Gary K. Ackers

9.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
144 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Gary K. Ackers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary K. Ackers has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Molecular Biology, 76 papers in Cell Biology and 31 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Gary K. Ackers's work include Hemoglobin structure and function (75 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (66 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (22 papers). Gary K. Ackers is often cited by papers focused on Hemoglobin structure and function (75 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (66 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (22 papers). Gary K. Ackers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and France. Gary K. Ackers's co-authors include M. A. Shea, Donald F. Senear, F. Ruth Smith, Michael L. Johnson, A D Johnson, Michael Brenowitz, Jo M. Holt, Michael L. Doyle, Herbert R. Halvorson and Russell L. Steere and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gary K. Ackers

143 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Molecular Exclusion and Restricted Diffusion Processes in Molecular-Sieve Chromatography^*

1964 729 citations Gary K. Ackers Biochemistry profile →
Quantitative model for gene regulation by lambda phage repressor.

1982 451 citations Gary K. Ackers, M. A. Shea et al. profile →
A New Calibration Procedure for Gel Filtration Columns

1967 382 citations Gary K. Ackers profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary K. Ackers United States	47	6.3k	2.8k	1.3k	1.3k	980	144	8.4k
Frank R.N. Gurd United States	49	4.9k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	201 0.2×	1.6k 1.3×	914 0.9×	144	7.8k
Robert J. Fletterick United States	77	12.0k 1.9×	3.6k 1.3×	4.1k 3.1×	506 0.4×	749 0.8×	247	18.6k
Simon E. V. Phillips United Kingdom	43	5.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	691 0.5×	458 0.4×	409 0.4×	151	8.4k
P. Kraulis Sweden	16	12.1k 1.9×	1.6k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	678 0.5×	581 0.6×	18	16.1k
Andrea Mozzarelli Italy	46	4.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	216 0.2×	498 0.4×	932 1.0×	237	7.2k
L.N. Johnson United Kingdom	62	9.3k 1.5×	2.0k 0.7×	473 0.4×	807 0.6×	391 0.4×	171	12.8k
Sandra W. Cowan Sweden	14	11.5k 1.8×	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 1.7×	348 0.3×	552 0.6×	16	15.2k
Jacqueline A. Reynolds United States	37	5.4k 0.9×	992 0.3×	287 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	645 0.7×	60	7.6k
Morten Kjeldgaard Denmark	22	12.1k 1.9×	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 1.6×	330 0.3×	516 0.5×	32	15.5k
M.E.M. Noble United Kingdom	63	9.9k 1.6×	2.9k 1.0×	631 0.5×	406 0.3×	684 0.7×	144	13.7k

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Holt, Jo M. & Gary K. Ackers. (2009). Chapter 7 The Hill Coefficient. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 455. 193–212. 26 indexed citations

Ackers, Gary K., Jo M. Holt, E. Sethe Burgie, & Connie S. Yarian. (2004). Analyzing Intermediate State Cooperativity in Hemoglobin. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 379. 3–28. 10 indexed citations

Klinger, Alexandra L. & Gary K. Ackers. (1998). [10] Analysis of spectra from multiwavelength oxygen-binding studies of mixed metal hybrid hemoglobins. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 295. 190–207. 3 indexed citations

Ackers, Gary K.. (1996). The Molecular Code for Hemoglobin Cooperativity. APS.

Johnson, Michael L., Gary K. Ackers, & Jo M. Holt. (1995). Energetics of biological macromolecules. Academic Press eBooks. 30 indexed citations

LiCata, Vince J. & Gary K. Ackers. (1995). Long-Range, Small Magnitude Nonadditivity of Mutational Effects in Proteins. Biochemistry. 34(10). 3133–3139. 97 indexed citations

Ackers, Gary K., et al.. (1994). [27] Weighted nonlinear regression analysis of highly cooperative oxygen equilibrium curves. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 232. 576–597. 2 indexed citations

Bain, David L. & Gary K. Ackers. (1994). Self-association and DNA binding of .lambda. cI repressor N-terminal domains reveal linkage between sequence-specific binding and the C-terminal cooperativity domain. Biochemistry. 33(49). 14679–14689. 16 indexed citations

LiCata, Vince J., Paula M. Dalessio, & Gary K. Ackers. (1993). Single‐site modifications of half‐ligated hemoglobin reveal autonomous dimer cooperativity within a quaternary T tetramer. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 17(3). 279–296. 27 indexed citations

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Beckett, Dorothy, David S. Burz, Gary K. Ackers, & Robert T. Sauer. (1993). Isolation of .lambda. repressor mutants with defects in cooperative operator binding. Biochemistry. 32(35). 9073–9079. 46 indexed citations

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Doyle, Michael L., George Lew, Alice De Young, et al.. (1992). Functional properties of human hemoglobins synthesized from recombinant mutant .beta.-globins. Biochemistry. 31(36). 8629–8639. 34 indexed citations

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Doyle, Michael L. & Gary K. Ackers. (1992). Cooperative oxygen binding, subunit assembly, and sulfhydryl reaction kinetics of the eight cyanomet intermediate ligation states of human hemoglobin. Biochemistry. 31(45). 11182–11195. 26 indexed citations

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Koblan, Kenneth S. & Gary K. Ackers. (1991). Cooperative protein-DNA interactions: effects of potassium chloride on .lambda. cI binding to OR. Biochemistry. 30(31). 7822–7827. 36 indexed citations

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Beckett, Dorothy, Kenneth S. Koblan, & Gary K. Ackers. (1991). Quantitative study of protein association at picomolar concentrations: The λ phage cl repressor. Analytical Biochemistry. 196(1). 69–75. 33 indexed citations

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Ackers, Gary K.. (1990). The energetics of ligand-linked subunit assembly in hemoglobin require a third allosteric structure. Biophysical Chemistry. 37(1-3). 371–382. 26 indexed citations

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Senear, Donald F. & Gary K. Ackers. (1990). Proton-linked contributions to site-specific interactions of .lambda. cI repressor and OR. Biochemistry. 29(28). 6568–6577. 41 indexed citations

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Perrella, Michele, Louise Benazzi, M. A. Shea, & Gary K. Ackers. (1990). Subunit hybridization studies of partially ligated cyanomethemoglobins using a cryogenic method. Biophysical Chemistry. 35(1). 97–103. 51 indexed citations

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Brenowitz, Michael, Donald F. Senear, & Gary K. Ackers. (1989). Flanking DNA-sequences contribute to the specific binding of cl-repressor and O_RI. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(10). 3747–3755. 15 indexed citations

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Brenowitz, Michael, Donald F. Senear, M. A. Shea, & Gary K. Ackers. (1986). [9] Quantitative DNase footprint titration: A method for studying protein-DNA interactions. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 130. 132–181. 326 indexed citations

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Ackers, Gary K.. (1970). Analytical Gel Chromatography of Proteins. Advances in protein chemistry. 24. 343–446. 333 indexed citations

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