Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames

6.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
51 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (15 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers). Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (15 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers). Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames's co-authors include Kishiko Nikaido, Peiqi Liu, Venkatakrishna Shyamala, Christopher F. Higgins, Carl A. Doige, Elena N. Spudich, Hiroshi Nikaido, Michael Stern, Julia E. Lever and Li‐Wei Hung and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames

50 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Resolution of Bacterial Proteins by Polyacrylamide Gel El... 1974 2026 1991 2008 1974 1986 1998 1984 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Resolution of Bacterial Proteins by Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis on Slabs
    1974 716 citations Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  2. BACTERIAL PERIPLASMIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS: STRUCTURE, MECHANISM, AND EVOLUTION
    1986 609 citations Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames profile →
  3. Crystal structure of the ATP-binding subunit of an ABC transporter
    1998 562 citations Li‐Wei Hung, Kishiko Nikaido et al. Nature profile →
  4. Repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences: A major component of the bacterial genome
    1984 461 citations Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames, Christopher F. Higgins et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames United States 31 3.2k 1.6k 1.4k 592 565 51 5.4k
G F Ames United States 37 2.5k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 992 0.7× 478 0.8× 450 0.8× 48 4.0k
Erwin Schneider Germany 37 2.4k 0.7× 627 0.4× 1.3k 0.9× 250 0.4× 400 0.7× 114 4.1k
Kishiko Nikaido United States 25 2.1k 0.6× 935 0.6× 812 0.6× 353 0.6× 240 0.4× 31 3.3k
Robert J. Kadner United States 47 3.5k 1.1× 2.6k 1.7× 359 0.2× 795 1.3× 329 0.6× 102 5.6k
Mark A. Hermodson United States 51 4.9k 1.5× 1.2k 0.8× 740 0.5× 346 0.6× 384 0.7× 123 8.5k
Amy L. Davidson United States 28 2.4k 0.8× 780 0.5× 2.2k 1.5× 297 0.5× 400 0.7× 43 4.9k
Eitan Bibi Israel 38 2.8k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 1.0k 0.7× 591 1.0× 230 0.4× 85 4.5k
Dirk Jan Slotboom Netherlands 43 3.4k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 797 0.6× 442 0.7× 762 1.3× 117 5.1k
Winfried Boos Germany 57 5.9k 1.8× 4.2k 2.6× 987 0.7× 1.2k 2.1× 956 1.7× 202 9.5k
David Drew Sweden 37 4.2k 1.3× 1.4k 0.9× 784 0.5× 414 0.7× 411 0.7× 77 5.7k

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All Works

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Shyamala, Venkatakrishna & Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames. (2003). Single Specific Primer-Polymerase Chain Reaction (SSP-PCR) and Genome Walking. Humana Press eBooks. 15. 339–348. 7 indexed citations
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Ames, Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi, et al.. (2001). Purification and Characterization of the Membrane-Bound Complex of an ABC Transporter, the Histidine Permease. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 33(2). 79–92. 34 indexed citations
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Liu, Peiqi, et al.. (1999). Both Lobes of the Soluble Receptor of the Periplasmic Histidine Permease, an ABC Transporter (Traffic ATPase), Interact with the Membrane-bound Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(2). 739–747. 36 indexed citations
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Hung, Li‐Wei, et al.. (1998). Crystal structure of the ATP-binding subunit of an ABC transporter. Nature. 396(6712). 703–707. 562 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Peiqi, et al.. (1997). Characterization of the Adenosine Triphosphatase Activity of the Periplasmic Histidine Permease, a Traffic ATPase (ABC Transporter). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(35). 21883–21891. 107 indexed citations
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Ames, Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi, et al.. (1996). Liganded and Unliganded Receptors Interact with Equal Affinity with the Membrane Complex of Periplasmic Permeases, a Subfamily of Traffic ATPases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(24). 14264–14270. 71 indexed citations
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Oh, Byung‐Ha, et al.. (1995). Structure/Function Analysis of the Periplasmic Histidine-binding Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(27). 16097–16106. 30 indexed citations
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Ames, Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi, Carol Mimura, Stephen R. Holbrook, & Venkatakrishna Shyamala. (1992). Traffic ATPases: A Superfamily of Transport Proteins Operating from Escherichia coli to Humans. Advances in enzymology and related areas of molecular biology/Advances in enzymology and related subjects. 65. 1–47. 115 indexed citations
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Shyamala, Venkatakrishna & Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames. (1991). Use of exonuclease for rapid polymerase-chain-reaction-based in vitro mutagenesis. Gene. 97(1). 1–6. 14 indexed citations
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Shyamala, Venkatakrishna & Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames. (1989). Genome walking by single-specific-primer polymerase chain reaction: SSP-PCR. Gene. 84(1). 1–8. 146 indexed citations
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Kang, ChulHee, et al.. (1989). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of HisJ and LAO periplasmic proteins from Salmonella typhimurium. Journal of Molecular Biology. 207(3). 643–644. 16 indexed citations
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Nikaido, Kishiko, et al.. (1988). Regulation of a transport operon promoter in Salmonella typhimurium: Identification of sites essential for nitrogen regulation. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 215(1). 107–117. 22 indexed citations
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Dürre, Peter, et al.. (1987). Nitrogen regulation of transport operons: Analysis of promoters argTr and dhuA. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 209(2). 403–407. 10 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher F., Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames, Wayne M. Barnes, Jean Clement, & Maurice Hofnung. (1982). A novel intercistronic regulatory element of prokaryotic operons. Nature. 298(5876). 760–762. 234 indexed citations
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Noel, K. Dale & Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames. (1978). Evidence for a common mechanism for the insertion of the Tn10 transposon and for the generation of Tn10-stimulated deletions. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 166(2). 217–223. 20 indexed citations
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Ames, Bruce N., et al.. (1973). Illicit Transport: The Oligopeptide Permease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 70(2). 456–458. 91 indexed citations
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Ames, Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi & Julia E. Lever. (1970). COMPONENTS OF HISTIDINE TRANSPORT: HISTIDINE-BINDING PROTEINS AND hisP PROTEIN. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 66(4). 1096–1103. 119 indexed citations

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