Gary W. Witherell

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Gary W. Witherell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary W. Witherell has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 5 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Gary W. Witherell's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (8 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (4 papers). Gary W. Witherell is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (8 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (4 papers). Gary W. Witherell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Gary W. Witherell's co-authors include Olke C. Uhlenbeck, Duncan R. Groebe, John F. Milligan, Eckard Wimmer, Christopher U.T. Hellen, Tatyana V. Pestova, Arnim Pause, Stéphane Pyronnet, Yuri V. Svitkin and Ashkan Haghighat and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Gary W. Witherell

21 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Oligoribonucleotide synthesis using T7 RNA polymerase and synthetic DNA templates

1987 1.9k citations John F. Milligan, Duncan R. Groebe et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary W. Witherell United States	16	2.8k	676	559	425	419	21	3.5k
Douglas G. Scraba Canada	26	1.0k 0.4×	418 0.6×	272 0.5×	430 1.0×	444 1.1×	65	2.0k
Gebhard Koch Germany	29	1.3k 0.5×	732 1.1×	657 1.2×	535 1.3×	351 0.8×	94	2.5k
George A. Belov United States	30	1.5k 0.5×	1.4k 2.1×	810 1.4×	287 0.7×	95 0.2×	55	3.0k
Asim Dasgupta United States	28	1.2k 0.4×	789 1.2×	537 1.0×	350 0.8×	46 0.1×	50	2.3k
Hans J. Eggers Germany	30	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 2.1×	1.1k 2.0×	633 1.5×	305 0.7×	143	3.3k
P F Spahr Switzerland	30	2.2k 0.8×	204 0.3×	327 0.6×	586 1.4×	467 1.1×	54	2.8k
Ibrahim M. Moustafa United States	20	765 0.3×	294 0.4×	302 0.5×	220 0.5×	98 0.2×	39	1.4k
Ernst Kuechler Austria	34	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 2.3×	582 1.0×	361 0.8×	184 0.4×	74	3.3k
Eberhard Pfaff Germany	34	1.5k 0.5×	587 0.9×	519 0.9×	316 0.7×	234 0.6×	80	3.7k
Martin Bisaillon Canada	24	943 0.3×	137 0.2×	436 0.8×	167 0.4×	121 0.3×	73	1.7k

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Friedland, H. David, Tanya O’Neal, Donald Biek, et al.. (2012). CANVAS 1 and 2: Analysis of Clinical Response at Day 3 in Two Phase 3 Trials of Ceftaroline Fosamil versus Vancomycin plus Aztreonam in Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 56(5). 2231–2236. 57 indexed citations

Eckburg, Paul B., et al.. (2012). Day 4 Clinical Response of Ceftaroline Fosamil Versus Ceftriaxone for Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 20(4). 254–260. 19 indexed citations

Corey, G. Ralph, Mark H. Wilcox, George H. Talbot, et al.. (2010). Integrated Analysis of CANVAS 1 and 2: Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double‐Blind Studies to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Ceftaroline versus Vancomycin plus Aztreonam in Complicated Skin and Skin‐Structure Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 51(6). 641–650. 195 indexed citations

Witherell, Gary W.. (2003). Oral typhoid vaccine. Acambis/Berna.. PubMed. 4(8). 1010–8. 3 indexed citations

Svitkin, Yuri V., Arnim Pause, Ashkan Haghighat, et al.. (2001). The requirement for eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A) in translation is in direct proportion to the degree of mRNA 5′ secondary structure. RNA. 7(3). 382–394. 376 indexed citations

Witherell, Gary W.. (2001). BMS-232632 (Novartis/Bristol-Myers Squibb).. PubMed. 2(3). 340–7. 6 indexed citations

Witherell, Gary W. & Philip Beineke. (2001). Statistical analysis of combined substitutions in nonstructural 5A region of hepatitis C virus and interferon response. Journal of Medical Virology. 63(1). 8–16. 4 indexed citations

Witherell, Gary W. & Philip Beineke. (2000). Statistical analysis of combined substitutions in nonstructural 5A region of hepatitis C virus and interferon response. Journal of Medical Virology. 63(1). 8–16. 77 indexed citations

Witherell, Gary W.. (2000). AG-7088 Pfizer.. PubMed. 1(3). 297–302. 23 indexed citations

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Witherell, Gary W.. (2000). In Vitro Translation Using HeLa Extract. Current Protocols in Cell Biology. 6(1). Unit 11.8–Unit 11.8. 9 indexed citations

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Witherell, Gary W., et al.. (1995). cis-Acting Elements of the Encephalomyocarditis Virus Internal Ribosomal Entry Site. Virology. 214(2). 660–663. 32 indexed citations

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Witherell, Gary W. & Eckard Wimmer. (1994). Encephalomyocarditis virus internal ribosomal entry site RNA-protein interactions. Journal of Virology. 68(5). 3183–3192. 37 indexed citations

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Bibb, James, Gary W. Witherell, Günter Bernhardt, & Eckard Wimmer. (1994). Interaction of Poliovirus with its Cell Surface Binding Site. Virology. 201(1). 107–115. 19 indexed citations

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Witherell, Gary W., Anna Gil, & Eckard Wimmer. (1993). Interaction of polypyrimidine tract binding protein with the encephalomyocarditis virus mRNA internal ribosomal entry site. Biochemistry. 32(32). 8268–8275. 51 indexed citations

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Hellen, Christopher U.T., Gary W. Witherell, Michael Schmid, et al.. (1993). A cytoplasmic 57-kDa protein that is required for translation of picornavirus RNA by internal ribosomal entry is identical to the nuclear pyrimidine tract-binding protein.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 90(16). 7642–7646. 295 indexed citations

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Witherell, Gary W., et al.. (1991). Specific Interaction between RNA Phage Coat Proteins and RNA. Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology. 40. 185–220. 160 indexed citations

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Witherell, Gary W., et al.. (1990). Cooperative binding of R17 coat protein to RNA. Biochemistry. 29(50). 11051–11057. 41 indexed citations

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Jang, Sung Key, Tatyana V. Pestova, Christopher U.T. Hellen, Gary W. Witherell, & Eckard Wimmer. (1990). Cap-Independent Translation of Picornavirus RN As:Structure and Function of the Internal Ribosomal Entry Site. Enzyme. 44(1-4). 292–309. 169 indexed citations

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Witherell, Gary W., et al.. (1989). Specific RNA binding by Q.beta. coat protein. Biochemistry. 28(1). 71–76. 94 indexed citations

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Milligan, John F., Duncan R. Groebe, Gary W. Witherell, & Olke C. Uhlenbeck. (1987). Oligoribonucleotide synthesis using T7 RNA polymerase and synthetic DNA templates. Nucleic Acids Research. 15(21). 8783–8798. 1874 indexed citations breakdown →

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