Jon Beckwith

22.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
165 papers, 18.4k citations indexed

About

Jon Beckwith is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon Beckwith has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 18.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Molecular Biology, 101 papers in Genetics and 41 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jon Beckwith's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (93 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (65 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (39 papers). Jon Beckwith is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (93 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (65 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (39 papers). Jon Beckwith collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Jon Beckwith's co-authors include Dominique Belin, M. Carson, Dana Boyd, Hiroshi Kadokura, Edith Brickman, Carol A. Kumamoto, P J Bassford, Nathan W. Goehring, Donald Oliver and Hiroshi Inouye and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jon Beckwith

164 papers receiving 17.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Tight regulation, modulation, and high-level expression by vectors containing the arabinose PBAD promoter

1995 4.2k citations Jon Beckwith et al. Journal of Bacteriology profile →
E. coli mutant pleiotropically defective in the export of secreted proteins

1981 443 citations Jon Beckwith et al. Cell profile →
Analysis of the regulation of Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase synthesis using deletions and φ80 transducing phages

1975 440 citations Jon Beckwith et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jon Beckwith	13.4k	9.8k	3.7k	2.5k	2.3k	165	18.4k
Susan Gottesman	20.2k 1.5×	14.5k 1.5×	7.3k 2.0×	3.2k 1.3×	1.5k 0.6×	204	26.6k
Ann Stock	11.0k 0.8×	6.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	115	15.8k
William Wickner	17.6k 1.3×	7.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	8.8k 3.8×	221	21.6k
Ben F. Luisi	10.9k 0.8×	5.5k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	195	15.9k
Christian Cambillau	11.5k 0.9×	3.0k 0.3×	3.6k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	808 0.4×	347	20.0k
Arthur Kornberg	19.8k 1.5×	6.5k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	613 0.2×	894 0.4×	220	25.9k
John R. Roth	8.8k 0.7×	4.5k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	411 0.2×	146	12.7k
Tania A. Baker	11.5k 0.9×	5.0k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	490 0.2×	2.3k 1.0×	184	13.4k
Jan Löwe	12.6k 0.9×	4.7k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	485 0.2×	3.8k 1.6×	147	15.9k
Hamilton O. Smith	16.2k 1.2×	5.7k 0.6×	4.0k 1.1×	675 0.3×	670 0.3×	125	20.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Jon Beckwith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jon Beckwith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jon Beckwith

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Landeta, Cristina, Dana Boyd, & Jon Beckwith. (2018). Disulfide bond formation in prokaryotes. Nature Microbiology. 3(3). 270–280. 112 indexed citations

Hatahet, Feras, Dana Boyd, & Jon Beckwith. (2014). Disulfide bond formation in prokaryotes: History, diversity and design. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1844(8). 1402–1414. 95 indexed citations

Beckwith, Jon & Moshé Yaniv. (2013). François Jacob (1920–2013). Current Biology. 23(10). R422–R425.

Kadokura, Hiroshi & Jon Beckwith. (2010). Mechanisms of Oxidative Protein Folding in the Bacterial Cell Envelope. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 13(8). 1231–1246. 114 indexed citations

Wang, Xiao-Yun, Rachel J. Dutton, Jon Beckwith, & Dana Boyd. (2010). Membrane Topology and Mutational Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis VKOR, a Protein Involved in Disulfide Bond Formation and a Homologue of Human Vitamin K Epoxide Reductase. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 14(8). 1413–1420. 46 indexed citations

Cho, Seung‐Hyun & Jon Beckwith. (2009). Two Snapshots of Electron Transport across the Membrane. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(17). 11416–11424. 28 indexed citations

Zhou, Yunpeng, Tomasz Cierpicki, Ricardo H. Flores Jiménez, et al.. (2008). NMR Solution Structure of the Integral Membrane Enzyme DsbB: Functional Insights into DsbB-Catalyzed Disulfide Bond Formation. Molecular Cell. 31(6). 896–908. 145 indexed citations

Kadokura, Hiroshi, et al.. (2004). Snapshots of DsbA in Action: Detection of Proteins in the Process of Oxidative Folding. Science. 303(5657). 534–537. 197 indexed citations

Porat, Amir, Seung‐Hyun Cho, & Jon Beckwith. (2004). The unusual transmembrane electron transporter DsbD and its homologues: a bacterial family of disulfide reductases. Research in Microbiology. 155(8). 617–622. 37 indexed citations

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Beckwith, Jon, et al.. (2002). Genetic Screen Yields Mutations in Genes Encoding All Known Components of the Escherichia coli Signal Recognition Particle Pathway. Journal of Bacteriology. 184(1). 111–118. 38 indexed citations

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Ritz, Daniel, Jackie E. Lim, C. Michael Reynolds, Leslie B. Poole, & Jon Beckwith. (2001). Conversion of a Peroxiredoxin into a Disulfide Reductase by a Triplet Repeat Expansion. Science. 294(5540). 158–160. 105 indexed citations

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Åslund, Fredrik & Jon Beckwith. (1999). Bridge over Troubled Waters. Cell. 96(6). 751–753. 245 indexed citations

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Debarbieux, Laurent & Jon Beckwith. (1999). Electron Avenue. Cell. 99(2). 117–119. 77 indexed citations

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Ghigo, Jean‐Marc, David S. Weiss, Joseph C. Chen, Justin C. Yarrow, & Jon Beckwith. (1999). Localization of FtsL to the Escherichia coli septal ring. Molecular Microbiology. 31(2). 725–737. 75 indexed citations

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Beckwith, Jon. (1997). The Return of the Blue Unicorn. Cell. 89(3). 329–330. 1 indexed citations

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Pohlschröder, Mechthild, et al.. (1997). Protein Translocation in the Three Domains of Life: Variations on a Theme. Cell. 91(5). 563–566. 145 indexed citations

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Pohlschröder, Mechthild, et al.. (1996). In Vivo Analyses of Interactions between SecE and SecY, Core Components of the Escherichia coli Protein Translocation Machinery. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(33). 19908–19914. 41 indexed citations

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Bardwell, James C.A. & Jon Beckwith. (1993). The bonds that tie: Catalyzed disulfide bond formation. Cell. 74(5). 769–771. 123 indexed citations

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Martin, Jennifer L., Gabriel Waksman, James C.A. Bardwell, Jon Beckwith, & John Kuriyan. (1993). Crystallization of DsbA, an Escherichia coli Protein Required for Disulphide Bond Formation in Vivo. Journal of Molecular Biology. 230(3). 1097–1100. 40 indexed citations

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Gutierrez, Claude, James J. Barondess, Colin Manoil, & Jon Beckwith. (1987). The use of transposon TnphoA to detect genes for cell envelope proteins subject to a common regulatory stimulus. Journal of Molecular Biology. 195(2). 289–297. 198 indexed citations

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