James H. Geiger

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

James H. Geiger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, James H. Geiger has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Organic Chemistry and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in James H. Geiger's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (14 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (14 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (13 papers). James H. Geiger is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (14 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (14 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (13 papers). James H. Geiger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Israel. James H. Geiger's co-authors include Steven Hahn, Paul B. Sigler, Youngchang Kim, Babak Borhan, Chrysoula Vasileiou, Jack Preiss, Xiangshu Jin, Gregory L. Baker, Merlin L. Bruening and Wenjing Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

James H. Geiger

85 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Crystal structure of a yeast TBP/TATA-box complex

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Katsuyuki Tanizawa Japan

Enríque Pérez‐Payá Spain

Hiroshi Ueda Japan

Weontae Lee South Korea

Giancarlo Tria United States

Ralph Golbik Germany

E.D. Lowe United Kingdom

David Gani United Kingdom

Roberto Fattorusso Italy

Kazuya Hasegawa Japan

Katsuyuki Tanizawa Japan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James H. Geiger

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Ghanbarpour, Alireza, et al.. (2025). Exploiting a rational β-strand insertion strategy and disulfide locking to mechanically manipulate domain-swapped protein structures. Structure. 33(10). 1739–1749.e3.

Santos, Elizabeth Moreira dos, Wei Sheng, Alireza Ghanbarpour, et al.. (2024). Regulation of Absorption and Emission in a Protein/Fluorophore Complex. ACS Chemical Biology. 19(8). 1725–1732. 2 indexed citations

Park, Sung Hoon, et al.. (2023). The Structure of Maltooctaose-Bound Escherichia coli Branching Enzyme Suggests a Mechanism for Donor Chain Specificity. Molecules. 28(11). 4377–4377. 2 indexed citations

Widmer, Lukas Werner, et al.. (2023). Fast treatment of anterior shoulder dislocations with two sedation-free methods: The Davos self-reduction method and Arlt method. Shoulder & Elbow. 16(1). 38–45.

Démoulin, Baptiste, Margherita Maiuri, Tetyana Berbasova, et al.. (2021). Control of Protonated Schiff Base Excited State Decay within Visual Protein Mimics: A Unified Model for Retinal Chromophores. Chemistry - A European Journal. 27(66). 16389–16400. 7 indexed citations

Park, Sunghoon, et al.. (2021). A structural explanation for the mechanism and specificity of plant branching enzymes I and IIb. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(1). 101395–101395. 14 indexed citations

Santos, Elizabeth Moreira dos, Wei Sheng, Alireza Ghanbarpour, et al.. (2021). Design of Large Stokes Shift Fluorescent Proteins Based on Excited State Proton Transfer of an Engineered Photobase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(37). 15091–15102. 58 indexed citations

Manathunga, Madushanka, Yoelvis Orozco‐Gonzalez, Alireza Ghanbarpour, et al.. (2020). Computational and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Photocycle of an Artificial Rhodopsin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(11). 4245–4252. 4 indexed citations

Lee, Ming-Yue, James H. Geiger, Andrii Ishchenko, et al.. (2020). Harnessing the power of an X-ray laser for serial crystallography of membrane proteins crystallized in lipidic cubic phase. IUCrJ. 7(6). 976–984. 13 indexed citations

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Ghanbarpour, Alireza, Cody Pinger, Elizabeth Moreira dos Santos, et al.. (2019). Engineering the hCRBPII Domain-Swapped Dimer into a New Class of Protein Switches. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(43). 17125–17132. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenjing, et al.. (2016). Domain-Swapped Dimers of Intracellular Lipid-Binding Proteins: Evidence for Ordered Folding Intermediates. Structure. 24(9). 1590–1598. 8 indexed citations

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Nosrati, Meisam, Wenjing Wang, Tetyana Berbasova, et al.. (2014). Structures of holo wild-type human cellular retinol-binding protein II (hCRBPII) bound to retinol and retinal. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 70(12). 3226–3232. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenjing, James H. Geiger, & Babak Borhan. (2013). The photochemical determinants of color vision. BioEssays. 36(1). 65–74. 34 indexed citations

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Bhattacharjee, Somnath, et al.. (2011). An all-aqueous route to polymer brush-modified membranes with remarkable permeabilites and protein capture rates. Journal of Membrane Science. 389. 117–125. 30 indexed citations

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Vasileiou, Chrysoula, et al.. (2008). Dissection of the critical binding determinants of cellular retinoic acid binding protein II by mutagenesis and fluorescence binding assay. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 76(2). 281–290. 14 indexed citations

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Feig, Michael, et al.. (2006). The Unorthodox SNAP50 Zinc Finger Domain Contributes to Cooperative Promoter Recognition by Human SNAPC. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(41). 31050–31060. 15 indexed citations

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Nedialkov, Yuri A., Xue Gong, Yuki Yamaguchi, et al.. (2003). NTP-driven Translocation by Human RNA Polymerase II. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(20). 18303–18312. 78 indexed citations

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Hovde, Stacy, Craig S. Hinkley, Katie L. Strong, et al.. (2002). Activator recruitment by the general transcription machinery: X-ray structural analysis of the Oct-1 POU domain/human U1 octamer/SNAP190 peptide ternary complex. Genes & Development. 16(21). 2772–2777. 16 indexed citations

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Abad, M.C., et al.. (2002). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies ofEscherichia colibranching enzyme. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(2). 359–361. 5 indexed citations

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Geiger, James H., et al.. (2000). Structural studies of MIP synthase. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 56(3). 348–350. 10 indexed citations

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