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James A. Wells

University of California, San Francisco · US
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Area of research
Surgery · Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Research interest
Research interests include Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis, Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments, and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research.
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111
citations
53,216
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593
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Recent publications

CRISPRi-based screen of autism spectrum disorder risk genes in microglia uncovers roles of ADNP in microglia endocytosis and synaptic pruning
Molecular Psychiatry 2025cited by 19position: middledoi
Engineered Proteins and Chemical Tools to Probe the Cell Surface Proteome
Chemical Reviews 2025cited by 17position: lastdoi
Ultrasensitive detection of intact SARS-CoV-2 particles in complex biofluids using microfluidic affinity capture
Science Advances 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
Hijacking Extracellular Targeted Protein Degrader–Drug Conjugates for Enhanced Drug Delivery
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025cited by 10position: lastdoi
Temporal photoproximity labeling of ligand-activated EGFR neighborhoods using MultiMap
Nature Chemical Biology 2025cited by 3position: lastdoi
High-affinity CD16A polymorphism associated with reduced risk ofsevere COVID-19
JCI Insight 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Multiscale photocatalytic proximity labeling reveals cell surface neighbors on and between cells
Science 2024cited by 112position: lastdoi
Oxidative cyclization reagents reveal tryptophan cation–π interactions
Nature 2024cited by 64position: middledoi
Antibody discovery identifies regulatory mechanisms of protein arginine deiminase 4
Nature Chemical Biology 2024cited by 25position: lastdoi
Transcobalamin receptor antibodies in autoimmune vitamin B12 central deficiency
Science Translational Medicine 2024cited by 21position: middledoi
Mechanism-guided engineering of a minimal biological particle for genome editing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024cited by 19position: middledoi
Extracellular targeted protein degradation: an emerging modality for drug discovery
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 2023cited by 153position: firstdoi
Site-specific proximity labeling at single residue resolution for identification of protein partners <i>in vitro</i> and on cells
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023cited by 3position: lastdoi
Modular cytokine receptor-targeting chimeras for targeted degradation of cell surface and extracellular proteins
Nature Biotechnology 2022cited by 241position: lastdoi
Ribosome stalling during selenoprotein translation exposes a ferroptosis vulnerability
Nature Chemical Biology 2022cited by 127position: middledoi
The surfaceome of multiple myeloma cells suggests potential immunotherapeutic strategies and protein markers of drug resistance
Nature Communications 2022cited by 127position: middledoi
Roadmap for Optimizing and Broadening Antibody-Based PROTACs for Degradation of Cell Surface Proteins
ACS Chemical Biology 2022cited by 91position: lastdoi
Cell-surface tethered promiscuous biotinylators enable comparative small-scale surface proteomic analysis of human extracellular vesicles and cells
eLife 2022cited by 50position: lastdoi
Targeting a proteolytic neoepitope on CUB domain containing protein 1 (CDCP1) for RAS-driven cancers
Journal of Clinical Investigation 2022cited by 39position: lastdoi
MEK inhibition enhances presentation of targetable MHC-I tumor antigens in mutant melanomas
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022cited by 36position: middledoi
Development of Antibody-Based PROTACs for the Degradation of the Cell-Surface Immune Checkpoint Protein PD-L1
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021cited by 498position: lastdoi
SARS-CoV-2 antibody magnitude and detectability are driven by disease severity, timing, and assay
Science Advances 2021cited by 150position: middledoi
Engineering luminescent biosensors for point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection
Nature Biotechnology 2021cited by 140position: lastdoi
The CD28-Transmembrane Domain Mediates Chimeric Antigen Receptor Heterodimerization With CD28
Frontiers in Immunology 2021cited by 128position: middledoi
Precision Engineering of an Anti-HLA-A2 Chimeric Antigen Receptor in Regulatory T Cells for Transplant Immune Tolerance
Frontiers in Immunology 2021cited by 93position: middledoi
Engineered ACE2 receptor traps potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020cited by 264position: lastdoi
ReScan, a Multiplex Diagnostic Pipeline, Pans Human Sera for SARS-CoV-2 Antigens
Cell Reports Medicine 2020cited by 97position: middledoi
Broad and thematic remodeling of the surfaceome and glycoproteome on isogenic cells transformed with driving proliferative oncogenes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020cited by 83position: lastdoi
Competitive SARS-CoV-2 Serology Reveals Most Antibodies Targeting the Spike Receptor-Binding Domain Compete for ACE2 Binding
mSphere 2020cited by 75position: lastdoi
Deep profiling of protease substrate specificity enabled by dual random and scanned human proteome substrate phage libraries
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020cited by 58position: lastdoi

Grants

SBIR Phase II: Miniature Mass Spectrometer for Liquids Analysis
NSF0450512$458,4752005–2007PIRePORTER
SBIR Phase I: Miniature Mass Spectrometer for Expired Breath Analysis
NSF0319274$99,5882003–2003PIRePORTER
A Proposal for Implementing Calculus Reform in West Appalachia
NSF9252494$750,0001992–1996PIRePORTER
Workshop on Structure and Function of Mutated Proteins; Florence, Italy, August 26-30, 1991.
NSF9100502$10,0001991–1992PIRePORTER
Acquisition of Mathematical Sciences Research Equipment
NSF8604063$30,0001986–1988PIRePORTER
Microcomputer Laboratory For Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction
NSF8015089$17,6631980–1983PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Kevin Leung · University of California, San Francisco13 papers (2018–2025)Olivier Julien · University of Alberta11 papers (2012–2018)James R. Byrnes · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill6 papers (2020–2023)Xin Zhou · Xuzhou Medical College6 papers (2020–2024)Susanna K. Elledge · Massachusetts Institute of Technology6 papers (2020–2024)Alexander J. Martinko · University of San Francisco5 papers (2017–2022)Jeff E. Glasgow · University of California, San Francisco5 papers (2020–2025)T.J. Rettenmaier · University of California, San Francisco5 papers (2014–2020)Alma L. Burlingame · University of California, San Francisco5 papers (2012–2013)N.D. Thomsen · Gilead Sciences (United States)5 papers (2013–2017)Arun P. Wiita · UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center4 papers (2013–2020)Christopher J. Chang · Princeton University4 papers (2016–2024)James T. Koerber · Research & Diagnostic Antibodies (United States)4 papers (2013–2014)Irene Lui · University of California, San Francisco4 papers (2020–2024)Kaitlin Schaefer · University of California, San Francisco4 papers (2022–2025)Duy Nguyen · Gunma University4 papers (2016–2021)Min Zhuang · North Carolina State University4 papers (2012–2017)Zhi Lin · Harvard University4 papers (2024–2025)Jonathan S. Weissman · Howard Hughes Medical Institute4 papers (2013–2018)Shion A. Lim · University of California, San Francisco4 papers (2020–2022)
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