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Gerald L. Hazelbauer

Gerald L. Hazelbauer

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
9005
World Ranking
16748
National Ranking
6916

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1973 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Gerald L. Hazelbauer is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans subfields including molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as lipid membrane structure and behavior, protein structure and dynamics, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, hemoglobin structure and function, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, as well as spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gerald L. Hazelbauer include David Hathcock, Qiwei Yu, Bernardo A. Mello, Divya N. Amin, and Yuhai Tu. These collaborations have contributed to a body of work published in notable scientific venues.

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • PubMed

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Hazelbauer include:

  • A nonequilibrium allosteric model for receptor-kinase complexes: The role of energy dissipation in chemotaxis signaling (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • ATP Binding as a Key Target for Control of the Chemotaxis Kinase (2020), Journal of Bacteriology
  • Concerted Differential Changes of Helical Dynamics and Packing upon Ligand Occupancy in a Bacterial Chemoreceptor (2021), ACS Chemical Biology
  • Resolving the binding-kinase discrepancy in bacterial chemotaxis: A nonequilibrium allosteric model and the role of energy dissipation (2023), PubMed
  • A chemoreceptor conformational equilibrium controlled by signaling inputs (2025), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Gerald L. Hazelbauer has been recognized in their field as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2007 and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1973.

Best Publications

  • Bacterial chemoreceptors: high-performance signaling in networked arrays.

    Gerald L. Hazelbauer;Joseph J. Falke;John S. Parkinson

  • Transmembrane signaling in bacterial chemoreceptors

    Joseph J. Falke;Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • Signaling and sensory adaptation in Escherichia coli chemoreceptors: 2015 update

    John S. Parkinson;Gerald L. Hazelbauer;Joseph J. Falke

  • Chemotaxis Toward Sugars in Escherichia coli

    Julius Adler;Gerald L. Hazelbauer;M. M. Dahl

  • Role of the galactose binding protein in chemotaxis of Escherichia coli toward galactose.

    Gerald L. Hazelbauer;Julius Adler

  • Cellular Stoichiometry of the Components of the Chemotaxis Signaling Complex

    Mingshan Li;Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • Nanodiscs separate chemoreceptor oligomeric states and reveal their signaling properties.

    Thomas Boldog;Stephen Grimme;Mingshan Li;Stephen G. Sligar

  • Maltose chemoreceptor of Escherichia coli.

    G L Hazelbauer

  • Transmembrane signalling by a hybrid protein: communication from the domain of chemoreceptor Trg that recognizes sugar-binding proteins to the kinase/phosphatase domain of osmosensor EnvZ.

    J. W. Baumgartner;Changhoon Kim;R. E. Brissette;M. Inouye

  • Structure of the Trg protein: Homologies with and differences from other sensory transducers of Escherichia coli

    John Bollinger;Chankyu Park;Shigeaki Harayama;Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • Multiple methylation of methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins during adaptation of E. coli to chemical stimuli.

    Peter Engström;Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • Core unit of chemotaxis signaling complexes

    Mingshan Li;Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • Bacterial chemoreceptors: providing enhanced features to two-component signaling.

    Gerald L Hazelbauer;Wing-Cheung Lai

  • Escherichia coli mutants defective in chemotaxis toward specific chemicals.

    Gerald L. Hazelbauer;Robert E. Mesibov;Julius Adler

  • Adaptational assistance in clusters of bacterial chemoreceptors.

    Mingshan Li;Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • High- and low-abundance chemoreceptors in Escherichia coli: differential activities associated with closely related cytoplasmic domains.

    Xiuhong Feng;James W. Baumgartner;Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • Reconstitution of a Chemically Excitable Membrane

    Gerald L. Hazelbauer;Jean-Pierre Changeux

  • Detecting the conformational change of transmembrane signaling in a bacterial chemoreceptor by measuring effects on disulfide cross-linking in vivo

    Andrew G. Hughson;Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • Bacterial Chemotaxis: The Early Years of Molecular Studies

    Gerald L. Hazelbauer

  • Sensory Transduction in Bacterila Chemotaxis

    Gerald L. Hazelbauer;Shigeaki Harayama

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeaki Harayama
Shigeaki Harayama Chuo University
Joseph J. Falke
Joseph J. Falke University of Colorado Boulder
John S. Parkinson
John S. Parkinson University of Utah
Julius Adler
Julius Adler University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chankyu Park
Chankyu Park Konkuk University
Dieter Oesterhelt
Dieter Oesterhelt Max Planck Society
Sriram Subramaniam
Sriram Subramaniam University of British Columbia
George W. Ordal
George W. Ordal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jean-Pierre Changeux
Jean-Pierre Changeux Institut Pasteur
Zhijun Li
Zhijun Li Tongji University

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