M J Betley

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

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M J Betley is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, M J Betley has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Infectious Diseases, 15 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in M J Betley's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (17 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (15 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). M J Betley is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (17 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (15 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). M J Betley collaborates with scholars based in United States. M J Betley's co-authors include Richard P. Novick, John J. Mekalanos, Sven Löfdahl, Merlin S. Bergdoll, Barry N. Kreiswirth, Mary O’Reilly, Patrick M. Schlievert, Laura B. Regassa, Mary Tremaine and J L Couch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

M J Betley

30 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

The toxic shock syndrome exotoxin structural gene is not detectably transmitted by a prophage

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
M J Betley United States	21	1.9k	1.6k	901	470	421	30	2.9k
Staffan Arvidson Sweden	30	2.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.6×	998 1.1×	178 0.4×	354 0.8×	56	3.5k
Mary O’Reilly Ireland	24	1.6k 0.8×	2.5k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	203 0.4×	385 0.9×	46	3.5k
Cyril J. Smyth Ireland	27	1.0k 0.5×	905 0.6×	416 0.5×	290 0.6×	311 0.7×	67	2.6k
Rebecca M. Corrigan United Kingdom	25	1.4k 0.7×	2.2k 1.3×	830 0.9×	240 0.5×	456 1.1×	36	3.3k
Conrad P. Quinn United States	38	750 0.4×	2.5k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	237 0.5×	636 1.5×	92	3.2k
Josephine E. Clark‐Curtiss United States	30	1.5k 0.8×	842 0.5×	420 0.5×	212 0.5×	424 1.0×	48	2.5k
Martin M. Dinges United States	10	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	213 0.2×	438 0.9×	136 0.3×	11	2.4k
Hope F. Ross United States	10	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	683 0.8×	101 0.2×	504 1.2×	11	2.1k
Vladimir Pelicic France	31	1.1k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	416 0.9×	673 1.6×	59	3.8k
Guus Simons Netherlands	22	686 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	382 0.4×	215 0.5×	170 0.4×	38	3.1k

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Betley, M J, et al.. (2015). Staphylococcal Enterotoxins, Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin and Streptococcal Pyrogenic Exotoxins: A Comparative Study of Their Molecular Biology. Chemical immunology/Fortschritte der Allergielehre/Progress in allergy/Chemical immunology and allergy. 55. 1–35. 11 indexed citations

Harris, Thanawath & M J Betley. (1995). Biological activities of staphylococcal enterotoxin type A mutants with N-terminal substitutions. Infection and Immunity. 63(6). 2133–2140. 30 indexed citations

Betley, M J, et al.. (1994). Promoter analysis of the staphylococcal enterotoxin A gene.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 269(3). 1883–1888. 13 indexed citations

Betley, M J, et al.. (1994). Phage-associated differences in staphylococcal enterotoxin A gene (sea) expression correlate with sea allele class. Infection and Immunity. 62(1). 113–118. 38 indexed citations

Betley, M J & Thanawath Harris. (1994). Staphylococcal enterotoxins: genetic characterization and relationship between structure and emetic activity. Food Microbiology. 11(2). 109–121. 7 indexed citations

Tremaine, Mary, et al.. (1993). Staphylococcal enterotoxin A gene (sea) expression is not affected by the accessory gene regulator (agr). Infection and Immunity. 61(1). 356–359. 59 indexed citations

Regassa, Laura B. & M J Betley. (1993). High sodium chloride concentrations inhibit staphylococcal enterotoxin C gene (sec) expression at the level of sec mRNA. Infection and Immunity. 61(4). 1581–1585. 26 indexed citations

Harris, Thanawath, Douglas Grossman, John W. Kappler, et al.. (1993). Lack of complete correlation between emetic and T-cell-stimulatory activities of staphylococcal enterotoxins. Infection and Immunity. 61(8). 3175–3183. 102 indexed citations

Harris, Thanawath, WENDY O. HUFNAGLE, & M J Betley. (1993). Staphylococcal enterotoxin type A internal deletion mutants: serological activity and induction of T-cell proliferation. Infection and Immunity. 61(5). 2059–2068. 17 indexed citations

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Regassa, Laura B. & M J Betley. (1992). Alkaline pH decreases expression of the accessory gene regulator (agr) in Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Bacteriology. 174(15). 5095–5100. 61 indexed citations

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Regassa, Laura B., Richard P. Novick, & M J Betley. (1992). Glucose and nonmaintained pH decrease expression of the accessory gene regulator (agr) in Staphylococcus aureus. Infection and Immunity. 60(8). 3381–3388. 140 indexed citations

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Regassa, Laura B., J L Couch, & M J Betley. (1991). Steady-state staphylococcal enterotoxin type C mRNA is affected by a product of the accessory gene regulator (agr) and by glucose. Infection and Immunity. 59(3). 955–962. 73 indexed citations

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Betley, M J, Eileen B. Somers, & Bibhuti R. DasGupta. (1989). Characterization of botulinum type a neurotoxin gene: Delineation of the N-terminal encoding region. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 162(3). 1388–1395. 14 indexed citations

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Singh, Bal Ram & M J Betley. (1989). Comparative structural analysis of staphylococcal enterotoxins A and E. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 264(8). 4404–4411. 17 indexed citations

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Couch, J L & M J Betley. (1989). Nucleotide sequence of the type C3 staphylococcal enterotoxin gene suggests that intergenic recombination causes antigenic variation. Journal of Bacteriology. 171(8). 4507–4510. 39 indexed citations

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Couch, J L, et al.. (1988). Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the type E staphylococcal enterotoxin gene. Journal of Bacteriology. 170(7). 2954–2960. 125 indexed citations

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Betley, M J & John J. Mekalanos. (1988). Nucleotide sequence of the type A staphylococcal enterotoxin gene. Journal of Bacteriology. 170(1). 34–41. 161 indexed citations

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Lee, Jean C., M J Betley, C. A. Hopkins, Norma Pérez, & Gerald B. Pier. (1987). Virulence Studies, in Mice, of Transposon-Induced Mutants of Staphylococcus aureus Differing in Capsule Size. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 156(5). 741–750. 83 indexed citations

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Betley, M J, Virginia L. Miller, & John J. Mekalanos. (1986). Genetics of Bacterial Enterotoxins. Annual Review of Microbiology. 40(1). 577–605. 113 indexed citations

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Betley, M J & John J. Mekalanos. (1985). Staphylococcal Enterotoxin A Is Encoded by Phage. Science. 229(4709). 185–187. 191 indexed citations

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