John Sleep

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

John Sleep is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Sleep has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 26 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in John Sleep's work include Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (30 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (15 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (10 papers). John Sleep is often cited by papers focused on Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (30 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (15 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (10 papers). John Sleep collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. John Sleep's co-authors include Robert Simmons, John Trinick, Larissa Tskhovrebova, David A. Smith, Walter Gratzer, Steffen Walter, David J. Wilson, Paul D. Boyer, Edwin W. Taylor and David D. Hackney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

John Sleep

37 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Elasticity and unfolding of single molecules of the giant muscle protein titin

1997 618 citations Larissa Tskhovrebova, John Trinick 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
John Sleep United Kingdom	24	1.3k	1.2k	892	505	462	37	2.3k
Henk L. Granzier United States	13	1.0k 0.8×	874 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	449 0.9×	453 1.0×	15	2.1k
Larissa Tskhovrebova United Kingdom	16	900 0.7×	874 0.8×	777 0.9×	498 1.0×	203 0.4×	25	1.8k
Thomas Centner Germany	14	2.0k 1.6×	1.8k 1.6×	571 0.6×	593 1.2×	145 0.3×	14	2.8k
Alf Månsson Sweden	33	1.2k 0.9×	794 0.7×	524 0.6×	725 1.4×	708 1.5×	115	2.7k
Joel D. Pardee United States	14	914 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	257 0.3×	1.2k 2.3×	196 0.4×	23	2.7k
Hidetake Miyata Japan	18	401 0.3×	943 0.8×	705 0.8×	648 1.3×	484 1.0×	50	2.0k
Katsuzo Wakabayashi Japan	22	908 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	400 0.4×	344 0.7×	355 0.8×	77	2.0k
Julian Borejdo United States	26	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	296 0.3×	336 0.7×	482 1.0×	148	2.4k
Jeffrey T. Finer United States	5	567 0.4×	706 0.6×	739 0.8×	620 1.2×	422 0.9×	6	1.7k
G.F. Elliott United Kingdom	29	864 0.7×	701 0.6×	254 0.3×	368 0.7×	775 1.7×	70	2.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Smith, David A., Michael A. Geeves, John Sleep, & Srboljub M. Mijailovich. (2008). Towards a Unified Theory of Muscle Contraction. I: Foundations. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 36(10). 1624–1640. 73 indexed citations

Evans, James J., Walter Gratzer, Narla Mohandas, Kim H. Parker, & John Sleep. (2008). Fluctuations of the Red Blood Cell Membrane: Relation to Mechanical Properties and Lack of ATP Dependence. Biophysical Journal. 94(10). 4134–4144. 113 indexed citations

Sleep, John, Alexandre Lewalle, & David A. Smith. (2006). Reconciling the working strokes of a single head of skeletal muscle myosin estimated from laser-trap experiments and crystal structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(5). 1278–1282. 13 indexed citations

Smith, David A. & John Sleep. (2006). Strain-Dependent Kinetics of the Myosin Working Stroke, and How They Could Be Probed with Optical-Trap Experiments. Biophysical Journal. 91(9). 3359–3369. 14 indexed citations

Burton, Kevin, et al.. (2006). Kinetics of force recovery following length changes in active skinned single fibres from rabbit psoas muscle. The Journal of Physiology. 573(2). 305–328. 10 indexed citations

Burton, Kevin, Howard D. White, & John Sleep. (2004). Kinetics of muscle contraction and actomyosin NTP hydrolysis from rabbit using a series of metal–nucleotide substrates. The Journal of Physiology. 563(3). 689–711. 21 indexed citations

Walter, Steffen, David A. Smith, Robert Simmons, & John Sleep. (2001). Mapping the actin filament with myosin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(26). 14949–14954. 115 indexed citations

Smith, David A., Steffen Walter, Robert Simmons, & John Sleep. (2001). Hidden-Markov Methods for the Analysis of Single-Molecule Actomyosin Displacement Data: The Variance-Hidden-Markov Method. Biophysical Journal. 81(5). 2795–2816. 52 indexed citations

Höök, Peter, Xiao Feng Li, John Sleep, Simon M. Hughes, & Lars Larsson. (1999). The effect of age on in vitro motility speed of slow myosin extracted from single rat soleus fibres.. PubMed. 167(4). 325–6. 7 indexed citations

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Sleep, John, David J. Wilson, Robert Simmons, & Walter Gratzer. (1999). Elasticity of the Red Cell Membrane and Its Relation to Hemolytic Disorders: An Optical Tweezers Study. Biophysical Journal. 77(6). 3085–3095. 201 indexed citations

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Tskhovrebova, Larissa, John Trinick, John Sleep, & Robert Simmons. (1997). Elasticity and unfolding of single molecules of the giant muscle protein titin. Nature. 387(6630). 308–312. 618 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ling, Nicholas, Corie N. Shrimpton, John Sleep, John Kendrick‐Jones, & Malcolm Irving. (1996). Fluorescent probes of the orientation of myosin regulatory light chains in relaxed, rigor, and contracting muscle. Biophysical Journal. 70(4). 1836–1846. 52 indexed citations

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Sleep, John, et al.. (1995). Inhibition of unloaded shortening velocity in permeabilized muscle fibres by caged ATP compounds. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 16(2). 131–137. 33 indexed citations

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Pinder, Jennifer C., John Sleep, Pauline M. Bennett, & Walter Gratzer. (1995). Concentrated Tris Solutions for the Preparation, Depolymerization, and Assay of Actin: Application to Erythroid Actin. Analytical Biochemistry. 225(2). 291–295. 17 indexed citations

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Sleep, John, Christian Herrmann, Tom Barman, & Franck Travers. (1994). Inhibition of ATP Binding to Myofibrils and Acto-Myosin Subfragment 1 by Caged ATP. Biochemistry. 33(20). 6038–6042. 20 indexed citations

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Herrmann, Christian, John Sleep, Patrick Chaussepied, Franck Travers, & Tom Barman. (1993). A structural and kinetic study on myofibrils prevented from shortening by chemical cross-linking. Biochemistry. 32(28). 7255–7263. 41 indexed citations

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Bowater, Richard P. & John Sleep. (1988). Demembranated muscle fibers catalyze a more rapid exchange between phosphate and adenosine triphosphate than actomyosin subfragment. Biochemistry. 27(14). 5314–5323. 46 indexed citations

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Sleep, John, et al.. (1985). Dependence of adenosine triphosphatase activity of rabbit psoas muscle fibres and myofibrils on substrate concentration.. The Journal of Physiology. 365(1). 259–276. 96 indexed citations

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Sleep, John, et al.. (1980). Exchange between inorganic phosphate and adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the medium by actomyosin subfragment 1. Biochemistry. 19(7). 1276–1283. 160 indexed citations

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Sleep, John, David D. Hackney, & Paul D. Boyer. (1978). Characterization of phosphate oxygen exchange reactions catalyzed by myosin through measurement of the distribution of 18-O-labeled species. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 253(15). 5235–5238. 41 indexed citations

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