W. Curtis Johnson

11.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
123 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

W. Curtis Johnson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Curtis Johnson has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Spectroscopy and 23 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in W. Curtis Johnson's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (36 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (30 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (26 papers). W. Curtis Johnson is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (36 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (30 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (26 papers). W. Curtis Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and Denmark. W. Curtis Johnson's co-authors include Parthasarathy Manavalan, John P. Hennessey, Walter A. Baase, P Shing Ho, Cindy A. Sprecher, K. E. Van Holde, I Tinoco, Zhong Li, Arazdordi Toumadje and Richard G. Nelson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

W. Curtis Johnson

123 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Protein secondary structure and circular dichroism: A practical guide

1990 805 citations W. Curtis Johnson Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →
Variable selection method improves the prediction of protein secondary structure from circular dichroism spectra

1987 624 citations W. Curtis Johnson et al. Analytical Biochemistry profile →
Analyzing protein circular dichroism spectra for accurate secondary structures

1999 567 citations W. Curtis Johnson Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →
Information content in the circular dichroism of proteins

1981 528 citations W. Curtis Johnson et al. Biochemistry profile →
Analysis of protein circular dichroism spectra for secondary structure using a simple matrix multiplication

1986 494 citations W. Curtis Johnson et al. Analytical Biochemistry profile →

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V. Sasisekharan India

Neville R. Kallenbach United States

F.M. Richards United States

Cyril M. Kay Canada

John F. Brandts United States

Torbjörn Drakenberg Sweden

Charles E. Bugg United States

Jack S. Cohen United States

Norma J. Greenfield United States

Jen Tsi Yang United States

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Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (2002). Lifson–Roig nucleation for α-helices in trifluoroethanol: context has a strong effect on the helical propensity of amino acids. Biophysical Chemistry. 101-102. 375–385. 12 indexed citations

Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (2001). Environmental features are important in determining protein secondary structure. Protein Science. 10(6). 1172–1177. 23 indexed citations

Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (1997). Calcium binding to recoverin: implications for secondary structure and membrane association. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1342(2). 164–174. 20 indexed citations

Hirschberg, Birgit, Gary L. Peterson, Arazdordi Toumadje, et al.. (1995). Kinetic and biophysical analysis of the m2 muscarinic receptor. Life Sciences. 56(11-12). 907–913. 2 indexed citations

Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (1994). Flow linear dichroism and fourier transform IR spectra reveal geometry for X‐form DNA. Biopolymers. 34(11). 1469–1476. 3 indexed citations

Toumadje, Arazdordi & W. Curtis Johnson. (1994). A CD study of the α‐helix nucleation hypothesis. Biopolymers. 34(7). 969–973. 4 indexed citations

Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (1994). Infrared Linear Dichroism Reveals That A-, B-, and C-DNAs in Films Have Bases Highly Inclined from Perpendicular to the Helix Axis. Biochemistry. 33(27). 8330–8338. 11 indexed citations

Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (1993). Biologically active Arg-Gly-Asp oligopeptides assume a type II .beta.-turn in solution. Biochemistry. 32(1). 268–273. 47 indexed citations

Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (1993). Effects of Relative Band Intensity on Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure from CD. Analytical Biochemistry. 211(2). 258–260. 9 indexed citations

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Palczewski, Krzysztof, et al.. (1992). Structural properties of arrestin studied by chemical modification and circular dichroism. Biochemistry. 31(16). 3902–3906. 21 indexed citations

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Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (1992). Stacking interactions of ApA analogues with modified backbones. Biopolymers. 32(10). 1351–1363. 37 indexed citations

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Toumadje, Arazdordi, Stewart W. Alcorn, & W. Curtis Johnson. (1992). Extending CD spectra of proteins to 168 nm improves the analysis for secondary structures. Analytical Biochemistry. 200(2). 321–331. 107 indexed citations

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Kem, William R., et al.. (1990). Circular dichroism and laser Raman spectroscopic analysis of the secondary structure ofCerebratulus lacteus toxin B-IV. Journal of Protein Chemistry. 9(4). 433–443. 9 indexed citations

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Harder, Mark E. & W. Curtis Johnson. (1990). Stabilization of the Z′ form of poly(dGdC):poly(dGdC) in solution by multivalent ions relates to the Z_¶form in crystals. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(8). 2141–2148. 27 indexed citations

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Miller, Karen I., Kensal E. van Holde, Arazdordi Toumadje, W. Curtis Johnson, & Josette Lamy. (1988). Structure and function of the carboxyl-terminal oxygen-binding domain from the subunit of Octopus dofleini hemocyanin. Biochemistry. 27(19). 7282–7288. 16 indexed citations

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Johnson, W. Curtis. (1988). Secondary Structure of Proteins Through Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy. PubMed. 17(1). 145–166. 471 indexed citations

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Hurle, Mark R., C. Robert Matthews, Fred E. Cohen, et al.. (1987). Prediction of the tertiary structure of the α‐subunit of tryptophan synthase. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 2(3). 210–224. 23 indexed citations

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Johnson, W. Curtis. (1985). Circular Dichroism and Its Empirical Application to Biopolymers. Methods of biochemical analysis. 31. 61–163. 145 indexed citations

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Jenness, Duane D., Cindy A. Sprecher, & W. Curtis Johnson. (1976). Circular dichroism of collagen, gelatin, and poly(proline) II in the vacuum ultraviolet. Biopolymers. 15(3). 513–521. 106 indexed citations

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Johnson, W. Curtis, et al.. (1957). An introduction to qualitative analysis. 7 indexed citations

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