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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Tom Alber was a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their work contributed to fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics.

The scientist's research covered topics such as:

  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Microbial natural products and biosynthesis
  • Pharmacological effects of natural compounds

Tom Alber published in the following venue:

  • Biochemistry

A documented publication from 2020 includes the paper titled "Crystal Structure and Mechanistic Molecular Modeling Studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Diterpene Cyclase Rv3377c", which appeared in the journal Biochemistry.

Frequent coauthors who collaborated with the scientist were:

  • Yue Zhang
  • Lisa M. Prach
  • Terrence E. O'Brien
  • Frank DiMaio
  • Daniil M. Prigozhin

Tom Alber was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • A switch between two-, three-, and four-stranded coiled coils in GCN4 leucine zipper mutants

    Pehr B. Harbury;Tao Zhang;Peter S. Kim;Tom Alber

  • Global landscape of HIV-human protein complexes

    Stefanie Jäger;Peter Cimermancic;Peter Cimermancic;Natali Gulbahce;Natali Gulbahce;Jeffrey R. Johnson;Jeffrey R. Johnson;Jeffrey R. Johnson

  • Crystal structure of an isoleucine-zipper trimer

    Pehr B. Harbury;Peter S. Kim;Tom Alber

  • Accessing protein conformational ensembles using room-temperature X-ray crystallography.

    James S. Fraser;Henry van den Bedem;Avi J. Samelson;P. Therese Lang

  • High-Resolution Protein Design with Backbone Freedom

    Pehr B. Harbury;Joseph J. Plecs;Bruce Tidor;Tom Alber

  • Hidden alternative structures of proline isomerase essential for catalysis

    James S. Fraser;Michael W. Clarkson;Sheena C. Degnan;Renske Erion

  • HIV-1 Tat and Host AFF4 Recruit Two Transcription Elongation Factors into a Bifunctional Complex for Coordinated Activation of HIV-1 Transcription

    Nanhai He;Min Liu;Joanne Hsu;Yuhua Xue;Yuhua Xue

  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae septins: Supramolecular organization of heterooligomers and the mechanism of filament assembly

    Aurelie Bertin;Michael A. McMurray;Patricia Grob;Sang-Shin Park

  • Structure of yeast triosephosphate isomerase at 1.9-A resolution.

    Elias Lolis;Tom Alber;Robert C. Davenport;David Rose

  • Autofluorescent Proteins with Excitation in the Optical Window for Intravital Imaging in Mammals

    Michael Z. Lin;Michael R. McKeown;Ho Leung Ng;Todd A. Aguilera

  • Buried polar residues and structural specificity in the GCN4 leucine zipper.

    Lino Gonzalez;Derek N. Woolfson;Tom Alber

  • On the three-dimensional structure and catalytic mechanism of triose phosphate isomerase

    T. Alber;D. W. Banner;A. C. Bloomer;G. A. Petsko

  • Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PknB supports a universal activation mechanism for Ser/Thr protein kinases.

    Tracy A. Young;Benedicte Delagoutte;James A. Endrizzi;Arnold M. Falick

  • Predicting oligomerization states of coiled coils

    Derek N. Woolfson;Tom Alber

  • Automated protein crystal structure determination using elves

    James Holton;Tom Alber

  • Crystallographic analysis of CD40 recognition and signaling by human TRAF2

    Sarah M. McWhirter;Steven S. Pullen;James M. Holton;James J. Crute

  • Dimer formation by an N-terminal coiled coil in the APC protein

    Geoff Joslyn;Diane S. Richardson;Ray White;Tom Alber

  • Modulation of transcription factor Ets-1 DNA binding: DNA-induced unfolding of an alpha helix

    Jeannine M. Petersen;Jack J. Skalicky;Logan W. Donaldson;Lawrence P. McIntosh

  • Human Polymerase-Associated Factor complex (PAFc) connects the Super Elongation Complex (SEC) to RNA polymerase II on chromatin

    Nanhai He;Caleb K. Chan;Bijan Sobhian;Seemay Chou

  • HIGH-AFFINITY INTERACTIONS OF TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR-ASSOCIATED FACTORS (TRAFS) AND CD40 REQUIRE TRAF TRIMERIZATION AND CD40 MULTIMERIZATION

    Steven S. Pullen;Mark E. Labadia;Richard H. Ingraham;Sarah M. McWhirter

Frequent Co-Authors

Nevan J. Krogan
Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco
Qiang Zhou
Qiang Zhou University of California, Berkeley
Gerald R. Crabtree
Gerald R. Crabtree Stanford University
Thomas C. Terwilliger
Thomas C. Terwilliger Los Alamos National Laboratory
Anthony T. Iavarone
Anthony T. Iavarone University of California, Berkeley
Christopher M. Sassetti
Christopher M. Sassetti University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Eric J. Rubin
Eric J. Rubin Harvard University
Judith P. Klinman
Judith P. Klinman University of California, Berkeley
Derek N. Woolfson
Derek N. Woolfson University of Bristol
James C. Sacchettini
James C. Sacchettini Texas A&M University

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