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Selected publications 

  • Curtis, A.J., Zhu, J., Penny, C.J., Gold, M.G. (2023) Molecular basis of interactions between CaMKII and α-actinin-2 that underlie dendritic spine enlargement. E-life, doi: 10.7554/eLife.85008
  • Church, T.W., Tewatia, P., Hannan, S., Antunes, J., Eriksson, O., Smart, T.G., Hellgren Kotaleski, J., Gold, M.G. (2021) AKAP79 enables calcineurin to directly suppress protein kinase A activity. E-life, doi: 10.7554/eLife.68164
  • Gold, M.G. (2019) Swimming regulations for protein kinase A catalytic subunit. Biochem Soc Trans, doi: 10.1042/BST20190230
  • Patel, N., Stengel, F., Aebersold, R., & Gold, M. G. (2017). Molecular basis of AKAP79 regulation by calmodulin. Nature Communications, 8 (1), 1681. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01715-w 
  • Walker-Gray, R., Stengel, F., & Gold, M.G. (2017). Mechanisms for restraining cAMP-dependent protein kinase revealed by subunit quantitation and cross-linking approaches. PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1701782114 
  • Gold, M. G., Fowler, D. M., Means, C. K., Pawson, C. T., Stephany, J. J., Langeberg, L. K., Fields, S. & Scott, J. D. (2013). Engineering A-kinase anchoring protein (AKAP)-selective regulatory subunits of protein kinase A (PKA) through structure-based phage selection. J Biol Chem, 288, 17111-17121. 
  • Gold, M. G. (2012). A frontier in the understanding of synaptic plasticity: solving the structure of the postsynaptic density. Bioessays, 34, 599-608. 
  • Gold, M. G., Stengel, F., Nygren, P. J., Weisbrod, C. R., Bruce, J. E., Robinson, C. V., Barford, D. & Scott, J. D. (2011). Architecture and dynamics of an A-kinase anchoring protein 79 (AKAP79) signaling complex. PNAS, 108, 6426-6431. 

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