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Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks

Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks

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Biology and Biochemistry

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51
Citations
7910
World Ranking
17313
National Ranking
1359

Overview

Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span several interconnected fields, with a focus on cellular and molecular processes relevant to neurobiology and cell biology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience

Subfields of study where they have contributed are:

  • Cell Biology
  • Developmental Neuroscience

The primary topics of research addressed in their work involve:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Thanushiyan Poobalasingam
  • Francesca Bianco
  • Fazal Oozeer

The scientist's publications appear in academic journals, most notably the Journal of Neurochemistry. A recent publication is:

  • "The drebrin/EB3 pathway regulates cytoskeletal dynamics to drive neuritogenesis in embryonic cortical neurons", published in 2021 in Journal of Neurochemistry

Best Publications

  • Tubulin tyrosination is a major factor affecting the recruitment of CAP-Gly proteins at microtubule plus ends

    Leticia Peris;Manuel Thery;Julien Fauré;Yasmina Saoudi

  • Inhibition of GSK-3beta leading to the loss of phosphorylated MAP-1B is an early event in axonal remodelling induced by WNT-7a or lithium

    Fiona R. Lucas;Robert G. Goold;Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks;Patricia C. Salinas

  • Glycogen synthase kinase 3beta phosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein 1B regulates the stability of microtubules in growth cones.

    Robert G. Goold;Rebecca Owen;Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks

  • The organization of F-actin and microtubules in growth cones exposed to a brain-derived collapsing factor.

    Jinhong Fan;S. G. Mansfield;T. Redmond;P. R. Gordon-Weeks

  • Cytoskeletal dynamics in growth-cone steering

    Sara Geraldo;Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks

  • Microtubules and growth cone function.

    Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks

  • Targeting of the F-actin-binding protein drebrin by the microtubule plus-tip protein EB3 is required for neuritogenesis

    Sara Geraldo;Umme K. Khanzada;Madeline Parsons;John K. Chilton

  • Valproate regulates GSK-3-mediated axonal remodeling and synapsin I clustering in developing neurons.

    Anita C. Hall;Angela Brennan;Robert G. Goold;Karen Cleverley

  • GAP-43 in growth cones is associated with areas of membrane that are tightly bound to substrate and is a component of a membrane skeleton subcellular fraction.

    K F Meiri;Phillip Gordon-Weeks

  • Glycogen synthase kinase-3beta phosphorylation of MAP1B at Ser1260 and Thr1265 is spatially restricted to growing axons.

    Niraj Trivedi;Phil Marsh;Robert G. Goold;Alison Wood-Kaczmar

  • Microtubule reorganization is obligatory for growth cone turning

    Toni Williamson;Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks;Melitta Schachner;Joanne Taylor

  • The protein MAP-1B links GABA(c) receptors to the cytoskeleton at retinal synapses

    Jonathan G. Hanley;Peter Koulen;Fiona Bedford;Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks

  • DAPK-1 binding to a linear peptide motif in MAP1B stimulates autophagy and membrane blebbing

    Ben Harrison;Michaela Kraus;Lindsay Burch;Craig Stevens

  • MAP1B expression and microtubule stability in growing and regenerating axons

    Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks;Itzhak Fischer;Itzhak Fischer

  • Evidence that glycogen synthase kinase-3 isoforms have distinct substrate preference in the brain

    Marc P.M. Soutar;Woo Yang Kim;Ritchie Williamson;Mark Peggie

  • Neuronal cytoskeleton in synaptic plasticity and regeneration.

    Phillip R Gordon-Weeks;Alyson E Fournier

  • Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase 3β in sensory neurons in culture alters filopodia dynamics and microtubule distribution in growth cones

    Rebecca Owen;Phillip R Gordon-Weeks

  • Drebrin contains a cryptic F-actin-bundling activity regulated by Cdk5 phosphorylation.

    Daniel C. Worth;Catherine N. Daly;Sara Geraldo;Fazal Oozeer

  • GABAergic growth cones: release of endogenous gamma-aminobutyric acid precedes the expression of synaptic vesicle antigens.

    Joanne Taylor;Maureen Docherty;Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks

  • Nonprimed and DYRK1A-primed GSK3β-phosphorylation sites on MAP1B regulate microtubule dynamics in growing axons

    Timothy M. E. Scales;Shen Lin;Michaela Kraus;Robert G. Goold

Frequent Co-Authors

Itzhak Fischer
Itzhak Fischer Drexel University
Jesús Avila
Jesús Avila Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa
Eckart D. Gundelfinger
Eckart D. Gundelfinger Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Robert D. Burgoyne
Robert D. Burgoyne University of Liverpool
William Howard Evans
William Howard Evans McMaster University
Steven P. R. Rose
Steven P. R. Rose The Open University
Richard Hawkes
Richard Hawkes University of Calgary
Michael R. Kreutz
Michael R. Kreutz Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Patricia C. Salinas
Patricia C. Salinas University College London
Melitta Schachner
Melitta Schachner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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