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

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.

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

1993 1.3k citations Tom Alber et al. profile →
X-Ray Structure of the GCN4 Leucine Zipper, a Two-Stranded, Parallel Coiled Coil

1991 1.2k citations Tom Alber et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Tom Alber	10.3k	3.0k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	131	13.1k
D.A. Keedy	11.3k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	46	16.0k
E.A. Merritt	8.3k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	801 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	96	12.1k
Laura W. Murray	8.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	971 0.7×	934 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	10	11.7k
Elizabeth Potterton	8.9k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	970 0.7×	989 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	8	12.5k
Eugene Krissinel	10.7k 1.0×	4.1k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	28	15.0k
Stuart McNicholas	9.6k 0.9×	3.6k 1.2×	973 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	19	13.4k
Robert M. Immormino	9.2k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	992 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	34	12.7k
Ronan M. Keegan	8.3k 0.8×	3.3k 1.1×	824 0.6×	841 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	61	11.6k
Steven J. Ludtke	9.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	773 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	138	13.7k
Sandra W. Cowan	11.5k 1.1×	3.5k 1.1×	803 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	2.1k 1.8×	16	15.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Alber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Alber

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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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Kerns, S. Jordan, Roman V. Agafonov, Youngjin Cho, et al.. (2015). The energy landscape of adenylate kinase during catalysis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 22(2). 124–131. 134 indexed citations

Katibah, George E., Ho Jun Lee, John Huizar, et al.. (2013). tRNA Binding, Structure, and Localization of the Human Interferon-Induced Protein IFIT5. Molecular Cell. 49(4). 743–750. 65 indexed citations

Prigozhin, Daniil M., et al.. (2012). Structure of the Sensor Domain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PknH Receptor Kinase Reveals a Conserved Binding Cleft. Journal of Molecular Biology. 422(4). 488–494. 17 indexed citations

Lang, P. Therese, Ho Leung Ng, James S. Fraser, et al.. (2010). Automated electron‐density sampling reveals widespread conformational polymorphism in proteins. Protein Science. 19(7). 1420–1431. 129 indexed citations

He, Nanhai, Min Liu, Joanne Hsu, et al.. (2010). HIV-1 Tat and Host AFF4 Recruit Two Transcription Elongation Factors into a Bifunctional Complex for Coordinated Activation of HIV-1 Transcription. Molecular Cell. 38(3). 428–438. 321 indexed citations

Jäger, Stefanie, Natali Gulbahce, Peter Cimermančič, et al.. (2010). Purification and characterization of HIV–human protein complexes. Methods. 53(1). 13–19. 44 indexed citations

Lin, Michael Z., Michael R. McKeown, Ho Leung Ng, et al.. (2009). Autofluorescent Proteins with Excitation in the Optical Window for Intravital Imaging in Mammals. Chemistry & Biology. 16(11). 1169–1179. 203 indexed citations

Greenstein, Andrew E., et al.. (2009). Interdomain Communication in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Environmental Phosphatase Rv1364c. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(43). 29828–29835. 11 indexed citations

Bertin, Aurélie, Michael A. McMurray, Patricia Grob, et al.. (2008). Saccharomyces cerevisiae septins: Supramolecular organization of heterooligomers and the mechanism of filament assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(24). 8274–8279. 236 indexed citations

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Soellner, Matthew B., et al.. (2007). Fragment-Based Substrate Activity Screening Method for the Identification of Potent Inhibitors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phosphatase PtpB. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(31). 9613–9615. 94 indexed citations

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Grundner, Christoph, Dominique Perrin, Rob Hooft van Huijsduijnen, et al.. (2007). Structural Basis for Selective Inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase PtpB. Structure. 15(4). 499–509. 83 indexed citations

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Fraser, James S., John P. Merlie, Nathaniel Echols, et al.. (2007). An atypical receiver domain controls the dynamic polar localization of the Myxococcus xanthus social motility protein FrzS. Molecular Microbiology. 65(2). 319–332. 32 indexed citations

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Grundner, Christoph, Ho Leung Ng, & Tom Alber. (2005). Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase PtpB Structure Reveals a Diverged Fold and a Buried Active Site. Structure. 13(11). 1625–1634. 60 indexed citations

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Grundner, Christoph, Laurie M. Gay, & Tom Alber. (2005). Mycobacterium tuberculosis serine/threonine kinases PknB, PknD, PknE, and PknF phosphorylate multiple FHA domains. Protein Science. 14(7). 1918–1921. 71 indexed citations

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Ng, Ho Leung, et al.. (2004). An Alternate Conformation and a Third Metal in PstP/Ppp, the M. tuberculosis PP2C-Family Ser/Thr Protein Phosphatase. Structure. 12(11). 1947–1954. 84 indexed citations

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Versele, Matthias, Vı́ctor J. Cid, Shirin Bahmanyar, et al.. (2004). Protein–Protein Interactions Governing Septin Heteropentamer Assembly and Septin Filament Organization inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(10). 4568–4583. 127 indexed citations

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Good, Matthew C., Andrew E. Greenstein, Tracy A. Young, Ho Leung Ng, & Tom Alber. (2004). Sensor Domain of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Receptor Ser/Thr Protein Kinase, PknD, forms a Highly Symmetric β Propeller. Journal of Molecular Biology. 339(2). 459–469. 60 indexed citations

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Holton, James M., et al.. (2001). Covariance analysis of RNA recognition motifs identifies functionally linked amino acids. Journal of Molecular Biology. 310(4). 793–800. 12 indexed citations

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Alber, Tom. (2000). The last days of crystallography. Structure. 8(9). R187–R188. 2 indexed citations

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Alber, Tom. (1992). Structure of the leucine zipper. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 2(2). 205–210. 239 indexed citations

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