Stephen E. Halford

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
126 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Stephen E. Halford is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen E. Halford has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Genetics and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Stephen E. Halford's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (63 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (50 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (30 papers). Stephen E. Halford is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (63 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (50 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (30 papers). Stephen E. Halford collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Czechia. Stephen E. Halford's co-authors include I. Barry Vipond, Mark D. Szczelkun, Geoff Baldwin, John D. Taylor, Neil P. Johnson, Darren M. Gowers, Lois M. Wentzell, Geoffrey G. Wilson, Symon G. Erskine and H. Gutfreund and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Stephen E. Halford

125 papers receiving 4.9k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen E. Halford United Kingdom	39	4.5k	1.7k	677	235	201	126	5.0k
H. Buc France	28	2.9k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	610 0.9×	330 1.4×	91 0.5×	54	3.7k
L.S. Beese United States	39	6.1k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	487 0.7×	588 2.5×	171 0.9×	73	7.1k
Robert R. Traut United States	46	5.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	530 0.8×	400 1.7×	135 0.7×	108	5.9k
Claus Urbanke Germany	36	3.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	348 0.5×	317 1.3×	90 0.4×	101	4.1k
Marc Dreyfus France	39	3.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	869 1.3×	231 1.0×	49 0.2×	83	4.5k
Kathleen S. Matthews United States	38	3.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	409 0.6×	838 3.6×	122 0.6×	161	4.5k
Gordon A. Leonard France	42	3.7k 0.8×	652 0.4×	300 0.4×	1.4k 6.1×	156 0.8×	130	5.2k
Emmanuel Margeat France	29	2.5k 0.5×	829 0.5×	353 0.5×	282 1.2×	339 1.7×	63	3.5k
Michael C. Wiener United States	33	3.5k 0.8×	823 0.5×	260 0.4×	399 1.7×	306 1.5×	67	4.3k
T.A. Steitz United States	23	4.3k 0.9×	702 0.4×	377 0.6×	626 2.7×	49 0.2×	31	5.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen E. Halford

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Smith, Rachel M., et al.. (2012). Organization of the BcgI restriction–modification protein for the transfer of one methyl group to DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(1). 405–417. 7 indexed citations

Rusling, David A., Niels Laurens, Christian Pernstich, Gijs J. L. Wuite, & Stephen E. Halford. (2012). DNA looping by FokI: the impact of synapse geometry on loop topology at varied site orientations. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(11). 4977–4987. 10 indexed citations

Pernstich, Christian & Stephen E. Halford. (2011). Illuminating the reaction pathway of the FokI restriction endonuclease by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(3). 1203–1213. 13 indexed citations

Sobott, Frank, et al.. (2010). DNA Nanomachines Investigated By Non-Denaturing Mass Spectrometry. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 9a–9a. 1 indexed citations

Bellamy, Stuart R.W., et al.. (2008). Dynamics and consequences of DNA looping by the FokI restriction endonuclease. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(6). 2073–2081. 19 indexed citations

Bellamy, Stuart R.W., et al.. (2008). Dynamics and consequences of DNA looping by the FokI restriction endonuclease. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(15). 5122–5122. 2 indexed citations

Connolly, Bernard A., et al.. (2007). Site-specific DNA transesterification catalyzed by a restriction enzyme. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(7). 2115–2120. 21 indexed citations

Gowers, Darren M., Geoffrey G. Wilson, & Stephen E. Halford. (2005). Measurement of the contributions of 1D and 3D pathways to the translocation of a protein along DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(44). 15883–15888. 196 indexed citations

Zaremba, Mindaugas, Claus Urbanke, Stephen E. Halford, & Virginijus Šikšnys. (2003). Generation of the BfiI Restriction Endonuclease from the Fusion of a DNA Recognition Domain to a Non-specific Nuclease from the Phospholipase D Superfamily. Journal of Molecular Biology. 336(1). 81–92. 35 indexed citations

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Taylor, John D., et al.. (2003). The Gel Shift Assay for the Analysis of DNA–Protein Interactions. Humana Press eBooks. 30. 263–280. 19 indexed citations

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Crowder, Michael W., John H. Bateson, Peter M. Bennett, et al.. (2002). Characterization of Monomeric L1 Metallo-β-lactamase and the Role of the N-terminal Extension in Negative Cooperativity and Antibiotic Hydrolysis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(27). 24744–24752. 33 indexed citations

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Watson, M. A., Darren M. Gowers, & Stephen E. Halford. (2000). Alternative geometries of DNA looping: an analysis using the SfiI endonuclease. Journal of Molecular Biology. 298(3). 461–475. 33 indexed citations

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Wentzell, Lois M. & Stephen E. Halford. (1998). DNA looping by the SfiI restriction endonuclease. Journal of Molecular Biology. 281(3). 433–444. 55 indexed citations

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Szczelkun, Mark D., et al.. (1998). DNA excision by the SfiI restriction endonuclease. Journal of Molecular Biology. 281(3). 419–432. 55 indexed citations

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Halford, Stephen E., Kanwaljit S. Dulai, Joseph Fitzgibbon, & David M. Hunt. (1997). Cloning and characterization of the human and mouse homologues of the Drosophila CDP-diacylglycerol synthase (eye-CDS) gene.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 38. 5278–5278. 1 indexed citations

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Vipond, I. Barry, Geoff Baldwin, & Stephen E. Halford. (1995). Divalent Metal Ions at the Active Sites of the EcoRV and EcoRI Restriction Endonucleases. Biochemistry. 34(2). 697–704. 114 indexed citations

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Roberts, Richard J. & Stephen E. Halford. (1993). 2 Type II Restriction Endonucleases. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 25. 35–88. 27 indexed citations

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Vipond, I. Barry & Stephen E. Halford. (1993). Structure–function correlation for the EcoRV restriction enzyme: from non‐specific binding to specific DNA cleavage. Molecular Microbiology. 9(2). 225–231. 30 indexed citations

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Ávila, Pilar, et al.. (1990). Site-specific recombination by mutants of Tn21 resolvase with DNA recognition functions from Tn3 resolvase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 216(3). 633–643. 11 indexed citations

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Connolly, Bernard A., et al.. (1988). The cloning, purification and characterization of theEcoRV modification methylase. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(9). 3705–3720. 32 indexed citations

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