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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2017
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Wesley E. Stites

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Chair and Professor

Also affiliated: Johns Hopkins University (1990–2003); Johns Hopkins Medicine (1991–1994); IIT@MIT (1989); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988)

Faculty Researcher

26 h-index 70 pubs 3,346 cited

  • Micrococcal Nuclease
  • Protein Denaturation
  • Thermodynamics
  • Enzyme Stability
  • Models, Molecular
  • Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
  • Guanidine
  • Protein Conformation
  • Mutation
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Amino Acid Substitution
  • Protein Folding
  • Models, Chemical
  • Protein Engineering
  • Crystallography, X-Ray

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Wesley E. Stites's research focuses on the study of microbial communities and their physiological functions. His work has investigated the role of microbial communities in various environments and their interactions with hosts. Stites has published research on topics including bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and microbial community ecology and physiology. His recent publications date back to 2017, indicating no recent activity.

Metrics

  • h-index: 26
  • Publications: 70
  • Citations: 3,346

Selected Publications

  • Methionine Sulfoxide Formation by Cigarette Smoke is Associated with the Degradation of Plasma Proteins (2017)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Investigation of Methionine Sulfoxide Formation as a Regulator of Proteolysis (2017)
    Biophysical Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The pH dependence of staphylococcal nuclease stability is incompatible with a three-state denaturation model (2013)
    Biophysical Chemistry 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The fluorescence detected guanidine hydrochloride equilibrium denaturation of wild-type staphylococcal nuclease does not fit a three-state unfolding model (2013)
    Biochimie 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Theory of the protein equilibrium population snapshot by H/D exchange electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (PEPS-HDX-ESI-MS) method used to obtain protein folding energies/rates and selected supporting experimental evidence (2012)
    International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • An electrophoretic mobility shift assay for methionine sulfoxide in proteins (2011)
    Analytical Biochemistry 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Thermodynamic principles for the engineering of pH-driven conformational switches and acid insensitive proteins (2011)
    Biophysical Chemistry 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Inactivation of Thrombomodulin by Ionizing Radiation in a Cell-Free System: Possible Implications for Radiation Responses in Vascular Endothelium (2008)
    Radiation Research 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of Excluded Volume upon Protein Stability in Covalently Cross-Linked Proteins with Variable Linker Lengths (2008)
    Biochemistry 35 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Comparison of two ESI-MS based H/D exchange methods for extracting protein folding energies (2008)
    International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Refinement of noncalorimetric determination of the change in heat capacity, Δ<i>C</i><sub>p</sub>, of protein unfolding and validation across a wide temperature range (2008)
    Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Development of an immunoassay for oxidized or unoxidized forms of thrombomodulin (2006)
    The FASEB Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Protein surface hydration mapped by site-specific mutations (2006)
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 143 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Thermal denaturations of staphylococcal nuclease wild-type and mutants monitored by fluorescence and circular dichroism are similar: Lack of evidence for other than a two state thermal denaturation (2006)
    Biophysical Chemistry 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • High Apparent Dielectric Constant Inside a Protein Reflects Structural Reorganization Coupled to the Ionization of an Internal Asp (2006)
    Biophysical Journal 142 citations DOI OpenAlex

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