Eric Spear, Ph.D.

Research Associate (Michaelis Lab)

410-955-8286

Department of Cell Biology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
725 N. Wolfe Street, 106 Biophysics
Baltimore, MD 21205


Publications

Babatz, T.D., Spear, E. D, Xu, W., Sun, O. L., Nie, L., Carpenter. E.P., and Michaelis, S. (2020) Site Specificity Determinants for Prelamin A Cleavage by the Zinc Metalloprotease ZMPSTE24. J. Biol. Chem. (In Press)
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Wood, K., Spear, E.D., Mossberg, O.W., Odinammadu, K., Xu, W., and Michaelis, S. (2020) Defining substrate requirements for cleavage of farnesylated prelamin A by the integral membrane zinc metalloprotease ZMPSTE24.  PLOS ONE (In Press)
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Spear, E.D, Alford, R.F., Babatz, T.D., Wood, K., Mossberg, O.  Shilgardi, K., Odinammadu, K Gray, J., and Michaelis, S. (2019) A Humanized Yeast System to Analyze Cleavage of Prelamin A by ZMPSTE24. Methods 157:47-55

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Spear E. D,. Hsu E.-T., Nie L., Carpenter E.P., Hrycyna C.A., and Michaelis S. (2018). ZMPSTE24 Missense mutations that cause progeroid diseases decrease prelamin A cleavage activity and/or  protein stability.  Disease Models and Mechanism 11:1-12 PMID 29794150

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Maurer, M.J., Spear, E.D., Yu, A.T., Lee, E.J., Shahzad, S, and Michaelis, S.  (2016)  Degradation signals for ubiquitin-proteasome dependent cytosolic protein quality control (CytoQC) in yeast. G3:Genes, Genomes, Genetics 6:1853-66, PMC4938640.

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