's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (35 papers), Organophosphorus compounds synthesis (32 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (27 papers). G. Michael Blackburn is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (35 papers), Organophosphorus compounds synthesis (32 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (27 papers). G. Michael Blackburn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. G. Michael Blackburn's co-authors include David E. Kent, Friedrich Kolkmann, S.J. Gamblin, Jonathan P. Waltho, Michael J. Rogers, R.G.G. Russell, Matthew J. Cliff, Martin Karplus, Terence H. Lilley and Matthew W. Bowler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

G. Michael Blackburn

232 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

The structure of H5N1 avian influenza neuraminidase suggests new opportunities for drug design

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David Shugar Poland

David W. Banner Switzerland

Jack J. Fox United States

Marcel B. Bally Canada

Robert Bittman United States

Richard Wolfenden United States

Jeremy R. Knowles United States

Alan C. Sartorelli United States

Michael E. Jung United States

Carlo Pedone Italy

David Shugar Poland

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Zhang, Zhen, Rémi Zallot, G. Michael Blackburn, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic and Structural Insights into the Specificity and Biological Functions of Bacterial Sulfoglycosidases. ACS Catalysis. 13(1). 824–836. 8 indexed citations

Smirnov, I. V., Andrey V. Golovin, S.D. Chatziefthimiou, et al.. (2016). Robotic QM/MM-driven maturation of antibody combining sites. Science Advances. 2(10). e1501695–e1501695. 10 indexed citations

Baxter, Nicola J., Matthew W. Bowler, Matthew J. Cliff, et al.. (2010). Atomic details of near-transition state conformers for enzyme phosphoryl transfer revealed by MgF3- rather than by phosphoranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(10). 4555–4560. 72 indexed citations

Guranowski, Andrzej, et al.. (2009). Novel diadenosine polyphosphate analogs with oxymethylene bridges replacing oxygen in the polyphosphate chain. FEBS Journal. 276(6). 1546–1553. 6 indexed citations

Guranowski, Andrzej, Małgorzata Pietrowska‐Borek, Paweł Bieganowski, et al.. (2008). Fhit proteins can also recognize substrates other than dinucleoside polyphosphates. FEBS Letters. 582(20). 3152–3158. 28 indexed citations

Couture, Jean‐François, Glenn Hauk, Mark J. Thompson, G. Michael Blackburn, & Raymond C. Trievel. (2006). Catalytic Roles for Carbon-Oxygen Hydrogen Bonding in SET Domain Lysine Methyltransferases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(28). 19280–19287. 73 indexed citations

Krakowiak, Agnieszka, Helen C. Pace, G. Michael Blackburn, et al.. (2004). Biochemical, Crystallographic, and Mutagenic Characterization of Hint, the AMP-Lysine Hydrolase, with Novel Substrates and Inhibitors. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(18). 18711–18716. 53 indexed citations

Blackburn, G. Michael & H. Türkmen. (2004). Synthesis of α-fluoro- and α,α-difluoro-benzenemethanesulfonamides: new inhibitors of carbonic anhydrase. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 3(2). 225–226. 17 indexed citations

Cesaro-Tadic, Sandro, Dimitris Lagos, Annemarie Honegger, et al.. (2003). Turnover-based in vitro selection and evolution of biocatalysts from a fully synthetic antibody library. Nature Biotechnology. 21(6). 679–685. 71 indexed citations

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Spelta, Valeria, Abdelaziz Mekhalfia, Dominik Rejman, et al.. (2003). ATP analogues with modified phosphate chains and their selectivity for rat P2X₂ and P2X_2/3 receptors. British Journal of Pharmacology. 140(6). 1027–1034. 31 indexed citations

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Bailey, Scott, et al.. (2003). Analysis of the Catalytic and Binding Residues of the Diadenosine Tetraphosphate Pyrophosphohydrolase from Caenorhabditis elegans by Site-directed Mutagenesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(7). 4435–4439. 17 indexed citations

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Blackburn, G. Michael. (2001). "No Strain, No Gain: " Studies in the Mechanism of a DNA Repair Enzyme. Polish Journal of Chemistry. 75. 1183–1194. 3 indexed citations

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Dinner, Aaron R., G. Michael Blackburn, & Martin Karplus. (2001). Uracil-DNA glycosylase acts by substrate autocatalysis. Nature. 413(6857). 752–755. 191 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Christopher, et al.. (2001). Coronary Vasomotor and Cardiac Electrophysiologic Effects of Diadenosine Polyphosphates and Nonhydrolyzable Analogs in the Guinea Pig. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 37(5). 571–584. 8 indexed citations

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Lightfoot, J. Timothy, S. W. Ellis, Mark J. Ackland, et al.. (2000). Regioselective hydroxylation of debrisoquine by cytochrome P4502D6: implications for active site modelling. Xenobiotica. 30(3). 219–233. 32 indexed citations

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Mansoor, Umar Faruk, Xiurong Zhang, & G. Michael Blackburn. (2000). The design of new carbonic anhydrase inhibitors. Birkhäuser Basel eBooks. 437–459. 12 indexed citations

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Williams, David M., David L. Jakeman, Joseph S. Vyle, Michael P. Williamson, & G. Michael Blackburn. (1998). Synthesis and binding of stable bisubstrate ligands for phosphoglycerate kinase. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 8(18). 2603–2608. 8 indexed citations

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Persson, Björn, et al.. (1995). Probing the molecular mechanism of action of co-repressor in theE.colimethionine repressor-operator complex using surface plasmon resonance (SPR). Nucleic Acids Research. 23(2). 211–216. 56 indexed citations

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Blackburn, G. Michael & Shi‐Xian Deng. (1993). Catalytic antibodies for the hydrolysis of unactivated peptides. Biochemical Society Transactions. 21(4). 1102–1107. 5 indexed citations

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McLennan, Alexander G., Graham Taylor, Mark Prescott, & G. Michael Blackburn. (1989). Recognition of .beta..beta.'-substituted and .alpha..beta.,.alpha.'.beta.'-disubstituted phosphonate analogs of bis(5'-adenosyl) tetraphosphate by the bis(5'-nucleosidyl)-tetraphosphate pyrophosphohydrolases from Artemia embryos and Escherichia coli. Biochemistry. 28(9). 3868–3875. 45 indexed citations

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