Steve W. Lockless

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Steve W. Lockless is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve W. Lockless has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Steve W. Lockless's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (7 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (7 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Steve W. Lockless is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (7 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (7 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Steve W. Lockless collaborates with scholars based in United States and Italy. Steve W. Lockless's co-authors include Rama Ranganathan, Mark A. Wall, Gürol M. Süel, David C. Gadsby, Angus C. Nairn, Paola Vergani, Ming Zhou, Roderick MacKinnon, Michael Socolich and Kevin H. Gardner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Steve W. Lockless

26 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Evolutionarily Conserved Pathways of Energetic Connectivity in Protein Families

1999 1.1k citations Steve W. Lockless, Rama Ranganathan profile →
Evolutionarily conserved networks of residues mediate allosteric communication in proteins

2002 684 citations Gürol M. Süel, Steve W. Lockless et al. Nature Structural Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steve W. Lockless United States	20	2.8k	428	361	303	251	26	3.3k
John S. Sack United States	27	2.2k 0.8×	592 1.4×	503 1.4×	206 0.7×	291 1.2×	53	3.5k
Elena Papaleo Denmark	36	3.5k 1.3×	718 1.7×	266 0.7×	178 0.6×	188 0.7×	134	4.5k
Nathalie Reuter Norway	34	2.1k 0.8×	558 1.3×	167 0.5×	186 0.6×	155 0.6×	94	3.3k
Christie G. Brouillette United States	29	2.6k 0.9×	210 0.5×	200 0.6×	211 0.7×	443 1.8×	57	3.7k
Leo S. D. Caves United Kingdom	17	2.1k 0.8×	476 1.1×	199 0.6×	128 0.4×	79 0.3×	45	2.9k
Gary S. Shaw Canada	41	4.2k 1.5×	279 0.7×	351 1.0×	386 1.3×	156 0.6×	153	5.5k
Xiao Zhu United States	5	2.9k 1.1×	635 1.5×	204 0.6×	326 1.1×	51 0.2×	5	4.0k
Alexander Shekhtman United States	37	3.1k 1.1×	301 0.7×	321 0.9×	142 0.5×	78 0.3×	133	4.6k
Christina Kiel Spain	26	2.6k 0.9×	264 0.6×	194 0.5×	203 0.7×	96 0.4×	60	3.4k
Yi Liang China	38	2.6k 0.9×	431 1.0×	482 1.3×	134 0.4×	51 0.2×	122	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve W. Lockless

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Qiu, Chenxi, et al.. (2024). Higher-order epistasis within Pol II trigger loop haplotypes. Genetics. 1 indexed citations

Geng, Mengxin, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and characterization of semisynthetic analogs of the antifungal occidiofungin. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1056453–1056453. 3 indexed citations

Lockless, Steve W., et al.. (2022). Indole modulates cooperative protein–protein interactions in the flagellar motor. PNAS Nexus. 1(2). 6 indexed citations

Lockless, Steve W., et al.. (2020). Unappreciated Roles for K+ Channels in Bacterial Physiology. Trends in Microbiology. 29(10). 942–950. 23 indexed citations

Pan, Yaping, Liya Hu, Mingqiang Rong, et al.. (2020). TrkA undergoes a tetramer-to-dimer conversion to open TrkH which enables changes in membrane potential. Nature Communications. 11(1). 547–547. 30 indexed citations

Siegele, Deborah A., et al.. (2020). Use of a Fluorescence-Based Assay To Measure Escherichia coli Membrane Potential Changes in High Throughput. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 64(9). 41 indexed citations

Srivastava, Atul, et al.. (2018). High affinity interactions of Pb ²⁺ with synaptotagmin I. Metallomics. 10(9). 1211–1222. 5 indexed citations

Geng, Mengxin, Kenneth G. Hull, Jing Li, et al.. (2018). A Novel Actin Binding Drug withIn VivoEfficacy. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 63(1). 27 indexed citations

Liu, Shian & Steve W. Lockless. (2017). Ion Binding to Transport Proteins using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry. Methods in molecular biology. 1684. 289–303. 2 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Ritu, Steve W. Lockless, & Joseph A. Sorg. (2017). A Clostridium difficile alanine racemase affects spore germination and accommodates serine as a substrate. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(25). 10735–10742. 33 indexed citations

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Irigoyen, Sonia, et al.. (2015). Live Imaging of Inorganic Phosphate in Plants with Cellular and Subcellular Resolution . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 167(3). 628–638. 58 indexed citations

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Huang, Hua, E.J. Levin, Shian Liu, et al.. (2014). Structure of a Membrane-Embedded Prenyltransferase Homologous to UBIAD1. PLoS Biology. 12(7). e1001911–e1001911. 90 indexed citations

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Liu, Shian & Steve W. Lockless. (2013). Equilibrium selectivity alone does not create K+-selective ion conduction in K+ channels. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2746–2746. 30 indexed citations

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Lockless, Steve W. & Tom W. Muir. (2009). Traceless protein splicing utilizing evolved split inteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(27). 10999–11004. 92 indexed citations

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Lockless, Steve W., Ming Zhou, & Roderick MacKinnon. (2007). Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Selective Ion Binding in a K+ Channel. PLoS Biology. 5(5). e121–e121. 193 indexed citations

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Socolich, Michael, Steve W. Lockless, William P. Russ, et al.. (2005). Evolutionary information for specifying a protein fold. Nature. 437(7058). 512–518. 323 indexed citations

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Vergani, Paola, Steve W. Lockless, Angus C. Nairn, & David C. Gadsby. (2005). CFTR channel opening by ATP-driven tight dimerization of its nucleotide-binding domains. Nature. 433(7028). 876–880. 341 indexed citations

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Hatley, Mark E., Steve W. Lockless, Scott K. Gibson, Alfred G. Gilman, & Rama Ranganathan. (2003). Allosteric determinants in guanine nucleotide-binding proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(24). 14445–14450. 111 indexed citations

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Süel, Gürol M., Steve W. Lockless, Mark A. Wall, & Rama Ranganathan. (2002). Evolutionarily conserved networks of residues mediate allosteric communication in proteins. Nature Structural Biology. 10(1). 59–69. 684 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lockless, Steve W., Hui‐Teng Cheng, A.E. Hodel, Florante A. Quiocho, & Paul D. Gershon. (1998). Recognition of Capped RNA Substrates by VP39, the Vaccinia Virus-Encoded mRNA Cap-Specific 2‘-O-Methyltransferase. Biochemistry. 37(23). 8564–8574. 45 indexed citations

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