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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Glenn L. Millhauser is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions across several interrelated subfields.

The main subfields of study for Millhauser include Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Education, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Their work addresses key topics such as Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Trace Elements in Health, Neurological Diseases and Metabolism, Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism, Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, and Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques.

Millhauser has published research in various scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Some notable recent publications include:

  • "Determination of the melanocortin-4 receptor structure identifies Ca 2+ as a cofactor for ligand binding" (2020) published in Science
  • "First Synthesis of Mn-Doped Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Magic Sized Clusters at Room Temperature" (2020) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Both N-Terminal and C-Terminal Histidine Residues of the Prion Protein Are Essential for Copper Coordination and Neuroprotective Self-Regulation" (2020) published in Journal of Molecular Biology
  • "Antimicrobial activity of graphene oxide quantum dots: impacts of chemical reduction" (2020) published in Nanoscale Advances
  • "Structure and mechanism of human cystine exporter cystinosin" (2022) published in Cell

Frequent collaborators include Kevin Singewald, Shaowei Chen, Graham Roseman, Tufa E. Assafa, and Daniel Oliver.

Millhauser's contributions have been recognized by being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Testing the conformational hypothesis of passive membrane permeability using synthetic cyclic peptide diastereomers.

    Taha Rezai;Bin Yu;Glenn L Millhauser;Matthew P Jacobson

  • A novel α-synuclein missense mutation in Parkinson disease

    C Proukakis;CG Dudzik;T Brier;DS MacKay

  • Molecular Features of the Copper Binding Sites in the Octarepeat Domain of the Prion Protein

    Colin S. Burns;Eliah Aronoff-Spencer;Christine M. Dunham;Paula Lario

  • Identification of the Cu2+ Binding Sites in the N-Terminal Domain of the Prion Protein by EPR and CD Spectroscopy

    Eliah Aronoff-Spencer;Colin S. Burns;Nikolai I. Avdievich;Gary J. Gerfen

  • Copper binding in the prion protein.

    Glenn L. Millhauser

  • A β-Defensin Mutation Causes Black Coat Color in Domestic Dogs

    Sophie I. Candille;Christopher B. Kaelin;Bruce M. Cattanach;Bin Yu

  • Copper coordination in the full-length, recombinant prion protein.

    Colin S. Burns;Eliah Aronoff-Spencer;Giuseppe Legname;Stanley B. Prusiner

  • Copper and the Prion Protein: Methods, Structures, Function, and Disease

    Glenn L. Millhauser

  • A POMC variant implicates beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the control of human energy balance.

    Yung Seng Lee;Ben G. Challis;Darren A. Thompson;Giles S.H. Yeo

  • Short alanine-based peptides may form 310-helices and not α-helices in aqueous solution

    Siobhan M. Miick;Gary V. Martinez;Wayne R. Fiori;A. Paul Todd

  • The octarepeat domain of the prion protein binds Cu(II) with three distinct coordination modes at pH 7.4.

    Madhuri Chattopadhyay;Eric D. Walter;Dustin J. Newell;Pilgrim J. Jackson

  • Views of helical peptides: a proposal for the position of 3(10)-helix along the thermodynamic folding pathway.

    Glenn L. Millhauser

  • Mechanistic study on the solution-phase n-doping of 1,3-dimethyl-2-aryl-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzoimidazole derivatives.

    Benjamin D. Naab;Song Guo;Selina Olthof;Eric G. B. Evans

  • Diffusion models of ion-channel gating and the origin of power-law distributions from single-channel recording

    Glenn L. Millhauser;Edwin E. Salpeter;Robert E. Oswald

  • α and 310: The Split Personality of Polypeptide Helices

    Kimberly A. Bolin and;Glenn L. Millhauser

  • G-protein-independent coupling of MC4R to Kir7.1 in hypothalamic neurons

    Masoud Ghamari-Langroudi;Gregory J. Digby;Julien A. Sebag;Glenn L. Millhauser

  • The affinity of copper binding to the prion protein octarepeat domain : Evidence for negative cooperativity

    Eric D. Walter;Madhuri Chattopadhyay;Glenn L. Millhauser

  • Photo-enhanced antibacterial activity of ZnO/graphene quantum dot nanocomposites

    Junli Liu;Mauricio D. Rojas-Andrade;Gustavo Chata;Yi Peng

  • Two‐dimensional electron spin echo spectroscopy and slow motions

    Glenn L. Millhauser;Jack H. Freed

  • The prion protein is a combined zinc and copper binding protein: Zn2+ alters the distribution of Cu2+ coordination modes.

    Eric D. Walter;Daniel J. Stevens;Micah P. Visconte;Glenn L. Millhauser

  • Increasing sequence length favors alpha-helix over 3(10)-helix in alanine-based peptides: evidence for a length-dependent structural transition.

    Wayne R. Fiori;Siobhan M. Miick;Glenn L. Millhauser

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory S. Barsh
Gregory S. Barsh Stanford University
Claudio Toniolo
Claudio Toniolo University of Padua
Marco Crisma
Marco Crisma University of Padua
Fernando Formaggio
Fernando Formaggio University of Padua
Roger D. Cone
Roger D. Cone University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David A. Harris
David A. Harris Boston University
William E. Antholine
William E. Antholine Medical College of Wisconsin
Jin Z. Zhang
Jin Z. Zhang University of California, Santa Cruz
Julia R. Dorin
Julia R. Dorin University of Edinburgh
Shaowei Chen
Shaowei Chen University of California, Santa Cruz

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