Michael E. Cheetham

23.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
167 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Michael E. Cheetham is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael E. Cheetham has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Molecular Biology, 52 papers in Cell Biology and 40 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michael E. Cheetham's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (75 papers), Heat shock proteins research (34 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (28 papers). Michael E. Cheetham is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (75 papers), Heat shock proteins research (34 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (28 papers). Michael E. Cheetham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Mexico and United States. Michael E. Cheetham's co-authors include J. Paul Chapple, Avrom J. Caplan, Jacqueline van der Spuy, Alison J. Hardcastle, Hugo F. Mendes, Sergey S. Novoselov, Naheed Kanuga, Mònica Aguilà, Philip J. Luthert and Michel J. Vos and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Michael E. Cheetham

161 papers receiving 9.6k citations

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Guidelines for the nomenclature of the human heat shock proteins

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael E. Cheetham United Kingdom	54	7.9k	2.2k	2.0k	1.4k	850	167	9.8k
Wolfgang Baehr United States	63	10.6k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	5.0k 2.6×	2.9k 2.0×	1.3k 1.5×	196	12.5k
Marius Ueffing Germany	60	7.3k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	297	11.2k
Bernd Wissinger Germany	54	9.2k 1.2×	1.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	3.0k 2.1×	1.1k 1.2×	235	10.2k
Dean Bok United States	61	10.9k 1.4×	1.7k 0.8×	3.1k 1.6×	4.8k 3.3×	880 1.0×	182	13.5k
Gerald J. Chader United States	55	6.9k 0.9×	859 0.4×	2.2k 1.1×	3.7k 2.6×	618 0.7×	282	10.6k
Alfred S. Lewin United States	51	6.9k 0.9×	685 0.3×	1.6k 0.8×	2.2k 1.5×	1.4k 1.6×	216	8.9k
Xinran Liu United States	48	5.5k 0.7×	3.2k 1.4×	2.6k 1.3×	476 0.3×	906 1.1×	108	8.1k
Eric C. Beyer United States	71	14.5k 1.8×	654 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	380 0.3×	2.1k 2.5×	207	16.4k
Laurent Nguyen Belgium	53	4.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	2.2k 1.1×	238 0.2×	773 0.9×	168	8.8k
Cheryl M. Craft United States	45	3.7k 0.5×	531 0.2×	2.0k 1.0×	797 0.6×	345 0.4×	132	5.5k

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Whitehead, M. A., et al.. (2025). CRISPRa-Mediated Increase of OPA1 Expression in Dominant Optic Atrophy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(13). 6364–6364.

Cheetham, Michael E., et al.. (2025). Light as a Mediator of Acute and Chronic Retina Degeneration. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 1468. 247–251.

Cheetham, Michael E., et al.. (2024). Specificity and diversity of Klebsiella pneumoniae phage-encoded capsule depolymerases. Essays in Biochemistry. 68(5). 661–677. 6 indexed citations

Bellingham, James, et al.. (2024). A Proximity Complementation Assay to Identify Small Molecules That Enhance the Traffic of ABCA4 Misfolding Variants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(8). 4521–4521. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Sang‐Eun, Kalyan Dulla, Wouter Beumer, et al.. (2023). Antisense oligonucleotide therapy corrects splicing in the common Stargardt disease type 1-causing variant ABCA4 c.5461-10T>C. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 31. 674–688. 24 indexed citations

Georgiou, Michalis, Anthony G. Robson, Sami H. Uwaydat, et al.. (2023). RP2-Associated X-linked Retinopathy: Clinical Findings, Molecular Genetics, and Natural History in a Large Cohort of Female Carriers. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 261. 112–120. 2 indexed citations

Jovanović, Katarina, Diego Ottaviani, Grace Salsbury, et al.. (2022). Modelling autosomal dominant optic atrophy associated with OPA1 variants in iPSC-derived retinal ganglion cells. Human Molecular Genetics. 31(20). 3478–3493. 14 indexed citations

Aguilà, Mònica, James Bellingham, Dimitra Athanasiou, et al.. (2020). AAV-mediated ERdj5 overexpression protects against P23H rhodopsin toxicity. Human Molecular Genetics. 29(8). 1310–1318. 9 indexed citations

Seabra, Miguel C., et al.. (2020). Symmetric arrangement of mitochondria:plasma membrane contacts between adjacent photoreceptor cells regulated by Opa1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(27). 15684–15693. 31 indexed citations

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Cheetham, Michael E.. (2018). The role of protein biogenesis, trafficking and ER homeostasis in retinitis pigmentosa. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 59(9). 3–3. 2 indexed citations

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Parfitt, David A., et al.. (2017). DNAJ Proteins in neurodegeneration: essential and protective factors. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1738). 20160534–20160534. 99 indexed citations

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Biasutto, Patricia, Kalyan Dulla, Peter Adamson, et al.. (2017). QR-110 Treatment for Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis Type 10: Restoration of CEP290 mRNA Levels and Ciliation in LCA10 iPSC-Derived Optic Cups. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 58(8). 249–249. 1 indexed citations

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Athanasiou, Dimitra, Mònica Aguilà, James Bellingham, et al.. (2017). The molecular and cellular basis of rhodopsin retinitis pigmentosa reveals potential strategies for therapy. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. 62. 1–23. 250 indexed citations

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Athanasiou, Dimitra, Mònica Aguilà, James Bellingham, et al.. (2017). The role of the ER stress-response protein PERK in rhodopsin retinitis pigmentosa. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(24). 4896–4905. 74 indexed citations

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Ramon, Eva, Arnau Cordomí, Mònica Aguilà, et al.. (2014). Differential Light-induced Responses in Sectorial Inherited Retinal Degeneration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(52). 35918–35928. 30 indexed citations

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Davidson, Alice E., Nele Schwarz, Lina Zelinger, et al.. (2013). Mutations in ARL2BP, Encoding ADP-Ribosylation-Factor-Like 2 Binding Protein, Cause Autosomal-Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 93(2). 321–329. 52 indexed citations

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Shu, Xinhua, Zhiqiang Zeng, Philippe Gautier, et al.. (2011). Knockdown of the Zebrafish Ortholog of the Retinitis Pigmentosa 2 ( RP2 ) Gene Results in Retinal Degeneration. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 52(6). 2960–2960. 30 indexed citations

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Ramon, Eva, Mònica Aguilà, Arnau Cordomí, et al.. (2011). Molecular Mechanisms of Disease for Mutations at Gly-90 in Rhodopsin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(46). 39993–40001. 33 indexed citations

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Spuy, Jacqueline van der, et al.. (2003). Spatial and Temporal Expression of AIPL1 and NUB1 Protein in Human Retina. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 44(13). 2039–2039. 1 indexed citations

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Chapple, J. Paul, et al.. (2001). Delineation of the plasma membrane targeting domain of RP2.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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