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Overview

Michael A. Weiss is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, focusing particularly on issues related to endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these areas, their work branches into several subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Surgery
  • Genetics
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Cell Biology

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects mainly related to diabetes and metabolic processes, such as:

  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management

Their recent publications illustrate ongoing contributions to diabetes-related biomedical research. Select papers include:

  • 'Smart' insulin-delivery technologies and intrinsic glucose-responsive insulin analogues (2021), published in Diabetologia
  • Pooled RT-qPCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in schools - a cluster randomised trial (2021), published in EClinicalMedicine
  • Structural principles of insulin formulation and analog design: A century of innovation (2021), published in Molecular Metabolism
  • Evolution of insulin at the edge of foldability and its medical implications (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Distinct states of proinsulin misfolding in MIDY (2021), published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Frequent co-authors involved in collaborative research with Michael A. Weiss include:

  • Yen-Shan Chen
  • Balamurugan Dhayalan
  • Yanwu Yang
  • Christiane Bourseaux
  • Klaus Heeke

Publication venues where Michael A. Weiss has frequently contributed comprise:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Molecular Metabolism
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In addition to peer-reviewed articles, Michael A. Weiss has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Schäffer-Poeschel eBooks: #steuernkompakt Mitarbeiterentsendung (2022).

Best Publications

  • Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein regulates podosomes in primary human macrophages.

    Stefan Linder;David Nelson;Michael Weiss;Martin Aepfelbacher

  • How insulin engages its primary binding site on the insulin receptor

    John G. Menting;Jonathan Whittaker;Mai B. Margetts;Linda J. Whittaker

  • Molecular basis of mammalian sexual determination: activation of Mullerian inhibiting substance gene expression by SRY

    Christopher M. Haqq;Chih Yen King;Etsuji Ukiyama;Sassan Falsafi

  • Mechanism of insulin fibrillation: the structure of insulin under amyloidogenic conditions resembles a protein-folding intermediate

    Qing Xin Hua;Michael A Weiss

  • Receptor binding redefined by a structural switch in a mutant human insulin.

    Qing Xin Hua;Qing Xin Hua;Steven E. Shoelson;Michel Kochoyan;Michel Kochoyan;Michael A. Weiss

  • Sexual dimorphism in diverse metazoans is regulated by a novel class of intertwined zinc fingers

    Lingyang Zhu;Jill Wilken;Nelson B. Phillips;Umadevi Narendra

  • Specific phosphopeptide binding regulates a conformational change in the PI 3-kinase SH2 domain associated with enzyme activation.

    Steven E. Shoelson;Mohanram Sivaraja;Kevin P. Williams;Patrick Hu

  • Protective hinge in insulin opens to enable its receptor engagement.

    John G. Menting;Yanwu Yang;Shu Jin Chan;Nelson B. Phillips

  • RNA recognition by arginine-rich peptide motifs.

    Michael A. Weiss;Narendra Narayana

  • Structure of a protein in a kinetic trap.

    Qing Xin Hua;Shai N. Gozani;Ronald E. Chance;James A. Hoffmann

  • Novel zinc finger motif in the basal transcriptional machinery: three-dimensional NMR studies of the nucleic acid binding domain of transcriptional elongation factor TFIIS.

    Xiuqi Qian;Shai N. Gozani;Ho Sup Yoon;Choon Ju Jeon

  • Mapping the functional surface of insulin by design: structure and function of a novel A-chain analogue.

    Qing Xin Hua;Shi Quan Hu;Bruce H. Frank;Wenhua Jia

  • The insulin receptor juxtamembrane region contains two independent tyrosine/beta-turn internalization signals.

    J M Backer;S E Shoelson;M A Weiss;Q X Hua

  • Mutant INS-Gene Induced Diabetes of Youth: Proinsulin Cysteine Residues Impose Dominant-Negative Inhibition on Wild-Type Proinsulin Transport

    Ming Liu;Leena Haataja;Jordan Wright;Nalinda P. Wickramasinghe

  • NMR and photo-CIDNP studies of human proinsulin and prohormone processing intermediates with application to endopeptidase recognition

    Michael A. Weiss;Bruce H. Frank;Igor Khait;Allen Pekar

  • Insulin assembly damps conformational fluctuations: Raman analysis of amide I linewidths in native states and fibrils.

    Jian Dong;Zhuli Wan;Maxim Popov;Paul R. Carey

  • Glucose-responsive insulin by molecular and physical design

    Naveed A. Bakh;Abel B. Cortinas;Michael A. Weiss;Robert S. Langer

  • Specificity of the PTB Domain of Shc for β Turn-forming Pentapeptide Motifs Amino-terminal to Phosphotyrosine

    Thomas Trüb;Wonjae E. Choi;Gert Wolf;Elizabeth Ottinger

  • Two-dimensional 1H NMR study of the lambda operator site OL1: a sequential assignment strategy and its application

    Michael A. Weiss;Dinshaw J. Patel;Robert T. Sauer;Martin Karplus

  • Higher-resolution structure of the human insulin receptor ectodomain: Multi-modal inclusion of the insert domain

    Tristan I. Croll;Brian J. Smith;Mai B. Margetts;Jonathan Whittaker

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Lawrence
Michael C. Lawrence Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Bin Xu
Bin Xu Shenzhen University
Faramarz Ismail-Beigi
Faramarz Ismail-Beigi Case Western Reserve University
Stephen B. H. Kent
Stephen B. H. Kent University of Chicago
Brian J. Smith
Brian J. Smith QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Donald F. Steiner
Donald F. Steiner University of Chicago
Charles T. Roberts
Charles T. Roberts Oregon National Primate Research Center
Colin W. Ward
Colin W. Ward Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Shu Jin Chan
Shu Jin Chan Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Pierre De Meyts
Pierre De Meyts Novo Nordisk (Denmark)

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