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Overview

Angela Clerk is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine. Within these areas, their contributions focus on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Organic Chemistry, Oncology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Clerk's body of work includes investigation of key biological processes such as Melanoma and MAPK Pathways, Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling, Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling, Congenital heart defects research, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

The scientist has co-authored numerous papers in collaboration with several frequent co-authors. Notable collaborators include Susanna T.E. Cooper, Hajed Obaid Alharbi, Joshua J. Cull, Peter H. Sugden, and Daniel N. Meijles.

Clerk's publications have appeared in established scientific venues, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Science, and Biochemical Journal. Other publication outlets include Hypertension and Bioscience Reports.

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Clerk include:

  • Redox Regulation of Cardiac ASK1 (Apoptosis Signal-Regulating Kinase 1) Controls p38-MAPK (Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase) and Orchestrates Cardiac Remodeling to Hypertension, 2020, Hypertension
  • The anti-cancer drug dabrafenib is not cardiotoxic and inhibits cardiac remodelling and fibrosis in a murine model of hypertension, 2021, Clinical Science
  • The insulin receptor family and protein kinase B (Akt) are activated in the heart by alkaline pH and α1-adrenergic receptors, 2021, Biochemical Journal
  • MAP4K4 expression in cardiomyocytes: multiple isoforms, multiple phosphorylations and interactions with striatins, 2021, Biochemical Journal
  • The insulin receptor family in the heart: new light on old insights, 2022, Bioscience Reports

Best Publications

  • “Stress-Responsive” Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases (c-Jun N-Terminal Kinases and p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) in the Myocardium

    Peter H. Sugden;Angela Clerk

  • Endothelin-1 and fibroblast growth factors stimulate the mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling cascade in cardiac myocytes. The potential role of the cascade in the integration of two signaling pathways leading to myocyte hypertrophy.

    M A Bogoyevitch;P E Glennon;M B Andersson;Angela Clerk

  • Cellular mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy

    P. H. Sugden;Angela Clerk

  • Regulation of the ERK subgroup of MAP kinase cascades through G protein-coupled receptors.

    Peter H Sugden;Angela Clerk

  • Stimulation of “Stress-regulated” Mitogen-activated Protein Kinases (Stress-activated Protein Kinases/c-Jun N-terminal Kinases and p38-Mitogen-activated Protein Kinases) in Perfused Rat Hearts by Oxidative and Other Stresses

    Angela Clerk;Stephen J. Fuller;Ashour Michael;Peter H. Sugden

  • Stimulation of the p38 Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Pathway in Neonatal Rat Ventricular Myocytes by the G Protein–coupled Receptor Agonists, Endothelin-1 and Phenylephrine: A Role in Cardiac Myocyte Hypertrophy?

    Angela Clerk;Ashour Michael;Peter H. Sugden

  • Differential activation of protein kinase C isoforms by endothelin-1 and phenylephrine and subsequent stimulation of p42 and p44 mitogen-activated protein kinases in ventricular myocytes cultured from neonatal rat hearts.

    Angela Clerk;M A Bogoyevitch;M B Anderson;P H Sugden

  • Regulation of Bcl-2 Family Proteins During Development and in Response to Oxidative Stress in Cardiac Myocytes Association With Changes in Mitochondrial Membrane Potential

    Stuart A. Cook;Peter H. Sugden;Angela Clerk

  • The p38-MAPK inhibitor, SB203580, inhibits cardiac stress-activated protein kinases/c-Jun N-terminal kinases (SAPKs/JNKs)

    Angela Clerk;Peter H Sugden

  • Activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinases and p38-mitogen-activated protein kinases in human heart failure secondary to ischaemic heart disease.

    Stuart A. Cook;Peter H. Sugden;Angela Clerk

  • Stimulation of multiple mitogen-activated protein kinase sub-families by oxidative stress and phosphorylation of the small heat shock protein, HSP25/27, in neonatal ventricular myocytes

    Angela Clerk;Ashour Michael;Peter H. Sugden

  • Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) in the heart: a point of integration in hypertrophic signalling and a therapeutic target? A critical analysis.

    Peter H. Sugden;Stephen J. Fuller;S. C. Weiss;Angela Clerk

  • Adrenergic receptor stimulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade and cardiac hypertrophy.

    Marie A. Bogoyevitch;Monica B. Andersson;Judith Gillespie-Brown;Angela Clerk

  • Small Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Proteins and Myocardial Hypertrophy

    Angela Clerk;Peter H. Sugden

  • Signaling pathways mediating cardiac myocyte gene expression in physiological and stress responses

    Angela Clerk;Timothy E. Cullingford;Stephen J. Fuller;Alejandro Giraldo

  • Regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinases in cardiac myocytes through the small G protein Rac1.

    Angela Clerk;Fong H. Pham;Stephen J. Fuller;Erik Sahai

  • PKC-dependent activation of p46/p54 JNKs during ischemic preconditioning in conscious rabbits

    Peipei Ping;Jun Zhang;Shuang Huang;Xinan Cao

  • Dystrophin-related protein, utrophin, in normal and dystrophic human fetal skeletal muscle

    Angela Clerk;Glenn E. Morris;Victor Dubowitz;Kay E. Davies

  • Activation of protein kinase cascades in the heart by hypertrophic G protein–coupled receptor agonists

    Angela Clerk;Peter H Sugden

  • Kinases as therapeutic targets for heart failure

    Chris J. Vlahos;Susan A. McDowell;Angela Clerk

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Sugden
Peter H. Sugden University of Reading
Marie A. Bogoyevitch
Marie A. Bogoyevitch University of Melbourne
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Caroline Sewry
Caroline Sewry Great Ormond Street Hospital
Stuart A. Cook
Stuart A. Cook Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Thomas Thum
Thomas Thum Hannover Medical School
Hugh Paterson
Hugh Paterson Institute of Cancer Research
Peter J. Parker
Peter J. Parker The Francis Crick Institute
Jeffery D. Molkentin
Jeffery D. Molkentin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Victor Dubowitz
Victor Dubowitz Imperial College London

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