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Matthias Peter

Matthias Peter

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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
90
Citations
38536
World Ranking
2393
National Ranking
51

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Matthias Peter is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, focusing primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scholarly work spans 96 publications in these fields, with a concentration on molecular biology as evidenced by 62 publications in this subfield. Additionally, their research extends into cell biology, oncology, cancer research, and immunology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Several frequent co-authors collaborate with Matthias Peter, notably:

  • Gea Cereghetti
  • Sung Sik Lee
  • Vera M. Kissling
  • Federico Uliana
  • Reinhard Dechant

Their work has appeared in multiple scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • The EMBO Journal
  • Developmental Cell

Notable recent papers by Matthias Peter highlight varied topics within molecular and cell biology:

  • Modular microfluidics enables kinetic insight from time-resolved cryo-EM, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cells under pressure: how yeast cells respond to mechanical forces, 2022, Trends in Microbiology
  • Rewiring phospholipid biosynthesis reveals resilience to membrane perturbations and uncovers regulators of lipid homeostasis, 2022, The EMBO Journal
  • Reversible amyloids of pyruvate kinase couple cell metabolism and stress granule disassembly, 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • The human GID complex engages two independent modules for substrate recruitment, 2021, EMBO Reports

In recognition of their contributions to the scientific community, Matthias Peter was appointed a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network

    Amy Hin Yan Tong;Guillaume Lesage;Gary D. Bader;Huiming Ding

  • In vitro disassembly of the nuclear lamina and M phase-specific phosphorylation of lamins by cdc2 kinase

    M. Peter;J. Nakagawa;M. Dorée;J.C. Labbé

  • Bni1p, a Yeast Formin Linking Cdc42p and the Actin Cytoskeleton During Polarized Morphogenesis

    Marie Evangelista;Kelly Blundell;Mark S. Longtine;Clinton J. Chow

  • Ubiquitin-binding domains in Y-family polymerases regulate translesion synthesis.

    Marzena Bienko;Catherine M. Green;Nicola Crosetto;Fabian Rudolf

  • Mature ribosomes are selectively degraded upon starvation by an autophagy pathway requiring the Ubp3p/Bre5p ubiquitin protease.

    Claudine Kraft;Anna Deplazes;Marc Sohrmann;Matthias Peter

  • Selective autophagy: ubiquitin-mediated recognition and beyond

    Claudine Kraft;Matthias Peter;Kay Hofmann

  • Joining the complex: Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitory proteins and the cell cycle

    Matthias Peter;Ira Herskowitz

  • Protein neddylation: beyond cullin-RING ligases.

    Radoslav I. Enchev;Brenda A. Schulman;Matthias Peter

  • A mechanism for the suppression of homologous recombination in G1 cells

    Alexandre Orthwein;Sylvie M. Noordermeer;Marcus D. Wilson;Sébastien Landry

  • The BTB protein MEL-26 is a substrate-specific adaptor of the CUL-3 ubiquitin-ligase.

    Lionel Pintard;John H. Willis;Andrew Willems;Jacque-Lynne F. Johnson

  • Cullin-based ubiquitin ligases: Cul3–BTB complexes join the family

    Lionel Pintard;Andrew Willems;Matthias Peter

  • FAR1 links the signal transduction pathway to the cell cycle machinery in yeast

    Matthias Peter;Anton Gartner;Joe Horecka;Gustav Ammerer

  • Identification of major nucleolar proteins as candidate mitotic substrates of cdc2 kinase

    M. Peter;J. Nakagawa;M. Dorée;J.C. Labbé

  • CellCognition: time-resolved phenotype annotation in high-throughput live cell imaging

    Michael Held;Michael H A Schmitz;Michael H A Schmitz;Bernd Fischer;Thomas Walter

  • Translocon component Sec62 acts in endoplasmic reticulum turnover during stress recovery

    Fiorenza Fumagalli;Fiorenza Fumagalli;Julia Noack;Timothy J. Bergmann;Timothy J. Bergmann;Eduardo Cebollero

  • Function and regulation of protein neddylation

    Gwénaël Rabut;Matthias Peter

  • Ubiquitin-dependent degradation of multiple F-box proteins by an autocatalytic mechanism.

    Jean-Marc Galan;Matthias Peter

  • Phosphoproteomic Analysis Reveals Interconnected System-Wide Responses to Perturbations of Kinases and Phosphatases in Yeast

    Bernd Bodenmiller;Stefanie Wanka;Claudine Kraft;Joerg Urban

  • Early Steps in Autophagy Depend on Direct Phosphorylation of Atg9 by the Atg1 Kinase.

    Daniel Papinski;Martina Schuschnig;Wolfgang Reiter;Larissa Wilhelm

Frequent Co-Authors

Kay Hofmann
Kay Hofmann University of Cologne
Paola Picotti
Paola Picotti ETH Zurich
Erich A. Nigg
Erich A. Nigg University of Basel
Raymond J. Deshaies
Raymond J. Deshaies California Institute of Technology
Gustav Ammerer
Gustav Ammerer University of Vienna
Chang-Soo Lee
Chang-Soo Lee Chungnam National University
Mike Tyers
Mike Tyers University of Montreal
Fulvio Reggiori
Fulvio Reggiori University of Groningen
Charles Boone
Charles Boone University of Toronto

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