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Overview

Daniel J. Leahy is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Molecular Biology and Oncology as subfields. Additional areas of study include Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cell Biology, and Structural Biology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics relevant to cancer research and molecular mechanisms, including:

  • HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Among their recent papers are:

  • "EGFR forms ligand-independent oligomers that are distinct from the active state," 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Structure-Function Analyses of a Keratin Heterotypic Complex Identify Specific Keratin Regions Involved in Intermediate Filament Assembly," 2020, Structure
  • "Export of Diverse and Bioactive Small Proteins through a Type I Secretion System," 2023, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • "Conserved roles for receptor tyrosine kinase extracellular regions in regulating receptor and pathway activity," 2020, Biochemical Journal
  • "Activity of EGFR transmembrane region variants indicates specific transmembrane dimers are not required for EGFR activity," 2022, Biochemical Journal

Leahy's frequent co-authors include:

  • Mónica González-Magaldi
  • Patrick O. Byrne
  • Kalina Hristova
  • Jacqueline M. McCabe
  • Haley N. Cartwright

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Biochemical Journal
  • Structure
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Structure of the extracellular region of HER2 alone and in complex with the Herceptin Fab

    Hyun Soo Cho;Karen Mason;Kasra X. Ramyar;Ann Marie Stanley

  • Insights into ErbB signaling from the structure of the ErbB2-pertuzumab complex

    Matthew C Franklin;Kendall D Carey;Felix F Vajdos;Daniel J Leahy

  • An Open-and-Shut Case? Recent Insights into the Activation of EGF/ErbB Receptors

    Antony W. Burgess;Hyun Soo Cho;Hyun Soo Cho;Charles Eigenbrot;Kathryn M. Ferguson

  • EGF Activates Its Receptor by Removing Interactions that Autoinhibit Ectodomain Dimerization

    Kathryn M. Ferguson;Mitchell B. Berger;Jeannine M. Mendrola;Hyun Soo Cho

  • 2.0 Å Crystal Structure of a Four-Domain Segment of Human Fibronectin Encompassing the RGD Loop and Synergy Region

    Daniel J. Leahy;Ikramuddin Aukhil;Harold P. Erickson

  • Functionally significant insulin-like growth factor I receptor mutations in centenarians

    Yousin Suh;Gil Atzmon;Mi Ook Cho;David Hwang

  • Structure of a fibronectin type III domain from tenascin phased by MAD analysis of the selenomethionyl protein.

    Daniel J. Leahy;Wayne A. Hendrickson;Ikramuddin Aukhil;Harold P. Erickson

  • Insights into Wnt binding and signalling from the structures of two Frizzled cysteine-rich domains

    Charles E. Dann;Jen Chih Hsieh;Amir Rattner;Divya Sharma

  • Structure of the Extracellular Region of HER3 Reveals an Interdomain Tether

    Hyun Soo Cho;Daniel J. Leahy

  • Transient Mammalian Cell Transfection with Polyethylenimine (PEI)

    Patti A. Longo;Jennifer M. Kavran;Min Sung Kim;Daniel J. Leahy

  • Crystal structure of the I-domain from the CD11a/CD18 (LFA-1, alpha L beta 2) integrin.

    Aidong Qu;Daniel J. Leahy

  • Epidermal growth factor receptor activation in glioblastoma through novel missense mutations in the extracellular domain.

    Jeffrey C Lee;Jeffrey C Lee;Igor Vivanco;Rameen Beroukhim;Rameen Beroukhim;Julie H. Y Huang

  • Crystal structure of a soluble form of the human T cell coreceptor CD8 at 2.6 A resolution.

    Daniel J. Leahy;Richard Axel;Richard Axel;Wayne A. Hendrickson;Wayne A. Hendrickson

  • EGFR Ligands Differentially Stabilize Receptor Dimers to Specify Signaling Kinetics.

    Daniel M. Freed;Nicholas J. Bessman;Anatoly Kiyatkin;Emanuel Salazar-Cavazos

  • Crystal structure of a Hedgehog autoprocessing domain: homology between Hedgehog and self-splicing proteins.

    Traci M.Tanaka Hall;Jeffery A. Porter;Keith E. Young;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Glucose and Weight Control in Mice with a Designed Ghrelin O-Acyltransferase Inhibitor

    Brad P. Barnett;Yousang Hwang;Martin S. Taylor;Henriette Kirchner

  • Characterization of neuropilin-1 structural features that confer binding to semaphorin 3A and vascular endothelial growth factor 165

    Chenghua Gu;Brian J. Limberg;G. Brian Whitaker;Ben Perman

  • Mutations in the TGF-β repressor SKI cause Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome with aortic aneurysm.

    Alexander J Doyle;Alexander J Doyle;Alexander J Doyle;Jefferson J Doyle;Seneca L Bessling;Samantha Maragh;Samantha Maragh

  • Sonic hedgehog protein signals not as a hydrolytic enzyme but as an apparent ligand for Patched

    Naoyuki Fuse;Tapan Maiti;Baolin Wang;Jeffery A. Porter

  • The extracellular region of ErbB4 adopts a tethered conformation in the absence of ligand

    Samuel Bouyain;Patti A. Longo;Shiqing Li;Kathryn M. Ferguson

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip A. Beachy
Philip A. Beachy Stanford University
Philip A. Cole
Philip A. Cole Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kalina Hristova
Kalina Hristova Johns Hopkins University
Hyun Soo Cho
Hyun Soo Cho Yonsei University
Klaus Elenius
Klaus Elenius University of Turku
Wayne A. Hendrickson
Wayne A. Hendrickson Columbia University
Jeremy Nathans
Jeremy Nathans Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David E. Shaw
David E. Shaw D. E. Shaw Research
Mark A. Lemmon
Mark A. Lemmon Yale University
David D. Ginty
David D. Ginty Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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