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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Elizabeth A. Craig is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily falls within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology. Additional subfields include Materials Chemistry, Immunology, Cell Biology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as:

  • Heat shock proteins research
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Elizabeth A. Craig include:

  • Effects of Antiplatelet Therapy After Stroke Caused by Intracerebral Hemorrhage, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • Two-step mechanism of J-domain action in driving Hsp70 function, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Pathway of Hsp70 interactions at the ribosome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Biochemical Convergence of Mitochondrial Hsp70 System Specialized in Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • During FeS cluster biogenesis, ferredoxin and frataxin use overlapping binding sites on yeast cysteine desulfurase Nfs1, 2022, Journal of Biological Chemistry

The frequent co-authors working with Elizabeth A. Craig include:

  • Brenda Schilke
  • Jarosław Marszałek
  • Bartłomiej Tomiczek
  • Rafał Dutkiewicz
  • Wojciech Delewski

Major publication venues for their work are:

  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Neurology
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Nature Communications

Elizabeth A. Craig has received several distinctions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2007
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1998

Best Publications

  • The heat-shock proteins

    S Lindquist;E A Craig

  • Genomic Libraries and a Host Strain Designed for Highly Efficient Two-Hybrid Selection in Yeast

    Philip James;John Halladay;Elizabeth A. Craig

  • `The HSP70 chaperone machinery: J proteins as drivers of functional specificity

    Harm H. Kampinga;Elizabeth A. Craig

  • A subfamily of stress proteins facilitates translocation of secretory and mitochondrial precursor polypeptides

    Raymond J. Deshaies;Bruce D. Koch;Margaret Werner-Washburne;Elizabeth A. Craig

  • Four small Drosophila heat shock proteins are related to each other and to mammalian alpha-crystallin

    Thomas D. Ingolia;Elizabeth A. Craig

  • Requirement for hsp70 in the mitochondrial matrix for translocation and folding of precursor proteins.

    Pil-Jung Kang;Joachim Ostermann;Joachim Ostermann;Jeffery Shilling;Walter Neupert

  • Heat shock proteins: molecular chaperones of protein biogenesis.

    E A Craig;B D Gambill;R J Nelson

  • Is hsp70 the cellular thermometer

    Elizabeth A. Craig;Carol A. Gross

  • Heat-shock proteins as molecular chaperones.

    Jörg Becker;Elizabeth A. Craig

  • Molecular evolution of the HSP70 multigene family

    William R. Boorstein;Thomas Ziegelhoffer;Elizabeth A. Craig

  • Major heat shock gene of Drosophila and the Escherichia coli heat-inducible dnaK gene are homologous.

    James C. A. Bardwell;Elizabeth A. Craig

  • The translation machinery and 70 kd heat shock protein cooperate in protein synthesis

    R.John Nelson;Thomas Ziegelhoffer;Charles Nicolet;Margaret Werner-Washburne

  • Heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones: Mediators of protein conformation and turnover in the cell

    Elizabeth A. Craig;Jonathan S. Weissman;Arthur L. Horwich

  • Getting Newly Synthesized Proteins into Shape

    Bernd Bukau;Elke Deuerling;Christine Pfund;Elizabeth A Craig

  • Complex interactions among members of an essential subfamily of hsp70 genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    M Werner-Washburne;D E Stone;E A Craig

  • Consensus sequence for Escherichia coli heat shock gene promoters

    Deborah W. Cowing;James C. A. Bardwell;Elizabeth A. Craig;Carol Woolford

  • Evidence for a conserved system for iron metabolism in the mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Brenda Schilke;Cindy Voisine;Helmut Beinert;Elizabeth Craig

  • A dual role for mitochondrial heat shock protein 70 in membrane translocation of preproteins.

    B. D. Gambill;W. Voos;Pil Jung Kang;Binjie Miao

  • Mutations of the Heat Inducible 70 Kilodalton Genes of Yeast Confer Temperature Sensitive Growth

    Elizabeth A. Craig;Kurt Jacobsen

  • Sequence of three copies of the gene for the major Drosophila heat shock induced protein and their flanking regions.

    Thomas D. Ingolia;Elizabeth A. Craig;Brian J. McCarthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikolaus Pfanner
Nikolaus Pfanner University of Freiburg
James C. A. Bardwell
James C. A. Bardwell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bernd Bukau
Bernd Bukau Heidelberg University
Carol A. Gross
Carol A. Gross University of California, San Francisco
Walter Neupert
Walter Neupert Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Andrzej Joachimiak
Andrzej Joachimiak Argonne National Laboratory
Arthur L. Horwich
Arthur L. Horwich Yale University
Wolfgang Voos
Wolfgang Voos University of Bonn
Sabine Rospert
Sabine Rospert University of Freiburg

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