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  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Arthur D. Riggs is affiliated with the City Of Hope National Medical Center in the United States.

Their research spans several fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Subfields of particular focus include Immunology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Genetics, and Oncology.

Main topics covered in their work include pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes and associated disorders, immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, diabetes management and research, epigenetics and DNA methylation, as well as cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers.

Frequent co-authors in their scholarly collaborations include Defu Zeng, Qingxiao Song, Xiwei Wu, Guihua Sun, and Paul J. Martin.

Prominent publication venues where they have contributed multiple papers include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Journal of Molecular Evolution.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Arthur D. Riggs are:

  • Making, Cloning, and the Expression of Human Insulin Genes in Bacteria: The Path to Humulin, 2020, Endocrine Reviews
  • DNA methylation mediates development of HbA1c-associated complications in type 1 diabetes, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • Intestinal AMPK modulation of microbiota mediates crosstalk with brown fat to control thermogenesis, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Comparative transcriptomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infected cell model systems reveals differential innate immune responses, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Tissue-resident PSGL1loCD4+ T cells promote B cell differentiation and chronic graft-versus-host disease-associated autoimmunity, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Arthur D. Riggs was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Best Publications

  • DNA methylation and gene function

    Aharon Razin;Arthur D. Riggs

  • X inactivation, differentiation, and DNA methylation

    A.D. Riggs

  • Recombinant immunoglobulin preparations, methods for their preparation, DNA sequences, expression vectors and recombinant host cells therefor

    Shmuel Cabilly;William Evans Holmes;Ronald Burnell Wetzel;Herbert Louis Heyneker

  • Expression in Escherichia coli of a Chemically Synthesized Gene for the Hormone Somatostatin

    Keiichi Itakura;Tadaaki Hirose;Roberto Crea;Arthur D. Riggs

  • Expression in Escherichia coli of chemically synthesized genes for human insulin

    David V. Goeddel;Dennis G. Kleid;Francisco Bolivar;Herbert L. Heyneker

  • The lac repressor-operator interaction. 3. Kinetic studies.

    Arthur D. Riggs;Suzanne Bourgeois;Melvin Cohn

  • Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation

    V. E. A. Russo;Robert A. Martienssen;Arthur D. Riggs

  • On the mechanism of DNA replication in mammalian chromosomes

    Joel A. Huberman;Arthur D. Riggs

  • m6A RNA Methylation Regulates the Self-Renewal and Tumorigenesis of Glioblastoma Stem Cells

    Qi Cui;Hailing Shi;Peng Ye;Li Li

  • Lac repressor-operator interaction. I. Equilibrium studies.

    Arthur D. Riggs;Hiromi Suzuki;Suzanne Bourgeois

  • Mammalian X-chromosome inactivation.

    S M Gartler;A D Riggs

  • 5-Methylcytosine, Gene Regulation, and Cancer

    Arthur D. Riggs;Peter A. Jones

  • Clonal Analysis Using Recombinant DNA Probes from the X-Chromosome

    Bert Vogelstein;Eric R. Fearon;Stanley R. Hamilton;Ann C. Preisinger

  • Genomic sequencing and methylation analysis by ligation mediated PCR

    Gerd P. Pfeifer;Sabine D. Steigerwald;Paul R. Mueller;Barbara Wold

  • Tiggers and DNA transposon fossils in the human genome

    Arian F. A. Smit;Arthur D. Riggs

  • DNA methylation and demethylation in mammals

    Zhao-xia Chen;Arthur D. Riggs

  • Ancestral, Mammalian-wide Subfamilies of LINE-1 Repetitive Sequences

    Arian F.A. Smit;Gábor Tóth;Arthur D. Riggs;Jerzy Jurka

  • The general affinity of lac repressor for E. coli DNA: Implications for gene regulation in procaryotes and eucaryotes

    Syr-yaung Lin;Arthur D. Riggs

  • X-chromosome inactivation and cell memory

    Arthur D. Riggs;Gerd P. Pfeifer

  • Recombinant cloning vehicle microbial polypeptide expression

    Keiichi Itakura;Arthur D. Riggs

Frequent Co-Authors

Keiichi Itakura
Keiichi Itakura City Of Hope National Medical Center
Ronald Wetzel
Ronald Wetzel University of Pittsburgh
Gerd P. Pfeifer
Gerd P. Pfeifer Van Andel Institute
Xiwei Wu
Xiwei Wu City Of Hope National Medical Center
Constanze Bonifer
Constanze Bonifer University of Birmingham
John J. Rossi
John J. Rossi City Of Hope National Medical Center
Aharon Razin
Aharon Razin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Robert A. Martienssen
Robert A. Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
John E. Shively
John E. Shively City Of Hope National Medical Center
Rama Natarajan
Rama Natarajan City Of Hope National Medical Center

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