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Biology and Biochemistry
Singapore
2025

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
79
Citations
29154
World Ranking
4231
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Paul Matsudaira is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a specialization in molecular biology, cell biology, immunology, genetics, and organic chemistry.

Themes frequently addressed include glycosylation and glycoproteins research, developmental biology and gene regulation, connective tissue disorders research, Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer, cellular mechanics and interactions, carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, and galectins and cancer biology.

Matsudaira's recent publications highlight diverse topics and venues. These include:

  • Engineering a Hierarchy of Disorder: A New Route to Synthesize High-Performance 3D Nanoporous All-Carbon Materials, 2024, Advanced Materials
  • Cell clusters containing intestinal stem cells, line the zebrafish intestine intervillus pocket, 2022, iScience
  • Strain maps characterize the symmetry of convergence and extension patterns during zebrafish gastrulation, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Extending the Martini Coarse-Grained Force Field to N -Glycans, 2020, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
  • Wnt3 distribution in the zebrafish brain is determined by expression, diffusion and multiple molecular interactions, 2020, eLife

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, iScience, JMST Advances, and the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.

The scientist commonly collaborates with other researchers such as Shiwen Zhu, Aishwary T. Shivgan, Jan K. Marzinek, Alexander Krah, and Chandra Verma.

Best Publications

  • Sequence from picomole quantities of proteins electroblotted onto polyvinylidene difluoride membranes.

    P. Matsudaira

  • Elastic Behavior of Cross-Linked and Bundled Actin Networks

    ML Gardel;Jennifer Hyunjong Shin;FC MacKintosh;L Mahadevan

  • Type I macrophage scavenger receptor contains α-helical and collagen-like coiled coils

    Tatsuhiko Kodama;Mason Freeman;Mason Freeman;Lucia Rohrer;James Zabrecky

  • Migration of tumor cells in 3D matrices is governed by matrix stiffness along with cell-matrix adhesion and proteolysis.

    Muhammad H. Zaman;Linda M. Trapani;Alisha L. Sieminski;Drew MacKellar

  • Generation of beta-amyloid in the secretory pathway in neuronal and nonneuronal cells.

    Jorge Busciglio;Dana H. Gabuzda;Paul Matsudaira;Bruce A. Yankner

  • Inhibition of energy metabolism alters the processing of amyloid precursor protein and induces a potentially amyloidogenic derivative.

    D. Gabuzda;J. Busciglio;Lan Bo Chen;P. Matsudaira

  • A Practical guide to protein and peptide purification for microsequencing

    Paul T. Matsudaira

  • NMR structure of the 35-residue villin headpiece subdomain.

    C.J McKnight;P.T Matsudaira;P.S. Kim

  • The COOH terminus of the c-Abl tyrosine kinase contains distinct F- and G-actin binding domains with bundling activity.

    RA Van Etten;PK Jackson;D Baltimore;MC Sanders

  • Identification and organization of the components in the isolated microvillus cytoskeleton.

    P T Matsudaira;D R Burgess

  • Computational Model for Cell Migration in Three-Dimensional Matrices

    Muhammad H. Zaman;Roger D. Kamm;Paul Matsudaira;Douglas A. Lauffenburger

  • A thermostable 35-residue subdomain within villin headpiece.

    C J McKnight;D S Doering;P T Matsudaira;P S Kim

  • Colloid surface chemistry critically affects multiple particle tracking measurements of biomaterials.

    MT Valentine;ZE Perlman;ML Gardel;Jennifer Hyunjong Shin

  • Methods and apparatus for processing a sample of biomolecular analyte using a microfabricated device

    Aram S. Adourian;Daniel J. Ehrlich;Lance B. Koutny;Paul T. Matsudaira

  • DNA sequencing on microfabricated electrophoretic devices.

    Dieter Schmalzing;Aram Adourian;Lance Koutny;Liuda Ziaugra

  • Fimbrin is a homologue of the cytoplasmic phosphoprotein plastin and has domains homologous with calmodulin and actin gelation proteins.

    M. V. De Arruda;S. Watson;Ching-Shwun Lin;J. Leavitt

  • F-actin binding and bundling properties of fimbrin, a major cytoskeletal protein of microvillus core filaments.

    J R Glenney;P Kaulfus;P Matsudaira;K Weber

  • Motility powered by supramolecular springs and ratchets.

    L. Mahadevan;P. Matsudaira

  • Limited N-terminal sequence analysis.

    Paul Matsudaira

  • Relating microstructure to rheology of a bundled and cross-linked F-actin network in vitro

    Jennifer Hyunjong Shin;ML Gardel;L Mahadevan;P Matsudaira

Frequent Co-Authors

David Baltimore
David Baltimore California Institute of Technology
Wah Chiu
Wah Chiu Stanford University
Jagath C. Rajapakse
Jagath C. Rajapakse Nanyang Technological University
Gerhard Wagner
Gerhard Wagner Harvard University
Haimei Zheng
Haimei Zheng Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zhiyuan Gong
Zhiyuan Gong National University of Singapore
David J. DeRosier
David J. DeRosier Brandeis University

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