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5497
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John A. Gerlt publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John A. Gerlt sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 789 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

John A. Gerlt D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John A. Gerlt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1981 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

John A. Gerlt is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their career includes recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007 and as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Enzyme Function Initiative-Enzyme Similarity Tool (EFI-EST): A web tool for generating protein sequence similarity networks.

    John A. Gerlt;Jason T. Bouvier;Daniel B. Davidson;Heidi J. Imker

  • The Low Barrier Hydrogen Bond in Enzymatic Catalysis

    W. Wallace Cleland;Perry A. Frey;John A. Gerlt

  • The EFI Web Resource for Genomic Enzymology Tools: Leveraging Protein, Genome, and Metagenome Databases to Discover Novel Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways.

    Rémi Zallot;Nils Oberg;John A. Gerlt

  • Divergent Evolution of Enzymatic Function: Mechanistically Diverse Superfamilies and Functionally Distinct Suprafamilies

    John A. Gerlt;Patricia C. Babbitt

  • An explanation for rapid enzyme-catalyzed proton abstraction from carbon acids: importance of late transition states in concerted mechanisms

    John Alan Gerlt;Paul G. Gassman

  • Understanding the rates of certain enzyme-catalyzed reactions: Proton abstraction from carbon acids, acyl transfer reactions, and displacement reactions of phosphodiesters

    John A. Gerlt;Paul G. Gassman

  • Understanding enzymic catalysis: the importance of short, strong hydrogen bonds.

    John A. Gerlt;Maurice M. Kreevoy;W.W. Cleland;Perry A. Frey

  • The Enolase Superfamily: A General Strategy for Enzyme-Catalyzed Abstraction of the α-Protons of Carboxylic Acids†

    Patricia C. Babbitt;Miriam S. Hasson;Miriam S. Hasson;Joseph E. Wedekind;Joseph E. Wedekind;David R.J. Palmer

  • Understanding Enzyme Superfamilies CHEMISTRY AS THE FUNDAMENTAL DETERMINANT IN THE EVOLUTION OF NEW CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES

    Patricia C. Babbitt;John A. Gerlt

  • Evolution of enzyme superfamilies

    Margaret E Glasner;John A Gerlt;Patricia C Babbitt

  • Discovering new enzymes and metabolic pathways: conversion of succinate to propionate by Escherichia coli.

    Toomas Haller;Thomas Buckel;János Rétey;John A. Gerlt

  • Understanding enzyme-catalyzed proton abstraction from carbon acids: Details of stepwise mechanisms for β-elimination reactions

    John A. Gerlt;Paul G. Gassman

  • The Crystal Structure of Benzoylformate Decarboxylase at 1.6 Å Resolution: Diversity of Catalytic Residues in Thiamin Diphosphate-Dependent Enzymes†,‡

    Miriam S. Hasson;Angelika Muscate;Michael J. McLeish;Lena S. Polovnikova

  • Genomic Enzymology: Web Tools for Leveraging Protein Family Sequence-Function Space and Genome Context to Discover Novel Functions.

    John A. Gerlt

  • Divergent evolution in the enolase superfamily: The interplay of mechanism and specificity

    John A. Gerlt;Patricia C. Babbitt;Ivan Rayment

  • The crotonase superfamily: Divergently related enzymes that catalyze different reactions involving acyl coenzyme a thioesters

    Hazel M. Holden;Matthew M. Benning;Toomas Haller;John A. Gerlt

  • Evolutionary Potential of (β/α)8-Barrels: Functional Promiscuity Produced by Single Substitutions in the Enolase Superfamily†

    Dawn M Z Schmidt;Emily C. Mundorff;Michael Dojka;Ericka Bermudez

  • Roles of small laccases from Streptomyces in lignin degradation.

    Sudipta Majumdar;Tiit Lukk;Jose O. Solbiati;Stefan Bauer

  • Mechanism of the reaction catalyzed by acetoacetate decarboxylase. Importance of lysine 116 in determining the pKa of active-site lysine 115.

    Lane A. Highbarger;John A. Gerlt;George L. Kenyon

  • Electrophilic catalysis can explain the unexpected acidity of carbon acids in enzyme-catalyzed reactions

    John Alan Gerlt;John W. Kozarich;George L. Kenyon;Paul G. Gassman

  • Can sequence determine function

    John A Gerlt;Patricia C Babbitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia C. Babbitt
Patricia C. Babbitt University of California, San Francisco
Matthew P. Jacobson
Matthew P. Jacobson University of California, San Francisco
George L. Kenyon
George L. Kenyon University of California, San Francisco
Gregory A. Petsko
Gregory A. Petsko Cornell University
Steven C. Almo
Steven C. Almo Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ivan Rayment
Ivan Rayment University of Wisconsin–Madison
John P. Richard
John P. Richard University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Tina L. Amyes
Tina L. Amyes University at Buffalo, State University of New York
John W. Kozarich
John W. Kozarich The University of Texas at Austin
Karen N. Allen
Karen N. Allen Boston University

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