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Michael A. Cianfrocco, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute & Dept. of Biological Chemistry, University of …
Verified email at umich.edu
Cited by 1826

Mechanism and regulation of cytoplasmic dynein

MA Cianfrocco, ME DeSantis… - Annual review of cell …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Until recently, dynein was the least understood of the cytoskeletal motors. However, a
wealth of new structural, mechanistic, and cell biological data is shedding light on how this …

Big data in cryoEM: automated collection, processing and accessibility of EM data

…, WJ Rice, AJ Noble, CJ Negro, MA Cianfrocco… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Philip R Baldwin 1 , Yong Zi Tan 1 2 , Edward T Eng 1 ,
William J Rice 1 , Alex J Noble 1 , Carl J Negro 1 , Michael A Cianfrocco 3 , Clinton S Potter 1 2 , …

Miro: A molecular switch at the center of mitochondrial regulation

…, AV Ludlam, Z Tan, MA Cianfrocco - Protein …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The orchestration of mitochondria within the cell represents a critical aspect of cell biology.
At the center of this process is the outer mitochondrial membrane protein, Miro. Miro …

Structural and biochemical studies of HCMV gH/gL/gO and Pentamer reveal mutually exclusive cell entry complexes

…, PA Nikitin, MA Cianfrocco… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in transplant
patients and the leading viral cause of birth defects after congenital infection. The glycoprotein …

Structural basis for the initiation of eukaryotic transcription-coupled DNA repair

J Xu, I Lahiri, W Wang, A Wier, MA Cianfrocco, J Chong… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Eukaryotic transcription-coupled repair (TCR) is an important and well-conserved sub-pathway
of nucleotide excision repair that preferentially removes DNA lesions from the template …

[HTML][HTML] Human TFIID binds to core promoter DNA in a reorganized structural state

MA Cianfrocco, GA Kassavetis, P Grob, J Fang… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
A mechanistic description of metazoan transcription is essential for understanding the
molecular processes that govern cellular decisions. To provide structural insights into the DNA …

Substrate-specific structural rearrangements of human Dicer

…, E Ma, H Shigematsu, MA Cianfrocco… - Nature structural & …, 2013 - nature.com
Dicer has a central role in RNA-interference pathways by cleaving double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs)
to produce small regulatory RNAs. Human Dicer can process long double-stranded …

COSMIC2: A science gateway for cryo-electron microscopy structure determination

MA Cianfrocco, M Wong-Barnum, C Youn… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
1 Structural biology is in the midst of a revolution. Instrumentation and software improvements
have allowed for the full realization of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as a tool …

[PDF][PDF] Lis1 has two opposing modes of regulating cytoplasmic dynein

ME DeSantis, MA Cianfrocco, ZM Htet, PT Tran… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
… This is a major revision of the model for how Lis1 regulates dynein with important
implications for the biological roles of this ubiquitous and highly conserved dynein regulator. …

[HTML][HTML] Antigenic characterization of the HCMV gH/gL/gO and pentamer cell entry complexes reveals binding sites for potently neutralizing human antibodies

…, A Leitner, D Donnarumma, MA Cianfrocco… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in transplant
patients and in fetuses following congenital infection. The glycoprotein complexes gH/gL/gO …