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Overview

Rhoderick E. Brown is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on molecular biology as evidenced by the majority of their publications in this subfield.

Their scientific work covers several specific topics including lipid membrane structure and behavior, sphingolipid metabolism and signaling, erythrocyte function and pathophysiology, cellular transport and secretion, inflammasome and immune disorders, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

The following papers exemplify their contributions to lipid-related biochemical research:

  • Emerging roles for human glycolipid transfer protein superfamily members in the regulation of autophagy, inflammation, and cell death (2020), Progress in Lipid Research
  • Ceramide-1-phosphate transfer protein (CPTP) regulation by phosphoinositides (2021), Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Measuring Lipid Transfer Protein Activity Using Bicelle-Dilution Model Membranes (2020), Analytical Chemistry
  • Ceramide-1-phosphate transfer protein promotes sphingolipid reorientation needed for binding during membrane interaction (2021), Journal of Lipid Research
  • Purification of Cytosolic Phospholipase A2α C2-domain after Expression in Soluble Form in Escherichia coli (2021), BIO-PROTOCOL

Rhoderick E. Brown frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Yong-Guang Gao
  • Lucy Malinina
  • Daniel Stephenson
  • Charles E. Chalfant
  • Dinshaw J. Patel

Their research is disseminated through reputable scientific journals that emphasize biochemistry and molecular biology. Notable publication venues for their work include:

  • Progress in Lipid Research
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Journal of Lipid Research
  • BIO-PROTOCOL

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Protein measurement using bicinchoninic acid: elimination of interfering substances

    Rhoderick E. Brown;Kari L. Jarvis;Kristi J. Hyland

  • Sphingolipid organization in biomembranes: what physical studies of model membranes reveal.

    Rhoderick E. Brown

  • Knockout of Arabidopsis ACCELERATED-CELL-DEATH11 encoding a sphingosine transfer protein causes activation of programmed cell death and defense

    Peter Brodersen;Morten Petersen;Helen M. Pike;Brian Olszak

  • Phosphatidylcholine acyl unsaturation modulates the decrease in interfacial elasticity induced by cholesterol.

    Janice M. Smaby;Maureen M. Momsen;Howard L. Brockman;Rhoderick E Brown

  • Cholesterol's Interfacial Interactions with Sphingomyelins and Phosphatidylcholines: Hydrocarbon Chain Structure Determines the Magnitude of Condensation

    Janice M. Smaby;Howard L. Brockman;Rhoderick E. Brown

  • Phase diagrams of lipid mixtures relevant to the study of membrane rafts

    Félix M. Goñi;Alicia Alonso;Luis A. Bagatolli;Rhoderick E. Brown

  • Inhibition of Activator Protein 1 Activity and Neoplastic Transformation by Aspirin

    Zigang Dong;Chuanshu Huang;Rhoderick E. Brown;Wei Ya Ma

  • Calcium-activated RAF/MEK/ERK Signaling Pathway Mediates p53-dependent Apoptosis and Is Abrogated by αB-Crystallin through Inhibition of RAS Activation

    David Wan Cheng Li;Jin Ping Liu;Ying Wei Mao;Ying Wei Mao;Hua Xiang

  • Non-vesicular trafficking by a ceramide-1-phosphate transfer protein regulates eicosanoids

    Dhirendra K. Simanshu;Ravi Kanth Kamlekar;Dayanjan S. Wijesinghe;Xianqiong Zou

  • Lipid nanotubes as substrates for helical crystallization of macromolecules.

    Elizabeth M. Wilson-Kubalek;Rhoderick E. Brown;Hervé Celia;Ronald A. Milligan

  • Involvement of the acid sphingomyelinase pathway in uva-induced apoptosis.

    Yiguo Zhang;Peter Mattjus;Patricia C. Schmid;Ziming Dong

  • Cholesterol decreases the interfacial elasticity and detergent solubility of sphingomyelins.

    Xin Min Li;Maureen M. Momsen;Janice M. Smaby;Howard L. Brockman

  • Cholesterol Depletion Results in Site-specific Increases in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Phosphorylation due to Membrane Level Effects STUDIES WITH CHOLESTEROL ENANTIOMERS

    Emily J. Westover;Douglas F. Covey;Howard L. Brockman;Rhoderick E. Brown

  • The interfacial elastic packing interactions of galactosylceramides, sphingomyelins, and phosphatidylcholines.

    Janice M. Smaby;Vitthal S. Kulkarni;Maureen Momsen;Rhoderick E Brown

  • Sphingomyelin interfacial behavior: the impact of changing acyl chain composition.

    Xin Min Li;Janice M. Smaby;Maureen M. Momsen;Howard L. Brockman

  • Interfacial interactions of ceramide with dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine: impact of the N-acyl chain.

    Juha M. Holopainen;Howard L. Brockman;Rhoderick E. Brown;Paavo K.J. Kinnunen

  • CHOLESTEROL-INDUCED INTERFACIAL AREA CONDENSATIONS OF GALACTOSYLCERAMIDES AND SPHINGOMYELINS WITH IDENTICAL ACYL CHAINS

    Janice M. Smaby;Maureen Momsen;Vitthal S. Kulkarni;Rhoderick E. Brown

  • New BODIPY lipid probes for fluorescence studies of membranes.

    Ivan A. Boldyrev;Xiuhong Zhai;Maureen M. Momsen;Howard L. Brockman

  • Lipid nanotubes as substrates for helical crystallization of macromolecules (tubulesyhelical arraysygalactosylceramidesyelectron microscopy)

    Elizabeth M. Wilson-Kubalek;Rhoderick E. Brown;Ronald A. Milligan

Frequent Co-Authors

Dinshaw J. Patel
Dinshaw J. Patel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thomas E. Thompson
Thomas E. Thompson University of Virginia
John Mundy
John Mundy University of Copenhagen
Charles E. Chalfant
Charles E. Chalfant Virginia Commonwealth University
Zigang Dong
Zigang Dong University of Minnesota
Robert Bittman
Robert Bittman City University of New York
Atanas G. Atanasov
Atanas G. Atanasov Medical University of Vienna
Philippe Pierre
Philippe Pierre Aix-Marseille University
Chuanshu Huang
Chuanshu Huang New York University
Tiago F. Outeiro
Tiago F. Outeiro University of Göttingen

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