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James A. Wells

University of California, San Francisco
Verified email at ucsf.edu
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A hot spot of binding energy in a hormone-receptor interface

T Clackson, JA Wells - Science, 1995 - science.org
… Clackson and JA Wells, unpublished data]; in addition, the W104A mutant has a native-like
circular dichroism spectrum (10) and can bind to a variant of hGH engineered to have higher …

K-Ras (G12C) inhibitors allosterically control GTP affinity and effector interactions

JM Ostrem, U Peters, ML Sos, JA Wells, KM Shokat - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
… For the assay, 10 μl of the prepared protein (1 μM final) in reaction buffer was added to the
wells. To … Burlingame and J. Sadowsky for assistance with the tethering screen; P. Ren and Y. …

Additivity of mutational effects in proteins

JA Wells - Biochemistry, 1990 - ACS Publications
… Cunningham and J. Wells, personal communication), and RNase S peptide and S protein
( ) (Mitchinson & Baldwin, 1986). The dashed line represents a line of unity slope, and the …

Reaching for high-hanging fruit in drug discovery at protein–protein interfaces

JA Wells, CL McClendon - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Targeting the interfaces between proteins has huge therapeutic potential, but discovering
small-molecule drugs that disrupt protein–protein interactions is an enormous challenge. …

High-resolution epitope mapping of hGH-receptor interactions by alanine-scanning mutagenesis

BC Cunningham, JA Wells - Science, 1989 - science.org
A strategy, called alanine-scanning mutagenesis, was used to identify specific side chains
in human growth hormone (hGH) that strongly modulate binding to the hGH receptor cloned …

Small-molecule inhibitors of protein–protein interactions: progressing towards the dream

MR Arkin, JA Wells - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2004 - nature.com
Protein–protein interactions have a key role in most biological processes, and offer attractive
opportunities for therapeutic intervention. Developing small molecules that modulate protein…

Aflibercept, bevacizumab, or ranibizumab for diabetic macular edema.

JA Wells, AR Glassman, AR Ayala… - The New England …, 2015 - europepmc.org
Background The relative efficacy and safety of intravitreous aflibercept, bevacizumab, and
ranibizumab in the treatment of diabetic macular edema are unknown. Methods At 89 clinical …

Dimerization of the extracellular domain of the human growth hormone receptor by a single hormone molecule

…, AM de Vos, MG Mulkerrin, KR Clauser, JA Wells - Science, 1991 - science.org
Human growth hormone (hGH) forms a 1:2 complex with the extracellular domain of its
receptor-binding protein (hGHbp) as studied by crystallization, size exclusion chromatography, …

[PDF][PDF] Small-molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions: progressing toward the reality

MR Arkin, Y Tang, JA Wells - Chemistry & biology, 2014 - cell.com
The past 20 years have seen many advances in our understanding of protein-protein interactions
(PPIs) and how to target them with small-molecule therapeutics. In 2004, we reviewed …

Aflibercept, bevacizumab, or ranibizumab for diabetic macular edema: two-year results from a comparative effectiveness randomized clinical trial

JA Wells, AR Glassman, AR Ayala, LM Jampol… - Ophthalmology, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose To provide 2-year results comparing anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)
agents for center-involved diabetic macular edema (DME) using a standardized follow-up …