Gary D. Brayer

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Gary D. Brayer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary D. Brayer has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Biotechnology and 27 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gary D. Brayer's work include Enzyme Production and Characterization (33 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (27 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (21 papers). Gary D. Brayer is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Production and Characterization (33 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (27 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (21 papers). Gary D. Brayer collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. Gary D. Brayer's co-authors include Gordon V. Louie, Stephen G. Withers, Gordon W. Bushnell, Albert M. Berghuis, Louis T. J. Delbaere, Michael N.G. James, Yaoguang Luo, R. Maurus, Alexander McPherson and Nham T. Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gary D. Brayer

91 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

High-resolution three-dimensional structure of horse heart cytochrome c

1990 935 citations Gordon V. Louie, Gary D. Brayer et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary D. Brayer Canada	44	4.7k	1.4k	1.3k	1.0k	726	92	7.0k
Guy Dodson United Kingdom	61	10.4k 2.2×	2.5k 1.8×	840 0.7×	1.8k 1.7×	825 1.1×	159	13.4k
J.A. Gerlt United States	57	8.9k 1.9×	3.9k 2.9×	758 0.6×	467 0.4×	1.3k 1.8×	213	12.1k
Lindsay Sawyer United Kingdom	41	3.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	813 0.6×	624 0.6×	669 0.9×	103	7.3k
Perry A. Frey United States	55	7.1k 1.5×	2.6k 1.9×	287 0.2×	466 0.4×	1.9k 2.6×	268	11.6k
Victor S. Lamzin Germany	45	8.1k 1.7×	4.2k 3.0×	907 0.7×	846 0.8×	544 0.7×	142	11.5k
Rudolf Ladenstein Sweden	47	5.8k 1.2×	2.7k 2.0×	410 0.3×	519 0.5×	389 0.5×	131	7.8k
Ronald L. Cerny United States	50	3.9k 0.8×	445 0.3×	649 0.5×	443 0.4×	952 1.3×	136	8.3k
Richard N. Perham United Kingdom	60	7.7k 1.6×	2.5k 1.9×	285 0.2×	1.4k 1.4×	570 0.8×	262	13.0k
Adrian Goldman Finland	44	7.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	343 0.3×	592 0.6×	972 1.3×	178	10.8k
Harold Edelhoch United States	42	5.9k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	313 0.2×	1.7k 1.7×	440 0.6×	180	9.2k

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Jongkees, Seino A. K., S. Caner, Christina Tysoe, et al.. (2017). Rapid Discovery of Potent and Selective Glycosidase-Inhibiting De Novo Peptides. Cell chemical biology. 24(3). 381–390. 43 indexed citations

Williams, Leslie K., Xiao‐Hua Zhang, S. Caner, et al.. (2015). The amylase inhibitor montbretin A reveals a new glycosidase inhibition motif. Nature Chemical Biology. 11(9). 691–696. 146 indexed citations

Duckworth, Harry W., Nham T. Nguyen, Yin Gao, et al.. (2013). Enzyme–substrate complexes of allosteric citrate synthase: Evidence for a novel intermediate in substrate binding. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1834(12). 2546–2553. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Ran, Yuan Pan, Shouming He, et al.. (2011). Mechanistic Analysis of Trehalose Synthase from Mycobacterium smegmatis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(41). 35601–35609. 31 indexed citations

Tarling, Chris A., Kate Woods, Ran Zhang, et al.. (2008). The Search for Novel Human Pancreatic α‐Amylase Inhibitors: High‐Throughput Screening of Terrestrial and Marine Natural Product Extracts. ChemBioChem. 9(3). 433–438. 167 indexed citations

Quezada‐Calvillo, Roberto, Claudia C. Robayo‐Torres, Antone R. Opekun, et al.. (2007). Contribution of Mucosal Maltase-Glucoamylase Activities to Mouse Small Intestinal Starch α-Glucogenesis3. Journal of Nutrition. 137(7). 1725–1733. 63 indexed citations

Damager, Iben, Shin Numao, Hongming Chen, Gary D. Brayer, & Stephen G. Withers. (2004). Synthesis and characterisation of novel chromogenic substrates for human pancreatic α-amylase. Carbohydrate Research. 339(10). 1727–1737. 22 indexed citations

Numao, Shin, Iben Damager, Chunmin Li, et al.. (2004). In Situ Extension as an Approach for Identifying Novel α-Amylase Inhibitors. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(46). 48282–48291. 20 indexed citations

Donald, Lynda J., R. Maurus, Nham T. Nguyen, et al.. (2003). Probing the Roles of Key Residues in the Unique Regulatory NADH Binding Site of Type II Citrate Synthase of Escherichia coli. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(37). 35435–35443. 41 indexed citations

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Nall, Barry T., et al.. (1999). Thermal stability of hydrophobic heme pocket variants of oxidized cytochrome c. Protein Science. 8(12). 2645–2654. 15 indexed citations

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Maurus, R., Christopher M. Overall, Ralf Bogumil, et al.. (1997). A myoglobin variant with a polar substitution in a conserved hydrophobic cluster in the heme binding pocket. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1341(1). 1–13. 116 indexed citations

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Bogumil, Ralf, R. Maurus, Dean P. Hildebrand, Gary D. Brayer, & A. Grant Mauk. (1995). Origin of the pH-Dependent Spectroscopic Properties of Pentacoordinate Metmyoglobin Variants. Biochemistry. 34(33). 10483–10490. 21 indexed citations

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Bogumil, Ralf, Christie L. Hunter, R. Maurus, et al.. (1994). FTIR Analysis of the Interaction of Azide with Horse Heart Myoglobin Variants. Biochemistry. 33(24). 7600–7608. 35 indexed citations

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Murphy, M.E.P., et al.. (1993). The structure and function of omega loop A replacements in cytochrome c. Protein Science. 2(9). 1429–1440. 15 indexed citations

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Berghuis, Albert M. & Gary D. Brayer. (1992). Oxidation state-dependent conformational changes in cytochrome c. Journal of Molecular Biology. 223(4). 959–976. 350 indexed citations

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Murphy, M.E.P., Barry T. Nall, & Gary D. Brayer. (1992). Structure determination and analysis of yeast iso-2-cytochrome c and a composite mutant protein. Journal of Molecular Biology. 227(1). 160–176. 33 indexed citations

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Funk, Walter D., Terence P. Lo, Marcia R. Mauk, et al.. (1990). Mutagenic, electrochemical, and crystallographic investigation of the cytochrome b5 oxidation-reduction equilibrium: involvement of asparagine-57, serine-64, and heme propionate-7. Biochemistry. 29(23). 5500–5508. 68 indexed citations

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Louie, Gordon V. & Gary D. Brayer. (1990). High-resolution refinement of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c and comparisons with other eukaryotic cytochromes c. Journal of Molecular Biology. 214(2). 527–555. 352 indexed citations

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Louie, Gordon V., Gary J. Pielak, Michael J. Smith, & Gary D. Brayer. (1988). Role of phenylalanine-82 in yeast iso-1-cytochrome c and remote conformational changes induced by a serine residue at this position. Biochemistry. 27(20). 7870–7876. 64 indexed citations

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Brayer, Gary D.. (1987). A Preliminary Structure for the DNA Binding Protein From Bacteriophage IKe. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 4(5). 859–868. 8 indexed citations

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