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Benjamin S. Glick is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a distinct emphasis on Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. Additional areas of study include Biophysics, Organic Chemistry, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The researcher's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Click Chemistry and Applications
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Benjamin S. Glick has published frequently in venues such as BioEssays and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with additional contributions to eLife, The Journal of Cell Biology, and Molecular Biology of the Cell.

Recent publications include:

  • "A General Method to Improve Fluorophores Using Deuterated Auxochromes," 2021, JACS Au
  • "A photostable monomeric superfolder green fluorescent protein," 2020, Traffic
  • "Activity-dependent Golgi satellite formation in dendrites reshapes the neuronal surface glycoproteome," 2021, eLife
  • "A microscopy-based kinetic analysis of yeast vacuolar protein sorting," 2020, eLife
  • "ER arrival sites associate with ER exit sites to create bidirectional transport portals," 2020, The Journal of Cell Biology

Collaborations have included frequent co-authorship with Jason C. Casler, Luís Aragón, Mohan Babu, Ronald Berezney, and Hannah Correia.

Best Publications

  • The Mechanisms of Vesicle Budding and Fusion

    Juan S Bonifacino;Benjamin S Glick

  • Import of proteins into mitochondria.

    Benjamin Glick;Gottfried Schatz

  • Rapidly maturing variants of the Discosoma red fluorescent protein (DsRed).

    Brooke J Bevis;Benjamin S Glick

  • Purification of an N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive protein catalyzing vesicular transport.

    Marc R. Block;Benjamin S. Glick;Celeste A. Wilcox;Felix T. Wieland

  • A new type of coated vesicular carrier that appears not to contain clathrin: Its possible role in protein transport within the Golgi stack

    Lelio Orci;Benjamin S. Glick;James E. Rothman

  • Involvement of GTP-binding “G” proteins in transport through the Golgi stack

    Paul Melançon;Benjamin S. Glick;Vivek Malhotra;Peggy J. Weidman

  • Golgi maturation visualized in living yeast

    Eugene Losev;Catherine A. Reinke;Jennifer Jellen;Daniel E. Strongin

  • Role of an N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive transport component in promoting fusion of transport vesicles with cisternae of the Golgi stack

    Vivek Malhotra;Lelio Orci;Benjamin S. Glick;Marc R. Block

  • Cytochromes c1 and b2 are sorted to the intermembrane space of yeast mitochondria by a stop-transfer mechanism.

    Benjamin S. Glick;Anders Brandt;Kyle Cunningham;Sabina Müller

  • Golgi Structure Correlates with Transitional Endoplasmic Reticulum Organization in Pichia pastoris and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Olivia W. Rossanese;Jon Soderholm;Brooke J. Bevis;Irina B. Sears

  • Isolation of highly purified mitochondria from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Benjamin S. Glick;Liza A. Pon

  • Membrane Traffic Within the Golgi Apparatus

    Benjamin S. Glick;Akihiko Nakano

  • Possible Role for Fatty Acyl-Coenzyme A in Intracellular Protein Transport

    Benjamin S. Glick;James E. Rothman

  • Vesicular transport between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi stack requires the NEM-sensitive fusion protein.

    Con J. M. Beckers;Marc R. Block;Marc R. Block;Marc R. Block;Benjamin S. Glick;Benjamin S. Glick;James E. Rothman

  • CAN HSP70 PROTEINS ACT AS FORCE-GENERATING MOTORS ?

    Benjamin S Glick

  • Dynamics of Transitional Endoplasmic Reticulum Sites in Vertebrate Cells

    Adam T. Hammond;Benjamin S. Glick

  • The curious status of the Golgi apparatus.

    Benjamin S Glick;Vivek Malhotra

  • Sequential intermediates in the pathway of intercompartmental transport in a cell-free system

    William E. Balch;Benjamin S. Glick;James E. Rothman

  • De novo formation of transitional ER sites and Golgi structures in Pichia pastoris

    Brooke J Bevis;Adam T Hammond;Catherine A Reinke;Benjamin S Glick

  • Models for Golgi Traffic: A Critical Assessment

    Benjamin S. Glick;Alberto Luini

Frequent Co-Authors

Gottfried Schatz
Gottfried Schatz University of Basel
James E. Rothman
James E. Rothman Yale University
Robert J. Keenan
Robert J. Keenan University of Chicago
William N. Green
William N. Green University of Chicago
Vivek Malhotra
Vivek Malhotra Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Sabine Rospert
Sabine Rospert University of Freiburg
Lelio Orci
Lelio Orci University of Geneva
Andreas T Matouschek
Andreas T Matouschek The University of Texas at Austin
Suzanne R. Pfeffer
Suzanne R. Pfeffer Stanford University
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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