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2025

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D-Index
89
Citations
33110
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2141
National Ranking
52

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Robert Kaptein is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Spectroscopy, Materials Chemistry, and Biophysics.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications, Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography, and Electron Spin Resonance Studies.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Genetic switching by the Lac repressor is based on two-state Monod-Wyman-Changeux allostery, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A tribute to Renad Sagdeev and his role in spin chemistry and hyperpolarization, 2021, Russian Chemical Bulletin
  • Issue Information, 2021, Biopolymers

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Kaptein include Julija Romanuka, Gert E. Folkers, Manuel Gnida, Lidija Kovačič, and Hans Wienk.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Russian Chemical Bulletin, and Biopolymers.

Robert Kaptein is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • AQUA and PROCHECK-NMR: programs for checking the quality of protein structures solved by NMR

    R A Laskowski;J A Rullmannn;M W MacArthur;R Kaptein

  • Solution structure of the glucocorticoid receptor DNA-binding domain

    Torleif Härd;Edwin Kellenbach;Rolf Boelens;Bonnie A. Maler

  • The Nisin-Lipid II Complex Reveals a Pyrophosphate Cage that Provides a Blueprint for Novel Antibiotics

    Shang-Te D Hsu;Eefjan Breukink;Eugene Tischenko;Mandy A G Lutters

  • Recommendations for the presentation of NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids

    John L. Markley;Ad Bax;Yoji Arata;C. W. Hilbers

  • Recommendations for the presentation of NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids. IUPAC-IUBMB-IUPAB Inter-Union Task Group on the Standardization of Data Bases of Protein and Nucleic Acid Structures Determined by NMR Spectroscopy.

    John L. Markley;Ad Bax;Yoji Arata;C. W. Hilbers

  • Structure and Flexibility Adaptation in Nonspecific and Specific Protein-DNA Complexes

    Charalampos G. Kalodimos;Nikolaos Biris;Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin;Marc M. Levandoski

  • Recommendations for the presentation of NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids (IUPAC Recommendations 1998)

    John L. Markley;Ad Bax;Yoji Arata;C. W. Hilbers

  • A protein structure from nuclear magnetic resonance data. Lac Repressor headpiece

    R. Kaptein;E.R.P. Zuiderweg;R.M. Scheek;R. Boelens

  • Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization II : (Relation with anomalous ESR spectra)

    R. Kaptein;J.L. Oosterhoff

  • Proton-decoupled NMR. Spectra of carbon-13 With the nuclear overhauser effect suppressed

    R Freeman;H.D.W Hill;R Kaptein

  • Simple rules for chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization

    R. Kaptein

  • RECOORD: A recalculated coordinate database of 500+ proteins from the PDB using restraints from the BioMagResBank

    Aart J. Nederveen;Jurgen F. Doreleijers;Wim Vranken;Zachary Miller

  • Thiol ester-linked p-coumaric acid as a new photoactive prosthetic group in a protein with rhodopsin-like photochemistry

    W. D. Hoff;P. Dux;K. Hard;B. Devreese

  • Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization. VIII. Spin dynamics and diffusion of radical pairs

    R. Kaptein

  • The DNA-binding domain of HIV-1 integrase has an SH3-like fold.

    Astrid P.A.M. Eijkelenboom;Ramon A. Puras Lutzke;Rolf Boelens;Ronald H.A. Plasterk

  • Iterative procedure for structure determination from proton-proton NOEs using a full relaxation matrix approach. Application to a DNA octamer

    R Boelens;T.M.G Koning;G.A van der Marel;J.H van Boom

  • Determination of biomolecular structures from proton-proton NOE's using a relaxation matrix approach

    R. Boelens;T.M.G. Koning;R. Kaptein

  • SEQUENTIAL RESONANCE ASSIGNMENTS IN H-1-NMR SPECTRA OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDES BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL NMR-SPECTROSCOPY

    R. M. Scheek;R. Boelens;N. Russo;J. H. Van Boom

  • Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization III (anomalous multiplets of radical coupling and disproportionation products)

    R. Kaptein;L.J. Oosterhoff

  • Affinity selective isolation of ligands from peptide libraries through display on a lac repressor "headpiece dimer".

    Christian M. Gates;Willem P.C. Stemmer;Robert Kaptein;Peter J. Schatz

  • SEQUENTIAL RESONANCE ASSIGNMENTS IN DNA H-1-NMR SPECTRA BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL NOE SPECTROSCOPY

    Ruud Scheek;N Russo;R Boelens;R Kaptein

  • Protein structures from NMR.

    R Kaptein;R Boelens;R M Scheek;W F van Gunsteren

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Boelens
Rolf Boelens Utrecht University
Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin
Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin Utrecht University
Geerten W. Vuister
Geerten W. Vuister University of Leicester
J. H. Van Boom
J. H. Van Boom Leiden University
Johannes F.G. Vliegenthart
Johannes F.G. Vliegenthart Utrecht University
Klaas J. Hellingwerf
Klaas J. Hellingwerf University of Amsterdam
Keith S. Wilson
Keith S. Wilson University of York
P. J. Hore
P. J. Hore University of Oxford
G. A. Van Der Marel
G. A. Van Der Marel Leiden University
Hans-Joachim Gabius
Hans-Joachim Gabius Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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