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Overview

Michael P. Lisanti is affiliated with the University of Salford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans fields primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional contributions in Medicine.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Cell Biology, and Infectious Diseases. Their research topics focus heavily on areas such as Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, and Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism. Further topics of interest include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Caveolin-1 and cellular processes, and ATP Synthase and ATPases Research.

Michael P. Lisanti has published in multiple scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Aging
  • Frontiers in Oncology
  • Cells
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cell Death and Differentiation

Recent papers by Michael P. Lisanti and collaborators highlight various aspects of disease mechanisms and cellular metabolism:

  • COVID-19 and chronological aging: senolytics and other anti-aging drugs for the treatment or prevention of corona virus infection?, 2020, Aging
  • High ATP Production Fuels Cancer Drug Resistance and Metastasis: Implications for Mitochondrial ATP Depletion Therapy, 2021, Frontiers in Oncology
  • Bedaquiline, an FDA-approved drug, inhibits mitochondrial ATP production and metastasis in vivo, by targeting the gamma subunit (ATP5F1C) of the ATP synthase, 2021, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Cholesterol and Mevalonate: Two Metabolites Involved in Breast Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance through the ERRα Pathway, 2020, Cells
  • Deferiprone (DFP) Targets Cancer Stem Cell (CSC) Propagation by Inhibiting Mitochondrial Metabolism and Inducing ROS Production, 2020, Cells

Michael P. Lisanti has collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Federica Sotgia
  • Marco Fiorillo
  • Béla Ózsvári
  • Matteo Brindisi
  • Zahra Moftakhar

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

  • Caveolins, a Family of Scaffolding Proteins for Organizing “Preassembled Signaling Complexes” at the Plasma Membrane

    Takashi Okamoto;Amnon Schlegel;Philipp E. Scherer;Michael P. Lisanti

  • The reverse Warburg effect: Aerobic glycolysis in cancer associated fibroblasts and the tumor stroma

    Stephanos Pavlides;Diana Whitaker-Menezes;Remedios Castello-Cros;Neal Flomenberg

  • Caveolin-1 Null Mice Are Viable but Show Evidence of Hyperproliferative and Vascular Abnormalities

    Babak Razani;Jeffery A. Engelman;Xiao Bo Wang;William Schubert

  • Caveolins, liquid-ordered domains, and signal transduction.

    Eric J. Smart;Gregory A. Graf;Mark A. McNiven;William C. Sessa

  • Cancer metabolism: a therapeutic perspective

    Ubaldo E Martinez-Outschoorn;Maria Peiris-Pagés;Richard G Pestell;Federica Sotgia;Federica Sotgia

  • Caveolae: From Cell Biology to Animal Physiology

    Babak Razani;Scott E. Woodman;Michael P. Lisanti

  • Co-purification and Direct Interaction of Ras with Caveolin, an Integral Membrane Protein of Caveolae Microdomains DETERGENT-FREE PURIFICATION OF CAVEOLAE MEMBRANES

    Kenneth S. Song;Shengwen Li;Takashi Okamoto;Lawrence A. Quilliam

  • Signal transducing molecules and glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-linked proteins form a caveolin-rich insoluble complex in MDCK cells

    M. Sargiacomo;M. Sudol;Zhaolan Tang;M. P. Lisanti

  • ESPEN expert group recommendations for action against cancer-related malnutrition.

    J. Arends;V. Baracos;H. Bertz;F. Bozzetti

  • Src Tyrosine Kinases, Gα Subunits, and H-Ras Share a Common Membrane-anchored Scaffolding Protein, Caveolin: CAVEOLIN BINDING NEGATIVELY REGULATES THE AUTO-ACTIVATION OF Src TYROSINE KINASES *

    Shengwen Li;Jacques Couet;Michael P. Lisanti

  • Identification of Peptide and Protein Ligands for the Caveolin-scaffolding Domain IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERACTION OF CAVEOLIN WITH CAVEOLAE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS

    Jacques Couet;Shengwen Li;Takashi Okamoto;Tsuneya Ikezu

  • Role of Caveolae and Caveolins in Health and Disease

    Alex W. Cohen;Robert Hnasko;William Schubert;Michael P. Lisanti

  • Characterization of caveolin-rich membrane domains isolated from an endothelial-rich source: implications for human disease.

    Michael P. Lisanti;Philipp E. Scherer;Jolanta Vidugiriene;ZhaoLan Tang

  • Dissecting the interaction between nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and caveolin. Functional significance of the nos caveolin binding domain in vivo

    Guillermo Garcı́a-Cardeña;Pavel Martasek;Bettie Sue Siler Masters;Phillip M. Skidd

  • Expression of caveolin-3 in skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle cells. Caveolin-3 is a component of the sarcolemma and co-fractionates with dystrophin and dystrophin-associated glycoproteins.

    Kenneth S. Song;Philipp E. Scherer;ZhaoLan Tang;Takashi Okamoto

  • Molecular Cloning of Caveolin-3, a Novel Member of the Caveolin Gene Family Expressed Predominantly in Muscle

    ZhaoLan Tang;Philipp E. Scherer;Takashi Okamoto;Kenneth Song

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

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

  • Caveolae, caveolin and caveolin-rich membrane domains: a signalling hypothesis

    Michael P. Lisanti;Philipp E. Scherer;ZhaoLan Tang;Massimo Sargiacomo

Frequent Co-Authors

Federica Sotgia
Federica Sotgia University of Salford
Richard G. Pestell
Richard G. Pestell The Wistar Institute
Philippe G. Frank
Philippe G. Frank François Rabelais University
Ubaldo E. Martinez-Outschoorn
Ubaldo E. Martinez-Outschoorn Thomas Jefferson University
Philipp E. Scherer
Philipp E. Scherer The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Diana Whitaker-Menezes
Diana Whitaker-Menezes Thomas Jefferson University
Anthony Howell
Anthony Howell University of Manchester
Chenguang Wang
Chenguang Wang Johns Hopkins University
Herbert B. Tanowitz
Herbert B. Tanowitz Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Carlo Minetti
Carlo Minetti University of Genoa

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