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Kirill A. Martemyanov is affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute in the United States. Their research work primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Genetics. Additional areas of study include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health as well as Cell Biology.

The scientific topics addressed in their publications cover a range of areas including Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, and Retinal Development and Disorders.

Kirill A. Martemyanov has published extensively in prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • British Journal of Pharmacology
  • Nature Communications
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry

Several recent papers highlight the scope of their research contributions:

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22: Introduction and Other Protein Targets, 2021, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • Community guidelines for GPCR ligand bias: IUPHAR review 32, 2022, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Introduction and Other Protein Targets, 2023, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • A Global Map of G Protein Signaling Regulation by RGS Proteins, 2020, Cell
  • Gαo is a major determinant of cAMP signaling in the pathophysiology of movement disorders, 2021, Cell Reports

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Ikuo Masuho
  • Laurie P. Sutton
  • W.H. Ludlam
  • S P H Alexander
  • Maria Dao

Best Publications

  • Mutations in GNAL cause primary torsion dystonia.

    Tania Fuchs;Rachel Saunders-Pullman;Rachel Saunders-Pullman;Ikuo Masuho;Marta San Luciano

  • RGS expression rate-limits recovery of rod photoresponses.

    Claudia M. Krispel;Desheng Chen;Nathan Melling;Yu Jiun Chen

  • Distinct profiles of functional discrimination among G proteins determine the actions of G protein–coupled receptors

    Ikuo Masuho;Olga Ostrovskaya;Grant M. Kramer;Grant M. Kramer;Christopher D. Jones;Christopher D. Jones

  • Community guidelines for GPCR ligand bias: IUPHAR review 32

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  • Defects in RGS9 or its anchor protein R9AP in patients with slow photoreceptor deactivation

    Koji M. Nishiguchi;Michael A. Sandberg;Aart C. Kooijman;Kirill A. Martemyanov

  • Structure of a mutant EF-G reveals domain III and possibly the fusidic acid binding site.

    Martin Laurberg;Ole Kristensen;Kirill Martemyanov;Anatoly T Gudkov

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Protein Tat Induces Synapse Loss via a Reversible Process That Is Distinct from Cell Death

    Hee Jung Kim;Kirill A. Martemyanov;Stanley A. Thayer

  • The R7 RGS protein family: multi-subunit regulators of neuronal G protein signaling.

    Garret R. Anderson;Ekaterina Posokhova;Kirill A. Martemyanov

  • R7BP, a Novel Neuronal Protein Interacting with RGS Proteins of the R7 Family

    Kirill A. Martemyanov;Peter J. Yoo;Nikolai P. Skiba;Vadim Y. Arshavsky

  • The DEP Domain Determines Subcellular Targeting of the GTPase Activating Protein RGS9 In Vivo

    Kirill A. Martemyanov;Polina V. Lishko;Nidia Calero;Gabor Keresztes

  • Mechanism for Selective Synaptic Wiring of Rod Photoreceptors into the Retinal Circuitry and Its Role in Vision.

    Yan Cao;Ignacio Sarria;Katherine E. Fehlhaber;Naomi Kamasawa

  • GPR158/179 regulate G protein signaling by controlling localization and activity of the RGS7 complexes.

    Cesare Orlandi;Ekaterina Posokhova;Ikuo Masuho;Thomas A. Ray

  • Dopamine Receptor DAMB Signals via Gq to Mediate Forgetting in Drosophila.

    Sophie Himmelreich;Ikuo Masuho;Jacob A. Berry;Courtney MacMullen

  • TRPM1 Forms Complexes with Nyctalopin In Vivo and Accumulates in Postsynaptic Compartment of ON-Bipolar Neurons in mGluR6-Dependent Manner

    Yan Cao;Ekaterina Posokhova;Kirill A. Martemyanov

  • RGS6/Gβ5 Complex Accelerates IKACh Gating Kinetics in Atrial Myocytes and Modulates Parasympathetic Regulation of Heart Rate

    Ekaterina Posokhova;Nicole Wydeven;Kevin L. Allen;Kevin Wickman

  • Absence of the RGS9·Gβ5 GTPase-activating Complex in Photoreceptors of the R9AP Knockout Mouse

    Gabor Keresztes;Kirill A. Martemyanov;Claudia M. Krispel;Hideki Mutai

  • Retina-Specific GTPase Accelerator RGS11/Gβ5S/R9AP Is a Constitutive Heterotrimer Selectively Targeted to mGluR6 in ON-Bipolar Neurons

    Yan Cao;Ikuo Masuho;Haruhisa Okawa;Keqiang Xie

  • The Auxiliary Calcium Channel Subunit α2δ4 Is Required for Axonal Elaboration, Synaptic Transmission, and Wiring of Rod Photoreceptors

    Yuchen Wang;Katherine E. Fehlhaber;Ignacio Sarria;Yan Cao

  • Mutations in GNAL: A Novel Cause of Craniocervical Dystonia

    Kishore R. Kumar;Katja Lohmann;Ikuo Masuho;Ryosuke Miyamoto

  • Monitoring G Protein Activation in Cells with BRET.

    Ikuo Masuho;Kirill A. Martemyanov;Nevin A. Lambert

  • Gαo is a major determinant of cAMP signaling in the pathophysiology of movement disorders

    Brian S. Muntean;Ikuo Masuho;Maria Dao;Laurie P. Sutton

  • Regulators of G protein signaling RGS7 and RGS11 determine the onset of the light response in ON bipolar neurons

    Yan Cao;Johan Pahlberg;Ignacio Sarria;Naomi Kamasawa

  • Gβ5 recruits R7 RGS proteins to GIRK channels to regulate the timing of neuronal inhibitory signaling

    Keqiang Xie;Kevin L Allen;Saïd Kourrich;José Colón-Saez

  • RGS9-G beta 5 substrate selectivity in photoreceptors. Opposing effects of constituent domains yield high affinity of RGS interaction with the G protein-effector complex.

    Nikolai P. Skiba;Kirill A. Martemyanov;Arye Elfenbein;Johnathan A. Hopp

Frequent Co-Authors

Rafael Luján
Rafael Luján University of Castilla-La Mancha
Baoji Xu
Baoji Xu Scripps Research Institute
Michelle E. Ehrlich
Michelle E. Ehrlich Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Nicholas K. Hayward
Nicholas K. Hayward QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Ronald L. Davis
Ronald L. Davis Scripps Research Institute
Joris de Wit
Joris de Wit KU Leuven
Stanley A. Thayer
Stanley A. Thayer University of Minnesota
M. Madan Babu
M. Madan Babu St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Alexander Münchau
Alexander Münchau University of Lübeck
Takahisa Furukawa
Takahisa Furukawa Osaka University

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