2026 Stephen Matthews: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	52	16886	15495	1331	1230	180	7082

Overview

Stephen Matthews is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus also placed on Medicine. Over the course of their career, they have produced work in various subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, and Ecology.

Their main research topics encompass a broad range of areas, such as:

Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Protein Structure and Dynamics
Enzyme Structure and Function

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

HOIL-1 ubiquitin ligase activity targets unbranched glucosaccharides and is required to prevent polyglucosan accumulation, 2022, The EMBO Journal
Uncovering the universality of self-replication in protein aggregation and its link to disease, 2022, Science Advances
The use of sonicated lipid vesicles for mass spectrometry of membrane protein complexes, 2020, Nature Protocols
Profiling of myristoylation in Toxoplasma gondii reveals an N-myristoylated protein important for host cell penetration, 2020, eLife
FapA is an Intrinsically Disordered Chaperone for Pseudomonas Functional Amyloid FapC, 2022, Journal of Molecular Biology

Stephen Matthews has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

Yingqi Xu
Sarah L. Rouse
Bing Liu
Fisentzos Stylianou
Daniel E. Otzen

Their publications have appeared in various scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Scientific Reports
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics
SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

Binding of intimin from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli to Tir and to host cells.

Elizabeth L. Hartland;Miranda Batchelor;Robin M. Delahay;Christine Hale

275
Citations
Cellulose Crystallites: A New and Robust Liquid Crystalline Medium for the Measurement of Residual Dipolar Couplings

Keiran Fleming;Derek Gray;and Sunil Prasannan;Stephen Matthews

211
Citations
Specific DNA recognition mediated by a type IV pilin

Ana Cehovin;Peter J. Simpson;Melanie A. Mcdowell;Daniel R. Brown

192
Citations
Structure of Tandem RNA Recognition Motifs from Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Protein Reveals Novel Features of the Rrm Fold

Maria R. Conte;Tim Grüne;Tim Grüne;Jamie Ghuman;Geoff Kelly

186
Citations
Structure of the cell-adhesion fragment of intimin from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

Geoff Kelly;Sunil Prasannan;Sarah Daniell;Keiran Fleming

179
Citations
Protein assemblies ejected directly from native membranes yield complexes for mass spectrometry

Dror S. Chorev;Lindsay A. Baker;Di Wu;Victoria Beilsten-Edmands

177
Citations
Structural similarity between the p17 matrix protein of HIV-1 and interferon-γ

Stephen Matthews;Paul Barlow;Jonathan Boyd;Geoff Barton

168
Citations
Structural basis for recognition of the translocated intimin receptor (Tir) by intimin from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Miranda Batchelor;Sunil Prasannan;Sarah Daniell;Stephen Reece

165
Citations
Eliminating a region of respiratory syncytial virus attachment protein allows induction of protective immunity without vaccine-enhanced lung eosinophilia

Tim E. Sparer;Stephen Matthews;Tracy Hussell;Aaron J. Rae

163
Citations
Inhibition of T1/St2 during Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Prevents T Helper Cell Type 2 (Th2)- but Not Th1-Driven Immunopathology

Gerhard Walzl;Stephen Matthews;Sharon Kendall;Jose Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos

155
Citations
Intimin and the host cell--is it bound to end in Tir(s)?

Gad Frankel;Alan D. Phillips;Luiz R. Trabulsi;Stuart Knutton

144
Citations
Host Genetic Determinants of Vaccine-Induced Eosinophilia During Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection

Tracy Hussell;Andrew Georgiou;Tim E. Sparer;Stephen Matthews

139
Citations
Toxoplasma gondii-Induced Activation of EGFR Prevents Autophagy Protein-Mediated Killing of the Parasite

Luis Muniz-Feliciano;Jennifer Van Grol;Jose Andres C Portillo;Lloyd Liew

134
Citations
A new labeling method for methyl transverse relaxation-optimized spectroscopy NMR spectra of alanine residues.

Rivka L. Isaacson;Peter J. Simpson;Minhao Liu;Ernesto Cota

132
Citations
An atomic resolution model for assembly, architecture, and function of the Dr adhesins.

Kirstine L. Anderson;Jason Billington;David Pettigrew;Ernesto Cota

131
Citations
A peptide motif in Raver1 mediates splicing repression by interaction with the PTB RRM2 domain

Alexis P Rideau;Clare Gooding;Peter J Simpson;Tom P Monie

125
Citations
Structure and RNA Interactions of the N-Terminal RRM Domains of PTB

Peter J. Simpson;Tom P. Monie;Andrea Szendröi;Natalia Davydova

122
Citations
Structure-function studies of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 matrix protein, p17.

Paula M. Cannon;Stephen Matthews;Nigel Clark;Elaine D. Byles

121
Citations
Members of a novel protein family containing microneme adhesive repeat domains act as sialic acid-binding lectins during host cell invasion by apicomplexan parasites.

Nikolas Friedrich;Joana Mendonça Santos;Yan Liu;Angelina S. Palma

120
Citations
NMR of proteins and nucleic acids

G. A. Webb;S. J. Matthews

5
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