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Overview

Stephen Hughes is affiliated with the National Cancer Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, specifically focusing on infectious diseases, virology, and molecular biology. They have contributed extensively to the fields of HIV research and treatment, including HIV/AIDS drug development and interventions, as well as biochemical and molecular studies related to these topics.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Reverse-transcribed SARS-CoV-2 RNA can integrate into the genome of cultured human cells and can be expressed in patient-derived tissues (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • A reference human induced pluripotent stem cell line for large-scale collaborative studies (2022, Cell Stem Cell)
  • HIV-1 viremia not suppressible by antiretroviral therapy can originate from large T cell clones producing infectious virus (2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation)
  • Structural basis for strand-transfer inhibitor binding to HIV intasomes (2020, Science)
  • Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors Are Effective Anti-HIV Drugs (2021, Viruses)

Stephen Hughes frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Steven J. Smith
  • Xiaolin Wu
  • Terrence R. Burke
  • John W. Mellors
  • Xue Zhi Zhao

Their publications often appear in specific scientific venues, with multiple contributions to journals such as:

  • Viruses
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • mBio

Their main fields of study include Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broader domains, their research touches subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Virology, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Immunology. The scientist's focus on HIV/AIDS encompasses research and treatment, drug development, and interventions, aligning with interests in biochemical and molecular research as well as genetic engineering techniques like CRISPR.

Best Publications

  • A Human Oncogene Formed by the Fusion of Truncated Tropomyosin and Protein Tyrosine Kinase Sequences

    Dionisio Martin-Zanca;Stephen H. Hughes;Mariano Barbacid

  • Specific HIV integration sites are linked to clonal expansion and persistence of infected cells

    F. Maldarelli;X. Wu;L. Su;F. R. Simonetti

  • Reprogramming human T cell function and specificity with non-viral genome targeting

    Theodore L. Roth;Cristina Puig-Saus;Ruby Yu;Ruby Yu;Eric Shifrut;Eric Shifrut

  • The calanolides, a novel HIV-inhibitory class of coumarin derivatives from the tropical rainforest tree, Calophyllum lanigerum.

    Yoel Kashman;Kirk R. Gustafson;Richard W. Fuller;John H. Cardellina

  • Structure and function of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: molecular mechanisms of polymerization and inhibition.

    Stefan G. Sarafianos;Bruno Marchand;Kalyan Das;Daniel M. Himmel

  • Locations of anti-AIDS drug binding sites and resistance mutations in the three-dimensional structure of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. Implications for mechanisms of drug inhibition and resistance

    Chris Tantillo;Jianping Ding;Alfredo Jacobo-Molina;Raymond G. Nanni

  • Flexible Use of Nuclear Import Pathways by HIV-1

    KyeongEun Lee;Zandrea Ambrose;Thomas D. Martin;Ilker Oztop

  • Roles of Conformational and Positional Adaptability in Structure-Based Design of TMC125-R165335 (Etravirine) and Related Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors That Are Highly Potent and Effective against Wild-Type and Drug-Resistant HIV-1 Variants

    Kalyan Das;Arthur D. Clark;Paul J. Lewi;Jan Heeres

  • H3K4me3 Interactions with TAF3 Regulate Preinitiation Complex Assembly and Selective Gene Activation

    Shannon M. Lauberth;Takahiro Nakayama;Xiaolin Wu;Andrea L. Ferris

  • Crystal structure of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase in complex with a polypurine tract RNA:DNA.

    Stefan G. Sarafianos;Kalyan Das;Chris Tantillo;Arthur D. Clark

  • In search of a novel anti-HIV drug: multidisciplinary coordination in the discovery of 4-[[4-[[4-[(1E)-2-cyanoethenyl]-2,6-dimethylphenyl]amino]-2- pyrimidinyl]amino]benzonitrile (R278474, rilpivirine).

    Paul A. J. Janssen;Paul J. Lewi;Eddy Arnold;Frits Daeyaert

  • Evaluation of natural products as inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase.

    G T Tan;J M Pezzuto;A D Kinghorn;S H Hughes

  • B-108 Specific HIV integration sites are linked to clonal expansion and persistence of infected cells

    Frank Maldarelli;Xiaolin Wu;Ling Su;Francesco Simonetti

  • High-resolution structures of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase/TMC278 complexes: Strategic flexibility explains potency against resistance mutations.

    Kalyan Das;Joseph D. Bauman;Arthur D. Clark;Yulia V. Frenkel

  • Clonally expanded CD4+ T cells can produce infectious HIV-1 in vivo

    Francesco R. Simonetti;Michele D. Sobolewski;Elizabeth Fyne;Wei Shao

  • Lamivudine (3TC) resistance in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase involves steric hindrance with β-branched amino acids

    Stefan G. Sarafianos;Kalyan Das;Arthur D. Clark;Jianping Ding

  • In vitro anti-HIV activity of biflavonoids isolated from Rhus succedanea and Garcinia multiflora

    Yuh-Meei Lin;Herbert Anderson;Michael T. Flavin;Yeah-Huei S. Pai

  • Structure and functional implications of the polymerase active site region in a complex of HIV-1 RT with a double-stranded DNA template-primer and an antibody Fab fragment at 2.8 A resolution.

    Jianping Ding;Kalyan Das;Yu Hsiou;Stefan G Sarafianos

  • Selective excision of AZTMP by drug-resistant human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase.

    Paul L. Boyer;Stefan G. Sarafianos;Edward Arnold;Stephen H. Hughes

  • Nature, Position, and Frequency of Mutations Made in a Single Cycle of HIV-1 Replication

    Michael E. Abram;Andrea L. Ferris;Wei Shao;W. Gregory Alvord

Frequent Co-Authors

Kalyan Das
Kalyan Das Rega Institute for Medical Research
Stefan G. Sarafianos
Stefan G. Sarafianos University of Missouri
Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John M. Coffin
John M. Coffin Tufts University
Jianping Ding
Jianping Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mary F. Kearney
Mary F. Kearney National Institutes of Health
John W. Mellors
John W. Mellors University of Pittsburgh
Yves Pommier
Yves Pommier National Institutes of Health
Frank Maldarelli
Frank Maldarelli National Institutes of Health
Reuven Gordon
Reuven Gordon University of Victoria

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