William J. Dower

11.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
41 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

William J. Dower is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Dower has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 7 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in William J. Dower's work include Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (20 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (10 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (9 papers). William J. Dower is often cited by papers focused on Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (20 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (10 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (9 papers). William J. Dower collaborates with scholars based in United States. William J. Dower's co-authors include Jeff F. Miller, Clifton W. Ragsdale, Ronald W. Barrett, Mark A. Gallop, Eric M. Gordon, Stephen P. A. Fodor, Steven E. Cwirla, Elizabeth A. Peters, Larry Mattheakis and Ramesh R. Bhatt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William J. Dower

39 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

High efficiency transformation of E.coli by high voltage electroporation

1988 2.4k citations William J. Dower, Jeff F. Miller et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Applications of Combinatorial Technologies to Drug Discovery. 2. Combinatorial Organic Synthesis, Library Screening Strategies, and Future Directions

1994 967 citations Eric M. Gordon, Ronald W. Barrett et al. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry profile →
Applications of Combinatorial Technologies to Drug Discovery. 1. Background and Peptide Combinatorial Libraries

1994 952 citations Mark A. Gallop, Ronald W. Barrett et al. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry profile →
Peptides on phage: a vast library of peptides for identifying ligands.

1990 753 citations Steven E. Cwirla, Elizabeth A. Peters et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
William J. Dower	6.2k	2.3k	1.3k	1.1k	878	41	8.5k
Pedro M. Alzari	7.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	590 0.7×	213	11.3k
Lode Wyns	7.0k 1.1×	3.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	154	9.9k
A. Teplyakov	8.5k 1.4×	1.3k 0.6×	685 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	411 0.5×	100	11.7k
Ronald Frank	6.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	564 0.4×	784 0.7×	497 0.6×	170	9.8k
Mirosław Cygler	10.2k 1.6×	442 0.2×	1.4k 1.1×	943 0.9×	520 0.6×	246	13.8k
Remy Loris	5.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	170	7.5k
N. Martin Young	4.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	354 0.3×	708 0.8×	142	6.3k
Harald Kolmar	4.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	601 0.5×	400 0.4×	327 0.4×	249	6.4k
Lars Abrahmsén	3.6k 0.6×	2.7k 1.2×	376 0.3×	630 0.6×	383 0.4×	84	6.8k
Markus G. Grütter	7.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.4×	499 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	577 0.7×	168	11.3k

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Dower, William J., et al.. (2023). A mechanistically novel peptide agonist of the IL-7 receptor that addresses limitations of IL-7 cytokine therapy. PLoS ONE. 18(10). e0286834–e0286834. 3 indexed citations

Katz, Rebecca, et al.. (2003). Synthetic Compound Libraries Displayed on the Surface of Encoded Bacteriophage. Chemistry & Biology. 10(9). 847–858. 21 indexed citations

Renschler, Markus F., William J. Dower, & Ronald Levy. (2003). Identification of Peptide Ligands for the Antigen Binding Receptor Expressed on Human B-Cell Lymphomas. Humana Press eBooks. 87. 209–234. 1 indexed citations

Cwirla, Steven E., William J. Dower, & Man Li. (2003). In Vitro Selection of Peptides Acting on NMDA Receptors. Humana Press eBooks. 128. 131–141. 4 indexed citations

Whitehorn, Erik A., William J. Dower, & Min Li. (2003). Expression of Extracellular N-Terminal Domain of NMDA Receptor in Mammalian Cells. Humana Press eBooks. 128. 61–72.

Dower, William J. & Larry Mattheakis. (2002). In vitro selection as a powerful tool for the applied evolution of proteins and peptides. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 6(3). 390–398. 58 indexed citations

Dower, William J.. (1998). Targeting growth factor and cytokine receptors with recombinant peptide libraries. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 2(3). 328–334. 15 indexed citations

Dower, William J., Steven E. Cwirla, Balasubramanian Palaniappan, et al.. (1998). Peptide agonists of the thrombopoietin receptor. Stem Cells. 16(S1). 21–29. 20 indexed citations

Wrighton, Nicholas C., Balasubramanian Palaniappan, Francis P. Barbone, et al.. (1997). Increased potency of an erythropoietin peptide mimetic through covalent dimerization. Nature Biotechnology. 15(12). 1261–1265. 99 indexed citations

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Barry, Michael A., William J. Dower, & Stephen Albert Johnston. (1996). Toward cell–targeting gene therapy vectors: Selection of cell–binding peptides from random peptide–presenting phage libraries. Nature Medicine. 2(3). 299–305. 284 indexed citations

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Whitehorn, Erik A., Emily Tate, Stephen Yanofsky, et al.. (1995). A Generic Method for Expression and Use of “Tagged” Soluble Versions of Cell Surface Receptors. Nature Biotechnology. 13(11). 1215–1219. 36 indexed citations

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Martens, Christine, Steven E. Cwirla, Erik A. Whitehorn, et al.. (1995). Peptides Which Bind to E-selectin and Block Neutrophil Adhesion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(36). 21129–21136. 137 indexed citations

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Gordon, Eric M., Ronald W. Barrett, William J. Dower, Stephen P. A. Fodor, & Mark A. Gallop. (1994). Applications of Combinatorial Technologies to Drug Discovery. 2. Combinatorial Organic Synthesis, Library Screening Strategies, and Future Directions. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 37(10). 1385–1401. 967 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gallop, Mark A., Ronald W. Barrett, William J. Dower, Stephen P. A. Fodor, & Eric M. Gordon. (1994). Applications of Combinatorial Technologies to Drug Discovery. 1. Background and Peptide Combinatorial Libraries. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 37(9). 1233–1251. 952 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dower, William J.. (1992). Phage power. Current Biology. 2(5). 251–253. 11 indexed citations

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Barrett, Ronald W., et al.. (1992). Selective enrichment and characterization of high affinity ligands from collections of random peptides on filamentous phage. Analytical Biochemistry. 204(2). 357–364. 66 indexed citations

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Dower, William J.. (1990). Electroporation of Bacteria: A General Approach to Genetic Transformation. PubMed. 12. 275–295. 39 indexed citations

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Dower, William J., et al.. (1989). Electroporation: a general approach to the introduction of macromolecules into prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.. PubMed. 3(1). 56–62. 4 indexed citations

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Dower, William J., Jeff F. Miller, & Clifton W. Ragsdale. (1988). High efficiency transformation of E.coli by high voltage electroporation. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(13). 6127–6145. 2394 indexed citations breakdown →

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Duncan, Roger, William J. Dower, & Tom Humphreys. (1975). Normal synthesis, transport and decay of mRNA in the absence of its translation. Nature. 253(5494). 751–753. 10 indexed citations

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