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66
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8874
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - E. F. Lindquist Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Mark R. Wilson is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Physiology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Pharmacology.

Wilson's work focuses on key topics such as Clusterin in disease pathology, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, S100 Proteins and Annexins, Flavonoids in Medical Research, Nuclear Structure and Function, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease.

Recent publications by Wilson include the following:

  • Extracellular protein homeostasis in neurodegenerative diseases, 2023, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Clusterin, other extracellular chaperones, and eye disease, 2021, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Wilson has also contributed to research in collaboration with other authors in publications such as:

  • Clearance of interstitial fluid (ISF) and CSF (CLIC) group-part of Vascular Professional Interest Area (PIA), 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • The Dual Roles of Clusterin in Extracellular and Intracellular Proteostasis, 2021, Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • N-Terminal Acetylation of α-Synuclein Slows down Its Aggregation Process and Alters the Morphology of the Resulting Aggregates, 2022, Biochemistry

Frequent co-authors in Wilson's research include:

  • Sandeep Satapathy
  • Michele Vendruscolo
  • M. Elizabeth Fini
  • Mats Olsson
  • Nicholas J. Geraghty

Their research has appeared repeatedly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuro-Oncology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Cells

Mark R. Wilson has been recognized with awards including the E. F. Lindquist Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2019 and was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Clusterin Has Chaperone-like Activity Similar to That of Small Heat Shock Proteins

    David T. Humphreys;John A. Carver;Simon B. Easterbrook-Smith;Mark R. Wilson

  • Clusterin is a secreted mammalian chaperone.

    Mark R Wilson;Simon B Easterbrook-Smith

  • ANS Binding Reveals Common Features of Cytotoxic Amyloid Species

    Benedetta Bolognesi;Janet R. Kumita;Teresa P. Barros;Elin K. Esbjorner

  • The extracellular chaperone clusterin influences amyloid formation and toxicity by interacting with prefibrillar structures

    Justin J Yerbury;Stephen Poon;Sarah Meehan;Brianna Thompson

  • Clusterin is an ATP-independent chaperone with very broad substrate specificity that stabilizes stressed proteins in a folding-competent state.

    Stephen Poon;Simon B. Easterbrook-Smith;Mark S. Rybchyn;John A. Carver

  • The extracellular chaperone clusterin sequesters oligomeric forms of the amyloid-β 1−40 peptide

    Priyanka Narayan;Angel Orte;Angel Orte;Richard W Clarke;Benedetta Bolognesi

  • Comparison of virulence gene profiles of Escherichia coli strains isolated from healthy and diarrheic swine.

    Toni A. Chapman;Xi-Yang Wu;Xi-Yang Wu;Idris Barchia;Karl A. Bettelheim

  • Amyloid fibril formation by bovine milk kappa-casein and its inhibition by the molecular chaperones alpha(s-) and beta-casein

    David C Thorn;Sarah Meehan;Margaret Sunde;Agata Rekas

  • Heat Shock Protein 70 Inhibits α-Synuclein Fibril Formation via Preferential Binding to Prefibrillar Species

    Matthew M. Dedmon;John Christodoulou;Mark R. Wilson;Christopher M. Dobson

  • Poly(2-alkylacrylic acid) polymers deliver molecules to the cytosol by pH-sensitive disruption of endosomal vesicles.

    Rachel A Jones;Charles Y Cheung;Fiona E Black;Jasmine K Zia

  • Small heat-shock proteins and clusterin: intra- and extracellular molecular chaperones with a common mechanism of action and function?

    John A. Carver;Agata Rekas;David C. Thorn;Mark R. Wilson

  • Walking the tightrope: proteostasis and neurodegenerative disease.

    Justin J. Yerbury;Justin J. Yerbury;Lezanne Ooi;Lezanne Ooi;Andrew Dillin;Andrew Dillin;Darren N. Saunders;Darren N. Saunders

  • Potential roles of abundant extracellular chaperones in the control of amyloid formation and toxicity

    Mark R. Wilson;Justin J. Yerbury;Stephen Poon

  • Extracellular chaperones and proteostasis

    Amy R. Wyatt;Justin J. Yerbury;Heath Ecroyd;Mark R. Wilson

  • Quality control of protein folding in extracellular space.

    Justin J Yerbury;Elise M Stewart;Amy R Wyatt;Mark R Wilson

  • Stress-induced retrotranslocation of clusterin/ApoJ into the cytosol.

    Philippe Nizard;Susanne Tetley;Yves Le Dréan;Tanguy Watrin

  • Molecular mechanisms used by chaperones to reduce the toxicity of aberrant protein oligomers

    Benedetta Mannini;Roberta Cascella;Mariagioia Zampagni;Maria van Waarde-Verhagen

  • Clusterin is an extracellular chaperone that specifically interacts with slowly aggregating proteins on their off-folding pathway

    Stephen Poon;Teresa M Treweek;Mark R Wilson;Simon B Easterbrook-Smith

  • are the major source of host-protective regulatory IL-10 during intracellular protozoan infection

    Dragana Jankovic;Marika C. Kullberg;Carl G. Feng;Romina S. Goldszmid

  • The extracellular chaperone clusterin sequesters oligomeric forms of the amyloid-beta 1-40 peptide

    Priyanka Narayan;Angel Orte;Richard W Clarke;Benedetta Bolognesi

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin J. Yerbury
Justin J. Yerbury University of Wollongong
Mats Olsson
Mats Olsson University of Gothenburg
Christopher M. Dobson
Christopher M. Dobson University of Cambridge
Tobias Uller
Tobias Uller Lund University
Mathieu Giraudeau
Mathieu Giraudeau University of La Rochelle
Heath Ecroyd
Heath Ecroyd University of Wollongong
John A. Carver
John A. Carver Australian National University
Caroline Isaksson
Caroline Isaksson Lund University
David Klenerman
David Klenerman University of Cambridge
Mark J. Walker
Mark J. Walker University of Queensland

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