William P. Russ

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

William P. Russ is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William P. Russ has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William P. Russ's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers). William P. Russ is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers). William P. Russ collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and France. William P. Russ's co-authors include Donald M. Engelman, Rama Ranganathan, Michael Socolich, Melanie J. Cocco, Axel T. Brünger, Fang Zhou, Kevin H. Gardner, Steve W. Lockless, Heather Lee and Drew M. Lowery and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William P. Russ

19 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

The GxxxG motif: A framework for transmembrane helix-heli... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 250 500 750
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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.

  1. The GxxxG motif: A framework for transmembrane helix-helix association
    2000 787 citations William P. Russ, Donald M. Engelman Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

Peers

William P. Russ
Lizbeth L. Videau United States
Timothy H. Tran United States
L.N. Deis United States
John Ionides United Kingdom
Anne Pajon United Kingdom
Ronald Kühne Germany
Rasmus H. Fogh United Kingdom
Steven M. Pascal United States
Richard Blevins United States
Prasanna R. Kolatkar Singapore
Lizbeth L. Videau United States
William P. Russ
Citations per year, relative to William P. Russ William P. Russ (= 1×) peers Lizbeth L. Videau

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William P. Russ

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William P. Russ. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William P. Russ based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William P. Russ. William P. Russ is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Russ, William P., et al.. (2023). Undersampling and the inference of coevolution in proteins. Cell Systems. 14(3). 210–219.e7. 3 indexed citations
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Russ, William P., Dailu Chen, Anthony R. Vega, et al.. (2023). Saturation mutagenesis of α-synuclein reveals monomer fold that modulates aggregation. Science Advances. 9(43). eadh3457–eadh3457. 6 indexed citations
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Tamer, Yusuf Talha, et al.. (2021). The Antibiotic Efflux Protein TolC Is a Highly Evolvable Target under Colicin E1 or TLS Phage Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(10). 4493–4504. 21 indexed citations
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Russ, William P., Matteo Figliuzzi, Christian Stocker, et al.. (2020). An evolution-based model for designing chorismate mutase enzymes. Science. 369(6502). 440–445. 166 indexed citations
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Walker, Allison S., William P. Russ, Rama Ranganathan, & Alanna Schepartz. (2020). RNA sectors and allosteric function within the ribosome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 19879–19887. 19 indexed citations
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Subramanian, Subu, William P. Russ, & Rama Ranganathan. (2018). A set of experimentally validated, mutually orthogonal primers for combinatorially specifying genetic components. PubMed Central. 3(1). 5 indexed citations
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Shah, Neel H., Qi Wang, Qingrong Yan, et al.. (2016). An electrostatic selection mechanism controls sequential kinase signaling downstream of the T cell receptor. eLife. 5. 70 indexed citations
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Reynolds, Kimberly A., William P. Russ, Michael Socolich, & Rama Ranganathan. (2013). Evolution-Based Design of Proteins. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 523. 213–235. 38 indexed citations
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Smock, Robert G., Olivier Rivoire, William P. Russ, et al.. (2010). An interdomain sector mediating allostery in Hsp70 molecular chaperones. Molecular Systems Biology. 6(1). 414–414. 107 indexed citations
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Lee, Jeeyeon, Madhusudan Natarajan, Vishal Nashine, et al.. (2008). Surface Sites for Engineering Allosteric Control in Proteins. Science. 322(5900). 438–442. 275 indexed citations
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Socolich, Michael, Steve W. Lockless, William P. Russ, et al.. (2005). Evolutionary information for specifying a protein fold. Nature. 437(7058). 512–518. 323 indexed citations
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Russ, William P., Drew M. Lowery, Prashant Mishra, Michael B. Yaffe, & Rama Ranganathan. (2005). Natural-like function in artificial WW domains. Nature. 437(7058). 579–583. 200 indexed citations
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Constantinescu, Stefan N., William P. Russ, Iban Ubarretxena‐Belandia, et al.. (2003). The Erythropoietin Receptor Transmembrane Domain Mediates Complex Formation with Viral Anemic and Polycythemic gp55 Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(44). 43755–43763. 22 indexed citations
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Russ, William P. & Rama Ranganathan. (2002). Knowledge-based potential functions in protein design. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 12(4). 447–452. 57 indexed citations
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Russ, William P. & Donald M. Engelman. (2000). The GxxxG motif: A framework for transmembrane helix-helix association. Journal of Molecular Biology. 296(3). 911–919. 787 indexed citations breakdown →
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Engelman, Donald M., Fang Zhou, Melanie J. Cocco, William P. Russ, & Axel T. Brünger. (2000). Interhelical hydrogen bonding drives strong interactions in membrane proteins.. Nature Structural Biology. 7(2). 154–160. 314 indexed citations
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Russ, William P. & Donald M. Engelman. (1999). TOXCAT: A measure of transmembrane helix association in a biological membrane. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(3). 863–868. 301 indexed citations
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Arkin, Isaiah T., William P. Russ, Mario Lebendiker, & Shimon Schuldiner. (1996). Determining the Secondary Structure and Orientation of EmrE, a Multi-Drug Transporter, Indicates a Transmembrane Four-Helix Bundle. Biochemistry. 35(22). 7233–7238. 90 indexed citations
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Czajka, John, Nada Bsat, William P. Russ, et al.. (1993). Differentiation of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria innocua by 16S rRNA genes and intraspecies discrimination of Listeria monocytogenes strains by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymorphisms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 59(1). 304–308. 65 indexed citations

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