Arthur M. Lesk

23.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
192 papers, 17.1k citations indexed

About

Arthur M. Lesk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Arthur M. Lesk has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 17.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Molecular Biology, 61 papers in Materials Chemistry and 24 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Arthur M. Lesk's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (78 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (59 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (29 papers). Arthur M. Lesk is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (78 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (59 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (29 papers). Arthur M. Lesk collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Arthur M. Lesk's co-authors include Cyrus Chothia, C. Chothia, James C. Whisstock, Joël Janin, Susan M. Miller, Anna Tramontano, Mark Gerstein, Bissan Al‐Lazikani, Arun S. Konagurthu and D. Ross Boswell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Arthur M. Lesk

189 papers receiving 16.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The relation between the divergence of sequence and structure in proteins.

1986 1.9k citations Arthur M. Lesk et al. profile →
Canonical structures for the hypervariable regions of immunoglobulins

1987 1.1k citations Cyrus Chothia, Arthur M. Lesk Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions

1989 971 citations Cyrus Chothia, Arthur M. Lesk et al. profile →
Interior and surface of monomeric proteins

1987 802 citations Arthur M. Lesk et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Structural Mechanisms for Domain Movements in Proteins

1994 610 citations Arthur M. Lesk et al. profile →
Standard conformations for the canonical structures of immunoglobulins 1 1Edited by I. A. Wilson

1997 586 citations Arthur M. Lesk, Cyrus Chothia et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
How different amino acid sequences determine similar protein structures: The structure and evolutionary dynamics of the globins

1980 579 citations Arthur M. Lesk, Cyrus Chothia Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
MUSTANG: A multiple structural alignment algorithm

2006 563 citations Arun S. Konagurthu, James C. Whisstock et al. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →
The outline structure of the T-cell alpha beta receptor.

1988 555 citations Arthur M. Lesk et al. profile →
Structural repertoire of the human VH segments

1992 325 citations Cyrus Chothia, Arthur M. Lesk et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

Peers

Arthur M. Lesk

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Cyrus Chothia United Kingdom

Peter S. Kim United States

David R. Davies United States

Robert E. Bruccoleri United States

Alexander Wlodawer United States

Gary L. Gilliland United States

Roland L. Dunbrack United States

Andrew G. W. Leslie United Kingdom

Haruki Nakamura Japan

D. S. Moss United Kingdom

Cyrus Chothia United Kingdom

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21.0k ×1.6

6.7k ×1.7

4.2k ×1.1

RNMI

2.0k ×0.9

IMMUN

2.5k ×1.9

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Countries citing papers authored by Arthur M. Lesk

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arthur M. Lesk

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All Works

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Allison, Lloyd, et al.. (2023). Getting ‘ϕψχal’ with proteins: minimum message length inference of joint distributions of backbone and sidechain dihedral angles. Bioinformatics. 39(Supplement_1). i357–i367. 1 indexed citations

Huynen, Martijn A., et al.. (2021). Invisible leashes: The tethering VAPs from infectious diseases to neurodegeneration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100421–100421. 16 indexed citations

Lesk, Arthur M.. (2021). Protein Science. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Konagurthu, Arun S., Lloyd Allison, David Abramson, et al.. (2021). Universal Architectural Concepts Underlying Protein Folding Patterns. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 7. 612920–612920. 8 indexed citations

Sente, Andrija, Ashish Srivastava, Mithu Baidya, et al.. (2018). Molecular mechanism of modulating arrestin conformation by GPCR phosphorylation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 25(6). 538–545. 75 indexed citations

Allison, Lloyd, et al.. (2016). Statistical inference of protein structural alignments using information and compression. Bioinformatics. 33(7). 1005–1013. 14 indexed citations

Lesk, Arthur M., et al.. (2012). Super: a web server to rapidly screen superposable oligopeptide fragments from the protein data bank. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(W1). W334–W339. 10 indexed citations

Lesk, Arthur M.. (2012). Comment on “Comparing proteins by their internal dynamics: Exploring structure–function relationships beyond static structural alignments” by C. Micheletti. Physics of Life Reviews. 10(1). 33–34. 1 indexed citations

Miller, Webb, Daniela I. Drautz, Jan E. Janečka, et al.. (2009). The mitochondrial genome sequence of the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Genome Research. 19(2). 213–220. 97 indexed citations

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Sangar, Vineet, Daniel Blankenberg, Naomi Altman, & Arthur M. Lesk. (2007). Quantitative sequence-function relationships in proteins based on gene ontology. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(1). 294–294. 68 indexed citations

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Konagurthu, Arun S., James C. Whisstock, Peter J. Stuckey, & Arthur M. Lesk. (2006). MUSTANG: A multiple structural alignment algorithm. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 64(3). 559–574. 563 indexed citations breakdown →

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Faux, Noel G., Stephen Bottomley, Arthur M. Lesk, et al.. (2005). Functional insights from the distribution and role of homopeptide repeat-containing proteins. Genome Research. 15(4). 537–551. 164 indexed citations

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Lesk, Arthur M., et al.. (1999). Computational Molecular Biology. 105 indexed citations

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Whisstock, James C., James A. Irving, Stephen Bottomley, Robert N. Pike, & Arthur M. Lesk. (1999). Serpins in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 36(1). 31–41. 16 indexed citations

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Lesk, Arthur M.. (1998). Application of Sequence Alignment Methods to Multiple Structural Alignment and Superposition.. 95–100. 2 indexed citations

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Molinari, Henriette, Gennaro Esposito, Laura Ragona, et al.. (1997). Probing protein structure by solvent perturbation of NMR spectra: the surface accessibility of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor. Biophysical Journal. 73(1). 382–396. 36 indexed citations

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Lesk, Arthur M., et al.. (1996). Conservation and Variability in the Structures of Serine Proteinases of the Chymotrypsin Family. Journal of Molecular Biology. 258(3). 501–537. 114 indexed citations

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Rustici, Mauro & Arthur M. Lesk. (1994). Three-Dimensional Searching for Recurrent Structural Motifs in Data Bases of Protein Structures. Journal of Computational Biology. 1(2). 121–132. 9 indexed citations

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Lesk, Arthur M. & Cyrus Chothia. (1986). The response of protein structures to amino-acid sequence changes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 317(1540). 345–356. 71 indexed citations

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Lesk, Arthur M.. (1972). Pictorial pattern recognition and the phase problem of x-ray crystallography. Communications of the ACM. 15(1). 3–6. 6 indexed citations

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