Paul Langan

17.1k citations

160 papers · 13.9k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Biomaterials top 0.05%
- Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
Biomedical Engineering top 0.1%
- Lignin and Wood Chemistry
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Catalysis for Biomass Conversion

Papers in

Biomaterials 49
- Advanced Cellulose Research Studies 46
Radiation 19
- Nuclear Physics and Applications 18

Co-authors: Yoshiharu Nishiyama Henri Chanzy H. Chanzy Junji Sugiyama Brian H. Davison Arthur J. Ragauskas Charles E. Wyman J. N. Saddler
Journals: Physica B Condensed Matter (11 papers)Cellulose (11 papers)Journal of Applied Crystallography (8 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)Biomacromolecules (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States France United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Paul Langan

157 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Structural plasticity of SARS-CoV-2 3CL Mpro active site cavity revealed by room temperature X-ray crystallography 2020 · 338 citations

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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.

2020 Nature Communications
2014 Science
2003 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2002 Journal of the American Chemical Society

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1	Untangling the threads of cellulose mercerization Nature Communications ·Daisuke Sawada, Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Riddhi Shah, V. Trevor Forsyth, Estelle Mossou, Hugh O’Neill, Masahisa Wada, Paul Langan	2022	39
2	Capturing the Catalytic Proton of Dihydrofolate Reductase: Implications for General Acid–Base Catalysis ACS Catalysis ·Qun Wan, B. Bennett, Troy Wymore, Zhihong Li, Mark A. Wilson, Charles L. Brooks, Paul Langan, Andrey Kovalevsky, Chris Dealwis	2021	9
3	Structural plasticity of SARS-CoV-2 3CL Mpro active site cavity revealed by room temperature X-ray crystallography Nature Communications ·Daniel W. Kneller, G.N. Phillips, Hugh O’Neill, R. Jedrzejczak, Lucy Stols, Paul Langan, A. Joachimiak, Leighton Coates, Andrey Kovalevsky Hit paper breakdown →	2020	338
4	BraggNet: integrating Bragg peaks using neural networks Journal of Applied Crystallography ·Brendan Sullivan, Richard Archibald, Jahaun Azadmanesh, Venu Gopal Vandavasi, Patricia S. Langan, Leighton Coates, V. E. Lynch, Paul Langan	2019	29
5	Evaluation of models determined by neutron diffraction and proposed improvements to their validation and deposition Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Dorothée Liebschner, Pavel V. Afonine, Nigel W. Moriarty, Paul Langan, Paul D. Adams	2018	15
6	Improving the accuracy and resolution of neutron crystallographic data by three-dimensional profile fitting of Bragg peaks in reciprocal space Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Brendan Sullivan, Richard Archibald, Patricia S. Langan, Holger Dobbek, Martin Bommer, Robert L. McFeeters, Leighton Coates, Xiaoping Wang, Franz X. Gallmeier, J.M. Carpenter, V. E. Lynch, Paul Langan	2018	29
7	In Vivo Protein Dynamics on the Nanometer Length Scale and Nanosecond Time Scale The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Divina Anunciado, Vyncent P. Nyugen, Gregory B. Hurst, Mitchel J. Doktycz, Volker S. Urban, Paul Langan, Eugene Mamontov, Hugh O’Neill	2017	29
8	Neutron Scattering for Biological Research: Progress at the Bio-SANS Beam Line TechConnect Briefs ·Paul Langan, Hugh O’Neill, Sai Venkatesh Pingali, Shuo Qian, Volker S. Urban, Kevin L. Weiss	2016	1
9	The Macromolecular Neutron Diffractometer MaNDi at the Spallation Neutron Source Journal of Applied Crystallography ·Leighton Coates, M.J. Cuneo, Matthew Frost, Junhong He, Kevin L. Weiss, Stephen J. Tomanicek, Hana McFeeters, Venu Gopal Vandavasi, Paul Langan, Erik B. Iverson	2015	57
10	A Structural Study of CESA1 Catalytic Domain of Arabidopsis Cellulose Synthesis Complex: Evidence for CESA Trimers PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Venu Gopal Vandavasi, Daniel K. Putnam, Qiu Zhang, Loukas Petridis, William T. Heller, B. Tracy Nixon, Candace H. Haigler, Udaya C. Kalluri, Leighton Coates, Paul Langan, Jeremy C. Smith, Jens Meiler, Hugh O’Neill	2015	88
11	Hydrolysis of DFP and the Nerve Agent (S)-Sarin by DFPase Proceeds along Two Different Reaction Pathways: Implications for Engineering Bioscavengers The Journal of Physical Chemistry ·Troy Wymore, Martin J. Field, Paul Langan, Jeremy C. Smith, Jerry M. Parks	2014	1
12	X-ray crystallographic studies of family 11 xylanase Michaelis and product complexes: implications for the catalytic mechanism Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·Qun Wan, Qiu Zhang, Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm, Kevin L. Weiss, Marat Mustyakimov, Leighton Coates, Paul Langan, David E. Graham, Andrey Kovalevsky	2013	43
13	Neutron Technologies for Bioenergy Research Industrial Biotechnology ·Paul Langan, Barbara R. Evans, Marcus Foston, William T. Heller, Hugh O’Neill, Loukas Petridis, Sai Venkatesh Pingali, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Jeremy C. Smith, Volker S. Urban, Brian H. Davison	2012	18
14	New Insights into Hydrogen Bonding and Stacking Interactions in Cellulose The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Paul Langan	2011	3
15	High-resolution neutron crystallographic studies of the hydration of the coenzyme cob(II)alamin Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·G. Jogl, Xiaoping Wang, Sax A. Mason, Andrey Kovalevsky, Marat Mustyakimov, S. Zoë Fisher, Christina Hoffman, Christoph Kratky, Paul Langan	2011	28
16	A joint x-ray and neutron study on amicyanin reveals the role of protein dynamics in electron transfer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·N. Sukumar, F. Scott Mathews, Paul Langan, Victor L. Davidson	2010	29
17	Joint X-ray and neutron refinement withphenix.refine Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·Pavel V. Afonine, Marat Mustyakimov, Ralf W. Grosse‐Kunstleve, Nigel W. Moriarty, Paul Langan, Paul D. Adams	2010	231
18	Direct Determination of Protonation States of Histidine Residues in a 2 Å Neutron Structure of Deoxy-Human Normal Adult Hemoglobin and Implications for the Bohr Effect Journal of Molecular Biology ·Andrey Kovalevsky, Toshiyuki Chatake, Naoya Shibayama, Sam‐Yong Park, Takuya Ishikawa, Marat Mustyakimov, S. Zoë Fisher, Paul Langan, Y. Morimoto	2010	29
19	Macromolecular neutron crystallography at the Protein Crystallography Station (PCS) Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·Andrey Kovalevsky, S. Zoë Fisher, Hannah Johnson, Marat Mustyakimov, Mary Jo Waltman, Paul Langan	2010	10
20	The structure of celluloses Powder Diffraction ·Masahisa Wada, Yoshiharu Nishiyama, H. Chanzy, V. Trevor Forsyth, Paul Langan	2008	40

About Paul Langan

Paul Langan is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Radiation, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology, having authored 160 papers that have together received 13.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Enzyme Structure and Function (63 papers), Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (46 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (34 papers), Lignin and Wood Chemistry (34 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (32 papers), Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (19 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (18 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biomaterials (6.0k citations), Biomedical Engineering (7.4k citations), Biotechnology (1.1k citations), Plant Science (2.9k citations) and Polymers and Plastics (963 citations). Paul Langan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Henri Chanzy, H. Chanzy, Junji Sugiyama, Brian H. Davison, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Charles E. Wyman, J. N. Saddler, Gregg T. Beckham and Richard A. Dixon. Their work appears in journals such as Physica B Condensed Matter, Cellulose, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Biomacromolecules.

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