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Jonathan King

Jonathan King

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
91
Citations
24885
World Ranking
2364
National Ranking
1259

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jonathan King is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus in the field of Medicine, with a concentration on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, and Economics and Econometrics. Their work spans a range of topics related to public health and infectious disease control.

The main topics covered in Jonathan King's research include:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research

Frequent co-authors in Jonathan King's research collaborations include:

  • Skye McGregor
  • Rebecca Guy
  • Andrew E. Grulich
  • Kathy Petoumenos
  • Steven J. Nigro

Jonathan King's work has been published regularly in journals such as the Journal of the International AIDS Society, Communicable Diseases Intelligence, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, BMJ Open, and The Lancet Psychiatry. Their research contributions include studies published in these venues totaling multiple papers.

Selected recent publications include:

  • "A decentralised point-of-care testing model to address inequities in the COVID-19 response," 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Study of potentially preventable hospitalisations (PPH) for chronic conditions: what proportion are preventable and what factors are associated with preventable PPH?", 2020, BMJ Open
  • "Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) Annual Surveillance Report 2019," 2020, Communicable Diseases Intelligence
  • "The WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme for mental, neurological, and substance use conditions: the new and updated guideline recommendations," 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) Annual Surveillance Report 2020," 2021, Communicable Diseases Intelligence

Jonathan King has been recognized with several professional distinctions, including election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1985 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • An unstable triplet repeat in a gene related to myotonic muscular dystrophy.

    Y. H. Fu;A. Pizzuti;R. G. Fenwick;J. King

  • Polypeptides of the tail fibres of bacteriophage T4

    Jonathan King;Ulrich K. Laemmli

  • Protein folding intermediates and inclusion body formation

    Anna Mitraki;Jonathan King

  • Protein misfolding and aggregation in cataract disease and prospects for prevention

    Kate L. Moreau;Jonathan A. King

  • Cyanobacterial photosynthesis in the oceans: the origins and significance of divergent light-harvesting strategies

    Claire S. Ting;Gabrielle Rocap;Jonathan King;Sallie W. Chisholm;Sallie W. Chisholm

  • Specific aggregation of partially folded polypeptide chains: The molecular basis of inclusion body composition

    Margaret A. Speed;Daniel I. C. Wang;Jonathan King

  • Mechanism of head assembly and DNA encapsulation in Salmonella phage P22: I. Genes, proteins, structures and DNA maturation

    David Botstein;Carol H. Waddell;Jonathan King

  • Structure of epsilon15 bacteriophage reveals genome organization and DNA packaging/injection apparatus

    Wen Jiang;Juan Chang;Joanita Jakana;Peter Weigele

  • Assembly of the tau of bacteriophage T4

    Jonathan King

  • Nucleation and growth phases in the polymerization of coat and scaffolding subunits into icosahedral procapsid shells

    P.E. Prevelige;D. Thomas;J. King

  • Crystal cataracts: Human genetic cataract caused by protein crystallization

    Ajay Pande;Jayanti Pande;Neer Asherie;Aleksey Lomakin

  • Mechanism of head assembly and DNA encapsulation in Salmonella phage P22: II. Morphogenetic pathway

    Jonathan King;Elaine V. Lenk;David Botstein

  • Formation of aggregates from a thermolabile in vivo folding intermediate in P22 tailspike maturation. A model for inclusion body formation.

    C A Haase-Pettingell;J King

  • The DNA Translocating Vertex of DSDNA Bacteriophage

    C Bazinet;J King

  • Global suppression of protein folding defects and inclusion body formation

    Anna Mitraki;Bentley Fane;Bentley Fane;Cameron Haase-Pettingell;Julian Sturtevant

  • Whole proteome pI values correlate with subcellular localizations of proteins for organisms within the three domains of life.

    Russell Schwartz;Claire S. Ting;Jonathan King

  • Backbone structure of the infectious ε15 virus capsid revealed by electron cryomicroscopy

    Wen Jiang;Matthew L. Baker;Joanita Jakana;Peter R. Weigele

  • Scaffolding protein regulates the polymerization of P22 coat subunits into icosahedral shells in vitro

    Peter E. Prevelige;Dennis Thomas;Jonathan King

  • Catalytic head assembling protein in virus morphogenesis

    Jonathan King;Sherwood Casjens

  • Author response: A large field of view two-photon mesoscope with subcellular resolution for in vivo imaging

    Nicholas James Sofroniew;Daniel Flickinger;Jonathan King;Karel Svoboda

Frequent Co-Authors

Wah Chiu
Wah Chiu Stanford University
Peter E. Prevelige
Peter E. Prevelige University of Alabama at Birmingham
Daniel I. C. Wang
Daniel I. C. Wang Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
Ruhong Zhou
Ruhong Zhou Columbia University
Paul D. Adams
Paul D. Adams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sherwood R. Casjens
Sherwood R. Casjens University of Utah
David M. Goldenberg
David M. Goldenberg Immunomedics (United States)
Margaret T. Fuller
Margaret T. Fuller Stanford University
George J. Thomas
George J. Thomas University of Missouri–Kansas City

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