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D-Index
94
Citations
27639
World Ranking
941
National Ranking
464

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert Landick is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Infectious Diseases, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work covers several main topics within their fields of study, including:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Among recent publications, some notable papers include:

  • "Structural basis for backtracking by the SARS-CoV-2 replication-transcription complex," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Structural basis for substrate selection by the SARS-CoV-2 replicase," 2023, Nature
  • "Transcriptional Pausing as a Mediator of Bacterial Gene Regulation," 2021, Annual Review of Microbiology
  • "Crabtree/Warburg-like aerobic xylose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae," 2021, Metabolic Engineering
  • "Basis of narrow-spectrum activity of fidaxomicin on Clostridioides difficile," 2022, Nature

Frequent co-authors associated with Robert Landick include:

  • Seth A. Darst
  • Elizabeth A. Campbell
  • James Chen
  • Rachel A. Mooney
  • Paul Dominic B. Olinares

The main venues where Robert Landick has published include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • EMPIAR dataset
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature
  • Molecular Cell

Robert Landick has contributed to book literature as well, with at least one publication through the Royal Society of Chemistry titled RNA Polymerases as Molecular Motors in 2021.

Recognitions include the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2004 and Fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Stretching DNA with optical tweezers

    M.D. Wang;H. Yin;R. Landick;J. Gelles

  • Force and Velocity Measured for Single Molecules of RNA Polymerase

    Michelle D. Wang;Mark J. Schnitzer;Hong Yin;Robert Landick

  • Direct observation of base-pair stepping by RNA polymerase

    Elio A. Abbondanzieri;William J. Greenleaf;Joshua W. Shaevitz;Robert Landick

  • Transcription against an applied force

    Hong Yin;Michelle D. Wang;Karel Svoboda;Robert Landick

  • Pausing by bacterial RNA polymerase is mediated by mechanistically distinct classes of signals.

    Irina Artsimovitch;Robert Landick

  • Backtracking by single RNA polymerase molecules observed at near-base-pair resolution

    Joshua W. Shaevitz;Elio A. Abbondanzieri;Robert Landick;Steven M. Block

  • Single-molecule study of transcriptional pausing and arrest by E. coli RNA polymerase.

    R. John;Davenport;Gijs J. L. Wuite;Robert Landick

  • Structural basis for substrate loading in bacterial RNA polymerase

    Dmitry G. Vassylyev;Marina N. Vassylyeva;Jinwei Zhang;Murali Palangat

  • Ubiquitous transcriptional pausing is independent of RNA polymerase backtracking.

    Keir C. Neuman;Elio A. Abbondanzieri;Robert Landick;Jeff Gelles

  • Transcription by single molecules of RNA polymerase observed by light microscopy.

    Dorothy A. Schafer;Jeff Gelles;Michael P. Sheetz;Robert Landick

  • Bacterial Transcription Terminators: The RNA 3′-End Chronicles

    Jason M. Peters;Abbey D. Vangeloff;Robert Landick

  • The regulatory roles and mechanism of transcriptional pausing.

    R. Landick

  • Mechanisms of Bacterial Transcription Termination: All Good Things Must End

    Ananya Ray-Soni;Michael J. Bellecourt;Robert Landick

  • Sequence-Resolved Detection of Pausing by Single RNA Polymerase Molecules

    Kristina M. Herbert;Arthur La Porta;Becky J. Wong;Rachel A. Mooney

  • A pause sequence enriched at translation start sites drives transcription dynamics in vivo

    Matthew H. Larson;Rachel A. Mooney;Jason M. Peters;Tricia Windgassen

  • The transcriptional regulator RfaH stimulates RNA chain synthesis after recruitment to elongation complexes by the exposed nontemplate DNA strand.

    Irina Artsimovitch;Robert Landick

  • Rho and NusG suppress pervasive antisense transcription in Escherichia coli.

    Jason M. Peters;Rachel A. Mooney;Jeffrey A. Grass;Erik D. Jessen

  • Structure of microcin J25, a peptide inhibitor of bacterial RNA polymerase, is a lassoed tail.

    Kelly Anne Wilson;Markus Kalkum;Jennifer Ottesen;Julia Yuzenkova

  • Regulator Trafficking on Bacterial Transcription Units In Vivo

    Rachel A. Mooney;Sarah E. Davis;Jason M. Peters;Jennifer L. Rowland

  • RNA polymerase mutants found through adaptive evolution reprogram Escherichia coli for optimal growth in minimal media

    Tom M. Conrad;Michael Frazier;Andrew R. Joyce;Byung-Kwan Cho

Frequent Co-Authors

Seth A. Darst
Seth A. Darst Rockefeller University
Irina Artsimovitch
Irina Artsimovitch The Ohio State University
Steven M. Block
Steven M. Block Stanford University
Joshua J. Coon
Joshua J. Coon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jeff Gelles
Jeff Gelles Brandeis University
Patricia J. Kiley
Patricia J. Kiley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Audrey P. Gasch
Audrey P. Gasch University of Wisconsin–Madison
Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky Stanford University
Konstantin Severinov
Konstantin Severinov Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Carol A. Gross
Carol A. Gross University of California, San Francisco

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