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Overview

Fred Chang is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with key subfields including molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, plant science, and biophysics.

Their body of work encompasses a variety of topics within these areas, notably:

  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Photosynthetic processes and mechanisms
  • Cellular mechanics and interactions
  • Nuclear structure and function
  • Protein structure and dynamics
  • Bacterial genetics and biotechnology

Frequent publication venues for Fred Chang include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • eLife
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Chang are:

  • Physical properties of the cytoplasm modulate the rates of microtubule polymerization and depolymerization (2022, Developmental Cell)
  • Control of nuclear size by osmotic forces in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (2022, eLife)
  • Starvation induces shrinkage of the bacterial cytoplasm (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Variations of intracellular density during the cell cycle arise from tip-growth regulation in fission yeast (2021, eLife)
  • Precise regulation of the relative rates of surface area and volume synthesis in bacterial cells growing in dynamic environments (2021, Nature Communications)

Chang collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors, including:

  • Joël Lemière
  • Arthur T. Molines
  • Liam J. Holt
  • Rikki M. Garner
  • Julie A. Theriot

Best Publications

  • A Mechanism for Nuclear Positioning in Fission Yeast Based on Microtubule Pushing

    P.T. Tran;L. Marsh;V. Doye;S. Inoué

  • Identification of a gene necessary for cell cycle arrest by a negative growth factor of yeast: FAR1 is an inhibitor of a G1 cyclin, CLN2

    Fred Chang;Ira Herskowitz

  • CDC12P, A PROTEIN REQUIRED FOR CYTOKINESIS IN FISSION YEAST, IS A COMPONENT OF THE CELL DIVISION RING AND INTERACTS WITH PROFILIN

    Fred Chang;David Drubin;Paul Nurse

  • The outer membrane is an essential load-bearing element in Gram-negative bacteria.

    Enrique R. Rojas;Gabriel Billings;Pascal D. Odermatt;Pascal D. Odermatt;George K. Auer

  • Isolation and characterization of fission yeast mutants defective in the assembly and placement of the contractile actin ring

    F. Chang;A. Woollard;P. Nurse

  • Actin dynamics in the contractile ring during cytokinesis in fission yeast

    Robert J. Pelham;Fred Chang

  • Influence of Cell Geometry on Division-Plane Positioning

    Nicolas Minc;Nicolas Minc;David Burgess;David Burgess;Fred Chang;Fred Chang

  • Roles of the fission yeast formin for3p in cell polarity, actin cable formation and symmetric cell division

    Becket Feierbach;Fred Chang

  • Analysis of mid1p, a Protein Required for Placement of the Cell Division Site, Reveals a Link between the Nucleus and the Cell Surface in Fission Yeast

    Anne Paoletti;Fred Chang

  • Mutations in the GTP-binding site of GSα alter stimulation of adenylyl cyclase

    S. B. Masters;Richard T Miller;M. H. Chi;F. H. Chang

  • Regulation of microtubule dynamics by TOG-domain proteins XMAP215/Dis1 and CLASP.

    Jawdat Al-Bassam;Fred Chang

  • Tea4p Links Microtubule Plus Ends with the Formin For3p in the Establishment of Cell Polarity

    Sophie G. Martin;W. Hayes McDonald;John R. Yates;Fred Chang

  • CLASP promotes microtubule rescue by recruiting tubulin dimers to the microtubule

    Jawdat Al-Bassam;Hwajin Kim;Gary Brouhard;Antoine M van Oijen

  • Role of actin polymerization and actin cables in actin-patch movement in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Robert J. Pelham;Fred Chang

  • How fission yeast fission in the middle.

    Fred Chang;Paul Nurse

  • Mid2p stabilizes septin rings during cytokinesis in fission yeast

    Ana Berlin;Anne Paoletti;Fred Chang

  • Movement of Membrane Domains and Requirement of Membrane Signaling Molecules for Cytokinesis

    Michelle M. Ng;Michelle M. Ng;Fred Chang;Fred Chang;David R. Burgess;David R. Burgess

  • Regulation of a formin complex by the microtubule plus end protein tea1p.

    Becket Feierbach;Fulvia Verde;Fred Chang;Fred Chang

  • Dynamic positioning of the fission yeast cell division plane

    Rafael R. Daga;Fred Chang

  • Regulation of the Formin for3p by cdc42p and bud6p

    Sophie G. Martin;Sergio A. Rincón;Roshni Basu;Pilar Pérez

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerwyn Casey Huang
Kerwyn Casey Huang Stanford University
Alexey Khodjakov
Alexey Khodjakov New York State Department of Health
Ira Herskowitz
Ira Herskowitz University of California, San Francisco
Gohta Goshima
Gohta Goshima Nagoya University
Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse The Francis Crick Institute
Arezki Boudaoud
Arezki Boudaoud École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
David G. Drubin
David G. Drubin University of California, Berkeley
Joshua E. Elias
Joshua E. Elias Stanford University
Manuel Théry
Manuel Théry Grenoble Alpes University
Julie A. Theriot
Julie A. Theriot University of Washington

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