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Keith R. Willison publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Keith R. Willison sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 150 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Keith R. Willison D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Keith R. Willison sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Keith R. Willison is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Neurology. They have also contributed to Computational Theory and Mathematics as well as Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Heat shock proteins research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation

Keith R. Willison has published research in a range of peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Single cell quantification of microRNA from small numbers of non-invasively sampled primary human cells, 2023, Communications Biology
  • A Novel Aβ40 Assembly at Physiological Concentration, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Acetylation Rather than H50Q Mutation Impacts the Kinetics of Cu(II) Binding to α-Synuclein, 2021, ChemPhysChem
  • Evaluation of FOXO1 Target Engagement Using a Single-Cell Microfluidic Platform, 2021, Analytical Chemistry
  • Toward high-throughput oligomer detection and classification for early-stage aggregation of amyloidogenic protein, 2022, Frontiers in Chemistry

Their frequent collaborators include Liming Ying, Xiangyu Teng, David R. Klug, Alena M. Sheveleva, and Floriana Tuna, indicating ongoing collaborative efforts in their research endeavors.

Keith R. Willison's work has been published multiple times in selected venues, notably ChemPhysChem with three publications, and single publications in Communications Biology, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Absence of the type I IFN system in EC cells: Transcriptional activator (IRF-1) and repressor (IRF-2) genes are developmentally regulated

    Hisashi Harada;Keith Willison;Jun Sakakibara;Masaaki Miyamoto

  • The t-complex polypeptide 1 complex is a chaperonin for tubulin and actin in vivo

    Himan Sternlicht;George W. Farr;Mona L. Sternlicht;Jane K. Driscoll

  • Identification of six Tcp-1-related genes encoding divergent subunits of the TCP-1-containing chaperonin

    Hiroshi Kubota;Gillian Hynes;Alexander Carne;Alan Ashworth

  • T-complex polypeptide-1 is a subunit of a heteromeric particle in the eukaryotic cytosol

    Victoria A. Lewis;Gillian M. Hynes;Dong Zheng;Dong Zheng;Helen Saibil;Helen Saibil

  • The chaperonin containing t-complex polypeptide 1 (TCP-1). Multisubunit machinery assisting in protein folding and assembly in the eukaryotic cytosol.

    Hiroshi Kubota;Gillian Hynes;Keith Willison

  • Eukaryotic type II chaperonin CCT interacts with actin through specific subunits.

    Oscar Llorca;Elizabeth A. McCormack;Gillian Hynes;Julie Grantham

  • The Chaperonin Containing t‐complex polypeptide 1 (TCP‐1)

    Hiroshi Kubota;Gillian Hynes;Keith Willison

  • Structure and function of a protein folding machine: the eukaryotic cytosolic chaperonin CCT

    José M. Valpuesta;Jaime Martı́n-Benito;Paulino Gómez-Puertas;José L. Carrascosa

  • Doc1 mediates the activity of the anaphase-promoting complex by contributing to substrate recognition

    Lori A. Passmore;Elizabeth A. McCormack;Shannon W.N. Au;Angela Paul

  • Cystosolic chaperonin subunits have a conserved ATPase domain but diverged polypeptide-binding domains

    Suwon Kim;Keith R. Willison;Arthur L. Horwich

  • Eukaryotic chaperonin CCT stabilizes actin and tubulin folding intermediates in open quasi-native conformations

    Oscar Llorca;Jaime Martín-Benito;Monica Ritco-Vonsovici;Julie Grantham

  • The interaction network of the chaperonin CCT

    Carien Dekker;Peter C Stirling;Elizabeth A McCormack;Heather Filmore

  • Elucidation of the subunit orientation in CCT (chaperonin containing TCP1) from the subunit composition of CCT micro‐complexes

    Anthony K.F. Liou;Keith R. Willison

  • Mammalian spermatogenic gene expression

    Keith Willison;Alan Ashworth

  • Monoclonal antibodies as probes for differentiation and tumor-associated antigens: a Forssman specificity on teratocarcinoma stem cells

    Peter L. Stern;Keith R. Willison;Edwin Lennox;Giovanni Galfrè

  • Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of a haploid expressed gene encoding t complex polypeptide 1

    Keith R. Willison;Keith Dudley;Jean Potter

  • Activation of a Qa/Tla class I major histocompatibility antigen gene is a general feature of oncogenesis in the mouse.

    Paul M. Brickell;David S. Latchman;David Murphy;Keith Willison

  • The 'sequential allosteric ring' mechanism in the eukaryotic chaperonin-assisted folding of actin and tubulin.

    Oscar Llorca;Jaime Martín-Benito;Julie Grantham;Monica Ritco-Vonsovici

  • Protein folding in the cell: functions of two families of molecular chaperone, hsp 60 and TF55-TCP1.

    Arthur L. Horwich;Keith R. Willison

  • Allosteric regulation of chaperonins.

    Amnon Horovitz;Keith R Willison

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Klug
David R. Klug Imperial College London
Oscar Llorca
Oscar Llorca Spanish National Research Council
Alison J. Hardcastle
Alison J. Hardcastle University College London
José M. Valpuesta
José M. Valpuesta Spanish National Research Council
José L. Carrascosa
José L. Carrascosa Spanish National Research Council
Michael E. Cheetham
Michael E. Cheetham University College London
Alan Ashworth
Alan Ashworth University of California, San Francisco
Jake Baum
Jake Baum University of New South Wales
Peter J. Parker
Peter J. Parker The Francis Crick Institute
Joshua B. Edel
Joshua B. Edel Imperial College London

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