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Mark M. Rasenick, PhD
Distinguished UIC Professor
Physiology and Biophysics, and Psychiatry
Director, Biomedical Neuroscience Training Program
Selected Publications:
Rasenick, M.M. Gs (a poem). Trends in Biochem. Sci. 17:71, 1992.
Rasenick, M.M. Where is the Light (a poem on depression)
1) Popova, J.S., Garrison, J.C., Rhee, S.G. and RASENICK, M.M. Tubulin, Gq and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate interact to regulate phospholipase C 1 signaling. J. Biol. Chem. 272:6760-6765, 1997.
2) Roychowdhury, S. and RASENICK, M.M. G-protein bg subnits regulate microtubule assembly. J. Biol. Chem. 50:31576-31581, 1997.
3) Roychowdhury, S., Panda, D., Wilson, L. and RASENICK, M.M. G protein a subunits activate tubulin GTPase and modulate microtubule polymerization dynamics. J. Biol. Chem. 274:13485-13490, 1999.
4) Toki, S., Donati, R.J. and RASENICK, M.M. Treatment of C6 Glioma cells and rats with antidepressant drugs increases the detergent extraction of Gsa from plasma membrane. J. Neurochem. 73:1114-1120, 1999.
5) Popova, J.S. and RASENICK, M.M. Muscarinic receptor activation promotes the membrane association of tublin for the regulation of Gq-mediated phospholipase Cb1 signaling. J. Neurosci. 20:2774-2782, 2000.
6) Yan, K., Popova, J.S., Moss, A., Shah, B. and RASENICK, M.M. Tubulin stimulates adenylyl cyclase activity in C6 glioma cells by bypassing the b-adrenergic receptor: a potential mechanism of G protein activation. J. Neurochem., 76:182-190, 2001.
7) Donati, R., Thukral, C. and RASENICK, M.M. Chronic treatment of C6 glioma cells with antidepressant drugs results in a redistribution of Gsa. Mol. Pharmacol., 59(6):1-7, 2001.
8) Yu, J.Z. and RASENICK, M.M. Real-time visualization of a fluorescent Gas: Dissociation of the activated G protein from the plasma membrane. Mol. Pharmacol., 61:352-359, 2002.
9) Yu, J.Z. and RASENICK, M.M. Transient expression of fluorescent tau proteins promotes process formation in PC12 cells: Contributions of the tau C-terminus to this process. J. Neurosci. Res., 67:625-633, 2002.
10) Popova, J.S., Greene, A., Wang, J. and RASENICK, M.M. Phophatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate modifies tubulin participation in PLCb1 signaling. J. Neuroscience, 22:1668-1678, 2002.
11) Sarma, T., Voyno-Yasenetskaya, T., Hope, T.J. and RASENICK, M.M. Heteotrimeric G proteins associate with microtubules during differentiation. FASEB J., 17: 848-859, 2003.
12) Donati, R.J. and RASENICK, M.M. G protein signaling and the molecular basis of antidepressant action, (invited review). Life Sciences, 73:1-17, 2003.
13) Chen, N-F, Yu, J-Z, Skiba, N.P., Hamm, H.E. and RASENICK, M.M. A specific domain of Gi required for the transactivation of Gi by tubulin is implicated in the organization of cellular microtubules. J. Biol. Chem, 278: 15285-15290. 2003.
14) Popova, J.S. and RASENICK, M.M. G mediates the interplay between tubulin dimers and microtubules in the modulation of Gq signaling. J. Biol. Chem., 278, 34299-34308, 2003.
15) Popova, J.S. and RASENICK, M.M. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis of
m3 muscarinic receptors. Roles for Gbetagamma and tubulin J. Biol.Chem.,
279 30410-30418, 2004.
16) Allen, J, Yu, J-Z, Donati, R.J. and RASENICK, M.M. Beta Adrenergic Receptor Stimulation Promotes Galpha s Internalization Through Lipid Rafts: A Study in Living Cells
Mol. Pharmacol 67-1493-1504, 2005
17) Yu, J-Z and RASENICK, M.M. Tau associates with actin in differentiating PC12 cells. FASEB J.. 20: 1-10, 2006.
18) Allen J, Halvorsen R, and RASENICK MM Lipid Raft Microdomains and Neurotransmitter Signaling. NATURE Reviews Neuroscience 8:128-140, 2007.
19) Donati, RJ, Dwivedi, Y., Roberts, RC, Conley, RR, Pandey, GN and RASENICK, MM. Post-mortem Brain Tissue of Depressed Suicides Reveals Increased Gs Localization in Lipid Raft Domains Where it is Less Likely to Activate Adenylyl Cyclase. J. Neuroscience 28:3042-3050, 2008
20) Layden, BT, Saengsawang, W, Donati, RJ, Yang, S, Mulhearn, DC, Johnson, ME and RASENICK MM, Structural model of a complex between the heterotrimeric G protein, Gs + and tubulin. Biochemica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research 1783:964-973, 2008
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