Colin Levy

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Colin Levy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Levy has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Organic Chemistry and 16 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Colin Levy's work include Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (15 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (14 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (11 papers). Colin Levy is often cited by papers focused on Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (15 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (14 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (11 papers). Colin Levy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Colin Levy's co-authors include David Leys, Nigel S. Scrutton, Anthony P. Green, Rebecca Crawshaw, Sam Hay, Jason Micklefield, Sarah L. Lovelock, Derren J. Heyes, Stephen E. J. Rigby and Andrew W. Munro and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Colin Levy

94 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Directed evolution of an efficient and thermostable PET depolymerase

2022 281 citations Elizabeth L. Bell, Jake Foster et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
The road to fully programmable protein catalysis

2022 233 citations Sarah L. Lovelock, Rebecca Crawshaw et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Levy United Kingdom	37	2.4k	888	479	416	373	97	4.1k
Andrew Smith United Kingdom	38	2.6k 1.1×	478 0.5×	761 1.6×	288 0.7×	780 2.1×	108	5.6k
Karine Auclair Canada	32	1.8k 0.7×	522 0.6×	256 0.5×	247 0.6×	337 0.9×	107	3.5k
Adrie H. Westphal Netherlands	38	3.1k 1.3×	487 0.5×	795 1.7×	459 1.1×	258 0.7×	126	5.4k
Ramesh N. Patel United States	37	4.3k 1.8×	791 0.9×	329 0.7×	180 0.4×	459 1.2×	135	5.0k
Pimchai Chaiyen Thailand	36	2.7k 1.1×	368 0.4×	524 1.1×	1.0k 2.5×	586 1.6×	178	4.3k
Jiahai Zhou China	31	2.2k 0.9×	516 0.6×	303 0.6×	108 0.3×	226 0.6×	104	3.3k
Helen S. Toogood United Kingdom	29	2.1k 0.9×	357 0.4×	377 0.8×	96 0.2×	269 0.7×	69	2.7k
Yasuhisa Asano Japan	42	5.0k 2.1×	879 1.0×	1.3k 2.7×	180 0.4×	357 1.0×	305	6.4k
Michael Müller Germany	45	3.9k 1.6×	2.1k 2.3×	531 1.1×	173 0.4×	593 1.6×	231	6.6k
Gerrit J. Poelarends Netherlands	41	2.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	511 1.1×	562 1.4×	265 0.7×	159	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Levy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Levy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Levy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin Levy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin Levy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Colin Levy. Colin Levy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Zhang, Xiaoli, Michael P. Lockhart‐Cairns, Colin Levy, et al.. (2025). The structural organisation of pentraxin-3 and its interactions with heavy chains of inter-α-inhibitor regulate crosslinking of the hyaluronan matrix. Matrix Biology. 136. 52–68. 1 indexed citations

Meng, Qinglong, Charlotte Morrill, Ying Zhuo, et al.. (2025). Enzymatic synthesis of key RNA therapeutic building blocks using simple phosphate donors. Nature Communications. 17(1). 622–622.

Kavanagh, Madeline E., Kirsty J. McLean, M. Snee, et al.. (2025). Fragment-Based Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cholesterol Metabolism. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(14). 14416–14441.

Taylor, Christopher J., Colin Levy, Mary Ortmayer, et al.. (2025). Biocatalytic Activation of Sulfur Heteroaromatics Facilitates Dearomatizing Cross-Couplings to Set Stereogenic Centers or Axes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(46). 43057–43066.

Xu, Guangcai, Deepanjan Panda, Rémi Zallot, et al.. (2024). Cryptic enzymatic assembly of peptides armed with β-lactone warheads. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(10). 1371–1379. 10 indexed citations

Kalvet, Indrek, Mary Ortmayer, Jingming Zhao, et al.. (2023). Design of Heme Enzymes with a Tunable Substrate Binding Pocket Adjacent to an Open Metal Coordination Site. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(26). 14307–14315. 46 indexed citations

Bell, Elizabeth L., Jake Foster, Florence J. Hardy, et al.. (2022). Directed evolution of an efficient and thermostable PET depolymerase. Nature Catalysis. 5(8). 673–681. 281 indexed citations breakdown →

Lovelock, Sarah L., Rebecca Crawshaw, Sophie Basler, et al.. (2022). The road to fully programmable protein catalysis. Nature. 606(7912). 49–58. 233 indexed citations breakdown →

Frederickson, Martyn, Dimitrios Evangelopoulos, Kirsty J. McLean, et al.. (2022). A new strategy for hit generation: Novel in cellulo active inhibitors of CYP121A1 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis via a combined X-ray crystallographic and phenotypic screening approach (XP screen). European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 230. 114105–114105. 5 indexed citations

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Gautom, Trishnamoni, Dharmendra S. Dheeman, Colin Levy, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of terephthalate recognition by solute binding protein TphC. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6244–6244. 22 indexed citations

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Ortmayer, Mary, Florence J. Hardy, Matthew G. Quesne, et al.. (2021). A Noncanonical Tryptophan Analogue Reveals an Active Site Hydrogen Bond Controlling Ferryl Reactivity in a Heme Peroxidase. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(7). 913–918. 15 indexed citations

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White, Mark D., Sergio Iacopino, Martin P. Edwards, et al.. (2020). Structures of Arabidopsis thaliana oxygen-sensing plant cysteine oxidases 4 and 5 enable targeted manipulation of their activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(37). 23140–23147. 38 indexed citations

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Levy, Colin, et al.. (2020). Computational and structure-guided design of phosphoinositide substrate specificity into the tyrosine specific LMW-PTP enzyme. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0235133–e0235133. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shaowei, Michiyo Sakuma, Girdhar Singh Deora, et al.. (2019). A brain-permeable inhibitor of the neurodegenerative disease target kynurenine 3-monooxygenase prevents accumulation of neurotoxic metabolites. Communications Biology. 2(1). 271–271. 44 indexed citations

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McLean, Kirsty J., Gayathri Nagalingam, James A. Triccas, et al.. (2019). Structure–Activity Relationships of cyclo(l-Tyrosyl-l-tyrosine) Derivatives Binding to Mycobacterium tuberculosis CYP121: Iodinated Analogues Promote Shift to High-Spin Adduct. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 62(21). 9792–9805. 22 indexed citations

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Bennett, Matthew R., Mark L. Thompson, Sarah A. Shepherd, et al.. (2018). Structure and Biocatalytic Scope of Coclaurine N‐Methyltransferase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(33). 10600–10604. 36 indexed citations

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Bennett, Matthew R., Mark L. Thompson, Sarah A. Shepherd, et al.. (2018). Structure and Biocatalytic Scope of Coclaurine N‐Methyltransferase. Angewandte Chemie. 130(33). 10760–10764. 5 indexed citations

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McLean, Kirsty J., Colin Levy, Leonardo Mariño, et al.. (2017). Novel Aryl Substituted Pyrazoles as Small Molecule Inhibitors of Cytochrome P450 CYP121A1: Synthesis and Antimycobacterial Evaluation. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 60(24). 10257–10267. 31 indexed citations

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Levy, Colin, Derren J. Heyes, Michael Joyce, et al.. (2008). Molecular basis of halorespiration control by CprK, a CRP‐FNR type transcriptional regulator. Molecular Microbiology. 70(1). 151–167. 39 indexed citations

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Joyce, Michael, Colin Levy, Tzanko Doukov, et al.. (2006). CprK Crystal Structures Reveal Mechanism for Transcriptional Control of Halorespiration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(38). 28318–28325. 27 indexed citations

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