Elliott Ross, Ph.D.

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Dr. Ross’s research focuses on how cells receive, amplify, integrate, and sort information. The work focuses on the integrated control of cellular signaling pathways, particularly those that involve GTP-binding proteins.

Undergraduate

Uni of California-Davis (1970), Biochemistry

Graduate School

Cornell University (1975), Biochemistry

• Computational modeling of signaling networks
• Integration of biological signaling
• Interaction of membrane-bound enzymes and hormone receptors
• Mechanisms of G protein-mediated signal transduction
• Structure of G protein-coupled receptors

Featured Publications

Amino Acids Regulate mTORC1 by an Obligate Two-Step Mechanism.

Dyachok J, Earnest S, Iturraran EN, Cobb MH, Ross EM J. Biol. Chem. 2016 Sep

Intrinsic PH Domain Motion in Phospholipase C-? Exposes a G?? Binding Site.

Kadamur G, Ross EM J. Biol. Chem. 2016 Mar

Mammalian phospholipase C.

Kadamur G, Ross EM Annu. Rev. Physiol. 2013 Feb 75 127-54

Activation biosensor for G protein-coupled receptors: a FRET-based m1 muscarinic activation sensor that regulates G(q).

Chang S, Ross EM PLoS ONE 2012 7 9 e45651

WNK1 promotes PIP2 synthesis to coordinate growth factor and GPCR-Gq signaling.

An SW, Cha SK, Yoon J, Chang S, Ross EM, Huang CL Curr. Biol. 2011 Dec 21 23 1979-87

Synergistic activation of phospholipase C-beta3 by Galpha(q) and Gbetagamma describes a simple two-state coincidence detector.

Philip F, Kadamur G, Silos RG, Woodson J, Ross EM Curr. Biol. 2010 Aug 20 15 1327-35

Coordinating speed and amplitude in G-protein signaling.

Ross EM Curr. Biol. 2008 Sep 18 17 R777-R783

Coordinate Regulation of G Protein Signaling via Dynamic Interactions of Receptor and GAP

Turcotte, M., Tang, W., Ross, E.M. PLoS Computational Biology August 2008 4 e100148

GTPase-activating proteins for heterotrimeric G proteins: regulators of G protein signaling (RGS) and RGS-like proteins.

Ross EM, Wilkie TM Annu. Rev. Biochem. 2000 69 795-827

Rapid GTP binding and hydrolysis by G(q) promoted by receptor and GTPase-activating proteins.

Mukhopadhyay S, Ross EM Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1999 Aug 96 17 9539-44

• NIGMS MERIT Award
  (2002)
• ASPET Goodman and Gilman Award for Drug-Receptor Pharmacology
  (1996)
• Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Pharmacology
  (1991)
• Scientific Director, NATO/FEBS Adv. Study Inst. on Biological Signal Transduction
  (1990)

• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (Section on Molecular Pharmacology)
• Biophysical Society