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Overview

Michael S. Marks is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant concentration in cell biology and molecular biology subfields. Other notable areas of their research include nutrition and dietetics, dermatology, and physiology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • melanin and skin pigmentation
  • biochemical analysis and sensing techniques
  • skin protection and aging
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • cellular transport and secretion
  • connexins and lens biology
  • plant gene expression analysis

Michael S. Marks has published extensively in several academic venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Current Biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael S. Marks include:

  • "SLC45A2 protein stability and regulation of melanosome pH determine melanocyte pigmentation" (2020, Molecular Biology of the Cell)
  • "Melanosome Biogenesis in the Pigmentation of Mammalian Skin" (2021, Integrative and Comparative Biology)
  • "BLOC1S5 pathogenic variants cause a new type of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome" (2020, Genetics in Medicine)
  • "Melanin Transfer and Fate within Keratinocytes in Human Skin Pigmentation" (2021, Integrative and Comparative Biology)
  • "Research Techniques Made Simple: Cell Biology Methods for the Analysis of Pigmentation" (2020, Journal of Investigative Dermatology)

The frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Cédric Delevoye
  • Yueyao Zhu
  • Elena V. Sviderskaya
  • Graça Raposo
  • Dawn C. Harper

Best Publications

  • Functional amyloid formation within mammalian tissue

    Douglas M Fowler;Atanas V Koulov;Christelle Alory-Jost;Michael S Marks

  • The tetraspanin CD63 regulates ESCRT-independent and -dependent endosomal sorting during melanogenesis.

    Guillaume van Niel;Guillaume van Niel;Stéphanie Charrin;Sabrina Simoes;Sabrina Simoes;Maryse Romao;Maryse Romao

  • Melanosomes — dark organelles enlighten endosomal membrane transport

    Graça Raposo;Michael S. Marks

  • BLOC-1 Brings Together the Actin and Microtubule Cytoskeletons to Generate Recycling Endosomes.

    Cédric Delevoye;Xavier Heiligenstein;Léa Ripoll;Floriane Gilles-Marsens

  • The melanosome: membrane dynamics in black and white.

    Michael S. Marks;Miguel C. Seabra

  • H-2RIIBP (RXR beta) heterodimerization provides a mechanism for combinatorial diversity in the regulation of retinoic acid and thyroid hormone responsive genes.

    M S Marks;P L Hallenbeck;T Nagata;J H Segars

  • Distinct Protein Sorting and Localization to Premelanosomes, Melanosomes, and Lysosomes in Pigmented Melanocytic Cells✪

    Graça Raposo;Danielle Tenza;Diane M. Murphy;Joanne F. Berson

  • Co-localization of molecules involved in antigen processing and presentation in an early endocytic compartment.

    Lynne E. Guagliardi;Bruce Koppelman;Janice S. Blum;Michael S. Marks

  • The Stellar and Sub-Stellar Initial Mass Function of Simple and Composite Populations

    Pavel Kroupa;Carsten Weidner;Jan Pflamm-Altenburg;Ingo Thies

  • An interferon gamma-regulated protein that binds the interferon-inducible enhancer element of major histocompatibility complex class I genes.

    Paul H. Driggers;David L. Ennist;Shannon L. Gleason;Wai-Han Mak

  • Formation of a nine-subunit complex by HLA class II glycoproteins and the invariant chain.

    Paul A. Roche;Michael S. Marks;Michael S. Marks;Peter J. Cresswell

  • Protein sorting by tyrosine-based signals: adapting to the Ys and wherefores.

    Michael S. Marks;Hiroshi Ohno;Tomas Kirchnausen;Juan S. Bonracino

  • Protein targeting by tyrosine- and di-leucine-based signals: evidence for distinct saturable components.

    M S Marks;L Woodruff;H Ohno;J S Bonifacino

  • The stellar and sub-stellar IMF of simple and composite populations

    Pavel Kroupa;Carsten Weidner;Jan Pflamm-Altenburg;Ingo Thies

  • Pmel17 initiates premelanosome morphogenesis within multivesicular bodies.

    Joanne F. Berson;Dawn C. Harper;Danielle Tenza;Graça Raposo

  • A Lumenal Domain-Dependent Pathway for Sorting to Intralumenal Vesicles of Multivesicular Endosomes Involved in Organelle Morphogenesis

    Alexander C. Theos;Steven T. Truschel;Danielle Tenza;Ilse Hurbain

  • Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations

    Nicholas G. Crawford;Derek E. Kelly;Matthew E. B. Hansen;Marcia H. Beltrame

  • Proprotein convertase cleavage liberates a fibrillogenic fragment of a resident glycoprotein to initiate melanosome biogenesis.

    Joanne F. Berson;Alexander C. Theos;Dawn C. Harper;Danielle Tenza

  • Lysosome-related organelles: unusual compartments become mainstream.

    Michael S Marks;Harry F G Heijnen;Harry F G Heijnen;Graça Raposo;Graça Raposo

  • Functions of Adaptor Protein (AP)-3 and AP-1 in Tyrosinase Sorting from Endosomes to Melanosomes

    Alexander C. Theos;Danièle Tenza;José A. Martina;Ilse Hurbain

Frequent Co-Authors

Graça Raposo
Graça Raposo Institut Curie
Pavel Kroupa
Pavel Kroupa University of Bonn
Mortimer Poncz
Mortimer Poncz Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Dorothy C. Bennett
Dorothy C. Bennett St George's, University of London
Keiko Ozato
Keiko Ozato Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Juan S. Bonifacino
Juan S. Bonifacino National Institutes of Health
Trina A. Schroer
Trina A. Schroer Johns Hopkins University
Peter Cresswell
Peter Cresswell Yale University
Frances M. Brodsky
Frances M. Brodsky University College London
Tom H. Stevens
Tom H. Stevens University of Oregon

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