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Overview

Jack E. Dixon is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine. Within these broad fields, they focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Surgery, Epidemiology, and Physiology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, such as:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Calpain Protease Function and Regulation
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Jack E. Dixon has published multiple papers in recognized scientific venues. Among the recent works are:

  • Hippo pathway regulation by phosphatidylinositol transfer protein and phosphoinositides, 2022, Nature Chemical Biology
  • The stress-responsive kinase DYRK2 activates heat shock factor 1 promoting resistance to proteotoxic stress, 2020, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • The ABCs of the atypical Fam20 secretory pathway kinases, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • POMK regulates dystroglycan function via LARGE1-mediated elongation of matriglycan, 2020, eLife
  • Ca2+-dependent liquid-liquid phase separation underlies intracellular Ca2+ stores, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequently publishing venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • Cell Death and Differentiation
  • eLife

Coauthors who have collaborated frequently with Jack E. Dixon include:

  • Joshua E. Mayfield
  • Sourav Banerjee
  • Carolyn A. Worby
  • Adam J. Pollak
  • Ameya Walimbe

Best Publications

  • The Tumor Suppressor, PTEN/MMAC1, Dephosphorylates the Lipid Second Messenger, Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-Trisphosphate

    Tomohiko Maehama;Jack E. Dixon

  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in the Human Genome

    Andres Alonso;Joanna Sasin;Nunzio Bottini;Ilan Friedberg

  • Eukaryotic proteins expressed in Escherichia coli: an improved thrombin cleavage and purification procedure of fusion proteins with glutathione S-transferase.

    KunLiang Guan;Jack E. Dixon

  • Drosophila Dscam Is an Axon Guidance Receptor Exhibiting Extraordinary Molecular Diversity

    Dietmar Schmucker;James C Clemens;James C Clemens;Huidy Shu;Carolyn A Worby

  • Crystal Structure of the PTEN Tumor Suppressor: Implications for Its Phosphoinositide Phosphatase Activity and Membrane Association

    J.-O. Lee;Haijuan Yang;M.-M. Georgescu;A. Di Cristofano

  • Use of double-stranded RNA interference in Drosophila cell lines to dissect signal transduction pathways

    James C. Clemens;Carolyn A. Worby;Nancy Simonson-Leff;Marco Muda

  • Widespread dynamic DNA methylation in response to biotic stress

    Robert H. Dowen;Mattia Pelizzola;Robert J. Schmitz;Ryan Lister

  • The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition: expanding the universe of protein families.

    Shibu Yooseph;Granger Sutton;Douglas B. Rusch;Aaron L Halpern

  • Components of a New Human Protein Kinase Signal Transduction Pathway

    Gaochao Zhou;Zhao Qin Bao;Jack E. Dixon

  • PTEN: a tumour suppressor that functions as a phospholipid phosphatase

    Tomohiko Maehama;Jack E. Dixon

  • Protein tyrosine phosphatase activity of an essential virulence determinant in Yersinia

    Kunliang Guan;Jack E. Dixon

  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases

    Kevin M. Walton;Jack E. Dixon

  • Cleavage of Arabidopsis PBS1 by a bacterial type III effector.

    Feng Shao;Catherine Golstein;Jules Ade;Mark Stoutemyer

  • Disruption of signaling by Yersinia effector YopJ, a ubiquitin-like protein protease.

    Kim Orth;Zhaohui Xu;Mary Beth Mudgett;Zhao Qin Bao

  • PTEN and myotubularin: novel phosphoinositide phosphatases.

    Tomohiko Maehama;Gregory S. Taylor;Jack E. Dixon

  • Evidence for protein-tyrosine-phosphatase catalysis proceeding via a cysteine-phosphate intermediate.

    Kunliang Guan;J. E. Dixon

  • A Yersinia effector and a pseudomonas avirulence protein define a family of cysteine proteases functioning in bacterial pathogenesis

    Feng Shao;Peter M. Merritt;Zhaoqin Bao;Roger W. Innes

  • Sorting out the cellular functions of sorting nexins

    Carolyn A. Worby;Jack E. Dixon

  • Protein tyrosine phosphatases: mechanisms of catalysis and regulation.

    John M Denu;Jack E Dixon

  • A Tyr/Ser protein phosphatase encoded by vaccinia virus.

    Kunliang Guan;Steven S. Broyles;Jack E. Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip C. Andrews
Philip C. Andrews University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John M. Denu
John M. Denu University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kun-Liang Guan
Kun-Liang Guan Westlake University
Zhong Yin Zhang
Zhong Yin Zhang Purdue University West Lafayette
Anne N. Murphy
Anne N. Murphy Cytokinetics (United States)
Jeanne A. Stuckey
Jeanne A. Stuckey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Howard Zalkin
Howard Zalkin Purdue University West Lafayette
Nick V. Grishin
Nick V. Grishin The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet University of California, San Diego
Gerard Manning
Gerard Manning University College Cork

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