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81
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24524
World Ranking
959
National Ranking
510

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard R. Burgess is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research expertise spans several interconnected domains within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's main fields of study include biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a concentration on the following subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Ecology

The primary topics addressed in their work cover a range of biological mechanisms and biotechnology applications:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Protein purification and stability
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Key recent publications authored by Richard R. Burgess include:

  • What is in the black box? The discovery of the sigma factor and the subunit structure of E. coli RNA polymerase, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Fundamentals of protein chromatography: protein chromatography, 2020, The biomedical & life sciences collection
  • Fundamentals of protein chromatography: basic protein purification, 2020, The biomedical & life sciences collection
  • Immunoaffinity chromatography and gentle IAC purification of complexes, 2021, The biomedical & life sciences collection
  • Farewell Editorial: 32 years on the Executive Editorial Board and 22 years as Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Protein Expression and Purification, 2022, Protein Expression and Purification

Publications tend to appear in venues such as The biomedical & life sciences collection, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Protein Expression and Purification.

Throughout their career, Richard R. Burgess has received several recognitions including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2012, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2008
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1983

Best Publications

  • Elution of proteins from sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels, removal of sodium dodecyl sulfate, and renaturation of enzymatic activity: Results with sigma subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase, wheat germ DNA topoisomerase, and other enzymes

    Dayle A. Hager;Richard R. Burgess

  • A procedure for the rapid, large-scall purification of Escherichia coli DNA-dependent RNA polymerase involving Polymin P precipitation and DNA-cellulose chromatography.

    Richard R. Burgess;Jerome J. Jendrisak

  • Factor stimulating transcription by RNA polymerase.

    Richard R. Burgess;Andrew A. Travers;John J. Dunn;Ekkehard K. F. Bautz

  • A new method for the large scale purification of Escherichia coli deoxyribonucleic acid-dependent ribonucleic acid polymerase.

    Richard R. Burgess

  • Architecture of RNA polymerase II and implications for the transcription mechanism.

    Patrick Cramer;David A. Bushnell;Jianhua Fu;Averell L. Gnatt

  • Separation and characterization of the subunits of ribonucleic acid polymerase.

    Richard R. Burgess

  • Sigma factors from E. coli, B. subtilis, phage SP01, and phage T4 are homologous proteins

    Michael Gribskov;Richard R. Burgess

  • Cyclic re-use of the RNA polymerase sigma factor.

    Andrew A. Travers;Richard R. Burgess

  • The codon preference plot: graphic analysis of protein coding sequences and prediction of gene expression.

    Michael Gribskov;John Devereux;Richard R. Burgess

  • A new method for the large-scale purification of wheat germ DNA-dependent RNA polymerase II.

    Jerome J. Jendrisak;Richard R. Burgess

  • Purification and properties of the sigma subunit of Escherichia coli DNA-dependent RNA polymerase.

    Peter A. Lowe;Dayle A. Hager;Richard R. Burgess

  • Refolding solubilized inclusion body proteins.

    Richard R Burgess

  • Replacement of potassium chloride by potassium glutamate dramatically enhances protein-DNA interactions in vitro

    Leirmo S;Harrison C;Cayley Ds;Burgess Rr

  • Inhibition of in vivo and in vitro transcription by monoclonal antibodies prepared against wheat germ RNA polymerase II that react with the heptapeptide repeat of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II.

    N E Thompson;T H Steinberg;D B Aronson;R R Burgess

  • The nudeotide sequence of the cloned rpoD gene for the RNA polymerase sigma subunit from E. coil K12

    Zachary Burton;Richard R. Burgess;Judy Lin;David Moore

  • The operon that encodes the sigma subunit of RNA polymerase also encodes ribosomal protein S21 and DNA primase in E. coli K12

    Zachary F. Burton;Carol A. Gross;Kathleen K. Watanabe;Richard R. Burgess

  • Nucleotide sequence preference at rat liver and wheat germ type 1 DNA topoisomerase breakage sites in duplex SV40 DNA

    Michael D. Been;Richard R. Burgess;James J. Champoux

  • Use of in vitro protein synthesis from polymerase chain reaction-generated templates to study interaction of Escherichia coli transcription factors with core RNA polymerase and for epitope mapping of monoclonal antibodies.

    S. A. Lesley;M. A. D. Brow;R. R. Burgess

  • Overexpression and purification of the sigma subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase.

    Michael Gribskov;Richard R. Burgess

  • Use of Mono Q high-resolution ion-exchange chromatography to obtain highly pure and active Escherichia coli RNA polymerase.

    Dayle A. Hager;Ding Jun Jin;Richard R. Burgess

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol A. Gross
Carol A. Gross University of California, San Francisco
Terrance M. Arthur
Terrance M. Arthur United States Department of Agriculture
Scott A. Lesley
Scott A. Lesley Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
M. Thomas Record
M. Thomas Record University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael Gribskov
Michael Gribskov Purdue University West Lafayette
James E. Dahlberg
James E. Dahlberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tomasz Heyduk
Tomasz Heyduk Saint Louis University
William S. Dynan
William S. Dynan Emory University
Robert Landick
Robert Landick University of Wisconsin–Madison

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