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10196
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4452

Overview

Paul S. Miller is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology and cellular and molecular neuroscience subfields.

The main topics explored in their work include neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, ion channel regulation and function, and pharmacological receptor mechanisms and effects.

Recent publications by Paul S. Miller include:

  • Mechanisms of inhibition and activation of extrasynaptic αβ GABAA receptors, 2022, Nature
  • The molecular basis of drug selectivity for α5 subunit-containing GABAA receptors, 2023, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • Publisher Correction: Mechanisms of inhibition and activation of extrasynaptic αβ GABAA receptors, 2022, Nature
  • A robust platform for recombinant production of animal venom toxin modulators of ion channels, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Paul S. Miller include:

  • Vikram Babu Kasaragod
  • Steven W. Hardwick
  • Ayla A. Wahid
  • Dimitri Y. Chirgadze
  • Martin Mortensen

Publishing predominantly in journals such as Nature and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, as well as the preprint server bioRxiv, Miller disseminates research that intersects detailed structural studies and pharmacological characterizations of receptor systems and ion channel modulators.

Best Publications

  • Nonionic nucleic acid alkyl and aryl phosphonates and processes for manufacture and use thereof

    Paul O. P. Ts'o;Paul S. Miller

  • Linkage of proteins to nucleic acids

    Paul S. Miller;Paul O. P. Ts'o

  • Formation and repair of interstrand cross-links in DNA

    David M. Noll;Tracey McGregor Mason;Paul S. Miller

  • XPB, a subunit of TFIIH, is a target of the natural product triptolide

    Denis V. Titov;Benjamin Gilman;Qing Li He;Shridhar Bhat

  • Efficient gene silencing by delivery of locked nucleic acid antisense oligonucleotides, unassisted by transfection reagents

    C. A. Stein;J. Bo Hansen;Johnathan Lai;Si Jian Wu

  • Antiviral effect of an oligo(nucleoside methylphosphonate) complementary to the splice junction of herpes simplex virus type 1 immediate early pre-mRNAs 4 and 5.

    C C Smith;L Aurelian;M P Reddy;P S Miller

  • Structural basis of Smoothened regulation by its extracellular domains

    Eamon F. X. Byrne;Ria Sircar;Paul S. Miller;George Hedger

  • Binding, activation and modulation of Cys-loop receptors

    Paul S. Miller;Trevor G. Smart

  • Biochemical and biological effects of nonionic nucleic acid methylphosphonates

    Paul S. Miller;Kevin B. McParland;Krishna Jayaraman;Paul O. P. Tso

  • Zn2+ Ions: Modulators of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Activity

    Trevor G. Smart;Alastair M. Hosie;Paul S. Miller

  • Nonionic nucleic acid analogs. Synthesis and characterization of dideoxyribonucleoside methylphosphonates

    Paul S. Miller;Junichi Yano;Emi Yano;Charles Carroll

  • Analysis of the interactions of actin depolymerizing factor with G- and F-actin

    S. M. Hayden;P. S. Miller;A. Brauweiler;J. R. Bamburg

  • Syntheses and properties of adenine and thymine nucleoside alkyl phosphotriesters, the neutral analogs of dinucleoside monophosphates.

    Paul S. Miller;Kai N. Fang;Norman S. Kondo;Paul O. P. Ts'o

  • Inhibition of vesicular stomatitis virus protein synthesis and infection by sequence-specific oligodeoxyribonucleoside methylphosphonates.

    Cheryl H. Agris;Kathleen R. Blake;Paul S. Miller;M. Parameswara Reddy

  • Interaction of psoralen-derivatized oligodeoxyribonucleoside methylphosphonates with single-stranded DNA.

    Bok L. Lee;Akira Murakami;Kathleen R. Blake;Shwu Bin Lin

  • Selective inhibition of Escherichia coli protein synthesis and growth by nonionic oligonucleotides complementary to the 3' end of 16S rRNA

    Krishna Jayaraman;Kevin McParland;Paul Miller;Paul O. P. Ts'o

  • Site specificity of the inhibitory effects of oligo(nucleoside methylphosphonate)s complementary to the acceptor splice junction of herpes simplex virus type 1 immediate early mRNA 4

    M. Kulka;C. C. Smith;L. Aurelian;R. Fishelevich

  • Hybridization arrest of globin synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysates and cells by oligodeoxyribonucleoside methylphosphonates.

    Kathleen R. Blake;Akira Murakami;Sharon A. Spitz;Scott A. Glave

  • Detection of a guanine X adenine base pair in a decadeoxyribonucleotide by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

    Lou-Sing Kan;Srinivasan Chandrasegaran;Stephen M. Pulford;Paul S. Miller

  • Control of ribonucleic acid function by oligonucleoside methylphosphonates

    Miller Ps;Agris Ch;Aurelian L;Blake Kr

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul O. P. Ts'o
Paul O. P. Ts'o Johns Hopkins University
Michael M. Seidman
Michael M. Seidman National Institutes of Health
Laure Aurelian
Laure Aurelian University of Maryland, Baltimore
Laure Aurelian
Laure Aurelian University of Maryland, Baltimore
Anastasia Khvorova
Anastasia Khvorova University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Marco Colombini
Marco Colombini University of Maryland, College Park
Robert L. Letsinger
Robert L. Letsinger Northwestern University
Esther H. Chang
Esther H. Chang Georgetown University Medical Center
Regina M. Santella
Regina M. Santella Columbia University
Nancy L. Craig
Nancy L. Craig Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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