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Overview

Herbert N. Arst is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Cell Biology and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Connexins and lens biology
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Ion channel regulation and function

Recent publications by Herbert N. Arst include:

  • The Uso1 globular head interacts with SNAREs to maintain viability even in the absence of the coiled-coil domain, 2023, eLife
  • Tethering by Uso1 is dispensable: The Uso1 monomeric globular head domain interacts with SNAREs to maintain viability, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Herbert N. Arst are:

  • Ignacio Bravo-Plaza
  • Víctor G. Tagua
  • Ana Alonso
  • Mario Pinar
  • Begoña Monterroso

The scientist's work is published in venues including:

  • eLife
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • The Aspergillus PacC zinc finger transcription factor mediates regulation of both acid- and alkaline-expressed genes by ambient pH.

    J Tilburn;S Sarkar;D A Widdick;E A Espeso

  • The regulatory gene areA mediating nitrogen metabolite repression in Aspergillus nidulans. Mutations affecting specificity of gene activation alter a loop residue of a putative zinc finger.

    B Kudla;M X Caddick;T Langdon;N M Martinez-Rossi

  • Nitrogen metabolite repression in Aspergillus nidulans.

    Herbert N. Arst;David J. Cove

  • Siderophore Biosynthesis But Not Reductive Iron Assimilation Is Essential for Aspergillus fumigatus Virulence

    Markus Schrettl;Elaine M. Bignell;Claudia Kragl;Chistoph Joechl

  • Distinct roles for intra- and extracellular siderophores during Aspergillus fumigatus infection.

    Markus Schrettl;Elaine Bignell;Claudia Kragl;Yasmin Sabiha

  • Regulation of Gene Expression by Ambient pH in Filamentous Fungi and Yeasts

    Miguel A. Peñalva;Herbert N. Arst

  • Ambient pH gene regulation in fungi: making connections.

    Miguel Ángel Peñalva;Joan Tilburn;Elaine Bignell;Herbert Nathan Arst

  • Carbon Catabolite Repression in Aspergillus nidulans

    Christopher Bailey;Herbert N. Arst

  • Regulation of gene expression by pH of the growth medium in Aspergillus nidulans.

    Mark X. Caddick;Alan G. Brownlee;Herbert N. Arst

  • Recent Advances in the Characterization of Ambient pH Regulation of Gene Expression in Filamentous Fungi and Yeasts

    Miguel A. Peñalva;Herbert N. Arst

  • pH regulation is a major determinant in expression of a fungal penicillin biosynthetic gene.

    E.A. Espeso;J. Tilburn;H.N. Arst;M.A. Peñalva

  • Activation of the Aspergillus PacC transcription factor in response to alkaline ambient pH requires proteolysis of the carboxy-terminal moiety.

    Margarita Orejas;Eduardo A. Espeso;Joan Tilburn;Sovan Sarkar

  • YPXL/I is a protein interaction motif recognized by aspergillus PalA and its human homologue, AIP1/Alix.

    Olivier Vincent;Lynne Rainbow;Joan Tilburn;Herbert N. Arst

  • Arrestin-related proteins mediate pH signaling in fungi

    Silvia Herranz;José M. Rodríguez;Henk-Jan Bussink;Juan C. Sánchez-Ferrero

  • Subtle hydrophobic interactions between the seventh residue of the zinc finger loop and the first base of an HGATAR sequence determine promoter-specific recognition by the Aspergillus nidulans GATA factor AreA

    Adriana Ravagnani;Lisette Gorfinkiel;Lisette Gorfinkiel;Timothy Langdon;George Diallinas

  • Signaling of Ambient pH in Aspergillus Involves a Cysteine Protease

    Steven H. Denison;Margarita Orejas;Herbert N. Arst

  • Signature-tagged and directed mutagenesis identify PABA synthetase as essential for Aspergillus fumigatus pathogenicity.

    Jeremy S. Brown;Agnès Aufauvre-Brown;Juliane Brown;Joanne M. Jennings

  • pH regulation in Aspergillus and parallels with higher eukaryotic regulatory systems

    Herbert N Arst;Miguel A Peñalva

  • Mutational Analysis of AREA, a Transcriptional Activator Mediating Nitrogen Metabolite Repression in Aspergillus nidulans and a Member of the “Streetwise” GATA Family of Transcription Factors

    Richard A. Wilson;Herbert N. Arst

  • Distinct Roles for Intra- and Extracellular Siderophores during Aspergillus fumigatus

    Infection Schrettl;Elaine Bignell;Claudia Kragl;Yasmin Sabiha

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel A. Peñalva
Miguel A. Peñalva Spanish National Research Council
Eduardo A. Espeso
Eduardo A. Espeso Spanish National Research Council
Claudio Scazzocchio
Claudio Scazzocchio Imperial College London
Jaap Visser
Jaap Visser Utrecht University
David Tollervey
David Tollervey University of Edinburgh
Vera Meyer
Vera Meyer Technical University of Berlin
Hubertus Haas
Hubertus Haas Innsbruck Medical University
David W. Holden
David W. Holden Imperial College London
Ulf Stahl
Ulf Stahl Technical University of Berlin
Thomas R. Rogers
Thomas R. Rogers Trinity College Dublin

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