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Overview

Stephen M. King is affiliated with the University of Connecticut Health Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on various subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple main topics including:

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
  • Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels

Stephen M. King has published extensively in a variety of journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Small
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Among recent notable papers are:

  • Structural Disruptions of the Outer Membranes of Gram-Negative Bacteria by Rationally Designed Amphiphilic Antimicrobial Peptides, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Mucus-penetrating nanoparticles based on chitosan grafted with various non-ionic polymers: Synthesis, structural characterisation and diffusion studies, 2022, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • How do Self-Assembling Antimicrobial Lipopeptides Kill Bacteria?, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Biogeochemical and climate drivers of wetland phosphorus and nitrogen release: Implications for nutrient legacies and eutrophication risk, 2020, Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Peptide Self-Assemblies from Unusual α-Sheet Conformations Based on Alternation of d/l Amino Acids, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators include Sarah E. Rogers, Xuzhi Hu, Jian R. Lu, Hai Xu, and Peter Hedström, with whom the scientist has co-authored numerous publications.

Best Publications

  • The Proapoptotic Activity of the Bcl-2 Family Member Bim Is Regulated by Interaction with the Dynein Motor Complex

    Hamsa Puthalakath;David C.S Huang;Lorraine A O’Reilly;Stephen M King

  • The dynein microtubule motor.

    Stephen M King

  • Correction: Corrigendum: TCTEX1D2 mutations underlie Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy with impaired retrograde intraflagellar transport

    Miriam Schmidts;Yuqing Hou;Claudio R. Cortes;Dorus A. Mans

  • Genetic analysis of the cytoplasmic dynein subunit families

    K. Kevin Pfister;Paresh R Shah;Holger Hummerich;Andreas P. Russ

  • Radial spoke proteins of Chlamydomonas flagella

    Pinfen Yang;Dennis R. Diener;Chun Yang;Takahiro Kohno

  • CCDC103 mutations cause primary ciliary dyskinesia by disrupting assembly of ciliary dynein arms

    Jennifer R Panizzi;Anita Becker-Heck;Victoria H Castleman;Dalal A Al-Mutairi;Dalal A Al-Mutairi

  • Brain cytoplasmic and flagellar outer arm dyneins share a highly conserved Mr 8,000 light chain.

    Stephen M. King;Elisa Barbarese;James F. Dillman;Ramila S. Patel-King

  • The M(r) = 8,000 and 11,000 outer arm dynein light chains from Chlamydomonas flagella have cytoplasmic homologues

    Stephen M. King;Ramila S. Patel-King

  • The light chain composition of chicken brain myosin-Va: calmodulin, myosin-II essential light chains, and 8-kDa dynein light chain/PIN.

    Foued S. Espindola;Daniel M. Suter;Leticia B.E. Partata;Tracy Cao

  • Zebrafish Ciliopathy Screen Plus Human Mutational Analysis Identifies C21orf59 and CCDC65 Defects as Causing Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

    Christina Austin-Tse;Jan Halbritter;Maimoona B Zariwala;Renée M. Gilberti

  • Cytoplasmic dynein nomenclature

    K. Kevin Pfister;Elizabeth M.C. Fisher;Ian R. Gibbons;Thomas S. Hays

  • Drosophila roadblock and Chlamydomonas LC7: a conserved family of dynein-associated proteins involved in axonal transport, flagellar motility, and mitosis.

    Aaron B. Bowman;Ramila S. Patel-King;Sharon E. Benashski;J. Michael McCaffery

  • A two-step procedure for efficient electrotransfer of both high-molecular-weight (>400,000) and low-molecular-weight (<20,000) proteins☆

    Tim Otter;Stephen M. King;George B. Witman

  • The 78,000 M(r) intermediate chain of Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein isa WD-repeat protein required for arm assembly

    Curtis G. Wilkerson;Stephen M. King;Anthony Koutoulis;Gregory J. Pazour

  • A Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein mutant with a truncated beta heavy chain

    Hitoshi Sakakibara;Saeko Takada;Stephen M. King;George B. Witman

  • The Mouse t-Complex-encoded Protein Tctex-1 Is a Light Chain of Brain Cytoplasmic Dynein

    Stephen M. King;James F. Dillman;Sharon E. Benashski;R. John Lye

  • The Chlamydomonas genome project: a decade on

    Ian K Blaby;Crysten E. Blaby-Haas;Nicolas J. Tourasse;Erik F.Y. Hom

  • The Mr 78,000 intermediate chain of Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein interacts with alpha-tubulin in situ

    Stephen M. King;Curtis G. Wilkerson;George B. Witman

  • Dimerization of the Highly Conserved Light Chain Shared by Dynein and Myosin V

    Sharon E. Benashski;Alistair Harrison;Ramila S. Patel-King;Stephen M. King

  • Molecular analysis of the gamma heavy chain of Chlamydomonas flagellar outer-arm dynein

    Curtis G. Wilkerson;Stephen M. King;George B. Witman

Frequent Co-Authors

George B. Witman
George B. Witman University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Gregory J. Pazour
Gregory J. Pazour University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Ritsu Kamiya
Ritsu Kamiya University of Tokyo
Richard E. Mains
Richard E. Mains University of Connecticut Health Center
Betty A. Eipper
Betty A. Eipper University of Connecticut Health Center
Hannah M. Mitchison
Hannah M. Mitchison University College London
Winfield S. Sale
Winfield S. Sale Emory University
Sabeeha S. Merchant
Sabeeha S. Merchant University of California, Berkeley
Mary E. Porter
Mary E. Porter University of Minnesota
Hywel Williams
Hywel Williams University College London

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