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Frederic M. Richards

Frederic M. Richards

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Chemistry

D-Index
74
Citations
42521
World Ranking
4573
National Ranking
1440

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1971 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1967 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Frederic M. Richards is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the broader realm of biological sciences and materials science.

The main fields of study associated with Richards include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Materials Science; and Neuroscience. Within these, subfields of study are Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work focuses on specific research topics such as Protein Structure and Dynamics, Enzyme Structure and Function, and Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research.

Frederic M. Richards has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Regular co-authors include:

  • David Eisenberg
  • John Kuriyan
  • Alexander McPherson
  • Rossen Donev

Over the course of their career, Richards has been recognized with several awards and honors. These include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1982
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1971
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1967

Best Publications

  • The interpretation of protein structures: estimation of static accessibility.

    B. Lee;F.M. Richards

  • Areas, volumes, packing and protein structure.

    Frederic M. Richards

  • The chemical shift index: A fast and simple method for the assignment of protein secondary structure through NMR spectroscopy

    D. S. Wishart;B. D. Sykes;F. M. Richards

  • Relationship between nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shift and protein secondary structure.

    D.S. Wishart;B.D. Sykes;F.M. Richards

  • Tertiary templates for proteins. Use of packing criteria in the enumeration of allowed sequences for different structural classes.

    Jay W. Ponder;Frederic M. Richards

  • The interpretation of protein structures: Total volume, group volume distributions and packing density

    Frederic M. Richards

  • An efficient newton‐like method for molecular mechanics energy minimization of large molecules

    Jay W. Ponder;Frederic M. Richards

  • A Voltage-Gated Ion Channel Model Inferred from the Crystal Structure of Alamethicin at 1.5-A Resolution.

    Robert O. Fox;Frederic M. Richards

  • The Preparation of Subtilisin-modified Ribonuclease and the Separation of the Peptide and Protein Components

    Frederic M. Richards;Paul J. Vithayathil

  • Chemical cross-linking: reagents and problems in studies of membrane structure.

    Kevin Peters;Frederic M Richards

  • Glutaraldehyde as a protein cross-linking reagent

    F.M. Richards;J.R. Knowles

  • Structural determinants of peptide-binding orientation and of sequence specificity in SH3 domains.

    Wendell A. Lim;Frederic M. Richards;Robert O. Fox;Robert O. Fox

  • Identification of structural motifs from protein coordinate data: secondary structure and first-level supersecondary structure.

    Frederic M. Richards;Craig E. Kundrot

  • The Three-Dimensional Structure of Ribonuclease-S INTERPRETATION OF AN ELECTRON DENSITY MAP AT A NOMINAL RESOLUTION OF 2 A

    H.W. Wyckoff;D. Tsernoglou;A.W. Hanson;J.R. Knox

  • Packing of α-helices: Geometrical constraints and contact areas☆

    Timothy J. Richmond;Frederic M. Richards

  • 24 Bovine Pancreatic Ribonuclease

    Frederic M. Richards;Harold W. Wyckoff

  • Crystal structure of hen egg-white lysozyme at a hydrostatic pressure of 1000 atmospheres.

    Craig E. Kundrot;Frederic M. Richards

  • INTERMOLECULAR CROSS LINKING OF A PROTEIN IN THE CRYSTALLINE STATE: CARBOXYPEPTIDASE-A

    Florante A. Quiocho;Frederic M. Richards

  • An Approach to Nearest Neighbor Analysis of Membrane Proteins APPLICATION TO THE HUMAN ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE OF A METHOD EMPLOYING CLEAVABLE CROSS-LINKAGES

    Kuan Wang;Frederic M. Richards

  • The matching of physical models to three-dimensional electron-density maps: a simple optical device.

    Frederic M. Richards

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Wishart
David S. Wishart University of Alberta
Raghavan Varadarajan
Raghavan Varadarajan Indian Institute of Science
Brian D. Sykes
Brian D. Sykes University of Alberta
Wendell A. Lim
Wendell A. Lim University of California, San Francisco
Julian M. Sturtevant
Julian M. Sturtevant Yale University
Homme W. Hellinga
Homme W. Hellinga Duke University
David Eisenberg
David Eisenberg Harvard University
Florante A. Quiocho
Florante A. Quiocho Baylor College of Medicine
Donald M. Engelman
Donald M. Engelman Yale University
Stuart L. Schreiber
Stuart L. Schreiber Harvard University

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