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Biology and Biochemistry
UK
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
94
Citations
45964
World Ranking
1965
National Ranking
124

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  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Gerald M. Cohen is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The main fields of study covered in their work include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The scientist's research mainly addresses topics related to chronic lymphocytic leukemia, cancer genomics and diagnostics, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, mitochondrial function and pathology, ATP synthase and ATPases research, and metabolism and genetic disorders.

Recent publications by Gerald M. Cohen include the following papers:

  • Whole-genome sequencing of chronic lymphocytic leukemia identifies subgroups with distinct biological and clinical features, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Novel roles of RTN4 and CLIMP-63 in regulating mitochondrial structure, bioenergetics and apoptosis, 2022, Cell Death and Disease

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Pauline Robbe
  • Kate Ridout
  • Dimitrios V. Vavoulis
  • Hélène Dreau
  • Ben Kinnersley

Gerald M. Cohen has published predominantly in the journals Nature Genetics and Cell Death and Disease.

Best Publications

  • Caspases: the executioners of apoptosis

    Gerald M. Cohen

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Heat-shock protein 70 inhibits apoptosis by preventing recruitment of procaspase-9 to the Apaf-1 apoptosome.

    Helen M. Beere;Beni B. Wolf;Kelvin Cain;Dick D. Mosser

  • Distinct Caspase Cascades Are Initiated in Receptor-mediated and Chemical-induced Apoptosis

    Xiao-Ming Sun;Marion MacFarlane;Jianguo Zhuang;Beni B. Wolf

  • Key morphological features of apoptosis may occur in the absence of internucleosomal DNA fragmentation.

    G M Cohen;X M Sun;R T Snowden;D Dinsdale

  • Normal and Pathologic Concentrations of Uremic Toxins

    Flore Duranton;Gerald Cohen;Rita De Smet;Mariano Rodriguez

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring cell death in higher eukaryotes

    L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;S. A. Aaronson;J. Abrams;E. S. Alnemri

  • The proteasome: a novel target for cancer chemotherapy.

    JB Almond;GM Cohen

  • Identification and Molecular Cloning of Two Novel Receptors for the Cytotoxic Ligand TRAIL

    Marion MacFarlane;Manzoor Ahmad;Srinivasa M. Srinivasula;Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri

  • Benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp (OMe) fluoromethylketone (Z-VAD.FMK) inhibits apoptosis by blocking the processing of CPP32.

    Elizabeth A. Slee;Huijun Zhu;Sek C. Chow;Marion MacFARLANE

  • The Apaf-1 apoptosome: a large caspase-activating complex.

    Kelvin Cain;Shawn B. Bratton;Gerald M. Cohen

  • Dexamethasone-induced apoptosis involves cleavage of DNA to large fragments prior to internucleosomal fragmentation.

    D. G. Brown;Xiao-Ming Sun;G. M. Cohen

  • Protein complexes activate distinct caspase cascades in death receptor and stress-induced apoptosis.

    Shawn B. Bratton;Marion MacFarlane;Kelvin Cain;Gerald M. Cohen

  • Recruitment, activation and retention of caspases-9 and -3 by Apaf-1 apoptosome and associated XIAP complexes

    Shawn B. Bratton;Gail Walker;Srinivasa M. Srinivasula;Xiao Ming Sun

  • Dopamine turnover and glutathione oxidation: implications for Parkinson disease.

    Mary Beth Spina;Gerald Cohen

  • Apaf-1 oligomerizes into biologically active ~700-kDa and inactive ~1.4-MDa apoptosome complexes

    Kelvin Cain;Shawn B. Bratton;Claudia Langlais;Gail Walker

  • Bcl-2 inhibitors: small molecules with a big impact on cancer therapy

    Meike Vogler;David Dinsdale;Martin J. S. Dyer;Gerald M. Cohen

  • Concurrent up-regulation of BCL-XL and BCL2A1 induces approximately 1000-fold resistance to ABT-737 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

    Meike Vogler;Michael Butterworth;Aneela Majid;Renata J. Walewska

  • Caspase Activation Involves the Formation of the Aposome, a Large (∼700 kDa) Caspase-activating Complex *

    Kelvin Cain;David G. Brown;Claudia Langlais;Gerald M. Cohen

  • A Bench to Bedside View of Uremic Toxins

    Raymond Vanholder;Ulrich Baurmeister;Philippe Brunet;Gerald Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Marion MacFarlane
Marion MacFarlane University of Cambridge
Martin J. S. Dyer
Martin J. S. Dyer University of Leicester
David Dinsdale
David Dinsdale University of Leicester
Satoshi Inoue
Satoshi Inoue Saitama Medical University
Emad S. Alnemri
Emad S. Alnemri Thomas Jefferson University
Gerry Melino
Gerry Melino University of Rome Tor Vergata
Joachim Jankowski
Joachim Jankowski RWTH Aachen University
Raymond Vanholder
Raymond Vanholder Ghent University
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University
Simone Fulda
Simone Fulda Goethe University Frankfurt

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