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David Schubert was affiliated with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the United States. Their research work focused predominantly on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in several subfields including molecular biology, immunology, and physiology.

The main topics addressed in their scientific investigations included:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer

David Schubert was a coauthor in collaborations with several researchers, notably:

  • Pamela Maher
  • António Currais
  • Ling Huang
  • Zhibin Liang
  • David Soriano-Castell

Their recent published papers spanned from 2020 to 2022 and appeared in diverse scholarly journals. Representative works included:

  • "Intracellular amyloid toxicity induces oxytosis/ferroptosis regulated cell death," 2020, published in Cell Death and Disease
  • "Using the Oxytosis/Ferroptosis Pathway to Understand and Treat Age-Associated Neurodegenerative Diseases," 2020, in Cell Chemical Biology
  • "Natural products targeting mitochondria: emerging therapeutics for age-associated neurological disorders," 2020, appearing in Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • "Diverse proteins aggregate in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease brain," 2020, in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "Cannabinol inhibits oxytosis/ferroptosis by directly targeting mitochondria independently of cannabinoid receptors," 2022, published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Their works were disseminated across multiple publication venues, with repeated publications in the following journals:

  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • Nature Communications
  • Aging
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Cell Death and Disease

Best Publications

  • Hydrogen peroxide mediates amyloid beta protein toxicity.

    C. Behl;J.B. Davis;R. Lesley;D. Schubert

  • 3D structure of Alzheimer's amyloid-β(1–42) fibrils

    Thorsten Lührs;Christiane Ritter;Marc Adrian;Dominique Riek-Loher

  • Generation of reactive oxygen species by the mitochondrial electron transport chain

    Yuanbin Liu;Gary Fiskum;David Schubert

  • Flavonoids protect neuronal cells from oxidative stress by three distinct mechanisms.

    Kumiko Ishige;David Schubert;Yutaka Sagara

  • Functional Amyloids as Natural Storage of Peptide Hormones in Pituitary Secretory Granules

    Samir K. Maji;Marilyn H. Perrin;Michael R. Sawaya;Sebastian Jessberger

  • Mechanism of Cellular 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-Diphenyltetrazolium Bromide (MTT) Reduction

    Yuanbin Liu;Daniel A. Peterson;Hideo Kimura;David Schubert

  • The Regulation of Reactive Oxygen Species Production during Programmed Cell Death

    Shirlee Tan;Yutaka Sagara;Yuanbin Liu;Pamela Maher

  • Cerium and yttrium oxide nanoparticles are neuroprotective.

    David Schubert;Richard Dargusch;Joan Raitano;Siu-Wai Chan

  • Vitamin E protects nerve cells from amyloid βprotein toxicity

    Christian Behl;John Davis;Greg M. Cole;David Schubert

  • Clonal cell lines from the rat central nervous system

    D. Schubert;S. Heinemann;W. Carlisle;H. Tarikas

  • Promoting basal levels of autophagy in the nervous system enhances longevity and oxidant resistance in adult Drosophila.

    Anne Simonsen;Robert C. Cumming;Robert C. Cumming;Andreas Brech;Pauline Isakson;Pauline Isakson

  • A Role for 12-lipoxygenase in Nerve Cell Death Caused by Glutathione Depletion

    Yonghong Li;Pamela Maher;David Schubert

  • Secreted form of amyloid β protein precursor is involved in the growth regulation of fibroblasts

    Tsunao Saitoh;Mary Sundsmo;Jean-Marc Roch;Naohiro Kimura

  • Oxytosis: A novel form of programmed cell death.

    Shirlee Tan;David Schubert;Pamela Maher

  • Protein Disulfide Bond Formation in the Cytoplasm during Oxidative Stress

    Robert C. Cumming;Nancy L. Andon;Paul A. Haynes;Minkyu Park

  • Amyloid peptides are toxic via a common oxidative mechanism

    D Schubert;C Behl;R Lesley;A Brack

  • The regulation of amyloid β protein precursor secretion and its modulatory role in cell adhesion

    D. Schubert;Lee-Way Jin;T. Saitoh;Greg Cole

  • Receptor- and heparin-binding domains of basic fibroblast growth factor

    Andrew Baird;David Schubert;Nicholas Ling;Roger Guillemin

  • Activin is a nerve cell survival molecule

    D. Schubert;H. Kimura;M. LaCorbiere;J. Vaughan

  • CHARACTERIZATION OF A UNIQUE MUSCLE CELL LINE

    David Schubert;A. John Harris;Carrick E. Devine;Stephen Heinemann

Frequent Co-Authors

Pamela Maher
Pamela Maher Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Wolfgang H. Fischer
Wolfgang H. Fischer Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Hideo Kimura
Hideo Kimura University of Tokyo
Greg M. Cole
Greg M. Cole University of California, Los Angeles
Roland Riek
Roland Riek ETH Zurich
Christian Behl
Christian Behl Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Kazuho Abe
Kazuho Abe Musashino University
Lee-Way Jin
Lee-Way Jin University of California, Davis
John B. Davis
John B. Davis University of Oxford
Melvin Cohn
Melvin Cohn Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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