Leonid S. Brown

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Leonid S. Brown is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonid S. Brown has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 83 papers in Molecular Biology and 47 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Leonid S. Brown's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (114 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (78 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (29 papers). Leonid S. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (114 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (78 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (29 papers). Leonid S. Brown collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Japan. Leonid S. Brown's co-authors include Janos Κ. Lanyi, Richard Needleman, Hideki Kandori, Vladimir Ladizhansky, Lichi Shi, Oliver P. Ernst, Peter Hegemann, David T. Lodowski, Marcus Elstner and Andrei K. Dioumaev and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Leonid S. Brown

131 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Microbial and Animal Rhodopsins: Structures, Functions, and Molecular Mechanisms

2013 870 citations Oliver P. Ernst, Leonid S. Brown et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonid S. Brown Canada	48	5.3k	4.2k	1.6k	658	616	136	7.2k
Thomas G. Ebrey United States	47	6.3k 1.2×	4.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	469 0.7×	504 0.8×	178	7.3k
Norbert A. Dencher Germany	52	3.3k 0.6×	6.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	417 0.6×	1.0k 1.6×	153	8.1k
Mordechai Sheves Israel	50	5.0k 0.9×	4.3k 1.0×	876 0.5×	767 1.2×	1.3k 2.1×	301	8.0k
Eduardo Perozo United States	54	3.3k 0.6×	8.4k 2.0×	1.0k 0.6×	839 1.3×	623 1.0×	132	9.8k
Martin Engelhard Germany	40	3.6k 0.7×	3.3k 0.8×	618 0.4×	506 0.8×	335 0.5×	117	5.0k
Maarten P. Heyn Germany	39	3.5k 0.7×	3.3k 0.8×	786 0.5×	315 0.5×	455 0.7×	101	4.8k
Ehud M. Landau Switzerland	34	2.6k 0.5×	4.5k 1.1×	672 0.4×	484 0.7×	1.1k 1.7×	77	6.7k
Kenneth J. Rothschild United States	50	5.0k 1.0×	5.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	476 0.7×	611 1.0×	169	7.6k
Michael F. Brown United States	42	1.6k 0.3×	4.9k 1.2×	838 0.5×	480 0.7×	1.1k 1.8×	175	6.2k
Josef Wachtveitl Germany	47	2.9k 0.6×	3.3k 0.8×	759 0.5×	548 0.8×	1.5k 2.4×	250	7.6k

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Harris, Andrew, et al.. (2024). The retinal chromophore environment in an inward light-driven proton pump studied by solid-state NMR and hydrogen-bond network analysis. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(36). 24090–24108. 3 indexed citations

Morizumi, Takefumi, Hai Li, Elena G. Govorunova, et al.. (2023). Structures of channelrhodopsin paralogs in peptidiscs explain their contrasting K+ and Na+ selectivities. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4365–4365. 15 indexed citations

Al‐Abdul‐Wahid, M. Sameer, et al.. (2023). Investigation into aquaporin 1's conserved structural features and the C-terminal tail. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 194a–194a. 1 indexed citations

Govorunova, Elena G., Oleg A. Sineshchekov, Leonid S. Brown, Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar, & John L. Spudich. (2022). Structural Foundations of Potassium Selectivity in Channelrhodopsins. mBio. 13(6). e0303922–e0303922. 14 indexed citations

Brown, Leonid S., et al.. (2022). Conserved hydrogen-bond motifs of membrane transporters and receptors. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1864(6). 183896–183896. 10 indexed citations

Mobley, Charles K., Sandeep K. Misra, Rama S. Gadepalli, et al.. (2021). Self-Organized Amphiphiles Are Poor Hydroxyl Radical Scavengers in Fast Photochemical Oxidation of Proteins Experiments. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 32(5). 1155–1161. 8 indexed citations

Govorunova, Elena G., Oleg A. Sineshchekov, Hai Li, et al.. (2020). RubyACRs, nonalgal anion channelrhodopsins with highly red-shifted absorption. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(37). 22833–22840. 47 indexed citations

Besaw, Jessica E., Takefumi Morizumi, B.T. Eger, et al.. (2020). The crystal structures of a chloride-pumping microbial rhodopsin and its proton-pumping mutant illuminate proton transfer determinants. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(44). 14793–14804. 25 indexed citations

Munro, Rachel, et al.. (2020). Identifying lipids tightly bound to an integral membrane protein. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1862(10). 183345–183345. 10 indexed citations

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Harris, Andrew, et al.. (2017). Molecular details of the unique mechanism of chloride transport by a cyanobacterial rhodopsin. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(5). 3184–3199. 23 indexed citations

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Munro, Rachel, et al.. (2015). Isotope Labeling of Eukaryotic Membrane Proteins in Yeast for Solid-State NMR. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 565. 193–212. 14 indexed citations

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Brown, Leonid S.. (2013). Eubacterial rhodopsins — Unique photosensors and diverse ion pumps. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(5). 553–561. 67 indexed citations

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Munro, Rachel, et al.. (2013). Yeast-expressed human membrane protein aquaporin-1 yields excellent resolution of solid-state MAS NMR spectra. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 55(2). 147–155. 27 indexed citations

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Solomon, Peter S., et al.. (2011). Photochemical characterization of a novel fungal rhodopsin from Phaeosphaeria nodorum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1807(11). 1457–1466. 17 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Mumdooh A.M., Vladimir V. Bamm, Lichi Shi, et al.. (2009). Induced Secondary Structure and Polymorphism in an Intrinsically Disordered Structural Linker of the CNS: Solid-State NMR and FTIR Spectroscopy of Myelin Basic Protein Bound to Actin. Biophysical Journal. 96(1). 180–191. 23 indexed citations

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Shi, Lichi, et al.. (2008). Cyanobacterial Light-Driven Proton Pump, Gloeobacter Rhodopsin. 165–165.

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Waschuk, Stephen A., Arandi Ginane Bezerra, Lichi Shi, & Leonid S. Brown. (2005). Leptosphaeria rhodopsin: Bacteriorhodopsin-like proton pump from a eukaryote. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(19). 6879–6883. 175 indexed citations

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Brown, Leonid S.. (2004). Fungal rhodopsins and opsin-related proteins: eukaryotic homologues of bacteriorhodopsin with unknown functions. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 3(6). 555–565. 69 indexed citations

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Váró, György, et al.. (1999). Binding of Calcium Ions to Bacteriorhodopsin. Biophysical Journal. 76(6). 3219–3226. 35 indexed citations

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Váró, György, Leonid S. Brown, Jun Sasaki, et al.. (1995). Light-Driven Chloride Ion Transport by Halorhodopsin from Natronobacterium pharaonis. I. The Photochemical Cycle. Biochemistry. 34(44). 14490–14499. 88 indexed citations

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