User profiles for P. McPherson

Peter S McPherson, PhD, FRSC

James McGill Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Verified email at mcgill.ca
Cited by 20701

Phosphoinositides as regulators in membrane traffic

P De Camilli, SD Emr, PS McPherson, P Novick - Science, 1996 - science.org
Phosphorylated products of phosphatidylinositol play critical roles in the regulation of membrane
traffic, in addition to their classical roles as second messengers in signal transduction at …

[HTML][HTML] DENN domain proteins: regulators of Rab GTPases

AL Marat, H Dokainish, PS McPherson - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2011 - ASBMB
The DENN domain is a common, evolutionarily ancient, and conserved protein module, yet
it has gone largely unstudied; until recently, little was known regarding its functional roles. …

[PDF][PDF] The ryanodine receptor/Ca2+ release channel

PS McPherson, KP Campbell - J Biol Chem, 1993 - physiology.uiowa.edu
Intracellular Ca2+ pools play a critical role in the regulation of the free cytosolic Ca2+
concentration and subsequent cellular activity in a wide variety of cell types. The storage and …

Tubular membrane invaginations coated by dynamin rings are induced by GTP-γS in nerve terminals

K Takei, PS McPherson, SL Schmid, PD Camilli - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
… Membrane fractions (P, and LP) were prepared from rat brain homogenates as described".
The Pfraction, which is enriched in intact nerve terminal membranes (synaptosomes), was …

A presynaptic inositol-5-phosphatase

PS McPherson, EP Garcia, VI Slepnev, C David… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
SYNAPTOJANIN is a nerve terminal protein of relative molecular mass 145,000 which
appears to participate with dynamin in synaptic vesicle recycling 1,2 . The central region of …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 infects cells after viral entry via clathrin-mediated endocytosis

A Bayati, R Kumar, V Francis, PS McPherson - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of
COVID-19, so understanding its biology and infection mechanisms is critical to facing this …

[PDF][PDF] SynGO: an evidence-based, expert-curated knowledge base for the synapse

…, R Jahn, PS Kaeser, E Kim, MR Kreutz, PS McPherson… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Synapses are fundamental information-processing units of the brain, and synaptic dysregulation
is central to many brain disorders ("synaptopathies"). However, systematic annotation of …

Mutant huntingtin impairs axonal trafficking in mammalian neurons in vivo and in vitro

…, V Legendre-Guillemin, PS McPherson… - … and cellular biology, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
P. McPherson). Secondary antibodies were rabbit anti-goat Cy5 (1:120; Zymed); goat anti-mouse
Cy5 (1:1,500; Amersham), goat anti-mouse tetramethylmodamine (TMR) (1:400), and …

Characterization of cardiac troponin subunit release into serum after acute myocardial infarction and comparison of assays for troponin T and I

…, YJ Feng, R Moore, FS Apple, PH McPherson… - Clinical …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
We examined the release of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and I (cTnI) into the blood of patients
after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Three postAMI serum samples were applied in …

Differential immunohistochemical localization of inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate-and ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ release channels in rat brain

AH Sharp, PS McPherson, TM Dawson… - Journal of …, 1993 - Soc Neuroscience
Ca2+ release from inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)-sensitive and ryanodine-sensitive
intracellular Ca2+ stores is mediated by distinct proteins identified as IP3 receptors (IP3R) and …