James J. La Clair

4.9k total citations
154 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

James J. La Clair is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, James J. La Clair has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Organic Chemistry and 37 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in James J. La Clair's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (35 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (20 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (20 papers). James J. La Clair is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (35 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (20 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (20 papers). James J. La Clair collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. James J. La Clair's co-authors include Michael D. Burkart, Gilbert Stork, William Fenical, Eli Chapman, Joseph P. Noel, Alexander Kornienko, Chambers C. Hughes, Kim D. Janda, Gerald L. Newton and Oliver Brümmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James J. La Clair

147 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James J. La Clair United States 33 2.2k 1.0k 682 380 300 154 3.7k
Dirk Schwarzer Germany 33 4.2k 1.9× 1.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.8× 368 1.0× 144 0.5× 82 5.0k
Doriano Lamba Italy 30 1.5k 0.7× 805 0.8× 724 1.1× 165 0.4× 276 0.9× 138 3.3k
Ángeles Canales Spain 30 1.5k 0.7× 733 0.7× 291 0.4× 198 0.5× 170 0.6× 88 2.4k
Yasuko In Japan 29 1.8k 0.8× 841 0.8× 531 0.8× 238 0.6× 155 0.5× 159 3.0k
Peter Karuso Australia 29 1.0k 0.5× 663 0.6× 460 0.7× 562 1.5× 256 0.9× 113 2.4k
Neil J. Oldham United Kingdom 42 4.0k 1.8× 922 0.9× 550 0.8× 322 0.8× 245 0.8× 137 6.9k
Sherry L. Mowbray Sweden 42 3.8k 1.7× 545 0.5× 303 0.4× 256 0.7× 1.1k 3.6× 111 5.3k
Kenji Monde Japan 42 2.5k 1.1× 2.1k 2.1× 546 0.8× 206 0.5× 282 0.9× 201 5.4k
A. Ian Scott United States 39 3.2k 1.4× 932 0.9× 495 0.7× 163 0.4× 727 2.4× 237 4.7k
David F. Wiemer United States 38 2.1k 0.9× 2.2k 2.2× 353 0.5× 254 0.7× 237 0.8× 228 5.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James J. La Clair

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James J. La Clair

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Clair, James J. La, et al.. (2025). Visualizing acyl carrier protein interactions within a crosslinked type I polyketide synthase. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7798–7798.
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Clair, James J. La, et al.. (2025). Elucidating the Iterative Elongation Mechanism in a Type III Polyketide Synthase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(19). 16705–16714.
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Butler, Mark S. & James J. La Clair. (2025). The Role of Natural Product Chemistry in Drug Discovery: Two Decades of Progress and Perspectives. Journal of Natural Products. 89(1). 3–28.
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Rich, Kelly, et al.. (2024). Differentiating carrier protein interactions in biosynthetic pathways using dapoxyl solvatochromism. Chemical Science. 15(47). 19913–19919. 1 indexed citations
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Davis, Tony D., Sitong Wu, James J. La Clair, et al.. (2024). Visualizing the Interface of Biotin and Fatty Acid Biosynthesis through SuFEx Probes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(2). 1388–1395. 7 indexed citations
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Clair, James J. La, et al.. (2024). Crosslinking intermodular condensation in non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis. Nature. 638(8049). 261–269. 4 indexed citations
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Pham, Jessica, et al.. (2024). Selective Reversal of ADAR1 Splicing Prevents Leukemia Stem Cell Maintenance In Vivo. Blood. 144(Supplement 1). 5789–5789. 1 indexed citations
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Sztain, Terra, et al.. (2023). Interface Engineering of Carrier-Protein-Dependent Metabolic Pathways. ACS Chemical Biology. 18(9). 2014–2022. 1 indexed citations
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Crews, Leslie, Wenxue Ma, Luisa Ladel, et al.. (2023). Reversal of malignant ADAR1 splice isoform switching with Rebecsinib. Cell stem cell. 30(3). 250–263.e6. 40 indexed citations
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Salata, Giovanna Cassone, Alexsandra Conceição Apolinário, Kelly Ishida, et al.. (2023). Topical delivery of seriniquinone for treatment of skin cancer and fungal infections is enabled by a liquid crystalline lamellar phase. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 192. 106635–106635. 5 indexed citations
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Johnson, Don H., et al.. (2023). A Survey of Didemnin Depsipeptide Production in Tistrella. Marine Drugs. 21(2). 56–56. 4 indexed citations
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Clair, James J. La, et al.. (2022). Medicinal chemical optimization of fluorescent pyrrole-based COX-2 probes. Tetrahedron. 123. 132990–132990. 1 indexed citations
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Ambrose, Andrew J., Nhan T. Pham, Jared Sivinski, et al.. (2020). A two-step resin based approach to reveal survivin-selective fluorescent probes. RSC Chemical Biology. 2(1). 181–186. 5 indexed citations
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Mindrebo, Jeffrey T., Ashay Patel, Tony D. Davis, et al.. (2020). Gating mechanism of elongating β-ketoacyl-ACP synthases. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1727–1727. 51 indexed citations
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Barajas, Jesus F., Heriberto Rivera, David R. Jackson, et al.. (2017). Polyketide mimetics yield structural and mechanistic insights into product template domain function in nonreducing polyketide synthases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(21). E4142–E4148. 21 indexed citations
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Wu, Chyuan-Chuan, T.J. Baiga, Michael Downes, et al.. (2017). Structural basis for specific ligation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(13). E2563–E2570. 52 indexed citations
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Rocha, Danilo D., et al.. (2015). Fluorescent kapakahines serve as non-toxic probes for live cell Golgi imaging. Life Sciences. 136. 163–167. 11 indexed citations
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Moore, Bradley S., et al.. (2013). A Tandem Chemoenzymatic Methylation by S‐Adenosyl‐L‐methionine. ChemBioChem. 14(8). 950–953. 32 indexed citations
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Clair, James J. La, et al.. (2006). A systems perspective to digital structures in molecular analysis. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 5(2). 214–222. 8 indexed citations
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Clair, James J. La, et al.. (2004). Manipulation of Carrier Proteins in Antibiotic Biosynthesis. Chemistry & Biology. 11(2). 195–201. 8 indexed citations

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