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George Panayotou

George Panayotou

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
16676
World Ranking
13597
National Ranking
245

Overview

George Panayotou is affiliated with Ludwig Cancer Research in Belgium, contributing primarily to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their research encompasses a range of focused subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Epidemiology, and Immunology.

The scientist's published work addresses multiple key topics such as vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism, peptidase inhibition and analysis, RNA modifications and cancer, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, pneumonia and respiratory infections, as well as ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Among recent significant papers are:

  • Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 2024
  • A novel isolation method for spontaneously released extracellular vesicles from brain tissue and its implications for stress-driven brain pathology, 2023, Cell Communication and Signaling
  • High content screening and proteomic analysis identify a kinase inhibitor that rescues pathological phenotypes in a patient-derived model of Parkinson's disease, 2022, npj Parkinson's Disease
  • ERK signaling controls productive HIF-1 binding to chromatin and cancer cell adaptation to hypoxia through HIF-1α interaction with NPM1, 2021, Molecular Oncology
  • Generation of SARS-CoV-2 S1 Spike Glycoprotein Putative Antigenic Epitopes in Vitro by Intracellular Aminopeptidases, 2020, Journal of Proteome Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include Martina Samiotaki, George Stamatakis, Efstratios Stratikos, Martha Nikopaschou, and George Simos. Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Anticancer Research, Bone Reports, and Journal of Proteome Research.

The areas of research represented by their publications show an emphasis on molecular mechanisms relevant to cancer and infectious diseases, combining experimental and computational approaches. This includes work on extracellular vesicles, kinase inhibitors, hypoxia signaling pathways in cancer, and antigenic epitope generation for viral proteins.

Best Publications

  • Phosphoinositide 3-kinases: a conserved family of signal transducers.

    Bart Vanhaesebroeck;Sally J. Leevers;George Panayotou;Michael D. Waterfield

  • A multifunctional docking site mediates signaling and transformation by the hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor receptor family

    Carola Ponzetto;Alberto Bardelli;Alberto Bardelli;Zhu Zhen;Flavio Maina

  • Characterization of two 85 kd proteins that associate with receptor tyrosine kinases, middle-T/pp60c-src complexes, and PI3-kinase.

    Masayuki Otsu;Ian Hiles;Ivan Gout;Michael J. Fry

  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase : structure and expression of the 110 kd catalytic subunit

    Ian D. Hiles;Masayuki Otsu;Stefano Volinia;Michael J. Fry

  • Wortmannin inactivates phosphoinositide 3-kinase by covalent modification of Lys-802, a residue involved in the phosphate transfer reaction.

    M P Wymann;G Bulgarelli-Leva;M J Zvelebil;L Pirola

  • Distinct specificity in the recognition of phosphoinositides by the pleckstrin homology domains of dynamin and Bruton's tyrosine kinase.

    K Salim;M J Bottomley;E Querfurth;M J Zvelebil

  • The GTPase dynamin binds to and is activated by a subset of SH3 domains.

    Ivan Gout;Ritu Dhand;Ian D. Hiles;Michael J. Fry

  • PI 3-kinase is a dual specificity enzyme: autoregulation by an intrinsic protein-serine kinase activity.

    R Dhand;I Hiles;G Panayotou;S Roche

  • PI 3-kinase: structural and functional analysis of intersubunit interactions.

    Ritu Dhand;K. Hara;I. Hiles;B. Bax

  • Domains of laminin with growth-factor activity

    George Panayotou;Peter End;Monique Aumailley;Rupert Timpl

  • Characterization of Flavonoid Subgroups and Hydroxy Substitution by HPLC-MS/MS

    Dimitrios Tsimogiannis;Martina Samiotaki;George Panayotou;Vassiliki Oreopoulou

  • Identification of MAPK Phosphorylation Sites and Their Role in the Localization and Activity of Hypoxia-inducible Factor-1α

    Ilias Mylonis;Georgia Chachami;Martina Samiotaki;George Panayotou

  • Crystal Structure of a G:T/U Mismatch-Specific DNA Glycosylase: Mismatch Recognition by Complementary-Strand Interactions

    Tracey E Barrett;Renos Savva;George Panayotou;Tom Barlow

  • The motogenic and mitogenic responses to HGF are amplified by the Shc adaptor protein

    G Pelicci;Silvia Giordano;Z Zhen;Ae Salcini

  • The Homeodomain Region of Rag-1 Reveals the Parallel Mechanisms of Bacterial and V(D)J Recombination

    Eugenia Spanopoulou;Florina Zaitseva;Fu-Hou Wang;Sandro Santagata

  • A novel recognition motif for phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase binding mediates its association with the hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor receptor.

    Carola Ponzetto;Alberto Bardelli;Flavio Maina;Paola Longati

  • SH2 domains of the p85 alpha subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase regulate binding to growth factor receptors.

    C J McGlade;C Ellis;M Reedijk;D Anderson

  • Interactions between SH2 domains and tyrosine-phosphorylated platelet-derived growth factor beta-receptor sequences: analysis of kinetic parameters by a novel biosensor-based approach.

    G Panayotou;G Gish;P End;O Truong

  • Structure of an SH2 domain of the p85 alpha subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase.

    G.W Booker;A.L Breeze;A.K Downing;G Panayotou

  • A read-ahead function in archaeal DNA polymerases detects promutagenic template-strand uracil

    Martin A. Greagg;Mark J. Fogg;George Panayotou;Steven J. Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan Gout
Ivan Gout University College London
Michael D. Waterfield
Michael D. Waterfield Ludwig Cancer Research
Mike Waterfield
Mike Waterfield Ludwig Cancer Research
Peter J. Parker
Peter J. Parker The Francis Crick Institute
Laurence H. Pearl
Laurence H. Pearl University of Sussex
George Simos
George Simos University Of Thessaly
Stefano Volinia
Stefano Volinia University of Ferrara
Paul C. Driscoll
Paul C. Driscoll University College London
Tom Brown
Tom Brown University of Oxford
J. Justin Hsuan
J. Justin Hsuan University College London

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