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Michael F. Summers is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology and Virology as key subfields. Their work also touches on Infectious Diseases, Cancer Research, and Spectroscopy.

The core topics of their research include HIV Research and Treatment, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA Research and Splicing, and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment. Additional areas of interest encompass RNA modifications and cancer, DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, and cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Michael F. Summers has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in the Journal of Molecular Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The FASEB Journal, Viruses, and Science.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Structural basis for transcriptional start site control of HIV-1 RNA fate, 2020, Science
  • Clonally expanded HIV-1 proviruses with 5'-leader defects can give rise to nonsuppressible residual viremia, 2023, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Identification of the initial nucleocapsid recognition element in the HIV-1 RNA packaging signal, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 5'-Cap sequestration is an essential determinant of HIV-1 genome packaging, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • HIV-1 matrix-tRNA complex structure reveals basis for host control of Gag localization, 2021, Cell Host & Microbe

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Michael F. Summers include Jan Marchant, Pengfei Ding, Joshua D. Brown, Siarhei Kharytonchyk, and Issac Chaudry.

Michael F. Summers has been recognized with membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2016 and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Proton and carbon-13 assignments from sensitivity-enhanced detection of heteronuclear multiple-bond connectivity by 2D multiple quantum NMR

    Ad. Bax;Michael F. Summers

  • 1H and13C Assignments from Sensitivity-Enhanced Detection of Heteronuclear Multiple-Bond Connectivity by 2D Multiple Quantum NMR

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  • Complete proton and carbon-13 assignments of coenzyme B12 through the use of new two-dimensional NMR experiments

    Michael F. Summers;Luigi G. Marzilli;Ad. Bax

  • Structural biology of HIV

    Brian G Turner;Michael F Summers

  • Structure of the HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Bound to the SL3 Ψ-RNA Recognition Element

    Roberto N. De Guzman;Zheng Rong Wu;Chelsea C. Stalling;Lucia Pappalardo

  • Improving Underrepresented Minority Student Persistence in STEM

    Mica Estrada;Myra Burnett;Andrew G. Campbell;Patricia B. Campbell

  • Structural basis for targeting hiv-1 gag proteins to the plasma membrane for virus assembly

    Michael F. Summers;Jamil S. Saad

  • Structure of the Amino-Terminal Core Domain of the HIV-1 Capsid Protein

    Rossitza K. Gitti;Brian M. Lee;Jill Walker;Michael F. Summers

  • Organocobalt B12 models: axial ligand effects on the structural and coordination chemistry of cobaloximes

    Nevenka Bresciani-Pahor;Margherita Forcolin;Luigi G. Marzilli;Lucio Randaccio

  • NMR structure of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein bound to stem-loop SL2 of the psi-RNA packaging signal. Implications for genome recognition.

    Gaya K Amarasinghe;Roberto N De Guzman;Ryan B Turner;Kalola J Chancellor

  • How retroviruses select their genomes

    Victoria D'Souza;Michael F. Summers

  • Nucleocapsid zinc fingers detected in retroviruses: EXAFS studies of intact viruses and the solution-state structure of the nucleocapsid protein from HIV-1.

    M F Summers;L E Henderson;M R Chance;J W Bess

  • Crystal structure of dimeric HIV-1 capsid protein.

    Cory Momany;Ladislau C. Kovari;Andrew J. Prongay;Andrew J. Prongay;Walter Keller;Walter Keller

  • Entropic switch regulates myristate exposure in the HIV-1 matrix protein.

    Chun Tang;Erin Loeliger;Paz Luncsford;Isaac Kinde

  • 113Cd NMR spectroscopy of coordination compounds and proteins

    Michael F. Summers

  • High-resolution structure of an HIV zinc fingerlike domain via a new NMR-based distance geometry approach

    Michael F. Summers;Terri L. South;Bo Kim;Dennis R. Hare

  • Three-dimensional structure of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 matrix protein.

    Michael A. Massiah;Mary R. Starich;Chiana Paschall;Michael F. Summers

  • Structural Determinants and Mechanism of HIV-1 Genome Packaging

    Kun Lu;Xiao Heng;Michael F. Summers

  • Structure of the HIV-1 RNA packaging signal

    Sarah C. Keane;Xiao Heng;Kun Lu;Siarhei Kharytonchyk

  • NMR Detection of Structures in the HIV-1 5'-Leader RNA that Regulate Genome Packaging

    Kun Lu;Xiao Heng;Lianko Garyu;Sarah Monti

  • Structure of the carboxy-terminal LIM domain from the cysteine rich protein CRP.

    Gabriela C. Pérez-Alvarado;Colleen Miles;James W. Michelsen;Heather A. Louis

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi G. Marzilli
Luigi G. Marzilli Louisiana State University
Lucio Randaccio
Lucio Randaccio University of Trieste
Eric O. Freed
Eric O. Freed National Institutes of Health
Gerald Zon
Gerald Zon TriLink BioTechnologies (United States)
Ad Bax
Ad Bax National Institutes of Health
Wesley I. Sundquist
Wesley I. Sundquist University of Utah
Ennio Zangrando
Ennio Zangrando University of Trieste
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia
David A. Case
David A. Case Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ralph S. Wolfe
Ralph S. Wolfe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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