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Stephen L. Mayo is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional contributions to Medicine. Their work is distributed across several specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Oncology, Immunology, and Genetics.

The scientist's scholarly output includes multiple peer-reviewed papers published in notable venues. Recent publications include:

  • Genome manipulation by guide-directed Argonaute cleavage (2023) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Microbiome for Mars: surveying microbiome connections to healthcare with implications for long-duration human spaceflight, virtual workshop, July 13, 2020 (2021) in Microbiome
  • Interactive computational and experimental approaches improve the sensitivity of periplasmic binding protein-based nicotine biosensors for measurements in biofluids (2024) in Protein Engineering Design and Selection
  • Interactive computational and experimental approaches improve the sensitivity of periplasmic binding protein-based nicotine biosensors for measurements in biofluids (2023) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Recruiting ESCRT to single-chain heterotrimer peptide-MHCI releases antigen-presenting vesicles that stimulate T cells selectively (2025) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Protein Engineering Design and Selection
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Microbiome
  • UNC Libraries

Stephen L. Mayo has collaborated with several co-authors repeatedly, including Shan Huang, Aaron L. Nichols, Nicholas J. Friesenhahn, Christopher B. Marotta, and Dennis A. Dougherty.

Their research topics include:

  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications

Mayo was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Best Publications

  • DREIDING: A generic force field for molecular simulations

    Stephen L. Mayo;Barry D. Olafson;William A. Goddard

  • De novo protein design: fully automated sequence selection.

    Bassil I. Dahiyat;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Enzyme-like proteins by computational design

    Daniel N. Bolon;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Design, structure and stability of a hyperthermophilic protein variant.

    Sandra M. Malakauskas;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Protein design automation.

    Bassil I. Dahiyat;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Long-range electron transfer in heme proteins

    Stephen L. Mayo;Walther R. Ellis;Robert J. Crutchley;Harry B. Gray

  • Iterative approach to computational enzyme design

    Heidi K. Privett;Gert Kiss;Toni M. Lee;Rebecca Blomberg

  • Probing the role of packing specificity in protein design

    Bassil I. Dahiyat;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Protein building blocks preserved by recombination.

    Christopher A. Voigt;Carlos Martinez;Zhen-Gang Wang;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Precision is essential for efficient catalysis in an evolved Kemp eliminase

    Rebecca Blomberg;Hajo Kries;Daniel M. Pinkas;Peer R. E. Mittl

  • Automated design of the surface positions of protein helices.

    Bassil I. Dahiyat;D. Benjamin Gordon;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Energy functions for protein design.

    D B Gordon;S A Marshall;S L Mayo

  • Intrinsic β-sheet propensities result from van der Waals interactions between side chains and the local backbone

    Arthur G. Street;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Particulate methane monooxygenase contains only mononuclear copper centers

    Matthew O. Ross;Fraser MacMillan;Jingzhou Wang;Alex Nisthal

  • Guanidinium chloride induction of partial unfolding in amide proton exchange in RNase A

    Stephen L. Mayo;Robert L. Baldwin

  • Trading accuracy for speed: A quantitative comparison of search algorithms in protein sequence design.

    Christopher A. Voigt;D.Benjamin Gordon;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Computational protein design.

    Arthur G Street;Stephen L Mayo

  • Pairwise calculation of protein solvent-accessible surface areas.

    Arthur G. Street;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Contribution of surface salt bridges to protein stability.

    Pavel Strop;Stephen L. Mayo

  • De novo protein design: towards fully automated sequence selection.

    Bassil I. Dahiyat;Catherine A. Sarisky;Stephen L. Mayo

Frequent Co-Authors

Frances H. Arnold
Frances H. Arnold California Institute of Technology
Harry B. Gray
Harry B. Gray California Institute of Technology
Zhen-Gang Wang
Zhen-Gang Wang California Institute of Technology
Niles A. Pierce
Niles A. Pierce California Institute of Technology
John R. Desjarlais
John R. Desjarlais Pennsylvania State University
David A. Tirrell
David A. Tirrell California Institute of Technology
Yu-Chong Tai
Yu-Chong Tai California Institute of Technology
Pamela J. Bjorkman
Pamela J. Bjorkman California Institute of Technology
Robert C. Haddon
Robert C. Haddon University of California, Riverside

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