Michael Ferns - Publications

Affiliations: 
McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 
Area:
Neuroscience Biology

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Year Citation  Score
2021 Ferns M. An Inside Job: Molecular Determinants for Postsynaptic Localization of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland). 26. PMID 34063759 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26113065  0.397
2020 Rudell JC, Borges LS, Yarov-Yarovoy V, Ferns M. The MX-Helix of Muscle nAChR Subunits Regulates Receptor Assembly and Surface Trafficking. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 13: 48. PMID 32265653 DOI: 10.3389/Fnmol.2020.00048  0.694
2020 Maselli RA, van der Linden H, Ferns M. Recessive congenital myasthenic syndrome caused by a homozygous mutation in SYT2 altering a highly conserved C-terminal amino acid sequence. American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A. PMID 32250532 DOI: 10.1002/Ajmg.A.61579  0.317
2014 Rudell JC, Borges LS, Rudell JB, Beck KA, Ferns MJ. Determinants in the β and δ subunit cytoplasmic loop regulate Golgi trafficking and surface expression of the muscle acetylcholine receptor Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289: 203-214. PMID 24240098 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M113.502328  0.685
2013 Rudell JB, Ferns MJ. Regulation of muscle acetylcholine receptor turnover by β subunit tyrosine phosphorylation. Developmental Neurobiology. 73: 399-410. PMID 23325468 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22070  0.416
2012 Maselli RA, Fernandez JM, Arredondo J, Navarro C, Ngo M, Beeson D, Cagney O, Williams DC, Wollmann RL, Yarov-Yarovoy V, Ferns MJ. LG2 agrin mutation causing severe congenital myasthenic syndrome mimics functional characteristics of non-neural (z-) agrin. Human Genetics. 131: 1123-35. PMID 22205389 DOI: 10.1007/S00439-011-1132-4  0.376
2009 Lee Y, Rudell J, Ferns M. Rapsyn interacts with the muscle acetylcholine receptor via α-helical domains in the α, β, and ε subunit intracellular loops Neuroscience. 163: 222-232. PMID 19482062 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuroscience.2009.05.057  0.512
2008 Borges LS, Yechikhov S, Lee YI, Rudell JB, Friese MB, Burden SJ, Ferns MJ. Identification of a motif in the acetylcholine receptor beta subunit whose phosphorylation regulates rapsyn association and postsynaptic receptor localization. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 28: 11468-76. PMID 18987183 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.2508-08.2008  0.716
2008 Lee Y, Rudell J, Yechikhov S, Taylor R, Swope S, Ferns M. Rapsyn carboxyl terminal domains mediate muscle specific kinase-induced phosphorylation of the muscle acetylcholine receptor. Neuroscience. 153: 997-1007. PMID 18436384 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuroscience.2008.03.009  0.493
2003 Moransard M, Borges LS, Willmann R, Marangi PA, Brenner HR, Ferns MJ, Fuhrer C. Agrin regulates rapsyn interaction with surface acetylcholine receptors, and this underlies cytoskeletal anchoring and clustering. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278: 7350-9. PMID 12486121 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M210865200  0.686
2002 Borges LS, Lee Y, Ferns M. Dual role for calcium in agrin signaling and acetylcholine receptor clustering. Journal of Neurobiology. 50: 69-79. PMID 11748634 DOI: 10.1002/Neu.10020  0.684
2001 Borges LS, Ferns M. Agrin-induced phosphorylation of the acetylcholine receptor regulates cytoskeletal anchoring and clustering. The Journal of Cell Biology. 153: 1-12. PMID 11285269 DOI: 10.1083/Jcb.153.1.1  0.716
2000 Grow WA, Ferns M, Gordon H. A mechanism for acetylcholine receptor clustering distinct from agrin signaling Developmental Neuroscience. 21: 435-443.  0.474
1999 Grow WA, Ferns M, Gordon H. Agrin-independent activation of the agrin signal transduction pathway Journal of Neurobiology. 40: 356-365. PMID 10440735 DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(19990905)40:3<356::AID-NEU7>3.0.CO;2-F  0.35
1998 Jacobson C, Montanaro F, Lindenbaum M, Carbonetto S, Ferns M. α-Dystroglycan functions in acetylcholine receptor aggregation but is not a coreceptor for agrin-MuSK signaling Journal of Neuroscience. 18: 6340-6348. PMID 9698325 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.18-16-06340.1998  0.41
1996 Wang ZZ, Fuhrer C, Shtrom S, Sugiyama JE, Ferns MJ, Hall ZW. The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at the neuromuscular junction: assembly and tyrosine phosphorylation. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia On Quantitative Biology. 61: 363-71. PMID 9246465 DOI: 10.1101/Sqb.1996.061.01.039  0.338
1996 Bowen DC, Sugiyama J, Ferns M, Hall ZW. Neural agrin activates a high-affinity receptor in C2 muscle cells that is unresponsive to muscle agrin. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 16: 3791-7. PMID 8656273 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.16-12-03791.1996  0.331
1996 Ferns M, Deiner M, Hall Z. Agrin-induced acetylcholine receptor clustering in mammalian muscle requires tyrosine phosphorylation. The Journal of Cell Biology. 132: 937-44. PMID 8603924 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.132.5.937  0.508
1993 Ferns MJ, Campanelli JT, Hoch W, Scheller RH, Hall Z. The ability of agrin to cluster AChRs depends on alternative splicing and on cell surface proteoglycans. Neuron. 11: 491-502. PMID 8398142 DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(93)90153-I  0.326
1992 Ferns M, Hoch W, Campanelli JT, Rupp F, Hall ZW, Scheller RH. RNA splicing regulates agrin-mediated acetylcholine receptor clustering activity on cultured myotubes. Neuron. 8: 1079-86. PMID 1319184 DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(92)90129-2  0.402
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