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Biology and Biochemistry
UK
2025

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
107
Citations
33188
World Ranking
1121
National Ranking
60

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Harry J. Gilbert is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields with a focus on the interface of biological sciences and medicine.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • "Sulfation of Arabinogalactan Proteins Confers Privileged Nutrient Status to Bacteroides plebeius," 2021, published in mBio
  • "Exome sequencing data reanalysis of 200 hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients: the HYPERGEN French cohort 5 years after the initial analysis," 2024, published in Frontiers in Medicine

Frequent collaborators include:

  • José Muñoz-Muñoz
  • Didier Ndeh
  • Pedro Fernandez-Julia
  • Gemma Walton
  • Bernard Henrissat

The venues where Harry J. Gilbert has published most often are:

  • mBio
  • Frontiers in Medicine

The main fields of study in their body of work are:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their research subfields include:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Plant Science
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Food Science
  • Molecular Biology

The primary research topics addressed by Harry J. Gilbert cover:

  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
  • Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

Best Publications

  • Carbohydrate-binding modules: fine-tuning polysaccharide recognition

    Alisdair B. Boraston;David N. Bolam;Harry J. Gilbert;Gideon J. Davies

  • Recognition and degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides by two human gut symbionts.

    Eric C. Martens;Eric C. Martens;Elisabeth C. Lowe;Herbert Chiang;Nicholas A. Pudlo

  • Complex pectin metabolism by gut bacteria reveals novel catalytic functions

    Didier Ndeh;Artur Rogowski;Artur Rogowski;Alan Cartmell;Ana S. Luis

  • Cellulosomes: highly efficient nanomachines designed to deconstruct plant cell wall complex carbohydrates.

    Carlos M.G.A. Fontes;Harry J. Gilbert

  • Human gut Bacteroidetes can utilize yeast mannan through a selfish mechanism

    Fiona Cuskin;Fiona Cuskin;Elisabeth C. Lowe;Max J. Temple;Yanping Zhu;Yanping Zhu

  • Bacterial cellulases and xylanases

    Harry J. Gilbert;Geoffrey P. Hazlewood

  • Glycan complexity dictates microbial resource allocation in the large intestine

    Artur Rogowski;Jonathon A. Briggs;Jennifer C. Mortimer;Theodora Tryfona

  • The Biochemistry and Structural Biology of Plant Cell Wall Deconstruction

    Harry J. Gilbert

  • Advances in understanding the molecular basis of plant cell wall polysaccharide recognition by carbohydrate-binding modules.

    HJ Gilbert;JP Knox;AB Boraston

  • Dietary pectic glycans are degraded by coordinated enzyme pathways in human colonic Bacteroides

    Ana S. Luis;Jonathon Briggs;Xiaoyang Zhang;Benjamin Farnell;Benjamin Farnell

  • Pseudomonas cellulose-binding domains mediate their effects by increasing enzyme substrate proximity

    David N. Bolam;Antonio Ciruela;Simon McQUEEN-MASON;Peter Simpson

  • Carbohydrate-binding modules promote the enzymatic deconstruction of intact plant cell walls by targeting and proximity effects

    Cécile Hervé;Artur Rogowski;Anthony W. Blake;Susan E. Marcus

  • Assessing the survival of transgenic plant DNA in the human gastrointestinal tract

    Trudy Netherwood;Susana M Martín-Orúe;Anthony G O'Donnell;Sally Gockling

  • Understanding the Biological Rationale for the Diversity of Cellulose-directed Carbohydrate-binding Modules in Prokaryotic Enzymes

    Anthony W. Blake;Lesley McCartney;James E. Flint;David N. Bolam

  • Restricted access of proteins to mannan polysaccharides in intact plant cell walls

    Susan E. Marcus;Anthony W. Blake;Thomas A. S. Benians;Kieran J. D. Lee

  • Cellulosome assembly revealed by the crystal structure of the cohesin–dockerin complex

    Ana L. Carvalho;Fernando M. V. Dias;José A. M. Prates;Tibor Nagy

  • PULDB: the expanded database of Polysaccharide Utilization Loci

    Nicolas Terrapon;Nicolas Terrapon;Vincent Lombard;Vincent Lombard;Élodie Drula;Élodie Drula;Pascal Lapébie;Pascal Lapébie

  • How the walls come crumbling down: recent structural biochemistry of plant polysaccharide degradation

    Harry J Gilbert;Henrik Stålbrand;Harry Brumer

  • Biochemistry of complex glycan depolymerisation by the human gut microbiota.

    Didier Ndeh;Harry J Gilbert

  • Automatic prediction of polysaccharide utilization loci in Bacteroidetes species

    Nicolas Terrapon;Vincent Lombard;Harry J. Gilbert;Bernard Henrissat

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey P. Hazlewood
Geoffrey P. Hazlewood Babraham Institute
Gideon J. Davies
Gideon J. Davies University of York
Carlos M. G. A. Fontes
Carlos M. G. A. Fontes Nzytech (Portugal)
David N. Bolam
David N. Bolam Newcastle University
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
José A. M. Prates
José A. M. Prates University of Lisbon
Alisdair B. Boraston
Alisdair B. Boraston University of Victoria
Michael P. Williamson
Michael P. Williamson University of Sheffield
Edward A. Bayer
Edward A. Bayer Weizmann Institute of Science
Spencer J. Williams
Spencer J. Williams University of Melbourne

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