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Overview

Doron Rapaport is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their scholarly output predominantly focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 82 publications in this main field. Subfields in which they have contributed include molecular biology, epidemiology, clinical biochemistry, materials chemistry, and neurology.

Their research covers multiple scientific topics, with a significant emphasis on mitochondrial function and pathology. Other prominent topics in their work include ATP synthase and ATPases research, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, heat shock proteins research, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, and autophagy in disease and therapy.

Rapaport has published extensively in various peer-reviewed venues. Notable frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Biological Chemistry
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • FEBS Journal

Recent papers include the following works:

  • "Cytosolic Events in the Biogenesis of Mitochondrial Proteins" (2020), published in Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • "The chaperone-binding activity of the mitochondrial surface receptor Tom70 protects the cytosol against mitoprotein-induced stress" (2021), published in Cell Reports
  • "Cnm1 mediates nucleus-mitochondria contact site formation in response to phospholipid levels" (2021), published in The Journal of Cell Biology
  • "Biogenesis pathways of α-helical mitochondrial outer membrane proteins" (2020), published in Biological Chemistry
  • "Structural basis of client specificity in mitochondrial membrane-protein chaperones" (2020), published in Science Advances

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Rapaport include Maya Schuldiner, Johannes M. Herrmann, Martin Jung, Layla Drwesh, and Kai Stefan Dimmer.

Best Publications

  • Interaction of antimicrobial dermaseptin and its fluorescently labeled analogues with phospholipid membranes.

    Yehonathan Pouny;Doron Rapaport;Amram Mor;Pierre Nicolas

  • Evolutionary conservation of biogenesis of |[beta]|-barrel membrane proteins

    Stefan A. Paschen;Thomas Waizenegger;Tincuta Stan;Marc Preuss

  • FZO1P IS A MITOCHONDRIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN ESSENTIAL FOR THE BIOGENESIS OF FUNCTIONAL MITOCHONDRIA IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

    Doron Rapaport;Michael Brunner;Walter Neupert;Benedikt Westermann

  • Interaction of fluorescently labeled pardaxin and its analogues with lipid bilayers.

    D. Rapaport;Y. Shai

  • Finding the right organelle

    Doron Rapaport

  • Proteins of nucleotide and base excision repair pathways interact in mitochondria to protect from loss of subcutaneous fat, a hallmark of aging

    York Kamenisch;Maria Fousteri;Jennifer Knoch;Anna-Katharina von Thaler

  • A synthetic peptide corresponding to a conserved heptad repeat domain is a potent inhibitor of Sendai virus-cell fusion: an emerging similarity with functional domains of other viruses.

    D Rapaport;M Ovadia;Y Shai

  • Biogenesis of Porin of the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane Involves an Import Pathway via Receptors and the General Import Pore of the Tom Complex

    Thomas Krimmer;Doron Rapaport;Michael T. Ryan;Chris Meisinger

  • Biogenesis of beta-barrel membrane proteins in bacteria and eukaryotes: evolutionary conservation and divergence.

    Dirk M. Walther;Doron Rapaport;Jan Tommassen

  • Integration of tail-anchored proteins into the mitochondrial outer membrane does not require any known import components

    Christian Kemper;Shukry J Habib;Gertraud Engl;Petra Heckmeyer

  • Biogenesis of Tom40, Core Component of the Tom Complex of Mitochondria

    Doron Rapaport;Walter Neupert

  • Connection of the mitochondrial outer and inner membranes by Fzo1 is critical for organellar fusion.

    Stefan Fritz;Doron Rapaport;Elisabeth Klanner;Walter Neupert

  • Fusion peptides derived from the HIV type 1 glycoprotein 41 associate within phospholipid membranes and inhibit cell-cell Fusion. Structure-function study.

    Yossef Kliger;Amir Aharoni;Doron Rapaport;Philip Jones

  • Biogenesis of β-barrel membrane proteins of mitochondria

    Stefan A. Paschen;Walter Neupert;Doron Rapaport

  • Tom20 Mediates Localization of mRNAs to Mitochondria in a Translation-Dependent Manner†

    Erez Eliyahu;Lilach Pnueli;Daniel Melamed;Tanja Scherrer

  • Mitochondrial Protein Import Tom40 PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN TARGETING AND TRANSLOCATION OF PREPROTEINS BY FORMING A SPECIFIC BINDING SITE FOR THE PRESEQUENCE

    Doron Rapaport;Walter Neupert;Roland Lill

  • Genome-wide SWAp-Tag yeast libraries for proteome exploration

    Uri Weill;Ido Yofe;Ehud Sass;Bram Stynen

  • Signals in bacterial β-barrel proteins are functional in eukaryotic cells for targeting to and assembly in mitochondria

    Dirk M. Walther;Drazen Papic;Martine P. Bos;Jan Tommassen

  • Tob38, a novel essential component in the biogenesis of β-barrel proteins of mitochondria

    Thomas Waizenegger;Shukry J Habib;Maciej Lech;Dejana Mokranjac

  • Aggregation and organization of pardaxin in phospholipid membranes. A fluorescence energy transfer study.

    D Rapaport;Y Shai

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Neupert
Walter Neupert Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Maya Schuldiner
Maya Schuldiner Weizmann Institute of Science
Yechiel Shai
Yechiel Shai Weizmann Institute of Science
Rejko Krüger
Rejko Krüger University of Luxembourg
Johannes M. Herrmann
Johannes M. Herrmann Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Thomas Meitinger
Thomas Meitinger Technical University of Munich
Holger Prokisch
Holger Prokisch Technical University of Munich
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen
Hubert Kalbacher
Hubert Kalbacher University of Tübingen
Ingo B. Autenrieth
Ingo B. Autenrieth Heidelberg University

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