Tishan Williams

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Tishan Williams is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tishan Williams has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology and 2 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Tishan Williams's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (2 papers). Tishan Williams is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (2 papers). Tishan Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Puerto Rico. Tishan Williams's co-authors include Brian Kuhlman, Faiyaz Ahmad, Alex B. Burgin, Holger Rehmann, Jay H. Chung, Alexandra L. Brown, Andrew Philp, Hai‐Bin Luo, Myung K. Kim and Keith Baar and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tishan Williams

12 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Resveratrol Ameliorates Aging-Related Metabolic Phenotypes by Inhibiting cAMP Phosphodiesterases

2012 1.1k citations Sung Jun Park, Faiyaz Ahmad et al. Cell profile →
Engineering an improved light-induced dimer (iLID) for controlling the localization and activity of signaling proteins

2014 452 citations Gurkan Guntas, Ryan A. Hallett et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tishan Williams United States	9	1.1k	571	407	279	247	12	1.9k
Hongying Yang China	20	1.1k 1.0×	708 1.2×	445 1.1×	68 0.2×	391 1.6×	50	2.2k
Marc Niere Norway	20	987 0.9×	649 1.1×	159 0.4×	170 0.6×	206 0.8×	30	2.0k
Jacinth Naidoo United States	18	788 0.7×	169 0.3×	212 0.5×	234 0.8×	167 0.7×	22	1.7k
Katrina L. Bogan United States	8	701 0.7×	907 1.6×	288 0.7×	50 0.2×	316 1.3×	8	1.9k
Claudia Manzoni United Kingdom	26	1.2k 1.1×	122 0.2×	1.0k 2.6×	342 1.2×	363 1.5×	51	2.5k
Margie T. Borra United States	6	1.1k 1.0×	1.6k 2.8×	634 1.6×	111 0.4×	749 3.0×	7	2.5k
Vinay Choubey Estonia	24	1.2k 1.1×	91 0.2×	368 0.9×	263 0.9×	461 1.9×	38	2.3k
Andrea Mattarei Italy	25	896 0.8×	301 0.5×	167 0.4×	199 0.7×	91 0.4×	88	1.6k
James T. Slama United States	22	649 0.6×	370 0.6×	134 0.3×	52 0.2×	195 0.8×	50	1.6k
Luis A. Cubano Puerto Rico	28	896 0.8×	95 0.2×	461 1.1×	99 0.4×	55 0.2×	58	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Tishan Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tishan Williams

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12 of 12 papers shown

Williams, Tishan. (2019). MECHANISM-BASED INHIBITION OF BACTERIAL AND MITOCHONDRIAL TRYPTOPHANYL-TRNA SYNTHESASES IS POTENTIATED BY MG2+•ATP. Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 1 indexed citations

Carter, Charles W., Srinivas Niranj Chandrasekaran, Violetta Weinreb, Li Li, & Tishan Williams. (2017). Combining multi-mutant and modular thermodynamic cycles to measure energetic coupling networks in enzyme catalysis. Structural Dynamics. 4(3). 32101–32101. 16 indexed citations

Jacobs, Timothy M., Benfeard Williams, Tishan Williams, et al.. (2016). Design of structurally distinct proteins using strategies inspired by evolution. Science. 352(6286). 687–690. 105 indexed citations

Sapienza, Paul J., Li Li, Tishan Williams, Andrew L. Lee, & Charles W. Carter. (2016). An Ancestral Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase Precursor Achieves High Catalytic Rate Enhancement without Ordered Ground-State Tertiary Structures. ACS Chemical Biology. 11(6). 1661–1668. 15 indexed citations

Williams, Tishan, Y. Whitney Yin, & Charles W. Carter. (2015). Selective Inhibition of Bacterial Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetases by Indolmycin Is Mechanism-based. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(1). 255–265. 41 indexed citations

Martínez‐Rodríguez, Luis, Tishan Williams, Li Li, et al.. (2015). Functional Class I and II Amino Acid-activating Enzymes Can Be Coded by Opposite Strands of the Same Gene. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(32). 19710–19725. 53 indexed citations

Williams, Tishan, et al.. (2014). Did Class 1 and Class 2 Aminoacyl Trna Synthetases Descend from Genetically Complimentary, Catalytically Active ATP-Binding Motifs?. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 675a–675a. 3 indexed citations

Carter, Charles W., Li Li, Violetta Weinreb, et al.. (2014). The Rodin-Ohno hypothesis that two enzyme superfamilies descended from one ancestral gene: an unlikely scenario for the origins of translation that will not be dismissed. Biology Direct. 9(1). 11–11. 48 indexed citations

Guntas, Gurkan, Ryan A. Hallett, Seth P. Zimmerman, et al.. (2014). Engineering an improved light-induced dimer (iLID) for controlling the localization and activity of signaling proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(1). 112–117. 452 indexed citations breakdown →

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Park, Sung-Jun, Faiyaz Ahmad, Andrew Philp, et al.. (2012). Resveratrol ameliorates aging-related metabolic phenotypes by inhibiting cAMP phosphodiesterases. BMC Proceedings. 6(S3). 11 indexed citations

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Park, Sung Jun, Faiyaz Ahmad, Andrew Philp, et al.. (2012). Resveratrol Ameliorates Aging-Related Metabolic Phenotypes by Inhibiting cAMP Phosphodiesterases. Cell. 148(3). 421–433. 1105 indexed citations breakdown →

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Williams, Tishan, D D Weisenburger, & David J. Gnarra. (1985). Benign glandular inclusions.. PubMed. 109(5). 389–389. 8 indexed citations

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