2026 Arthur M. Lesk: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	76	1129	1008	585	511	219	37686

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Arthur M. Lesk is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a primary focus on Molecular Biology within this discipline.

The main topics of their work include:

Protein Structure and Dynamics
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Enzyme Structure and Function
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Gene Regulatory Network Analysis

Frequent co-authors in Arthur M. Lesk's collaborations are:

Arun S. Konagurthu
Lloyd Allison
Peter J. Stuckey
María García de la Banda
David Abramson

The venues where they often publish include:

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
Bioinformatics
Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Some recent publications by Arthur M. Lesk and collaborators are:

"Invisible leashes: The tethering VAPs from infectious diseases to neurodegeneration," 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
"On the reliability and the limits of inference of amino acid sequence alignments," 2022, Bioinformatics
"Universal Architectural Concepts Underlying Protein Folding Patterns," 2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
"Sequence and structure alignments in post-AlphaFold era," 2023, Current Opinion in Structural Biology
"Protein structure prediction improves the quality of amino-acid sequence alignment," 2022, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics

Arthur M. Lesk has also published a book titled Protein Science with Oxford University Press in 2021.

In 2015, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

Canonical structures for the hypervariable regions of immunoglobulins

Cyrus Chothia;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk

3781
Citations
The relation between the divergence of sequence and structure in proteins.

C. Chothia;A.M. Lesk

3638
Citations
Computational molecular biology

A. Lesk

2294
Citations
Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions.

Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia;Arthur M. Lesk;Anna Tramontano;Michael Levitt;Michael Levitt

1865
Citations
Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genome

Richard A. Gibbs;Jeffrey Rogers

1514
Citations
Prediction of protein function from protein sequence and structure.

James C. Whisstock;Arthur M. Lesk

1297
Citations
Interior and surface of monomeric proteins.

Susan Miller;Joël Janin;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk;Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia

1087
Citations
STANDARD CONFORMATIONS FOR THE CANONICAL STRUCTURES OF IMMUNOGLOBULINS

Bissan Al-Lazikani;Arthur M Lesk;Cyrus Chothia

1056
Citations
How different amino acid sequences determine similar protein structures: the structure and evolutionary dynamics of the globins.

Arthur M. Lesk;Cyrus Chothia

1022
Citations
The outline structure of the T-cell alpha beta receptor.

C. Chothia;D. R. Boswell;A. M. Lesk

871
Citations
Structural mechanisms for domain movements in proteins.

Mark Gerstein;Arthur M. Lesk;Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia

839
Citations
Amyloid fibers are water-filled nanotubes

M. F. Perutz;J. T. Finch;J. Berriman;A. Lesk

765
Citations
Phylogeny of the Serpin Superfamily: Implications of Patterns of Amino Acid Conservation for Structure and Function

James A. Irving;Robert N. Pike;Arthur M. Lesk;James C. Whisstock

755
Citations
Structural repertoire of the human VH segments.

Cyrus Chothia;Arthur M. Lesk;Ermanno Gherardi;Ian M. Tomlinson

720
Citations
Determinants of a protein fold. Unique features of the globin amino acid sequences.

Donald Bashford;Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk

704
Citations
Introduction to bioinformatics

Arthur M. Lesk

626
Citations
β-Trefoil fold. Patterns of structure and sequence in the Kunitz inhibitors interleukins-1β and 1α and fibroblast growth factors

Alexey G. Murzin;Arthur M. Lesk;Cyrus Chothia

458
Citations
Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth

Webb Miller;Daniela I. Drautz;Aakrosh Ratan;Barbara Pusey

451
Citations
The accessible surface area and stability of oligomeric proteins

Susan Miller;Arthur M. Lesk;Joël Janin;Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia

433
Citations
Conformations of the third hypervariable region in the VH domain of immunoglobulins

Veronica Morea;Anna Tramontano;Mauro Rustici;Cyrus Chothia

426
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Cyrus Chothia MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

James C. Whisstock Monash University

Peter J. Stuckey Monash University

David Abramson University of Queensland

Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome

Annalisa Pastore King's College London

Webb Miller Pennsylvania State University

Robin W. Carrell University of Cambridge

Stephan C. Schuster Nanyang Technological University

David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz

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