Walter Fast

4.2k total citations
80 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Walter Fast is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Fast has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Molecular Medicine and 16 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Walter Fast's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (32 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (17 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (15 papers). Walter Fast is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (32 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (17 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (15 papers). Walter Fast collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Poland. Walter Fast's co-authors include Pei W. Thomas, Stephen J. Benkovic, Robert A. Bonomo, Dali Liu, Everett Stone, Qin Guo, David L. Tierney, Paul R. Thompson, Ann M. Valentine and Zhigang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Walter Fast

80 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Walter Fast 1.7k 1.5k 579 509 405 80 3.5k
Focco van den Akker 1.6k 0.9× 962 0.6× 606 1.0× 270 0.5× 335 0.8× 80 3.3k
S G Waley 2.8k 1.7× 1.5k 1.0× 721 1.2× 216 0.4× 366 0.9× 109 5.0k
Adrian R. Walmsley 1.8k 1.1× 451 0.3× 227 0.4× 344 0.7× 392 1.0× 89 3.6k
Glenn E. Dale 1.6k 0.9× 489 0.3× 462 0.8× 402 0.8× 395 1.0× 63 3.0k
Wulf Blankenfeldt 3.1k 1.8× 292 0.2× 755 1.3× 188 0.4× 249 0.6× 147 4.9k
Daniel Lim 3.0k 1.7× 323 0.2× 192 0.3× 303 0.6× 377 0.9× 38 4.4k
G. Garau 810 0.5× 672 0.4× 524 0.9× 216 0.4× 226 0.6× 42 1.8k
M.W. Vetting 2.5k 1.5× 401 0.3× 339 0.6× 393 0.8× 290 0.7× 59 3.4k
Angela Wilks 3.8k 2.2× 440 0.3× 267 0.5× 289 0.6× 151 0.4× 97 4.9k
Christian Oefner 3.5k 2.1× 355 0.2× 1.9k 3.3× 345 0.7× 321 0.8× 39 6.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walter Fast

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Fast

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jursa, Thomas, Eun Jeong Cho, Walter Fast, et al.. (2024). PHD2 enzyme is an intracellular manganese sensor that initiates the homeostatic response against elevated manganese. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(26). e2402538121–e2402538121. 3 indexed citations
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Thomas, Pei W., Eun Jeong Cho, Christopher R. Bethel, et al.. (2022). Discovery of an Effective Small-Molecule Allosteric Inhibitor of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase (NDM). ACS Infectious Diseases. 8(4). 811–824. 9 indexed citations
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Fast, Walter, et al.. (2022). On the kinetic mechanism of dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 66. 116816–116816. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Pei W., et al.. (2021). Cyclobutanone Inhibitor of Cobalt-Functionalized Metallo-γ-Lactonase AiiA with Cyclobutanone Ring Opening in the Active Site. ACS Omega. 6(21). 13567–13578. 4 indexed citations
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Thomas, Pei W., Zishuo Cheng, Michael W. Crowder, et al.. (2021). Visualizing the Dynamic Metalation State of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase-1 in Bacteria Using a Reversible Fluorescent Probe. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(22). 8314–8323. 22 indexed citations
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Cheng, Zishuo, Christopher R. Bethel, Pei W. Thomas, et al.. (2021). Carbapenem Use Is Driving the Evolution of Imipenemase 1 Variants. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 65(4). 19 indexed citations
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Cheng, Zishuo, Pei W. Thomas, Christopher R. Bethel, et al.. (2018). Evolution of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) in the clinic: Effects of NDM mutations on stability, zinc affinity, and mono-zinc activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(32). 12606–12618. 85 indexed citations
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Bethel, Christopher R., Zishuo Cheng, Cameron Williams, et al.. (2017). Clinical Variants of New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase Are Evolving To Overcome Zinc Scarcity. ACS Infectious Diseases. 3(12). 927–940. 54 indexed citations
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Cheng, Zishuo, Hao Yang, Mahesh Aitha, et al.. (2017). Probing the Interaction of Aspergillomarasmine A with Metallo-β-lactamases NDM-1, VIM-2, and IMP-7. ACS Infectious Diseases. 4(2). 135–145. 47 indexed citations
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Chen, Allie Y., Pei W. Thomas, Zishuo Cheng, et al.. (2017). Dipicolinic Acid Derivatives as Inhibitors of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase-1. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 60(17). 7267–7283. 128 indexed citations
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Clevenger, Kenneth D., Rui Wu, Dali Liu, & Walter Fast. (2014). n-Alkylboronic Acid Inhibitors Reveal Determinants of Ligand Specificity in the Quorum-Quenching and Siderophore Biosynthetic Enzyme PvdQ. Biochemistry. 53(42). 6679–6686. 14 indexed citations
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Clevenger, Kenneth D., et al.. (2013). Rational Design of a Transition State Analogue with Picomolar Affinity for Pseudomonas aeruginosa PvdQ, a Siderophore Biosynthetic Enzyme. ACS Chemical Biology. 8(10). 2192–2200. 28 indexed citations
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Linsky, Thomas W. & Walter Fast. (2012). Discovery of structurally-diverse inhibitor scaffolds by high-throughput screening of a fragment library with dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 20(18). 5550–5558. 12 indexed citations
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Guo, Qin, Mark T. Bedford, & Walter Fast. (2011). Discovery of peptidylarginine deiminase-4 substrates by protein array: antagonistic citrullination and methylation of human ribosomal protein S2. Molecular BioSystems. 7(7). 2286–2295. 47 indexed citations
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Fast, Walter & Peter A. Tipton. (2011). The enzymes of bacterial census and censorship. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 37(1). 7–14. 35 indexed citations
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Thomas, Pei W., et al.. (2005). THE QUORUM-QUENCHING LACTONASE FROM BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS IS A METALLOPROTEIN. Macromolecules. 38. 1 indexed citations
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Huntley, James J. A., Walter Fast, Stephen J. Benkovic, Peter E. Wright, & H. Jane Dyson. (2003). Role of a solvent‐exposed tryptophan in the recognition and binding of antibiotic substrates for a metallo‐β‐lactamase. Protein Science. 12(7). 1368–1375. 54 indexed citations
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Lutz, Stefan, Walter Fast, & Stephen J. Benkovic. (2002). A universal, vector-based system for nucleic acid reading-frame selection. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 15(12). 1025–1030. 27 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhigang, Walter Fast, Ann M. Valentine, & Stephen J. Benkovic. (1999). Metallo-β-lactamase: structure and mechanism. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 3(5). 614–622. 239 indexed citations

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