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Christopher F. Higgins

Christopher F. Higgins

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Genetics
UK
2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
UK
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
114
Citations
47878
World Ranking
469
National Ranking
77

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Christopher F. Higgins is affiliated with Hammersmith Hospital in the United Kingdom. The scientist's research includes work published in Geological Society of America's "Abstracts with programs".

Recent publications include:

  • ESTIMATING HISTORICAL EXPOSURE TO PERFLUOROALKYL ACIDS IN SECURITY, FOUNTAIN, AND WIDEFIELD COLORADO: USE OF WATER-INFRASTRUCTURE BLENDING AND TOXICOKINETIC MODELS, 2022, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Christopher F. Higgins are:

  • Sara Mass
  • John L. Adgate
  • Kelsey E. Barton
  • Kamini Singha
  • John E. McCray

Christopher F. Higgins was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1990.

Best Publications

  • ABC Transporters: From Microorganisms to Man

    Christopher F. Higgins

  • Structural model of ATP-binding proteins associated with cystic fibrosis, multidrug resistance and bacterial transport.

    Stephen C. Hyde;Paul Emsley;Michael J. Hartshorn;Michael M. Mimmack

  • Multiple molecular mechanisms for multidrug resistance transporters

    Christopher F. Higgins

  • Is the multidrug transporter a flippase

    Christopher F. Higgins;Michael M. Gottesman

  • The ATP switch model for ABC transporters.

    Christopher F Higgins;Kenneth J Linton

  • A family of related ATP-binding subunits coupled to many distinct biological processes in bacteria.

    Higgins Cf;Hiles Id;Salmond Gp;Gill Dr

  • ERIC sequences: a novel family of repetitive elements in the genomes of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium and other enterobacteria

    C. S. J. Hulton;C. F. Higgins;P. M. Sharp

  • ABC transporters: physiology, structure and mechanism--an overview.

    Christopher F Higgins

  • A physiological role for DNA supercoiling in the osmotic regulation of gene expression in S. typhimurium and E. coli

    Christopher F Higgins;Charles J. Dorman;Douglas A. Stirling;Lesley Waddell

  • Repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences: A major component of the bacterial genome

    Michael J. Stern;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames;Noel H. Smith;E. Clare Robinson

  • A DEAD-box RNA helicase in the Escherichia coli RNA degradosome

    Béatrice Py;Christopher F. Higgins;Henry M. Krisch;Agamemnon J. Carpousis

  • Volume-regulated chloride channels associated with the human multidrug-resistance P-glycoprotein.

    Miguel A. Valverde;Mario DÍaz;Francisco V. Sepúlveda;Deborah R. Gill

  • The Escherichia coli ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins.

    Kenneth J. Linton;Christopher F. Higgins

  • Communication between Multiple Drug Binding Sites on P-glycoprotein

    Catherine Martin;Georgina Berridge;Christopher F. Higgins;Prakash Mistry

  • The ABC of channel regulation

    Christopher F Higgins

  • Correction of the ion transport defect in cystic fibrosis transgenic mice by gene therapy

    Stephen C. Hyde;Deborah R. Gill;Christopher F. Higgins;Ann E. O. Trezise

  • Structure of the Multidrug Resistance P-glycoprotein to 2.5 nm Resolution Determined by Electron Microscopy and Image Analysis

    Mark F. Rosenberg;Richard Callaghan;Robert C. Ford;Christopher F. Higgins

  • Immunocytochemical localization of the cystic fibrosis gene product CFTR.

    Isabelle Crawford;Peter C. Maloney;Pamela L. Zeitlin;William B. Guggino

  • Stabilization of translationally active mRNA by prokaryotic REP sequences

    Sarah F. Newbury;Noel H. Smith;E.Clare Robinson;Ian D. Hiles

  • The human bile salt export pump: characterization of substrate specificity and identification of inhibitors.

    Jane A Byrne;Sandra S Strautnieks;Giorgina Mieli-Vergani;Christopher F Higgins

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Callaghan
Richard Callaghan Australian National University
Miguel A. Valverde
Miguel A. Valverde Pompeu Fabra University
Charles J. Dorman
Charles J. Dorman Trinity College Dublin
Ian R. Booth
Ian R. Booth University of Aberdeen
Jay C. D. Hinton
Jay C. D. Hinton University of Liverpool
William H. Colledge
William H. Colledge University of Cambridge
Paul C. Driscoll
Paul C. Driscoll University College London
Graham D. Pavitt
Graham D. Pavitt University of Manchester
John H. McVey
John H. McVey University of Surrey
Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames
Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames University of California, Berkeley

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