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Overview

Michael T. Ryan is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant body of work in medicine. Key subfields include molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, clinical biochemistry, epidemiology, and surgery.

The scientist's work extensively covers mitochondrial function and pathology, ATP synthase and ATPases research, metabolism and genetic disorders, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, caveolin-1 and cellular processes, and genomics and rare diseases.

Frequent publication venues for Ryan include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Function and regulation of the divisome for mitochondrial fission, 2021, Nature
  • Quantitative high-confidence human mitochondrial proteome and its dynamics in cellular context, 2021, Cell Metabolism
  • Mitochondrial dynamics in health and disease, 2021, FEBS Letters
  • Nicotinamide riboside attenuates age-associated metabolic and functional changes in hematopoietic stem cells, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Dissecting the Roles of Mitochondrial Complex I Intermediate Assembly Complex Factors in the Biogenesis of Complex I, 2020, Cell Reports

Their frequent co-authors include David A. Stroud, Luke E. Formosa, David R. Thorburn, Boris Reljić, and Daniella H. Hock, reflecting collaborative work across multiple projects.

Best Publications

  • Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer.

    Katherine A. Hoadley;Christina Yau;Christina Yau;Toshinori Hinoue;Denise M. Wolf

  • Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy

    Alison M. Taylor;Alison M. Taylor;Juliann Shih;Gavin Ha;Gavin Ha;Galen F. Gao

  • A mitochondrial specific stress response in mammalian cells

    Quan Zhao;Jianghui Wang;Ilya V. Levichkin;Stan Stasinopoulos

  • BAK/BAX macropores facilitate mitochondrial herniation and mtDNA efflux during apoptosis

    Kate McArthur;Kate McArthur;Kate McArthur;Lachlan W. Whitehead;Lachlan W. Whitehead;John M. Heddleston;Lucy Li

  • Mitochondrial-nuclear communications

    Michael T. Ryan;Nicholas J. Hoogenraad

  • MiD49 and MiD51, new components of the mitochondrial fission machinery

    Catherine S Palmer;Laura D Osellame;David Laine;Olga S Koutsopoulos

  • Tom40 forms the hydrophilic channel of the mitochondrial import pore for preproteins

    Kerstin Hill;Kirstin Model;Michael T. Ryan;Klaus Dietmeier

  • Accessory subunits are integral for assembly and function of human mitochondrial complex I

    David A. Stroud;Elliot E. Surgenor;Luke E. Formosa;Luke E. Formosa;Boris Reljic

  • Absence of cardiolipin in the crd1 null mutant results in decreased mitochondrial membrane potential and reduced mitochondrial function

    Feng Jiang;Michael T. Ryan;Michael Schlame;Ming Zhao

  • Machinery for protein sorting and assembly in the mitochondrial outer membrane

    Nils Wiedemann;Vera Kozjak;Agnieszka Chacinska;Birgit Schönfisch

  • Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Supercomplexes Are Destabilized in Barth Syndrome Patients

    Matthew McKenzie;Michael Lazarou;David R. Thorburn;David R. Thorburn;Michael T. Ryan

  • Understanding mitochondrial complex I assembly in health and disease

    Masakazu Mimaki;Xiaonan Wang;Matthew McKenzie;David R. Thorburn;David R. Thorburn

  • Pan-cancer Alterations of the MYC Oncogene and Its Proximal Network across the Cancer Genome Atlas

    Franz X. Schaub;Varsha Dhankani;Ashton C. Berger;Mihir Trivedi

  • Levels of human Fis1 at the mitochondrial outer membrane regulate mitochondrial morphology

    Diana Stojanovski;Olga S. Koutsopoulos;Koji Okamoto;Michael T. Ryan

  • Tom22 is a multifunctional organizer of the mitochondrial preprotein translocase

    Sandra van Wilpe;Michael T. Ryan;Kerstin Hill;Ammy C. Maarse

  • The regulation of mitochondrial morphology: intricate mechanisms and dynamic machinery.

    Catherine S. Palmer;Laura D. Osellame;Diana Stojanovski;Michael T. Ryan

  • Cooperative and independent roles of the Drp1 adaptors Mff, MiD49 and MiD51 in mitochondrial fission

    Laura D. Osellame;Abeer P. Singh;Abeer P. Singh;David A. Stroud;Catherine S. Palmer

  • Adaptor proteins MiD49 and MiD51 can act independently of Mff and Fis1 in Drp1 recruitment and are specific for mitochondrial fission.

    Catherine S. Palmer;Kirstin D. Elgass;Robert G. Parton;Laura D. Osellame

  • Translocation of proteins into mitochondria.

    Nicholas J. Hoogenraad;Michael T. Ryan

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Thorburn
David R. Thorburn Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Nicholas J. Hoogenraad
Nicholas J. Hoogenraad La Trobe University
Nikolaus Pfanner
Nikolaus Pfanner University of Freiburg
John Christodoulou
John Christodoulou University of Melbourne
Sarah E. Calvo
Sarah E. Calvo Broad Institute
Vamsi K. Mootha
Vamsi K. Mootha Harvard Medical School
Grant Dewson
Grant Dewson Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Chris Meisinger
Chris Meisinger University of Freiburg
Peter B. Høj
Peter B. Høj University of Adelaide
Ruth M. Kluck
Ruth M. Kluck Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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