Peter Wright (scientist)

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]

Peter Wright
Born
Peter Edwin Wright

New Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
SpouseJane Dyson[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
InstitutionsScripps Research
University of Sydney
ThesisPhysico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes (1972)
Websitewww.scripps.edu/faculty/wright

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. "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. 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.
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