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Michael J. Greenberg is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant work in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, atomic and molecular physics and optics, cell biology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's main research topics include cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, cardiovascular effects of exercise, cardiovascular function and risk factors, muscle physiology and disorders, force microscopy techniques and applications, cellular mechanics and interactions, and viral infections and immunology research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michael J. Greenberg include W. Tom Stump, Kory J. Lavine, Lina Greenberg, and Samantha K. Barrick.

Michael J. Greenberg's publications appear in a range of scientific journals, including Biophysical Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Circulation Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and JACC Basic to Translational Science. The most frequently published venues are:

  • Biophysical Journal (22 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (13 publications)
  • Circulation Research (6 publications)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry (3 publications)
  • JACC Basic to Translational Science (2 publications)

Selected recent papers by Michael J. Greenberg include:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 Infects Human Engineered Heart Tissues and Models COVID-19 Myocarditis," 2021, JACC Basic to Translational Science
  • "Resident cardiac macrophages mediate adaptive myocardial remodeling," 2021, Immunity
  • "Cardiac myosin contraction and mechanotransduction in health and disease," 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Complexity in genetic cardiomyopathies and new approaches for mechanism-based precision medicine," 2021, The Journal of General Physiology
  • "SARS-CoV-2 Infects Human Engineered Heart Tissues and Models COVID-19 Myocarditis," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Organ Preservation Therapy Using Induction Plus Concurrent Chemoradiation for Advanced Resectable Oropharyngeal Carcinoma: A University of Pennsylvania Phase II Trial

    Mitchell Machtay;David I. Rosenthal;Diane Hershock;Heather Jones

  • Phase III Trial of an emulsion containing trolamine for the prevention of radiation dermatitis in patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: results of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Trial 99-13.

    Elizabeth A. Elliott;James R. Wright;R. Suzanne Swann;Felix Nguyen-Tân

  • SARS-CoV-2 Infects Human Engineered Heart Tissues and Models COVID-19 Myocarditis.

    Adam L. Bailey;Oleksandr Dmytrenko;Lina Greenberg;Andrea L. Bredemeyer

  • Resident cardiac macrophages mediate adaptive myocardial remodeling

    Nicole R. Wong;Jay Mohan;Benjamin J. Kopecky;Shuchi Guo

  • Positive cardiac inotrope omecamtiv mecarbil activates muscle despite suppressing the myosin working stroke

    Michael S. Woody;Michael J. Greenberg;Michael J. Greenberg;Bipasha Barua;Donald A. Winkelmann

  • Inherent Force-Dependent Properties of β-Cardiac Myosin Contribute to the Force-Velocity Relationship of Cardiac Muscle

    Michael J. Greenberg;Henry Shuman;E. Michael Ostap

  • Myosin IC generates power over a range of loads via a new tension-sensing mechanism

    Michael J. Greenberg;Tianming Lin;Yale E. Goldman;Henry Shuman

  • The molecular basis of frictional loads in the in vitro motility assay with applications to the study of the loaded mechanochemistry of molecular motors.

    Michael J. Greenberg;Jeffrey R. Moore

  • Cardiomyopathy-linked myosin regulatory light chain mutations disrupt myosin strain-dependent biochemistry.

    Michael J. Greenberg;Katarzyna Kazmierczak;Danuta Szczesna-Cordary;Jeffrey R. Moore

  • A Perspective on the Role of Myosins as Mechanosensors.

    Michael J. Greenberg;Göker Arpağ;Erkan Tüzel;E. Michael Ostap

  • Observation of Magnetoreceptive Behavior in a Multicellular Magnetotactic Prokaryote in Higher than Geomagnetic Fields

    Michael Greenberg;Karl Canter;Inga Mahler;Adam Tornheim

  • The molecular effects of skeletal muscle myosin regulatory light chain phosphorylation

    Michael J. Greenberg;Tanya R. Mealy;James D. Watt;Michelle Jones

  • An Actin Filament Population Defined by the Tropomyosin Tpm3.1 Regulates Glucose Uptake

    Anthony J. Kee;Lingyuan Yang;Christine A. Lucas;Michael J. Greenberg

  • Head and neck carcinoma in the United States: first comprehensive report of the Longitudinal Oncology Registry of Head and Neck Carcinoma (LORHAN).

    K. Kian Ang;Amy Chen;Amy Chen;Walter J. Curran;Adam S. Garden

  • MEMLET: An Easy-to-Use Tool for Data Fitting and Model Comparison Using Maximum-Likelihood Estimation.

    Michael S. Woody;John H. Lewis;Michael J. Greenberg;Yale E. Goldman

  • Regulation and control of myosin-I by the motor and light chain-binding domains

    Michael J. Greenberg;E. Michael Ostap

  • Regulatory light chain mutations associated with cardiomyopathy affect myosin mechanics and kinetics.

    Michael J. Greenberg;James D. Watt;Michelle Jones;Katarzyna Kazmierczak

  • Disrupted mechanobiology links the molecular and cellular phenotypes in familial dilated cardiomyopathy.

    Sarah R. Clippinger;Paige E. Cloonan;Lina Greenberg;Melanie Ernst

  • Cooperative changes in solvent exposure identify cryptic pockets, switches, and allosteric coupling

    Justin R. Porter;Katelyn E. Moeder;Carrie A. Sibbald;Maxwell I. Zimmerman

  • SARS-CoV-2 Infects Human Engineered Heart Tissues and Models COVID-19 Myocarditis

    Adam L Bailey;Oleksandr Dmytrenko;Lina Greenberg;Andrea L Bredemeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory R. Bowman
Gregory R. Bowman Washington University in St. Louis
Yale E. Goldman
Yale E. Goldman University of Pennsylvania
Roberto Dominguez
Roberto Dominguez University of Pennsylvania
David I. Rosenthal
David I. Rosenthal The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Adam S. Garden
Adam S. Garden The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gregory S. Weinstein
Gregory S. Weinstein University of Pennsylvania
Edna C. Hardeman
Edna C. Hardeman University of New South Wales
Weiping Han
Weiping Han Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Xuping Xie
Xuping Xie The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Pei-Yong Shi
Pei-Yong Shi GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)

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