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Martha S. Cyert is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their main areas of study encompass molecular biology, oncology, cell biology, genetics, and surgery, with a significant focus on signaling pathways in disease, peptidase inhibition and analysis, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, pancreatic function and diabetes, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, genetic and kidney cyst diseases, and chemical synthesis and analysis.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • A calcineurin-Hoxb13 axis regulates growth mode of mammalian cardiomyocytes, 2020, Nature
  • Systematic Discovery of Short Linear Motifs Decodes Calcineurin Phosphatase Signaling, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • A cellular atlas of calcineurin signaling, 2022, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research
  • Palmitoylation targets the calcineurin phosphatase to the phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase complex at the plasma membrane, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Calcineurin associates with centrosomes and regulates cilia length maintenance, 2023, Journal of Cell Science

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Jagoree Roy
  • Anne-Claude Gingras
  • Idil Ulengin-Talkish
  • Devin A. Bradburn
  • Alexis Z.L. Shih

The most common publication venues for Martha S. Cyert's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Nature

The scientist's work primarily revolves around biochemical signaling pathways and molecular mechanisms related to cell function and disease processes. Their research spans topics such as the regulation of cardiomyocyte growth, decoding phosphatase signaling through short linear motifs, the cellular mapping of calcineurin signaling, and the molecular details of phosphatase targeting and maintenance of cilia length. This wide-ranging focus integrates aspects of cell biology with disease-related signaling pathways, genetics, and molecular interactions.

Best Publications

  • Mapping Pathways and Phenotypes by Systematic Gene Overexpression

    Richelle Sopko;Dongqing Huang;Nicolle Preston;Gordon Chua

  • Calcineurin acts through the CRZ1/TCN1-encoded transcription factor to regulate gene expression in yeast

    Angelike M. Stathopoulos;Martha S. Cyert

  • Genome-wide Analysis of Gene Expression Regulated by the Calcineurin/Crz1p Signaling Pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Hiroyuki Yoshimoto;Kirstie Saltsman;Audrey P. Gasch;Hong Xia Li

  • Calcineurin signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: how yeast go crazy in response to stress

    Martha S Cyert

  • Internal Ca2+ release in yeast is triggered by hypertonic shock and mediated by a TRP channel homologue

    Valérie Denis;Martha S. Cyert

  • Yeast has homologs (CNA1 and CNA2 gene products) of mammalian calcineurin, a calmodulin-regulated phosphoprotein phosphatase.

    Martha S. Cyert;Riyo Kunisawa;David Kaim;Jeremy Thorner

  • Regulatory subunit (CNB1 gene product) of yeast Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent phosphoprotein phosphatases is required for adaptation to pheromone.

    M S Cyert;J Thorner

  • Yeast calcineurin regulates nuclear localization of the Crz1p transcription factor through dephosphorylation

    Angelike Stathopoulos-Gerontides;Jim Jun Guo;Martha S. Cyert

  • A High-Enrollment Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Improves Student Conceptions of Scientific Thinking and Ability to Interpret Data

    Sara E. Brownell;Daria S. Hekmat-Scafe;Veena Singla;Patricia Chandler Seawell

  • Regulation of Cation Balance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Martha S. Cyert;Caroline C. Philpott

  • Calcineurin, the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase, is essential in yeast mutants with cell integrity defects and in mutants that lack a functional vacuolar H(+)-ATPase.

    P Garrett-Engele;B Moilanen;M S Cyert

  • Two Classes of Plant cDNA Clones Differentially Complement Yeast Calcineurin Mutants and Increase Salt Tolerance of Wild-type Yeast

    Veronica Lippuner;Martha S. Cyert;Charles S. Gasser

  • Temperature-Induced Expression of Yeast FKS2 Is under the Dual Control of Protein Kinase C and Calcineurin

    Chun Zhao;Un Sung Jung;Philip Garrett-Engele;Taiyun Roe

  • Regulation of MPF activity in vitro

    Martha S. Cyert;Marc W. Kirschner

  • Genetic Analysis of Calmodulin and Its Targets in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Martha S. Cyert

  • Regulation of Nuclear Localization during Signaling

    Martha S. Cyert

  • Short linear motifs - ex nihilo evolution of protein regulation.

    Norman E. Davey;Martha S. Cyert;Alan M. Moses

  • Cracking the Phosphatase Code: Docking Interactions Determine Substrate Specificity

    Jagoree Roy;Martha S. Cyert

  • Renaming the DSCR1/Adapt78 gene family as RCAN: regulators of calcineurin

    Kelvin Ja Davies;Gennady Ermak;Beverley A Rothermel;Melanie April Pritchard

  • The product of HUM1, a novel yeast gene, is required for vacuolar Ca2+/H+ exchange and is related to mammalian Na+/Ca2+ exchangers.

    T C Pozos;I Sekler;M S Cyert

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne-Claude Gingras
Anne-Claude Gingras Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Norman E. Davey
Norman E. Davey Institute of Cancer Research
Tanja Kortemme
Tanja Kortemme University of California, San Francisco
Tim Stearns
Tim Stearns Rockefeller University
Jeremy Thorner
Jeremy Thorner University of California, Berkeley
Tamas Balla
Tamas Balla National Institutes of Health
Marc W. Kirschner
Marc W. Kirschner Harvard University
Péter Várnai
Péter Várnai Semmelweis University
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University

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