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Overview

John A. Hanover is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily centers on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on molecular biology, immunology, organic chemistry, physiology, and aging as key subfields.

The main topics covered in Hanover's work include glycosylation and glycoproteins research, galectins and cancer biology, carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, protein tyrosine phosphatases, lysosomal storage disorders research, genetics, aging and longevity in model organisms, and ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Hanover has contributed to a number of recent papers across prominent scientific journals. These include:

  • O-GlcNAcylation regulates dopamine neuron function, survival and degeneration in Parkinson disease, 2020, Brain
  • Tools, tactics and objectives to interrogate cellular roles of O-GlcNAc in disease, 2021, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Nutrient-Driven O-GlcNAcylation Controls DNA Damage Repair Signaling and Stem/Progenitor Cell Homeostasis, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Recent Advances in Stereoselective Chemical O-Glycosylation Reactions, 2022, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Epigenetic Regulation of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism by DNA Methylation, 2023, Advanced Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hanover include Lara K. Abramowitz, M. Mukherjee, Chad Slawson, Udayan Apte, and Dakota R. Robarts.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several journals and platforms, with multiple publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS Genetics, Nature Chemical Biology, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, and Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • A chemical approach for identifying O-GlcNAc-modified proteins in cells

    David J. Vocadlo;Howard C. Hang;Eun Ju Kim;John A. Hanover

  • Altered glycan-dependent signaling induces insulin resistance and hyperleptinemia

    Donald A. McClain;William A. Lubas;Robert C. Cooksey;Mark Hazel

  • The superhelical TPR-repeat domain of O-linked GlcNAc transferase exhibits structural similarities to importin alpha.

    Martin Jínek;Jan Rehwinkel;Brooke D Lazarus;Elisa Izaurralde

  • Calreticulin Is a receptor for nuclear export.

    James M. Holaska;Ben E. Black;Dona C. Love;John A. Hanover

  • O-linked N-acetylglucosamine is attached to proteins of the nuclear pore. Evidence for cytoplasmic and nucleoplasmic glycoproteins.

    J A Hanover;C K Cohen;M C Willingham;M K Park

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Mitochondrial and nucleocytoplasmic targeting of O-linked GlcNAc transferase

    Dona C. Love;Jarema Kochan;R. Lamont Cathey;R. Lamont Cathey;Sang-Hoon Shin

  • Morphologic characterization of the pathway of transferrin endocytosis and recycling in human KB cells.

    Mark C. Willingham;John A. Hanover;Robert B. Dickson;Ira Pastan

  • Phorbol esters induce transient internalization without degradation of unoccupied epidermal growth factor receptors

    Laura Beguinot;John A. Hanover;Seiji Ito;Nancy D. Richert

  • A Caenorhabditis elegans model of insulin resistance: Altered macronutrient storage and dauer formation in an OGT-1 knockout

    John A. Hanover;Michele E. Forsythe;Patrick T. Hennessey;Thomas M. Brodigan

  • Kinetics of transit of transferrin and epidermal growth factor through clathrin-coated membranes

    John A. Hanover;Mark C. Willingham;Ira Pastan

  • MLN64 Mediates Mobilization of Lysosomal Cholesterol to Steroidogenic Mitochondria

    Mei Zhang;Pei Liu;Nancy K. Dwyer;Lane K. Christenson

  • Caenorhabditis elegans ortholog of a diabetes susceptibility locus: oga-1 (O-GlcNAcase) knockout impacts O-GlcNAc cycling, metabolism, and dauer

    Michele E. Forsythe;Dona C. Love;Brooke D. Lazarus;Eun Ju Kim

  • Activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signaling by a mutant thyroid hormone β receptor

    Fumihiko Furuya;John A. Hanover;Sheue-yann Cheng

  • Cessation of rapid late endosomal tubulovesicular trafficking in Niemann–Pick type C1 disease

    Mei Zhang;Nancy K. Dwyer;Dona C. Love;Adele Cooney

  • Hormone binding induces rapid proteasome-mediated degradation of thyroid hormone receptors.

    Alexandra Dace;Li Zhao;Kyung Soo Park;T. Furuno

  • Elevated O-linked N-acetylglucosamine metabolism in pancreatic beta-cells.

    John A. Hanover;Zhennan Lai;George Lee;William A. Lubas

  • Koilocytosis : A Cooperative Interaction between the Human Papillomavirus E5 and E6 Oncoproteins

    Ewa Krawczyk;Frank A. Suprynowicz;Xuefeng Liu;Yuhai Dai

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark C. Willingham
Mark C. Willingham Wake Forest University
Ira Pastan
Ira Pastan Center for Cancer Research
Sheue-yann Cheng
Sheue-yann Cheng National Institutes of Health
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore
Hsing Jien Kung
Hsing Jien Kung Taipei Medical University
Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Gilbert Ashwell
Gilbert Ashwell National Institutes of Health
Yee-Joo Tan
Yee-Joo Tan National University of Singapore
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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