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52
Citations
10466
World Ranking
16629
National Ranking
6879

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Charles W. Carter is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States and works primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their research focuses on several main topics including RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protein structure and dynamics, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, machine learning in bioinformatics, and chemical synthesis and analysis.

Frequent publication venues for their work include UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Structural Dynamics, Nucleic Acids Research, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Charles W. Carter are:

  • Peter R. Wills
  • Jordan Douglas
  • Violetta Weinreb
  • Remco Bouckaert
  • Srinivas Niranj Chandrasekaran

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Carter include:

  • The Roots of Genetic Coding in Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Duality, 2021, Annual Review of Biochemistry
  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Need for an Integrated and Equitable Approach: An International Expert Consensus Paper, 2021, Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Enzymic recognition of amino acids drove the evolution of primordial genetic codes, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Impedance Matching and the Choice Between Alternative Pathways for the Origin of Genetic Coding, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Multidimensional Phylogenetic Metrics Identify Class I Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Evolutionary Mosaicity and Inter-Modular Coupling, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Their work spans subfields including molecular biology, genetics, spectroscopy, astronomy and astrophysics, and materials chemistry, with molecular biology being the predominant subfield.

Charles W. Carter was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Macromolecular Crystallography: Part A

    Charles W. Carter;Melvin I. Simon;Robert M. Sweet

  • Protein Crystallization Using Incomplete Factorial Experiments

    C W Carter

  • Transfer of HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes to an AIDS patient leads to selection for mutant HIV variants and subsequent disease progression.

    Scott Koenig;Anthony J. Conley;Yambasu A. Brewah;Gary M. Jones

  • Cytidine Deaminase. The 2·3 Å Crystal Structure of an Enzyme: Transition-state Analog Complex

    Laurie Betts;Shibin Xiang;Steven A. Short;Richard Wolfenden

  • Autoimmunity is triggered by cPR-3(105–201), a protein complementary to human autoantigen proteinase-3

    William F Pendergraft;Gloria A Preston;Ruchir R Shah;Alexander Tropsha

  • COGNITION, MECHANISM, AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS IN AMINOACYL-tRNA SYNTHETASES

    Charles W. Carter

  • Crystal structure of estrogen sulphotransferase

    Yoshimitsu Kakuta;Lee G. Pedersen;Charles W. Carter;Masahiko Negishi

  • A comparison of Fe 4 S 4 clusters in high-potential iron protein and in ferredoxin.

    C. W. Carter;J. Kraut;S. T. Freer;R. A. Alden

  • Two-Angstrom crystal structure of oxidized Chromatium high potential iron protein.

    Charles W. Carter;Joseph Kraut;Stephan T. Freer;Nguyen-huu Xuong

  • Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase crystal structure reveals an unexpected homology to tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase

    Sylvie Doublié;Gérard Bricogne;Chris Gilmore;Charles W Carter

  • Comparison of oxidation-reduction site geometries in oxidized and reduced Chromatium high potential iron protein and oxidized Peptococcus aerogenes ferredoxin.

    Charles W. Carter;Joseph Kraut;Stephan T. Freer;Richard A. Alden

  • A Proposed Model for Interaction of Polypeptides with RNA

    Charles W. Carter;Joseph Kraut

  • Escherichia coli cytidine deaminase provides a molecular model for ApoB RNA editing and a mechanism for RNA substrate recognition

    Naveenan Navaratnam;Takahiro Fujino;Jayne Bayliss;Adam Jarmuz

  • Four-body potentials reveal protein-specific correlations to stability changes caused by hydrophobic core mutations.

    Charles W. Carter;Brendan C. LeFebvre;Stephen A. Cammer;Alexander Tropsha

  • Crystallographic structure refinement of Chromatium high potential iron protein at two Angstroms resolution.

    S T Freer;R A Alden;C W Carter;J Kraut

  • Transition-state selectivity for a single hydroxyl group during catalysis by cytidine deaminase.

    Shibin Xiang;Steven A. Short;Richard Wolfenden;Charles W. Carter

  • Statistical design of experiments for protein crystal growth and the use of a precrystallization assay

    Charles W. Carter;Eric T. Baldwin;Lloyd Frick

  • Nucleosomal structure of Epstein-Barr virus DNA in transformed cell lines.

    J E Shaw;L F Levinger;C W Carter

  • New stereochemical analogies between iron-sulfur electron transport proteins.

    Charles W. Carter

  • Interconversion of ATP binding and conformational free energies by tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase: structures of ATP bound to open and closed, pre-transition-state conformations.

    Pascal Retailleau;Pascal Retailleau;Xin Huang;Xin Huang;Yuhui Yin;Yuhui Yin;Mei Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Wolfenden
Richard Wolfenden University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brian Kuhlman
Brian Kuhlman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joseph Kraut
Joseph Kraut University of California, San Diego
Alexander Tropsha
Alexander Tropsha University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lee G. Pedersen
Lee G. Pedersen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James G. Scott
James G. Scott QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Celia A. Schiffer
Celia A. Schiffer University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Marshall H. Edgell
Marshall H. Edgell University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Nikolay V. Dokholyan Pennsylvania State University
Dieter Söll
Dieter Söll Yale University

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