J. Blair West

A search for peptide ligase: cosolvent-mediated conversion of proteases to esterases for irreversible synthesis of peptides

Carlos F. Barbas, Jose R. Matos, J. Blair West et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1988 · 102 citations

Engineering, Peptide Engineering, Altmetric Attention Score +19

Use of nonproteases in peptide synthesis

J. Blair West, Chi‐Huey Wong · Tetrahedron Letters · 1987 · 100 citations

Protein Folding, Biochemistry, Peptide Synthesis

Enzyme-catalyzed irreversible formation of peptides containing D-amino acids

J. Blair West, Chi Huey Wong · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1986 · 80 citations

Protein Chemistry, Biochemistry, Natural Sciences +12

Enzymes as synthetic catalysts: mechanistic and active-site considerations of natural and modified chymotrypsin

J. Blair West, William J. Hennen, James Lalonde et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1990 · 71 citations

Engineering, Chemical Analysis, Synthetic Catalysts +17

Modification of proteases to esterases for peptide synthesis: methylchymotrypsin

J. Blair West, Jeff. Scholten, Neal J. Stolowich et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1988 · 66 citations

Biosynthesis, Engineering, Biochemistry +11