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  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Werner Braun is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research spans several areas within medicine, with a significant focus on infectious diseases, immunology, and allergy.

The scientist's work covers multiple specialized fields, including:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Key research topics addressed by Werner Braun include:

  • Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

Werner Braun has contributed to academic literature published in various journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Peptides
  • Vaccine
  • Scientific Reports

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Werner Braun include:

  • The importance of the 2S albumins for allergenicity and cross-reactivity of peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame seeds (2020), Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Regional and temporal coordinated mutation patterns in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein revealed by a clustering and network analysis (2022), Scientific Reports
  • The updated Structural Database of Allergenic Proteins (SDAP 2.0) provides 3D models for allergens and incorporated bioinformatics tools (2023), Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Global
  • Still SDAPing Along: 20 Years of the Structural Database of Allergenic Proteins (2022), Frontiers in Allergy
  • DGraph Clusters Flaviviruses and β-Coronaviruses According to Their Hosts, Disease Type, and Human Cell Receptors (2021), Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

Werner Braun frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Catherine H. Schein
  • Surendra S. Negi
  • Stephen C. Dreskin
  • Reinhard Braun
  • Maximilian Boesch

This body of research has earned Werner Braun recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Pseudo-structures for the 20 common amino acids for use in studies of protein conformations by measurements of intramolecular proton-proton distance constraints with nuclear magnetic resonance.

    K. Wüthrich;M. Billeter;Werner Braun

  • Exact and efficient analytical calculation of the accessible surface areas and their gradients for macromolecules

    Robert Fraczkiewicz;Werner Braun

  • Efficient computation of three-dimensional protein structures in solution from nuclear magnetic resonance data using the program DIANA and the supporting programs CALIBA, HABAS and GLOMSA.

    Peter Güntert;Werner Braun;Kurt Wüthrich

  • Polypeptide secondary structure determination by nuclear magnetic resonance observation of short proton-proton distances.

    Kurt Wüthrich;Martin Billeter;Werner Braun

  • Sequential resonance assignments in protein 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectra: Computation of sterically allowed proton-proton distances and statistical analysis of proton-proton distances in single crystal protein conformations

    Martin Billeter;Werner Braun;Kurt Wüthrich

  • Protein structures in solution by nuclear magnetic resonance and distance geometry. The polypeptide fold of the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor determined using two different algorithms, DISGEO and DISMAN

    Gerhard Wagner;Werner Braun;Timothy F. Havel;Thomas Schaumann

  • Calculation of protein conformations by proton-proton distance constraints. A new efficient algorithm.

    Werner Braun;N. Go

  • The Vlasov dynamics and its fluctuations in the $1/N$ limit of interacting classical particles

    Werner Braun;K. Hepp

  • Sequential resonance assignments as a basis for determination of spatial protein structures by high resolution proton nuclear magnetic resonance

    Kurt Wüthrich;Gerhard Wider;Gerhard Wagner;Werner Braun

  • Conformation of glucagon in a lipid-water interphase by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance.

    W. Braun;G. Wider;K.H. Lee;K. Wüthrich

  • Combined use of proton-proton Overhauser enhancements and a distance geometry algorithm for determination of polypeptide conformations. Application to micelle-bound glucagon.

    Werner Braun;Chris Bösch;Larry R. Brown;Nobuhiro Gō

  • Three-dimensional structure of rabbit liver [Cd7]metallothionein-2a in aqueous solution determined by nuclear magnetic resonance.

    Alexandre Arseniev;Peter Schultze;Erich Wörgötter;Werner Braun

  • SDAP: database and computational tools for allergenic proteins

    Ovidiu Ivanciuc;Catherine H. Schein;Werner Braun

  • The NMR structure of cyclosporin A bound to cyclophilin in aqueous solution.

    C. Weber;G. Wider;B. Von Freyberg;R. Traber

  • PRODUCTION OF ANTIBODIES TO DENATURED DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA).

    Otto J. Plescia;Werner Braun;Nicholas C. Palczuk

  • Automated stereospecific 1H NMR assignments and their impact on the precision of protein structure determinations in solution

    Peter Güntert;Werner Braun;Martin Billeter;Kurt Wüthrich

  • Distance geometry and related methods for protein structure determination from NMR data

    Werner Braun

  • Comparison of the NMR solution structure and the x-ray crystal structure of rat metallothionein-2

    Werner Braun;M. Vašák;A. H. Robbins;C. D. Stout

  • New quantitative descriptors of amino acids based on multidimensional scaling of a large number of physical–chemical properties

    Mathura S. Venkatarajan;Werner Braun

  • The protein non-folding problem: amino acid determinants of intrinsic order and disorder.

    R. M. Williams;Z. Obradovi;V. Mathura;Werner Braun

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich ETH Zurich
Randall M. Goldblum
Randall M. Goldblum The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Roberto Cattaneo
Roberto Cattaneo Mayo Clinic
Gerhard Wagner
Gerhard Wagner Harvard University
Martin Billeter
Martin Billeter University of Gothenburg
Jeremias H. R. Kägi
Jeremias H. R. Kägi University of Zurich
Peter Güntert
Peter Güntert ETH Zurich
Milan Vašák
Milan Vašák University of Zurich
Malcolm D. Walkinshaw
Malcolm D. Walkinshaw University of Edinburgh
Martin D. Chapman
Martin D. Chapman University of Virginia

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