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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Angela M. Gronenborn is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular contributions across Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Materials Chemistry, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Biophysics.

The scientist's research spans a range of topics including:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Electron Spin Resonance Studies
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Connexins and Lens Biology

Recent notable papers authored by Angela M. Gronenborn include:

  • Small, but powerful and attractive: 19F in biomolecular NMR (2021, Structure)
  • Atomic-resolution structure of HIV-1 capsid tubes by magic-angle spinning NMR (2020, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology)
  • Visualizing Proteins in Mammalian Cells by 19F NMR Spectroscopy (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Atomic-Resolution Structure of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein N-Terminal Domain (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • GdIII-19F Distance Measurements for Proteins in Cells by Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance (2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Angela M. Gronenborn has collaborated commonly with several co-authors, including:

  • Tatyana Polenova
  • Caitlin M. Quinn
  • Alex J. Guseman
  • Séamus J. Martin
  • Dublin Chair

Frequent publication venues where the scientist has published include:

  • FEBS Journal (17 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (8 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (7 publications)
  • Biophysical Journal (7 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (3 publications)

The scientist's contributions have been recognized by multiple awards:

  • E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2020
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018
  • Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2014 (Biochemistry and Biophysics)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2002

Best Publications

  • Solution structure of a calmodulin-target peptide complex by multidimensional NMR.

    M. Ikura;G.M. Clore;A.M. Gronenborn;Guang Zhu;Guang Zhu

  • Deviations from the simple two-parameter model-free approach to the interpretation of nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic relaxation of proteins

    G. Marius Clore;Attila Szabo;Ad Bax;Lewis E. Kay

  • Overcoming the overlap problem in the assignment of 1H NMR spectra of larger proteins by use of three-dimensional heteronuclear 1H-15N Hartmann-Hahn-multiple quantum coherence and nuclear Overhauser-multiple quantum coherence spectroscopy: application to interleukin 1 beta

    Dominique Marion;Paul C. Driscoll;Lewis E. Kay;Paul T. Wingfield

  • A novel, highly stable fold of the immunoglobulin binding domain of streptococcal protein G.

    A.M Gronenborn;D.R Filpula;N.Z Essig;A Achari

  • Determination of three-dimensional structures of proteins from interproton distance data by hybrid distance geometry-dynamical simulated annealing calculations.

    Michael Nilges;G.Marius Clore;Angela M. Gronenborn

  • Mature HIV-1 capsid structure by cryo-electron microscopy and all-atom molecular dynamics

    Gongpu Zhao;Juan R. Perilla;Ernest L. Yufenyuy;Ernest L. Yufenyuy;Xin Meng

  • A common sense approach to peak picking in two-, three-, and four-dimensional spectra using automatic computer analysis of contour diagrams

    Daniel S. Garrett;Robert Powers;Angela M. Gronenborn;G. Marius Clore

  • 1H1H correlation via isotropic mixing of 13C magnetization, a new three-dimensional approach for assigning 1H and 13C spectra of 13C-enriched proteins

    Ad Bax;G.Marius Clore;Angela M Gronenborn

  • Determination of three-dimensional structures of proteins from interproton distance data by dynamical simulated annealing from a random array of atoms. Circumventing problems associated with folding.

    Michael Nilges;Michael Nilges;G.Marius Clore;G.Marius Clore;Angela M. Gronenborn;Angela M. Gronenborn

  • Determination of three-dimensional structures of proteins by simulated annealing with interproton distance restraints. Application to crambin, potato carboxypeptidase inhibitor and barley serine proteinase inhibitor 2.

    Michael Nilges;Angela M. Gronenborn;Axel T. Brünger;G. Marius Clore

  • Determination of the three-dimensional solution structure of the C-terminal domain of cellobiohydrolase I from Trichoderma reesei. A study using nuclear magnetic resonance and hybrid distance geometry-dynamical simulated annealing.

    J Kraulis;G.M Clore;M Nilges;T.A Jones

  • Use of dipolar 1H-15N and 1H-13C couplings in the structure determination of magnetically oriented macromolecules in solution

    N Tjandra;J G Omichinski;A M Gronenborn;G M Clore

  • Analysis of the backbone dynamics of interleukin-1 beta using two-dimensional inverse detected heteronuclear 15N-1H NMR spectroscopy.

    G M Clore;P C Driscoll;P T Wingfield;A M Gronenborn

  • Structures of larger proteins in solution: three- and four-dimensional heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy

    GM Clore;AM Gronenborn

  • Three-dimensional structure of interleukin 8 in solution.

    G M Clore;E Appella;M Yamada;K Matsushima

  • Molecular basis of human 46X,Y sex reversal revealed from the three-dimensional solution structure of the human SRY-DNA complex.

    M.H Werner;J.R Huth;A.M Gronenborn;G.M. Clore

  • NMR structure of a specific DNA complex of Zn-containing DNA binding domain of GATA-1.

    JG Omichinski;GM Clore;O Schaad;G Felsenfeld

  • Theory and applications of the transferred nuclear overhauser effect to the study of the conformations of small ligands bound to proteins

    G.M Clore;A.M Gronenborn

  • Three‐dimensional solution structure of the 44 kDa ectodomain of SIV gp41

    Michael Caffrey;Mengli Cai;Joshua Kaufman;Stephen J. Stahl

  • Crystal structure of interleukin 8: symbiosis of NMR and crystallography.

    E T Baldwin;I T Weber;R St Charles;J C Xuan

  • Determination of Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Solution by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscop

    G. Marius Clore;Angela M. Gronenborn

Frequent Co-Authors

G. Marius Clore
G. Marius Clore National Institutes of Health
Tatyana Polenova
Tatyana Polenova University of Delaware
Paul T. Wingfield
Paul T. Wingfield National Institutes of Health
John M. Louis
John M. Louis National Institutes of Health
Ad Bax
Ad Bax National Institutes of Health
Christopher Aiken
Christopher Aiken Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Ettore Appella
Ettore Appella National Institutes of Health
James Feeney
James Feeney Medical Research Council
Axel T. Brunger
Axel T. Brunger Stanford University
Michael Nilges
Michael Nilges Université Paris Cité

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