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Biology and Biochemistry
UK
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
95
Citations
30188
World Ranking
1921
National Ranking
123

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Gabriel Waksman is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their body of research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with focused work in subfields including Endocrinology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, and Molecular Medicine.

The main scientific topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Legionella and Acanthamoeba research

Among their recent papers are the following, illustrating a focus on bacterial secretion systems and structure-function relationships:

  • "The assembly platform FimD is required to obtain the most stable quaternary structure of type 1 pili" (2024), published in Nature Communications
  • "Structural and functional diversity of type IV secretion systems" (2023), published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Substrate recruitment mechanism by gram-negative type III, IV, and VI bacterial injectisomes" (2023), published in Trends in Microbiology
  • "Cryo-EM structure of a type IV secretion system" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Mechanism of effector capture and delivery by the type IV secretion system from Legionella pneumophila" (2020), published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gabriel Waksman include:

  • Kevin Macé
  • Adam Redzej
  • Abhinav K. Vadakkepat
  • Natalya Lukoyanova
  • Tiago R. D. Costa

Gabriel Waksman's work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Trends in Microbiology

In recognition of their academic contributions, Gabriel Waksman was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2012 and became a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria: structural and mechanistic insights

    Tiago R. D. Costa;Catarina Felisberto-Rodrigues;Amit Meir;Marie S. Prevost

  • Crystal structures of open and closed forms of binary and ternary complexes of the large fragment of Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase I: structural basis for nucleotide incorporation

    Ying Li;Sergey Korolev;Gabriel Waksman

  • Binding of a high affinity phosphotyrosyl peptide to the Src SH2 domain: Crystal structures of the complexed and peptide-free forms

    Gabriel Waksman;Steven E. Shoelson;Nalin Pant;David Cowburn

  • CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF THE PHOSPHOTYROSINE RECOGNITION DOMAIN SH2 OF V-SRC COMPLEXED WITH TYROSINE-PHOSPHORYLATED PEPTIDES

    Gabriel Waksman;Dorothea Kominos;Scott C. Robertson;Scott C. Robertson;Nalin Pant

  • The biology and enzymology of protein N-myristoylation.

    Thalia A. Farazi;Gabriel Waksman;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Comparison of the ion channel characteristics of proapoptotic BAX and antiapoptotic BCL-2

    Paul H. Schlesinger;Atan Gross;Xiao Ming Yin;Kazuhito Yamamoto

  • Major domain swiveling revealed by the crystal structures of complexes of E. coli Rep helicase bound to single-stranded DNA and ADP.

    Sergey Korolev;John Hsieh;George H. Gauss;Timothy M. Lohman

  • Synthetic Protein Transduction Domains: Enhanced Transduction Potential in Vitro and in Vivo

    Alan Ho;Steven R. Schwarze;Sarah J. Mermelstein;Gabriel Waksman

  • Structure of the DNA binding domain of E. coli SSB bound to ssDNA.

    Srinivasan Raghunathan;Alexander G. Kozlov;Timothy M. Lohman;Gabriel Waksman

  • Structural basis of tropism of Escherichia coli to the bladder during urinary tract infection

    Chia-Suei Hung;Julie Bouckaert;Julie Bouckaert;Danielle Hung;Jerome Pinkner

  • Structural Basis of Chaperone Function and Pilus Biogenesis

    Frederic G. Sauer;Klaus Fütterer;Jerome S. Pinkner;Karen W. Dodson

  • The structural biology of type IV secretion systems

    Rémi Fronzes;Peter J. Christie;Gabriel Waksman

  • BH3 Domain of BAD Is Required for Heterodimerization with BCL-XL and Pro-apoptotic Activity

    Jiping Zha;Hisashi Harada;Konstantin Osipov;Jennifer Jockel

  • Protein Modification, Bioconjugation, and Disulfide Bridging Using Bromomaleimides

    Mark E. B. Smith;Felix F. Schumacher;Chris P. Ryan;Lauren M. Tedaldi

  • Type IV secretion systems: versatility and diversity in function

    Karin Wallden;Angel Rivera-Calzada;Gabriel Waksman

  • Structure of a type IV secretion system core complex.

    Rémi Fronzes;Eva Schäfer;Eva Schäfer;Luchun Wang;Luchun Wang;Helen R. Saibil;Helen R. Saibil

  • FGF binding and FGF receptor activation by synthetic heparan-derived Di- and trisaccharides

    David M. Ornitz;Andrew B. Herr;Marianne Nilsson;Jacob Westman

  • Hematopoietic malignancies demonstrate loss-of-function mutations of BAX.

    Jules P.P. Meijerink;Ewald J.B.M. Mensink;Kun Wang;Thomas W. Sedlak

  • Structure of the outer membrane complex of a type IV secretion system

    Vidya Chandran;Rémi Fronzes;Stéphane Duquerroy;Stéphane Duquerroy;Nora Cronin

  • Rationally designed small compounds inhibit pilus biogenesis in uropathogenic bacteria

    Jerome S. Pinkner;Han Remaut;Floris Buelens;Eric Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott J. Hultgren
Scott J. Hultgren Washington University in St. Louis
Jerome S. Pinkner
Jerome S. Pinkner Washington University in St. Louis
Timothy M. Lohman
Timothy M. Lohman Washington University in St. Louis
Richard Bayliss
Richard Bayliss University of Leeds
Elena V. Orlova
Elena V. Orlova Birkbeck, University of London
Alison E. Ashcroft
Alison E. Ashcroft University of Leeds
Peter J. Christie
Peter J. Christie The University of Texas at Austin
David M. Ornitz
David M. Ornitz Washington University in St. Louis
Joseph W. St. Geme
Joseph W. St. Geme Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Sheena E. Radford
Sheena E. Radford University of Leeds

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