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Overview

Susan M. Lea is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work covers multiple topics within these fields, including:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Justin C. Deme
  • Steven Johnson
  • Ben C. Berks
  • Joanne L. Parker
  • Simon Newstead

They have published extensively in a range of scientific venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Science Advances

Recent significant publications include:

  • "Molecular basis for redox control by the human cystine/glutamate antiporter system xc−" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Structures of the stator complex that drives rotation of the bacterial flagellum" (2020, Nature Microbiology)
  • "Molecular structure of the intact bacterial flagellar basal body" (2021, Nature Microbiology)
  • "Structure and mechanism of the proton-driven motor that powers type 9 secretion and gliding motility" (2021, Nature Microbiology)
  • "Symmetry mismatch in the MS-ring of the bacterial flagellar rotor explains the structural coordination of secretion and rotation" (2020, Nature Microbiology)

Best Publications

  • Refinement of severely incomplete structures with maximum likelihood in BUSTER-TNT.

    Eric Blanc;P. Roversi;C. Vonrhein;C. Flensburg

  • Higher Education Students' Attitudes to Student-centred Learning: Beyond 'educational bulimia'?

    Susan J. Lea;David Stephenson;Juliette Troy

  • Structure of a major immunogenic site on foot-and-mouth disease virus.

    Derek Logan;Derek Logan;Robin Abu-Ghazaleh;Wendy Blakemore;Stephen Curry

  • `A Phantom Menace and the New Apartheid': The Social Construction of Asylum-Seekers in the United Kingdom:

    Nick Lynn;Susan Lea

  • The structure and function of a foot-and-mouth disease virus-oligosaccharide receptor complex.

    Elizabeth E. Fry;Susan M. Lea;Terry Jackson;John W.I. Newman

  • Neisseria Meningitidis Recruits Factor H Using Protein Mimicry of Host Carbohydrates.

    Muriel C. Schneider;Beverly E. Prosser;Joseph J. E. Caesar;Elisabeth Kugelberg

  • The structure and antigenicity of a type C foot-and-mouth disease virus

    S Lea;J Hernéndez;W Blakemore;E Brocchi

  • Dimerization of complement factor H-related proteins modulates complement activation in vivo

    E. Goicoechea de Jorge;J. J. E. Caesar;T. H. Malik;M. Patel

  • A conserved face of the Jagged/Serrate DSL domain is involved in Notch trans -activation and cis -inhibition

    Jemima Cordle;Steven Johnson;Joyce Zi Yan Tay;Pietro Roversi

  • Architecture of the major component of the type III secretion system export apparatus.

    Patrizia Abrusci;Marta Vergara-Irigaray;Marta Vergara-Irigaray;Steven Johnson;Morgan D. Beeby;Morgan D. Beeby

  • Notch receptor-ligand binding and activation: insights from molecular studies.

    Chandramouli R. Chillakuri;Devon Sheppard;Susan M. Lea;Penny A. Handford

  • Helical Structure of the Needle of the Type III Secretion System of Shigella flexneri

    Frank S. Cordes;Kaoru Komoriya;Eric Larquet;Shixin Yang

  • Patient safety: numerical skills and drug calculation abilities of nursing students and Registered Nurses

    Miriam McMullan;Ray Jones;Susan Lea

  • Structural basis for complement factor H–linked age-related macular degeneration

    Beverly E. Prosser;Steven Johnson;Pietro Roversi;Andrew P. Herbert

  • His-384 allotypic variant of factor H associated with age-related macular degeneration has different heparin binding properties from the non-disease-associated form.

    Simon J. Clark;Victoria A. Higman;Barbara Mulloy;Stephen J. Perkins

  • Assembly and Regulation of the Membrane Attack Complex Based on Structures of C5b6 and sC5b9

    Michael A. Hadders;Doryen Bubeck;Pietro Roversi;Svetlana Hakobyan

  • Structure of the TatC core of the twin-arginine protein transport system

    Sarah E. Rollauer;Michael J. Tarry;Michael J. Tarry;James E. Graham;James E. Graham;Mari Jääskeläinen

  • Dissecting the roles of VP0 cleavage and RNA packaging in picornavirus capsid stabilization: the structure of empty capsids of foot-and-mouth disease virus.

    S Curry;E Fry;W Blakemore;R Abu-Ghazaleh

  • The Centrosome-Specific Phosphorylation of Cnn by Polo/Plk1 Drives Cnn Scaffold Assembly and Centrosome Maturation

    Paul T. Conduit;Zhe Feng;Jennifer H. Richens;Janina Baumbach

  • Self-chaperoning of the Type III Secretion System Needle Tip Proteins IpaD and BipD

    Steven Johnson;Pietro Roversi;Marianela Espina;Andrew J. Olive

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph M. Tang
Christoph M. Tang University of Oxford
Ben C. Berks
Ben C. Berks University of Oxford
Robert B. Sim
Robert B. Sim University of Oxford
Penny A. Handford
Penny A. Handford University of Oxford
David I. Stuart
David I. Stuart University of Oxford
Peter F. Zipfel
Peter F. Zipfel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Elizabeth E. Fry
Elizabeth E. Fry University of Oxford
Peter Kraiczy
Peter Kraiczy Goethe University Frankfurt
B. Paul Morgan
B. Paul Morgan Cardiff University
Reinhard Wallich
Reinhard Wallich Heidelberg University

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