Keith Burridge

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Keith Burridge

Keith Burridge (born 1 July 1950) is a British researcher and Kenan distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] [ self-published source? ] His research on focal adhesions includes the discovery of many adhesion proteins including vinculin, [2] [3] talin [4] [5] and paxillin, [6] [7] and ranks him in top 1% of the most cited scientist in the field of molecular biology and genetics. [1] Burridge has published more than 200 peer reviewed articles.

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Early life and education

He was born in 1950 in Dorset, England. He obtained his undergraduate degree in 1971 from the University of Cambridge, and then completed his PhD in Dennis Bray's laboratory in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), also in Cambridge, in 1975. [1] Using biochemical techniques, he showed that at least two distinct types of myosin II exist in non-muscle cells and that some cells expressed both types. [8] [9]

Focal adhesion research

He went as a postdoc to James D. Watson's laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor where he met Elias Lazarides. [1] [2] They decided to compile their work on α-actinin and showed that α-actinin is distributed periodically along stress fibers. [10] [11] They also noted that there was a concentration of α-actinin in plaques at the ends of stress fibers. [10] [12] Since these regions would several years later be named focal adhesions, α-actinin was the first protein found to be concentrated at these sites. [2] While developing a procedure to purify α-actinin from smooth muscle, Burridge co-purified another protein, vinculin, [2] [3] independently of Benny Geiger's discovery. [13]

In 1981 Burridge left Cold Spring Harbor Lab for a faculty position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he continued to work on focal adhesions. [1] He discovered talin (protein) [4] [5] as another focal adhesion protein and then, in collaboration with Rick Horwitz's laboratory, showed that talin (protein) bound to the cytoplasmic domains of integrins. [14] [15] He then discovered other focal adhesion components including paxillin [6] [7] and contributed to the discovery of zyxin [16] and palladin. [17] Since then his work has focused on the signaling pathways emanating from focal adhesions, including RhoA-mediated contractility [18] [19] [20] and tyrosine phosphorylation in response to adhesion. [21] [22] [23]

Playwright

In parallel with his scientific career, Keith Burridge has written several plays of varying length. His 10-minute play "Chocolates for Mr. Wolfowitz" appeared in the Knutsford Little Theatre short play festival of 2008 in the UK. [24] "The Art of Deception", based on the true story of the art forger Han van Meegeren, won 2014 best new play by Playwrights First. [25] "The First Woman President" is a one-woman, one act play, that was premiered in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City in 2016. [26] In the play Edith Wilson looks back to when she took over running the country while concealing from the public that her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, had suffered a stroke [27]

Distinction and awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 ISI Highly Cited Researcher An essay by: Professor Keith Burridge [ permanent dead link ] in-cites.com
  2. 1 2 3 4 Chenette, Emily (December 2008). "Milestone 12 (1980) Actin-adhesion links to the extracellular matrix" . Nature Milestones. doi: 10.1038/nrm2568 .
  3. 1 2 Burridge K, Feramisco JR; Feramisco (March 1980). "Microinjection and localization of a 130K protein in living fibroblasts: a relationship to actin and fibronectin". Cell. 19 (3): 587–95. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(80)80035-3. PMID   6988083. S2CID   43087259.
  4. 1 2 Burridge K, Connell L; Connell (August 1983). "A new protein of adhesion plaques and ruffling membranes". The Journal of Cell Biology. 97 (2): 359–67. doi:10.1083/jcb.97.2.359. PMC   2112532 . PMID   6684120.
  5. 1 2 Geiger, B; Volk, T; Volberg, T (1985). "Molecular heterogeneity of adherens junctions". The Journal of Cell Biology. 101 (4): 1523–31. doi:10.1083/jcb.101.4.1523. PMC   2113916 . PMID   3930512.
  6. 1 2 Deakin, NO; Turner, CE (2008). "Paxillin comes of age". Journal of Cell Science. 121 (Pt 15): 2435–44. doi:10.1242/jcs.018044. PMC   2522309 . PMID   18650496.
  7. 1 2 Turner CE, Glenney JR, Burridge K; Glenney Jr; Burridge (September 1990). "Paxillin: a new vinculin-binding protein present in focal adhesions". The Journal of Cell Biology. 111 (3): 1059–68. doi:10.1083/jcb.111.3.1059. PMC   2116264 . PMID   2118142.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Burridge K, Bray D; Bray (November 1975). "Purification and structural analysis of myosins from brain and other non-muscle tissues". Journal of Molecular Biology. 99 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(75)80154-9. PMID   128633.
  9. ↑ Korn, ED (1978). "Biochemistry of actomyosin-dependent cell motility (a review)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 75 (2): 588–99. Bibcode:1978PNAS...75..588K. doi: 10.1073/pnas.75.2.588 . PMC   411302 . PMID   147464.
  10. 1 2 Lazarides E, Burridge K; Burridge (November 1975). "Alpha-actinin: immunofluorescent localization of a muscle structural protein in nonmuscle cells" . Cell. 6 (3): 289–98. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(75)90180-4. PMID   802682. S2CID   40148317.
  11. ↑ Feramisco, JR (1979). "Microinjection of fluorescently labeled alpha-actinin into living fibroblasts". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 76 (8): 3967–71. Bibcode:1979PNAS...76.3967F. doi: 10.1073/pnas.76.8.3967 . PMC   383957 . PMID   291056.
  12. ↑ Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter – New York: Garland Science; 2002. ISBN   0-8153-3218-1 ISBN   0-8153-4072-9 Figure 17-50. Focal adhesions as production sites of intracellular signals
  13. ↑ Geiger B (September 1979). "A 130K protein from chicken gizzard: its localization at the termini of microfilament bundles in cultured chicken cells". Cell. 18 (1): 193–205. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(79)90368-4. PMID   574428. S2CID   33153559.
  14. ↑ Horwitz A, Duggan K, Buck C, Beckerle MC, Burridge K; Duggan; Buck; Beckerle; Burridge (1986). "Interaction of plasma membrane fibronectin receptor with talin--a transmembrane linkage". Nature. 320 (6062): 531–3. Bibcode:1986Natur.320..531H. doi:10.1038/320531a0. PMID   2938015. S2CID   4356748.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Brakebusch, C; Fässler, R (2003). "The integrin-actin connection, an eternal love affair". The EMBO Journal. 22 (10): 2324–33. doi:10.1093/emboj/cdg245. PMC   156003 . PMID   12743027.
  16. ↑ Beckerle MC (November 1986). "Identification of a new protein localized at sites of cell-substrate adhesion". The Journal of Cell Biology. 103 (5): 1679–87. doi:10.1083/jcb.103.5.1679. PMC   2114371 . PMID   3536951.
  17. ↑ Parast MM, Otey CA; Otey (August 2000). "Characterization of palladin, a novel protein localized to stress fibers and cell adhesions". The Journal of Cell Biology. 150 (3): 643–56. doi:10.1083/jcb.150.3.643. PMC   2175193 . PMID   10931874.
  18. ↑ Chrzanowska-Wodnicka M, Burridge K; Burridge (June 1996). "Rho-stimulated contractility drives the formation of stress fibers and focal adhesions". The Journal of Cell Biology. 133 (6): 1403–15. doi:10.1083/jcb.133.6.1403. PMC   2120895 . PMID   8682874.
  19. ↑ Riveline, D.; Zamir, E.; Balaban, N. Q.; Schwarz, U. S.; Ishizaki, T.; Narumiya, S.; Kam, Z.; Geiger, B.; Bershadsky, A. D. (2001). "Focal Contacts as Mechanosensors: Externally Applied Local Mechanical Force Induces Growth of Focal Contacts by an Mdia1-Dependent and Rock-Independent Mechanism". The Journal of Cell Biology. 153 (6): 1175–86. doi:10.1083/jcb.153.6.1175. PMC   2192034 . PMID   11402062.
  20. ↑ Schwartz, MA; Ingber, DE (1994). "Integrating with integrins". Molecular Biology of the Cell. 5 (4): 389–93. doi:10.1091/mbc.5.4.389. PMC   301049 . PMID   8054683.
  21. ↑ Burridge K, Turner CE, Romer LH; Turner; Romer (November 1992). "Tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin and pp125FAK accompanies cell adhesion to extracellular matrix: a role in cytoskeletal assembly". The Journal of Cell Biology. 119 (4): 893–903. doi:10.1083/jcb.119.4.893. PMC   2289706 . PMID   1385444.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  22. ↑ Juliano, RL; Haskill, S (1993). "Signal transduction from the extracellular matrix". The Journal of Cell Biology. 120 (3): 577–85. doi:10.1083/jcb.120.3.577. PMC   2119550 . PMID   8381117.
  23. ↑ Lodish, Harvey; Berk, Arnold; Zipursky, S Lawrence; Matsudaira, Paul; Baltimore, David; Darnell, James (2000). "22 Integrating Cells into Tissues – PERSPECTIVES in the Literature" . Molecular Cell Biology (4th ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman. ISBN   978-0-7167-3136-8.
  24. ↑ "Welcome to the Little Theatre".
  25. ↑ "Award Recipients".
  26. ↑ "Midtown International Theatre Festival – Home Page". Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  27. ↑ "Upcoming Events : Triangle Playwrights presents: THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT by Keith Burridge". Archived from the original on 7 April 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  28. 1 2 3 4 "Sites.unc.edu".
  29. ↑ "Newly Elected Fellows". Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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