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Overview

Keith E. Mostov is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their primary research focus falls within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific contributions across several subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's work spans multiple topics, notably in areas such as:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research

Recent papers representing their research contributions include:

  • "Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial-mesenchymal transition," 2020, published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "A Transmembrane Precursor of Secretory Component," 2025, published in Digital Commons - RU (Rockefeller University)
  • "Ciliary Hedgehog signaling patterns the digestive system to generate mechanical forces driving elongation," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Author Correction: Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial-mesenchymal transition," 2021, published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Intussusceptive Angiogenesis in Human Metastatic Malignant Melanoma," 2021, published in American Journal Of Pathology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Keith E. Mostov include:

  • Jing Yang
  • Parker B. Antin
  • Geert Berx
  • Cédric Blanpain
  • Thomas Brabletz

Their work has often been published in the following venues:

  • Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • American Journal Of Pathology
  • Nature Communications
  • iScience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial–mesenchymal transition

    Jing Yang;Parker Antin;Geert Berx;Cédric Blanpain

  • From cells to organs: building polarized tissue

    David M. Bryant;Keith E. Mostov

  • An Fc receptor structurally related to MHC class I antigens.

    Neil E. Simister;Keith E. Mostov

  • Generation and assembly of secretory antibodies in plants.

    J. K.-C. Ma;A. Hiatt;M. Hein;N. D. Vine

  • PTEN-Mediated Apical Segregation of Phosphoinositides Controls Epithelial Morphogenesis through Cdc42

    Fernando Martin-Belmonte;Ama Gassama;Anirban Datta;Wei Yu

  • A dual PI3 kinase/mTOR inhibitor reveals emergent efficacy in glioma

    Qi-Wen Fan;Zachary A. Knight;David D. Goldenberg;Wei Yu

  • Building epithelial architecture: insights from three-dimensional culture models

    Lucy Erin O'Brien;Mirjam M. P. Zegers;Keith E. Mostov

  • A molecular network for de novo generation of the apical surface and lumen

    David M. Bryant;Anirban Datta;Alejo E. Rodríguez-Fraticelli;Johan Peränen

  • Transepithelial transport of immunoglobulins.

    Keith E. Mostov

  • The receptor for transepithelial transport of IgA and IgM contains multiple immunoglobulin-like domains

    Keith E. Mostov;Martin Friedlander;Günter Blobel

  • The polymeric immunoglobulin receptor translocates pneumococci across human nasopharyngeal epithelial cells

    Jing-Ren Zhang;Keith E Mostov;Michael E Lamm;Masanobu Nanno

  • Rac1 orientates epithelial apical polarity through effects on basolateral laminin assembly

    Lucy Erin O'Brien;Tzuu Shuh Jou;Tzuu Shuh Jou;Anne L. Pollack;Qihang Zhang

  • Membrane traffic in polarized epithelial cells.

    Keith E Mostov;Marcel Verges;Yoram Altschuler

  • Receptor-mediated transcytosis of IgA in MDCK cells is via apical recycling endosomes.

    G Apodaca;L A Katz;K E Mostov

  • β1-Integrin Orients Epithelial Polarity via Rac1 and Laminin

    Wei Yu;Anirban Datta;Pascale Leroy;Lucy Erin O'Brien

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa-mediated cytotoxicity and invasion correlate with distinct genotypes at the loci encoding exoenzyme S.

    S. M. J. Fleiszig;J. P. Wiener-Kronish;H. Miyazaki;V. Vallas

  • A conserved domain is present in different families of vesicular fusion proteins: A new superfamily

    Thomas Weimbs;Seng Hui Low;Steven J. Chapin;Keith E. Mostov

  • An autonomous signal for basolateral sorting in the cytoplasmic domain of the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor

    J.E. Casanova;G. Apodaca;K.E. Mostov

  • Polymeric immunoglobulin receptor expressed in MDCK cells transcytoses IgA.

    Keith E. Mostov;David L. Deitcher

  • Polarized epithelial membrane traffic: conservation and plasticity.

    Keith Mostov;Tao Su;Martin ter Beest

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Apodaca
Gerard Apodaca University of Pittsburgh
Joanne N. Engel
Joanne N. Engel University of California, San Francisco
Morgane Bomsel
Morgane Bomsel Université Paris Cité
Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel Rockefeller University
Zena Werb
Zena Werb University of California, San Francisco
Atsushi Miyajima
Atsushi Miyajima University of Tokyo
Andrew J. Ewald
Andrew J. Ewald Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael A. Matthay
Michael A. Matthay University of California, San Francisco
Suzanne M. J. Fleiszig
Suzanne M. J. Fleiszig University of California, Berkeley
Jayanta Debnath
Jayanta Debnath University of California, San Francisco

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