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Anthony Bretscher

Anthony Bretscher

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
85
Citations
32623
World Ranking
3096
National Ranking
1567

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Anthony Bretscher is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Immunology and Allergy.

The main topics covered by their work include cellular transport and secretion, fungal and yeast genetics research, cellular mechanics and interactions, caveolin-1 and cellular processes, signaling pathways in disease, Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ, and genetic neurodegenerative diseases.

Frequent co-authors in Anthony Bretscher's research include Riasat Zaman, Andrew T. Lombardo, David J. McDermitt, Robert Gingras, and Abigail M Sulpizio.

Their publications have appeared in journals and venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Molecular Biology of the Cell, The Journal of Cell Biology, and G3 Genes Genomes Genetics.

  • Effector-mediated ERM activation locally inhibits RhoA activity to shape the apical cell domain (2021, The Journal of Cell Biology)
  • High-resolution secretory timeline from vesicle formation at the Golgi to fusion at the plasma membrane in S. cerevisiae (2022, eLife)
  • ARHGAP18-ezrin functions as an autoregulatory module for RhoA in the assembly of distinct actin-based structures (2024, eLife)
  • Yeast Rgd3 is a phospho-regulated F-BAR-containing RhoGAP involved in the regulation of Rho3 distribution and cell morphology (2020, Molecular Biology of the Cell)
  • High-resolution secretory timeline from vesicle formation at the Golgi to fusion at the plasma membrane in S. cerevisiae (2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Anthony Bretscher has been recognized by election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009 and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network

    Amy Hin Yan Tong;Guillaume Lesage;Gary D. Bader;Huiming Ding

  • ERM proteins and merlin: integrators at the cell cortex

    Anthony Bretscher;Kevin Edwards;Richard G. Fehon

  • Organizing the cell cortex: the role of ERM proteins

    Richard G. Fehon;Andrea I. McClatchey;Anthony Bretscher

  • Role of Formins in Actin Assembly: Nucleation and Barbed-End Association

    David Pruyne;Marie Evangelista;Changsong Yang;Erfei Bi

  • Polarization of cell growth in yeast.

    D. Pruyne;A. Bretscher

  • Identification of EBP50: A PDZ-containing Phosphoprotein that Associates with Members of the Ezrin-Radixin-Moesin Family

    David Reczek;Mark Berryman;Anthony Bretscher

  • A kinase-regulated PDZ-domain interaction controls endocytic sorting of the β2-adrenergic receptor

    Tracy T. Cao;Heather W. Deacon;David Reczek;Anthony Bretscher

  • Structure of the ERM Protein Moesin Reveals the FERM Domain Fold Masked by an Extended Actin Binding Tail Domain

    Matthew A. Pearson;David Reczek;Anthony Bretscher;P.Andrew Karplus;P.Andrew Karplus

  • The FERM domain: A unique module involved in the linkage of cytoplasmic proteins to the membrane

    Athar H. Chishti;Anthony C. Kim;Shirin M. Marfatia;Mohini Lutchman

  • Polarization of cell growth in yeast. I. Establishment and maintenance of polarity states

    David Pruyne;Anthony Bretscher

  • Formins direct Arp2/3-independent actin filament assembly to polarize cell growth in yeast

    Marie Evangelista;David Pruyne;David C Amberg;Charles Boone;Charles Boone

  • Synergism between morphogenetic mutants of Myxococcus xanthus

    David C. Hagen;Anthony P. Bretscher;Dale Kaiser

  • Ezrin self-association involves binding of an N-terminal domain to a normally masked C-terminal domain that includes the F-actin binding site.

    R Gary;A Bretscher

  • Villin is a major protein of the microvillus cystoskeleton which binds both G and F actin in a calcium-dependent manner

    Anthony Bretscher;Klaus Weber

  • Ezrin is concentrated in the apical microvilli of a wide variety of epithelial cells whereas moesin is found primarily in endothelial cells

    Mark Berryman;Zsofia Franck;Anthony Bretscher

  • An Apical PDZ Protein Anchors the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator to the Cytoskeleton

    Douglas B. Short;Kevin W. Trotter;David Reczek;Silvia M. Kreda

  • Rapid phosphorylation and reorganization of ezrin and spectrin accompany morphological changes induced in A-431 cells by epidermal growth factor.

    A Bretscher

  • ERM-Merlin and EBP50 protein families in plasma membrane organization and function.

    Anthony Bretscher;David Chambers;Rachel Nguyen;David Reczek

  • Mechanisms of polarized growth and organelle segregation in yeast.

    David Pruyne;Aster Legesse-Miller;Lina Gao;Yuqing Dong

  • Regulation of cortical structure by the ezrin-radixin-moesin protein family.

    Anthony Bretscher

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Weber
Klaus Weber Max Planck Society
P. Andrew Karplus
P. Andrew Karplus Oregon State University
Richard G. Fehon
Richard G. Fehon University of Chicago
Charles Boone
Charles Boone University of Toronto
Eileen Remold-O'Donnell
Eileen Remold-O'Donnell Harvard University
Andrea I. McClatchey
Andrea I. McClatchey Harvard University
Michael L. Goldberg
Michael L. Goldberg Cornell University
Erfei Bi
Erfei Bi University of Pennsylvania
Dale Kaiser
Dale Kaiser Stanford University
Marcus B. Smolka
Marcus B. Smolka Cornell University

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