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Scott A. Lesley is affiliated with the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in the United States. Their research primarily centers on medicine, with a strong focus on subfields such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, oncology, molecular biology, immunology, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Lesley's scholarly contributions include work in various main topics, notably monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, galectins and cancer biology, HER2/EGFR in cancer research, cancer cells and metastasis, hormonal regulation and hypertension, and steroid chemistry and biochemistry.

Frequent coauthors with whom Lesley has collaborated include Heath E. Klock, Rob Oslund, Pamela M. Holland, Clare F. Malone, and Ben Setter. The scholar commonly publishes in venues such as Cancer Research, Cell, Cell Chemical Biology, ACS Chemical Biology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Scott A. Lesley include:

  • A Human IgSF Cell-Surface Interactome Reveals a Complex Network of Protein-Protein Interactions, 2020, Cell
  • Bacteria on steroids: the enzymatic mechanism of an NADH-dependent dehydrogenase that regulates the conversion of cortisol to androgen in the gut microbiome, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Therapeutic potential of cis-targeting bispecific antibodies, 2024, Cell Chemical Biology
  • Nanoscale Mapping of EGFR and c-MET Protein Environments on Lung Cancer Cell Surfaces via Therapeutic Antibody Photocatalyst Conjugates, 2022, ACS Chemical Biology
  • Abstract 5445: Discovery and optimization of IDP-001, a bispecific ADC targeting EGFR and CDCP1, 2025, Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • Metabolomics analysis reveals large effects of gut microflora on mammalian blood metabolites

    William R. Wikoff;Andrew T. Anfora;Jun Liu;Peter G. Schultz

  • Protein production and purification.

    S Gräslund

  • Structural genomics of the Thermotoga maritima proteome implemented in a high-throughput structure determination pipeline

    Scott A. Lesley;Peter Kuhn;Adam Godzik;Ashley M. Deacon

  • Co-regulatory networks of human serum proteins link genetics to disease

    Valur Emilsson;Marjan Ilkov;John R. Lamb;Nancy Finkel

  • Combining the polymerase incomplete primer extension method for cloning and mutagenesis with microscreening to accelerate structural genomics efforts

    Heath E. Klock;Eric J. Koesema;Mark W. Knuth;Scott A. Lesley

  • The Polymerase Incomplete Primer Extension (PIPE) Method Applied to High-Throughput Cloning and Site-Directed Mutagenesis

    Heath E. Klock;Scott A. Lesley

  • XtalPred: a web server for prediction of protein crystallizability.

    Lukasz Slabinski;Lukasz Jaroszewski;Leszek Rychlewski;Ian A. Wilson

  • High throughput processing system and method of using

    Kristina Marie Burow;Jeremy S. Caldwell;Robert Charles Downs;Scott Allan Lesley

  • Size and Shape of Detergent Micelles Determined by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering

    Jan Lipfert;Linda Columbus;Vincent B Chu;Scott A Lesley

  • Use of in vitro protein synthesis from polymerase chain reaction-generated templates to study interaction of Escherichia coli transcription factors with core RNA polymerase and for epitope mapping of monoclonal antibodies.

    S. A. Lesley;M. A. D. Brow;R. R. Burgess

  • Crystal Structure of a Divalent Metal Ion Transporter CorA at 2.9 Angstrom Resolution

    Said Eshaghi;Damian Niegowski;Damian Niegowski;Andreas Kohl;Daniel Martinez Molina;Daniel Martinez Molina

  • High-throughput proteomics: protein expression and purification in the postgenomic world.

    Scott A. Lesley

  • The self-inhibited structure of full-length PCSK9 at 1.9 A reveals structural homology with resistin within the C-terminal domain.

    Eric N. Hampton;Mark W. Knuth;Jun Li;Jennifer L. Harris

  • Crystal structure of the ALK (anaplastic lymphoma kinase) catalytic domain.

    Christian C. Lee;Yong Jia;Nanxin Li;Xiuying Sun

  • Three-Dimensional Structural View of the Central Metabolic Network of Thermotoga maritima

    Ying Zhang;Ines Thiele;Dana Weekes;Zhanwen Li

  • The challenge of protein structure determination--lessons from structural genomics.

    Lukasz Slabinski;Lukasz Jaroszewski;Ana P.C. Rodrigues;Leszek Rychlewski

  • Characterization of the Escherichia coli transcription factor sigma 70: localization of a region involved in the interaction with core RNA polymerase.

    Scott A. Lesley;Richard R. Burgess

  • Secreted PCSK9 promotes LDL receptor degradation independently of proteolytic activity.

    Jun Li;Christine Tumanut;Julie-Ann Gavigan;Waan-Jeng Huang

  • Commensal microbiota is hepatoprotective and prevents liver fibrosis in mice

    Magdalena Mazagova;Lirui Wang;Andrew T. Anfora;Max Wissmueller

  • Rapid refinement of crystallographic protein construct definition employing enhanced hydrogen/deuterium exchange MS

    Dennis Pantazatos;Jack S. Kim;Heath E. Klock;Raymond C. Stevens

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Godzik
Adam Godzik University of California, Riverside
Lukasz Jaroszewski
Lukasz Jaroszewski Discovery Institute
Ian A. Wilson
Ian A. Wilson Scripps Research Institute
Sanjay Krishna
Sanjay Krishna The Ohio State University
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Gye Won Han
Gye Won Han University of Southern California
Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn University of Southern California
Raymond C. Stevens
Raymond C. Stevens University of Southern California
Amnon Kohen
Amnon Kohen University of Iowa
Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx
Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx University of Paris-Saclay

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