William Egan

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

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William Egan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, William Egan has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Organic Chemistry and 15 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in William Egan's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (17 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (16 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (16 papers). William Egan is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (17 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (16 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (16 papers). William Egan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Cameroon and Hungary. William Egan's co-authors include Gerald Zon, Johan Stenflo, Per Fernlund, Peter Roepstorff, Radhakrishnan P. Iyer, Judith B. Regan, Serge L. Beaucage, Rachel Schneerson, Paul G. Richman and Norman W. Baylor and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

William Egan

101 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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Vitamin K Dependent Modifications of Glutamic Acid Residues in Prothrombin

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Conformational Flexibility of the Group B Meningococcal Polysaccharide in Solution 2003 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Terry J. Henderson, Richard M. Venable, William Egan	28
2	Physico-chemical characterization of polysaccharide vaccines. 2000 ·PubMed ·William Egan	4
3	Workshop on Simian Virus 40 (SV40): a Possible Human Polyomavirus 1997 ·Biologicals ·Andrew M. Lewis, William Egan	5
4	Conformational analysis of the disaccharide α-l-Rhap-(1 → 2)-α-l-Rhap-OMe: Comparison of dynamics simulations with NMR experiments 1995 ·International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ·Barry J. Hardy, William Egan, Göran Widmalm	36
5	Hepatitis B virus direct repeat sequence: Imino proton exchange rates and distance and torsion angle restraints from NMR 1994 ·Biochemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), William Egan, Thomas Leroy James	11
6	Cellular pharmacology of phosphorothioate homooligodeoxynucleotides in human cells. 1993 ·Molecular Pharmacology ·Weiyi Gao, Cornelis Storm, William Egan, Yung-Chi Cheng	83
7	Potent inhibition of Epstein-Barr virus by phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotides without sequence specification 1993 ·Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy ·(unknown), Susan P. Grill, William Egan, Yi-Ting Cheng	22
8	A conformation study of α-l-rhap-(1 → 2)-α-l-rhap-(1 → OMe) by NMR nuclear overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) and molecular dynamics calculations 1992 ·Carbohydrate Research ·Göran Widmalm, R. Andrew Byrd, William Egan	54
9	Solution structure of the EcoRI DNA octamer containing 5-fluorouracil via restrained molecular dynamics using distance and torsion angle constraints extracted from NMR spectral simulations 1992 ·Biochemistry ·Ryszard Stolarski, William Egan, Thomas Leroy James	37
10	Oligodeoxyribonucleotide Phosphorothioate Fluxes and Localization in Hematopoietic Cells 1992 ·PubMed ·Gerald E. Marti, William Egan, P. Noguchi, Gerald Zon, Makoto Matsukura, S Broder	47
11	Conformational states of a TT mismatch from molecular dynamics simulation of duplex d(CGCGATTCGCG) 1992 ·Biopolymers ·Richard M. Venable, Göran Widmalm, Bernard R. Brooks, William Egan, Richard W. Pastor	9
12	The octamer motif in immunoglobulin genes: Extraction of structural constraints from two-dimensional NMR studies 1992 ·Biochemistry ·Klaus Weisz, Richard H. Shafer, William Egan, Thomas Leroy James	32
13	Structural studies of the Escherichia coli K93 and K53 capsular polysaccharides 1988 ·Carbohydrate Research ·Ad Bax, Michael F. Summers, William Egan, (unknown), Rachel Schneerson, John B. Robbins, Frits Ørskov, I Orskóv, Willie F. Vann	15
14	New N.M.R.-spectroscopic approaches for structural studies of polysaccharides: Application to the Haemophilus influenzae type a capsular polysaccharide 1987 ·Carbohydrate Research ·R. Andrew Byrd, William Egan, Michael F. Summers, Ad Bax	45
15	Escherichia coli K51 and K93 capsular polysaccharides are crossreactive with the group A capsular polysaccharide of Neisseria meningitidis. Immunochemical, biological, and epidemiological studies. 1985 ·The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·(unknown), Rachel Schneerson, Ad Bax, William Egan, John B. Robbins, Joseph Shiloach, I Orskóv, Frits Ørskov, Aziz El Kholy	37
16	New NHR Techniques for Structure Determination and Resonance Assignments of Complex Carbohydrates 1984 ·Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry ·Ad Bax, William Egan, (unknown)	58
17	Structural and immunological studies of the Haemophilus influenzae type c capsular polysaccharide 1980 ·Carbohydrate Research ·William Egan, (unknown), (unknown), Rachel Schneerson	14
18	Form variation in Escherichia coli K1: determined by O-acetylation of the capsular polysaccharide. 1979 ·The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Frits Ørskov, I Orskóv, A Sutton, Rachel Schneerson, Wei‐Hung Lin, William Egan, Gerd Eva Hoff, J B Robbins	189
19	Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation times from continuous wave nmr spectroscopy 1979 ·Journal of Chemical Education ·Jan B. Wooten, John Jacobus, Jerome E. Gurst, William Egan, (unknown), Kenneth B. Wagener	2
20	Determination of Enantiomeric Homogeneity (Optical Purity) of Cyclophosphamide by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 2 1977 ·JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute ·(unknown), (unknown), William Egan	5

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