Richard Wolfenden

15.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
189 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Richard Wolfenden is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Wolfenden has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Organic Chemistry and 29 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Richard Wolfenden's work include Biochemical and Molecular Research (53 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (27 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (23 papers). Richard Wolfenden is often cited by papers focused on Biochemical and Molecular Research (53 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (27 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (23 papers). Richard Wolfenden collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. Richard Wolfenden's co-authors include Anna Radzicka, Mark J. Snider, Steven A. Short, Paul M. Cullis, Charles A. Lewis, Brian G. Miller, Christopher Southgate, Charles W. Carter, Linda Andersson and George D. Rose and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard Wolfenden

189 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

Affinities of amino acid side chains for solvent water 1969 2026 1988 2007 1981 2001 1995 1988 1972 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Affinities of amino acid side chains for solvent water
    1981 739 citations Richard Wolfenden et al. Biochemistry profile →
  2. The Depth of Chemical Time and the Power of Enzymes as Catalysts
    2001 737 citations Richard Wolfenden, Mark J. Snider profile →
  3. A Proficient Enzyme
    1995 714 citations Anna Radzicka, Richard Wolfenden profile →
  4. Comparing the polarities of the amino acids: side-chain distribution coefficients between the vapor phase, cyclohexane, 1-octanol, and neutral aqueous solution
    1988 498 citations Anna Radzicka, Richard Wolfenden Biochemistry profile →
  5. Analog approaches to the structure of the transition state in enzyme reactions
    1972 488 citations Richard Wolfenden profile →
  6. Transition State Analogues for Enzyme Catalysis
    1969 304 citations Richard Wolfenden profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Wolfenden United States 55 9.4k 2.6k 2.2k 973 937 189 12.5k
W. W. Cleland United States 55 8.7k 0.9× 2.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 829 0.9× 1.5k 1.6× 191 14.7k
L. Mario Amzel United States 70 9.7k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 1.5× 458 0.5× 246 14.7k
Georg E. Schulz Germany 77 15.3k 1.6× 4.4k 1.7× 1.5k 0.7× 1.3k 1.3× 1.0k 1.1× 242 20.9k
Dagmar Ringe United States 69 10.5k 1.1× 4.7k 1.8× 1.2k 0.6× 953 1.0× 965 1.0× 230 16.2k
Jeremy R. Knowles United States 65 9.8k 1.0× 3.1k 1.2× 2.6k 1.2× 553 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 229 14.5k
Florante A. Quiocho United States 72 13.6k 1.5× 4.8k 1.8× 1.6k 0.7× 2.4k 2.4× 2.1k 2.2× 205 19.1k
Johan Åqvist Sweden 57 9.5k 1.0× 2.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 724 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 204 13.4k
Zbigniew Dauter United States 62 9.9k 1.1× 3.8k 1.4× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 667 0.7× 352 15.4k
David Shugar Poland 48 7.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.4× 2.4k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 507 0.5× 436 11.6k
M. Sundaralingam United States 56 9.4k 1.0× 2.1k 0.8× 2.9k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 1.4k 1.5× 306 12.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Potempa, Marc, Sook-Kyung Lee, Richard Wolfenden, & Ronald Swanstrom. (2015). The Triple Threat of HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 389. 203–241. 9 indexed citations
2.
Carter, Charles W. & Richard Wolfenden. (2015). tRNA acceptor-stem and anticodon bases embed separate features of amino acid chemistry. RNA Biology. 13(2). 145–151. 27 indexed citations
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Wolfenden, Richard. (2014). Massive Thermal Acceleration of the Emergence of Primordial Chemistry, the Incidence of Spontaneous Mutation, and the Evolution of Enzymes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(44). 30198–30204. 19 indexed citations
4.
Zhou, X. Edward, Tsui‐Fen Chou, Brandon E. Aubol, et al.. (2013). Kinetic Mechanism of Human Histidine Triad Nucleotide Binding Protein 1. Biochemistry. 52(20). 3588–3600. 32 indexed citations
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Stockbridge, Randy B, Charles A. Lewis, Yang Yuan, & Richard Wolfenden. (2010). Impact of temperature on the time required for the establishment of primordial biochemistry, and for the evolution of enzymes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(51). 22102–22105. 45 indexed citations
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Lewis, Charles A. & Richard Wolfenden. (2008). Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylation as a benchmark for the catalytic proficiency of enzymes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(45). 17328–17333. 31 indexed citations
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Callahan, Brian P., Joseph V. Lomino, & Richard Wolfenden. (2006). Nanomolar inhibition of the enterobactin biosynthesis enzyme, EntE: Synthesis, substituent effects, and additivity. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 16(14). 3802–3805. 16 indexed citations
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Sievers, Annette, Malte Beringer, Marina V. Rodnina, & Richard Wolfenden. (2004). The ribosome as an entropy trap. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(21). 7897–7901. 271 indexed citations
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Sievers, Annette & Richard Wolfenden. (2004). The effective molarity of the substrate phosphoryl group in the transition state for yeast OMP decarboxylase. Bioorganic Chemistry. 33(1). 45–52. 27 indexed citations
10.
Williams, Nicholas H., et al.. (2003). The rate of hydrolysis of phosphomonoester dianions and the exceptional catalytic proficiencies of protein and inositol phosphatases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(10). 5607–5610. 216 indexed citations
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Miller, Brian G., Mark J. Snider, Richard Wolfenden, & Steven A. Short. (2001). Dissecting a Charged Network at the Active Site of Orotidine-5′-phosphate Decarboxylase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(18). 15174–15176. 45 indexed citations
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Miller, Brian G., Jeffrey A. Smiley, Steven A. Short, & Richard Wolfenden. (1999). Activity of Yeast Orotidine-5′-phosphate Decarboxylase in the Absence of Metals. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(34). 23841–23843. 22 indexed citations
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Pedersen, Lee G., et al.. (1998). Hydrophobicities of the nucleic acid bases: distribution coefficients from water to cyclohexane 1 1Edited by I. Tinoco. Journal of Molecular Biology. 280(3). 421–430. 76 indexed citations
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Radzicka, Anna & Richard Wolfenden. (1995). [11] Transition state and multisubstrate analog inhibitors. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 249. 284–312. 66 indexed citations
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Rose, George D. & Richard Wolfenden. (1993). Hydrogen Bonding, Hydrophobicity, Packing, and Protein Folding. Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure. 22(1). 381–415. 291 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles C., et al.. (1992). Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli cytidine deaminase (ccd) gene. Biochemistry. 31(17). 4168–4174. 46 indexed citations
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Radzicka, Anna & Richard Wolfenden. (1991). Analogs of intermediates in the action of pig kidney prolidase. Biochemistry. 30(17). 4160–4164. 14 indexed citations
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Frick, Lloyd, Charles C. Yang, Víctor E. Márquez, & Richard Wolfenden. (1989). Binding of pyrimidin-2-one ribonucleoside by cytidine deaminase as the transition-state analog 3,4-dihydrouridine and contribution of the 4-hydroxyl group to its binding affinity. Biochemistry. 28(24). 9423–9430. 70 indexed citations
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Kirkman, Henry N., et al.. (1988). Equilibrium of 5,6-hydration of NADH and mechanism of ATP-dependent dehydration. Biochemistry. 27(19). 7371–7375. 36 indexed citations
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Wolfenden, Richard, et al.. (1981). Inhibitors of ether lipid biosynthesis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 101(3). 1064–1070. 1 indexed citations

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