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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Marco Colombini is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the broader area of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Engineering.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Engineering

Within these fields, Colombini has contributed to subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

The primary topics addressed in their research are:

  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Colombini has published several papers, including recent works such as:

  • Triplin: Functional Probing of Its Structure and the Dynamics of the Voltage-Gating Process, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Triplin: Mechanistic Basis for Voltage-Gating, 2023, Preprints.org
  • Triplin: Mechanistic Basis for Voltage Gating, 2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include Patrick Liu, Chase Dee, Kevin M. Barnes, Kai-Ti Chang, and Muhsin H. Younis.

Colombini's work has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Preprints.org

Marco Colombini received the designation of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Solution structure of the integral human membrane protein VDAC-1 in detergent micelles.

    Sebastian Hiller;Robert G. Garces;Thomas J. Malia;Vladislav Y. Orekhov;Vladislav Y. Orekhov

  • Reconstitution in planar lipid bilayers of a voltage-dependent anion-selective channel obtained from paramecium mitochondria.

    Stanley J. Schein;Marco Colombini;Alan Finkelstein

  • VDAC: The channel at the interface between mitochondria and the cytosol

    Marco Colombini

  • A candidate for the permeability pathway of the outer mitochondrial membrane

    Colombini M

  • Outer mitochondrial membrane permeability can regulate coupled respiration and cell survival

    Matthew G. Vander Heiden;Navdeep S. Chandel;Xiao Xian Li;Paul T. Schumacker

  • Ceramide channels increase the permeability of the mitochondrial outer membrane to small proteins.

    Leah J. Siskind;Richard N. Kolesnick;Marco Colombini

  • Bcl-xL promotes the open configuration of the voltage-dependent anion channel and metabolite passage through the outer mitochondrial membrane.

    Matthew G. Vander Heiden;Xiao Xian Li;Eyal Gottleib;R. Blake Hill

  • VDAC channels mediate and gate the flow of ATP: implications for the regulation of mitochondrial function.

    T. Rostovtseva;M. Colombini

  • The lipids C2- and C16-ceramide form large stable channels. Implications for apoptosis.

    Leah J. Siskind;Marco Colombini

  • VDAC structure, selectivity, and dynamics.

    Marco Colombini

  • Voltage gating in the mitochondrial channel, VDAC.

    Marco Colombini

  • Selectivity changes in site-directed mutants of the VDAC ion channel: structural implications.

    Elizabeth Blachly-Dyson;Songzhi Peng;Marco Colombini;Michael Forte

  • VDAC, a Channel in the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane

    Marco Colombini;Elizabeth Blachly-Dyson;Michael Forte

  • Regulation of metabolite flux through voltage-gating of VDAC channels

    T. Hodge;M. Colombini

  • VDAC closure increases calcium ion flux

    Wenzhi Tan;Marco Colombini

  • Cloning and functional expression in yeast of two human isoforms of the outer mitochondrial membrane channel, the voltage-dependent anion channel.

    E. Blachly-Dyson;E.B. Zambronicz;W.H. Yu;V. Adams

  • On the role of VDAC in apoptosis: fact and fiction.

    Tatiana K. Rostovtseva;Wenzhi Tan;Marco Colombini

  • Ceramide forms channels in mitochondrial outer membranes at physiologically relevant concentrations.

    Leah J. Siskind;Richard N. Kolesnick;Marco Colombini

  • ATP Flux Is Controlled by a Voltage-gated Channel from the Mitochondrial Outer Membrane*

    Tatiana Rostovtseva;Marco Colombini

  • Hexokinase receptor complex in hepatoma mitochondria: evidence from N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-labeling studies for the involvement of the pore-forming protein VDAC.

    Richard A. Nakashima;Patrick S. Mangan;Marco Colombini;Peter L. Pedersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Forte
Michael Forte Oregon Health & Science University
Sergey M. Bezrukov
Sergey M. Bezrukov National Institutes of Health
Alicja Bielawska
Alicja Bielawska Medical University of South Carolina
Robert Bittman
Robert Bittman City University of New York
Carmen A. Mannella
Carmen A. Mannella New York State Department of Health
Paul S. Miller
Paul S. Miller Johns Hopkins University
Craig B. Thompson
Craig B. Thompson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
William J. Craigen
William J. Craigen Baylor College of Medicine
Richard Kolesnick
Richard Kolesnick Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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