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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Andrew Dancis is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the broad fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their scholarly output includes 17 publications in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and 8 in Medicine.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields, principally Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Hematology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Pharmacy.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Redox biology and oxidative stress
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Oral and gingival health research
  • Dermatological and Skeletal Disorders

Their recent scientific publications are:

  • Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as a targeted therapy for bone marrow failure in Ghosal hematodiaphyseal dysplasia, 2022, Blood
  • Essential mitochondrial role in iron-sulfur cluster assembly of the cytoplasmic isopropylmalate isomerase Leu1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 2023, Mitochondrion
  • Mitochondria function in cytoplasmic FeS protein biogenesis, 2024, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research
  • Mössbauer and LC-ICP-MS investigation of iron trafficking between vacuoles and mitochondria in vma2Δ Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Mitochondrial glutaredoxin Grx5 functions as a central hub for cellular iron-sulfur cluster assembly, 2025, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andrew Dancis include:

  • Debkumar Pain
  • Ashutosh Pandey
  • Jayashree Pain
  • Shaik Waseem Vali
  • Paul A. Lindahl

Publication venues where the scientist frequently appears include:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Mitochondrion
  • Blood
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research
  • Bioscience Reports

Andrew Dancis was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • A Permease-Oxidase Complex Involved in High-Affinity Iron Uptake in Yeast

    Robert Stearman;Daniel S. Yuan;Yuko Yamaguchi-Iwai;Richard D. Klausner

  • Molecular characterization of a copper transport protein in S. cerevisiae: An unexpected role for copper in iron transport

    Andrew Dancis;Daniel S. Yuan;David Haile;Candice Askwith

  • Identification of the iron-responsive element for the translational regulation of human ferritin mRNA

    MW Hentze;SW Caughman;TA Rouault;JG Barriocanal

  • The Menkes/Wilson disease gene homologue in yeast provides copper to a ceruloplasmin-like oxidase required for iron uptake.

    Daniel S. Yuan;Robert Stearman;Andrew Dancis;Teresa Dunn

  • The Saccharomyces cerevisiae copper transport protein (Ctr1p). Biochemical characterization, regulation by copper, and physiologic role in copper uptake.

    A Dancis;D Haile;D S Yuan;R D Klausner

  • RESPONSIVE-TO-ANTAGONIST1, a Menkes/Wilson Disease–Related Copper Transporter, Is Required for Ethylene Signaling in Arabidopsis

    Takashi Hirayama;Joseph J. Kieber;Noriko Hirayama;Mikhail Kogan

  • A Role for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ATX1 Gene in Copper Trafficking and Iron Transport

    Su Ju Lin;Robert A. Pufahl;Andrew Dancis;Thomas V. O'Halloran

  • AFT1: a mediator of iron regulated transcriptional control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Y. Yamaguchi-Iwai;A. Dancis;R.D. Klausner

  • Iron-regulated DNA binding by the AFT1 protein controls the iron regulon in yeast.

    Yuko Yamaguchi-Iwai;Robert Stearman;Andrew Dancis;Richard D. Klausner

  • Ferric reductase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: molecular characterization, role in iron uptake, and transcriptional control by iron.

    Andrew Dancis;Dragos G. Roman;Gregory J. Anderson;Alan G. Hinnebusch

  • Genetic evidence that ferric reductase is required for iron uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    A Dancis;R D Klausner;A G Hinnebusch;J G Barriocanal

  • A cis-acting element is necessary and sufficient for translational regulation of human ferritin expression in response to iron.

    M W Hentze;T A Rouault;S W Caughman;A Dancis

  • Intramembrane bis-heme motif for transmembrane electron transport conserved in a yeast iron reductase and the human NADPH oxidase.

    Alan A. Finegold;Karolyn P. Shatwell;Anthony W. Segal;Richard D. Klausner

  • Iron use for haeme synthesis is under control of the yeast frataxin homologue (Yfh1)

    Emmanuel Lesuisse;Renata Santos;Berthold F. Matzanke;Simon A. B. Knight

  • Copper-dependent degradation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae plasma membrane copper transporter Ctr1p in the apparent absence of endocytosis.

    Chean Eng Ooi;E. Rabinovich;A. Dancis;J. S. Bonifacino

  • Homeostatic regulation of copper uptake in yeast via direct binding of MAC1 protein to upstream regulatory sequences of FRE1 and CTR1.

    Yuko Yamaguchi-Iwai;Mihaela Serpe;David Haile;Weimin Yang

  • Restriction of Copper Export in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to a Late Golgi or Post-Golgi Compartment in the Secretory Pathway

    Daniel S. Yuan;Andrew Dancis;Richard D. Klausner

  • Yeast Mitochondrial Protein, Nfs1p, Coordinately Regulates Iron-Sulfur Cluster Proteins, Cellular Iron Uptake, and Iron Distribution *

    Jie Li;Mikhail Kogan;Simon A.B. Knight;Debkumar Pain

  • The FRE1 Ferric Reductase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Is a Cytochrome b Similar to That of NADPH Oxidase

    Karolyn P. Shatwell;Andrew Dancis;Andrew R. Cross;Richard D. Klausner

  • Iron acquisition from transferrin by Candida albicans depends on the reductive pathway.

    Simon A. B. Knight;Gaston Vilaire;Emmanuel Lesuisse;Andrew Dancis

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Michel Camadro
Jean-Michel Camadro Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Fevzi Daldal
Fevzi Daldal University of Pennsylvania
Jan Tachezy
Jan Tachezy Charles University
Gregory J. Anderson
Gregory J. Anderson QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Paul A. Lindahl
Paul A. Lindahl Texas A&M University
Tracey A. Rouault
Tracey A. Rouault National Institutes of Health
Joe B. Harford
Joe B. Harford National Institutes of Health
Matthias W. Hentze
Matthias W. Hentze European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Jean-Marc Latour
Jean-Marc Latour Grenoble Alpes University

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