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Overview

Brian W. Matthews is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within Engineering and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work is distributed across subfields such as Molecular Biology, Media Technology, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Several topics characterize their main research interests, including:

  • Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Biotin and Related Studies

Brian W. Matthews has contributed to multiple publications, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Metasurface wavefront control for high-performance user-natural augmented reality waveguide glasses," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Recognizing lysine-cysteine crosslinks in proteins," 2021, Protein Science
  • "Cross-National Focus Group Response to Autonomous Vehicles," 2021, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • "International Delphi Expert Consensus on Safe Return to Surgical and Endoscopic Practice: From the Coronavirus Global Surgical Collaborative," 2021, PubMed
  • "Protein Science best papers for 2020," 2021, Protein Science

The venues where Brian W. Matthews most frequently publishes include:

  • Protein Science
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board

They have collaborated frequently with a consistent group of coauthors. The most frequent coauthors are:

  • Hyunpil Boo
  • Yoo Seung Lee
  • Hangbo Yang
  • Chee Wei Wong
  • Michael Müller-Camen

Best Publications

  • Solvent content of protein crystals

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  • Comparison of the predicted and observed secondary structure of T4 phage lysozyme.

    Brian W. Matthews

  • An efficient general-purpose least-squares refinement program for macromolecular structures

    D. E. Tronrud;L. F. Ten Eyck;B. W. Matthews

  • Response of a protein structure to cavity-creating mutations and its relation to the hydrophobic effect.

    A. E. Eriksson;W. A. Baase;X. J. Zhang;D. W. Heinz

  • Enhanced protein thermostability from site-directed mutations that decrease the entropy of unfolding

    B W Matthews;H Nicholson;W J Becktel

  • Structural basis of the action of thermolysin and related zinc peptidases

    Brian W. Matthews

  • A relationship between protein stability and protein function.

    Brian K. Shoichet;Walter A. Baase;Ryota Kuroki;Brian W. Matthews

  • The helix-turn-helix DNA binding motif.

    R G Brennan;B W Matthews

  • Chlorophyll arrangement in a bacteriochlorophyll protein from Chlorobium limicola

    R. E. Fenna;B. W. Matthews

  • Three-dimensional structure of beta-galactosidase from E. coli.

    R H Jacobson;X J Zhang;X J Zhang;R F DuBose;R F DuBose;B W Matthews;B W Matthews

  • Structure of the cro repressor from bacteriophage λ and its interaction with DNA

    W. F. Anderson;W. F. Anderson;D. H. Ohlendorf;Y. Takeda;B. W. Matthews

  • Structural and Genetic Analysis of Protein Stability

    Brian W. Matthews

  • Structural basis of amino acid alpha helix propensity.

    Michael Blaber;Xue Jun Zhang;Brian W. Matthews

  • Structure of thermolysin refined at 1.6 Å resolution

    M.A. Holmes;B.W. Matthews

  • Substantial increase of protein stability by multiple disulphide bonds.

    Masazumi Matsumura;Giovanni Signor;Brian W. Matthews

  • Three-dimensional Structure of Tosyl-α-chymotrypsin

    Unknown

  • Hydrophobic stabilization in T4 lysozyme determined directly by multiple substitutions of Ile 3.

    Masazumi Matsumura;Wayne J. Becktel;Brian W. Matthews

  • Metalloaminopeptidases: common functional themes in disparate structural surroundings.

    W. Todd Lowther;Brian W. Matthews

  • Structure of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme refined at 1.7 A resolution.

    L.H. Weaver;B.W. Matthews

  • Structure of the cobalt-dependent methionine aminopeptidase from Escherichia coli: a new type of proteolytic enzyme.

    Steven L. Roderick;Brian W. Matthews

  • The conformation of thermolysin.

    Brian W. Matthews;Larry H. Weaver;William R. Kester

  • Structure and function of the methionine aminopeptidases.

    W.Todd Lowther;Brian W Matthews

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne F. Anderson
Wayne F. Anderson Northwestern University
Douglas H. Ohlendorf
Douglas H. Ohlendorf University of Minnesota
Michael Blaber
Michael Blaber Florida State University
Frederick W. Dahlquist
Frederick W. Dahlquist University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter M. Colman
Peter M. Colman Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Jun O. Liu
Jun O. Liu Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Richard G. Brennan
Richard G. Brennan Duke University
Brian K. Shoichet
Brian K. Shoichet University of California, San Francisco
Hans Neurath
Hans Neurath University of Washington
Nathan Brot
Nathan Brot Cornell University

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