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James A. Wells is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their academic work spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions focused on Molecular Biology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects including Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis, CAR-T cell therapy research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Click Chemistry and Applications, as well as Protein Degradation and Inhibitors.

James A. Wells has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Development of Antibody-Based PROTACs for the Degradation of the Cell-Surface Immune Checkpoint Protein PD-L1 (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Engineered ACE2 receptor traps potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Modular cytokine receptor-targeting chimeras for targeted degradation of cell surface and extracellular proteins (2022, Nature Biotechnology)
  • SARS-CoV-2 antibody magnitude and detectability are driven by disease severity, timing, and assay (2021, Science Advances)
  • Engineering luminescent biosensors for point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection (2021, Nature Biotechnology)

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Kevin K. Leung, Irene Lui, James R. Byrnes, Shion A. Lim, and Lisa L. Kirkemo. Publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • ACS Chemical Biology

Best Publications

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • A hot spot of binding energy in a hormone-receptor interface

    Tim Clackson;James A. Wells

  • Reaching for high-hanging fruit in drug discovery at protein–protein interfaces

    James A. Wells;Christopher L. McClendon

  • K-Ras(G12C) inhibitors allosterically control GTP affinity and effector interactions

    Jonathan M. Ostrem;Ulf Peters;Martin L. Sos;James A. Wells

  • Small-molecule inhibitors of protein–protein interactions: progressing towards the dream

    Michelle R. Arkin;James A. Wells

  • High-resolution epitope mapping of hGH-receptor interactions by alanine-scanning mutagenesis.

    Brian C. Cunningham;James A. Wells

  • Berigelsesfremgangsmåde for variantproteiner med ændrede bindingsegenskaber

    Henner Dennis J;Wells James A;Lowman Henry B;Matthews David J

  • Additivity of mutational effects in proteins

    James A. Wells

  • Dimerization of the extracellular domain of the human growth hormone receptor by a single hormone molecule

    BC Cunningham;M Ultsch;AM De Vos;MG Mulkerrin

  • Small-molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions: progressing toward the reality.

    Michelle R. Arkin;Yinyan Tang;James A. Wells

  • Rational design of potent antagonists to the human growth hormone receptor.

    Germaine Fuh;Brian C. Cunningham;Rikiro Fukunaga;Shigekazu Nagata

  • Dissecting the catalytic triad of a serine protease

    Paul Carter;James A. Wells

  • Convergent solutions to binding at a protein-protein interface.

    Warren L. DeLano;Mark H. Ultsch;Abraham M. de;Vos

  • Cassette mutagenesis: an efficient method for generation of multiple mutations at defined sites

    James A. Wells;Mark Vasser;David B. Powers

  • Caspases and their substrates

    Olivier Julien;James A Wells

  • Quantitative Proteomics Reveal a Feedforward Mechanism for Mitochondrial PARKIN Translocation and Ubiquitin Chain Synthesis

    Alban Ordureau;Shireen A. Sarraf;David M. Duda;Jin-Mi Heo

  • Crystal Structure at 1.7 Å Resolution of VEGF in Complex with Domain 2 of the Flt-1 Receptor

    Christian Wiesmann;Germaine Fuh;Hans W. Christinger;Charles Eigenbrot

  • Comparison of a Structural and a Functional Epitope

    Brian C. Cunningham;James A. Wells

  • Sexually dimorphic neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus govern mating in both sexes and aggression in males.

    Cindy F. Yang;Michael C. Chiang;Daniel C. Gray;Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran

  • Hormone phage: an enrichment method for variant proteins with altered binding properties.

    Steven Bass;Ronald Greene;James A. Wells

Frequent Co-Authors

Germaine Fuh
Germaine Fuh Genentech
Mark Ultsch
Mark Ultsch Genentech
Sachdev S. Sidhu
Sachdev S. Sidhu University of Waterloo
Alma L. Burlingame
Alma L. Burlingame University of California, San Francisco
Anthony A. Kossiakoff
Anthony A. Kossiakoff University of Chicago
Michelle R. Arkin
Michelle R. Arkin University of California, San Francisco

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