Royal Society Dororthy Hodgkin Research Fellow

Publications

Site-directed mutations in the C-terminal extension of human αB-crystallin affect chaperone function and block amyloid fibril formation
TM Treweek, H Ecroyd, DM Williams, S Meehan, JA Carver, MJ Walker
PloS one
(2007)
2
Characterisation of amyloid fibril formation by small heat-shock chaperone proteins human αA-, αβ- and R120G αB-Crystallins
S Meehan, TPJ Knowles, AJ Baldwin, JF Smith, AM Squires, P Clements, TM Treweek, H Ecroyd, GG Tartaglia, M Vendruscolo, CE Macphee, CM Dobson, JA Carver
J Mol Biol
(2007)
372
Kinetics and thermodynamics of amyloid formation from direct measurements of fluctuations in fibril mass.
TPJ Knowles, W Shu, GL Devlin, S Meehan, S Auer, CM Dobson, ME Welland
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2007)
104
The extracellular chaperone clusterin influences amyloid formation and toxicity by interacting with prefibrillar structures.
JJ Yerbury, S Poon, S Meehan, B Thompson, JR Kumita, CM Dobson, MR Wilson
FASEB Journal
(2007)
21
Mimicking phosphorylation of alpha B-crystallin affects its chaperone activity
H Ecroyd, S Meehan, J Horwitz, JA Aquilina, JLP Benesch, CV Robinson, CE Macphee, JA Carver
Biochemical Journal
(2006)
401
Amyloid fibril formation by bovine milk kappa-casein and its inhibition by the molecular chaperones alphaS- and beta-casein.
DC Thorn, S Meehan, M Sunde, A Rekas, SL Gras, CE MacPhee, CM Dobson, MR Wilson, JA Carver
Biochemistry
(2005)
44
Amyloid Fibril Formation by Lens Crystallin Proteins and Its Implications for Cataract Formation
S Meehan, Y Berry, B Luisi, CM Dobson, JA Carver, CE MacPhee
J Biol Chem
(2003)
279

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