Neil P. King

16.0k citations

71 papers · 5.2k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Infectious Diseases top 0.5%
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Structural Biology top 2%

Papers in

Structural Biology 3
Ecology 25
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 23

Co-authors: Todd O. Yeates David Baker William Sheffler Tamir Gonen Daniel Ellis Jesse D. Bloom Katharine H. D. Crawford Adam S. Dingens
Journals: Nature (6 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (6 papers)Nature Communications (5 papers)Science (4 papers)Cell Reports (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Neil P. King

68 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Top-down design of protein architectures with reinforcement learning 2023 · 76 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Science
2020 Cell
2020 Viruses
2017 Nature
2016 Nature
2016 Science
2014 Nature
2012 Science

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1	RSV F evolution escapes some monoclonal antibodies but does not strongly erode neutralization by human polyclonal sera Journal of Virology ·Cassandra A. Simonich, Teagan E. McMahon, Xiaohui Ju, Timothy C. Yu, Natalie Brunette, Terry Stevens‐Ayers, Michael Boeckh, Neil P. King, Alexander L. Greninger, Jesse D. Bloom	2025	1
2	From sequence to scaffold: Computational design of protein nanoparticle vaccines from AlphaFold2-predicted building blocks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cyrus M. Haas, Naveen Jasti, Annie Dosey, Joel D. Allen, Rebecca A. Gillespie, Jackson McGowan, Elizabeth M. Leaf, Max Crispin, Cole A. DeForest, Masaru Kanekiyo, Neil P. King	2025	0
3	De novo design of protein minibinder agonists of TLR3 Nature Communications ·Chloe S. Adams, Hyojin Kim, Abigail E. Burtner, Dong Sun Lee, Craig L. Dobbins, Cameron Criswell, Brian Coventry, Adri Tran-Pearson, Ho Min Kim, Neil P. King	2025	10
4	Rapid and automated design of two-component protein nanomaterials using ProteinMPNN Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Robbert J. de Haas, Natalie Brunette, Alex Goodson, Justas Dauparas, Sue Y. Yi, Erin C. Yang, Quinton M. Dowling, Hannah Nguyen, Alex Kang, Asim K. Bera, Banumathi Sankaran, Renko de Vries, David Baker, Neil P. King	2024	16
5	Combinatorial immune refocusing within the influenza hemagglutinin RBD improves cross-neutralizing antibody responses Cell Reports ·Annie Dosey, Daniel Ellis, Seyhan Boyoglu-Barnum, Hubza Syeda, Mason Saunders, Michael Watson, John C. Kraft, Minh N. Pham, Miklós Guttman, Kelly K. Lee, Masaru Kanekiyo, Neil P. King	2023	5
6	Fast and versatile sequence-independent protein docking for nanomaterials design using RPXDock PLoS Computational Biology ·William Sheffler, Erin C. Yang, Quinton M. Dowling, Yang Hsia, Chelsea N. Fries, Jenna Stanislaw, Mark Langowski, Marisa Brandys, Zhe Li, Rebecca Skotheim, Andrew J. Borst, Alena Khmelinskaia, Neil P. King, David Baker	2023	16
7	Computational design of constitutively active cGAS Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Quinton M. Dowling, Hannah E. Volkman, Elizabeth Gray, Sergey Ovchinnikov, Stephanie Cambier, Asim K. Bera, Banumathi Sankaran, Max Johnson, Matthew J. Bick, Alex Kang, Daniel B. Stetson, Neil P. King	2023	11
8	Top-down design of protein architectures with reinforcement learning Science ·Isaac D. Lutz, Shunzhi Wang, Christoffer Norn, Alexis Courbet, Andrew J. Borst, Yan Ting Zhao, Annie Dosey, Longxing Cao, Jinwei Xu, Elizabeth M. Leaf, Catherine Treichel, Patrisia Litvicov, Zhe Li, Alexander D. Goodson, Paula Rivera-Sánchez, Ana-Maria Bratovianu, Minkyung Baek, Neil P. King, Hannele Ruohola‐Baker, David Baker Hit paper breakdown →	2023	76
9	De novo designed ice-binding proteins from twist-constrained helices Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Robbert J. de Haas, Roderick P. Tas, Daniëlle van den Broek, Chuanbao Zheng, Hannah Nguyen, Alex Kang, Asim K. Bera, Neil P. King, Ilja K. Voets, Renko de Vries	2023	4
10	Mannose-binding lectin and complement mediate follicular localization and enhanced immunogenicity of diverse protein nanoparticle immunogens Cell Reports ·Benjamin J. Read, Lori Won, John C. Kraft, Isaac Sappington, Aereas Aung, Shengwei Wu, Julia Bals, Chengbo Chen, Kelly K. Lee, Daniel Lingwood, Neil P. King, Darrell J. Irvine	2022	34
11	IgM antibodies derived from memory B cells are potent cross-variant neutralizers of SARS-CoV-2 The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Malika Hale, Jason Netland, Yu Chen, Christopher D. Thouvenel, Katherine Nabel Smith, Lucille M. Rich, Elizabeth R. Vanderwall, Marcos C. Miranda, Julie Eggenberger, Linhui Hao, Michael J. Watson, Charles C. Mundorff, Lauren B. Rodda, Neil P. King, Miklós Guttman, Michael Gale, Jonathan Abraham, Jason S. Debley, Marion Pepper, David J. Rawlings	2022	24
12	Epitope-focused immunogen design based on the ebolavirus glycoprotein HR2-MPER region PLoS Pathogens ·Clara T. Schoeder, Pavlo Gilchuk, Amandeep K. Sangha, Kaitlyn V. Ledwitch, Delphine C. Malherbe, Xuan Zhang, Elad Binshtein, Lauren E. Williamson, Cristina E. Martina, Jinhui Dong, Erica Armstrong, Rachel E. Sutton, Rachel S. Nargi, Jessica Rodríguez, Natalia A. Kuzmina, Brooke Fiala, Neil P. King, Alexander Bukreyev, James E. Crowe, Jens Meiler	2022	8
13	Multimeric antibodies from antigen-specific human IgM+ memory B cells restrict Plasmodium parasites The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Christopher D. Thouvenel, Mary F. Fontana, Jason Netland, Akshay T. Krishnamurty, Kennidy K. Takehara, Yu Chen, Suruchi Singh, Kazutoyo Miura, Gladys J. Keitany, Eric M. Lynch, Sílvia Portugal, Marcos C. Miranda, Neil P. King, Justin M. Kollman, Peter D. Crompton, Carole A. Long, Marie Pancera, David J. Rawlings, Marion Pepper	2021	20
14	Qualification of ELISA and neutralization methodologies to measure SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity using human clinical samples Journal of Immunological Methods ·Sasha E. Larsen, Bryan J. Berube, Tiffany Pecor, Evan Cross, Bryan P. Brown, Brittany D. Williams, Emma C. Johnson, Pingping Qu, Lauren Carter, Samuel Wrenn, Elizabeth Kepl, Claire Sydeman, Neil P. King, Susan L. Baldwin, Rhea N. Coler	2021	16
15	Dynamics of Neutralizing Antibody Titers in the Months After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Katharine H. D. Crawford, Adam S. Dingens, Rachel Eguia, Caitlin R. Wolf, Naomi Wilcox, Jennifer K. Logue, Kiel Shuey, Amanda M. Casto, Brooke Fiala, Samuel Wrenn, Deleah Pettie, Neil P. King, Alexander L. Greninger, Helen Y. Chu, Jesse D. Bloom	2020	152
16	Serological identification of SARS-CoV-2 infections among children visiting a hospital during the initial Seattle outbreak Nature Communications ·Adam S. Dingens, Katharine H. D. Crawford, Amanda Adler, Sarah Steele, Karine Lacombe, Rachel Eguia, Fatima Amanat, Alexandra C. Walls, Caitlin R. Wolf, Michael Murphy, Deleah Pettie, Lauren Carter, Xuan Qin, Neil P. King, David Veesler, Florian Krammer, Jane A. Dickerson, Helen Y. Chu, Janet A. Englund, Jesse D. Bloom	2020	44
17	Multimerization of an Alcohol Dehydrogenase by Fusion to a Designed Self-Assembling Protein Results in Enhanced Bioelectrocatalytic Operational Stability ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Beyza Bulutoglu, Florika C. Macazo, Jacob B. Bale, Neil P. King, David Baker, Shelley D. Minteer, Scott Banta	2019	9
18	Confirmation of intersubunit connectivity and topology of designed protein complexes by native MS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Aniruddha Sahasrabuddhe, Yang Hsia, Florian Büsch, William Sheffler, Neil P. King, David Baker, Vicki H. Wysocki	2018	49
19	Computational Design of Self-Assembling Protein Nanomaterials with Atomic Level Accuracy Science ·Neil P. King, William Sheffler, M.R. Sawaya, Breanna S. Vollmar, John P. Sumida, Ingemar André, Tamir Gonen, Todd O. Yeates, David Baker Hit paper breakdown →	2012	522
20	Structure and folding of a designed knotted protein Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Neil P. King, Alex W. Jacobitz, M.R. Sawaya, Lukasz Goldschmidt, Todd O. Yeates	2010	113

About Neil P. King

Neil P. King is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Ecology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Molecular Biology, having authored 71 papers that have together received 5.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (23 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (11 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (10 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (6 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (5 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Infectious Diseases (1.8k citations), Structural Biology (82 citations), Biomaterials (603 citations), Molecular Biology (3.0k citations) and Ecology (1.1k citations). Neil P. King has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Todd O. Yeates, David Baker, William Sheffler, Tamir Gonen, Daniel Ellis, Jesse D. Bloom, Katharine H. D. Crawford, Adam S. Dingens, Jacob B. Bale and David Veesler. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications, Science and Cell Reports.

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