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Peter Wright
Born
Peter Edwin Wright

Alma mater University of Auckland
Spouse Jane Dyson [1]
Scientific career
Fields Biophysics
Institutions Scripps Research
University of Sydney
Thesis Physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes (1972)
Website www.scripps.edu/faculty/wright Edit this at Wikidata

Peter Edwin Wright is a scientist, an NMR spectroscopist and a professor at the Scripps Research Institute. [2] [3] [4] He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology. [5]

Education and early life

Wright is from New Zealand and studied at the University of Auckland. He graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a Master of Science degree in 1969. He completed his PhD in chemistry in 1972 [6] with a thesis on the physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes. [7]

Career and research

From 1976 to 1984, he was employed by the University of Sydney. Since 1984, he has been employed at the Scripps Research Institute. [6] [8]

Wright is a proponent of the theory of conformational sampling being of importance to enzyme catalysis and intrinsically disordered proteins, [9] [10] [11] which is opposed to the theory of electrostatic preorganization.

Personal life

Wright is married to Jane Dyson. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jane Dyson". biophysics.org.
  2. ^ Peter Wright publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. ^ "Peter Wright, PhD". Scripps Research. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  4. ^ Peter Wright publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ "Peter Wright - Journal of Molecular Biology (ISSN 0022-2836) - Elsevier". Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2011. Journal of Molecular Biology
  6. ^ a b Peter Wright's ORCID  0000-0002-1368-0223
  7. ^ Wright, Peter Edwin (1972). Physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes. auckland.ac.nz (PhD thesis). University of Auckland. hdl: 2292/1373. OCLC  227232000.
  8. ^ Jennings PA; Wright PE (1 November 1993). "Formation of a molten globule intermediate early in the kinetic folding pathway of apomyoglobin". Science. 262 (5135): 892–896. doi: 10.1126/SCIENCE.8235610. ISSN  0036-8075. PMID  8235610. Wikidata  Q46929622.
  9. ^ H. Jane Dyson; Peter E. Wright (March 2005). "Intrinsically unstructured proteins and their functions". Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 6 (3): 197–208. doi: 10.1038/NRM1589. ISSN  1471-0072. PMID  15738986. Wikidata  Q22061731.
  10. ^ Peter E Wright; H. Jane Dyson (1 January 2015). "Intrinsically disordered proteins in cellular signalling and regulation". Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 16 (1): 18–29. doi: 10.1038/NRM3920. ISSN  1471-0072. PMC  4405151. PMID  25531225. Wikidata  Q35510300.
  11. ^ Gira Bhabha; Jeeyeon Lee; Damian C Ekiert; Jongsik Gam; Ian A Wilson; H Jane Dyson; Stephen J Benkovic; Peter E Wright (8 April 2011). "A dynamic knockout reveals that conformational fluctuations influence the chemical step of enzyme catalysis". Science. 332 (6026): 234–8. doi: 10.1126/SCIENCE.1198542. ISSN  0036-8075. PMC  3151171. PMID  21474759. Wikidata  Q24622677.