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Jeffery L. Twiss is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Neuroscience. Within these areas, their work concentrates on Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, with notable contributions to Developmental Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Cancer Research.

The main topics of Twiss's research include nerve injury and regeneration, RNA research and splicing, RNA interference and gene delivery, signaling pathways in disease, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, receptor mechanisms and signaling, as well as RNA modifications and cancer.

Frequent publication venues for Twiss include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 12 publications, Current Biology with 2, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, eLife, and The EMBO Journal, each featuring at least one publication.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • The functional organization of axonal mRNA transport and translation, 2020, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • The injured sciatic nerve atlas (iSNAT), insights into the cellular and molecular basis of neural tissue degeneration and regeneration, 2022, eLife
  • The glycine arginine-rich domain of the RNA-binding protein nucleolin regulates its subcellular localization, 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • A Ca2+-Dependent Switch Activates Axonal Casein Kinase 2α Translation and Drives G3BP1 Granule Disassembly for Axon Regeneration, 2020, Current Biology
  • MicroRNAs 21 and 199a-3p Regulate Axon Growth Potential through Modulation of Pten and mTor mRNAs, 2021, eNeuro

Jeffery L. Twiss has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Pabitra K. Sahoo
  • Courtney N. Buchanan
  • Terika P. Smith
  • Elizabeth Thames
  • Seung Joon Lee

Best Publications

  • Axoplasmic importins enable retrograde injury signaling in lesioned nerve

    Shlomit Hanz;Eran Perlson;Dianna Willis;Jun-Qi Zheng

  • Differential Transport and Local Translation of Cytoskeletal, Injury-Response, and Neurodegeneration Protein mRNAs in Axons

    Dianna Willis;Ka Wan Li;Jun-Qi Zheng;Jay H Chang

  • Transcriptome analysis of embryonic and adult sensory axons reveals changes in mRNA repertoire localization.

    Laura F. Gumy;Giles S.H. Yeo;Yi-Chun Loraine Tung;Krishna H. Zivraj

  • HDAC6 is a target for protection and regeneration following injury in the nervous system

    Mark A. Rivieccio;Camille Brochier;Dianna E. Willis;Breset A. Walker

  • A Functional Role for Intra-Axonal Protein Synthesis during Axonal Regeneration from Adult Sensory Neurons

    Jun-Qi Zheng;Theresa K. Kelly;Bieshia Chang;Sergey Ryazantsev

  • An age-related sprouting transcriptome provides molecular control of axonal sprouting after stroke

    Songlin Li;Justine J Overman;Diana Katsman;Serguei V Kozlov

  • Axonal transcription factors signal retrogradely in lesioned peripheral nerve

    Keren Ben-Yaakov;Shachar Y Dagan;Yael Segal-Ruder;Ophir Shalem

  • Extracellular stimuli specifically regulate localized levels of individual neuronal mRNAs.

    Dianna E. Willis;Erna A. van Niekerk;Yukio Sasaki;Mariano Mesngon

  • Mitochondria coordinate sites of axon branching through localized intra-axonal protein synthesis.

    Mirela Spillane;Andrea Ketschek;Tanuja T. Merianda;Jeffery L. Twiss

  • Voluntary exercise increases axonal regeneration from sensory neurons

    Raffaella Molteni;Jun-Qi Zheng;Zhe Ying;Fernando Gómez-Pinilla

  • Axonal Degeneration Is Mediated by the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore

    Sebastian A. Barrientos;Nicolas W. Martinez;Soonmoon Yoo;Juan S. Jara

  • Localized regulation of axonal RanGTPase controls retrograde injury signaling in peripheral nerve.

    Dmitry Yudin;Shlomit Hanz;Soonmoon Yoo;Elena Iavnilovitch

  • Interaction of survival of motor neuron (SMN) and HuD proteins with mRNA cpg15 rescues motor neuron axonal deficits

    Bikem Akten;Min Jeong Kye;Le T. Hao;Mary H. Wertz

  • Locally translated mTOR controls axonal local translation in nerve injury.

    Marco Terenzio;Sandip Koley;Nitzan Samra;Ida Rishal

  • Subcellular Knockout of Importin β1 Perturbs Axonal Retrograde Signaling

    Rotem Ben-Tov Perry;Ella Doron-Mandel;Elena Iavnilovitch;Ida Rishal

  • Calcium release from intra-axonal endoplasmic reticulum leads to axon degeneration through mitochondrial dysfunction.

    Rosario Villegas;Nicolas W. Martinez;Jorge Lillo;Phillipe Pihan

  • A functional equivalent of endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi in axons for secretion of locally synthesized proteins.

    Tanuja T. Merianda;Andrew C. Lin;Joyce S.Y. Lam;Deepika Vuppalanchi

  • Axonally Synthesized β-Actin and GAP-43 Proteins Support Distinct Modes of Axonal Growth

    Christopher J. Donnelly;Michael Park;Mirela Spillane;Soonmoon Yoo

  • Limited availability of ZBP1 restricts axonal mRNA localization and nerve regeneration capacity

    Christopher J Donnelly;Dianna E Willis;Mei Xu;Chhavy Tep

  • The evolving roles of axonally synthesized proteins in regeneration.

    Dianna E Willis;Jeffery L Twiss;Jeffery L Twiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Fainzilber
Mike Fainzilber Weizmann Institute of Science
Giovanni Coppola
Giovanni Coppola University of California, Los Angeles
Nora I. Perrone-Bizzozero
Nora I. Perrone-Bizzozero University of New Mexico
Alma L. Burlingame
Alma L. Burlingame University of California, San Francisco
Armin Blesch
Armin Blesch Indiana University
Gary J. Bassell
Gary J. Bassell Emory University
Roman J. Giger
Roman J. Giger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arthur W. English
Arthur W. English Emory University
Leif A. Havton
Leif A. Havton Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Rajiv R. Ratan
Rajiv R. Ratan Cornell University

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