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Overview

Anant K. Menon is a researcher affiliated with Cornell University in the United States specializing in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work primarily spans molecular biology and cell biology with additional focus in cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and epidemiology.

The research topics explored by Menon include lipid membrane structure and behavior, cellular transport and secretion, receptor mechanisms and signaling, lysosomal storage disorders, glycosylation and glycoproteins, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and studies related to Trypanosoma species and their implications.

Frequent collaborators of Menon consist of George Khelashvili, I. A. Menon, Grace I. Dearden, Robert Häner, and Peter Bütikofer. These coauthors appear consistently across multiple publications, indicating ongoing collaborative efforts.

Menon's recent papers include:

  • Phospholipids are imported into mitochondria by VDAC, a dimeric beta barrel scramblase, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Rethinking Opsins, 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Insertases scramble lipids: Molecular simulations of MTCH2, 2024, Structure
  • Phospholipid Scrambling by G Protein-Coupled Receptors, 2021, Annual Review of Biophysics
  • Genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals CLPTM1L as a lipid scramblase required for efficient glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Menon's work is published in multiple scientific outlets. The most frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Structure, and Nature Communications. Among these, bioRxiv hosts the largest number of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Lipid landscapes and pipelines in membrane homeostasis

    Joost C.M. Holthuis;Anant K. Menon

  • Thematic review series: lipid posttranslational modifications. GPI anchoring of protein in yeast and mammalian cells, or: how we learned to stop worrying and love glycophospholipids

    Peter Orlean;Anant K. Menon

  • Lipid flippases and their biological functions.

    T. Pomorski;A. K. Menon

  • Cytoplasmic and Nuclear Delivery of a TAT-derived Peptide and a β-Peptide after Endocytic Uptake into HeLa Cells

    Terra B. Potocky;Anant K. Menon;Samuel H. Gellman

  • A new family of StART domain proteins at membrane contact sites has a role in ER-PM sterol transport

    Alberto T Gatta;Louise H Wong;Yves Y Sere;Diana M Calderón-Noreña

  • Transport of Newly Synthesized Sterol to the Sterol-Enriched Plasma Membrane Occurs via Nonvesicular Equilibration†

    Nikola A. Baumann;David P. Sullivan;Henna Ohvo-Rekilä;Cedric Simonot

  • Ca2+-dependent phospholipid scrambling by a reconstituted TMEM16 ion channel.

    Mattia Malvezzi;Madhavan N. Chalat;Radmila Janjusevic;Alessandra Picollo

  • Cell-free synthesis of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol precursors for the glycolipid membrane anchor of Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoproteins. Structural characterization of putative biosynthetic intermediates.

    A. K. Menon;R. T. Schwarz;S. Mayor;G. A. M. Cross

  • Phosphatidylethanolamine is the donor of the ethanolamine residue linking a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor to protein.

    Anant K. Menon;Victoria L. Stevens

  • Lipid somersaults: Uncovering the mechanisms of protein-mediated lipid flipping

    Thomas Günther Pomorski;Thomas Günther Pomorski;Anant K. Menon

  • Biosynthesis of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol lipids in Trypanosoma brucei: involvement of mannosyl-phosphoryldolichol as the mannose donor.

    A. K. Menon;S. Mayor;R. T. Schwarz

  • Recent developments in the cell biology and biochemistry of glycosylphosphatidylinositol lipids (review).

    Malcolm J. McConville;Anant K. Menon

  • Intracellular sterol transport and distribution.

    Frederick R Maxfield;Anant K Menon

  • Early lipid intermediates in glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchor assembly are synthesized in the ER and located in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the ER membrane bilayer.

    J Vidugiriene;A K Menon

  • Candidate glycophospholipid precursor for the glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchor of Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoproteins.

    Anant K. Menon;Satyajit Mayor;Michael A. J. Ferguson;Michael Duszenko

  • Opsin Is a Phospholipid Flippase

    Indu Menon;Thomas Huber;Sumana Sanyal;Sourabh Banerjee

  • Transbilayer lipid asymmetry

    Toshihide Kobayashi;Anant K. Menon

  • The GPI Anchor of Cell-Surface Proteins Is Synthesized on the Cytoplasmic Face of the Endoplasmic Reticulum

    Jolanta Vidugiriene;Anant K. Menon

  • Endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane contact sites integrate sterol and phospholipid regulation.

    Evan Quon;Yves Y. Sere;Neha Chauhan;Jesper Johansen

  • A glycosylphosphatidylinositol protein anchor from procyclic stage Trypanosoma brucei: lipid structure and biosynthesis.

    M. C. Field;A. K. Menon;G. A. M. Cross

Frequent Co-Authors

George A. M. Cross
George A. M. Cross Rockefeller University
Satyajit Mayor
Satyajit Mayor National Centre for Biological Sciences
Thomas Günther Pomorski
Thomas Günther Pomorski Ruhr University Bochum
Timothy P. Levine
Timothy P. Levine University College London
Mark C. Field
Mark C. Field University of Dundee
Harel Weinstein
Harel Weinstein Cornell University
David Eliezer
David Eliezer Cornell University
Robert Häner
Robert Häner University of Bern
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
David Holowka
David Holowka Cornell University

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