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Grant J. Jensen is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily explores biochemical, genetic, and molecular biology domains, with a significant focus on molecular and structural biology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within this area, they have specialized in subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Structural Biology
  • Genetics
  • Ecology
  • Surfaces, Coatings and Films

The research topics covered by their publications reflect advanced techniques and applications in microscopy and molecular analysis, with key areas including:

  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques

Grant J. Jensen has contributed to a range of scholarly articles, frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • Nature Communications

Key publications include:

  • "Moltemplate: A Tool for Coarse-Grained Modeling of Complex Biological Matter and Soft Condensed Matter Physics," 2021, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • "PilY1 and minor pilins form a complex priming the type IVa pilus in Myxococcus xanthus," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Ribosome-associated vesicles: A dynamic subcompartment of the endoplasmic reticulum in secretory cells," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Rubisco forms a lattice inside alpha-carboxysomes," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Structure of the Bacterial Cellulose Ribbon and Its Assembly-Guiding Cytoskeleton by Electron Cryotomography," 2020, Journal of Bacteriology

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Mohammed Kaplan
  • Georges Chreifi
  • Qing Yao
  • Lauren Ann Metskas
  • Przemysław Dutka

Best Publications

  • Type VI secretion requires a dynamic contractile phage tail-like structure

    M. Basler;M. Pilhofer;G. P. Henderson;G. J. Jensen

  • Magnetosomes Are Cell Membrane Invaginations Organized by the Actin-Like Protein MamK

    Arash Komeili;Zhuo Li;Dianne K. Newman;Grant J. Jensen

  • Moltemplate: A Tool for Coarse-Grained Modeling of Complex Biological Matter and Soft Condensed Matter Physics.

    Andrew I. Jewett;David Stelter;Jason Lambert;Shyam M. Saladi

  • The structure of FtsZ filaments in vivo suggests a force-generating role in cell division.

    Zhuo Li;Michael J Trimble;Yves V Brun;Grant J Jensen

  • Architecture of the type IVa pilus machine.

    Yi Wei Chang;Yi Wei Chang;Lee A. Rettberg;Anke Treuner-Lange;Janet Iwasa

  • Universal architecture of bacterial chemoreceptor arrays

    Ariane Briegel;Davi R. Ortega;Elitza I. Tocheva;Kristin Wuichet

  • Electron cryotomography of immature HIV‐1 virions reveals the structure of the CA and SP1 Gag shells

    Elizabeth R Wright;Jordan B Schooler;H Jane Ding;Collin Kieffer

  • Molecular organization of Gram-negative peptidoglycan.

    Lu Gan;Songye Chen;Grant J. Jensen

  • A Self-Associating Protein Critical for Chromosome Attachment, Division, and Polar Organization in Caulobacter

    Gitte Ebersbach;Ariane Briegel;Grant J. Jensen;Christine Jacobs-Wagner;Christine Jacobs-Wagner

  • Bacterial chemoreceptor arrays are hexagonally packed trimers of receptor dimers networked by rings of kinase and coupling proteins.

    Ariane Briegel;Xiaoxiao Li;Alexandrine M. Bilwes;Kelly T. Hughes

  • Marine Tubeworm Metamorphosis Induced by Arrays of Bacterial Phage Tail–Like Structures

    Nicholas J. Shikuma;Martin Pilhofer;Martin Pilhofer;Gregor L. Weiss;Michael G. Hadfield

  • Fast nonlocal filtering applied to electron cryomicroscopy

    J. Darbon;A. Cunha;T.F. Chan;S. Osher

  • The metabolic enzyme CTP synthase forms cytoskeletal filaments

    Michael Ingerson-Mahar;Ariane Briegel;John N. Werner;Grant J. Jensen

  • Structural diversity of bacterial flagellar motors

    Songye Chen;Morgan Beeby;Gavin E Murphy;Jared R Leadbetter

  • An improved cryogen for plunge freezing.

    William F. Tivol;Ariane Briegel;Grant J. Jensen

  • Fully automated, sequential tilt-series acquisition with Leginon

    Christian Suloway;Jian Shi;Anchi Cheng;James Pulokas

  • Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system components

    Frederik Schulz;Natalya Yutin;Natalia N. Ivanova;Davi R. Ortega

  • Architecture of the major component of the type III secretion system export apparatus.

    Patrizia Abrusci;Marta Vergara-Irigaray;Marta Vergara-Irigaray;Steven Johnson;Morgan D. Beeby;Morgan D. Beeby

  • Correlated cryogenic photoactivated localization microscopy and cryo-electron tomography.

    Yi-Wei Chang;Songye Chen;Songye Chen;Elitza I Tocheva;Anke Treuner-Lange

  • The Helical MreB Cytoskeleton in Escherichia coli MC1000/pLE7 Is an Artifact of the N-Terminal Yellow Fluorescent Protein Tag

    Matthew T. Swulius;Grant J. Jensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Kjaer
Andreas Kjaer University of Copenhagen
Roger D. Kornberg
Roger D. Kornberg Stanford University
Thomas J. Hope
Thomas J. Hope Northwestern University
Wesley I. Sundquist
Wesley I. Sundquist University of Utah
Mark Yeager
Mark Yeager University of Miami
Dianne K. Newman
Dianne K. Newman California Institute of Technology
Benoît Roux
Benoît Roux University of Chicago
Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Elliot M. Meyerowitz California Institute of Technology
Nicholas P. Cianciotto
Nicholas P. Cianciotto Northwestern University
Pamela J. Bjorkman
Pamela J. Bjorkman California Institute of Technology

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