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2023

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225
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Gideon Dreyfuss is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and contributes primarily to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research encompasses subfields including Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their work focuses on several main topics such as RNA Research and Splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and Viral Infections and Immunology Research.

Recent publications by Dreyfuss include:

  • U1 snRNP regulates cancer cell migration and invasion in vitro, 2020, Nature Communications
  • TOMM40-APOE chimera linking Alzheimer's highest risk genes: a new pathway for mitochondria regulation and APOE4 pathogenesis, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Comprehensive RNP profiling in cells identifies U1 snRNP complexes with cleavage and polyadenylation factors active in telescripting, 2021, Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

Dreyfuss has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Zhiqiang Cai
  • Christopher C. Venters
  • Chao Di
  • Chie Arai
  • Byung Ran So

The scientist's publications appear in venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

Recognition of Gideon Dreyfuss's professional contributions is indicated by multiple awards, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2012, fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2010, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2005, and membership in the European Academy of Sciences since 2004.

Best Publications

  • U1 snRNP regulates cancer cell migration and invasion in vitro

    Jung-Min Oh;Christopher C. Venters;Chao Di;Anna Maria Pinto

  • Conserved structures and diversity of functions of RNA-binding proteins.

    Christopher G. Burd;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • A uniform system for microRNA annotation

    Victor R. Ambros;Bonnie Bartel;David P. Bartel;Christopher B. Burge

  • hnRNP Proteins and the Biogenesis of mRNA

    Gideon Dreyfuss;Michael J. Matunis;Serafin Pinol-Roma;Christopher G. Burd

  • Messenger-RNA-binding proteins and the messages they carry.

    Gideon Dreyfuss;V. Narry Kim;Naoyuki Kataoka

  • RNA-binding proteins and post-transcriptional gene regulation

    Tina Glisovic;Jennifer L. Bachorik;Jeongsik Yong;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • Correlation between severity and SMN protein level in spinal muscular atrophy.

    Suzie Lefebvre;Philippe Burlet;Qing Liu;Solange Bertrandy

  • miRNPs: a novel class of ribonucleoproteins containing numerous microRNAs

    Zissimos Mourelatos;Josée Dostie;Sergey Paushkin;Anup Sharma

  • RNA and Disease

    Thomas A. Cooper;Lili Wan;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • Shuttling of pre-mRNA binding proteins between nucleus and cytoplasm

    Serafm Piñol-Roma;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • A novel nuclear structure containing the survival of motor neurons protein.

    Q Liu;G Dreyfuss

  • The protein product of the fragile X gene, FMR1, has characteristics of an RNA-binding protein.

    Haruhiko Siomi;Mikiko C. Siomi;Robert L. Nussbaum;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • RNA-binding proteins as developmental regulators.

    Raymond J. Bandziulis;Maurice S. Swanson;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • Primary structure and binding activity of the hnRNP U protein: binding RNA through RGG box.

    M. Kiledjian;G. Dreyfuss

  • Transport of Proteins and RNAs in and out of the Nucleus

    Sara Nakielny;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • A NOVEL RECEPTOR-MEDIATED NUCLEAR PROTEIN IMPORT PATHWAY

    Victoria W Pollard;W.Matthew Michael;Sara Nakielny;Mikiko C Siomi

  • The SMN–SIP1 Complex Has an Essential Role in Spliceosomal snRNP Biogenesis

    Utz Fischer;Qing Liu;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Disease Gene Product, SMN, and Its Associated Protein SIP1 Are in a Complex with Spliceosomal snRNP Proteins

    Qing Liu;Utz Fischer;Fan Wang;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • The pre-mRNA binding K protein contains a novel evolutionary conserved motif

    Haruhiko Siomi;Michael J. Matunis;W. Matthew Michael;Gideon Dreyfuss

  • A nuclear export signal in hnRNP A1: a signal-mediated, temperature-dependent nuclear protein export pathway.

    W M Michael;M Choi;G Dreyfuss

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Matunis
Michael J. Matunis Johns Hopkins University
Maurice S. Swanson
Maurice S. Swanson University of Florida
Haruhiko Siomi
Haruhiko Siomi Keio University
Christopher G. Burd
Christopher G. Burd Yale University
Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Juri Rappsilber
Juri Rappsilber Technical University of Berlin
Utz Fischer
Utz Fischer University of Würzburg
Stephen A. Adam
Stephen A. Adam Northwestern University
Josée Dostie
Josée Dostie McGill University
Zissimos Mourelatos
Zissimos Mourelatos University of Pennsylvania

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