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Mary E. Porter is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their primary research falls within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Genetics. Additional subfields include Nutrition and Dietetics as well as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics such as Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Infant Nutrition and Health, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Infant Development and Preterm Care, and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease.

Recent publications by Mary E. Porter illustrate a pattern of in-depth investigations related to cellular structures and disease biomarkers. Selected recent papers include:

  • In vivo imaging reveals independent intraflagellar transport of the nexin-dynein regulatory complex subunits DRC2 and DRC4, 2023, Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • A Retrospective Case Control Study Examining Procalcitonin as a Biomarker for Necrotizing Enterocolitis, 2023, Surgical Infections
  • The MBO2/FAP58 heterodimer stabilizes assembly of inner arm dynein b and reveals axoneme asymmetries involved in ciliary waveform, 2024, Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • The ciliary MBO2 complex targets assembly of inner arm dynein b and reveals additional doublet microtubule asymmetries, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Assembly of FAP93 at the proximal axoneme in Chlamydomonas cilia, 2024, Cytoskeleton

Mary E. Porter has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Raqual Bower
  • Daniela Nicastro
  • Karl F. Lechtreck
  • Douglas Tritschler
  • Gang Fu

Porter's publications often appear in well-known venues such as Molecular Biology of the Cell and Neuro-Oncology, alongside contributions to Surgical Infections, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Cytoskeleton.

Best Publications

  • The molecular architecture of axonemes revealed by cryoelectron tomography.

    Daniela Nicastro;Cindi Schwartz;Jason Pierson;Richard Gaudette

  • Cytoplasmic dynein is localized to kinetochores during mitosis

    C. M. Pfarr;M. Coue;P. M. Grissom;Tom S Hays

  • The 9 + 2 Axoneme Anchors Multiple Inner Arm Dyneins and a Network of Kinases and Phosphatases That Control Motility

    Mary E. Porter;Winfield S. Sale

  • Cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain 1b is required for flagellar assembly in Chlamydomonas.

    Mary E. Porter;Raqual Bower;Julie A. Knott;Pamela Byrd

  • The dynein regulatory complex is the nexin link and a major regulatory node in cilia and flagella

    Thomas Heuser;Milen Raytchev;Jeremy Krell;Mary E. Porter

  • Identification of kinesin in sea urchin eggs, and evidence for its localization in the mitotic spindle.

    J. M. Scholey;M. E. Porter;P. M. Grissom;J. R. McIntosh

  • Identification of a microtubule-based cytoplasmic motor in the nematode C. elegans.

    R.J. Lye;M.E. Porter;J.M. Scholey;J.R. McIntosh

  • The nexin-dynein regulatory complex subunit DRC1 is essential for motile cilia function in algae and humans.

    Maureen Wirschell;Heike Olbrich;Claudius Werner;Douglas Tritschler

  • Zebrafish Ciliopathy Screen Plus Human Mutational Analysis Identifies C21orf59 and CCDC65 Defects as Causing Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

    Christina Austin-Tse;Jan Halbritter;Maimoona B Zariwala;Renée M. Gilberti

  • Cytoplasmic dynein nomenclature

    K. Kevin Pfister;Elizabeth M.C. Fisher;Ian R. Gibbons;Thomas S. Hays

  • Alpha-actinin localization in the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis.

    Keigi Fujiwara;Mary E. Porter;Mary E. Porter;Thomas D. Pollard;Thomas D. Pollard

  • The Shigella virulence gene regulatory cascade: a paradigm of bacterial gene control mechanisms

    Charles J. Dorman;Megan E. Porter

  • Components of a "dynein regulatory complex" are located at the junction between the radial spokes and the dynein arms in Chlamydomonas flagella.

    Lynne C. Gardner;Eileen O'Toole;Catherine A. Perrone;Thomas Giddings

  • Arrangement of inner dynein arms in wild-type and mutant flagella of Chlamydomonas

    D N Mastronarde;E T O'Toole;K L McDonald;J R McIntosh

  • The FLA3 KAP subunit is required for localization of kinesin-2 to the site of flagellar assembly and processive anterograde intraflagellar transport.

    Joshua Mueller;Catherine A. Perrone;Raqual Bower;Douglas G. Cole

  • Extragenic suppressors of paralyzed flagellar mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii identify loci that alter the inner dynein arms.

    Mary E. Porter;Joy Power;Susan K. Dutcher

  • The Chlamydomonas genome project: a decade on

    Ian K Blaby;Crysten E. Blaby-Haas;Nicolas J. Tourasse;Erik F.Y. Hom

  • A Novel Dynein Light Intermediate Chain Colocalizes with the Retrograde Motor for Intraflagellar Transport at Sites of Axoneme Assembly in Chlamydomonas and Mammalian Cells

    Catherine A. Perrone;Douglas Tritschler;Patrick Taulman;Raqual Bower

  • A differential cargo-loading model of ciliary length regulation by IFT

    Kathryne N. Wren;Julie M. Craft;Douglas Tritschler;Alexandria Schauer

  • Characterization of the microtubule movement produced by sea urchin egg kinesin.

    M E Porter;J M Scholey;D L Stemple;G P Vigers

Frequent Co-Authors

Winfield S. Sale
Winfield S. Sale Emory University
Eileen T. O'Toole
Eileen T. O'Toole University of Colorado Boulder
Ritsu Kamiya
Ritsu Kamiya University of Tokyo
George B. Witman
George B. Witman University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Susan K. Dutcher
Susan K. Dutcher Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan M. Scholey
Jonathan M. Scholey University of California, Davis
J. Richard McIntosh
J. Richard McIntosh University of Colorado Boulder
Friedhelm Hildebrandt
Friedhelm Hildebrandt Boston Children's Hospital
Stephen M. King
Stephen M. King University of Connecticut Health Center
Michael R. Knowles
Michael R. Knowles University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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