Mark M. Rasenick, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, Psychiatry; Co-Director Neuroscience Program
Cellular/Molecular, Disease/Therapeutics
Regulation of G protein signaling by the synaptic cytoskeleton; molecular basis of mood disorders and psychotherapeutics.
Selected references
- Allen J, Halvorsen, R and Rasenick MM. Lipid Raft Microdomains and Neurotransmitter Signaling. NATURE Reviews Neuroscience, 2007; 8:128-140.
- 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 2008;28:3042-3050.
- 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, Gsa and tubulin. Biochemica et Biophysica Acta—Mol. Cell Res. 2008; 1783:964-973.