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Publications

Selected recent publications

  • Omari S, Makareeva E, Roberts-Pilgrim A, Mirigian L, Jarnik M, Ott C, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Leikin S. Noncanonical autophagy at ER exit sites regulates procollagen turnover. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 115:E10099-E108, 2018.
  • Makareeva E, Sun G, Mirigian LS, Mertz EL, Vera JC, Espinoza NA, Yang K, Chen D, Klein TE, Byers PH, Leikin S. Substitutions for arginine at position 780 in triple helical domain of the alpha1(I) chain alter folding of the type I procollagen molecule and cause osteogenesis imperfecta. PLoS One. 13:e0200264, 2018.
  • Mirigian LS, Makareeva E, Mertz EL, Omari S, Roberts-Pilgrim AM, Oestreich AK, Phillips CL, Leikin S. Osteoblast Malfunction Caused by Cell Stress Response to Procollagen Misfolding in alpha2(I)-G610C Mouse Model of Osteogenesis Imperfecta. J Bone Miner Res. 31:1608-16, 2016.
  • Mertz EL, Makareeva E, Mirigian LS, Koon KY, Perosky JE, Kozloff KM, Leikin S. Makings of a brittle bone: Unexpected lessons from a low protein diet study of a mouse OI model. Matrix Biol. 52-54:29-42, 2016.
  • Liu S, Saloustros E, Mertz EL, Tsang K, Starost MF, Salpea P, Faucz FR, Szarek E, Nesterova M, Leikin S, Stratakis CA. Haploinsufficiency for either one of the type-II regulatory subunits of protein kinase A improves the bone phenotype of Prkar1a+/- mice. Hum Mol Genet. 24:6080-92, 2015.

For a listing of all Sergey Leikin publications, please visit https://publons.com/researcher/2894348/sergey-leikin/publications/