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Citations
16417
World Ranking
7058
National Ranking
542

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Ben C. Berks is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and specializes in research within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as environmental science. Their work spans important subfields including molecular biology, ecology, genetics, biomedical engineering, and molecular medicine.

Berks has contributed extensively to several research topics, with a strong focus on bacterial genetics and biotechnology, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, genomics and phylogenetic studies, lipid membrane structure and behavior, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

The scientist's frequent coauthors include Susan M. Lea, Justin C. Deme, Rory Hennell James, Steven Johnson, and Felicity Alcock. Collaborative work with these coauthors has resulted in multiple publications across notable venues.

Berks has published extensively in prominent journals. Frequent publication venues for this scientist include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology, Nature, and Biophysical Journal. These platforms have hosted a significant portion of their research output.

Recent papers by Ben C. Berks include:

  • Structural insights into the mechanism of protein transport by the Type 9 Secretion System translocon, 2024, Nature Microbiology
  • Structure and mechanism of the proton-driven motor that powers type 9 secretion and gliding motility, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • The DNA transporter ComEC has metal-dependent nuclease activity that is important for natural transformation, 2021, Molecular Microbiology
  • Structures of the stator complex that drives rotation of the bacterial flagellum, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Structures of the stator complex that drives rotation of the bacterial flagellum, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In 2020, Berks was awarded Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • A common export pathway for proteins binding complex redox cofactors

    Ben C. Berks

  • ENZYMES AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEMS THAT CATALYSE THE RESPIRATORY REDUCTION OF NITROGEN OXIDES AND OXYANIONS

    Ben C. Berks;Stuart J. Ferguson;James W.B. Moir;James W.B. Moir;David J. Richardson

  • The Tat protein export pathway

    Ben C. Berks;Frank Sargent;Tracy Palmer;Tracy Palmer

  • Overlapping functions of components of a bacterial Sec-independent protein export pathway.

    Frank Sargent;Frank Sargent;Erik G. Bogsch;Nicola R. Stanley;Nicola R. Stanley;Margaret Wexler;Margaret Wexler

  • The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) protein export pathway

    Tracy Palmer;Ben C. Berks

  • Functional, biochemical and genetic diversity of prokaryotic nitrate reductases

    David Richardson;B. C. Berks;D. A. Russell;S. Spiro

  • AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF A NOVEL BACTERIAL PROTEIN EXPORT SYSTEM WITH HOMOLOGUES IN PLASTIDS AND MITOCHONDRIA

    Erik G. Bogsch;Frank Sargent;Frank Sargent;Nicola R. Stanley;Nicola R. Stanley;Ben C. Berks

  • The twin arginine consensus motif of Tat signal peptides is involved in Sec-independent protein targeting in Escherichia coli.

    Nicola R. Stanley;Tracy Palmer;Tracy Palmer;Ben C. Berks

  • Sec-independent Protein Translocation in Escherichia coli: A DISTINCT AND PIVOTAL ROLE FOR THE TatB PROTEIN *

    Frank Sargent;Frank Sargent;Nicola R. Stanley;Nicola R. Stanley;Ben C. Berks;Tracy Palmer;Tracy Palmer

  • The TatA component of the twin-arginine protein transport system forms channel complexes of variable diameter.

    Ulrich Gohlke;Lee Pullan;Christopher A. McDevitt;Ida Porcelli

  • TatD Is a Cytoplasmic Protein with DNase Activity NO REQUIREMENT FOR TatD FAMILY PROTEINS IN Sec-INDEPENDENT PROTEIN EXPORT

    Margaret Wexler;Frank Sargent;Frank Sargent;Rachael L. Jack;Rachael L. Jack;Nicola R. Stanley;Nicola R. Stanley

  • A 12-cistron Escherichia coli operon (hyf) encoding a putative proton-translocating formate hydrogenlyase system.

    Simon C. Andrews;Ben C. Berks;Joseph McClay;Andrew Ambler

  • The genetic basis of tetrathionate respiration in Salmonella typhimurium.

    Michael Hensel;Andrew P. Hinsley;Thomas Nikolaus;Gary Sawers

  • The Tat protein translocation pathway and its role in microbial physiology.

    Ben C. Berks;Tracy Palmer;Frank Sargent

  • Protein targeting by the bacterial twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway

    Ben C Berks;Tracy Palmer;Tracy Palmer;Frank Sargent

  • Export of complex cofactor-containing proteins by the bacterial Tat pathway.

    Tracy Palmer;Frank Sargent;Ben C. Berks

  • Variable stoichiometry of the TatA component of the twin-arginine protein transport system observed by in vivo single-molecule imaging.

    Mark C. Leake;Nicholas P. Greene;Rachel M. Godun;Thierry Granjon

  • Escherichia coli Strains Blocked in Tat-Dependent Protein Export Exhibit Pleiotropic Defects in the Cell Envelope

    Nicola R. Stanley;Kim Findlay;Ben C. Berks;Tracy Palmer

  • Purified components of the Escherichia coli Tat protein transport system form a double-layered ring structure.

    Frank Sargent;Ulrich Gohlke;Erik de Leeuw;Nicola R. Stanley;Nicola R. Stanley

  • The Tat Protein Export Pathway.

    Tracy Palmer;Frank Sargent;Ben C. Berks

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracy Palmer
Tracy Palmer Newcastle University
Frank Sargent
Frank Sargent Newcastle University
Susan M. Lea
Susan M. Lea University of Oxford
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Stuart J. Ferguson
Stuart J. Ferguson University of Oxford
Phillip J. Stansfeld
Phillip J. Stansfeld University of Warwick
Andrew J. Thomson
Andrew J. Thomson University of East Anglia
Myles R. Cheesman
Myles R. Cheesman University of East Anglia
Colin Robinson
Colin Robinson University of Kent
John M. Charnock
John M. Charnock University of Manchester

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