Thomas Leroy James

14.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
250 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Leroy James is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Leroy James has authored 250 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Molecular Biology, 63 papers in Spectroscopy and 48 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Thomas Leroy James's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (61 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (51 papers). Thomas Leroy James is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (61 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (51 papers). Thomas Leroy James collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. Thomas Leroy James's co-authors include Norman J. Oppenheimer, Joe W. Keepers, Brandan A. Borgias, Stanley B. Prusiner, Fred E. Cohen, Nikolai B. Ulyanov, Uli Schmitz, Zhihua Du, Gerald Zon and Moriz Mayer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Leroy James

248 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Structure and mechanism

1989 710 citations Norman J. Oppenheimer, Thomas Leroy James Academic Press eBooks profile →
DOCK 6: Combining techniques to model RNA–small molecule complexes

2009 603 citations Thomas Leroy James et al. RNA profile →
Structure of the recombinant full-length hamster prion protein PrP(29–231): The N terminus is highly flexible

1997 568 citations Thomas Leroy James, Stanley B. Prusiner et al. profile →
Evidence for protein X binding to a discontinuous epitope on the cellular prion protein during scrapie prion propagation

1997 426 citations Kiyotoshi Kaneko, Thomas Leroy James et al. profile →
Solution structure of a 142-residue recombinant prion protein corresponding to the infectious fragment of the scrapie isoform

1997 382 citations Thomas Leroy James, Nikolai B. Ulyanov et al. profile →
A conformational transition at the N terminus of the prion protein features in formation of the scrapie isoform 1 1Edited by M. Yaniv

1997 298 citations Thomas Leroy James, Stanley B. Prusiner et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	UK-ORWG1 Aston 2019 2018 ·OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) ·(unknown), Chris Chambers, (unknown), (unknown), Kirstie Whitaker, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Leroy James, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Daniel Griffiths-King, Samantha Gregory, (unknown), (unknown), Marcus R. Munafò, (unknown)	0
2	X-ray crystallographic and NMR studies of protein–protein and protein–nucleic acid interactions involving the KH domains from human poly(C)-binding protein-2 2007 ·RNA ·Zhihua Du, John K. Lee, (unknown), Richard Tjhen, Robert M. Stroud, Thomas Leroy James	49
3	Solution Structure of a Consensus Stem-Loop D RNA Domain that Plays Important Roles in Regulating Translation and Replication in Enteroviruses and Rhinoviruses ^, 2004 ·Biochemistry ·Zhihua Du, Jinghua Yu, Nikolai B. Ulyanov, Raul Andino, Thomas Leroy James	42
4	Using 31P NMR Spectroscopy at 14.1 Tesla to Investigate PARP-1 Associated Energy Failure and Metabolic Rescue in Cerebrocortical Slices 2004 ·Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes ·Jianying Zeng, Kiyoshi Hirai, Guo‐Yuan Yang, Weihai Ying, Raymond A. Swanson, Mark J. S. Kelly, Moriz Mayer, Thomas Leroy James, Lawrence Litt	6
5	Structure of TAR RNA Complexed with a Tat-TAR Interaction Nanomolar Inhibitor that Was Identified by Computational Screening 2002 ·Chemistry & Biology ·Zhihua Du, Kenneth Lind, Thomas Leroy James	82
6	Structure-Based Computational Database Screening, In Vitro Assay, and NMR Assessment of Compounds that Target TAR RNA 2002 ·Chemistry & Biology ·Kenneth Lind, Zhihua Du, Koh Fujinaga, B. Matija Peterlin, Thomas Leroy James	117
7	Nuclear magnetic resonance of biological macromolecules 2001 ·Academic Press eBooks ·Thomas Leroy James, Volker Dötsch, Uli Schmitz	19
8	NOS Inhibitors Decrease Hypoxia-induced ATP Reductions in Respiring Cerebrocortical Slices 1999 ·Anesthesiology ·Lawrence Litt, Maryceline T. Espanol, Koh Hasegawa, Lee‐Hong Chang, George A. Gregory, Thomas Leroy James, F Béal, Pak H. Chan	7
9	TELELAB: A virtual laboratory for scientific data distribution on the internet. 1998 ·Computers and Their Applications ·(unknown), Thomas Leroy James, John Cowles, William H. Paloski	1
10	DNA Duplex Dynamics: NMR Relaxation Studies of a Decamer with Uniformly13C-Labeled Purine Nucleotides 1998 ·Journal of Magnetic Resonance ·Chojiro Kojima, Akira Ono, (unknown), Thomas Leroy James	51
11	Nuclear magnetic resonance and nucleic acids 1995 ·Academic Press eBooks ·Thomas Leroy James	5
12	Conformational Transformations in Peptides Containing Two Putative α-Helices of the Prion Protein 1995 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Hong Zhang, Kiyotoshi Kaneko, Jack Nguyen, (unknown), Michael A. Baldwin, Fred E. Cohen, Thomas Leroy James, Stanley B. Prusiner	168
13	[4] Statistical analysis of DNA duplex structural features 1995 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Nikolai B. Ulyanov, Thomas Leroy James	65
14	19F NMR calcium changes, edema and histology in neonatal rat brain slices during glutamate toxicity 1994 ·Brain Research ·Maryceline T. Espanol, Lawrence Litt, Yan Xu, Lee‐Hong Chang, Thomas Leroy James, (unknown), (unknown)	10
15	Molecular Dynamics with Weighted Time-averaged Restraints for a DNA Octamer 1993 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Uli Schmitz, Nikolai B. Ulyanov, Anil Kumar, Thomas Leroy James	49
16	Solution structure of a DNA octamer containing the pribnow box via restrained molecular dynamics simulation with distance and torsion angle constraints derived from two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectral fitting 1992 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Uli Schmitz, Ingmar Sethson, (unknown), Thomas Leroy James	57
17	Solution structure studies of d(AC)4.cntdot.d(GT)4 via restrained molecular dynamics simulations with NMR constraints derived from two-dimensional NOE and double-quantum-filtered COSY experiments 1990 ·Biochemistry ·Miriam Gochin, Thomas Leroy James	34
18	Structure and mechanism breakdown → 1989 ·Academic Press eBooks ·Norman J. Oppenheimer, Thomas Leroy James	710
19	Interaction of the antimalarial drug fluoroquine with DNA, tRNA, and poly(A): ¹⁹F‐NMR chemical‐shift and relaxation, optical absorption, and fluorescence studies 1981 ·Biopolymers ·Philip H. Bolton, Peter A. Mirau, Richard H. Shafer, Thomas Leroy James	17
20	Nuclear magnetic resonance in biochemistry : principles and applications 1975 ·Academic Press eBooks ·Thomas Leroy James	32

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