Tom Alber

16.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
131 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Tom Alber is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Alber has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Materials Chemistry and 19 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Tom Alber's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (47 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (37 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (36 papers). Tom Alber is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (47 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (37 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (36 papers). Tom Alber collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Tom Alber's co-authors include Peter S. Kim, Pehr B. Harbury, Erin K. O’Shea, Tao Zhang, Juli D. Klemm, James M. Holton, Derek N. Woolfson, James S. Fraser, Ho Leung Ng and Nathaniel Echols and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tom Alber

131 papers receiving 12.9k citations

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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.

A Switch Between Two-, Three-, and Four-stranded Coiled Coils in GCN4 Leucine Zipper Mutants

1993 1.3k citations Pehr B. Harbury, Peter S. Kim et al. profile →
X-Ray Structure of the GCN4 Leucine Zipper, a Two-Stranded, Parallel Coiled Coil

1991 1.2k citations Peter S. Kim, Tom Alber et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Alber

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Structure of the Sensor Domain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PknH Receptor Kinase Reveals a Conserved Binding Cleft 2012 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·(unknown), Daniil M. Prigozhin, Tom Alber	17
2	Allosteric Activation Mechanism of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Receptor Ser/Thr Protein Kinase, PknB 2010 ·Structure ·T. Noelle Lombana, Nathaniel Echols, Matthew C. Good, N.D. Thomsen, Ho Leung Ng, Andrew E. Greenstein, Arnold M. Falick, David S. King, Tom Alber	48
3	Purification and characterization of HIV–human protein complexes 2010 ·Methods ·Stefanie Jäger, Natali Gulbahce, Peter Cimermančič, (unknown), Nanhai He, Seemay Chou, Iván D’Orso, Jason D. Fernandes, Gwendolyn Μ. Jang, Alan D. Frankel, Tom Alber, Qiang Zhou, Nevan J. Krogan	44
4	HIV-1 Tat and Host AFF4 Recruit Two Transcription Elongation Factors into a Bifunctional Complex for Coordinated Activation of HIV-1 Transcription 2010 ·Molecular Cell ·Nanhai He, Min Liu, Joanne Hsu, Yuhua Xue, Seemay Chou, Alma L. Burlingame, Nevan J. Krogan, Tom Alber, Qiang Zhou	321
5	Saccharomyces cerevisiae septins: Supramolecular organization of heterooligomers and the mechanism of filament assembly 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Aurélie Bertin, Michael A. McMurray, Patricia Grob, Sang‐Shin Park, Galo García, Insiyyah Patanwala, Ho Leung Ng, Tom Alber, Jeremy Thorner, Eva Nogales	236
6	Fragment-Based Substrate Activity Screening Method for the Identification of Potent Inhibitors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phosphatase PtpB 2007 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Matthew B. Soellner, (unknown), Christoph Grundner, Tom Alber, Jonathan A. Ellman	94
7	Exploring subdomain cooperativity in T4 lysozyme I: Structural and energetic studies of a circular permutant and protein fragment 2007 ·Protein Science ·Jason Cellitti, Manuel Llinás, Nathaniel Echols, Elizabeth A. Shank, Blake Gillespie, Ester J. Kwon, (unknown), Frederick W. Dahlquist, Tom Alber, Susan Marqusee	31
8	Mycobacterium tuberculosis serine/threonine kinases PknB, PknD, PknE, and PknF phosphorylate multiple FHA domains 2005 ·Protein Science ·Christoph Grundner, Laurie M. Gay, Tom Alber	71
9	Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase PtpB Structure Reveals a Diverged Fold and a Buried Active Site 2005 ·Structure ·Christoph Grundner, Ho Leung Ng, Tom Alber	60
10	An Alternate Conformation and a Third Metal in PstP/Ppp, the M. tuberculosis PP2C-Family Ser/Thr Protein Phosphatase 2004 ·Structure ·(unknown), Ho Leung Ng, (unknown), Matthew C. Good, Stephen M. Smith, Tom Alber	84
11	Structural Test of the Parameterized-backbone Method for Protein Design 2004 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·(unknown), Pehr B. Harbury, Peter S. Kim, Tom Alber	16
12	Protein–Protein Interactions Governing Septin Heteropentamer Assembly and Septin Filament Organization inSaccharomyces cerevisiae 2004 ·Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Matthias Versele, (unknown), (unknown), Vı́ctor J. Cid, Shirin Bahmanyar, Raymond Chen, Patrick Barth, Tom Alber, Jeremy Thorner	127
13	Sensor Domain of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Receptor Ser/Thr Protein Kinase, PknD, forms a Highly Symmetric β Propeller 2004 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Matthew C. Good, Andrew E. Greenstein, Tracy A. Young, Ho Leung Ng, Tom Alber	60
14	Covariance analysis of RNA recognition motifs identifies functionally linked amino acids 2001 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·(unknown), James M. Holton, Tom Alber	12
15	The last days of crystallography 2000 ·Structure ·Tom Alber	2
16	An engineered allosteric switch in leucine-zipper oligomerization 1996 ·Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Lino C. Gonzalez, (unknown), Tom Alber	95
17	Circular permutation of T4 lysozyme 1993 ·Biochemistry ·Tao Zhang, Eric B. Bertelsen, Dalila Moter Benvegnú, Tom Alber	63
18	Structure of the leucine zipper 1992 ·Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Tom Alber	239
19	Structural and thermodynamic analysis of the packing of two α-helices in bacteriophage T4 lysozyme 1991 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·S. Daopin, Tom Alber, W.A. Baase, Joan A. Wozniak, Brian W. Matthews	72
20	Crystallography and Site-directed Mutagenesis of Yeast Triosephosphate Isomerase: What Can We Learn about Catalysis from a "Simple" Enzyme? 1987 ·Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology ·Tom Alber, R. Davenport, (unknown), Elias Lolis, Gregory A. Petsko, Dagmar Ringe	39

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