Thomas W. Traut

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas W. Traut is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas W. Traut has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Thomas W. Traut's work include Biochemical and Molecular Research (32 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (13 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (9 papers). Thomas W. Traut is often cited by papers focused on Biochemical and Molecular Research (32 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (13 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (9 papers). Thomas W. Traut collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Australia. Thomas W. Traut's co-authors include Patricia A. Ropp, Mary Ellen Jones, Robert C. Payne, Mary Jones, Mary Ellen Jones, Nancy Cheng, Allen Poma, Brenda Temple, Brian G. Miller and David R. Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Thomas W. Traut

44 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Physiological concentrations of purines and pyrimidines 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Physiological concentrations of purines and pyrimidines
    1994 1.5k citations Thomas W. Traut Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas W. Traut United States 23 2.3k 466 386 370 320 44 3.2k
F. Eckstein Germany 46 5.4k 2.3× 302 0.6× 493 1.3× 158 0.4× 171 0.5× 141 6.5k
S Ohkuma Japan 14 1.9k 0.8× 213 0.5× 245 0.6× 338 0.9× 525 1.6× 28 3.7k
Masao Kawakita Japan 38 3.3k 1.4× 297 0.6× 120 0.3× 94 0.3× 239 0.7× 138 4.1k
A.E. Senior United States 43 4.6k 2.0× 358 0.8× 290 0.8× 191 0.5× 72 0.2× 90 5.6k
Stuart J. Conway United Kingdom 34 2.8k 1.2× 169 0.4× 105 0.3× 342 0.9× 237 0.7× 109 4.2k
Carston R. Wagner United States 36 2.6k 1.1× 232 0.5× 587 1.5× 87 0.2× 265 0.8× 129 3.8k
Peter K. Chiang United States 29 1.7k 0.7× 54 0.1× 331 0.9× 226 0.6× 374 1.2× 96 2.9k
Pål Stenmark Sweden 31 1.8k 0.8× 203 0.4× 158 0.4× 83 0.2× 184 0.6× 107 3.4k
Timor Baasov Israel 41 3.3k 1.4× 333 0.7× 138 0.4× 58 0.2× 152 0.5× 112 4.6k
Shira Cohen United States 28 1.5k 0.7× 120 0.3× 118 0.3× 636 1.7× 136 0.4× 70 2.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas W. Traut

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Traut, Thomas W.. (2007). Allosteric Regulatory Enzymes. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 95 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W. & Brenda Temple. (2000). The Chemistry of the Reaction Determines the Invariant Amino Acids during the Evolution and Divergence of Orotidine 5′-Monophosphate Decarboxylase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(37). 28675–28681. 25 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W.. (2000). β-Alanine Synthase an Enzyme Involved in Catabolism of Uracil and Thymine. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 324. 399–410. 1 indexed citations
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Najarian, Thomas & Thomas W. Traut. (2000). Nifedipine and Nimodipine Competitively Inhibit Uridine Kinase and Orotidine-Phosphate Decarboxylase: Theoretical Relevance to Poor Outcome in Stroke. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair. 14(3). 237–241. 9 indexed citations
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Ropp, Patricia A. & Thomas W. Traut. (1998). Uridine Kinase: Altered Enzyme with Decreased Affinities for Uridine and CTP. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 359(1). 63–68. 18 indexed citations
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Ropp, Patricia A. & Thomas W. Traut. (1996). Cloning and Expression of a cDNA Encoding Uridine Kinase from Mouse Brain. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 336(1). 105–112. 20 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W. & Mary Ellen Jones. (1996). Uracil Metabolism—UMP Synthesis from Orotic Acid or Uridine and Conversion of Uracil to β-Alanine: Enzymes and cDNAs. Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology. 53. 1–78. 64 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W.. (1994). Dissociation of Enzyme Oligomers: A Mechanism for Allosteric Regulation. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 29(2). 125–163. 111 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W.. (1994). The functions and consensus motifs of nine types of peptide segments that form different types of nucleotide‐binding sites. European Journal of Biochemistry. 222(1). 9–19. 332 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W.. (1994). Physiological concentrations of purines and pyrimidines. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 140(1). 1–22. 1508 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liao, Wei, et al.. (1992). β-Alanine synthase: Purification and allosteric properties. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 293(2). 254–263. 27 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W., Patricia A. Ropp, & Allen Poma. (1991). Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase: Allosteric Regulation of a Dissociating Enzyme. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 266(12). 177–180. 48 indexed citations
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Ropp, Patricia A. & Thomas W. Traut. (1991). Allosteric regulation of purine nucleoside phosphorylase. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 288(2). 614–620. 27 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W.. (1989). Uridine-5′-phosphate synthase: Evidence for substrate cycling involving this bifunctional protein. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 268(1). 108–115. 6 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W. & David R. Evans. (1988). Enzymes of Nucleotide Metabolism: The Significance of Subunit Size and Polymer Size for Biological Function and Regulatory Propertie. PubMed. 23(2). 121–169. 24 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W.. (1988). Do exons code for structural or functional units in proteins?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 85(9). 2944–2948. 132 indexed citations
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Cheng, Nancy & Thomas W. Traut. (1987). Uridine kinase: Altered subunit size or enzyme expression as a function of cell type, growth stimulation, or mutagenesis. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 35(3). 217–229. 2 indexed citations
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Cheng, Nancy, et al.. (1986). Homogeneous uridine kinase from Ehrlich ascites tumor: substrate specificity and inhibition by bisubstrate analogs.. Molecular Pharmacology. 30(2). 159–163. 10 indexed citations
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Traut, Thomas W. & Robert C. Payne. (1980). Dependence of the catalytic activities on the aggregation and conformation states of uridine 5'-phosphate synthase. Biochemistry. 19(26). 6068–6074. 24 indexed citations

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