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Michael W. Pennington

Michael W. Pennington

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
10567
World Ranking
15091
National Ranking
6314

Overview

Michael W. Pennington is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, focusing on Molecular Biology, Physiology, Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Microbiology as key subfields.

The work conducted by Pennington centers on topics related to ion channel regulation and function, pain mechanisms and treatments, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, toxin mechanisms and immunotoxins, chemical synthesis and analysis, antimicrobial peptides and activities, and adenosine and purinergic signaling.

Frequent publication venues for Pennington include the Biophysical Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Glia, Medicine in Drug Discovery, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Some of their recent scientific papers include:

  • Biophysical basis for Kv1.3 regulation of membrane potential changes induced by P2X4-mediated calcium entry in microglia (2020, Glia)
  • Commercial manufacturing of current good manufacturing practice peptides spanning the gamut from neoantigen to commercial large-scale products (2020, Medicine in Drug Discovery)
  • A bioengineered probiotic for the oral delivery of a peptide Kv1.3 channel blocker to treat rheumatoid arthritis (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Modulation of Lymphocyte Potassium Channel KV1.3 by Membrane-Penetrating, Joint-Targeting Immunomodulatory Plant Defensin (2020, ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science)
  • Computational design of peptides to target NaV1.7 channel with high potency and selectivity for the treatment of pain (2022, eLife)

Michael W. Pennington collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Heike Wulff, Christine Beeton, Hai M. Nguyen, Yi-Je Chen, and Yuqing Wang.

Best Publications

  • Kv1.3 channels are a therapeutic target for T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases

    Christine Beeton;Heike Wulff;Nathan E. Standifer;Philippe Azam

  • K+ channels as targets for specific immunomodulation.

    K. George Chandy;Heike Wulff;Christine Beeton;Michael Pennington

  • The voltage-gated Kv1.3 K+ channel in effector memory T cells as new target for MS

    Heike Wulff;Peter A. Calabresi;Rameeza Allie;Sung Yun

  • Selective blockade of T lymphocyte K+ channels ameliorates experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a model for multiple sclerosis

    Christine Beeton;Heike Wulff;Jocelyne Barbaria;Olivier Clot-Faybesse

  • ShK-Dap22, a Potent Kv1.3-specific Immunosuppressive Polypeptide

    Katalin Kalman;Michael W. Pennington;Mark D. Lanigan;Angela Nguyen

  • Targeting Effector Memory T Cells with a Selective Peptide Inhibitor of Kv1.3 Channels for Therapy of Autoimmune Diseases

    Christine Beeton;Michael W. Pennington;Heike Wulff;Satendra Singh

  • Identification and therapeutic modulation of a pro-inflammatory subset of disease-associated-microglia in Alzheimer's disease.

    Srikant Rangaraju;Eric B. Dammer;Syed Ali Raza;Priyadharshini Rathakrishnan

  • Peptide therapeutics from venom: Current status and potential.

    Michael W. Pennington;Andrzej Czerwinski;Raymond S. Norton

  • Bass hepcidin synthesis, solution structure, antimicrobial activities and synergism, and in vivo hepatic response to bacterial infections.

    Xavier Lauth;Jeffrey J. Babon;Jason A. Stannard;Satendra Singh

  • K+ Channel Expression during B Cell Differentiation: Implications for Immunomodulation and Autoimmunity

    Heike Wulff;Hans Günther Knaus;Michael Pennington;K. George Chandy

  • Development of a sea anemone toxin as an immunomodulator for therapy of autoimmune diseases

    Victor Chi;Michael William Pennington;Raymond Stanley Norton;Eric J Tarcha

  • The Caspase-like Sites of Proteasomes, Their Substrate Specificity, New Inhibitors and Substrates, and Allosteric Interactions with the Trypsin-like Sites *

    Alexei F. Kisselev;Margarita Garcia-Calvo;Herman S. Overkleeft;Erin Peterson

  • Imaging of Effector Memory T Cells during a Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity Reaction and Suppression by Kv1.3 Channel Block

    Melanie P. Matheu;Christine Beeton;Adriana Garcia;Victor Chi

  • Solution structure of ShK toxin, a novel potassium channel inhibitor from a sea anemone

    Jane E. Tudor;Paul K. Pallaghy;Michael W. Pennington;Raymond S. Norton

  • Structural Conservation of the Pores of Calcium-activated and Voltage-gated Potassium Channels Determined by a Sea Anemone Toxin

    Heiko Rauer;Michael Pennington;Michael Cahalan;K. George Chandy

  • Engineering a stable and selective peptide blocker of the Kv1.3 channel in T lymphocytes.

    M. W. Pennington;C. Beeton;C. A. Galea;B. J. Smith

  • Three-dimensional Structure in Solution of the Calcium Channel Blocker ω-Conotoxin

    Paul K. Pallaghy;Brendan M. Duggan;Michael W. Pennington;Raymond S. Norton

  • A Novel Fluorescent Toxin to Detect and Investigate Kv1.3 Channel Up-regulation in Chronically Activated T Lymphocytes

    Christine Beeton;Heike Wulff;Satendra Singh;Steve Botsko

  • Durable pharmacological responses from the peptide ShK-186, a specific Kv1.3 channel inhibitor that suppresses T cell mediators of autoimmune disease.

    Eric J. Tarcha;Victor Chi;Ernesto J. Muñoz-Elías;David Bailey

  • Structure-guided Transformation of Charybdotoxin Yields an Analog That Selectively Targets Ca2+-activated over Voltage-gated K+ Channels

    Heiko Rauer;Mark D. Lanigan;Michael W. Pennington;Jayashree Aiyar

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond S. Norton
Raymond S. Norton Monash University
K. George Chandy
K. George Chandy Nanyang Technological University
Heike Wulff
Heike Wulff University of California, Davis
Michael D. Cahalan
Michael D. Cahalan University of California, Irvine
Peter A. Calabresi
Peter A. Calabresi Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
George A. Gutman
George A. Gutman University of California, Irvine
Ben M. Dunn
Ben M. Dunn University of Florida
Jan Tytgat
Jan Tytgat KU Leuven
Charles S. Craik
Charles S. Craik University of California, San Francisco
Brian J. Smith
Brian J. Smith QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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