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Biology and Biochemistry

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43
Citations
6054
World Ranking
19421
National Ranking
7924

Overview

Chester W. Price is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Physiology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science as subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers multiple interconnected topics including diet and metabolism studies, diet, metabolism, and disease, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, birth, development, and health, nutrition and health in aging, and obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Chester W. Price include:

  • Desiree M. Sigala
  • Valentina Medici
  • Vivien Lee
  • Marinelle V. Nuñez
  • Nancy L. Keim

Publications by this researcher appear in several scientific venues with Nutrients featuring multiple times. Other publication venues include The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Western Journal of Nursing Research, PLoS ONE, and Psychological Medicine.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Chester W. Price include:

  • Consuming Sucrose- or HFCS-sweetened Beverages Increases Hepatic Lipid and Decreases Insulin Sensitivity in Adults (2021) in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • A Landscape of Subjective and Objective Stress in African-American Dementia Family Caregivers (2021) in Western Journal of Nursing Research
  • The Dose-Response Effects of Consuming High Fructose Corn Syrup-Sweetened Beverages on Hepatic Lipid Content and Insulin Sensitivity in Young Adults (2022) in Nutrients
  • Differences in gut microbiome by insulin sensitivity status in Black and White women of the National Growth and Health Study (NGHS): A pilot study (2022) in PLoS ONE
  • Intergenerational effects of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on offspring telomere length in Black and White women (2022) in Psychological Medicine

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide analysis of the general stress response in Bacillus subtilis.

    Chester W. Price;Paul Fawcett;Hélène Cérémonie;Nancy Su

  • Opposing pairs of serine protein kinases and phosphatases transmit signals of environmental stress to activate a bacterial transcription factor.

    X. Yang;Choong Min Kang;M. S. Brody;C. W. Price

  • Genome comparison in yeast systematics: delimitation of species within the genera Schwanniomyces, Saccharomyces, Debaryomyces, and Pichia.

    C W Price;G B Fuson;H J Phaff

  • Stress-induced activation of the sigma B transcription factor of Bacillus subtilis.

    S A Boylan;A R Redfield;M S Brody;C W Price

  • A PP2C phosphatase containing a PAS domain is required to convey signals of energy stress to the sigmaB transcription factor of Bacillus subtilis.

    Kamni Vijay;Margaret S. Brody;Elisabeth Fredlund;Chester W. Price

  • Activation of Bacillus subtilis transcription factor sigma B by a regulatory pathway responsive to stationary-phase signals.

    S A Boylan;A Rutherford;S M Thomas;C W Price

  • Similar organization of the sigB and spoIIA operons encoding alternate sigma factors of Bacillus subtilis RNA polymerase.

    S Kalman;M L Duncan;S M Thomas;C W Price

  • Four additional genes in the sigB operon of Bacillus subtilis that control activity of the general stress factor sigma B in response to environmental signals.

    A A Wise;C W Price

  • The subtilisin E gene of Bacillus subtilis is transcribed from a sigma-37 promoter in vivo

    Sui-Lam Wong;Chester W. Price;David S. Goldfarb;Roy H. Doi

  • New Family of Regulators in the Environmental Signaling Pathway Which Activates the General Stress Transcription Factor ςB of Bacillus subtilis

    Samina Akbar;Tatiana A. Gaidenko;Choong Min Kang;Mary O'Reilly

  • The Blue-Light Receptor YtvA Acts in the Environmental Stress Signaling Pathway of Bacillus subtilis

    Tatiana A. Gaidenko;Tae-Jong Kim;Andrea L. Weigel;Margaret S. Brody

  • Homologous pairs of regulatory proteins control activity of Bacillus subtilis transcription factor sigma(b) in response to environmental stress.

    C M Kang;M S Brody;S Akbar;X Yang

  • Catalytic function of an alpha/beta hydrolase is required for energy stress activation of the sigma(B) transcription factor in Bacillus subtilis.

    Margaret S. Brody;Kamni Vijay;Chester W. Price

  • General Stress Response

    Chester W. Price

  • Modulator protein RsbR regulates environmental signalling in the general stress pathway of Bacillus subtilis

    Samina Akbar;Choong Min Kang;Tatiana A. Gaidenko;Chester W. Price

  • The PrpC Serine-Threonine Phosphatase and PrkC kinase Have Opposing Physiological Roles in Stationary-Phase Bacillus subtilis Cells

    Tatiana A. Gaidenko;Tae-Jong Kim;Chester W. Price

  • Bacillus subtilis gtaB encodes UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and is controlled by stationary-phase transcription factor sigma B.

    D Varón;S A Boylan;K Okamoto;C W Price

  • Transcription factor sigma B of Bacillus subtilis controls a large stationary-phase regulon.

    S A Boylan;A R Redfield;C W Price

  • Threonine phosphorylation of modulator protein RsbR governs its ability to regulate a serine kinase in the environmental stress signaling pathway of Bacillus subtilis.

    Tatiana A Gaidenko;Xiaofeng Yang;Young Moo Lee;Chester W Price

  • General Stress Transcription Factor ςB and Sporulation Transcription Factor ςH Each Contribute to Survival of Bacillus subtilis under Extreme Growth Conditions

    Tatiana A. Gaidenko;Chester W. Price

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy H. Doi
Roy H. Doi University of California, Davis
Herman J. Phaff
Herman J. Phaff University of California, Davis
Michael A. Savageau
Michael A. Savageau University of California, Davis
Dörte Becher
Dörte Becher University of Greifswald
Michiko M. Nakano
Michiko M. Nakano Oregon Health & Science University
Kathryn J. Boor
Kathryn J. Boor Cornell University
Valley Stewart
Valley Stewart University of California, Davis
Michael Y. Galperin
Michael Y. Galperin National Institutes of Health
Richard S. Stephens
Richard S. Stephens University of California, Berkeley
Richard Losick
Richard Losick Harvard University

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