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Jeffrey W. Roberts

Jeffrey W. Roberts

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
57
Citations
11568
World Ranking
2150
National Ranking
1068

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jeffrey W. Roberts is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans various areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing to a better understanding of molecular processes in bacterial systems.

Their main fields of study include biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with subfields focused on molecular biology and genetics. The primary topics of their work encompass bacterial genetics and biotechnology, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Roberts has collaborated with several coauthors throughout their career. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Terence R. Strick
  • Shannon F. Holmes
  • Thomas J. Santangelo
  • Candice K. Cunningham
  • Dorothy A. Erie

Their publications have appeared in diverse venues, notably in UNC Libraries. One of their recent papers is:

  • "Kinetic Investigation of Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase Mutants That Influence Nucleotide Discrimination and Transcription Fidelity," published in 2021 at UNC Libraries

Jeffrey W. Roberts has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002 and elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Termination Factor for RNA Synthesis

    Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • Nature of the SOS-inducing signal in Escherichia coli. The involvement of DNA replication.

    Mandana Sassanfar;Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • Mechanism of Intrinsic Transcription Termination and Antitermination

    W. S. Yarnell;J. W. Roberts

  • Escherichia coli recA gene product inactivates phage lambda repressor.

    Jeffrey W. Roberts;Christine W. Roberts;Nancy L. Craig

  • Proteolytic cleavage of bacteriophage lambda repressor in induction.

    Jeffrey W. Roberts;Christine W. Roberts

  • E. coli recA protein-directed cleavage of phage lambda repressor requires polynucleotide.

    Nancy L. Craig;Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • E. coli Transcription Repair Coupling Factor (Mfd Protein) Rescues Arrested Complexes by Promoting Forward Translocation

    Joo-Seop Park;Michael T. Marr;Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • Function of nucleoside triphosphate and polynucleotide in Escherichia coli recA protein-directed cleavage of phage lambda repressor.

    Nancy L. Craig;Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • Estimation of permeable pathways and water content using tomographic radar data

    S. S. Hubbard;J. E. Peterson;E. L. Majer;P. T. Zawislanski

  • Function of E. coli RNA Polymerase σ Factor- σ70 in Promoter-Proximal Pausing

    Brian Z Ring;William S Yarnell;Jeffrey W Roberts

  • Single molecule analysis of RNA polymerase elongation reveals uniform kinetic behavior.

    Karen Adelman;Arthur La Porta;Thomas J. Santangelo;John T. Lis

  • Promoter Recognition As Measured by Binding of Polymerase to Nontemplate Strand Oligonucleotide

    M. T. Marr;J. W. Roberts

  • Induction of SOS functions: Regulation of proteolytic activity of E. coil RecA protein by interaction with DNA and nucleoside triphosphate

    Eric M. Phizicky;Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • Phage lambda gene Q antiterminator recognizes RNA polymerase near the promoter and accelerates it through a pause site

    Elizabeth J. Grayhack;Xianjie Yang;Lester F. Lau;Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • Antitermination by bacteriophage lambda Q protein.

    J.W. Roberts;W. Yarnell;E. Bartlett;J. Guo

  • Domain organization of the Escherichia coli RNA polymerase sigma 70 subunit.

    Elena Severinova;Konstantin Severinov;David Fenyö;Michael Marr

  • Activity of the Escherichia coli recA-gene product.

    J. W. Roberts;C. W. Roberts;N. L. Craig;E. M. Phizicky

  • Purification of a RecA protein analogue from Bacillus subtilis.

    C M Lovett;J W Roberts

  • BASE-SPECIFIC RECOGNITION OF THE NONTEMPLATE STRAND OF PROMOTER DNA BY E. COLI RNA POLYMERASE

    Jeffrey W Roberts;Christine W Roberts

  • 遺伝子の分子生物学 = Molecular biology of the gene

    James Dewey Watson;Nancy Hopkins;Jeffrey W Roberts;Joan Argetsinger Steitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Lester F. Lau
Lester F. Lau University of Illinois at Chicago
Nancy L. Craig
Nancy L. Craig Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Xiang Gao
Xiang Gao Nanjing University
Carol A. Gross
Carol A. Gross University of California, San Francisco
Eric M. Phizicky
Eric M. Phizicky University of Rochester
Ray Wu
Ray Wu Cornell University
Ann Hochschild
Ann Hochschild Harvard University
Konstantin Severinov
Konstantin Severinov Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Seth A. Darst
Seth A. Darst Rockefeller University
Robert Landick
Robert Landick University of Wisconsin–Madison

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