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Zoltan N. Oltvai

University of Rochester
Verified email at urmc.rochester.edu
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Network biology: understanding the cell's functional organization

AL Barabasi, ZN Oltvai - Nature reviews genetics, 2004 - nature.com
A key aim of postgenomic biomedical research is to systematically catalogue all molecules
and their interactions within a living cell. There is a clear need to understand how these …

Bcl-2/Bax: a rheostat that regulates an anti-oxidant pathway and cell death.

…, JR Shutter, DJ Veis, DE Merry, ZN Oltvai - Seminars in cancer …, 1993 - europepmc.org
The maintenance of homeostasis in normal tissues reflects a balance between cell proliferation
and cell death. The importance of both positive and negative regulators of cell growth …

Checkpoints of dueling dimers foil death wishes.

ZN Oltvai, SJ Korsmeyer - Cell, 1994 - europepmc.org
This is a comment on" DNA damage can induce apoptosis in proliferating lymphoid cells via
p53-independent mechanisms inhibitable by Bcl-2." Cell. 1994 Oct 21; 79 (2): 329-39. This …

The large-scale organization of metabolic networks

H Jeong, B Tombor, R Albert, ZN Oltvai, AL Barabási - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
In a cell or microorganism, the processes that generate mass, energy, information transfer
and cell-fate specification are seamlessly integrated through a complex network of cellular …

Lethality and centrality in protein networks

H Jeong, SP Mason, AL Barabási, ZN Oltvai - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Proteins are traditionally identified on the basis of their individual actions as catalysts, signalling
molecules, or building blocks in cells and microorganisms. But our post-genomic view is …

Hierarchical organization of modularity in metabolic networks

E Ravasz, AL Somera, DA Mongru, ZN Oltvai… - science, 2002 - science.org
Spatially or chemically isolated functional modules composed of several cellular components
and carrying discrete functions are considered fundamental building blocks of cellular …

Bcl-2 functions in an antioxidant pathway to prevent apoptosis

DM Hockenbery, ZN Oltvai, XM Yin, CL Milliman… - Cell, 1993 - cell.com
… Immunoprectpitations were performed as described (Oltvai et al.. 1993), with the exception of
… gel electrophoresis and autoradiography were performed as described (Oltvai et al., 1993). …

BH1 and BH2 domains of Bcl-2 are required for inhibition of apoptosis and heterodimerization with Bax

XM Yin, ZN Oltvai, SJ Korsmeyer - Nature, 1994 - nature.com
BCL-2 was isolated from the t(14;18) chromosomal breakpoint in follicular B-cell lymphoma
1–3 . Bcl-2 has the unique oncogenic role of extending cell survival by inhibiting a variety of …

Multiple Bcl-2 family members demonstrate selective dimerizations with Bax.

TW Sedlak, ZN Oltvai, E Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 1995 - National Acad Sciences
… Briefly, 0.1 ml of yeast transformant extracts was added to 0.9 ml of Z buffer (60 mM …
Reactions were initiated upon addition of 0.2 ml of ONPG substrate (4 mg/ml) in Z buffer and …

Experimental Determination and System Level Analysis of Essential Genes in Escherichia coli MG1655

…, R Overbeek, AL Barabási, ZN Oltvai… - Journal of …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Defining the gene products that play an essential role in an organism's functional repertoire
is vital to understanding the system level organization of living cells. We used a genetic …