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Overview

Karl Riabowol is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has a research focus centered primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans subfields including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Immunology, Aging, and Biophysics.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, notably Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA Modifications and Cancer, Protein Degradation and Inhibitors, and Cancer-related Gene Regulation.

Karl Riabowol has contributed to multiple prominent journals with publications including:

  • "Senolytics: A Translational Bridge Between Cellular Senescence and Organismal Aging," 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Senescence and Apoptosis: Architects of Mammalian Development," 2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Histone Acetyltransferases and Stem Cell Identity," 2021, Cancers
  • "ING1 inhibits Twist1 expression to block EMT and is antagonized by the HDAC inhibitor vorinostat," 2023, European Journal of Cell Biology
  • "Knockout of the ING5 epigenetic regulator confirms roles in stem cell maintenance and tumor suppression in vivo," 2025, PLoS ONE

The main venues where they have published most frequently include:

  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Cancers
  • European Journal of Cell Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Ageing Research Reviews

They have frequently collaborated with several co-authors, among them:

  • Arthur Dantas
  • Mahbod Djamshidi
  • Gesche Tallen
  • Yang Yang
  • Charles Ricordel

Best Publications

  • Heat shock is lethal to fibroblasts microinjected with antibodies against hsp70

    Karl T. Riabowol;Lee A. Mizzen;William J. Welch

  • Gender and telomere length : systematic review and meta-analysis

    Michael Gardner;David Bann;Laura Wiley;Rachel Cooper

  • Suppression of the novel growth inhibitor p33ING1 promotes neoplastic transformation

    Igor Garkavtsev;Alexander Kazarov;Andrei Gudkov;Karl Riabowol

  • The cdc2 kinase is a nuclear protein that is essential for mitosis in mammalian cells

    Karl Riabowol;Giulio Draetta;Leonardo Brizuela;Dale Vandre

  • Monitoring mRNA Expression by Polymerase Chain Reaction: The "Primer-Dropping" Method

    H. Wong;W. D. Anderson;Ting Cheng;K. T. Riabowol

  • REAP: A two minute cell fractionation method

    Keiko Suzuki;Pinaki Bose;Rebecca Y. Y. Leong-Quong;Donald J. Fujita

  • The cdk2 kinase is required for the G1-to-S transition in mammalian cells.

    L H Tsai;E Lees;B Faha;E Harlow

  • Increased activity of p53 in senescing fibroblasts

    Peter Atadja;Howard Wong;Igor Garkavtsev;Claude Veillette

  • Microinjection of fos-specific antibodies blocks DNA synthesis in fibroblast cells.

    K T Riabowol;R J Vosatka;E B Ziff;N J Lamb

  • Multiple sequence elements of a single functional class are required for cyclic AMP responsiveness of the mouse c-fos promoter.

    L A Berkowitz;K T Riabowol;M Z Gilman

  • A Novel Candidate Tumor Suppressor, ING1, Is Involved in the Regulation of Apoptosis

    Caren C. Helbing;Claude Veillette;Karl Riabowol;Randal N. Johnston

  • Paternal age is positively linked to telomere length of children.

    Brad M. Unryn;Linda S. Cook;Karl T. Riabowol

  • DNA damage-inducible gene p33ING2 negatively regulates cell proliferation through acetylation of p53

    Makoto Nagashima;Masayuki Shiseki;Koh Miura;Koichi Hagiwara

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of the ING Family of PHD Finger Proteins

    Gordon H. Y. He;Caren C. Helbing;Mary J. Wagner;Christoph Wilhelm Sensen

  • Transcription factor AP-1 activity is required for initiation of DNA synthesis and is lost during cellular aging.

    Karl Riabowol;Jonathan Schiff;Michael Z. Gilman

  • Extension of the replicative life span of human diploid fibroblasts by inhibition of the p33ING1 candidate tumor suppressor.

    I Garkavtsev;K Riabowol

  • Survivin as a preferential target for cancer therapy.

    Mahsa Mobahat;Aru Narendran;Karl Riabowol

  • UV-induced binding of ING1 to PCNA regulates the induction of apoptosis

    Michelle Scott;Paul Bonnefin;Diego Vieyra;Francois-Michel Boisvert

  • The catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase induces expression of genes containing cAMP-responsive enhancer elements.

    K. T. Riabowol;J. S. Fink;J. S. Fink;M. Z. Gilman;D. A. Walsh

  • Selective Inhibition of Telomerase Activity during Terminal Differentiation of Immortal Cell Lines

    Leslie J. Bestilny;Christopher B. Brown;Yutaka Miura;Laurie D. Robertson

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Atadja
Peter Atadja Novartis (Switzerland)
Michael Gilman
Michael Gilman Arrakis Therapeutics (United States)
Andreas von Deimling
Andreas von Deimling Heidelberg University
Susan P. Lees-Miller
Susan P. Lees-Miller University of Calgary
James R. Feramisco
James R. Feramisco University of California, San Diego
Peter H. Watson
Peter H. Watson University of British Columbia
David P. Bazett-Jones
David P. Bazett-Jones University of Calgary
Lisa M. Butler
Lisa M. Butler University of Adelaide
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen Graz University of Technology
Robbie Loewith
Robbie Loewith University of Geneva

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