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James H. Prestegard

James H. Prestegard

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Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
26002
World Ranking
4373
National Ranking
1388

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

James H. Prestegard is a researcher affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a concentrated focus on Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy as notable subfields. The research also touches upon Materials Chemistry, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientific topics covered in their body of work include Protein Structure and Dynamics, Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Enzyme Structure and Function, Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis.

Frequent collaborators in Prestegard's research include Kelley W. Moremen, Alexander Eletsky, Monique J. Rogals, Robert V. Williams, and I. Jonathan Amster.

Prestegard has contributed to several academic journals, with repeated publications in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Journal of Biological Chemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Biochemistry.

Some of the recent papers involving this scientist are:

  • Blind assessment of monomeric AlphaFold2 protein structure models with experimental NMR data, 2023, Journal of Magnetic Resonance
  • A perspective on the PDB's impact on the field of glycobiology, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Skp1 Dimerization Conceals Its F-Box Protein Binding Site, 2020, Biochemistry
  • Sparse isotope labeling for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of glycoproteins using 13C-glucose, 2020, Glycobiology
  • Validated determination of NRG1 Ig-like domain structure by mass spectrometry coupled with computational modeling, 2022, Communications Biology

James H. Prestegard was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Essentials of Glycobiology [Internet]

    Ajit Varki;Richard D Cummings;Jeffrey D Esko;Pamela Stanley

  • A transmembrane helix dimer: structure and implications.

    Kevin R. MacKenzie;James H. Prestegard;Donald M. Engelman

  • Nuclear magnetic dipole interactions in field-oriented proteins: information for structure determination in solution.

    J R Tolman;J M Flanagan;M A Kennedy;J H Prestegard

  • Order matrix analysis of residual dipolar couplings using singular value decomposition.

    Judit A Losonczi;Michael Andrec;Mark W.F Fischer;James H Prestegard

  • NMR structures of biomolecules using field oriented media and residual dipolar couplings.

    J. H. Prestegard;H. M. Al-Hashimi;J. R. Tolman

  • Residual Dipolar Couplings in Structure Determination of Biomolecules

    J. H. Prestegard;C. M. Bougault;A. I. Kishore

  • Magnetically-oriented phospholipid micelles as a tool for the study of membrane-associated molecules

    Charles R. Sanders;Brian J. Hare;Kathleen P. Howard;James H. Prestegard

  • NMR evidence for slow collective motions in cyanometmyoglobin.

    J. R. Tolman;John Flanagan;M. A. Kennedy;J. H. Prestegard

  • Structural and Dynamic Analysis of Residual Dipolar Coupling Data for Proteins

    Joel R. Tolman;Hashim M. Al-Hashimi;Lewis E. Kay;James H. Prestegard

  • High-resolution proton NMR studies of gangliosides. 1. Use of homonuclear two-dimensional spin-echo J-correlated spectroscopy for determination of residue composition and anomeric configurations.

    Theodore A. W. Koerner;James H. Prestegard;Peter C. Demou;Robert K. Yu

  • Domain orientation and dynamics in multidomain proteins from residual dipolar couplings.

    Mark W. F. Fischer;Judit A. Losonczi;Jeanne Lim Weaver;James H. Prestegard

  • NMR Structure Determination for Larger Proteins Using Backbone-Only Data

    Srivatsan Raman;Oliver F. Lange;Paolo Rossi;Michael Tyka

  • Magnetically orientable phospholipid bilayers containing small amounts of a bile salt analogue, CHAPSO

    C.R. Sanders;J.H. Prestegard

  • New techniques in structural NMR — anisotropic interactions

    Prestegard Jh

  • Measurement of vicinal couplings from cross peaks in COSY spectra

    Yangmee Kim;J.H Prestegard

  • Improved dilute bicelle solutions for high-resolution NMR of biological macromolecules

    Judit A. Losonczi;James H. Prestegard

  • Variation of Molecular Alignment as a Means of Resolving Orientational Ambiguities in Protein Structures from Dipolar Couplings

    H. M. Al-Hashimi;H. M. Al-Hashimi;Homayoun Valafar;M. Terrell;E. R. Zartler

  • Structural Studies of the Transmembrane C-Terminal Domain of the Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP): Does APP Function as a Cholesterol Sensor?,

    Andrew J. Beel;Charles K. Mobley;Hak Jun Kim;Fang Tian

  • Refinement of the NMR structures for acyl carrier protein with scalar coupling data.

    Yangmee Kim;James H. Prestegard

  • NMR analysis demonstrates immunoglobulin G N-glycans are accessible and dynamic.

    Adam W Barb;James H Prestegard

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaetano T. Montelione
Gaetano T. Montelione Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rong Xiao
Rong Xiao Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Thomas Szyperski
Thomas Szyperski University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Robert K. Yu
Robert K. Yu Augusta University
Kelley W. Moremen
Kelley W. Moremen University of Georgia
Burkhard Rost
Burkhard Rost Technical University of Munich
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith Structural Genomics Consortium
Hashim M. Al-Hashimi
Hashim M. Al-Hashimi Duke University
Richard A. Kahn
Richard A. Kahn Emory University
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia

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