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Marla J. Berry is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of nursing and medicine, with a focused emphasis on nutrition and dietetics, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, behavioral neuroscience, and health toxicology and mutagenesis.

Their scientific work extensively covers topics such as selenium in biological systems, trace elements in health, birth, development, and health, stress responses and cortisol, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, medical and biological ozone research, and hormonal and reproductive studies.

Recent publications by Marla J. Berry include "A role for selenium-dependent GPX1 in SARS-CoV-2 virulence" (2020) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "Stress and the Brain: An Emerging Role for Selenium" (2021) in Frontiers in Neuroscience, "Selenium in Bodily Homeostasis: Hypothalamus, Hormones, and Highways of Communication" (2022) in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, "New insights on selenoproteins and neuronal function" (2022) in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, and "Building a Diverse Workforce and Thinkforce to Reduce Health Disparities" (2021) in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Their frequent coauthors include Lucia A. Seale, Daniel J. Torres, Pamela Toh, Naghum Alfulaij, and Ann C. Hashimoto.

Marla J. Berry often publishes in venues such as Current Developments in Nutrition, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Best Publications

  • Biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, and physiological roles of the iodothyronine selenodeiodinases.

    Antonio C. Bianco;Domenico Salvatore;Balázs Gereben;Marla J. Berry

  • Recognition of UGA as a selenocysteine codon in type I deiodinase requires sequences in the 3' untranslated region.

    M J Berry;L Banu;Y Y Chen;S J Mandel

  • The influence of selenium on immune responses.

    Peter R. Hoffmann;Marla J. Berry

  • Knowing when not to stop: selenocysteine incorporation in eukaryotes.

    Susan C. Low;Marla J. Berry

  • Selenium and selenoproteins in the brain and brain diseases

    Jun Chen;Marla J. Berry

  • Functional characterization of the eukaryotic SECIS elements which direct selenocysteine insertion at UGA codons.

    M.J. Berry;L. Banu;J.W. Harney;P.R. Larsen

  • Regulation and function of selenoproteins in human disease

    Frederick P. Bellinger;Arjun V. Raman;Mariclair A. Reeves;Marla J. Berry

  • Biosynthesis of selenocysteine on its tRNA in eukaryotes

    Xue-Ming Xu;Bradley A. Carlson;Heiko Mix;Yan Zhang

  • Decoding apparatus for eukaryotic selenocysteine insertion

    Rosa M. Tujebajeva;Paul R. Copeland;Xue Ming Xu;Bradley A. Carlson

  • Translational termination efficiency in mammals is influenced by the base following the stop codon

    Kim K. McCaughan;Chris M. Brown;Mark E. Dalphin;Marla J. Berry

  • Nutritional and hormonal regulation of thyroid hormone deiodinases.

    P R Larsen;M J Berry

  • Selenocysteine confers the biochemical properties characteristic of the type I iodothyronine deiodinase.

    M.J. Berry;J.D. Kieffer;J.W. Harney;P.R. Larsen

  • Selenoprotein Gene Nomenclature

    Vadim N. Gladyshev;Vadim N. Gladyshev;Elias S. Arnér;Marla J. Berry;Regina Brigelius-Flohé

  • Dietary Selenium Modulates Activation and Differentiation of CD4+ T Cells in Mice through a Mechanism Involving Cellular Free Thiols

    FuKun W. Hoffmann;Ann C. Hashimoto;Leigh Anne Shafer;Steven Dow

  • Selenophosphate synthetase 2 is essential for selenoprotein biosynthesis.

    Xue-Ming Xu;Bradley A. Carlson;Robert Irons;Heiko Mix

  • Cloning and Functional Characterization of Human Selenophosphate Synthetase, an Essential Component of Selenoprotein Synthesis

    Susan C. Low;John W. Harney;Marla J. Berry

  • Identification and characterization of phosphoseryl-tRNA[Ser]Sec kinase

    Bradley A. Carlson;Xue Ming Xu;Gregory V. Kryukov;Mahadev Rao;Mahadev Rao

  • Inhibition of selenoprotein synthesis by selenocysteine tRNA[Ser]Sec lacking isopentenyladenosine.

    Gregory J. Warner;Marla J. Berry;Mohamed E. Moustafa;Bradley A. Carlson

  • SECIS–SBP2 interactions dictate selenocysteine incorporation efficiency and selenoprotein hierarchy

    Susan C. Low;Elisabeth Grundner-Culemann;John W. Harney;Marla J. Berry

  • Structure-expression relationships of the 15-kDa selenoprotein gene. Possible role of the protein in cancer etiology.

    Easwari Kumaraswamy;Andrey Malykh;Konstantin V. Korotkov;Sergei Kozyavkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley A. Carlson
Bradley A. Carlson National Institutes of Health
Vadim N. Gladyshev
Vadim N. Gladyshev Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dolph L. Hatfield
Dolph L. Hatfield National Institutes of Health
Lon R. White
Lon R. White University of Hawaii at Manoa
P. Reed Larsen
P. Reed Larsen Brigham and Women's Hospital
Raymond F. Burk
Raymond F. Burk Vanderbilt University
Richard S. Glass
Richard S. Glass University of Arizona
Gregory V. Kryukov
Gregory V. Kryukov Broad Institute
Linda Chang
Linda Chang University of Maryland, Baltimore
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University

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