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Ronald Wetzel is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research focuses on several areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a distinct emphasis on neuroscience. Key subfields include molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cell biology, and neurology. The main topics explored in their work cover genetic neurodegenerative diseases, mitochondrial function and pathology, neurological disorders and treatments, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, fungal and yeast genetics research, and cellular transport and secretion.

Wetzel's recent publications include:

  • Exploding the Repeat Length Paradigm while Exploring Amyloid Toxicity in Huntington's Disease, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Correlative light and electron microscopy suggests that mutant huntingtin dysregulates the endolysosomal pathway in presymptomatic Huntington's disease, 2021, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • A Targetable Self-association Surface of the Huntingtin exon1 Helical Tetramer Required for Assembly of Amyloid Pre-nucleation Oligomers, 2024, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals that mutant huntingtin dysregulates the endolysosomal pathway in presymptomatic Huntington's disease, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Ya Zhou
  • Thomas R. Peskett
  • Christian Landles
  • John B. Warner
  • Kirupa Sathasivam

Wetzel has contributed to journals such as:

  • Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Journal of Molecular Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Recombinant immunoglobulin preparations, methods for their preparation, DNA sequences, expression vectors and recombinant host cells therefor

    Shmuel Cabilly;William Evans Holmes;Ronald Burnell Wetzel;Herbert Louis Heyneker

  • Huntington's disease age-of-onset linked to polyglutamine aggregation nucleation

    Songming Chen;Frank A. Ferrone;Ronald Wetzel

  • Eukaryotic Proteasomes Cannot Digest Polyglutamine Sequences and Release Them during Degradation of Polyglutamine-Containing Proteins

    Prasanna Venkatraman;Ronald Wetzel;Motomasa Tanaka;Nobuyuki Nukina

  • Polyglutamine disruption of the huntingtin exon 1 N terminus triggers a complex aggregation mechanism

    Ashwani K Thakur;Murali Jayaraman;Rakesh Mishra;Monika Thakur

  • Disulfide bond engineered into T4 lysozyme: stabilization of the protein toward thermal inactivation

    LJ Perry;R Wetzel

  • Seeding Specificity in Amyloid Growth Induced by Heterologous Fibrils

    Brian O'Nuallain;Angela D. Williams;Per Westermark;Ronald Wetzel

  • Mapping Aβ amyloid fibril secondary structure using scanning proline mutagenesis

    Angela D. Williams;Erik Portelius;Indu Kheterpal;Jun-tao Guo

  • Physical, morphological and functional differences between ph 5.8 and 7.4 aggregates of the Alzheimer's amyloid peptide Abeta.

    Stephen J. Wood;Beverly Maleeff;Timothy Hart;Ronald Wetzel

  • Polymorphism in the intermediates and products of amyloid assembly.

    Ravindra Kodali;Ronald Wetzel

  • Aggregated polyglutamine peptides delivered to nuclei are toxic to mammalian cells

    Wen Yang;John R. Dunlap;Richard B. Andrews;Ronald Wetzel

  • Prolines and amyloidogenicity in fragments of the Alzheimer's peptide beta/A4.

    Stephen J. Wood;Ronald Wetzel;John D. Martin;Mark R. Hurle

  • A role for destabilizing amino acid replacements in light-chain amyloidosis

    Mark R. Hurle;Larry R. Helms;Lin Li;Winnie Chan

  • Conformational Abs recognizing a generic amyloid fibril epitope.

    Brian O'Nuallain;Ronald Wetzel

  • Amyloid-like features of polyglutamine aggregates and their assembly kinetics.

    Songming Chen;Valerie Berthelier;J Bradley Hamilton;Brian O'Nuallain

  • Polyglutamine aggregation behavior in vitro supports a recruitment mechanism of cytotoxicity.

    Songming Chen;Valerie Berthelier;Wen Yang;Ronald Wetzel

  • Generation of antibody activity from immunoglobulin polypeptide chains produced in Escherichia coli

    S Cabilly;A D Riggs;H Pande;J E Shively

  • Serines 13 and 16 Are Critical Determinants of Full-Length Human Mutant Huntingtin Induced Disease Pathogenesis in HD Mice

    Xiaofeng Gu;Xiaofeng Gu;Erin R. Greiner;Erin R. Greiner;Rakesh Mishra;Ravindra Kodali

  • Absence of behavioral abnormalities and neurodegeneration in vivo despite widespread neuronal huntingtin inclusions

    Elizabeth J. Slow;Rona K. Graham;Alexander P. Osmand;Rebecca S. Devon

  • Amyloid adhesins are abundant in natural biofilms.

    Poul Larsen;Jeppe Lund Nielsen;Morten Simonsen Dueholm;Ronald Wetzel

  • Kinetics and thermodynamics of amyloid fibril assembly

    Ronald Wetzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur D. Riggs
Arthur D. Riggs City Of Hope National Medical Center
George L. Kenyon
George L. Kenyon University of California, San Francisco
David V. Goeddel
David V. Goeddel The Colum Group
Stephen J. Wood
Stephen J. Wood University of Melbourne
Ying Xu
Ying Xu University of Georgia
Hilal A. Lashuel
Hilal A. Lashuel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Franklin A. Davis
Franklin A. Davis Temple University
Angela M. Gronenborn
Angela M. Gronenborn University of Pittsburgh
Dieter Söll
Dieter Söll Yale University
Gillian P. Bates
Gillian P. Bates University College London

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