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Best Female Scientists

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127
Citations
61582
World Ranking
398
National Ranking
239

Biology and Biochemistry

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127
Citations
63345
World Ranking
467
National Ranking
300

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Susan S. Taylor is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily centers on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. Other subfields of study include Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Neurology.

Their ongoing work engages with a variety of main research topics, encompassing:

  • Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling

Some of the frequent venues for their publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • eLife

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Susan S. Taylor are:

  • Phase Separation of a PKA Regulatory Subunit Controls cAMP Compartmentation and Oncogenic Signaling, 2020, Cell
  • The In Situ Structure of Parkinson's Disease-Linked LRRK2, 2020, Cell
  • mTORC2 controls the activity of PKC and Akt by phosphorylating a conserved TOR interaction motif, 2021, Science Signaling
  • From structure to the dynamic regulation of a molecular switch: A journey over 3 decades, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Conformation and dynamics of the kinase domain drive subcellular location and activation of LRRK2, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jian Wu
  • Friedrich W. Herberg
  • Jui-Hung Weng
  • Gianluigi Veglia
  • Alexandr P. Kornev

Best Publications

  • Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Subunit of Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate-Dependent Protein Kinase

    D R Knighton;J H Zheng;L F Ten Eyck;L F Ten Eyck;V A Ashford

  • Identification of a signal for rapid export of proteins from the nucleus

    Wei Wen;Judy L. Meinkoth;Roger Y. Tsien;Roger Y. Tsien;Susan S. Taylor

  • Camp-Dependent Protein Kinase: Framework for a Diverse Family of Regulatory Enzymes

    Susan S. Taylor;Joseph A. Buechler;Wes Yonemoto

  • Structure of a Peptide Inhibitor Bound to the Catalytic Subunit of Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate-Dependent Protein Kinase

    Daniel R. Knighton;Jianhua Zheng;Lynn F. Ten Eyck;Lynn F. Ten Eyck;Nguyen-huu Xuong

  • Regulation of protein kinases; controlling activity through activation segment conformation.

    Brad Nolen;Susan Taylor;Gourisankar Ghosh

  • The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition: expanding the universe of protein families.

    Shibu Yooseph;Granger Sutton;Douglas B. Rusch;Aaron L Halpern

  • Protein kinases: evolution of dynamic regulatory proteins

    Susan S. Taylor;Alexandr P. Kornev

  • Fluorescence ratio imaging of cyclic AMP in single cells

    Stephen R. Adams;Alec T. Harootunian;Ying Ji Buechler;Susan S. Taylor

  • Matrix stiffness drives epithelial–mesenchymal transition and tumour metastasis through a TWIST1–G3BP2 mechanotransduction pathway

    Spencer C. Wei;Laurent Fattet;Jeff H. Tsai;Yurong Guo

  • Crystal structure of the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase complexed with MgATP and peptide inhibitor.

    Jianhua Zheng;D. R. Knighton;L. F. Ten Eyck;R. Karlsson

  • Surface comparison of active and inactive protein kinases identifies a conserved activation mechanism

    Alexandr P. Kornev;Nina M. Haste;Susan S. Taylor;Lynn F. Ten Eyck

  • Phosphorylation and Inactivation of BAD by Mitochondria-Anchored Protein Kinase A

    Hisashi Harada;Brian Becknell;Matthias Wilm;Matthias Mann

  • Genetically encoded reporters of protein kinase A activity reveal impact of substrate tethering

    Jin Zhang;Yuliang Ma;Susan S. Taylor;Roger Y. Tsien

  • A genetically encoded, fluorescent indicator for cyclic AMP in living cells.

    M Zaccolo;F De Giorgi;C Y Cho;L Feng

  • Primary structure of Torpedo californica acetylcholinesterase deduced from its cDNA sequence.

    Mark Schumacher;Shelley Camp;Yves Maulet;Michael Newton

  • Dynamics of cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase

    D A Johnson;P Akamine;E Radzio-Andzelm;M Madhusudan

  • Phosphorylation sites in enolase and lactate dehydrogenase utilized by tyrosine protein kinases in vivo and in vitro.

    J A Cooper;F S Esch;S S Taylor;T Hunter

  • Structural genomics of the Thermotoga maritima proteome implemented in a high-throughput structure determination pipeline

    Scott A. Lesley;Peter Kuhn;Adam Godzik;Ashley M. Deacon

  • Assembly of allosteric macromolecular switches: lessons from PKA

    Susan S. Taylor;Ronit Ilouz;Ping Zhang;Alexandr P. Kornev

  • 2.2 A refined crystal structure of the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase complexed with MnATP and a peptide inhibitor.

    J. Zheng;E.A. Trafny;D.R. Knighton;N.H. Xuong

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianluigi Veglia
Gianluigi Veglia University of Minnesota
Friedrich W. Herberg
Friedrich W. Herberg University of Kassel
Roger Y. Tsien
Roger Y. Tsien University of California, San Diego
Guy A. Perkins
Guy A. Perkins University of California, San Diego
Virgil L. Woods
Virgil L. Woods University of California, San Diego
Mark H. Ellisman
Mark H. Ellisman University of California, San Diego
Jiali Gao
Jiali Gao University of Minnesota
Hemal H. Patel
Hemal H. Patel University of California, San Diego
Alexandra C. Newton
Alexandra C. Newton University of California, San Diego
Paul A. Insel
Paul A. Insel University of California, San Diego

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