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Michael Overholtzer is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including Immunology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Epidemiology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Their research covers multiple topics such as Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation, Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism, Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide, and Immune Response and Inflammation.

Michael Overholtzer has published in a variety of scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Developmental Cell
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Overholtzer include:

  • "Ferroptosis occurs through an osmotic mechanism and propagates independently of cell rupture" (2020, Nature Cell Biology)
  • "A unifying paradigm for transcriptional heterogeneity and squamous features in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma" (2020, Nature Cancer)
  • "Lipid peroxidation regulates long-range wound detection through 5-lipoxygenase in zebrafish" (2020, Nature Cell Biology)
  • "Selective Lysosome Membrane Turnover Is Induced by Nutrient Starvation" (2020, Developmental Cell)
  • "Genetic and clinical correlates of entosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma" (2020, Modern Pathology)

Michael Overholtzer frequently collaborates with several researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Philipp Niethammer
  • Anushka Katikaneni
  • Mark Jelcic
  • Gary F. Gerlach
  • Yanan Ma

Best Publications

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

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

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease

    Brent R. Stockwell;José Pedro Friedmann Angeli;Hülya Bayir;Ashley I. Bush

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Transforming properties of YAP, a candidate oncogene on the chromosome 11q22 amplicon

    Michael Overholtzer;Jianmin Zhang;Gromoslaw A. Smolen;Beth Muir

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • A Nonapoptotic Cell Death Process, Entosis, that Occurs by Cell-in-Cell Invasion

    Michael Overholtzer;Arnaud A. Mailleux;Ghassan Mouneimne;Guillaume Normand

  • Ultrasmall nanoparticles induce ferroptosis in nutrient-deprived cancer cells and suppress tumour growth

    Sung Eun Kim;Li Zhang;Kai Ma;Michelle Riegman

  • Autophagy machinery mediates macroendocytic processing and entotic cell death by targeting single membranes

    Oliver Florey;Sung Eun Kim;Sung Eun Kim;Cynthia P. Sandoval;Cole M. Haynes;Cole M. Haynes

  • YAP-dependent induction of amphiregulin identifies a non-cell-autonomous component of the Hippo pathway

    Jianmin Zhang;Jun-Yuan Ji;Jun-Yuan Ji;Min Yu;Min Yu;Michael Overholtzer

  • TLR Signals Induce Phagosomal MHC-I Delivery from the Endosomal Recycling Compartment to Allow Cross-Presentation

    Priyanka Nair-Gupta;Alessia Baccarini;Navpreet Tung;Fabian Seyffer

  • Ferroptosis occurs through an osmotic mechanism and propagates independently of cell rupture

    Michelle Riegman;Liran Sagie;Chen Galed;Tom Levin

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • BIM Regulates Apoptosis during Mammary Ductal Morphogenesis, and Its Absence Reveals Alternative Cell Death Mechanisms

    Arnaud A. Mailleux;Michael Overholtzer;Tobias Schmelzle;Philippe Bouillet

  • Autophagy in cellular metabolism and cancer

    Xuejun Jiang;Michael Overholtzer;Craig B. Thompson

  • Interaction between FIP200 and ATG16L1 distinguishes ULK1 complex-dependent and -independent autophagy.

    Noor Gammoh;Oliver Florey;Michael Overholtzer;Xuejun Jiang

  • The cell biology of cell-in-cell structures

    Michael Overholtzer;Joan S. Brugge

  • The presence of p53 mutations in human osteosarcomas correlates with high levels of genomic instability

    Michael Overholtzer;Michael Overholtzer;Pulivarthi H. Rao;Reyna Favis;Xin Yan Lu

  • Competition between human cells by entosis.

    Qiang Sun;Tianzhi Luo;Yixin Ren;Oliver Florey

  • V-ATPase and osmotic imbalances activate endolysosomal LC3 lipidation

    Oliver Florey;Noor Gammoh;Sung Eun Kim;Xuejun Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan S. Brugge
Joan S. Brugge Harvard University
Ulrich Wiesner
Ulrich Wiesner Cornell University
Daolin Tang
Daolin Tang The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore
Nektarios Tavernarakis
Nektarios Tavernarakis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Gerry Melino
Gerry Melino University of Rome Tor Vergata
Simone Fulda
Simone Fulda Goethe University Frankfurt

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