Brown, Dennis, PhD

Dennis_brown
Phone: 617-726-5665
Email: Brown.Dennis@mgh.harvard.edu
Lab: Brown

Research

Dennis Brown is a Ph. D. cell biologist who specializes in the use of state-of-the art fluorescence imaging and electron microscopy techniques to follow and dissect physiologically-relevant membrane protein trafficking events in epithelial and non-epithelial cells. He serves as the Associate Director of the CSB and the Director of the MGH Program in Membrane Biology (PMB) which uses use state of the art technologies in the pursuit of important biological questions at the system level. He became Professor of Medicine at Harvard in 2001 and has been at MGH since 1985.

Publications

Brown D, Hasler U, Nunes P, Bouley R, Lu H
Phosphorylation events and the modulation of aquaporin 2 cell surface expression.
Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2008;17(5):491-8
Hasler U, Nunes P, Bouley R, Lu HA, Matsuzaki T, Brown D
Acute hypertonicity alters aquaporin-2 trafficking and induces a MAP kinase-dependent accumulation at the plasma membrane of renal epithelial cells.
J Biol Chem. 2008;:ePub
Paunescu TG, Jones AC, Tyszkowski R, Brown D
V-ATPase expression in the mouse olfactory epithelium.
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2008;:ePub
Bouley R, Hawthorn G, Russo L, Lin H, Ausiello D, Brown D
Aquaporin 2 (AQP2) and vasopressin type 2 receptor (V2R) endocytosis in kidney epithelial cells: AQP2 is located in 'endocytosis-resistant' membrane domains after vasopressin treatment.
Biol Cell. 2006;98(4):215-32
Bouley R, Hawthorn G, Russo L, Lin H, Ausiello D, Brown D
Aquaporin 2 (AQP2) and vasopressin receptor (V2R) endocytosis in kidney epithelial cells: AQP2 is located in "endocytosis-resistant" membrane domains after vasopressin treatment.
Abdom Imaging. 2005;:ePub
Brown D
Aquaporins and vasopressin signaling in kidney health and disease: introduction.
Semin Nephrol. 2008;28:215-6
Bouley R, Hasler U, Lu HA, Nunes P, Brown D
Bypassing vasopressin receptor signaling pathways in nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
Semin Nephrol. 2008;28:266-78
Lu HA, Matsuzaki T, Bouley R, Hasler U, Qin Q, Brown D
The phosphorylation state of serine 256 is dominant over that of serine 261 in the regulation of AQP2 trafficking in renal epithelial cells.
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2008;:ePub
Russo LM, Brown D, Lin HY
The soluble transforming growth factor-beta receptor: Advantages and applications.
Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2008;:ePub
Russo LM, Sandoval RM, Brown D, Molitoris BA, Comper WD
Response to ''On the origin of albuminuria''
Kidney Int. 2007;72:1409-10
Russo LM, Sandoval RM, Brown D, Molitoris BA, Comper WD
Response to ''Albumin concentration in the Bowman's capsule: Multiphoton microscopy vs micropuncture technique''
Kidney Int. 2007;72:1411
Pietrement C, Da Silva N, Silberstein C, James M, Marsolais M, Van Hoek A, Brown D, Pastor-Soler N, Ameen N, Laprade R, Ramesh V, Breton S
Role of NHERF1, CFTR and cAMP in the regulation of aquaporin 9
J Biol Chem. 2007;283:2986-96
Paunescu TG, Russo LM, Da Silva N, Kovacikova J, Mohebbi N, Van Hoek AN, McKee M, Wagner CA, Breton S, Brown D
Compensatory membrane expression of the V-ATPase B2 subunit isoform in renal medullary intercalated cells of B1-deficient mice.
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2007;293(6):F1915-26
Paunescu TG, Da Silva N, Russo LM, McKee M, Lu HA, Breton S, Brown D
Association Of Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase (sAC) With The V-ATPase In Renal Epithelial Cells.
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2007;:ePub
Russo LM, Sandoval RM, Brown D, Molitoris BA, Comper WD
Controversies in nephrology: Response to ''renal albumin handling, facts, and artifacts''
Kidney Int. 2007;72(10):1195-7
Lu HA, Sun TX, Matsuzaki T, Yi XH, Eswara J, Bouley R, McKee M, Brown D
Heat shock protein 70 interacts with aquaporin-2 (AQP2) and regulates its trafficking.
J Biol Chem. 2007;282(39):28721-32
Da Silva N, Shum WW, El-Annan J, Paunescu TG, McKee M, Smith PJ, Brown D, Breton S
Relocalization of the V-ATPase B2 subunit to the apical membrane of epididymal clear cells of mice deficient in the B1 subunit.
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2007;293(1):C199-210
Russo LM, del Re E, Brown D, Lin HY
Evidence for a role of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 in the induction of postglomerular albuminuria in diabetic nephropathy: amelioration by soluble TGF-beta type II receptor.
Diabetes. 2007;56(2):380-8
Russo LM, Sandoval RM, McKee M, Osicka TM, Collins AB, Brown D, Molitoris BA, Comper WD
The normal kidney filters nephrotic levels of albumin retrieved by proximal tubule cells: retrieval is disrupted in nephrotic states.
Kidney Int. 2007;71(6):504-13
Yi X, Bouley R, Lin HY, Bechoua S, Sun TX, Del Re E, Shioda T, Raychowdhury MK, Lu HA, Abou-Samra AB, Brown D, Ausiello DA
Alix (AIP1) is a vasopressin receptor (V2R)-interacting protein that increases lysosomal degradation of the V2R.
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2007;292(5):F1303-13

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