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Overview

Bradley B. Olwin is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a strong emphasis on molecular biology and cellular mechanisms.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

More specifically, their work explores subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology
  • Surgery
  • Genetics
  • Biophysics

The key topics covered by their research are:

  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research

Bradley B. Olwin has published extensively and contributed to several frequent publication venues, such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • iScience
  • Nature Materials

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "Injury-mediated stiffening persistently activates muscle stem cells through YAP and TAZ mechanotransduction" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "The regenerating skeletal muscle niche drives satellite cell return to quiescence" (2022, iScience)
  • "Post-Transcriptional Regulation in Skeletal Muscle Development, Repair, and Disease" (2020, Trends in Molecular Medicine)
  • "Photo-expansion microscopy enables super-resolution imaging of cells embedded in 3D hydrogels" (2023, Nature Materials)
  • "Myoblast mechanotransduction and myotube morphology is dependent on BAG3 regulation of YAP and TAZ" (2021, Biomaterials)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Bradley B. Olwin include:

  • Alicia A. Cutler
  • Bradley Pawlikowski
  • Kristi S. Anseth
  • Joshua Wheeler
  • Nicole Dalla Betta

Best Publications

  • Requirement of heparan sulfate for bFGF-mediated fibroblast growth and myoblast differentiation.

    Alan C. Rapraeger;Alison Krufka;Bradley B. Olwin

  • Activating and inhibitory heparin sequences for FGF-2 (basic FGF). Distinct requirements for FGF-1, FGF-2, and FGF-4.

    S Guimond;M Maccarana;B.B. Olwin;U Lindahl

  • Pax-7 up-regulation inhibits myogenesis and cell cycle progression in satellite cells: a potential mechanism for self-renewal.

    Hugo C. Olguin;Bradley B. Olwin

  • Growth factor control of skeletal muscle differentiation: commitment to terminal differentiation occurs in G1 phase and is repressed by fibroblast growth factor.

    Christopher H. Clegg;Thomas A. Linkhart;Bradley B. Olwin;Stephen D. Hauschka

  • FGF-2: apical ectodermal ridge growth signal for chick limb development

    JF Fallon;A Lopez;MA Ros;MP Savage

  • p38 MAPK signaling underlies a cell-autonomous loss of stem cell self-renewal in skeletal muscle of aged mice

    Jennifer D Bernet;Jason D Doles;John K Hall;Kathleen Kelly Tanaka

  • Syndecan-3 and syndecan-4 specifically mark skeletal muscle satellite cells and are implicated in satellite cell maintenance and muscle regeneration.

    D.D.W. Cornelison;Mark S. Filla;Heather M. Stanley;Alan C. Rapraeger

  • Identification of the fibroblast growth factor receptor of Swiss 3T3 cells and mouse skeletal muscle myoblasts.

    Bradley B. Olwin;Stephen D. Hauschka

  • MyoD(-/-) satellite cells in single-fiber culture are differentiation defective and MRF4 deficient.

    D.D.W. Cornelison;Bradley B. Olwin;Michael A. Rudnicki;Barbara J. Wold

  • Reciprocal inhibition between Pax7 and muscle regulatory factors modulates myogenic cell fate determination

    Hugo C. Olguin;Zhihong Yang;Stephen J. Tapscott;Bradley B. Olwin

  • Repression of myogenic differentiation by aFGF, bFGF, and K-FGF is dependent on cellular heparan sulfate.

    Bradley B. Olwin;Alan Rapraeger

  • Essential and separable roles for Syndecan-3 and Syndecan-4 in skeletal muscle development and regeneration.

    D.D.W. Cornelison;Sarah A. Wilcox-Adelman;Paul F. Goetinck;Heikki Rauvala

  • ERK1/2 is required for myoblast proliferation but is dispensable for muscle gene expression and cell fusion.

    Nathan C. Jones;Yuri V. Fedorov;R. Scott Rosenthal;R. Scott Rosenthal;Bradley B. Olwin

  • The p38α/β MAPK functions as a molecular switch to activate the quiescent satellite cell

    Nathan C. Jones;Kristina J. Tyner;Lisa Nibarger;Heather M. Stanley

  • Coordination of Satellite Cell Activation and Self-Renewal by Par-Complex-Dependent Asymmetric Activation of p38α/β MAPK

    Andrew Troy;Adam B. Cadwallader;Yuri Fedorov;Kristina Tyner

  • Cell surface fibroblast growth factor and epidermal growth factor receptors are permanently lost during skeletal muscle terminal differentiation in culture.

    Bradley B. Olwin;Stephen D. Hauschka

  • Syndecan-4-Expressing Muscle Progenitor Cells in the SP Engraft as Satellite Cells during Muscle Regeneration

    Kathleen Kelly Tanaka;John K. Hall;Andrew A. Troy;D.D.W. Cornelison

  • Genesis of olfactory receptor neurons in vitro: regulation of progenitor cell divisions by fibroblast growth factors.

    Melinda K. DeHamer;Jose L. Guevara;Kevin Hannon;Bradley B. Olwin

  • Distribution of FGF-2 suggests it has a role in chick limb bud growth

    M P Savage;C E Hart;B B Riley;J Sasse

  • Calcium binding to complexes of calmodulin and calmodulin binding proteins.

    Bradley B. Olwin;Daniel R. Storm

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Storm
Daniel R. Storm University of Washington
Alan C. Rapraeger
Alan C. Rapraeger University of Wisconsin–Madison
John F. Fallon
John F. Fallon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen D. Hauschka
Stephen D. Hauschka University of Washington
Roy Parker
Roy Parker University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen J. Tapscott
Stephen J. Tapscott Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jens Lykke-Andersen
Jens Lykke-Andersen University of California, San Diego
Robert J. Schneider
Robert J. Schneider New York University
Warren Heideman
Warren Heideman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Irwin D. Bernstein
Irwin D. Bernstein Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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