W.A. Baase

3.6k citations

21 papers · 3.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 17

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 2%
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
Materials Chemistry top 5%
- Enzyme Structure and Function

Papers in

Materials Chemistry 14
- Enzyme Structure and Function 14
Molecular Biology 20
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 16
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 4
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry 2
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 2
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 2

Co-authors: B.W. Matthews Brian W. Matthews A.E. Sauer-Eriksson Dirk W. Heinz B.K. Shoichet Ryota Kuroki Enoch P. Baldwin Michael Blaber
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (3 papers)Science (2 papers)Biochemistry (2 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States

In The Last Decade

W.A. Baase

21 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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A relationship between protein stability and protein function. 1995 · 588 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1995 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1992 Science

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1	Structural and Genetic Analysis of Electrostatic and Other Interactions in Bacteriophage T4 Lysozyme Novartis Foundation symposium ·S. Daopin, H. Nicholson, W.A. Baase, Rageena Tahir, Joan A. Wozniak, Brian W. Matthews	2007	1
2	Binding of small electron-dense ligands in large protein cavities Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography ·M.L. Quillin, W.A. Baase, Brian W. Matthews	1996	2
3	A test of the "jigsaw puzzle" model for protein folding by multiple methionine substitutions within the core of T4 lysozyme. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·N.C. Gassner, W.A. Baase, B.W. Matthews	1996	122
4	A relationship between protein stability and protein function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·B.K. Shoichet, W.A. Baase, Ryota Kuroki, B.W. Matthews Hit paper breakdown →	1995	588
5	Double-stranded DNA templates can induce alpha-helical conformation in peptides containing lysine and alanine: functional implications for leucine zipper and helix-loop-helix transcription factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Neil P. Johnson, J.D. Lindstrom, W.A. Baase, Peter H. von Hippel	1994	37
6	Similar Hydrophobic Replacements of Leu99 and Phe153 within the Core of T4 Lysozyme Have Different Structural and Thermodynamic Consequences Journal of Molecular Biology ·A.E. Sauer-Eriksson, W.A. Baase, B.W. Matthews	1993	181
7	Individual subunits of bacterial luciferase are molten globules and interact with molecular chaperones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gregory C. Flynn, Irma Baquero-Haeberlin, W.A. Baase, Frederick W. Dahlquist	1993	33
8	Structure of a hinge-bending bacteriophage T4 lysozyme mutant, Ile3 → Pro Journal of Molecular Biology ·M.M. Dixon, H. Nicholson, Lisa M. Shewchuk, W.A. Baase, Brian W. Matthews	1992	69
9	Multiple alanine replacements within α‐helix 126–134 of T4 lysozyme have independent, additive effects on both structure and stability Protein Science ·Rageena Tahir, W.A. Baase, Brian W. Matthews	1992	53
10	A cavity-containing mutant of T4 lysozyme is stabilized by buried benzene Nature ·A.E. Sauer-Eriksson, W.A. Baase, Joan A. Wozniak, Brian W. Matthews	1992	221
11	Response of a Protein Structure to Cavity-Creating Mutations and Its Relation to the Hydrophobic Effect Science ·A.E. Sauer-Eriksson, W.A. Baase, Carmona Am, Dirk W. Heinz, Michael Blaber, Enoch P. Baldwin, Brian W. Matthews Hit paper breakdown →	1992	804
12	Folding and function of a T4 lysozyme containing 10 consecutive alanines illustrate the redundancy of information in an amino acid sequence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dirk W. Heinz, W.A. Baase, B.W. Matthews	1992	99
13	Structural and thermodynamic analysis of the packing of two α-helices in bacteriophage T4 lysozyme Journal of Molecular Biology ·S. Daopin, Tom Alber, W.A. Baase, Joan A. Wozniak, Brian W. Matthews	1991	72
14	Structural and thermodynamic consequences of burying a charged residue within the hydrophobic core of T4 lysozyme Biochemistry ·S. Daopin, David E. Anderson, W.A. Baase, Frederick W. Dahlquist, Brian W. Matthews	1991	243
15	Toward a simplification of the protein folding problem: a stabilizing polyalanine .alpha.-helix engineered in T4 lysozyme Biochemistry ·進一郎海老原, W.A. Baase, Brian W. Matthews	1991	69
16	A preformed, ordered structure of a 25-residue peptide derived from a major histocompatibility complex class I antigen is required to affect insulin receptor function Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Jan Stagsted, W.A. Baase, A Goldstein, Lennart Olsson	1991	8
17	A mutant T4 lysozyme (Val 131 → Ala) designed to increase thermostability by the reduction of strain within an α‐helix Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·S. Daopin, W.A. Baase, Brian W. Matthews	1990	81
18	Hydrophobic packing in T4 lysozyme probed by cavity-filling mutants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·M. Karpusas, W.A. Baase, Masaru Matsumura, B.W. Matthews	1989	140
19	Disulfide bonds and thermal stability in T4 lysozyme. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ronald Wetzel, L. Jeanne Perry, W.A. Baase, Wayne J. Becktel	1988	129
20	Secondary structure of nucleic acids in the folded chromosome from E. coli Nucleic Acids Research ·W.A. Baase, W. Curtis Johnson	1976	2

About W.A. Baase

W.A. Baase is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Biotechnology and Cell Biology, having authored 21 papers that have together received 3.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (16 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (14 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (4 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (2 papers), Hemoglobin structure and function (2 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (2.7k citations), Materials Chemistry (1.3k citations), Spectroscopy (300 citations), Biotechnology (155 citations) and Cell Biology (289 citations). W.A. Baase has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include B.W. Matthews, Brian W. Matthews, A.E. Sauer-Eriksson, Dirk W. Heinz, B.K. Shoichet, Ryota Kuroki, Enoch P. Baldwin, Michael Blaber, S. Daopin and Joan A. Wozniak. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biology, Science, Biochemistry and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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