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Michael Stowell

TitleProfessor
InstitutionUniversity of Colorado Boulder
DepartmentBiology-MCD Instruction
Phone303/735-2983

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    R01HD114758     (CHANG, GEOFFREY A)Sep 17, 2024 - Jun 30, 2029
    NIH
    MiMA: Mother-infant Metabolite-transporter Atlas
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    R21GM154148     (STOWELL, MICHAEL H. B.)Sep 5, 2024 - Aug 31, 2026
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    Shapeshifting Cyclic Peptides as Single Molecule Polypharmacological Drugs
    Role: Principal Investigator
    U24GM139174     (HOENGER, ANDREAS)Sep 8, 2020 - Aug 31, 2026
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    CU Boulder Center for Cryo-ET (CCET)
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    RF1AG061829     (SHEN, JINGSHI)Sep 30, 2018 - Mar 31, 2023
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    Identifying exosome-mediated cargo transport machinery in Alzheimer's disease
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    U24GM116789     (JIANG, WEN)Jun 1, 2017 - May 31, 2022
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    Midwest Consortium for High Resolution Cryoelectron Microscopy
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    R01GM114496     (STOWELL, MICHAEL H. B.)Sep 10, 2015 - Aug 31, 2017
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    Membrane Protein Polyhedral Nanoparticles for High Resolution Structure/Function Studies
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R43MH102946     (LINNENBERGER, ANNA)Sep 4, 2014 - Aug 31, 2016
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    3D living neural networks
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    U54GM094610     (REES, DOUGLAS CHARLES)Sep 30, 2010 - Jun 30, 2015
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    TransportPDB: Center for the X-ray Structure Determination of Human Transporters
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    R01GM085398     (STOWELL, MICHAEL H. B.)Aug 1, 2008 - Jul 31, 2011
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    Self Assembled Lipid Icosohedra for Highthroughput Membrane Protein Structure Det
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Bhattacharjee B, Rahman MM, Hibbs RE, Stowell MHB. A simple flash and freeze system for cryogenic time-resolved electron microscopy. Front Mol Biosci. 2023; 10:1129225. PMID: 36959978.
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    2. Wan C, Stowell MHB, Shen J. Progress and gaps of extracellular vesicle-mediated intercellular cargo transfer in the central nervous system. Commun Biol. 2022 11 11; 5(1):1223. PMID: 36369335.
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    3. Park J, Li J, Mayer JP, Ball KA, Wu J, Hall C, Accili D, Stowell MHB, Bai XC, Choi E. Activation of the insulin receptor by an insulin mimetic peptide. Nat Commun. 2022 09 23; 13(1):5594. PMID: 36151101.
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    4. Guard SE, Chapnick DA, Poss ZC, Ebmeier CC, Jacobsen J, Nemkov T, Ball KA, Webb KJ, Simpson HL, Coleman S, Bunker E, Ramirez A, Reisz JA, Sievers R, Stowell MHB, D'Alessandro A, Liu X, Old WM. Multiomic Analysis Reveals Disruption of Cholesterol Homeostasis by Cannabidiol in Human Cell Lines. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2022 10; 21(10):100262. PMID: 35753663.
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    5. Li J, Park J, Mayer JP, Webb KJ, Uchikawa E, Wu J, Liu S, Zhang X, Stowell MHB, Choi E, Bai XC. Synergistic activation of the insulin receptor via two distinct sites. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2022 04; 29(4):357-368. PMID: 35361965.
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    6. Rahman MM, Basta T, Teng J, Lee M, Worrell BT, Stowell MHB, Hibbs RE. Structural mechanism of muscle nicotinic receptor desensitization and block by curare. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2022 04; 29(4):386-394. PMID: 35301478.
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    7. Chang A, Xiang X, Wang J, Lee C, Arakhamia T, Simjanoska M, Wang C, Carlomagno Y, Zhang G, Dhingra S, Thierry M, Perneel J, Heeman B, Forgrave LM, DeTure M, DeMarco ML, Cook CN, Rademakers R, Dickson DW, Petrucelli L, Stowell MHB, Mackenzie IRA, Fitzpatrick AWP. Homotypic fibrillization of TMEM106B across diverse neurodegenerative diseases. Cell. 2022 04 14; 185(8):1346-1355.e15. PMID: 35247328.
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    8. Basta T, Morgan GP, O'Toole ET, Rao NR, Savas JN, Stowell MHB. Electron Tomographic Methods for Studying Organelles of the Murine Chemical Synapse. Methods Mol Biol. 2022; 2473:129-139. PMID: 35819763.
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    9. White DN, Stowell MHB. Room for Two: The Synaptophysin/Synaptobrevin Complex. Front Synaptic Neurosci. 2021; 13:740318. PMID: 34616284.
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    10. Rahman MM, Worrell BT, Stowell MHB, Hibbs RE. Purification of a native nicotinic receptor. Methods Enzymol. 2021; 653:189-206. PMID: 34099171.
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    11. Liu Y, Wan C, Rathore SS, Stowell MHB, Yu H, Shen J. SNARE Zippering Is Suppressed by a Conformational Constraint that Is Removed by v-SNARE Splitting. Cell Rep. 2021 01 12; 34(2):108611. PMID: 33440145.
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    12. Hark TJ, Rao NR, Castillon C, Basta T, Smukowski S, Bao H, Upadhyay A, Bomba-Warczak E, Nomura T, O'Toole ET, Morgan GP, Ali L, Saito T, Guillermier C, Saido TC, Steinhauser ML, Stowell MHB, Chapman ER, Contractor A, Savas JN. Pulse-Chase Proteomics of the App Knockin Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease Reveals that Synaptic Dysfunction Originates in Presynaptic Terminals. Cell Syst. 2021 02 17; 12(2):141-158.e9. PMID: 33326751.
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    13. Ding Y, Ball KA, Webb KJ, Gao Y, D'Alessandro A, Old WM, Stowell MHB, Ding X. On-Chip Acousto Thermal Shift Assay for Rapid and Sensitive Assessment of Protein Thermodynamic Stability. Small. 2020 10; 16(41):e2003506. PMID: 32893496.
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    14. Rahman MM, Teng J, Worrell BT, Noviello CM, Lee M, Karlin A, Stowell MHB, Hibbs RE. Structure of the Native Muscle-type Nicotinic Receptor and Inhibition by Snake Venom Toxins. Neuron. 2020 06 17; 106(6):952-962.e5. PMID: 32275860.
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    15. Ball KA, Webb KJ, Coleman SJ, Cozzolino KA, Jacobsen J, Jones KR, Stowell MHB, Old WM. An isothermal shift assay for proteome scale drug-target identification. Commun Biol. 2020 02 14; 3(1):75. PMID: 32060372.
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    16. Rathore SS, Liu Y, Yu H, Wan C, Lee M, Yin Q, Stowell MHB, Shen J. Intracellular Vesicle Fusion Requires a Membrane-Destabilizing Peptide Located at the Juxtamembrane Region of the v-SNARE. Cell Rep. 2019 12 24; 29(13):4583-4592.e3. PMID: 31875562.
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    17. Miles M, Bhattacharjee B, Sridhar N, Fajrial AK, Ball K, Lee YC, Stowell MHB, Old WM, Ding X. Flattening of Diluted Species Profile via Passive Geometry in a Microfluidic Device. Micromachines (Basel). 2019 Nov 30; 10(12). PMID: 31801276.
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    18. Ruhl DA, Bomba-Warczak E, Watson ET, Bradberry MM, Peterson TA, Basu T, Frelka A, Evans CS, Briguglio JS, Basta T, Stowell MHB, Savas JN, Roopra A, Pearce RA, Piper RC, Chapman ER. Synaptotagmin 17 controls neurite outgrowth and synaptic physiology via distinct cellular pathways. Nat Commun. 2019 08 06; 10(1):3532. PMID: 31387992.
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    19. Maity K, Heumann JM, McGrath AP, Kopcho NJ, Hsu PK, Lee CW, Mapes JH, Garza D, Krishnan S, Morgan GP, Hendargo KJ, Klose T, Rees SD, Medrano-Soto A, Saier MH, Pi?eros M, Komives EA, Schroeder JI, Chang G, Stowell MHB. Cryo-EM structure of OSCA1.2 from Oryza sativa elucidates the mechanical basis of potential membrane hyperosmolality gating. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 07 09; 116(28):14309-14318. PMID: 31227607.
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    20. Janas T, Sapon K, Stowell MHB, Janas T. Selection of Membrane RNA Aptamers to Amyloid Beta Peptide: Implications for Exosome-Based Antioxidant Strategies. Int J Mol Sci. 2019 Jan 13; 20(2). PMID: 30642129.
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    21. Yu H, Crisman L, Stowell MHB, Shen J. Functional Reconstitution of Intracellular Vesicle Fusion Using Purified SNAREs and Sec1/Munc18 (SM) Proteins. Methods Mol Biol. 2019; 1860:237-249. PMID: 30317509.
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    22. Shen C, Liu Y, Yu H, Gulbranson DR, Kogut I, Bilousova G, Zhang C, Stowell MHB, Shen J. The N-peptide-binding mode is critical to Munc18-1 function in synaptic exocytosis. J Biol Chem. 2018 11 23; 293(47):18309-18317. PMID: 30275014.
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    23. Yu H, Shen C, Liu Y, Menasche BL, Ouyang Y, Stowell MHB, Shen J. SNARE zippering requires activation by SNARE-like peptides in Sec1/Munc18 proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 09 04; 115(36):E8421-E8429. PMID: 30127032.
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    24. Adams DJ, Nemkov TG, Mayer JP, Old WM, Stowell MHB. Identification of the primary peptide contaminant that inhibits fibrillation and toxicity in synthetic amyloid-?42. PLoS One. 2017; 12(8):e0182804. PMID: 28792968.
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    25. Janas AM, Sapon K, Janas T, Stowell MH, Janas T. Exosomes and other extracellular vesicles in neural cells and neurodegenerative diseases. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 Jun; 1858(6):1139-51. PMID: 26874206.
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    26. Yu H, Rathore SS, Shen C, Liu Y, Ouyang Y, Stowell MH, Shen J. Reconstituting Intracellular Vesicle Fusion Reactions: The Essential Role of Macromolecular Crowding. J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Oct 14; 137(40):12873-83. PMID: 26431309.
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    27. Adams DJ, Arthur CP, Stowell MH. Architecture of the Synaptophysin/Synaptobrevin Complex: Structural Evidence for an Entropic Clustering Function at the Synapse. Sci Rep. 2015 Sep 03; 5:13659. PMID: 26333660.
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    28. Basta T, Wu HJ, Morphew MK, Lee J, Ghosh N, Lai J, Heumann JM, Wang K, Lee YC, Rees DC, Stowell MH. Self-assembled lipid and membrane protein polyhedral nanoparticles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jan 14; 111(2):670-4. PMID: 24379376.
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    29. Pieper U, Schlessinger A, Kloppmann E, Chang GA, Chou JJ, Dumont ME, Fox BG, Fromme P, Hendrickson WA, Malkowski MG, Rees DC, Stokes DL, Stowell MH, Wiener MC, Rost B, Stroud RM, Stevens RC, Sali A. Coordinating the impact of structural genomics on the human a-helical transmembrane proteome. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2013 Feb; 20(2):135-8. PMID: 23381628.
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    30. Sheng JR, Grimme S, Bhattacharya P, Stowell MH, Artinger M, Prabahakar BS, Meriggioli MN. In vivo adsorption of autoantibodies in myasthenia gravis using Nanodisc-incorporated acetylcholine receptor. Exp Neurol. 2010 Oct; 225(2):320-7. PMID: 20637753.
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    31. Arthur CP, Dean C, Pagratis M, Chapman ER, Stowell MH. Loss of synaptotagmin IV results in a reduction in synaptic vesicles and a distortion of the Golgi structure in cultured hippocampal neurons. Neuroscience. 2010 Apr 28; 167(1):135-42. PMID: 20138128.
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    32. Arthur CP, Stowell MH. Structure of synaptophysin: a hexameric MARVEL-domain channel protein. Structure. 2007 Jun; 15(6):707-14. PMID: 17562317.
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    33. Arthur CP, Serrell DB, Pagratis M, Potter DL, Finch DS, Stowell MH. Electron tomographic methods for studying the chemical synapse. Methods Cell Biol. 2007; 79:241-57. PMID: 17327160.
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    34. Yeh AP, McMillan A, Stowell MH. Rapid and simple protein-stability screens: application to membrane proteins. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2006 Apr; 62(Pt 4):451-7. PMID: 16552147.
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    35. Tierney ML, Osborn KE, Milburn PJ, Stowell MH, Howitt SM. Phylogenetic conservation of disulfide-linked, dimeric acetylcholine receptor pentamers in southern ocean electric rays. J Exp Biol. 2004 Sep; 207(Pt 20):3581-90. PMID: 15339954.
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    36. Marks B, Stowell MH, Vallis Y, Mills IG, Gibson A, Hopkins CR, McMahon HT. GTPase activity of dynamin and resulting conformation change are essential for endocytosis. Nature. 2001 Mar 08; 410(6825):231-5. PMID: 11242086.
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    37. Miyazawa A, Fujiyoshi Y, Stowell M, Unwin N. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at 4.6 A resolution: transverse tunnels in the channel wall. J Mol Biol. 1999 May 14; 288(4):765-86. PMID: 10329178.
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    38. Stowell MH, Marks B, Wigge P, McMahon HT. Nucleotide-dependent conformational changes in dynamin: evidence for a mechanochemical molecular spring. Nat Cell Biol. 1999 May; 1(1):27-32. PMID: 10559860.
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    39. Tierney ML, Stowell MH. The functional significance of multimerization in ion channels. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 1998 Apr; 8(2):186-8. PMID: 9631291.
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    40. Stowell MH, McPhillips TM, Rees DC, Soltis SM, Abresch E, Feher G. Light-induced structural changes in photosynthetic reaction center: implications for mechanism of electron-proton transfer. Science. 1997 May 02; 276(5313):812-6. PMID: 9115209.
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    41. Peters JW, Stowell MH, Soltis SM, Finnegan MG, Johnson MK, Rees DC. Redox-dependent structural changes in the nitrogenase P-cluster. Biochemistry. 1997 Feb 11; 36(6):1181-7. PMID: 9063865.
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    42. Peters JW, Stowell MH, Rees DC. A leucine-rich repeat variant with a novel repetitive protein structural motif. Nat Struct Biol. 1996 Dec; 3(12):991-4. PMID: 8946850.
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    43. Stowell MH, Rees DC. Structure and stability of membrane proteins. Adv Protein Chem. 1995; 46:279-311. PMID: 7771322.
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    44. Musser SM, Stowell MH, Chan SI. Cytochrome c oxidase: chemistry of a molecular machine. Adv Enzymol Relat Areas Mol Biol. 1995; 71:79-208. PMID: 8644492.
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