Kevin A. Morano - Publications

Affiliations: 
The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston 
Area:
Microbiology Biology

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Year Citation  Score
2023 Gonçalves D, Peffer S, Morano KA. Cytoplasmic redox imbalance in the thioredoxin system activates Hsf1 and results in hyperaccumulation of the sequestrase Hsp42 with misfolded proteins. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 37425817 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.26.546610  0.457
2022 Santiago A, Morano KA. Oxidation of two cysteines within yeast Hsp70 impairs proteostasis while directly triggering an Hsf1-dependent cytoprotective response. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 102424. PMID 36030825 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102424  0.444
2022 Freije BJ, Freije WM, Do TU, Adkins GE, Bruch A, Hurtig JE, Morano KA, Schaffrath R, West JD. Identifying Interaction Partners of Yeast Protein Disulfide Isomerases Using a Small Thiol-Reactive Cross-Linker: Implications for Secretory Pathway Proteostasis. Chemical Research in Toxicology. PMID 35084835 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00376  0.324
2021 Hohrman K, Gonçalves D, Morano KA, Johnson JL. Disrupting progression of the yeast Hsp90 folding pathway at different transition points results in client-specific maturation defects. Genetics. 217. PMID 33789348 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyab009  0.524
2020 Gonçalves D, Santiago A, Morano KA. When pH comes to the rescue. Elife. 9. PMID 32915136 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.62022  0.343
2020 Santiago AM, Gonçalves DL, Morano KA. Mechanisms of sensing and response to proteotoxic stress. Experimental Cell Research. 395: 112240. PMID 32827554 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yexcr.2020.112240  0.38
2020 Verstrepen KJ, Morano K. Decision letter: Transient intracellular acidification regulates the core transcriptional heat shock response Elife. DOI: 10.7554/Elife.54880.Sa1  0.4
2019 Peffer S, Gonçalves D, Morano KA. Regulation of the Hsf1-dependent transcriptome via conserved bipartite contacts with Hsp70 promotes survival in yeast. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. PMID 31239354 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.Ra119.008822  0.598
2019 Loberg MA, Hurtig JE, Graff AH, Allan KM, Buchan JA, Spencer MK, Kelly JE, Clodfelter JE, Morano KA, Lowther WT, West JD. Aromatic Residues at the Dimer-Dimer Interface in the Peroxiredoxin Tsa1 Facilitate Decamer Formation and Biological Function. Chemical Research in Toxicology. PMID 30701970 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Chemrestox.8B00346  0.381
2019 Ford AE, Denicourt C, Morano KA. Thiol stress-dependent aggregation of the glycolytic enzyme triose phosphate isomerase in yeast and human cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. mbcE18100616. PMID 30601716 DOI: 10.1091/Mbc.E18-10-0616  0.482
2019 Morano K, Pincus D. Decision letter: Cytoplasmic protein misfolding titrates Hsp70 to activate nuclear Hsf1 Elife. DOI: 10.7554/Elife.47791.028  0.445
2018 Yakubu UM, Morano KA. Roles of the nucleotide exchange factor and chaperone Hsp110 in cellular proteostasis and diseases of protein misfolding. Biological Chemistry. PMID 29908125 DOI: 10.1515/Hsz-2018-0209  0.508
2017 Garcia VM, Nillegoda NB, Bukau B, Morano KA. Substrate binding by the yeast Hsp110 nucleotide exchange factor and molecular chaperone, Sse1, is not obligate for its biological activities. Molecular Biology of the Cell. PMID 28539411 DOI: 10.1091/Mbc.E17-01-0070  0.574
2016 Allan KM, Loberg MA, Chepngeno J, Hurtig JE, Tripathi S, Kang MG, Allotey JK, Widdershins AH, Pilat JM, Sizek HJ, Murphy WJ, Naticchia MR, David JB, Morano KA, West JD. Trapping Redox Partnerships in Oxidant-Sensitive Proteins with a Small, Thiol-Reactive Cross-Linker. Free Radical Biology & Medicine. PMID 27816612 DOI: 10.1016/J.Freeradbiomed.2016.10.506  0.345
2016 Garcia VM, Rowlett VW, Margolin W, Morano KA. Semi-automated microplate monitoring of protein polymerization and aggregation. Analytical Biochemistry. PMID 27251433 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ab.2016.05.016  0.325
2015 Morano KA. Groupthink: chromosomal clustering during transcriptional memory. Microbial Cell (Graz, Austria). 2: 454-457. PMID 28357270 DOI: 10.15698/Mic2015.12.244  0.387
2014 Morano KA. Anhydrobiosis: drying out with sugar. Current Biology : Cb. 24: R1121-3. PMID 25465329 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2014.10.022  0.322
2014 Morano KA, Sistonen L, Mezger V. Heat shock in the springtime. Cell Stress & Chaperones. 19: 753-61. PMID 25199949 DOI: 10.1007/S12192-014-0539-Y  0.432
2014 Abrams JL, Verghese J, Gibney PA, Morano KA. Hierarchical functional specificity of cytosolic heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) nucleotide exchange factors in yeast. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289: 13155-67. PMID 24671421 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M113.530014  0.811
2013 Abrams JL, Morano KA. Coupled assays for monitoring protein refolding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Visualized Experiments : Jove. e50432. PMID 23892247 DOI: 10.3791/50432  0.461
2013 Naticchia MR, Brown HA, Garcia FJ, Lamade AM, Justice SL, Herrin RP, Morano KA, West JD. Bifunctional electrophiles cross-link thioredoxins with redox relay partners in cells. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 26: 490-7. PMID 23414292 DOI: 10.1021/Tx4000123  0.382
2012 Wang Y, Gibney PA, West JD, Morano KA. The yeast Hsp70 Ssa1 is a sensor for activation of the heat shock response by thiol-reactive compounds. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 23: 3290-8. PMID 22809627 DOI: 10.1091/Mbc.E12-06-0447  0.773
2012 West JD, Wang Y, Morano KA. Small molecule activators of the heat shock response: chemical properties, molecular targets, and therapeutic promise. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 25: 2036-53. PMID 22799889 DOI: 10.1021/Tx300264X  0.496
2012 Verghese J, Abrams J, Wang Y, Morano KA. Biology of the heat shock response and protein chaperones: budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as a model system. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews : Mmbr. 76: 115-58. PMID 22688810 DOI: 10.1128/Mmbr.05018-11  0.542
2012 Verghese J, Morano KA. A lysine-rich region within fungal BAG domain-containing proteins mediates a novel association with ribosomes. Eukaryotic Cell. 11: 1003-11. PMID 22635919 DOI: 10.1128/Ec.00146-12  0.541
2012 Morano KA, Grant CM, Moye-Rowley WS. The response to heat shock and oxidative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 190: 1157-95. PMID 22209905 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.111.128033  0.404
2011 West JD, Stamm CE, Brown HA, Justice SL, Morano KA. Enhanced toxicity of the protein cross-linkers divinyl sulfone and diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate in comparison to related monofunctional electrophiles. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 24: 1457-9. PMID 21812477 DOI: 10.1021/Tx200302W  0.358
2010 Mandal AK, Gibney PA, Nillegoda NB, Theodoraki MA, Caplan AJ, Morano KA. Hsp110 chaperones control client fate determination in the hsp70-Hsp90 chaperone system. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21: 1439-48. PMID 20237159 DOI: 10.1091/Mbc.E09-09-0779  0.798
2010 Tapia H, Morano KA. Hsp90 nuclear accumulation in quiescence is linked to chaperone function and spore development in yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21: 63-72. PMID 19889838 DOI: 10.1091/Mbc.E09-05-0376  0.59
2008 Schuermann JP, Jiang J, Cuellar J, Llorca O, Wang L, Gimenez LE, Jin S, Taylor AB, Demeler B, Morano KA, Hart PJ, Valpuesta JM, Lafer EM, Sousa R. Structure of the Hsp110:Hsc70 nucleotide exchange machine. Molecular Cell. 31: 232-43. PMID 18550409 DOI: 10.1016/J.Molcel.2008.05.006  0.527
2008 Shaner L, Gibney PA, Morano KA. The Hsp110 protein chaperone Sse1 is required for yeast cell wall integrity and morphogenesis. Current Genetics. 54: 1-11. PMID 18478233 DOI: 10.1007/S00294-008-0193-Y  0.798
2008 Gibney PA, Fries T, Bailer SM, Morano KA. Rtr1 is the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homolog of a novel family of RNA polymerase II-binding proteins. Eukaryotic Cell. 7: 938-48. PMID 18408053 DOI: 10.1128/Ec.00042-08  0.756
2008 Trott A, West JD, Klai? L, Westerheide SD, Silverman RB, Morimoto RI, Morano KA. Activation of heat shock and antioxidant responses by the natural product celastrol: transcriptional signatures of a thiol-targeted molecule. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 19: 1104-12. PMID 18199679 DOI: 10.1091/Mbc.E07-10-1004  0.787
2007 Fan Q, Park KW, Du Z, Morano KA, Li L. The role of Sse1 in the de novo formation and variant determination of the [PSI+] prion. Genetics. 177: 1583-93. PMID 18039878 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.107.077982  0.541
2007 Morano KA. New tricks for an old dog: the evolving world of Hsp70. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1113: 1-14. PMID 17513460 DOI: 10.1196/Annals.1391.018  0.558
2007 Shaner L, Morano KA. All in the family: atypical Hsp70 chaperones are conserved modulators of Hsp70 activity. Cell Stress & Chaperones. 12: 1-8. PMID 17441502 DOI: 10.1379/Csc-245R.1  0.814
2006 Shaner L, Sousa R, Morano KA. Characterization of Hsp70 binding and nucleotide exchange by the yeast Hsp110 chaperone Sse1. Biochemistry. 45: 15075-84. PMID 17154545 DOI: 10.1021/Bi061279K  0.821
2005 Shaner L, Wegele H, Buchner J, Morano KA. The yeast Hsp110 Sse1 functionally interacts with the Hsp70 chaperones Ssa and Ssb. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280: 41262-9. PMID 16221677 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M503614200  0.821
2005 Trott A, Shaner L, Morano KA. The molecular chaperone Sse1 and the growth control protein kinase Sch9 collaborate to regulate protein kinase A activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 170: 1009-21. PMID 15879503 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.105.043109  0.734
2005 Pelletier B, Trott A, Morano KA, Labbé S. Functional characterization of the iron-regulatory transcription factor Fep1 from Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280: 25146-61. PMID 15866870 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M502947200  0.758
2004 Trott A, Morano KA. SYM1 is the stress-induced Saccharomyces cerevisiae ortholog of the mammalian kidney disease gene Mpv17 and is required for ethanol metabolism and tolerance during heat shock. Eukaryotic Cell. 3: 620-31. PMID 15189984 DOI: 10.1128/Ec.3.3.620-631.2004  0.786
2004 Shaner L, Trott A, Goeckeler JL, Brodsky JL, Morano KA. The function of the yeast molecular chaperone Sse1 is mechanistically distinct from the closely related hsp70 family. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279: 21992-2001. PMID 15028727 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M313739200  0.755
2003 Bali M, Zhang B, Morano KA, Michels CA. The Hsp90 molecular chaperone complex regulates maltose induction and stability of the Saccharomyces MAL gene transcription activator Mal63p. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278: 47441-8. PMID 14500708 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M309536200  0.565
2002 Bellemare DR, Shaner L, Morano KA, Beaudoin J, Langlois R, Labbe S. Ctr6, a vacuolar membrane copper transporter in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277: 46676-86. PMID 12244050 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M206444200  0.755
1999 Morano KA, Thiele DJ. The Sch9 protein kinase regulates Hsp90 chaperone complex signal transduction activity in vivo Embo Journal. 18: 5953-5962. PMID 10545107 DOI: 10.1093/Emboj/18.21.5953  0.582
1999 Liu XD, Morano KA, Thiele DJ. The yeast Hsp110 family member, Sse1, is an Hsp90 cochaperone Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274: 26654-26660. PMID 10480867 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.274.38.26654  0.61
1999 Morano KA, Thiele DJ. Heat shock factor function and regulation in response to cellular stress, growth, and differentiation signals Gene Expression. 7: 271-282. PMID 10440228  0.404
1999 Morano KA, Santoro N, Koch KA, Thiele DJ. A trans-activation domain in yeast heat shock transcription factor is essential for cell cycle progression during stress. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 19: 402-11. PMID 9858564 DOI: 10.1128/Mcb.19.1.402  0.58
1998 Morano KA, Liu PCC, Thiele DJ. Protein chaperones and the heat shock response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Current Opinion in Microbiology. 1: 197-203. PMID 10066474 DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(98)80011-8  0.515
1997 Matoba S, Morano KA, Klionsky DJ, Kim K, Ogrydziak DM. Dipeptidyl aminopeptidase processing and biosynthesis of alkaline extracellular protease from Yarrowia lipolytica Microbiology. 143: 3263-3272. PMID 9353927 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-10-3263  0.331
1996 Scott SV, Hefner-Gravink A, Morano KA, Noda T, Ohsumi Y, Klionsky DJ. Cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting and autophagy employ the same machinery to deliver proteins to the yeast vacuole Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 93: 12304-12308. PMID 8901576 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.93.22.12304  0.377
1995 Harding TM, Morano KA, Scott SV, Klionsky DJ. Isolation and characterization of yeast mutants in the cytoplasm to vacuole protein targeting pathway Journal of Cell Biology. 131: 591-602. PMID 7593182 DOI: 10.1083/Jcb.131.3.591  0.4
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