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65
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9145
National Ranking
314

Overview

Eva A. Turley is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, along with Medicine. Within these broader fields, Turley's work focuses on subfields including Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Immunology and Allergy, Oncology, and Rehabilitation.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans, glycosylation and glycoproteins, cell adhesion molecules, wound healing methods, Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ, peptidase inhibition, and fibroblast growth factor studies.

Recent notable publications include:

  • RHAMM Is a Multifunctional Protein That Regulates Cancer Progression (2021) in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Hyaluronan Functions in Wound Repair That Are Captured to Fuel Breast Cancer Progression (2021) in Biomolecules
  • Cell-specific expression of the transcriptional regulator RHAMM provides a timing mechanism that controls appropriate wound re-epithelialization (2020) in Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Functional organization of extracellular hyaluronan, CD44, and RHAMM (2023) in Proteoglycan Research
  • Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4, a targetable oncoantigen that promotes ovarian cancer growth, invasion, cisplatin resistance and spheroid formation (2021) in Translational Oncology

Turley has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Cornelia Tölg, James B. McCarthy, Andrew C. Nelson, Mary K. Cowman, and Sarah E Tarullo.

Common venues for Turley's publications are:

  • Proteoglycan Research
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Biomolecules
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • The Journal of Pathology

Best Publications

  • Signaling properties of hyaluronan receptors.

    Eva A. Turley;Paul W. Noble;Lilly Y.W. Bourguignon

  • HA receptors: regulators of signalling to the cytoskeleton.

    Joycelyn Entwistle;Christine L. Hall;Eva A. Turley

  • Hyaluronan and homeostasis : a balancing act

    Markku I. Tammi;Anthony J. Day;Eva A. Turley

  • Molecular cloning of a novel hyaluronan receptor that mediates tumor cell motility.

    C Hardwick;K Hoare;R Owens;HP Hohn

  • Identification of a common hyaluronan binding motif in the hyaluronan binding proteins RHAMM, CD44 and link protein.

    Baihua Yang;Bing Luo Yang;Rashmin C. Savani;Eva Ann Turley

  • Invadopodia are required for cancer cell extravasation and are a therapeutic target for metastasis.

    Hon S. Leong;Amy E. Robertson;Konstantin Stoletov;Sean J. Leith

  • Overexpression of the hyaluronan receptor RHAMM is transforming and is also required for H-ras transformation

    Christine L. Hall;Baihua Yang;Xuiwei Yang;Shiwen Zhang

  • Phenotypic reversion or death of cancer cells by altering signaling pathways in three-dimensional contexts.

    Fei Wang;Rhonda K. Hansen;Derek Radisky;Toshiyuki Yoneda

  • Mechanisms of disease: epithelial-mesenchymal transition--does cellular plasticity fuel neoplastic progression?

    Eva A Turley;Mandana Veiseh;Derek C Radisky;Mina J Bissell

  • The content and size of hyaluronan in biological fluids and tissues

    Mary K. Cowman;Hong Gee Lee;Kathryn L. Schwertfeger;James B. McCarthy

  • The Hyaluronan Receptors CD44 and Rhamm (CD168) Form Complexes with ERK1,2 That Sustain High Basal Motility in Breast Cancer Cells

    Sara R. Hamilton;Shireen F. Fard;Frouz F. Paiwand;Cornelia Tolg

  • The Hyaluronan Receptor RHAMM Regulates Extracellular-regulated Kinase

    Shiwen Zhang;Michael C.Y. Chang;Danuta Zylka;Stefanie Turley

  • Hyaluronan and the hyaluronan receptor RHAMM promote focal adhesion turnover and transient tyrosine kinase activity.

    C. L. Hall;Chao Wang;L. A. Lange;E. A. Turley

  • Cell-surface and mitotic-spindle RHAMM: moonlighting or dual oncogenic functions?

    Christopher Alan Maxwell;James McCarthy;Eva Turley

  • RHAMM, a receptor for hyaluronan-mediated motility, compensates for CD44 in inflamed CD44-knockout mice: A different interpretation of redundancy

    Shlomo Nedvetzki;Erez Gonen;Nathalie Assayag;Reuven Reich

  • Migration of Bovine Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells after Wounding Injury: The Role of Hyaluronan and RHAMM

    Rashmin C. Savani;Chao Wang;Baihua Yang;Shiwen Zhang

  • Hyaluronan and cell locomotion.

    E. A. Turley

  • Hyaluronan and a cell-associated hyaluronan binding protein regulate the locomotion of ras-transformed cells.

    E A Turley;L Austen;K Vandeligt;C Clary

  • The overexpression of RHAMM, a hyaluronan-binding protein that regulates ras signaling, correlates with overexpression of mitogen-activated protein kinase and is a significant parameter in breast cancer progression.

    Chao Wang;Ann D. Thor;Dan H. Moore;Yong Zhao

  • Rhamm−/− fibroblasts are defective in CD44-mediated ERK1,2 motogenic signaling, leading to defective skin wound repair

    Cornelia Tolg;Sara R. Hamilton;Kerry-Ann Nakrieko;Fatemeh Kooshesh

Frequent Co-Authors

James B. McCarthy
James B. McCarthy University of Minnesota
Rashmin C. Savani
Rashmin C. Savani The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mina J. Bissell
Mina J. Bissell Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matthew Price
Matthew Price University of Vermont
Arnold H. Greenberg
Arnold H. Greenberg University of Manitoba
Ann F. Chambers
Ann F. Chambers University of Western Ontario
Derek C. Radisky
Derek C. Radisky Mayo Clinic
Soldano Ferrone
Soldano Ferrone Harvard University
Dwight M. Nance
Dwight M. Nance University of California, Irvine
Françoise M. Winnik
Françoise M. Winnik University of Helsinki

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