William Clay Brown

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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William Clay Brown is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Clay Brown has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Immunology and 6 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in William Clay Brown's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (5 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (5 papers). William Clay Brown is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (5 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (5 papers). William Clay Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and China. William Clay Brown's co-authors include Janet L. Smith, David L. Akey, Richard Kühn, Jamie R. Konwerski, James Delproposto, Georgios Skiniotis, Joyce Jose, Craig M. Ogata, Somnath Dutta and David H. Sherman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

William Clay Brown

41 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Flavivirus NS1 Structures Reveal Surfaces for Associations with Membranes and the Immune System

2014 327 citations David L. Akey, William Clay Brown et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Clay Brown United States	22	690	572	477	200	183	41	1.7k
Eloise Mastrangelo Italy	27	640 0.9×	673 1.2×	833 1.7×	194 1.0×	139 0.8×	67	1.9k
Kyung H. Choi United States	27	938 1.4×	640 1.1×	685 1.4×	204 1.0×	179 1.0×	73	2.3k
Asif Mohmmed India	26	1.3k 1.9×	977 1.7×	184 0.4×	294 1.5×	382 2.1×	87	2.6k
R. Assenberg United Kingdom	18	1.0k 1.5×	210 0.4×	278 0.6×	191 1.0×	145 0.8×	23	1.7k
Daniel D. Long United States	22	906 1.3×	134 0.2×	314 0.7×	66 0.3×	199 1.1×	45	1.7k
M. Lockyer United Kingdom	19	719 1.0×	662 1.2×	169 0.4×	183 0.9×	344 1.9×	37	1.4k
Debasish Chattopadhyay United States	25	1.0k 1.5×	257 0.4×	182 0.4×	573 2.9×	116 0.6×	79	1.9k
Stéphane Simon French Guiana	19	710 1.0×	458 0.8×	185 0.4×	437 2.2×	96 0.5×	50	1.7k
Hugues Bedouelle France	28	1.9k 2.8×	462 0.8×	558 1.2×	351 1.8×	301 1.6×	72	3.1k
Guido Hansen Germany	20	657 1.0×	341 0.6×	285 0.6×	186 0.9×	256 1.4×	42	1.7k

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Banerjee, Kaushik, Anzar Mujeeb, Sophia Lee, et al.. (2024). Controlled Delivery of Paclitaxel via Stable Synthetic Protein Nanoparticles. Advanced Therapeutics. 7(11). 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Boya, William Clay Brown, Sophia Lee, et al.. (2023). Enzyme‐Based Synthetic Protein Nanoparticles as Colloidal Antioxidants. Advanced Therapeutics. 6(11). 5 indexed citations

Biering, Scott B., David L. Akey, Marcus P. Wong, et al.. (2021). Structural basis for antibody inhibition of flavivirus NS1–triggered endothelial dysfunction. Science. 371(6525). 194–200. 99 indexed citations

Singh, Gatikrushna, Cheryl Bolinger, Zhenwei Song, et al.. (2019). Virion-associated, host-derived DHX9/RNA helicase A enhances the processivity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase on genomic RNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(30). 11473–11485. 19 indexed citations

Salguero, Carolina, Shamsun Nahar Khan, Jennifer L. Meagher, et al.. (2018). HIV-1 Tat interactions with cellular 7SK and viral TAR RNAs identifies dual structural mimicry. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4266–4266. 63 indexed citations

Skiba, Meredith A., Qingyun Dan, Amy E. Fraley, et al.. (2018). PKS–NRPS Enzymology and Structural Biology: Considerations in Protein Production. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 604. 45–88. 15 indexed citations

Bohn, Jennifer, Ashley York, William Clay Brown, et al.. (2017). APOBEC3H structure reveals an unusual mechanism of interaction with duplex RNA. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1021–1021. 40 indexed citations

Lopera-Madrid, Jaime, Jorge E. Osorio, Yongqun He, et al.. (2017). Safety and immunogenicity of mammalian cell derived and Modified Vaccinia Ankara vectored African swine fever subunit antigens in swine. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 185. 20–33. 64 indexed citations

Chen, Zongwei, Shaoyuan Zhu, Jiaqi Hu, et al.. (2017). A molecular basis for water motion detection by the mechanosensory lateral line of zebrafish. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2234–2234. 45 indexed citations

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Brown, William Clay, David L. Akey, Jamie R. Konwerski, et al.. (2016). Extended surface for membrane association in Zika virus NS1 structure. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(9). 865–867. 134 indexed citations

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Yang, Chao‐Yie, James Delproposto, Krishnapriya Chinnaswamy, et al.. (2016). Conformational Sampling and Binding Site Assessment of Suppression of Tumorigenicity 2 Ectodomain. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146522–e0146522. 10 indexed citations

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Smith, Amber M., William Clay Brown, Etti Harms, & Janet L. Smith. (2015). Crystal Structures Capture Three States in the Catalytic Cycle of a Pyridoxal Phosphate (PLP) Synthase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(9). 5226–5239. 19 indexed citations

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Akey, David L., William Clay Brown, Somnath Dutta, et al.. (2014). Flavivirus NS1 Structures Reveal Surfaces for Associations with Membranes and the Immune System. Science. 343(6173). 881–885. 327 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whicher, Jonathan R., Douglas A. Hansen, William Clay Brown, et al.. (2013). Cyanobacterial Polyketide Synthase Docking Domains: A Tool for Engineering Natural Product Biosynthesis. Chemistry & Biology. 20(11). 1340–1351. 97 indexed citations

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Delproposto, James, Chinmay Y. Majmudar, Janet L. Smith, & William Clay Brown. (2008). Mocr: A novel fusion tag for enhancing solubility that is compatible with structural biology applications. Protein Expression and Purification. 63(1). 40–49. 50 indexed citations

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Brown, William Clay, et al.. (1993). A new cloning vector and expression strategy for genes encoding proteins toxic to Escherichia coli. Gene. 127(1). 99–103. 38 indexed citations

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Brown, William Clay, et al.. (1992). The 66 kDa component of yeast SF1, stimulatory factor I, is hsp6O. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(18). 4913–4918. 13 indexed citations

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Sugimoto, Chihiro, P. A. Conrad, Lucy M. Mutharia, et al.. (1989). Phenotypic characterization ofTheileria parva schizonts by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Parasitology Research. 76(1). 1–7. 11 indexed citations

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Weitkamp, L.R., Aalok Basu, John C. Gall, & William Clay Brown. (1969). Albumin cayemite: A Negro plasma albumin variant. Human Genetics. 7(2). 180–182. 9 indexed citations

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Brown, William Clay, et al.. (1958). Granulomatous Uveitis. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 45(1). 102–104. 21 indexed citations

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