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Overview

Guy A. Perkins is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Perkins's work spans several subfields including molecular biology, ophthalmology, physiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and neurology.

The scientist's main research topics include mitochondrial function and pathology, glaucoma and retinal disorders, ATP synthase and ATPases research, retinal development and disorders, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, retinal diseases and treatments, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Publications by Perkins have appeared frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience, Biophysical Journal, and Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. Among these, bioRxiv accounts for the largest number of their published works.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Mark H. Ellisman, Keunyoung Kim, Won-Kyu Ju, Sébastien Phan, and Soo-Ho Choi.

Some notable papers authored or coauthored by Guy A. Perkins include:

  • Glaucomatous optic neuropathy: Mitochondrial dynamics, dysfunction and protection in retinal ganglion cells, 2022, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
  • Loss of AKAP1 triggers Drp1 dephosphorylation-mediated mitochondrial fission and loss in retinal ganglion cells, 2020, Cell Death and Disease
  • AIBP protects retinal ganglion cells against neuroinflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction in glaucomatous neurodegeneration, 2020, Redox Biology
  • Cristae formation is a mechanical buckling event controlled by the inner mitochondrial membrane lipidome, 2023, The EMBO Journal
  • (−)-Epicatechin induces mitochondrial biogenesis and markers of muscle regeneration in adults with Becker muscular dystrophy, 2020, Muscle & Nerve

Best Publications

  • Bid, Bax, and lipids cooperate to form supramolecular openings in the outer mitochondrial membrane.

    Tomomi Kuwana;Mason R. Mackey;Guy Perkins;Mark H. Ellisman

  • NF-κB Restricts Inflammasome Activation via Elimination of Damaged Mitochondria

    Zhenyu Zhong;Atsushi Umemura;Atsushi Umemura;Elsa Sanchez-Lopez;Shuang Liang

  • Mitochondrial fragmentation in neurodegeneration

    Andrew B. Knott;Guy Perkins;Robert Schwarzenbacher;Ella Bossy-Wetzel

  • Nitric oxide-induced mitochondrial fission is regulated by dynamin-related GTPases in neurons.

    Mark J Barsoum;Hua Yuan;Akos A Gerencser;Géraldine Liot

  • Disruption of Mitochondrial Function during Apoptosis Is Mediated by Caspase Cleavage of the p75 Subunit of Complex I of the Electron Transport Chain

    Jean-Ehrland Ricci;Cristina Muñoz-Pinedo;Patrick Fitzgerald;Béatrice Bailly-Maitre

  • Sestrin as a feedback inhibitor of TOR that prevents age-related pathologies

    Jun Hee Lee;Andrei V. Budanov;Eek Joong Park;Ryan Birse

  • Mutant huntingtin binds the mitochondrial fission GTPase dynamin-related protein-1 and increases its enzymatic activity

    Wenjun Song;Jin-jin Chen;Alejandra M. Petrilli;Géraldine Liot

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Mitochondrial pathogenic mechanism and degradation in optineurin E50K mutation-mediated retinal ganglion cell degeneration

    Myoung Sup Shim;Yuji Takihara;Keun-Young Kim;Takeshi Iwata

  • Electron Tomography of Neuronal Mitochondria: Three-Dimensional Structure and Organization of Cristae and Membrane Contacts

    G. Perkins;C. Renken;M.E. Martone;S.J. Young

  • Crosstalk between nitric oxide and zinc pathways to neuronal cell death involving mitochondrial dysfunction and p38-activated K+ channels.

    Ella Bossy-Wetzel;Maria V Talantova;Wilson D Lee;Marion N Schölzke

  • The Pro-Apoptotic Proteins, Bid and Bax, Cause a Limited Permeabilization of the Mitochondrial Outer Membrane That Is Enhanced by Cytosol

    Ruth M Kluck;Mauro Dogli Esposti;Guy Perkins;Christian Renken

  • ChChd3, an Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Protein, Is Essential for Maintaining Crista Integrity and Mitochondrial Function

    Manjula Darshi;Vincent L. Mendiola;Mason R. Mackey;Anne N. Murphy

  • Three-dimensional analysis of a viral RNA replication complex reveals a virus-induced mini-organelle.

    Benjamin G Kopek;Guy Perkins;David J Miller;Mark H Ellisman

  • Preservation of mitochondrial structure and function after Bid- or Bax-mediated cytochrome c release.

    Oliver von Ahsen;Christian Renken;Guy Perkins;Ruth M. Kluck

  • Covalently Linked Au Nanoparticles to a Viral Vector: Potential for Combined Photothermal and Gene Cancer Therapy

    Maaike Everts;Vaibhav Saini;Jennifer L. Leddon;Robbert J. Kok

  • Opa1-Mediated Cristae Opening Is Bax/Bak and BH3 Dependent, Required for Apoptosis, and Independent of Bak Oligomerization

    Ryuji Yamaguchi;Lydia Lartigue;Guy A Perkins;Ray T Scott

  • Correlated three-dimensional light and electron microscopy reveals transformation of mitochondria during apoptosis

    Mei G. Sun;James Williams;Cristina Munoz-Pinedo;Guy A. Perkins

  • Maintenance of Metabolic Homeostasis by Sestrin2 and Sestrin3

    Jun Hee Lee;Jun Hee Lee;Andrei V. Budanov;Andrei V. Budanov;Saswata Talukdar;Eek Joong Park

  • Insight into mitochondrial structure and function from electron tomography

    T.G Frey;C.W Renken;C.W Renken;G.A Perkins

  • ChChd3, an Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Protein is Essential for Maintaining Cristae Integrity and Mitochondrial Function

    Manjula Darshi;Guy A Perkins;Mason R Mackey;Susanna Petrosyan

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark H. Ellisman
Mark H. Ellisman University of California, San Diego
Susan S. Taylor
Susan S. Taylor University of California, San Diego
Robert N. Weinreb
Robert N. Weinreb University of California, San Diego
Anne N. Murphy
Anne N. Murphy Cytokinetics (United States)
Gabriel G. Haddad
Gabriel G. Haddad University of California, San Diego
Ella Bossy-Wetzel
Ella Bossy-Wetzel University of Central Florida
Hemal H. Patel
Hemal H. Patel University of California, San Diego
Robert R. Henry
Robert R. Henry University of California, San Diego
Stuart A. Lipton
Stuart A. Lipton Scripps Research Institute
Donald D. Newmeyer
Donald D. Newmeyer La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

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