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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael T. Wilson is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Plant Science, and Hematology.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Hemoglobin structure and function
  • Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide

Their recent notable publications are:

  • The peroxidatic activities of Myoglobin and Hemoglobin, their pathological consequences and possible medical interventions, 2021, Molecular Aspects of Medicine
  • Bacterial iron detoxification at the molecular level, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Serial Femtosecond Zero Dose Crystallography Captures a Water-Free Distal Heme Site in a Dye-Decolorising Peroxidase to Reveal a Catalytic Role for an Arginine in FeIV=O Formation, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Aspartate or arginine? Validated redox state X-ray structures elucidate mechanistic subtleties of FeIV = O formation in bacterial dye-decolorizing peroxidases, 2021, JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
  • Using cryo-EM to understand antimycobacterial resistance in the catalase-peroxidase (KatG) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 2021, Structure

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael T. Wilson include:

  • Dimitri A. Svistunenko
  • Jonathan A. R. Worrall
  • Marina Lučić
  • Nick E. Le Brun
  • Brandon J. Reeder

Their research outputs are often published in these venues:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Chemical Science

Michael T. Wilson was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1980.

Best Publications

  • Exercise, free radicals and oxidative stress

    C E Cooper;Niels B J Vollaard;T Choueiri;M T Wilson

  • The Simultaneous Generation of Superoxide and Nitric Oxide Can Initiate Lipid Peroxidation in Human Low Density Lipoprotein

    Victor M. Darley-usmar;Neil Hogg;Vanessa J. O'leary;Michael T. Wilson

  • Imaging the production of singlet oxygen in vivo using a new fluorescent sensor, Singlet Oxygen Sensor Green®

    Cristina Flors;Michael J Fryer;Jen Waring;Brandon J Reeder

  • A causative role for redox cycling of myoglobin and its inhibition by alkalinization in the pathogenesis and treatment of rhabdomyolysis-induced renal failure.

    Kevin P. Moore;Steve G. Holt;Rakesh P. Patel;Dimitri A. Svistunenko

  • Nitric oxide inhibition of respiration involves both competitive (heme) and noncompetitive (copper) binding to cytochrome c oxidase

    Maria G. Mason;Peter Nicholls;Michael T. Wilson;Christopher E. Cooper

  • Clay mineralogical and related characteristics of geophagic materials.

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  • The adsorption of nucleic acids by montmorillonite

    M.P. Greaves;M.J. Wilson

  • The radical and redox chemistry of myoglobin and hemoglobin: from in vitro studies to human pathology

    Brandon J. Reeder;Dimitri A. Svistunenko;Christopher E. Cooper;Michael T. Wilson

  • The oxidation of α-tocopherol in human low-density lipoprotein by the simultaneous generation of superoxide and nitric oxide

    Neil Hogg;Victor M. Darley-Usmar;Michael T. Wilson;Salvador Moncada

  • Hemoglobin and myoglobin associated oxidative stress: from molecular mechanisms to disease States.

    Brandon J Reeder;Michael T Wilson

  • Clay mineralogy and shale instability: an alternative conceptual analysis

    M. J. Wilson;L. Wilson

  • Acetaminophen inhibits hemoprotein-catalyzed lipid peroxidation and attenuates rhabdomyolysis-induced renal failure.

    Olivier Boutaud;Kevin P. Moore;Brandon J. Reeder;David Harry

  • miR-520c and miR-373 upregulate MMP9 expression by targeting mTOR and SIRT1, and activate the Ras/Raf/MEK/Erk signaling pathway and NF-κB factor in human fibrosarcoma cells.

    Ping Liu;Michael J. Wilson

  • The degradation of nucleic acids and montmorillonite-nucleic-acid complexes by soil microorganisms

    M.P. Greaves;M.J. Wilson

  • Sulfide inhibition of and metabolism by cytochrome c oxidase.

    Peter Nicholls;Doug C Marshall;Christopher E Cooper;Michael T Wilson

  • Nitric oxide ejects electrons from the binuclear centre of cytochrome c oxidase by reacting with oxidised copper: a general mechanism for the interaction of copper proteins with nitric oxide?

    Chris E. Cooper;Jaume Torres;Martyn A. Sharpe;Michael T. Wilson

  • A Common Mechanism for the Interaction of Nitric Oxide with the Oxidized Binuclear Centre and Oxygen Intermediates of Cytochromec Oxidase

    Jaume Torres;Chris E. Cooper;Michael T. Wilson

  • Increased lipid peroxidation in patients with rhabdomyolysis.

    Steve Holt;Brandon Reeder;Mike Wilson;Sheila Harvey

  • Tyrosine residues as redox cofactors in human hemoglobin: implications for engineering nontoxic blood substitutes.

    Brandon J. Reeder;Marie Grey;Radu-Lucian Silaghi-Dumitrescu;Dimitri A. Svistunenko

  • The Globin-based Free Radical of Ferryl Hemoglobin Is Detected in Normal Human Blood

    Dimitri A. Svistunenko;Rakesh P. Patel;Sergey V. Voloshchenko;Michael T. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris E. Cooper
Chris E. Cooper University of Essex
Gary D. Lock
Gary D. Lock University of Bath
Maurizio Brunori
Maurizio Brunori Sapienza University of Rome
Andrew S. Ball
Andrew S. Ball RMIT University
Geoffrey R. Moore
Geoffrey R. Moore University of East Anglia
Joseph Bonaventura
Joseph Bonaventura Duke University
Victor M. Darley-Usmar
Victor M. Darley-Usmar University of Alabama at Birmingham
Zhenli He
Zhenli He University of Florida
Abdu I. Alayash
Abdu I. Alayash US Food and Drug Administration
Khalil Ahmed
Khalil Ahmed University of Minnesota

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