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Overview

Christopher E. Turner is affiliated with SUNY Upstate Medical University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected domains within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. A significant portion of their work centers on molecular biology and cell biology, with additional contributions to immunology and allergy, geometry and topology, as well as pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Turner's scholarly output includes studies focused on cell adhesion molecules, cellular mechanics and interactions, cellular transport and secretion, genomics and chromatin dynamics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, advanced topology and set theory, and cancer biology, particularly relating to galectins.

Some of the recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Turner include:

  • "Paxillin family of focal adhesion adaptor proteins and regulation of cancer cell invasion" (2020) published in International review of cell and molecular biology
  • "The predictive value of cortical activity during motor imagery for subacute spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain" (2023) published in Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "Automating CPU Dynamic Thermal Control for High Performance Computing" (2022) presented at the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid)
  • "Paxillin regulates Rab5-mediated vesicle motility through modulating microtubule acetylation" (2023) published in Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • "A comparative analysis of paxillin and Hic-5 proximity interactomes" (2024) published in Cytoskeleton

Turner frequently collaborates with several researchers, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to their work. Co-authors with multiple collaborative publications include Weiyi Xu, Katia Brock, Keith Burridge, Kyle M. Alpha, and Grant Brennan.

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, reflecting a consistent engagement with key journals and platforms in their fields. Frequent publication venues include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cellulose
  • International review of cell and molecular biology

Christopher E. Turner's research fields of study primarily involve:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Subfields covered include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology
  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Geometry and Topology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Their main topics of research work involve:

  • Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Advanced Topology and Set Theory
  • Galectins and Cancer Biology

Best Publications

  • Focal adhesions: Transmembrane junctions between the extracellular matrix and the cytoskeleton

    Keith Burridge;Karl Fath;Thomas Kelly;Glen Nuckolls

  • Tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin and pp125FAK accompanies cell adhesion to extracellular matrix: a role in cytoskeletal assembly.

    Keith Burridge;Christopher E. Turner;Lewis H. Romer

  • FAK-Src signalling through paxillin, ERK and MLCK regulates adhesion disassembly.

    Donna J. Webb;Karen Donais;Leanna A. Whitmore;Sheila M. Thomas

  • Paxillin and focal adhesion signalling

    Christopher E. Turner

  • Signal transduction by integrins: increased protein tyrosine phosphorylation caused by clustering of beta 1 integrins.

    L J Kornberg;H S Earp;C E Turner;C Prockop

  • Paxillin: a new vinculin-binding protein present in focal adhesions.

    Christopher E. Turner;John R. Glenney;Keith Burridge

  • Paxillin: Adapting to Change

    Michael C. Brown;Christopher E. Turner

  • Paxillin comes of age.

    Nicholas O. Deakin;Christopher E. Turner

  • Paxillin LD4 Motif Binds PAK and PIX through a Novel 95-kD Ankyrin Repeat, ARF–GAP Protein: A Role in Cytoskeletal Remodeling

    Christopher E. Turner;Michael C. Brown;Joseph A. Perrotta;M.C. Riedy

  • Characterization of Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Paxillin in Vitro by Focal Adhesion Kinase

    Susan L. Bellis;John T. Miller;Christopher E. Turner

  • Primary sequence of paxillin contains putative SH2 and SH3 domain binding motifs and multiple LIM domains: identification of a vinculin and pp125Fak-binding region.

    Christopher E. Turner;John T. Miller

  • Insect juvenile hormone resistance gene homology with the bHLH-PAS family of transcriptional regulators.

    Mudgapalli Ashok;Christopher Turner;Christopher Turner;Thomas G. Wilson

  • The Adaptor Protein Paxillin Is Essential for Normal Development in the Mouse and Is a Critical Transducer of Fibronectin Signaling

    Margit Hagel;Elizabeth L. George;Ann Kim;Rulla Tamimi

  • Identification of LIM3 as the principal determinant of paxillin focal adhesion localization and characterization of a novel motif on paxillin directing vinculin and focal adhesion kinase binding.

    M C Brown;J A Perrotta;C E Turner

  • Phosphorylation of Tyrosine Residues 31 and 118 on Paxillin Regulates Cell Migration through an Association with Crk in Nbt-II Cells

    Valérie Petit;Brigitte Boyer;Delphine Lentz;Christopher E. Turner

  • Vinculin modulation of paxillin–FAK interactions regulates ERK to control survival and motility

    M. Cecilia Subauste;Olivier Pertz;Eileen D. Adamson;Christopher E. Turner

  • Integrin-linked Kinase (ILK) Binding to Paxillin LD1 Motif Regulates ILK Localization to Focal Adhesions

    Sotiris N. Nikolopoulos;Christopher E. Turner

  • Relocation of the t-SNARE SNAP-23 from Lamellipodia-like Cell Surface Projections Regulates Compound Exocytosis in Mast Cells

    Zhenheng Guo;Christopher Turner;David Castle

  • Transmembrane molecular assemblies in cell-extracellular matrix interactions.

    Christopher E. Turner;Keith Burridge

  • Detection of Src homology 3-binding proteins, including paxillin, in normal and v-Src-transformed Balb/c 3T3 cells.

    Zhigang Weng;J. A. Taylor;C. E. Turner;J. S. Brugge

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Burridge
Keith Burridge University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michel L. Tremblay
Michel L. Tremblay McGill University
Mark A. Sussman
Mark A. Sussman San Diego State University
Arthur M. Mercurio
Arthur M. Mercurio University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
J. Victor Small
J. Victor Small Austrian Academy of Sciences
Anna Huttenlocher
Anna Huttenlocher University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mikhail D. Lukin
Mikhail D. Lukin Harvard University
Joan S. Brugge
Joan S. Brugge Harvard University
Xin Jiang
Xin Jiang University of Siegen

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