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Biology and Biochemistry
Sweden
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
91
Citations
27526
World Ranking
2340
National Ranking
43

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  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Jan Johansson is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including molecular biology, biomaterials, physiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics of Johansson's work cover silk-based biomaterials and applications, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, protein structure and dynamics, biochemical and structural characterization, antimicrobial peptides and activities, enzyme structure and function, and heat shock proteins research.

Johansson has published numerous papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Engineered Spider Silk Proteins for Biomimetic Spinning of Fibers with Toughness Equal to Dragline Silks, 2022, Advanced Functional Materials
  • High-yield production of a super-soluble miniature spidroin for biomimetic high-performance materials, 2021, Materials Today
  • High-yield Production of Amyloid-β Peptide Enabled by a Customized Spider Silk Domain, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Doing What Spiders Cannot-A Road Map to Supreme Artificial Silk Fibers, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Augmentation of Bri2 molecular chaperone activity against amyloid-β reduces neurotoxicity in mouse hippocampus in vitro, 2020, Communications Biology

Johansson frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Gefei Chen, Anna Rising, Axel Abelein, Michael Landreh, and Axel Leppert.

The scientist's work is regularly published in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Advanced Functional Materials, Scientific Reports, Protein Science, and Communications Biology.

Best Publications

  • Arrest of beta-amyloid fibril formation by a pentapeptide ligand.

    Lars O. Tjernberg;Jan Näslund;Fredrik Lindqvist;Jan Johansson

  • Conformation-dependent Antibacterial Activity of the Naturally Occurring Human Peptide LL-37

    Jan Johansson;Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson;Martı́n E. Rottenberg;Kurt D. Berndt

  • Molecular basis for amyloid fibril formation and stability

    O. Sumner Makin;Edward Atkins;Pawel Sikorski;Jan Johansson

  • Self-assembly of spider silk proteins is controlled by a pH-sensitive relay

    Glareh Askarieh;My Hedhammar;Kerstin Nordling;Alejandra Saenz

  • A molecular chaperone breaks the catalytic cycle that generates toxic Aβ oligomers

    Samuel I A Cohen;Paolo Arosio;Jenny Presto;Firoz Roshan Kurudenkandy

  • Prevalence and risk factors for ischemia, leak, and stricture of esophageal anastomosis: Gastric pull-up versus colon interposition

    John W Briel;Anand P Tamhankar;Jeffrey A Hagen;Steven R DeMeester

  • Role of C-peptide in human physiology

    John Wahren;Karin Ekberg;Jan Johansson;Mikael Henriksson

  • Molecular structures and interactions of pulmonary surfactant components.

    Jan Johansson;Tore Curstedt

  • Prediction of amyloid fibril-forming proteins.

    Yvonne Kallberg;Magnus Gustafsson;Bengt Persson;Johan Thyberg

  • High density lipoproteins and coronary atherosclerosis. A strong inverse relation with the largest particles is confined to normotriglyceridemic patients.

    J Johansson;L A Carlson;C Landou;A Hamsten

  • Toward spinning artificial spider silk

    Anna Rising;Jan Johansson

  • Effects of Recombinant Apolipoprotein A-IMilano on Aortic Atherosclerosis in Apolipoprotein E–Deficient Mice

    Prediman K. Shah;Jan Nilsson;Sanjay Kaul;Michael C. Fishbein

  • The effect of probucol on femoral atherosclerosis: The Probucol Quantitative Regression Swedish Trial (PQRST)

    Göran Walldius;Uno Erikson;Anders G. Olsson;Lott Bergstrand

  • RVX-208: A Small Molecule That Increases Apolipoprotein A-I and High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol In Vitro and In Vivo

    Dana Bailey;Ravi Jahagirdar;Allan Gordon;Anouar Hafiane

  • The proteins of the surfactant system

    J Johansson;T Curstedt;B Robertson

  • Biomimetic spinning of artificial spider silk from a chimeric minispidroin

    Marlene Andersson;Qiupin Jia;Ana Abella;Xiau Yeen Lee

  • Suppression of gastric acid secretion in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease results in gastric bacterial overgrowth and deconjugation of bile acids

    Jörg Theisen;Dhiren Nehra;Diane Citron;Jan Johansson

  • Charge Attraction and β Propensity Are Necessary for Amyloid Fibril Formation from Tetrapeptides

    Lars Tjernberg;Waltteri Hosia;Niklas Bark;Johan Thyberg

  • STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF SURFACTANT PROTEIN C

    Jan Johansson

  • Telomerase reverse transcriptase expression is increased early in the Barrett's metaplasia, dysplasia, adenocarcinoma sequence.

    Reginald V. N. Lord;Dennis Salonga;Kathleen D. Danenberg;Jeffrey H. Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Jörnvall
Hans Jörnvall Karolinska Institute
William J. Griffiths
William J. Griffiths Swansea University
John Wahren
John Wahren Karolinska Institute
Bengt Winblad
Bengt Winblad Karolinska Institute
Lars A. Carlson
Lars A. Carlson Umeå University
Ola Didrik Saugstad
Ola Didrik Saugstad Oslo University Hospital
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh University of California, Irvine
Anders G. Olsson
Anders G. Olsson Karolinska Institute
Jean Marie Ruysschaert
Jean Marie Ruysschaert Université Libre de Bruxelles
Bengt Persson
Bengt Persson Science for Life Laboratory

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