Fiona Whelan

627 total citations
25 papers, 492 citations indexed

About

Fiona Whelan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fiona Whelan has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 492 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Fiona Whelan's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Fiona Whelan is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Fiona Whelan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. Fiona Whelan's co-authors include Sebastian G. B. Furness, Gàbriel L. Plaa, Anne Chapman‐Smith, Jennifer R. Potts, Alfred A. Antson, John E. Cronan, Terrence D. Mulhern, John C. Wallace, Keith E. Shearwin and Stephen G. Bell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Fiona Whelan

24 papers receiving 489 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fiona Whelan United Kingdom 13 290 67 57 49 44 25 492
Alexander Schmitz United States 18 252 0.9× 23 0.3× 41 0.7× 26 0.5× 17 0.4× 40 849
N. Cittanova France 16 393 1.4× 75 1.1× 69 1.2× 86 1.8× 30 0.7× 53 657
Predrag Kukić United Kingdom 16 538 1.9× 50 0.7× 37 0.6× 83 1.7× 9 0.2× 37 732
Jianzhong Chen United States 17 395 1.4× 48 0.7× 130 2.3× 194 4.0× 32 0.7× 42 863
F Schneider Germany 15 200 0.7× 55 0.8× 43 0.8× 22 0.4× 12 0.3× 54 499
Ryan MacArthur United States 16 307 1.1× 40 0.6× 31 0.5× 22 0.4× 37 0.8× 24 562
Csaba Magyar Hungary 14 451 1.6× 35 0.5× 75 1.3× 33 0.7× 13 0.3× 29 601
Mary Szatkowski Ozers United States 13 344 1.2× 10 0.1× 53 0.9× 27 0.6× 35 0.8× 16 541
Michael F. Byford United Kingdom 11 366 1.3× 83 1.2× 48 0.8× 58 1.2× 20 0.5× 14 521
Wilson Radding United States 15 289 1.0× 35 0.5× 50 0.9× 47 1.0× 8 0.2× 24 451

Countries citing papers authored by Fiona Whelan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fiona Whelan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fiona Whelan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fiona Whelan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fiona Whelan 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 Fiona Whelan. Fiona Whelan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dehkhoda, Farhad, Mitchell Ringuet, Fiona Whelan, et al.. (2025). Constitutive ghrelin receptor activity enables reversal of dopamine D2 receptor signaling. Molecular Cell. 85(11). 2246–2260.e10.
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Shearwin, Keith E., et al.. (2025). Structural insights into S-lignin O-demethylation via a rare class of heme peroxygenase enzymes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1815–1815. 7 indexed citations
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Coleman, Tom, Mark A. McLean, Matthew N. Podgorski, et al.. (2024). Selective α-Hydroxyketone Formation and Subsequent C–C Bond Cleavage by Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase Enzymes. ACS Catalysis. 14(11). 8958–8971. 4 indexed citations
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Whelan, Fiona, Gemma Harris, Aisling M. Towell, et al.. (2023). Staphylococcal Periscope proteins Aap, SasG, and Pls project noncanonical legume-like lectin adhesin domains from the bacterial surface. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(3). 102936–102936. 7 indexed citations
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Whelan, Fiona, Aleix Lafita, Samuel C. Griffiths, et al.. (2021). Periscope Proteins are variable-length regulators of bacterial cell surface interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(23). 14 indexed citations
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Rawlings, Andrea E., Daniel T. Peters, Fiona Whelan, et al.. (2020). Rational Design and Self-Assembly of Coiled-Coil Linked SasG Protein Fibrils. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(7). 1599–1607. 4 indexed citations
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Gruszka, Dominika T., Emanuele Paci, Fiona Whelan, et al.. (2016). Disorder drives cooperative folding in a multidomain protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(42). 11841–11846. 23 indexed citations
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Gruszka, Dominika T., Fiona Whelan, Herman K.H. Fung, et al.. (2015). Cooperative folding of intrinsically disordered domains drives assembly of a strong elongated protein. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7271–7271. 44 indexed citations
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Chaban, Yuriy, Jonathan A. Stead, Fiona Whelan, et al.. (2015). Structural basis for DNA strand separation by a hexameric replicative helicase. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(17). 8551–8563. 11 indexed citations
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Whelan, Fiona, et al.. (2015). From bacterial to human dihydrouridine synthase: automated structure determination. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 71(7). 1564–1571. 17 indexed citations
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Jenkins, Huw T., Daniel T. Peters, Fiona Whelan, et al.. (2015). Major reorientation of tRNA substrates defines specificity of dihydrouridine synthases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(19). 6033–6037. 42 indexed citations
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Whelan, Fiona, Pierre Aller, Louise E. Bird, et al.. (2013). S-Adenosyl-S-carboxymethyl-L-homocysteine: a novel cofactor found in the putative tRNA-modifying enzyme CmoA. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 69(6). 1090–1098. 17 indexed citations
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Griffiths, Samuel C., et al.. (2012). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the catalytic domain of human dihydrouridine synthase. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 68(3). 333–336. 5 indexed citations
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Whelan, Fiona, Jonathan A. Stead, Alexander V. Shkumatov, et al.. (2011). A flexible brace maintains the assembly of a hexameric replicative helicase during DNA unwinding. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(5). 2271–2283. 12 indexed citations
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Whelan, Fiona, Nan Hao, Sebastian G. B. Furness, Murray L. Whitelaw, & Anne Chapman‐Smith. (2010). Amino Acid Substitutions in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand Binding Domain Reveal YH439 As an Atypical AhR Activator. Molecular Pharmacology. 77(6). 1037–1046. 19 indexed citations
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Furness, Sebastian G. B. & Fiona Whelan. (2009). The pleiotropy of dioxin toxicity — Xenobiotic misappropriation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor's alternative physiological roles. Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 124(3). 336–353. 47 indexed citations
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Dave, Keyur A., Fiona Whelan, Sebastian G. B. Furness, et al.. (2008). Sulfonation and Phosphorylation of Regions of the Dioxin Receptor Susceptible to Methionine Modifications. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 8(4). 706–719. 11 indexed citations
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Chapman‐Smith, Anne, Terrence D. Mulhern, Fiona Whelan, John E. Cronan, & John C. Wallace. (2001). The C‐terminal domain of biotin protein ligase from E. coli is required for catalytic activity. Protein Science. 10(12). 2608–2617. 61 indexed citations
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Whelan, Fiona & Gàbriel L. Plaa. (1963). The application of thin layer chromatography to sulfobromophthalein metabolism studies. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 5(4). 457–463. 43 indexed citations

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