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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Keith Moffat is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine and Engineering, with significant contributions to Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Emergency Medicine, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics such as:

  • Light effects on plants
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
  • Optimal Power Flow Distribution

Some of the frequent publication venues for Keith Moffat include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • npj Digital Medicine
  • eLife
  • Nature Methods
  • BMJ Open

Recent scholarly papers associated with Keith Moffat are:

  • "The primary structural photoresponse of phytochrome proteins captured by a femtosecond X-ray laser," 2020, published in eLife
  • "Structural biology is solved - now what?," 2022, published in Nature Methods
  • "What do we know about demand, use and outcomes in primary care out-of-hours services? A systematic scoping review of international literature," 2020, published in BMJ Open
  • "Factors associated with recruitment to randomised controlled trials in general practice: a systematic mixed studies review," 2023, published in Trials
  • "Light-induced protein structural dynamics in bacteriophytochrome revealed by time-resolved x-ray solution scattering," 2022, published in Science Advances

Keith Moffat has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • James Liley
  • Gergő Bohner
  • Samuel R. Emerson
  • Bilal A. Mateen
  • Katie Borland

Among the notable recognitions received by Keith Moffat is the fellowship awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Photolysis of the carbon monoxide complex of myoglobin: nanosecond time-resolved crystallography.

    Vukica Šrajer;Tsu Yi Teng;Thomas Ursby;Claude Pradervand

  • Structure of a flavin-binding plant photoreceptor domain: Insights into light-mediated signal transduction

    Sean Crosson;Keith Moffat

  • Structure and signaling mechanism of Per-ARNT-Sim domains

    Andreas Möglich;Rebecca A. Ayers;Keith Moffat

  • Structure and Function of Plant Photoreceptors

    Andreas Möglich;Xiaojing Yang;Rebecca A. Ayers;Keith Moffat

  • The LOV domain family: photoresponsive signaling modules coupled to diverse output domains.

    Sean Crosson;Sudarshan Rajagopal;Keith Moffat

  • Time-resolved serial crystallography captures high-resolution intermediates of photoactive yellow protein

    Jason Tenboer;Shibom Basu;Nadia Zatsepin;Kanupriya Pande

  • Structure of a protein photocycle intermediate by millisecond time-resolved crystallography.

    Ulrich K. Genick;Gloria E O Borgstahl;Kingman Ng;Zhong Ren

  • Photoexcited Structure of a Plant Photoreceptor Domain Reveals a Light-Driven Molecular Switch

    Sean Crosson;Keith Moffat

  • Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein.

    Kanupriya Pande;Christopher D. M. Hutchison;Gerrit Groenhof;Andy Aquila

  • Design and Signaling Mechanism of Light-Regulated Histidine Kinases

    Andreas Möglich;Rebecca A. Ayers;Keith Moffat

  • N- and C-Terminal Flanking Regions Modulate Light-Induced Signal Transduction in the Lov2 Domain of the Blue Light Sensor Phototropin 1 from Avena Sativa.

    Andrei S. Halavaty;Keith Moffat

  • Crystal structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophytochrome: Photoconversion and signal transduction

    Xiaojing Yang;Jane Kuk;Keith Moffat

  • Protein Conformational Relaxation and Ligand Migration in Myoglobin: A Nanosecond to Millisecond Molecular Movie from Time-Resolved Laue X-ray Diffraction†

    Srajer;Ren Z;Teng Ty;Schmidt M

  • Light-activated DNA binding in a designed allosteric protein.

    Devin Strickland;Keith Moffat;Tobin R. Sosnick

  • Energy transduction on the nanosecond time scale: early structural events in a xanthopsin photocycle.

    Benjamin Perman;Vukica Šrajer;Zhong Ren;Tsu-yi Teng

  • Structure of vitamin D-dependent calcium-binding protein from bovine intestine.

    D. M. E. Szebenyi;S. K. Obendorf;K. Moffat

  • Visualizing reaction pathways in photoactive yellow protein from nanoseconds to seconds.

    Hyotcherl Ihee;Sudarshan Rajagopal;Vukica Šrajer;Reinhard Pahl

  • Structural Basis for Light-dependent Signaling in the Dimeric LOV Domain of the Photosensor YtvA

    Andreas Möglich;Keith Moffat

  • Primary reactions of the LOV2 domain of phototropin, a plant blue-light photoreceptor.

    John T M Kennis;Sean Crosson;Magdalena Gauden;Ivo H M van Stokkum

  • Structure of a Novel Photoreceptor, the BLUF Domain of AppA from Rhodobacter sphaeroides†,‡

    Spencer Anderson;Vladimira Dragnea;Shinji Masuda;Joel Ybe

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Wulff
Michael Wulff European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Hyotcherl Ihee
Hyotcherl Ihee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
John T. M. Kennis
John T. M. Kennis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dominique Bourgeois
Dominique Bourgeois Grenoble Alpes University
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
John R. Helliwell
John R. Helliwell University of Manchester
Elizabeth D. Getzoff
Elizabeth D. Getzoff Scripps Research Institute
John C. H. Spence
John C. H. Spence Arizona State University
Petra Fromme
Petra Fromme Arizona State University
Quentin H. Gibson
Quentin H. Gibson Rice University

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