Peter Chien

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Chien is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Chien has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Peter Chien's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (33 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (17 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (10 papers). Peter Chien is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (33 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (17 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (10 papers). Peter Chien collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Peter Chien's co-authors include Jonathan S. Weissman, Motomasa Tanaka, Nariman Naber, Roger Cooke, Angela H. DePace, Tania A. Baker, Michael T. Laub, Safwat A. Mahmoud, Lev Osherovich and Dirk Landgraf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Chien

65 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Conformational variations in an infectious protein determine prion strain differences

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Chien United States	28	2.8k	876	613	583	489	69	3.4k
R.J. Fletterick United States	16	2.9k 1.0×	223 0.3×	1.0k 1.7×	376 0.6×	933 1.9×	20	3.8k
C.M. Dunham United States	27	3.0k 1.1×	947 1.1×	101 0.2×	102 0.2×	226 0.5×	59	3.4k
Wiesław Świętnicki United States	20	1.9k 0.7×	164 0.2×	719 1.2×	217 0.4×	783 1.6×	32	2.2k
Doron Rapaport Germany	54	6.5k 2.4×	530 0.6×	116 0.2×	255 0.4×	70 0.1×	126	7.4k
Ian A. Taylor United Kingdom	37	3.8k 1.4×	551 0.6×	99 0.2×	196 0.3×	41 0.1×	105	5.5k
Rafael Giraldo Spain	26	2.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	27 0.0×	522 0.9×	103 0.2×	64	3.0k
C.E. Naylor United Kingdom	30	1.7k 0.6×	224 0.3×	52 0.1×	165 0.3×	129 0.3×	49	2.8k
Hartmut H. Niemann Germany	23	1.0k 0.4×	162 0.2×	145 0.2×	81 0.1×	83 0.2×	68	1.7k
Joachim Clos Germany	33	3.5k 1.2×	312 0.4×	46 0.1×	113 0.2×	99 0.2×	98	5.1k
Ann Hochschild United States	42	5.0k 1.8×	2.9k 3.3×	63 0.1×	115 0.2×	54 0.1×	90	5.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ogdahl, Justyne L. & Peter Chien. (2024). Allosteric modulation of the Lon protease via ssDNA binding and local charge changes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(1). 107993–107993.

Yang, Qiyuan, Pengpeng Liu, Tomer Shpilka, et al.. (2022). LONP-1 and ATFS-1 sustain deleterious heteroplasmy by promoting mtDNA replication in dysfunctional mitochondria. Nature Cell Biology. 24(2). 181–193. 59 indexed citations

Chien, Peter, et al.. (2021). Cargo competition for a dimerization interface restricts and stabilizes a bacterial protease adaptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 4 indexed citations

Ogdahl, Justyne L., et al.. (2020). c-di-GMP inhibits LonA-dependent proteolysis of TfoY in Vibrio cholerae. PLoS Genetics. 16(6). e1008897–e1008897. 19 indexed citations

Álvarez, Laura, Gaël Panis, Rilee Zeinert, et al.. (2020). The conserved transcriptional regulator CdnL is required for metabolic homeostasis and morphogenesis in Caulobacter. PLoS Genetics. 16(1). e1008591–e1008591. 14 indexed citations

Zeinert, Rilee, Hamid Baniasadi, Benjamin P. Tu, & Peter Chien. (2020). The Lon Protease Links Nucleotide Metabolism with Proteotoxic Stress. Molecular Cell. 79(5). 758–767.e6. 18 indexed citations

Lariviere, Patrick J., Matthew Howell, Rilee Zeinert, et al.. (2019). An Essential Regulator of Bacterial Division Links FtsZ to Cell Wall Synthase Activation. Current Biology. 29(9). 1460–1470.e4. 23 indexed citations

Chien, Peter, et al.. (2018). Polar Localization Hub Protein PopZ Restrains Adaptor-Dependent ClpXP Proteolysis in Caulobacter crescentus. Journal of Bacteriology. 200(20). 13 indexed citations

Chien, Peter, et al.. (2017). Cargo engagement protects protease adaptors from degradation in a substrate-specific manner. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(26). 10973–10982. 4 indexed citations

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Chien, Peter, et al.. (2017). Selective adaptor dependent protein degradation in bacteria. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 36. 118–127. 36 indexed citations

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Glynn, Steven E. & Peter Chien. (2016). Sending protein aggregates into a downward spiral. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(9). 769–770. 2 indexed citations

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Lau, Joanne, et al.. (2015). A Phosphosignaling Adaptor Primes the AAA+ Protease ClpXP to Drive Cell Cycle-Regulated Proteolysis. Molecular Cell. 59(1). 104–116. 40 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen C., et al.. (2014). Cell cycle-dependent adaptor complex for ClpXP-mediated proteolysis directly integrates phosphorylation and second messenger signals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(39). 14229–14234. 45 indexed citations

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Chien, Peter & Lila M. Gierasch. (2014). Challenges and dreams: physics of weak interactions essential to life. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(22). 3474–3477. 41 indexed citations

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Clark, Nathaniel E., et al.. (2012). Adaptor-Dependent Degradation of a Cell-Cycle Regulator Uses a Unique Substrate Architecture. Structure. 20(7). 1223–1232. 20 indexed citations

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Chien, Peter, et al.. (2009). Versatile modes of peptide recognition by the ClpX N domain mediate alternative adaptor‐binding specificities in different bacterial species. Protein Science. 19(2). 242–254. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Hualin, Peter Chien, Michael Tuen, et al.. (2008). Identification of an N-Linked Glycosylation in the C4 Region of HIV-1 Envelope gp120 That Is Critical for Recognition of Neighboring CD4 T Cell Epitopes. The Journal of Immunology. 180(6). 4011–4021. 36 indexed citations

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Chien, Peter, Robert A. Grant, Robert T. Sauer, & Tania A. Baker. (2007). Structure and Substrate Specificity of an SspB Ortholog: Design Implications for AAA+ Adaptors. Structure. 15(10). 1296–1305. 17 indexed citations

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Tuen, Michael, Maria Luisa Visciano, Peter Chien, et al.. (2005). Characterization of antibodies that inhibit HIV gp120 antigen processing and presentation. European Journal of Immunology. 35(9). 2541–2551. 24 indexed citations

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Chien, Peter, Sandra Cohen, Cynthia A. Kleeberger, et al.. (2002). High Levels of Antibodies to the CD4 Binding Domain of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Glycoprotein 120 Are Associated with Faster Disease Progression. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 186(2). 205–213. 13 indexed citations

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