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47
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18534
National Ranking
7567

Overview

Randall W. King is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and conducts research spanning multiple domains within the sciences and social sciences. Their work covers key areas in Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Social Sciences, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches.

The scientist's research includes focus on several subfields such as Education, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Epidemiology. Their projects address complex biological processes as well as educational methodologies, reflecting a diverse academic portfolio.

Key topics explored by Randall W. King include:

  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Problem and Project Based Learning
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Cellular transport and secretion

The scientist has contributed to multiple scholarly articles, including:

  • The Harvard Medical School Pathways Curriculum: Reimagining Developmentally Appropriate Medical Education for Contemporary Learners, 2020, Academic Medicine
  • Amplifiers co-translationally enhance CFTR biosynthesis via PCBP1-mediated regulation of CFTR mRNA, 2020, Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
  • Paradoxical mitotic exit induced by a small molecule inhibitor of APC/CCdc20, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Proteomics of broad deubiquitylase inhibition unmasks redundant enzyme function to reveal substrates and assess enzyme specificity, 2021, Cell chemical biology
  • Using cognitive load theory to evaluate and improve preparatory materials and study time for the flipped classroom, 2023, BMC Medical Education

Randall's publications often appear in venues such as Cell chemical biology, Academic Medicine, BMC Medical Education, Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, and Nature Chemical Biology.

Collaboratively, the scientist frequently works with several scholars, including Henrike C. Besche, Barbara A. Cockrill, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Melanie P. Hoenig, and João A. Paulo.

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has authored a book titled A Step-by-Step Guide to Case-Based Collaborative Learning (CBCL), published by Springer International Publishing in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Small Molecule Inhibitor of Mitotic Spindle Bipolarity Identified in a Phenotype-Based Screen

    Thomas U. Mayer;Tarun M. Kapoor;Stephen J. Haggarty;Stephen J. Haggarty;Randall W. King

  • How proteolysis drives the cell cycle

    Randall W. King;Raymond J. Deshaies;Jan-Michael Peters;Marc W. Kirschner

  • A 20s complex containing CDC27 and CDC16 catalyzes the mitosis-specific conjugation of ubiquitin to cyclin B

    Randall W King;Jan-Michael Peters;Stuart Tugendreich;Mark Rolfe

  • Enhancement of proteasome activity by a small-molecule inhibitor of USP14

    Byung Hoon Lee;Min Jae Lee;Soyeon Park;Dong Chan Oh;Dong Chan Oh

  • Mitosis in transition

    Randall W. King;Peter K. Jackson;Marc W. Kirschner

  • A Nonapoptotic Cell Death Process, Entosis, that Occurs by Cell-in-Cell Invasion

    Michael Overholtzer;Arnaud A. Mailleux;Ghassan Mouneimne;Guillaume Normand

  • Anaphase is initiated by proteolysis rather than by the inactivation of maturation-promoting factor

    Sandra L. Holloway;Michael Glotzer;Randall W. King;Andrew W. Murray

  • Quantitative analysis of in vitro ubiquitinated cyclin B1 reveals complex chain topology

    Donald S. Kirkpatrick;Nathaniel A. Hathaway;John Hanna;Suzanne Elsasser

  • Chromosome nondisjunction yields tetraploid rather than aneuploid cells in human cell lines

    Qinghua Shi;Randall W. King

  • A genome-wide homologous recombination screen identifies the RNA-binding protein RBMX as a component of the DNA-damage response

    Britt Adamson;Agata Smogorzewska;Agata Smogorzewska;Frederic D. Sigoillot;Randall W. King

  • Deubiquitinating Enzyme Ubp6 Functions Noncatalytically to Delay Proteasomal Degradation

    John Hanna;Nathaniel A. Hathaway;Yoshiko Tone;Bernat Crosas;Bernat Crosas

  • Mutagenic analysis of the destruction signal of mitotic cyclins and structural characterization of ubiquitinated intermediates.

    R W King;M Glotzer;M W Kirschner

  • Small molecule regulators of protein arginine methyltransferases.

    Donghang Cheng;Neelu Yadav;Randall W. King;Maurice S. Swanson

  • Dissecting cellular processes using small molecules: identification of colchicine-like, taxol-like and other small molecules that perturb mitosis.

    Stephen J Haggarty;Stephen J Haggarty;Thomas U Mayer;David T Miyamoto;Reza Fathi

  • Ubiquitin chains are remodeled at the proteasome by opposing ubiquitin ligase and deubiquitinating activities.

    Bernat Crosas;John Hanna;Donald S. Kirkpatrick;Dan Phoebe Zhang

  • Identification of a Cullin Homology Region in a Subunit of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex

    Hongtao Yu;Jan Michael Peters;Jan Michael Peters;Randall W. King;Randall W. King;Andrew M. Page;Andrew M. Page

  • Pharmacologic Inhibition of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex Induces A Spindle Checkpoint-Dependent Mitotic Arrest in the Absence of Spindle Damage

    Xing Zeng;Frederic Sigoillot;Shantanu Gaur;Sungwoon Choi

  • Identification of BIME as a subunit of the anaphase-promoting complex.

    Jan-Michael Peters;Randall W. King;Christer Höög;Marc W. Kirschner

  • Trimming of ubiquitin chains by proteasome-associated deubiquitinating enzymes

    Min Jae Lee;Byung Hoon Lee;John Hanna;Randall W. King

  • Systematic identification of mitotic phosphoproteins.

    P.Todd Stukenberg;Kevin D. Lustig;Thomas J. McGarry;Randall W. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Finley
Daniel Finley Harvard University
Marc W. Kirschner
Marc W. Kirschner Harvard University
Steven P. Gygi
Steven P. Gygi Harvard University
Jan-Michael Peters
Jan-Michael Peters Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Stuart L. Schreiber
Stuart L. Schreiber Harvard University
Stephen J. Haggarty
Stephen J. Haggarty Harvard University
P. Todd Stukenberg
P. Todd Stukenberg University of Virginia
Xiaobo Zhou
Xiaobo Zhou The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Michael Overholtzer
Michael Overholtzer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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