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58
Citations
11641
World Ranking
13214
National Ranking
5628

Overview

Fredric S. Cohen is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States. Their research activities focus primarily on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Genetics, and Molecular Biology subfields.

The scientific contributions include studies related to viral infections, virus-based gene therapy, and the behavior of lipid membranes. Specific research topics explored are:

  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research

Frequent collaborators in their publications are Ruben M. Markosyan, Mariana Marin, Gregory B. Melikyan, Ronen Borenstein, and Barbara A. Hanson.

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • Ginkgolic acid inhibits fusion of enveloped viruses, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The late endosome-resident lipid bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate is a cofactor for Lassa virus fusion, 2021, PLoS Pathogens
  • Author Correction: Ginkgolic acid inhibits fusion of enveloped viruses, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The late endosome-resident lipid bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate is a cofactor for Lassa virus fusion, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Interaction with stomatin directs human proton channels into cholesterol-dependent membrane domains, 2024, Biophysical Journal

Their publications have appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Soft Matter

Best Publications

  • Evidence that the transition of HIV-1 gp41 into a six-helix bundle, not the bundle configuration, induces membrane fusion.

    Grigory B. Melikyan;Ruben M. Markosyan;Hila Hemmati;Mary K. Delmedico

  • Characterization of cholesterol-sphingomyelin domains and their dynamics in bilayer membranes.

    Andrey V. Samsonov;Ilya Mihalyov;Fredric S. Cohen

  • IFITM proteins restrict viral membrane hemifusion

    Kun Li;Ruben M. Markosyan;Yi-Min Zheng;Ottavia Golfetto

  • The energetics of membrane fusion from binding, through hemifusion, pore formation, and pore enlargement.

    F S Cohen;G B Melikyan

  • A quantitative model for membrane fusion based on low-energy intermediates

    Peter I. Kuzmin;Joshua Zimmerberg;Yuri A. Chizmadzhev;Fredric S. Cohen

  • Line tension and interaction energies of membrane rafts calculated from lipid splay and tilt.

    Peter I. Kuzmin;Sergey A. Akimov;Sergey A. Akimov;Yuri A. Chizmadzhev;Yuri A. Chizmadzhev;Joshua Zimmerberg

  • Simultaneous electrical and optical measurements show that membrane fusion precedes secretory granule swelling during exocytosis of beige mouse mast cells.

    Joshua Zimmerberg;Michael Curran;Fredric S. Cohen;Malcolm Brodwick

  • Lipid Peroxides Promote Large Rafts: Effects of Excitation of Probes in Fluorescence Microscopy and Electrochemical Reactions during Vesicle Formation

    Artem G. Ayuyan;Fredric S. Cohen

  • GPI-anchored influenza hemagglutinin induces hemifusion to both red blood cell and planar bilayer membranes.

    G B Melikyan;J M White;F S Cohen

  • Fusion of phospholipid vesicles with planar phospholipid bilayer membranes. II. Incorporation of a vesicular membrane marker into the planar membrane.

    Fredric S. Cohen;Fredric S. Cohen;Joshua Zimmerberg;Alan Finkelstein

  • HIV-1 envelope proteins complete their folding into six-helix bundles immediately after fusion pore formation.

    Ruben M. Markosyan;Fredric S. Cohen;Grigory B. Melikyan

  • Structure-function of the channel-forming colicins.

    W A Cramer;J B Heymann;S L Schendel;B N Deriy

  • A specific point mutant at position 1 of the influenza hemagglutinin fusion peptide displays a hemifusion phenotype.

    Hui Qiao;R. Todd Armstrong;Grigory B. Melikyan;Fredric S. Cohen

  • Inner but Not Outer Membrane Leaflets Control the Transition from Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored Influenza Hemagglutinin-induced Hemifusion to Full Fusion

    Grigory B. Melikyan;Sofya A. Brener;Dong C. Ok;Fredric S. Cohen

  • Osmotic swelling of vesicles: its role in the fusion of vesicles with planar phospholipid bilayer membranes and its possible role in exocytosis.

    A Finkelstein;J Zimmerberg;F S Cohen

  • Osmotic swelling of phospholipid vesicles causes them to fuse with a planar phospholipid bilayer membrane

    Fredric S. Cohen;Myles H. Akabas;Alan Finkelstein

  • Fusion of phospholipid vesicles with planar phospholipid bilayer membranes. I. Discharge of vesicular contents across the planar membrane.

    Joshua Zimmerberg;Fredric S. Cohen;Fredric S. Cohen;Alan Finkelstein

  • Micromolar Ca2+ stimulates fusion of lipid vesicles with planar bilayers containing a calcium-binding protein

    Joshua Zimmerberg;Fredric S. Cohen;Alan Finkelstein

  • Amino Acid Sequence Requirements of the Transmembrane and Cytoplasmic Domains of Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin for Viable Membrane Fusion

    Grigory B. Melikyan;Sasa Lin;Michael G. Roth;Fredric S. Cohen

  • “Entropic Traps” in the Kinetics of Phase Separation in Multicomponent Membranes Stabilize Nanodomains

    V.A.J. Frolov;Y.A. Chizmadzhev;Y.A. Chizmadzhev;F.S. Cohen;J. Zimmerberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua Zimmerberg
Joshua Zimmerberg National Institutes of Health
William A. Cramer
William A. Cramer Purdue University West Lafayette
Shan-Lu Liu
Shan-Lu Liu The Ohio State University
Myles H. Akabas
Myles H. Akabas Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Margaret Kielian
Margaret Kielian Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Mark E. Peeples
Mark E. Peeples The Ohio State University
Kurt R. Brunden
Kurt R. Brunden University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth R. Fischer
Elizabeth R. Fischer National Institutes of Health
Judith M. White
Judith M. White University of Virginia
Richard M. Epand
Richard M. Epand McMaster University

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