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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2012 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Richard A. Houghten is affiliated with Florida International University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine. Key subfields in their work include molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, endocrine and autonomic systems, and nutrition and dietetics.

The main research topics featured in their publications cover receptor mechanisms and signaling, regulation of appetite and obesity, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, antimicrobial peptides and activities, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, neuropeptides and animal physiology, as well as pain mechanisms and treatments.

Frequent publication venues for Richard A. Houghten include the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, where they have contributed three papers, as well as The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Molecules, Frontiers in Microbiology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent published papers include:

  • The value of antimicrobial peptides in the age of resistance, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Novel Cyclic Lipopeptides Fusaricidin Analogs for Treating Wound Infections, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Discovery of Nanomolar Melanocortin-3 Receptor (MC3R)-Selective Small Molecule Pyrrolidine Bis-Cyclic Guanidine Agonist Compounds Via a High-Throughput "Unbiased" Screening Campaign, 2021, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Peripheral kappa opioid receptor activation drives noxious cold hypersensitivity in mice, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Functional Mixture-Based Positional Scan Identifies a Library of Antagonist Tetrapeptide Sequences (LAtTeS) with Nanomolar Potency for the Melanocortin-4 Receptor and Equipotent with the Endogenous AGRP(86-132) Antagonist, 2021, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Richard A. Houghten include:

  • Marc A. Giulianotti
  • Clemencia Pinilla
  • Radleigh G. Santos
  • Jay P. McLaughlin
  • Katie T. Freeman

Richard A. Houghten has been recognized with several awards, notably being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013 and as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2012.

Best Publications

  • General method for the rapid solid-phase synthesis of large numbers of peptides: specificity of antigen-antibody interaction at the level of individual amino acids

    Richard A. Houghten

  • Generation and use of synthetic peptide combinatorial libraries for basic research and drug discovery

    Richard A. Houghten;Clemencia Pinilla;Sylvie E. Blondelle;Jon R. Appel

  • The structure of an antigenic determinant in a protein

    Ian A. Wilson;Henry L. Niman;Richard A. Houghten;Andrew R. Cherenson

  • Protection against foot-and-mouth disease by immunization with a chemically synthesized peptide predicted from the viral nucleotide sequence

    James L. Bittle;Richard A. Houghten;Hannah Alexander;Thomas M. Shinnick

  • The value of antimicrobial peptides in the age of resistance

    Maria Magana;Muthuirulan Pushpanathan;Ana L Santos;Leon Leanse

  • An immunodominant epitope of the human immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoprotein gp160 recognized by class I major histocompatibility complex molecule-restricted murine cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

    Hidemi Takahashi;Joseph Cohen;Anne Hosmalin;Kemp B. Cease

  • Generation of protein-reactive antibodies by short peptides is an event of high frequency: implications for the structural basis of immune recognition.

    Henry L. Niman;Richard A. Houghten;Leslie E. Walker;Ralph A. Reisfeld

  • The reactivity of anti-peptide antibodies is a function of the atomic mobility of sites in a protein.

    John A. Tainer;Elizabeth D. Getzoff;Hannah Alexander;Richard A. Houghten

  • Small-molecule antagonists of apoptosis suppressor XIAP exhibit broad antitumor activity.

    Aaron D. Schimmer;Kate Welsh;Clemencia Pinilla;Zhiliang Wang

  • Shifting from the single to the multitarget paradigm in drug discovery.

    José L. Medina-Franco;Marc A. Giulianotti;Gregory S. Welmaker;Richard A. Houghten

  • Design of model amphipathic peptides having potent antimicrobial activities

    Sylvie E. Blondelle;Richard A. Houghten

  • A conformational transition at the N terminus of the prion protein features in formation of the scrapie isoform.

    D Peretz;R A Williamson;Y Matsunaga;H Serban

  • Hemolytic and antimicrobial activities of the twenty-four individual omission analogues of melittin.

    Sylvie E. Blondelle;Richard A. Houghten

  • The use of synthetic peptide combinatorial libraries for the identification of bioactive peptides.

    Houghten Ra;Appel;Blondelle Se;Cuervo Jh

  • "Libraries from libraries": chemical transformation of combinatorial libraries to extend the range and repertoire of chemical diversity

    John M. Ostresh;Gregory M. Husar;Sylvie E. Blondelle;Barbara Dorner

  • Human T-cell recognition of the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum: immunodominant T-cell domains map to the polymorphic regions of the molecule

    Michael F. Good;David Pombo;Isabella A. Quakyi;Eleanor M. Riley

  • The immunodominant site of a synthetic immunogen has a conformational preference in water for a type-II reverse turn

    Dyson Hj;Cross Kj;Houghten Ra;Wilson Ia

  • Mapping the Prion Protein Using Recombinant Antibodies

    R. Anthony Williamson;David Peretz;Clemencia Pinilla;Hadyn Ball

  • Mixture-based synthetic combinatorial libraries.

    Richard A. Houghten;Clemencia Pinilla;Jon R. Appel;Sylvie E. Blondelle

  • Identification of candidate T-cell epitopes and molecular mimics in chronic Lyme disease.

    Bernhard Hemmer;Bruno Gran;Yingdong Zhao;Adriana Marques

Frequent Co-Authors

Clemencia Pinilla
Clemencia Pinilla Florida International University
Enrique Pérez-Payá
Enrique Pérez-Payá Spanish National Research Council
José L. Medina-Franco
José L. Medina-Franco National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jay A. Berzofsky
Jay A. Berzofsky National Institutes of Health
John C. Reed
John C. Reed Johnson & Johnson (United States)
John H. Vaughan
John H. Vaughan Scripps Health
Roland Martin
Roland Martin University of Zurich
Gregg B. Fields
Gregg B. Fields Florida Atlantic University
Michael F. Good
Michael F. Good Griffith University
Bernhard Hemmer
Bernhard Hemmer Technical University of Munich

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