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Overview

Witold K. Surewicz is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in medicine. The scientist's work spans several specialized subfields, including molecular biology, neurology, physiology, nutrition and dietetics, and biochemistry.

The main research topics associated with their work include:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Neurological Diseases and Metabolism

Witold K. Surewicz has published numerous papers, some of the most recent and cited being:

  • Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Its Mechanistic Role in Pathological Protein Aggregation, 2020, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Small molecules as potent biphasic modulators of protein liquid-liquid phase separation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Tau liquid-liquid phase separation in neurodegenerative diseases, 2022, Trends in Cell Biology
  • Cryo-EM structure of amyloid fibrils formed by the entire low complexity domain of TDP-43, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Regulatory mechanisms of tau protein fibrillation under the conditions of liquid-liquid phase separation, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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

  • Solomiia Boyko
  • Krystyna Surewicz
  • W. Michael Babinchak
  • Qiuye Li
  • Haider Raza

Witold K. Surewicz's work is often published in journals such as:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Methods in Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • Determination of protein secondary structure by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: a critical assessment.

    Witold K. Surewicz;Henry H. Mantsch;Dennis Chapman

  • New insight into protein secondary structure from resolution-enhanced infrared spectra.

    Witold K. Surewicz;Henry H. Mantsch

  • Crystal structure of the human prion protein reveals a mechanism for oligomerization

    Karen J. Knaus;Karen J. Knaus;Manuel Morillas;Wieslaw Swietnicki;Michael Malone

  • pH-dependent structural transitions of Alzheimer amyloid peptides.

    P. E. Fraser;J. T. Nguyen;Witold K. Surewicz;D. A. Kirschner

  • Acceleration of Amyloid Fibril Formation by Specific Binding of Aβ-(1–40) Peptide to Ganglioside-containing Membrane Vesicles

    Lin P ing Choo-Smith;William Garzon-Rodriguez;Charles G. Glabe;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Molecular architecture of human prion protein amyloid: A parallel, in-register β-structure

    Nathan J. Cobb;Frank D. Sönnichsen;Hassane Mchaourab;Witold K. Surewicz

  • The role of liquid-liquid phase separation in aggregation of the TDP-43 low-complexity domain.

    W. Michael Babinchak;Raza Haider;Benjamin K. Dumm;Prottusha Sarkar

  • Fibril formation by primate, rodent, and Dutch-hemorrhagic analogues of Alzheimer amyloid beta-protein.

    Paul E. Fraser;Jack T. Nguyen;Hideyo Inouye;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Temperature-induced exposure of hydrophobic surfaces and its effect on the chaperone activity of α-crystallin

    Kali P. Das;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Interaction between human prion protein and amyloid-β (Aβ) oligomers role of N-terminal residues.

    Shugui Chen;Satya P. Yadav;Witold K. Surewicz

  • pH-dependent stability and conformation of the recombinant human prion protein PrP(90-231).

    Wieslaw Swietnicki;Robert B. Petersen;Pierluigi Gambetti;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Fibril conformation as the basis of species- and strain-dependent seeding specificity of mammalian prion amyloids.

    Eric M. Jones;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Membrane environment alters the conformational structure of the recombinant human prion protein.

    Manuel Morillas;Wieslaw Swietnicki;Pierluigi Gambetti;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Its Mechanistic Role in Pathological Protein Aggregation.

    W. Michael Babinchak;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Aggregation and fibrillization of the recombinant human prion protein huPrP90-231.

    Wieslaw Swietnicki;Manuel Morillas;Shu G. Chen;Pierluigi Gambetti

  • Prion Diseases and Their Biochemical Mechanisms

    Nathan J. Cobb;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Mammalian Prions Generated from Bacterially Expressed Prion Protein in the Absence of Any Mammalian Cofactors

    Jae Il Kim;Ignazio Cali;Krystyna Surewicz;Qingzhong Kong

  • β-Sheet core of human prion protein amyloid fibrils as determined by hydrogen/deuterium exchange

    Xiaojun Lu;Patrick L. Wintrode;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Structural organization of brain-derived mammalian prions examined by hydrogen-deuterium exchange

    Vytautas Smirnovas;Gerald S Baron;Danielle K Offerdahl;Gregory J Raymond

  • Familial Mutations and the Thermodynamic Stability of the Recombinant Human Prion Protein

    Wieslaw Swietnicki;Robert B. Petersen;Pierluigi Gambetti;Witold K. Surewicz

  • The interaction between Alzheimer amyloid β(1–40) peptide and ganglioside GM1‐containing membranes

    Lin P Ing Choo-Smith;Witold K. Surewicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry H. Mantsch
Henry H. Mantsch National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Pierluigi Gambetti
Pierluigi Gambetti Case Western Reserve University
Richard M. Epand
Richard M. Epand McMaster University
Christopher P. Jaroniec
Christopher P. Jaroniec The Ohio State University
Robert B. Petersen
Robert B. Petersen Case Western Reserve University
Byron Caughey
Byron Caughey National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Christina J. Sigurdson
Christina J. Sigurdson University of California, San Diego
Mario A. Moscarello
Mario A. Moscarello University of Toronto
Daniel A. Kirschner
Daniel A. Kirschner Boston College
Piero Parchi
Piero Parchi University of Bologna

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