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

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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 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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