George Demartino, Ph.D.

Professor

Endowed Title: Robert W. Lackey Professorship in Physiology

Department: Physiology

Graduate Programs: Biological Chemistry, Integrative Biology

Education

Undergraduate Union College (1971)
Graduate School University of Rochester (1976)

Research Interests

  • Calpains
  • Intracellular protein degradation
  • Muscle growth and atrophy
  • Proteasome
  • Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins

Publications

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RNA interference of VCP reveals multiple cellular roles linked to ubiquitin-proteasome dependent proteolysis.

Wojcik, C, Yano, M, and DeMartino, GN J Cell Sci 2004 117 281-92

The latent form of macropain (high molecular weight multicatalytic protease) restores ATP-dependent proteolysis to cell-free extracts of BHK fibroblasts pretreated with antimacropain antibodies.

McGuire, MJ, McCullough, ML, Croall, DE, and DeMartino, GN Biochim Biophys Acta 1989 995 181-186

Identification and partial purification of an ATP-stimulated alkaline protease in rat liver.

DeMartino, GN and Goldberg, AL J Biol Chem 1979 254 3712-3715

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Honors/Awards

  • Visiting Professor
    University of Coimbra Medical School, Coimbra, Portugal (2005)
  • Leon L. Miller Lecturer
    University of Rochester School of Medicine (2003)
  • Chair, FASEB Summer Research Conferenc
    Ubiquitin and Intracellular Protein Degradation (2001)
  • Outstanding Teacher Award, Southwestern Medical School
    2003-2005, 2008 (0)
  • The Robert W. Lackey Professorship in Physiology
    1996 - Present (0)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Physiological Society
  • American Society for Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology
  • American Society for Cell Biology