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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nicholas V. Hud is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, contributing to research primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology as well as physics and astronomy. Their scholarly output includes publications distributed across key fields such as molecular biology, astronomy and astrophysics, biomaterials, infectious diseases, and organic chemistry.

The main topics of Nicholas V. Hud's research encompass origins and evolution of life, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, protein structure and dynamics, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Several recent papers illustrate their contributions:

  • "Mutually stabilizing interactions between proto-peptides and RNA" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Prebiotic Syntheses of Noncanonical Nucleosides and Nucleotides" (2020), published in Chemical Reviews
  • "Water and Life: The Medium is the Message" (2021), published in Journal of Molecular Evolution
  • "Thioesters provide a plausible prebiotic path to proto-peptides" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "Introduction: Chemical Evolution and the Origins of Life" (2020), published in Chemical Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nicholas V. Hud include Suneesh C. Karunakaran, Loren Dean Williams, David M. Fialho, Gary B. Schuster, and Moran Frenkel-Pinter. Their publications often appear in venues such as Chemistry - A European Journal, ChemBioChem, Journal of the American Chemical Society, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Nature Communications.

Hud was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • DNA-templated Ag nanocluster formation.

    Jeffrey T. Petty;Jie Zheng;Nicholas V. Hud;Robert M. Dickson

  • The Selectivity for K+ versus Na+ in DNA Quadruplexes Is Dominated by Relative Free Energies of Hydration: A Thermodynamic Analysis by 1H NMR†

    Nicholas V. Hud;Flint W. Smith;Frank A. L. Anet;Juli Feigon

  • Ester‐Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet–Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth

    Jay G. Forsythe;Sheng Sheng Yu;Irena Mamajanov;Martha A. Grover

  • Cryoelectron microscopy of lambda phage DNA condensates in vitreous ice: the fine structure of DNA toroids.

    Nicholas V. Hud;Kenneth H. Downing

  • The effect of sodium, potassium and ammonium ions on the conformation of the dimeric quadruplex formed by the Oxytricha nova telomere repeat oligonucleotide d(G 4 T 4 G 4 )

    Peter Schultze;Nicholas V. Hud;Flint W. Smith;Juli Feigon

  • Controlling the size of nanoscale toroidal DNA condensates with static curvature and ionic strength

    Christine C. Conwell;Igor D. Vilfan;Nicholas V. Hud

  • DNA–cation interactions: the major and minor grooves are flexible ionophores

    Nicholas V Hud;Matjaz Polak

  • Toroidal DNA condensates: unraveling the fine structure and the role of nucleation in determining size.

    Nicholas V. Hud;Igor D. Vilfan

  • DNA and RNA in Anhydrous Media: Duplex, Triplex, and G‐Quadruplex Secondary Structures in a Deep Eutectic Solvent

    Irena Mamajanov;Aaron E. Engelhart;Heather D. Bean;Nicholas V. Hud

  • Localization of ammonium ions in the minor groove of DNA duplexes in solution and the origin of DNA A-tract bending.

    Nicholas V Hud;Vladimir Sklenář;Juli Feigon

  • Identification of the Elemental Packing Unit of DNA in Mammalian Sperm Cells by Atomic Force Microscopy

    N.V. Hud;M.J. Allen;K.H. Downing;J. Lee

  • The Origin of RNA and “My Grandfather’s Axe”

    Nicholas V. Hud;Brian J. Cafferty;Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy;Loren Dean Williams

  • Guanine, adenine, and hypoxanthine production in UV-irradiated formamide solutions: relaxation of the requirements for prebiotic purine nucleobase formation.

    Hannah L. Barks;Ragan Buckley;Gregory A. Grieves;Ernesto Di Mauro

  • Cations in charge: magnesium ions in RNA folding and catalysis.

    Jessica C Bowman;Timothy K Lenz;Nicholas V Hud;Loren Dean Williams

  • A constant radius of curvature model for the organization of DNA in toroidal condensates.

    Nicholas V. Hud;Kenneth H. Downing;Rod Balhorn

  • Binding sites and dynamics of ammonium ions in a telomere repeat DNA quadruplex.

    Nicholas V Hud;Peter Schultze;Vladimı́r Sklenář;Juli Feigon

  • Efficient self-assembly in water of long noncovalent polymers by nucleobase analogues.

    Brian J. Cafferty;Isaac Gállego;Michael C. Chen;Katherine I. Farley

  • A unified model for the origin of DNA sequence-directed curvature.

    Nicholas V. Hud;Janez Plavec

  • Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water

    Brian J. Cafferty;David M. Fialho;Jaheda Khanam;Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  • Complete disproportionation of duplex poly(dT)·poly(dA) into triplex poly(dT)·poly(dA)·poly(dT) and poly(dA) by coralyne

    Matjaz Polak;Nicholas V. Hud

  • Fine Structure and the Role of Nucleation in Determining Size

    Nicholas V. Hud;Igor D. Vilfan

Frequent Co-Authors

Loren Dean Williams
Loren Dean Williams Georgia Institute of Technology
David G. Lynn
David G. Lynn Emory University
Stephen C. Harvey
Stephen C. Harvey University of Pennsylvania
Facundo M. Fernández
Facundo M. Fernández Georgia Institute of Technology
Juli Feigon
Juli Feigon University of California, Los Angeles
Gary B. Schuster
Gary B. Schuster Georgia Institute of Technology
Rod Balhorn
Rod Balhorn Shal Technologies (United States)
George E. Fox
George E. Fox University of Houston
C. David Sherrill
C. David Sherrill Georgia Institute of Technology
Julia Kubanek
Julia Kubanek Georgia Institute of Technology

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