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Nechama S. Kosower

Nechama S. Kosower

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
8375
World Ranking
18049
National Ranking
184

Overview

Nechama S. Kosower is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research contributions span the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on cellular and molecular mechanisms related to microbial infections and immunological responses.

The scientist's recent paper, published in 2020 in FEMS Microbiology Letters, is titled Novel synthetic lipopeptides derived from Mycoplasma hyorhinis upregulate calpastatin in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells and induce a neuroprotective effect against amyloid-β-peptide toxicity. This work explores the regulatory effects of synthetic lipopeptides on calpastatin expression and their potential neuroprotective properties concerning amyloid-beta peptide toxicity.

Nechama's research topics include:

  • Calpain Protease Function and Regulation
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Microbial infections and disease research

Their subfields of study involve:

  • Cell Biology
  • Immunology
  • Microbiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nechama include:

  • David Kornspan
  • Tali Vaisid
  • Joshua Katzhandler
  • Shlomo Rottem

Their research has appeared notably in the venue:

  • FEMS Microbiology Letters

Best Publications

  • The Glutathione Status of Cells

    Nechama S. Kosower;Edward M. Kosower

  • Diamide, a new reagent for the intracellular oxidation of glutathione to the disulfide.

    Nechama S. Kosower;Edward M. Kosower;Bilha Wertheim;Walter S. Correa

  • Bimane fluorescent labels: labeling of normal human red cells under physiological conditions.

    Nechama S. Kosower;Edward M. Kosower;Gerald L. Newton;Helen M. Ranney

  • Lest I Forget Thee, Glutathione …

    E M Kosower;E M Kosower;N S Kosower;N S Kosower

  • Thiol-disulfide status and acridine orange fluorescence of mammalian sperm nuclei.

    Nechama S. Kosower;Haruo Katayose;Ryuzo Yanagimachi

  • Glutathione. 8. The effects of glutathione disulfide on initiation of protein synthesis.

    Nechama S. Kosower;Grace A. Vanderhoff;Edward M. Kosower;Edward M. Kosower

  • Glutathione VII. Differentiation among substrates by the thiol-oxidizing agent, diamide

    Edward M. Kosower;Walter Correa;Bruce J. Kinon;Nechama S. Kosower

  • Dynamics of the thiol status of rat spermatozoa during maturation: analysis with the fluorescent labeling agent monobromobimane.

    R Shalgi;J Seligman;N S Kosower

  • Evidence for function of the ferredoxin/thioredoxin system in the reductive activation of target enzymes of isolated intact chloroplasts.

    N.A. Crawford;M. Droux;N.S. Kosower;B.B. Buchanan

  • On the involvement of calpains in the degradation of the tumor suppressor protein p53

    Hedva Gonen;Dganit Shkedy;Sivia Barnoy;Nechama S. Kosower

  • The role of calpastatin (the specific calpain inhibitor) in myoblast differentiation and fusion.

    Sivia Barnoy;Tova Glaser;Nechama S. Kosower

  • Thiol-disulfide status of human sperm proteins.

    J. Seligman;N. S. Kosower;R. Weissenberg;R. Shalgi

  • Glutathione. IV. Intracellular oxidation and membrane injury.

    Nechama S. Kosower;Keum-Ryul Song;Edward M. Kosower

  • Molecular mechanisms that lead to reduced expression of Duffy antigens

    K. Yazdanbakhsh;M. Rios;J.R. Storry;N. Kosower

  • Calpain and calpastatin in myoblast differentiation and fusion: Effects of inhibitors

    Sivia Barnoy;Tova Glaser;Nechama S Kosower

  • The calpain-calpastatin system and protein degradation in fusing myoblasts

    Sivia Barnoy;Tova Glaser;Nechama S Kosower

  • Ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase: A catalytically active dithiol group links photoreduced ferredoxin to thioredoxin functional in photosynthetic enzyme regulation

    Michel Droux;Michel Droux;M. Miginiac-Maslow;J.-P. Jacquot;P. Gadal

  • The Regeneration of Reduced Glutathione in Normal and Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficient Human Red Blood Cells

    Nechama S. Kosower;Grace A. Vanderhoff;Irving M. London

  • Membrane thiol-disulfide status in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient red cells. Relationship to cellular glutathione.

    Nechama S. Kosower;Yehudit Zipser;Zehava Faltin

  • Erythrocyte thiol status regulates band 3 phosphotyrosine level via oxidation/reduction of band 3-associated phosphotyrosine phosphatase

    Yehudit Zipser;Adi Piade;Nechama S. Kosower

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward M. Kosower
Edward M. Kosower Tel Aviv University
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
Ryuzo Yanagimachi University of Hawaii at Manoa
Tim Hunt
Tim Hunt University of Cambridge
Abraham Weizman
Abraham Weizman Tel Aviv University
Gerald L. Newton
Gerald L. Newton University of California, San Diego
Eugene Rosenberg
Eugene Rosenberg Tel Aviv University
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Abraham Katzir
Abraham Katzir Tel Aviv University
Anastasios Melis
Anastasios Melis University of California, Berkeley
Rachel Galun
Rachel Galun Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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