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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Arthur Landy is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, including subfields such as Genetics, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, and Information Systems.

The main topics of Landy's work include:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Comics and Graphic Narratives
  • Web and Library Services
  • Library Science and Information Literacy

Recent publications by Arthur Landy cover a range of these subjects and venues:

  • "Bacteriophage lambda site-specific recombination," 2024, Molecular Microbiology
  • "Serials Spoken Here," 2024, Serials Review
  • "Personal and Professional Information Behaviours of Comic and Graphic Novel Librarians in Toronto," 2025, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l ACSI

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Landy include:

  • Gregory D. Van Duyne
  • Helen Monagle
  • Grace Norris
  • Evan Rapp
  • Jackie Blanton-Watkins

The scholar has been published in several venues, consistent with their multidisciplinary interests:

  • Molecular Microbiology
  • Serials Review
  • Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l ACSI

Arthur Landy's recognition includes membership and fellowships from notable scientific organizations:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1999)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1982)

Best Publications

  • Dynamic, structural, and regulatory aspects of lambda site-specific recombination.

    Arthur Landy

  • Empirical estimation of protein-induced DNA bending angles: applications to λ site-specific recombination complexes

    John F. Thompson;Arthur Landy

  • Similarities and differences among 105 members of the Int family of site-specific recombinases

    Simone E. Nunes-Düby;Hyock Joo Kwon;Radhakrishna S. Tirumalai;Tom Ellenberger

  • The integrase family of site-specific recombinases: regional similarities and global diversity.

    P. Argos;A. Landy;K. Abremski;J.B. Egan

  • Amber suppression: a nucleotide change in the anticodon of a tyrosine transfer RNA.

    Howard M. Goodman;John Abelson;Arthur Landy;S. Brenner

  • Viral integration and excision: structure of the lambda att sites

    Arthur Landy;Wilma Ross

  • Duplicate genes for tyrosine transfer RNA in Escherichia coli

    R.L. Russell;J.N. Abelson;A. Landy;M.L. Gefter

  • Flexibility in DNA Recombination: Structure of the Lambda Integrase Catalytic Core

    Hyock Joo Kwon;Radhakrishna Tirumalai;Arthur Landy;Tom Ellenberger

  • Site-specific recombination intermediates trapped with suicide substrates

    Simone E. Nunes-Düby;Lloyd Matsumoto;Arthur Landy

  • Site-specific Recombination in Phage Lambda

    Robert A. Weisberg;Arthur Landy

  • Cellular factors couple recombination with growth phase: Characterization of a new component in the λ site-specific recombination pathway

    John F. Thompson;Lina Moitoso de Vargas;Christian Koch;Regine Kahmann

  • Suicide recombination substrates yield covalent lambda integrase-DNA complexes and lead to identification of the active site tyrosine.

    C A Pargellis;S E Nunes-Düby;L M de Vargas;A Landy

  • Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

    Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

  • DNA looping generated by DNA bending protein IHF and the two domains of lambda integrase.

    L. Moitoso De Vargas;Sunghoon Kim;A. Landy

  • Mechanistic and structural complexity in the site-specific recombination pathways of Int and FLP.

    Arthur Landy

  • Control of directionality in lambda site specific recombination

    Wade Bushman;John F. Thompson;Lina Vargas;Arthur Landy

  • The phi 80 and P22 attachment sites. Primary structure and interaction with Escherichia coli integration host factor.

    J M Leong;S Nunes-Düby;C F Lesser;P Youderian

  • A structural basis for allosteric control of DNA recombination by λ integrase

    Tapan Biswas;Hideki Aihara;Marta Radman-Livaja;David Filman

  • The λ phage att site: functional limits and interaction with Int protein

    Pei-Ling Hsu;Wilma Ross;Arthur Landy

  • Autonomous DNA binding domains of λ integrase recognize two different sequence families

    Lina Moitoso de Vargas;Christopher A. Pargellis;Noaman M. Hasan;Ellen W. Bushman

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Ellenberger
Tom Ellenberger Washington University in St. Louis
Wilma Ross
Wilma Ross University of Wisconsin–Madison
John F. Thompson
John F. Thompson Helicos Biosciences (United States)
Nikolaus Grigorieff
Nikolaus Grigorieff Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Roland Contreras
Roland Contreras Ghent University
John M. Leong
John M. Leong Tufts University
Steven E. Brenner
Steven E. Brenner University of California, Berkeley
Sung-Hoon Kim
Sung-Hoon Kim Yonsei University
Dale F. Mierke
Dale F. Mierke Dartmouth College
Lynn W. Enquist
Lynn W. Enquist Princeton University

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