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Overview

Myles R. Cheesman is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields, including biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and neuroscience. The scientist's work extends into more specialized subfields such as cell biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, endocrine and autonomic systems, plant science, and biochemistry.

The core topics addressed in their research include hemoglobin structure and function, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, cassava research and cyanide, sulfur compounds in biology, and metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Influence of the heme distal pocket on nitrite binding orientation and reactivity in Sperm Whale myoglobin, 2021, Biochemical Journal
  • Reaction of Thiosulfate Dehydrogenase with a Substrate Mimic Induces Dissociation of the Cysteine Heme Ligand Giving Insights into the Mechanism of Oxidative Catalysis, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Myles R. Cheesman frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors, which includes Wilford Tse, Nathan Whitmore, Nicholas J. Watmough, Leon P. Jenner, and Jason C. Crack.

Their work has appeared primarily in the Biochemical Journal and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, with one publication in each venue.

Best Publications

  • Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Bacillus subtilis Cytochromes P450 CYP102A2 and CYP102A3: Flavocytochrome Homologues of P450 BM3 from Bacillus megaterium

    Mattias C U Gustafsson;Olivier Roitel;Ker R Marshall;Michael A Noble

  • Structural basis for the oxidation of thiosulfate by a sulfur cycle enzyme

    Vicki A. Bamford;Stefano Bruno;Stefano Bruno;Tim Rasmussen;Corinne Appia-Ayme

  • Magnetic Circular Dichroism of Hemoproteins.

    Myles Richard Cheesman;Colin Greenwood;Andrew J. Thomson

  • Nitric oxide in bacteria: synthesis and consumption.

    Nicholas J. Watmough;Gareth Butland;Myles R. Cheesman;James W.B. Moir

  • A model of the copper centres of nitrous oxide reductase (Pseudomonas stutzeri)

    Jaqui A. Farrar;Andrew J. Thomson;Myles R. Cheesman;David M. Dooley

  • Characterization of active site structure in CYP121. A cytochrome P450 essential for viability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv

    Kirsty J. McLean;Paul Carroll;D. Geraint Lewis;Adrian J. Dunford

  • The nitric oxide reductase activity of cytochrome c nitrite reductase from Escherichia coli

    Jessica H. van Wonderen;Bénédicte Burlat;David J. Richardson;Myles R. Cheesman

  • A functional description of CymA, an electron-transfer hub supporting anaerobic respiratory flexibility in Shewanella

    Sophie J. Marritt;Thomas G. Lowe;Jordan Bye;Duncan G. G. Mcmillan

  • Superoxide-mediated amplification of the oxygen-induced switch from [4Fe-4S] to [2Fe-2S] clusters in the transcriptional regulator FNR.

    Jason C. Crack;Jeffrey Green;Myles R. Cheesman;Nick E. Le Brun

  • Evidence That the Streptomyces Developmental Protein WhiD, a Member of the WhiB Family, Binds a [4Fe-4S] Cluster *

    Piotr Jakimowicz;Myles R. Cheesman;William R. Bishai;Keith F. Chater

  • The Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis CYP125 MOLECULAR BASIS FOR CHOLESTEROL BINDING IN A P450 NEEDED FOR HOST INFECTION

    Kirsty J. McLean;Pierre Lafite;Colin Levy;Myles R. Cheesman

  • Spectroscopic Characterization of a Novel Multihemec-Type Cytochrome Widely Implicated in Bacterial Electron Transport

    M. Dolores Roldán;Heather J. Sears;Heather J. Sears;Myles R. Cheesman;Stuart J. Ferguson

  • Variable-temperature magnetic circular dichroism.

    Andrew J. Thomson;Myles R. Cheesman;Simon J. George

  • Expression, purification and spectroscopic characterization of the cytochrome P450 CYP121 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Kirsty J McLean;Myles R Cheesman;Stuart L Rivers;Alison Richmond

  • Bis-methionine axial ligation of haem in bacterioferritin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Myles R. Cheesman;Andrew J. Thomson;Colin Greenwood;Geoffrey R. Moore

  • Purification and Magneto-optical Spectroscopic Characterization of Cytoplasmic Membrane and Outer Membrane Multiheme c-Type Cytochromes from Shewanella frigidimarina NCIMB400

    Sarah J. Field;Paul S. Dobbin;Myles R. Cheesman;Nicholas J. Watmough

  • A Low-Redox Potential Heme in the Dinuclear Center of Bacterial Nitric Oxide Reductase: Implications for the Evolution of Energy-Conserving Heme−Copper Oxidases†

    Karin L. C. Grönberg;M. Dolores Roldán;Louise Prior;Gareth Butland

  • Instantaneous, stoichiometric generation of powerfully reducing states of protein active sites using Eu(II) and polyaminocarboxylate ligands

    Kylie A. Vincent;Gareth J. Tilley;Nina C. Quammie;Ian Streeter

  • Biophysical characterization of the sterol demethylase P450 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, its cognate ferredoxin, and their interactions.

    Kirsty J. McLean;Ashley J. Warman;Harriet E. Seward;Ker R. Marshall

  • Structural and spectroscopic characterization of P450 BM3 mutants with unprecedented P450 heme iron ligand sets. New heme ligation states influence conformational equilibria in P450 BM3.

    Hazel M. Girvan;Harriet E. Seward;Helen S. Toogood;Myles R. Cheesman

  • Electron paramagnetic resonance. Elementary theory and practical applications: By John A. Weil, James R. Bolton and John E. Wertz. Wiley, Chichester (1994). 568 pp. Price £66.00

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Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Thomson
Andrew J. Thomson University of East Anglia
Andrew W. Munro
Andrew W. Munro University of Manchester
Julea N. Butt
Julea N. Butt University of East Anglia
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Colin Greenwood
Colin Greenwood University of East Anglia
David Leys
David Leys University of Manchester
Kirsty J. McLean
Kirsty J. McLean University of Manchester
Stephen K Chapman
Stephen K Chapman University of Edinburgh
Ben C. Berks
Ben C. Berks University of Oxford
Stephen E. J. Rigby
Stephen E. J. Rigby University of Manchester

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