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  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1975 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

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Donald F. Steiner was affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their academic career was marked by contributions to the scientific community recognized through several honors.

Steiner was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1988. Earlier, in 1975, they were inducted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

There is no detailed record of specific research papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, or book publications associated with Steiner in the available data. Similarly, no information on particular fields, subfields, or main topics of study is provided.

Although direct documentation of Steiner's scientific output is limited here, the affiliations and awards indicate an established presence in the scientific research community during their career.

Best Publications

  • The proprotein convertases.

    Donald F Steiner

  • Hyperproinsulinaemia in obese fat/fat mice associated with a carboxypeptidase E mutation which reduces enzyme activity

    Jürgen K. Naggert;Lloyd D. Fricker;Oleg Varlamov;Patsy M. Nishina

  • Insulin biosynthesis: evidence for a precursor.

    Donald F. Steiner;Dennis Cunningham;Lilian Spigelman;Bradley Aten

  • Determination of Free and Total Insulin and C-Peptide in Insulin-treated Diabetics

    Hideshi Kuzuya;Petra M Blix;David L Horwitz;Donald F Steiner

  • The new enzymology of precursor processing endoproteases

    D. F Steiner;S. P Smeekens;S Ohagi;Shu Jin Chan

  • Identification of a human insulinoma cDNA encoding a novel mammalian protein structurally related to the yeast dibasic processing protease Kex2.

    S P Smeekens;D F Steiner

  • The biosynthesis of insulin and a probable precursor of insulin by a human islet cell adenoma.

    Donald F. Steiner;Philip E. Oyer

  • Post-Translational Proteolysis in Polypeptide Hormone Biosynthesis

    Kevin Docherty;Donald F. Steiner

  • The role of assembly in insulin's biosynthesis.

    Guy Dodson;Don Steiner

  • Proteolytic processing in the secretory pathway.

    An Zhou;Gene Webb;Xiaorong Zhu;Donald F. Steiner

  • Insulin gene mutations as a cause of permanent neonatal diabetes

    Julie Støy;Emma L. Edghill;Sarah E. Flanagan;Honggang Ye

  • Identification of a cDNA encoding a second putative prohormone convertase related to PC2 in AtT20 cells and islets of Langerhans.

    Steven P. Smeekens;Anthony S. Avruch;Joseph Lamendola;Shu Jin Chan

  • Defective prohormone processing and altered pancreatic islet morphology in mice lacking active SPC2

    Machi Furuta;Hideki Yano;An Zhou;Yves Rouillé

  • Processing mechanisms in the biosynthesis of proteins.

    Donald F. Steiner;Paul S. Quinn;Shu Jin Chan;Jon Marsh

  • Binding and degradation of 125I-insulin by rat hepatocytes.

    S Terris;D F Steiner

  • How insulin engages its primary binding site on the insulin receptor

    John G. Menting;Jonathan Whittaker;Mai B. Margetts;Linda J. Whittaker

  • Insulin Mutation Screening in 1,044 Patients With Diabetes: Mutations in the INS Gene Are a Common Cause of Neonatal Diabetes but a Rare Cause of Diabetes Diagnosed in Childhood or Adulthood

    Emma L. Edghill;Sarah E. Flanagan;Ann-Marie Patch;Chris Boustred

  • Proteolytic Processing Mechanisms in the Biosynthesis of Neuroendocrine Peptides: The Subtilisin-like Proprotein Convertases

    Yves Rouillé;Stephen J. Duguay;Kaare Lund;Machi Furuta

  • Islet-cell-surface antibodies in juvenile diabetes mellitus.

    Åke Lernmark;Åke Lernmark;Zachary R. Freedman;Cecilia Hofmann;Arthur H. Rubenstein

  • KEX2-LIKE ENDOPROTEASES PC2 AND PC3 ACCURATELY CLEAVE A MODEL PROHORMONE IN MAMMALIAN CELLS : EVIDENCE FOR A COMMON CORE OF NEUROENDOCRINE PROCESSING ENZYMES

    Laurel Thomas;Richard Leduc;Barbara A. Thorne;Steven P. Smeekens

Frequent Co-Authors

Shu Jin Chan
Shu Jin Chan Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Raymond J. Carroll
Raymond J. Carroll Texas A&M University
Graeme I. Bell
Graeme I. Bell University of Chicago
Åke Lernmark
Åke Lernmark Lund University
Louis H. Philipson
Louis H. Philipson University of Chicago
Suad Efendic
Suad Efendic Karolinska Institute
Jean-Claude Henquin
Jean-Claude Henquin Université Catholique de Louvain
Christian Boitard
Christian Boitard Université Paris Cité
David A. Nielsen
David A. Nielsen Baylor College of Medicine
Ele Ferrannini
Ele Ferrannini University of Pisa

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