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  1. Reactive astrocytes promote proteostasis in Huntington’s disease through the JAK2-STAT3 pathway

    Article • Brain, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  2. Reactive astrocytes promote proteostasis in Huntington’s disease through the JAK2-STAT3 pathway

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  3. Extracellular Vesicles and the Propagation of Yeast Prions

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  4. Extracellular Vesicles-Encapsulated Yeast Prions and What They Can Tell Us about the Physical Nature of Propagons

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  5. Prion Amyloid Polymorphs – The Tag Might Change It All

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, August 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  6. The Yarrowia lipolytica orthologs of Sup35p assemble into thioflavin T-negative amyloid fibrils

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  7. Hiding in plain sight: vesicle-mediated export and transmission of prion-like proteins

    Article • Microbial Cell, July 2020, Shared Science Publishers OG

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  8. Glucose availability dictates the export of the soluble and prion forms of Sup35p via periplasmic or extracellular vesicles

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  9. Growth phase‐dependent changes in the size and infectivity of SDS‐resistant Sup35p assemblies associated with the [ PSI + ] prion in yeast

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  10. A prolonged chronological lifespan is an unexpected benefit of the [PSI+] prion in yeast

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2017, PLOS

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  11. More than just trash bins? Potential roles for extracellular vesicles in the vertical and horizontal transmission of yeast prions

    Article • Current Genetics, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  12. Sup35p in Its Soluble and Prion States Is Packaged inside Extracellular Vesicles

    Article • mBio, August 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  13. The 26S Proteasome Degrades the Soluble but Not the Fibrillar Form of the Yeast Prion Ure2p In Vitro

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2015, PLOS

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  14. A role for the proteasome in the turnover of Sup35p and in [PSI+] prion propagation

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  15. Multiple Hsp70 Isoforms in the Eukaryotic Cytosol: Evidence for Both Redundant and Specialized Functions

    Article • April 2013, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  16. A Native-Like Conformation for the C-Terminal Domain of the Prion Ure2p within its Fibrillar Form

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  17. A Native-Like Conformation for the C-Terminal Domain of the Prion Ure2p within its Fibrillar Form

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  18. Molecular and functional characterization of the only known hemiascomycete ortholog of the carboxyl terminus of Hsc70-interacting protein CHIP in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

    Article • Cell Stress and Chaperones, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  19. Yeast prions assembly and propagation: Contributions of the prion and non-prion moieties and the nature of assemblies

    Article • Prion, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  20. Yeast prions assembly and propagation: Contributions of the prion and non-prion moieties and the nature of assemblies

    Article • Prion, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  21. Hsc70 Protein Interaction with Soluble and Fibrillar  -Synuclein

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2011, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  22. A mutation within the C-terminal domain of Sup35p that affects [PSI+] prion propagation

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, June 2011, Wiley

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  23. Swa2p-dependent clathrin dynamics is critical for Flo11p processing and ‘Mat’ formation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • FEBS Letters, February 2010, Wiley

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  24. Function of SSA Subfamily of Hsp70 Within and Across Species Varies Widely in Complementing Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cell Growth and Prion Propagation

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2009, PLOS

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  25. Structural and Functional Diversity Among Eukaryotic Hsp70 Nucleotide Exchange Factors

    Article • Protein and Peptide Letters, June 2009, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  26. Multiple Hsp70 Isoforms in the Eukaryotic Cytosol: Mere Redundancy or Functional Specificity?

    Article • Current Genomics, August 2008, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  27. Characterization of Ire1 in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica reveals an important role for the Sls1 nucleotide exchange factor in unfolded protein response regulation

    Article • Current Genetics, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  28. Flo11p-Independent Control of "Mat" Formation by Hsp70 Molecular Chaperones and Nucleotide Exchange Factors in Yeast

    Article • Genetics, November 2007, Genetics Society of America

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  29. Anc1 interacts with the catalytic subunits of the general transcription factors TFIID and TFIIF, the chromatin remodeling complexes RSC and INO80, and the histone acetyltransferase complex NuA3

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, July 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  30. Growth-regulated recruitment of the essential yeast ribosomal protein gene activator Ifh1

    Article • December 2004, Nature

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  31. The Yeast Sls1p and Fes1p Proteins Define a New Family of Hsp70 Nucleotide Exchange Factors

    Article • Current Genomics, August 2003, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  32. Dependence of Endoplasmic Reticulum-associated Degradation on the Peptide Binding Domain and Concentration of BiP

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, June 2003, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  33. HspBP1, a homologue of the yeast Fes1 and Sls1 proteins, is an Hsc70 nucleotide exchange factor

    Article • FEBS Letters, October 2002, Wiley

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  34. Nucleotide Exchange Factor for the Yeast Hsp70 Molecular Chaperone Ssa1p

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 2002, ASM Journals

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  35. Sls1p Stimulates Sec63p-Mediated Activation of Kar2p in a Conformation-Dependent Manner in the Yeast Endoplasmic Reticulum

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, September 2000, ASM Journals

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  36. A highly representative two-hybrid genomic library for the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

    Article • Gene, January 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Mehdi Kabani

  37. Interaction of Kar2p and Sls1p Is Required for Efficient Co-translational Translocation of Secreted Proteins in the YeastYarrowia lipolytica

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, November 1998, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Mehdi Kabani