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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Sharon A. Tooze is affiliated with The Francis Crick Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily resides within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with significant focus on the subfields of Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Cell Biology, Physiology, and Biochemistry.

The scientist's work engages deeply with topics such as Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, Cellular Transport and Secretion, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research, and RNA Modifications and Cancer.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sharon A. Tooze include Taki Nishimura, Wenxin Zhang, Ivan Đikić, Harold B.J. Jefferies, and Terje Johansen.

Publication venues where their research is often featured include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Autophagy, Nature Cell Biology, and Autophagy Reports.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sharon A. Tooze are:

  • Autophagy in major human diseases, 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • Emerging roles of ATG proteins and membrane lipids in autophagosome formation, 2020, Cell Discovery
  • ATG9A and ATG2A form a heteromeric complex essential for autophagosome formation, 2022, Molecular Cell
  • Autophagy modulates endothelial junctions to restrain neutrophil diapedesis during inflammation, 2021, Immunity
  • The Golgi as an Assembly Line to the Autophagosome, 2020, Trends in Biochemical Sciences

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom, and as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

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

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Molecular definitions of autophagy and related processes

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Eric H. Baehrecke;Andrea Ballabio;Patricia Boya

  • Autophagy in major human diseases

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Giulia Petroni;Ravi K. Amaravadi;Eric H. Baehrecke

  • The autophagosome: origins unknown, biogenesis complex

    Christopher A. Lamb;Tamotsu Yoshimori;Sharon A. Tooze

  • Autophagy pathway: Cellular and molecular mechanisms

    Li Yu;Yang Chen;Sharon A. Tooze

  • Starvation and ULK1-dependent cycling of mammalian Atg9 between the TGN and endosomes

    Andrew R. J. Young;Edmond Y. W. Chan;Xiao Wen Hu;Robert Köchl

  • WIPI2 Links LC3 Conjugation with PI3P, Autophagosome Formation, and Pathogen Clearance by Recruiting Atg12–5-16L1

    Hannah C. Dooley;Minoo Razi;Hannah E.J. Polson;Stephen E. Girardin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Identification of a candidate therapeutic autophagy-inducing peptide

    Sanae Shoji-Kawata;Rhea Sumpter;Matthew J Leveno;Grant R. Campbell;Grant R. Campbell

  • The origin of the autophagosomal membrane

    Sharon A. Tooze;Tamotsu Yoshimori

  • Mammalian Atg18 (WIPI2) localizes to omegasome-anchored phagophores and positively regulates LC3 lipidation

    Hannah E.J. Polson;Jane de Lartigue;Daniel J. Rigden;Marco Reedijk

  • Coordination of membrane events during autophagy by multiple class III PI3-kinase complexes

    Anne Simonsen;Sharon A. Tooze

  • Dynamic and transient interactions of Atg9 with autophagosomes, but not membrane integration, are required for autophagy

    A. Orsi;M. Razi;H. C. Dooley;D. Robinson

  • siRNA screening of the kinome identifies ULK1 as a multidomain modulator of autophagy

    Edmond Y W Chan;Serkan Kir;Sharon A Tooze

  • Autophagy proteins regulate the secretory component of osteoclastic bone resorption

    Carl J. DeSelm;Brian C. Miller;Wei Zou;Wandy L. Beatty

  • Microtubules facilitate autophagosome formation and fusion of autophagosomes with endosomes.

    Robert Köchl;Xiao Wen Hu;Edmond Y W Chan;Sharon A Tooze

  • Kinase-inactivated ULK proteins inhibit autophagy via their conserved c-terminal domains using an Atg13-independent mechanism

    Edmond Y. W. Chan;Andrea Longatti;Nicole C. McKnight;Sharon A. Tooze

Frequent Co-Authors

Terje Johansen
Terje Johansen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Fulvio Reggiori
Fulvio Reggiori University of Groningen
Patrick A. Lewis
Patrick A. Lewis University College London
Kevin M. Ryan
Kevin M. Ryan University of Glasgow
Trond Lamark
Trond Lamark University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Wieland B. Huttner
Wieland B. Huttner Max Planck Society
Tamotsu Yoshimori
Tamotsu Yoshimori Osaka University
Vojo Deretic
Vojo Deretic University of New Mexico
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité

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