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Biology and Biochemistry
Belgium
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
37301
World Ranking
3431
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Peter Tompa is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, with significant work also in materials chemistry, neurology, cell biology, and spectroscopy. The scientist's main topics of study revolve around protein structure and dynamics, RNA research and splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, enzyme structure and function, RNA modifications and cancer, bioinformatics and genomic networks, as well as ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Their publication record includes several notable papers, such as:

  • Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction, 2021, Nature Methods
  • DisProt in 2022: improved quality and accessibility of protein intrinsic disorder annotation, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • PED in 2021: a major update of the protein ensemble database for intrinsically disordered proteins, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • DisProt in 2024: improving function annotation of intrinsically disordered proteins, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • A generic approach to study the kinetics of liquid-liquid phase separation under near-native conditions, 2021, Communications Biology

The frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Protein Science
  • Communications Biology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Peter Tompa has collaborated with a number of co-authors over their career, frequently working alongside Tamás Lázár, Rita Pancsa, Silvio C. E. Tosatto, Attila Mészáros, and Ágnes Tantos.

In recognition of their contributions, Peter Tompa was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Intrinsically unstructured proteins.

    Peter Tompa

  • Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins.

    Robin van der Lee;Robin van der Lee;Marija Buljan;Benjamin Lang;Robert J. Weatheritt

  • IUPred: web server for the prediction of intrinsically unstructured regions of proteins based on estimated energy content

    Zsuzsanna Dosztányi;Veronika Csizmok;Peter Tompa;István Simon

  • Protein Phase Separation: A New Phase in Cell Biology.

    Steven Boeynaems;Steven Boeynaems;Simon Alberti;Nicolas L. Fawzi;Tanja Mittag

  • Polymer physics of intracellular phase transitions

    Clifford P. Brangwynne;Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa;Rohit V. Pappu

  • Fuzzy complexes: polymorphism and structural disorder in protein-protein interactions.

    Peter Tompa;Monika Fuxreiter

  • The pairwise energy content estimated from amino acid composition discriminates between folded and intrinsically unstructured proteins.

    Zsuzsanna Dosztányi;Veronika Csizmók;Péter Tompa;István Simon

  • DisProt: the Database of Disordered Proteins

    Megan Sickmeier;Justin A. Hamilton;Tanguy LeGall;Vladimir Vacic

  • The interplay between structure and function in intrinsically unstructured proteins.

    Peter Tompa

  • Introducing Protein Intrinsic Disorder.

    Johnny Habchi;Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa;Sonia Longhi;Sonia Longhi;Vladimir N. Uversky;Vladimir N. Uversky

  • Intrinsically disordered proteins: a 10-year recap

    Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa

  • The role of structural disorder in the function of RNA and protein chaperones

    Peter Tompa;Peter Csermely

  • Preformed structural elements feature in partner recognition by intrinsically unstructured proteins.

    Monika Fuxreiter;István Simon;Peter Friedrich;Peter Tompa

  • Structural disorder throws new light on moonlighting

    Peter Tompa;Csilla Szász;László Buday

  • Phase Separation of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeats Perturbs Stress Granule Dynamics

    Steven Boeynaems;Elke Bogaert;Denes Kovacs;Albert Konijnenberg

  • A Million Peptide Motifs for the Molecular Biologist

    Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa;Norman E. Davey;Toby J. Gibson;M. Madan Babu

  • Local structural disorder imparts plasticity on linear motifs

    Monika Fuxreiter;Peter Tompa;István Simon

  • Chaperone activity of ERD10 and ERD14, two disordered stress-related plant proteins.

    Denes Kovacs;Eva Kalmar;Zsolt Torok;Peter Tompa

  • Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein-RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties.

    Steven Boeynaems;Alex S. Holehouse;Venera Weinhardt;Venera Weinhardt;Denes Kovacs

  • Unstructural biology coming of age.

    Peter Tompa

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir N. Uversky
Vladimir N. Uversky University of South Florida
Wim F. Vranken
Wim F. Vranken Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Monika Fuxreiter
Monika Fuxreiter University of Padua
A. Keith Dunker
A. Keith Dunker Indiana University
István Simon
István Simon Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Silvio C. E. Tosatto
Silvio C. E. Tosatto University of Padua
Isabella C. Felli
Isabella C. Felli University of Florence
Roberta Pierattelli
Roberta Pierattelli University of Florence
András Perczel
András Perczel Eötvös Loránd University

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