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E. Brad Thompson is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research spans several topics within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on receptor mechanisms and signaling, as well as advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques. Their work also touches on aldose reductase and taurine, biochemical effects in animals, neurobiology and insect physiology, and heat shock proteins.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • NFAT5, which protects against hypertonicity, is activated by that stress via structuring of its intrinsically disordered domain (2020) - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Tumor Susceptibility Gene 101 Regulates the Glucocorticoid Receptor through Disorder-Mediated Allostery (2021) - Biochemistry
  • Tumor susceptibility gene-101 regulates glucocorticoid receptor through disorder-mediated allostery (2020) - bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jordan T. White
  • James Rives
  • Marla E. Tharp
  • James O. Wrabl
  • Vincent J. Hilser

Key publication venues for E. Brad Thompson's work are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biochemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their research covers several subfields within molecular biology, including:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biophysics
  • Cell Biology
  • Physiology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

E. Brad Thompson's work contributes to understanding complex biological systems through the study of molecular interactions and signaling pathways, highlighted by a combination of experimental techniques and theoretical approaches in molecular biology and biophysics.

Best Publications

  • Primary structure and expression of a functional human glucocorticoid receptor cDNA

    S M Hollenberg;S M Hollenberg;C Weinberger;E S Ong;G Cerelli

  • Control of Specific Gene Expression in Higher Organisms

    Gordon M. Tomkins;Thomas D. Gelehrter;Daryl Granner;David Martin

  • The structure of the nuclear hormone receptors

    Raj Kumar;E.Brad Thompson

  • Mechanism of action of glucocorticoids.

    E.Brad Thompson;Marc E. Lippman

  • Intrinsic disorder as a mechanism to optimize allosteric coupling in proteins

    Vincent J. Hilser;E. Brad Thompson

  • Identification of human glucocorticoid receptor complementary DNA clones by epitope selection.

    C Weinberger;SM Hollenberg;ES Ong;JM Harmon

  • Gene regulation by the glucocorticoid receptor: structure:function relationship.

    Raj Kumar;E. Brad Thompson

  • p38 Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) is a key mediator in glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis of lymphoid cells: correlation between p38 MAPK activation and site-specific phosphorylation of the human glucocorticoid receptor at serine 211.

    Aaron L. Miller;M. Scott Webb;Alicja J. Copik;Yongxin Wang

  • Characterization of a Glucocorticoid-sensitive Human Lymphoid Cell Line

    Michael R. Norman;E. Brad Thompson

  • Dexamethasone induces irreversible G1 arrest and death of a human lymphoid cell line.

    Jeffrey M. Harmon;Michael R. Norman;Michael R. Norman;Betty Jo Fowlkes;E. Brad Thompson

  • Transactivation functions of the N-terminal domains of nuclear hormone receptors: protein folding and coactivator interactions.

    Raj Kumar;E. Brad Thompson

  • Characterization of two forms of glucocorticoid hormone-receptor complex separated by DEAE-cellulose column chromatography

    Yoshihiro Sakaue;E. Brad Thompson

  • Tyrosine transaminase induction in mammalian cells in tissue culture.

    G. M. Tomkins;E. B. Thompson;S. Hayashi;T. Gelehrter

  • Stimulation of tyrosine aminotransferase synthesis by dexamethasone phosphate in cell culture.

    Daryl K. Granner;Shin-ichi Hayashi;E. Brad Thompson;Gordon M. Tomkins

  • Trimethylamine N-Oxide-induced Cooperative Folding of an Intrinsically Unfolded Transcription-activating Fragment of Human Glucocorticoid Receptor

    Ilia V. Baskakov;Raj Kumar;Ganesan Srinivasan;Yan-shan Ji

  • Estrogen receptor status: an important variable in predicting response to endocrine therapy in metastatic breast cancer.

    Joseph C. Allegra;Marc E. Lippman;E.Brad Thompson;Richard Simon

  • The conformation of the glucocorticoid receptor af1/tau1 domain induced by osmolyte binds co-regulatory proteins.

    Raj Kumar;J. Ching Lee;D. Wayne Bolen;E. Brad Thompson

  • THE RELATIONSHIP OF MYELIN PROTEINS TO EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS.

    Marian W. Kies;E. Brad Thompson;Ellsworth C. Alvord

  • Superinduction of tyrosine aminotransferase by actinomycin D in rat hepatoma (HTC) cells.

    E.Brad Thompson;D.K. Granner;G.M. Tomkins

  • Lipophilic pyrylium salts in the synthesis of efficient pyridinium-based cationic lipids, gemini surfactants, and lipophilic oligomers for gene delivery.

    Marc Antoniu Ilies;William A Seitz;Betty H Johnson;Edward L Ezell

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc E. Lippman
Marc E. Lippman National Institutes of Health
S. Stoney Simons
S. Stoney Simons National Institutes of Health
Alexandru T. Balaban
Alexandru T. Balaban Texas A&M University at Galveston
Gordon M. Tomkins
Gordon M. Tomkins University of California, San Francisco
Richard Simon
Richard Simon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Thomas G. Wood
Thomas G. Wood The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Ilia V. Baskakov
Ilia V. Baskakov University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ralph A. Bradshaw
Ralph A. Bradshaw University of California, Irvine
Edward L. Kuff
Edward L. Kuff National Institutes of Health
Daniel W. Nebert
Daniel W. Nebert University of Cincinnati

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