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Gregory A. Petsko

Gregory A. Petsko

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Chemistry

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108
Citations
45899
World Ranking
868
National Ranking
346

Biology and Biochemistry

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114
Citations
52032
World Ranking
828
National Ranking
518

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1996 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1995 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1978 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Gregory A. Petsko is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans several key fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Physiology, Neurology, Cell Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work is associated with multiple main research topics, which are:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research

The scientist has contributed to a range of recent papers, reflecting diversity in neuroscience and biomedical research:

  • Personalized iPSC-Derived Dopamine Progenitor Cells for Parkinson's Disease, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • mGreenLantern: a bright monomeric fluorescent protein with rapid expression and cell filling properties for neuronal imaging, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 25-Hydroxycholesterol amplifies microglial IL-1β production in an apoE isoform-dependent manner, 2020, Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • PGE1 and PGA1 bind to Nurr1 and activate its transcriptional function, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Chemically stable fluorescent proteins for advanced microscopy, 2022, Nature Methods

Frequent collaborators in their research include Douglas Braaten, Patrick Lo, Ayman Shairzay, Jerry Hultin, and Thomas Pompidou, each contributing in multiple joint publications.

Some prominent venues where their work is regularly published are:

  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Over the course of their career, Gregory A. Petsko has received several recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2004
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2001
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1996
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1995
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1978

Best Publications

  • Aromatic-aromatic interaction: a mechanism of protein structure stabilization

    S. K. Burley;S. K. Burley;G. A. Petsko

  • The Catalytic Pathway of Cytochrome P450Cam at Atomic Resolution

    Ilme Schlichting;Joel Berendzen;Kelvin Chu;Kelvin Chu;Ann M. Stock

  • Molecular dynamics simulations in biology.

    Martin Karplus;Gregory A. Petsko

  • Temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction as a probe of protein structural dynamics

    Hans Frauenfelder;Hans Frauenfelder;Gregory A. Petsko;Gregory A. Petsko;Gregory A. Petsko;Demetrius Tsernoglou;Demetrius Tsernoglou

  • Refined crystal structure of the triphosphate conformation of H-ras p21 at 1.35 Å resolution : implications for the mechanism of GTP hydrolysis

    Emil F. Pai;Ute Krengel;Gregory A. Petsko;Roger S. Goody

  • The Parkinson's disease protein DJ-1 is neuroprotective due to cysteine-sulfinic acid-driven mitochondrial localization.

    Rosa M. Canet-Avilés;Mark A. Wilson;David W. Miller;Rili Ahmad

  • Intrinsic motions along an enzymatic reaction trajectory

    Katherine A. Henzler-Wildman;Vu Thai;Ming Lei;Maria Ott

  • Weakly Polar Interactions In Proteins

    S K Burley;G A Petsko

  • Amino-aromatic interactions in proteins

    Stephen Burley;Stephen Burley;G. A. Petsko

  • Structure of chicken muscle triose phosphate isomerase determined crystallographically at 2.5 angstrom resolution using amino acid sequence data.

    D. W. Banner;A. C. Bloomer;G. A. Petsko;D. C. Phillips

  • CEACAM1 regulates TIM-3-mediated tolerance and exhaustion

    Yu-Hwa Huang;Chen Zhu;Yasuyuki Kondo;Ana C. Anderson

  • “Sleeping Beauty”: Quiescence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Joseph V. Gray;Gregory A. Petsko;Gerald C. Johnston;Dagmar Ringe

  • Crystalline ribonuclease A loses function below the dynamical transition at 220 K.

    Bjarne F. Rasmussen;Ann M. Stock;Dagmar Ringe;Gregory A. Petsko

  • Adjustment of conformational flexibility is a key event in the thermal adaptation of proteins.

    Péter Závodszky;József Kardos;Ádám Svingor;Gregory A. Petsko

  • X-ray structure and refinement of carbon-monoxy (Fe II)-myoglobin at 1.5 A resolution.

    John Kuriyan;John Kuriyan;Steven Wilz;Martin Karplus;Gregory A. Petsko

  • Time−resolved X−ray crystallographic study of the conformational change in Ha−ras p21 protein on GTP hydrolysis

    Ilme Schlichting;Steven C. Almo;Gert Rapp;Keith Wilson

  • The evolution of α/β barrel enzymes

    Gregory K. Farber;Gregory A. Petsko

  • Cavities in proteins: structure of a metmyoglobin-xenon complex solved to 1.9 A.

    Robert F. Tilton;Irwin D. Kuntz;Gregory A. Petsko

  • A soluble α-synuclein construct forms a dynamic tetramer

    Wei Wang;Iva Perovic;Johnathan Chittuluru;Alice Kaganovich

  • Targeting α-synuclein for treatment of Parkinson's disease: mechanistic and therapeutic considerations

    Benjamin Dehay;Mathieu Bourdenx;Philippe Gorry;Serge Przedborski

  • The past is a foreign country.

    Gregory A Petsko

  • The dark side.

    Gregory A Petsko

Frequent Co-Authors

Dagmar Ringe
Dagmar Ringe Brandeis University
John A. Gerlt
John A. Gerlt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George L. Kenyon
George L. Kenyon University of California, San Francisco
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus Harvard University
John W. Kozarich
John W. Kozarich The University of Texas at Austin
Scott A. Small
Scott A. Small Columbia University
James M. Manning
James M. Manning Northeastern University
Stephen K. Burley
Stephen K. Burley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Elias Lolis
Elias Lolis Yale University
Steven M. Paul
Steven M. Paul University of California, San Francisco

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