Weston Kightlinger

904 total citations
19 papers, 605 citations indexed

About

Weston Kightlinger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weston Kightlinger has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 605 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Weston Kightlinger's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (11 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Weston Kightlinger is often cited by papers focused on Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (11 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Weston Kightlinger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Singapore. Weston Kightlinger's co-authors include Michael C. Jewett, Matthew P. DeLisa, Lin Liang, Milan Mrksich, Seok Hoon Hong, Xing Jin, Jasmine M. Hershewe, Aravind Natarajan, Jessica C. Stark and Wenhao Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Analytical Chemistry and Nature Chemical Biology.

In The Last Decade

Weston Kightlinger

17 papers receiving 601 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Weston Kightlinger United States 13 498 115 82 75 67 19 605
Anne Spriestersbach Germany 7 536 1.1× 131 1.1× 39 0.5× 28 0.4× 94 1.4× 9 713
Herbert W. Kavunja United States 13 334 0.7× 55 0.5× 84 1.0× 213 2.8× 57 0.9× 18 528
Sau‐Ching Wu Canada 15 535 1.1× 119 1.0× 103 1.3× 122 1.6× 139 2.1× 21 748
Cameron J. Glasscock United States 9 274 0.6× 65 0.6× 47 0.6× 33 0.4× 34 0.5× 10 365
Gary J. Tong United States 5 575 1.2× 101 0.9× 249 3.0× 51 0.7× 62 0.9× 6 771
James Zawada United States 8 614 1.2× 223 1.9× 128 1.6× 24 0.3× 93 1.4× 10 685
Kristen E. DeMeester United States 13 325 0.7× 31 0.3× 86 1.0× 167 2.2× 104 1.6× 20 532
Wei Zhong China 16 326 0.7× 29 0.3× 68 0.8× 161 2.1× 57 0.9× 34 532
Bihong Zhou China 9 397 0.8× 143 1.2× 54 0.7× 23 0.3× 62 0.9× 11 448
Shalom D. Goldberg United States 12 326 0.7× 75 0.7× 32 0.4× 29 0.4× 89 1.3× 15 454

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weston Kightlinger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weston Kightlinger

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Rezvani, R., Rochelle Aw, J. Chan, et al.. (2025). Scalable Cell‐Free Production of Active T7 RNA Polymerase. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 122(8). 2241–2250. 1 indexed citations
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Aw, Rochelle, Parastoo Azadi, Michael C. Jewett, et al.. (2025). Glycosylation of Structured Protein Domains in Cell-Free Reaction Environments. ACS Synthetic Biology. 14(6). 2354–2367.
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Liang, Lin, Weston Kightlinger, Katherine F. Warfel, Michael C. Jewett, & Milan Mrksich. (2024). Using High-Throughput Experiments To Screen N-Glycosyltransferases with Altered Specificities. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(4). 1290–1302. 1 indexed citations
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Kightlinger, Weston, et al.. (2024). Establishing a Cell-Free Glycoprotein Synthesis System for Enzymatic N-GlcNAcylation. ACS Chemical Biology. 19(7). 1570–1582.
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Hunt, Andrew C., Bastian Vögeli, Ahmed O. Hassan, et al.. (2023). A rapid cell-free expression and screening platform for antibody discovery. Nature Communications. 14(1). 33 indexed citations
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Guerrero, Laura, et al.. (2023). Point-of-Care Peptide Hormone Production Enabled by Cell-Free Protein Synthesis. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(4). 1216–1226. 7 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Mathias I., Noortje de Haan, Weston Kightlinger, et al.. (2022). Global mapping of GalNAc-T isoform-specificities and O-glycosylation site-occupancy in a tissue-forming human cell line. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6257–6257. 22 indexed citations
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Jin, Xing, et al.. (2021). Engineering Escherichia coli to produce and secrete colicins for rapid and selective biofilm cell killing. AIChE Journal. 67(12). 6 indexed citations
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Liang, Lin, Weston Kightlinger, Adam J. Hockenberry, et al.. (2020). Sequential Glycosylation of Proteins with Substrate-Specific N-Glycosyltransferases. ACS Central Science. 6(2). 144–154. 33 indexed citations
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Kightlinger, Weston, Katherine F. Warfel, Matthew P. DeLisa, & Michael C. Jewett. (2020). Synthetic Glycobiology: Parts, Systems, and Applications. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(7). 1534–1562. 53 indexed citations
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Hershewe, Jasmine M., Weston Kightlinger, & Michael C. Jewett. (2020). Cell-free systems for accelerating glycoprotein expression and biomanufacturing. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 47(11). 977–991. 29 indexed citations
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Techner, José‐Marc, Weston Kightlinger, Lin Liang, et al.. (2019). High-Throughput Synthesis and Analysis of Intact Glycoproteins Using SAMDI-MS. Analytical Chemistry. 92(2). 1963–1971. 20 indexed citations
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Kightlinger, Weston, Aravind Natarajan, Jessica C. Stark, et al.. (2019). A cell-free biosynthesis platform for modular construction of protein glycosylation pathways. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5404–5404. 98 indexed citations
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Jin, Xing, Weston Kightlinger, & Seok Hoon Hong. (2019). Optimizing Cell-Free Protein Synthesis for Increased Yield and Activity of Colicins. Methods and Protocols. 2(2). 28–28. 20 indexed citations
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Kightlinger, Weston, Lin Liang, Wenhao Li, et al.. (2018). Design of glycosylation sites by rapid synthesis and analysis of glycosyltransferases. Nature Chemical Biology. 14(6). 627–635. 108 indexed citations
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Jin, Xing, Weston Kightlinger, Yong‐Chan Kwon, & Seok Hoon Hong. (2018). Rapid production and characterization of antimicrobial colicins using Escherichia coli-based cell-free protein synthesis. PubMed. 3(1). ysy004–ysy004. 51 indexed citations
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Hershewe, Jasmine M., Jessica C. Stark, Weston Kightlinger, et al.. (2017). A cell‐free platform for rapid synthesis and testing of active oligosaccharyltransferases. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 115(3). 739–750. 65 indexed citations
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Kightlinger, Weston, et al.. (2014). Production and characterization of algae extract from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Electronic Journal of Biotechnology. 17(1). 14–18. 30 indexed citations
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