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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 1990 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Edward D. Korn is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with specific focus areas including Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics of their scholarly work encompass:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques

Edward D. Korn has published in journals spanning multiple disciplines. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Cytoskeleton
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Physiology

Some of their recent scholarly works are:

  • Muscle myosins form folded monomers, dimers, and tetramers during filament polymerization in vitro, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Discovery of the first unconventional myosin: Acanthamoeba myosin-I, 2023, Frontiers in Physiology
  • Dictyostelium myosin 1F and myosin 1E inhibit actin waves in a lipid-binding-dependent and motor-independent manner, 2020, Cytoskeleton
  • Cover Image, Volume 77, Issue 8, 2020, Cytoskeleton

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Edward D. Korn are:

  • Hanna Brzeska
  • Michael Bagnoli
  • Margaret A. Titus
  • Xiong Liu
  • Shi Shu

Edward D. Korn is recognized with memberships and honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1993
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1990

Best Publications

  • Single bilayer liposomes prepared without sonication.

    Shmuel Batzri;Edward D. Korn

  • Jasplakinolide, a cytotoxic natural product, induces actin polymerization and competitively inhibits the binding of phalloidin to F-actin

    Michael R. Bubb;Adrian M.J. Senderowicz;Edward A. Sausville;Kimberly L.K. Duncan

  • Inhibition of actin polymerization by latrunculin A

    Martine Coué;Stephen L. Brenner;Ilan Spector;Edward D. Korn

  • Acanthamoeba Myosin I. ISOLATION FROM ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII OF AN ENZYME SIMILAR TO MUSCLE MYOSIN

    Thomas D. Pollard;Edward D. Korn

  • Structure of biological membranes.

    Edward D. Korn

  • Biochemistry of actomyosin-dependent cell motility (a review).

    Edward D. Korn

  • Actin polymerization and ATP hydrolysis.

    Edward D. Korn;Marie-France Carlier;Dominique Pantaloni

  • Myosin I is located at the leading edges of locomoting Dictyostelium amoebae.

    Yoshio Fukui;Thomas J. Lynch;Hanna Brzeska;Edward D. Korn

  • Acanthamoeba profilin interacts with G-actin to increase the rate of exchange of actin-bound adenosine 5'-triphosphate

    Stephen C. Mockrin;Edward D. Korn

  • The kinetics of actin nucleation and polymerization.

    Larry Tobacman;E. D. Korn

  • Lipoprotein lipase of chicken adipose tissue.

    Edward D. Korn;Thomas W. Quigley

  • Myosins of nonmuscle cells.

    E D Korn;J A Hammer

  • Single bilayer liposomes

    S.M. Johnson;A.D. Bangham;M.W. Hill;E.D. Korn

  • THE FINE STRUCTURE OF ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII (NEFF STRAIN) II. Encystment

    Blair Bowers;Edward D. Korn

  • The fine structure of Acanthamoeba castellanii. I. The trophozoite.

    Blair Bowers;Edward D. Korn

  • Swinholide A is a microfilament disrupting marine toxin that stabilizes actin dimers and severs actin filaments.

    Michael R. Bubb;Ilan Spector;Alexander D. Bershadsky;Edward D. Korn

  • Studies on lipoprotein lipase of rat heart and adipose tissue.

    Edward D. Korn;Thomas W. Quigley

  • Ultrastructural characterization of F-actin isolated from Acanthamoeba castellanii and identification of cytoplasmic filaments as F-actin by reaction with rabbit heavy meromyosin.

    T.D. Pollard;E. Shelton;R.R. Weihing;E.D. Korn

  • Phagocytosis of latex beads by Acanthamoeba. I. Biochemical properties.

    Robert A. Weisman;Edward D. Korn

  • THE LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE OF MAMMARY GLAND AND THE CORRELATION OF ITS ACTIVITY TO LACTATION.

    O.W. McBride;Edward D. Korn

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Hammer
John A. Hammer National Institutes of Health
Dominique Pantaloni
Dominique Pantaloni Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas D. Pollard
Thomas D. Pollard Yale University
James R. Sellers
James R. Sellers National Institutes of Health
Brian M. Martin
Brian M. Martin National Institutes of Health
Joseph P. Albanesi
Joseph P. Albanesi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Donald C. Rau
Donald C. Rau National Institutes of Health
Roger Craig
Roger Craig University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Ettore Appella
Ettore Appella National Institutes of Health
Carole A. Parent
Carole A. Parent University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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