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D-Index
80
Citations
34319
World Ranking
3998
National Ranking
1975

James U. Bowie publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James U. Bowie sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 229 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

James U. Bowie D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James U. Bowie sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

James U. Bowie is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on molecular biology.

The main topics addressed in their work include microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, enzyme catalysis and immobilization, biofuel production and bioconversion, lipid membrane structure and behavior, protein structure and dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Scientific Reports, Trends in Biotechnology, Nature Communications, Nature Chemical Biology, and Protein Science.

Recent papers associated with James U. Bowie include:

  • Synthetic Biochemistry: The Bio-inspired Cell-Free Approach to Commodity Chemical Production, 2020, Trends in Biotechnology
  • Isobutanol Production Freed from Biological Limits Using Synthetic Biochemistry, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A Bio-inspired Cell-Free System for Cannabinoid Production from Inexpensive Inputs, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
  • How Bilayer Properties Influence Membrane Protein Folding, 2020, Protein Science
  • How Physical Forces Drive the Process of Helical Membrane Protein Folding, 2022, EMBO Reports

Collaborations frequently occur with researchers such as Tyler P. Korman, Hongjiang Liu, Saken Sherkhanov, Meaghan A. Valliere, and Paul H. Opgenorth.

James U. Bowie was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Deciphering the message in protein sequences: tolerance to amino acid substitutions

    James U. Bowie;John F. Reidhaar-Olson;Wendell A. Lim;Robert T. Sauer

  • Method to identify protein sequences that fold into a known three-dimensional structure

    David Eisenberg;James U. Bowie;Roland Luthy

  • Assessment of protein models with three-dimensional profiles.

    Roland Lüthy;James U. Bowie;David Eisenberg

  • VERIFY3D: assessment of protein models with three-dimensional profiles.

    David Eisenberg;Roland Lüthy;James U. Bowie

  • The Database of Interacting Proteins: 2004 update

    Lukasz Salwínski;Christopher S. Miller;Adam J. Smith;Frank K. Pettit

  • Solving the membrane protein folding problem

    James U. Bowie

  • Helix packing in membrane proteins.

    James U Bowie

  • Bicelle crystallization: a new method for crystallizing membrane proteins yields a monomeric bacteriorhodopsin structure.

    Salem Faham;James U Bowie

  • The Many Faces of SAM

    Feng Qiao;James U. Bowie

  • SAM domains: uniform structure, diversity of function.

    Chongwoo A Kim;James U Bowie

  • Stabilizing membrane proteins

    James U Bowie

  • Polymerization of the SAM domain of TEL in leukemogenesis and transcriptional repression.

    Chongwoo A. Kim;Martin L. Phillips;Woojae Kim;Mari Gingery

  • An architectural framework that may lie at the core of the postsynaptic density.

    Marisa K. Baron;Tobias M. Boeckers;Tobias M. Boeckers;Tobias M. Boeckers;Bianca Vaida;Bianca Vaida;Bianca Vaida;Salem Faham;Salem Faham;Salem Faham

  • Oligomeric Structure of the Human EphB2 Receptor SAM Domain

    Christopher D. Thanos;Kenneth E. Goodwill;James U. Bowie

  • A method for assessing the stability of a membrane protein.

    Francis W. Lau;James U. Bowie

  • Transmembrane glycine zippers: physiological and pathological roles in membrane proteins

    Sanguk Kim;Tae-Joon Jeon;Amit Oberai;Duan Yang

  • The SAM domain of polyhomeotic forms a helical polymer.

    Chongwoo A. Kim;Mari Gingery;Rosemarie M. Pilpa;James U. Bowie

  • Equilibrium dissociation and unfolding of the arc repressor dimer

    James U. Bowie;Robert T. Sauer

  • A Novel Cytoplasmic Tail MXXXL Motif Mediates the Internalization of Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen

    Sigrid A. Rajasekaran;Gopalakrishnapillai Anilkumar;Eri Oshima;James U. Bowie

  • Modest stabilization by most hydrogen-bonded side-chain interactions in membrane proteins

    Nathan HyunJoong Joh;Andrew Min;Salem Faham;Julian P. Whitelegge

Frequent Co-Authors

David Eisenberg
David Eisenberg Harvard University
Julian P. Whitelegge
Julian P. Whitelegge University of California, Los Angeles
Michael R. Sawaya
Michael R. Sawaya University of California, Los Angeles
Duilio Cascio
Duilio Cascio University of California, Los Angeles
Tobias M. Boeckers
Tobias M. Boeckers University of Ulm
Wonpil Im
Wonpil Im Lehigh University
David Baker
David Baker University of Washington
Eckart D. Gundelfinger
Eckart D. Gundelfinger Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Stefan Mundlos
Stefan Mundlos Max Planck Society

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