J A Wells

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

J A Wells is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, J A Wells has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 2 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in J A Wells's work include Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors (4 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (2 papers). J A Wells is often cited by papers focused on Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors (4 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (2 papers). J A Wells collaborates with scholars based in United States. J A Wells's co-authors include S R King, D. M. Stocco, Barbara J. Clark, David A. Estell, Thomas P. Graycar, Germaine Fuh, P. Colosi, William I. Wood, David B. Powers and R. Bott and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

J A Wells

10 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

The purification, cloning, and expression of a novel luteinizing hormone-induced mitochondrial protein in MA-10 mouse Leydig tumor cells. Characterization of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR).

1994 976 citations Barbara J. Clark, J A Wells et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
J A Wells United States	9	1.0k	623	487	270	197	10	1.9k
Stephen J. Higgins United Kingdom	27	1.4k 1.4×	693 1.1×	721 1.5×	462 1.7×	160 0.8×	48	2.7k
P. W. Jungblut Germany	23	987 0.9×	599 1.0×	1.2k 2.5×	219 0.8×	198 1.0×	66	2.3k
G.V. Avvakumov Canada	27	1.4k 1.3×	798 1.3×	559 1.1×	316 1.2×	124 0.6×	50	2.4k
Christine Radanyi France	33	2.1k 2.0×	420 0.7×	796 1.6×	149 0.6×	619 3.1×	48	2.9k
Ulrich Gehring Germany	32	2.0k 1.9×	526 0.8×	1.0k 2.1×	97 0.4×	412 2.1×	76	2.8k
Thierry Buchou France	21	2.9k 2.8×	185 0.3×	725 1.5×	167 0.6×	183 0.9×	41	3.6k
Vidar Hansson Norway	34	2.0k 1.9×	805 1.3×	539 1.1×	894 3.3×	501 2.5×	110	3.5k
Y Shizuta Japan	22	871 0.8×	365 0.6×	641 1.3×	306 1.1×	253 1.3×	30	1.9k
Alessia David United Kingdom	24	1.2k 1.1×	625 1.0×	601 1.2×	140 0.5×	143 0.7×	50	2.1k
H.M. Westphal Germany	19	1.4k 1.3×	544 0.9×	1.1k 2.2×	66 0.2×	357 1.8×	24	2.6k

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Wells, J A. (1996). Binding in the growth hormone receptor complex.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 93(1). 1–6. 357 indexed citations

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Clark, Barbara J., J A Wells, S R King, & D. M. Stocco. (1994). The purification, cloning, and expression of a novel luteinizing hormone-induced mitochondrial protein in MA-10 mouse Leydig tumor cells. Characterization of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR).. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 269(45). 28314–28322. 976 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baumann, G, Henry B. Lowman, Moisés Mercado, & J A Wells. (1994). The stoichiometry of growth hormone-binding protein complexes in human plasma: comparison with cell surface receptors.. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 78(5). 1113–1118. 33 indexed citations

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Fuh, Germaine, P. Colosi, William I. Wood, & J A Wells. (1993). Mechanism-based design of prolactin receptor antagonists.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 268(8). 5376–5381. 127 indexed citations

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Wells, J A, et al.. (1990). Engineering human prolactin to bind to the human growth hormone receptor. Science. 247(4949). 1461–1465. 9 indexed citations

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Fuh, Germaine, Michael G. Mulkerrin, S Bass, et al.. (1990). The human growth hormone receptor. Secretion from Escherichia coli and disulfide bonding pattern of the extracellular binding domain.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 265(6). 3111–3115. 143 indexed citations

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Wells, J A, Brian C. Cunningham, Thomas P. Graycar, David A. Estell, & Paul Carter. (1987). On the Evolution of Specificity and Catalysis in Subtilisin. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 647–652. 5 indexed citations

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Wells, J A, Brian C. Cunningham, Thomas P. Graycar, & David A. Estell. (1987). Recruitment of substrate-specificity properties from one enzyme into a related one by protein engineering.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(15). 5167–5171. 106 indexed citations

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Wells, J A, David B. Powers, R. Bott, Thomas P. Graycar, & David A. Estell. (1987). Designing substrate specificity by protein engineering of electrostatic interactions.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(5). 1219–1223. 151 indexed citations

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Wells, J A, Elizabeth A. Swyryd, & George R. Stark. (1984). An improved method for purifying 2‘,5‘-oligoadenylate synthetases.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 259(2). 1363–1370. 43 indexed citations

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