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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Maxence V. Nachury is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology, as well as work related to surgery and condensed matter physics.

The scientist's work covers multiple key topics, including:

  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Cellular transport and secretion

Recent papers authored by Maxence V. Nachury include:

  • Time-resolved proteomics profiling of the ciliary Hedgehog response, 2021, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Ubiquitin chains earmark GPCRs for BBSome-mediated removal from cilia, 2020, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Near-atomic structures of the BBSome reveal the basis for BBSome activation and binding to GPCR cargoes, 2020, eLife
  • Shedding of ciliary vesicles at a glance, 2022, Journal of Cell Science
  • MRAP2 regulates energy homeostasis by promoting primary cilia localization of MC4R, 2023, JCI Insight

Maxence V. Nachury frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Marian Kalocsay
  • Steven P. Gygi
  • David U. Mick
  • Swapnil Rohidas Shinde
  • Christian Vaisse

The scientist's work has been published in various venues, with the most frequent publication sources being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • JCI Insight
  • Developmental Cell

In 2009, Maxence V. Nachury was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • A Core Complex of BBS Proteins Cooperates with the GTPase Rab8 to Promote Ciliary Membrane Biogenesis

    Maxence V. Nachury;Alexander V. Loktev;Qihong Zhang;Christopher J. Westlake

  • The Conserved Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Proteins Assemble a Coat that Traffics Membrane Proteins to Cilia

    Hua Jin;Susan Roehl White;Toshinobu Shida;Stefan Schulz

  • A Septin Diffusion Barrier at the Base of the Primary Cilium Maintains Ciliary Membrane Protein Distribution

    Qicong Hu;Ljiljana Milenkovic;Ljiljana Milenkovic;Hua Jin;Matthew P. Scott

  • Importin β Is a Mitotic Target of the Small GTPase Ran in Spindle Assembly

    Maxence V Nachury;Thomas J Maresca;Wendy C Salmon;Clare M Waterman-Storer

  • The major α-tubulin K40 acetyltransferase αTAT1 promotes rapid ciliogenesis and efficient mechanosensation

    Toshinobu Shida;Juan G. Cueva;Zhenjie Xu;Miriam B. Goodman

  • Trafficking to the Ciliary Membrane: How to Get Across the Periciliary Diffusion Barrier?

    Maxence V. Nachury;E. Scott Seeley;Hua Jin

  • Microtubules acquire resistance from mechanical breakage through intralumenal acetylation

    Zhenjie Xu;Laura Schaedel;Didier Portran;Andrea Aguilar

  • Primary cilia membrane assembly is initiated by Rab11 and transport protein particle II (TRAPPII) complex-dependent trafficking of Rabin8 to the centrosome

    Christopher J. Westlake;Lisa M. Baye;Maxence V. Nachury;Kevin J. Wright

  • Tubulin acetylation protects long-lived microtubules against mechanical ageing.

    Didier Portran;Laura Schaedel;Zhenjie Xu;Manuel Théry;Manuel Théry

  • Proteomics of Primary Cilia by Proximity Labeling

    David U. Mick;Rachel B. Rodrigues;Ryan D. Leib;Christopher M. Adams

  • Establishing and regulating the composition of cilia for signal transduction.

    Maxence V. Nachury;David U. Mick

  • An Actin Network Dispatches Ciliary GPCRs into Extracellular Vesicles to Modulate Signaling

    Andrew R. Nager;Jaclyn S. Goldstein;Vicente Herranz-Pérez;Didier Portran

  • A BBSome subunit links ciliogenesis, microtubule stability, and acetylation.

    Alexander V. Loktev;Qihong Zhang;John S. Beck;Charles C. Searby

  • A Rae1-Containing Ribonucleoprotein Complex Is Required for Mitotic Spindle Assembly

    Michael D. Blower;Maxence Nachury;Rebecca Heald;Karsten Weis

  • Microtubules self-repair in response to mechanical stress.

    Laura Schaedel;Karin John;Jérémie Gaillard;Maxence V. Nachury

  • Structural basis for Notch1 engagement of Delta-like 4

    Vincent C. Luca;Kevin M. Jude;Nathan W. Pierce;Maxence V. Nachury

  • Effects of alpha-tubulin acetylation on microtubule structure and stability.

    Lisa Eshun-Wilson;Rui Zhang;Didier Portran;Maxence V. Nachury

  • The perennial organelle: assembly and disassembly of the primary cilium

    E. Scott Seeley;Maxence V. Nachury

  • The direction of transport through the nuclear pore can be inverted

    Maxence V. Nachury;Karsten Weis

  • Emi1 stably binds and inhibits the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome as a pseudosubstrate inhibitor.

    Julie J. Miller;Matthew K. Summers;David V. Hansen;Maxence V. Nachury

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter K. Jackson
Peter K. Jackson Stanford University
Thomas Walz
Thomas Walz Rockefeller University
Manuel Théry
Manuel Théry Grenoble Alpes University
Val C. Sheffield
Val C. Sheffield University of Iowa
James K. Chen
James K. Chen Stanford University
Steven P. Gygi
Steven P. Gygi Harvard University
Karsten Weis
Karsten Weis ETH Zurich
Tarun M. Kapoor
Tarun M. Kapoor Rockefeller University
Eva Nogales
Eva Nogales University of California, Berkeley
Hélène Dollfus
Hélène Dollfus University of Strasbourg

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