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Walter F. Stafford

Walter F. Stafford

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Chemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
8365
World Ranking
15975
National Ranking
3989

Overview

Walter F. Stafford is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research contributions are primarily situated within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Engineering. The subfields that Stafford has notably worked in include Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Cell Biology.

Their main research topics encompass protein purification and stability, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, protein interaction studies and fluorescence analysis, field-flow fractionation techniques, hemoglobin structure and function, and chemical synthesis and analysis.

Stafford has published multiple papers in recognized scientific venues. Recent publications include:

  • Analysis of nonideality: insights from high concentration simulations of sedimentation velocity data, 2020, European Biophysics Journal
  • Sedimentation velocity FDS studies of antibodies in pooled human serum, 2023, European Biophysics Journal
  • Hydrodynamic and thermodynamic analysis of PEGylated human serum albumin, 2024, Biophysical Journal
  • Studying C9orf72 dipeptide repeat polypeptide aggregation using an analytical ultracentrifuge equipped with fluorescence detection, 2024, Analytical Biochemistry

Their frequent co-authors include John J. Correia, Robert T. Wright, Peter J. Sherwood, Thomas M. Laue, and G. Reid Bishop. Stafford has collaborated on at least two papers each with Wright, Sherwood, and Laue, while Corriea has co-authored four publications.

Stafford's work has appeared mostly in the European Biophysics Journal, with other publications in the Biophysical Journal and Analytical Biochemistry. The research spans experimental and computational methods, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches linking biological sciences with engineering principles.

Best Publications

  • Boundary analysis in sedimentation transport experiments: a procedure for obtaining sedimentation coefficient distributions using the time derivative of the concentration profile.

    Walter F. Stafford;Walter F. Stafford

  • Preferential heterodimer formation by isolated leucine zippers from fos and jun.

    Erin K. O'Shea;Rheba Rutkowski;Walter F. Stafford;Walter F. Stafford;Peter S. Kim

  • Highly Specific in Vivo Tumor Targeting by Monovalent and Divalent Forms of 741F8 Anti-c-erbB-2 Single-Chain Fv

    Gregory P. Adams;John E. McCartney;Mei-Sheng Tai;Hermann Oppermann

  • The molecular structure and lubricating activity of lubricin isolated from bovine and human synovial fluids.

    D. A. Swann;Frederick Silver;H. S. Slayter;W. Stafford

  • Modern applications of analytical ultracentrifugation.

    Thomas M. Laue;Walter F. Stafford Iii

  • Structure, subunit topology, and actin-binding activity of the Arp2/3 complex from Acanthamoeba.

    R. Dyche Mullins;Walter F. Stafford;Thomas D. Pollard

  • Analysis of heterologous interacting systems by sedimentation velocity: curve fitting algorithms for estimation of sedimentation coefficients, equilibrium and kinetic constants

    Walter F. Stafford;Peter J. Sherwood

  • ERp57 is a multifunctional thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase.

    Eva Maria Frickel;Patrick Frei;Marlène Bouvier;Walter F. Stafford

  • Molecular characterization of helix-loop-helix peptides

    Spencer J. Anthony-Cahill;Pamela A. Benfield;Robert Fairman;Zelda R. Wasserman

  • Regulated Conformation of Myosin V

    Fei Wang;Kavitha Thirumurugan;Walter F. Stafford;John A. Hammer

  • Circadian clock protein KaiC forms ATP-dependent hexameric rings and binds DNA

    Tetsuya Mori;Sergei V. Saveliev;Yao Xu;Walter F. Stafford

  • The predicted coiled-coil domain of myosin 10 forms a novel elongated domain that lengthens the head.

    Peter J. Knight;Kavitha Thirumurugan;Yuhui Xu;Fei Wang

  • Boundary analysis in sedimentation velocity experiments.

    Walter F. Stafford

  • The ABRF-MIRG’02 Study: Assembly State, Thermodynamic, and Kinetic Analysis of an Enzyme/Inhibitor Interaction

    D. G. Myszka;Y. N. Abdiche;F. Arisaka;O. Byron

  • Phosphorylation Dependence of Hsp27 Multimeric Size and Molecular Chaperone Function

    David Hayes;Vanessa Napoli;Andrew Mazurkie;Walter F. Stafford

  • Multiple oligomeric states regulate the DNA binding of helix-loop-helix peptides.

    Robert Fairman;Rita K. Beran-Steed;Spencer J. Anthony-Cahill;James D. Lear

  • Regulatory properties of single-headed fragments of scallop myosin.

    Walter F. Stafford;Eva M. Szentkiralyi;Andrew G. Szent-Gyorgyi

  • Characterization of a second myosin from Acanthamoeba castellanii.

    T D Pollard;W F Stafford;M E Porter

  • Avidity-mediated enhancement of in vivo tumor targeting by single-chain Fv dimers.

    Gregory P. Adams;Mei-Sheng Tai;John E. McCartney;James D. Marks

  • Characterization of heterologous protein-protein interactions using analytical ultracentrifugation.

    German Rivas;Walter Stafford;Allen P. Minton

  • Caldesmon. Molecular weight and subunit composition by analytical ultracentrifugation.

    P. Graceffa;Chih-Lueh Albert Wang;W. F. Stafford

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory P. Adams
Gregory P. Adams Elucida Oncology
James R. Sellers
James R. Sellers National Institutes of Health
Louis M. Weiner
Louis M. Weiner Georgetown University Medical Center
Thomas M. Laue
Thomas M. Laue University of New Hampshire
Robert Fairman
Robert Fairman Haverford College
Wolfgang Peukert
Wolfgang Peukert University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
William F. DeGrado
William F. DeGrado University of California, San Francisco
Thomas D. Pollard
Thomas D. Pollard Yale University
Peter E. Prevelige
Peter E. Prevelige University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mitsuo Ikebe
Mitsuo Ikebe University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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