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Michal Opas

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Andrei V Malko; Jane E Aubin; Maria Villagomez; Michal Opas
Both chondroinduction and proliferation account for growth of cartilage nodules in mouse limb bud cultures.
Hanna Balakier; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas; Katarzyna Szczepanska; Rong Xiao; Shang-mian Yie; Shirin Zaver; John Zhao; Clifford Librach
Expression of survivin in human oocytes and preimplantation embryos.
Dukgyu Lee; Peter E Light; Gary D Lopaschuk; Kimitoshi Nakamura; Barbara E Nickel; Tatsujiro Oka; Michal Opas; Sylvia Papp; Alison Robinson; Wattamon Srisakuldee; Jason R B Dyck; Beth Hunter; Elissavet Kardami; Marek Michalak
Calreticulin induces dilated cardiomyopathy.

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2013: Andrei V Malko; Jane E Aubin; Maria Villagomez; Michal Opas
Both chondroinduction and proliferation account for growth of cartilage nodules in mouse limb bud cultures.
Stem cell reviews 2013;9(2):121-31.
2013: Hanna Balakier; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas; Katarzyna Szczepanska; Rong Xiao; Shang-mian Yie; Shirin Zaver; John Zhao; Clifford Librach
Expression of survivin in human oocytes and preimplantation embryos.
Fertility and sterility 2013;99(2):518-25.
2013: Dukgyu Lee; Peter E Light; Gary D Lopaschuk; Kimitoshi Nakamura; Barbara E Nickel; Tatsujiro Oka; Michal Opas; Sylvia Papp; Alison Robinson; Wattamon Srisakuldee; Jason R B Dyck; Beth Hunter; Elissavet Kardami; Marek Michalak
Calreticulin induces dilated cardiomyopathy.
PloS one 2013;8(2):e56387.
2010: Tianshu Feng; Eva Szabo; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas
Cytoskeletal disassembly and cell rounding promotes adipogenesis from ES cells.
Stem cell reviews 2010;6(1):74-85.
2010: Sylvia Papp; Ewa Dziak; Golam Kabir; Peter Backx; Sophie Clement; Michal Opas
Evidence for calreticulin attenuation of cardiac hypertrophy induced by pressure overload and soluble agonists.
The American journal of pathology 2010;176(3):1113-21.
2009: Eva Szabo; Tianshu Feng; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas
Cell adhesion and spreading affect adipogenesis from embryonic stem cells: the role of calreticulin.
Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) 2009;27(9):2092-102.
2009: Maria Villagomez; Eva Szabo; Alexey Podcheko; Tianshu Feng; Sylvia Papp; Michal Opas
Calreticulin and focal-contact-dependent adhesion.
Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire 2009;87(4):545-56.
2009: Sylvia Papp; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas
Embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyogenesis: a novel role for calreticulin as a regulator.
Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) 2009;27(7):1507-15.
2009: Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Endoplasmic and sarcoplasmic reticulum in the heart.
Trends in cell biology 2009;19(6):253-9.
2009: Marek Michalak; Jody Groenendyk; Eva Szabo; Leslie I Gold; Michal Opas
Calreticulin, a multi-process calcium-buffering chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum.
The Biochemical journal 2009;417(3):651-66.
2009: Eva Szabo; Jonathan Soboloff; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas
Tamoxifen-inducible Cre-mediated calreticulin excision to study mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation.
Stem cells and development 2009;18(1):187-93.
2008: Eva Szabo; Yuanyuan Qiu; Shairaz Baksh; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Calreticulin inhibits commitment to adipocyte differentiation.
The Journal of cell biology 2008;182(1):103-16.
2008: Sylvia Papp; Eva Szabo; Hugh Kim; Christopher A McCulloch; Michal Opas
Kinase-dependent adhesion to fibronectin: regulation by calreticulin.
Experimental cell research 2008;314(6):1313-26.
2008: Sylvia Papp; Xiaochu Zhang; Eva Szabo; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Expression of endoplasmic reticulum chaperones in cardiac development.
The open cardiovascular medicine journal 2008;2():31-5.
2008: Sylvia Papp; Marc P Fadel; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Analysis of the suitability of calreticulin inducible HEK cells for adhesion studies: microscopical and biochemical comparisons.
Molecular and cellular biochemistry 2008;307(1-2):237-48.
2007: Xiaochu Zhang; Eva Szabo; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Endoplasmic reticulum stress during the embryonic development of the central nervous system in the mouse.
International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience 2007;25(7):455-63.
2007: Eva Szabo; Sylvia Papp; Michal Opas
Differential calreticulin expression affects focal contacts via the calmodulin/CaMK II pathway.
Journal of cellular physiology 2007;213(1):269-77.
2007: Sylvia Papp; Marc P Fadel; Michal Opas
Dissecting focal adhesions in cells differentially expressing calreticulin: a microscopy study.
Biology of the cell / under the auspices of the European Cell Biology Organization 2007;99(7):389-402.
2007: Sylvia Papp; Marc P Fadel; Hugh Kim; Christopher A McCulloch; Michal Opas
Calreticulin affects fibronectin-based cell-substratum adhesion via the regulation of c-Src activity.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2007;282(22):16585-98.
2007: Michal Opas; Marc P Fadel
Partial reversal of transformed fusiform phenotype by overexpression of calreticulin.
Cellular & molecular biology letters 2007;12(2):294-307.
2006: Jody Groenendyk; Anna Zuppini; Gordon C Shore; Michal Opas; R Chris Bleackley; Marek Michalak
Caspase 12 in calnexin-deficient cells.
Biochemistry 2006;45(44):13219-26.
2006: Virginie Martin; Jody Groenendyk; Simone S Steiner; Lei Guo; Monika Dabrowska; J M Robert Parker; Werner Müller-Esterl; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Identification by mutational analysis of amino acid residues essential in the chaperone function of calreticulin.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2006;281(4):2338-46.
2006: Mira D Lozyk; Sylvia Papp; Xiaochu Zhang; Kimitoshi Nakamura; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Ultrastructural analysis of development of myocardium in calreticulin-deficient mice.
BMC developmental biology 2006;6():54.
2005: Pascal Gelebart; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Calreticulin, a Ca2+-binding chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum.
The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 2005;37(2):260-6.
2005: Malgorzata Szperl; Michal Opas
[Calreticulin, Ca2+-binding chaperon of the endoplasmic reticulum].
Postepy biochemii 2005;51(4):382-6.
2005: Karen Bedard; Eva Szabo; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Cellular functions of endoplasmic reticulum chaperones calreticulin, calnexin, and ERp57.
International review of cytology 2005;245():91-121.
2004: Marek Michalak; Lei Guo; Murray Robertson; Mira Lozak; Michal Opas
Calreticulin in the heart.
Molecular and cellular biochemistry 2004;263(1-2):137-42.
2003: Lei Guo; Jody Groenendyk; Sylvia Papp; Monika Dabrowska; Barbara Knoblach; Cyril Kay; J M Robert Parker; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Identification of an N-domain histidine essential for chaperone function in calreticulin.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2003;278(50):50645-53.
2003: Sylvia Papp; Ewa Dziak; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Is all of the endoplasmic reticulum created equal? The effects of the heterogeneous distribution of endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-handling proteins.
The Journal of cell biology 2003;160(4):475-9.
2002: Lei Guo; Kimitoshi Nakamura; Jeffery Lynch; Michal Opas; Eric N Olson; Luis B Agellon; Marek Michalak
Cardiac-specific expression of calcineurin reverses embryonic lethality in calreticulin-deficient mouse.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2002;277(52):50776-9.
2002: Marek Michalak; Jeffrey Lynch; Jody Groenendyk; Lei Guo; J M Robert Parker; Michal Opas
Calreticulin in cardiac development and pathology.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 2002;1600(1-2):32-7.
2002: M Michalak; J M Robert Parker; Michal Opas
Ca2+ signaling and calcium binding chaperones of the endoplasmic reticulum.
Cell calcium 2002;32(5-6):269-78.
2002: Hanna Balakier; Ewa Dziak; Agata Sojecki; Clifford Librach; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Calcium-binding proteins and calcium-release channels in human maturing oocytes, pronuclear zygotes and early preimplantation embryos.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) 2002;17(11):2938-47.
2002: Anna Zuppini; Jody Groenendyk; Lori A Cormack; Gordon C Shore; Michal Opas; R Chris Bleackley; Marek Michalak
Calnexin deficiency and endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis.
Biochemistry 2002;41(8):2850-8.
2002: Nicolas Demaurex; Serge Arnaudeau; Michal Opas
Measurement of intracellular Ca2+ concentration.
Methods in cell biology 2002;70():453-74.
2001: Kimitoshi Nakamura; Anna Zuppini; Serge Arnaudeau; Jeffery Lynch; I Ahsan; R Krause; Sylvia Papp; H De Smedt; Jan B Parys; W Muller-Esterl; Daniel Lew; Karl-Heinz Krause; Nicolas Demaurex; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Functional specialization of calreticulin domains.
The Journal of cell biology 2001;154(5):961-72.
2001: Nasrin Mesaeli; Kimitoshi Nakamura; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Endoplasmic reticulum in the heart, a forgotten organelle?
Molecular and cellular biochemistry 2001;225(1-):1-6.
2001: Marc P Fadel; M Szewczenko-Pawlikowski; P Leclerc; Ewa Dziak; J M Symonds; Orest W Blaschuk; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Calreticulin affects beta-catenin-associated pathways.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2001;276(29):27083-9.
2001: Michal Opas; Janet R. Davies; Y Zhou; Ewa Dziak
Formation of retinal pigment epithelium in vitro by transdifferentiation of neural retina cells.
The International journal of developmental biology 2001;45(4):633-42.
2001: Kimitoshi Nakamura; Murray Robertson; Gang Liu; Peter Dickie; K Nakamura; J Q Guo; Henry J Duff; Michal Opas; K Kavanagh; Marek Michalak
Complete heart block and sudden death in mice overexpressing calreticulin.
The Journal of clinical investigation 2001;107(10):1245-53.
2001: Steven Johnson; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas; Paul Eggleton
The ins and outs of calreticulin: from the ER lumen to the extracellular space.
Trends in cell biology 2001;11(3):122-9.
2000: Christi Andrin; EF Corbett; Steven Johnson; Monika Dabrowska; Iain D Campbell; Paul Eggleton; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Expression and purification of mammalian calreticulin in Pichia pastoris.
Protein expression and purification 2000;20(2):207-15.
2000: Kimitoshi Nakamura; Ella Bossy-Wetzel; K Burns; Marc P Fadel; M Lozyk; Ing Swie Goping; Michal Opas; R Chris Bleackley; Douglas R Green; Marek Michalak
Changes in endoplasmic reticulum luminal environment affect cell sensitivity to apoptosis.
The Journal of cell biology 2000;150(4):731-40.
1999: Marek Michalak; EF Corbett; Nasrin Mesaeli; Kimitoshi Nakamura; Michal Opas
Calreticulin: one protein, one gene, many functions.
The Biochemical journal 1999;344 Pt 2():281-92.
1999: Michal Opas
Fluorescence tracing of intracellular proteins.
Biotechnic & histochemistry : official publication of the Biological Stain Commission 1999;74(6):294-310.
1999: AM Xavier; N Isowa; L Cai; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas; DI McRitchie; Arthur Slutsky; Shaf Keshavjee; Mingyao Liu
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha mediates lipopolysaccharide-induced macrophage inflammatory protein-2 release from alveolar epithelial cells. Autoregulation in host defense.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 1999;21(4):510-20.
1999: N Isowa; AM Xavier; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas; DI McRitchie; Arthur Slutsky; Shaf Keshavjee; Mingyao Liu
LPS-induced depolymerization of cytoskeleton and its role in TNF-alpha production by rat pneumocytes.
The American journal of physiology 1999;277(3 Pt 1):L606-15.
1999: Marc P Fadel; Ewa Dziak; CM Lo; JM Ferrier; Nasrin Mesaeli; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Calreticulin affects focal contact-dependent but not close contact-dependent cell-substratum adhesion.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1999;274(21):15085-94.
1999: Nasrin Mesaeli; Kimitoshi Nakamura; Elena Zvaritch; Peter Dickie; Ewa Dziak; Karl-Heinz Krause; Michal Opas; David H MacLennan; Marek Michalak
Calreticulin is essential for cardiac development.
The Journal of cell biology 1999;144(5):857-68.
1999: Michal Opas; Ewa Dziak
Intracellular pH and pCa measurement.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 1999;122():305-13.
1998: Christi Andrin; Michael J Pinkoski; K Burns; E A Atkinson; O Krahenbuhl; Dorothy Hudig; Stephanie A Fraser; U Winkler; J Tschopp; Michal Opas; R Chris Bleackley; Marek Michalak
Interaction between a Ca2+-binding protein calreticulin and perforin, a component of the cytotoxic T-cell granules.
Biochemistry 1998;37(29):10386-94.
1998: Michal Opas; Ewa Dziak
Direct transdifferentiation in the vertebrate retina.
The International journal of developmental biology 1998;42(2):199-206.
1998: Marek Michalak; P Mariani; Michal Opas
Calreticulin, a multifunctional Ca2+ binding chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum.
Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire 1998;76(5):779-85.
1997: M Szewczenko-Pawlikowski; Ewa Dziak; M J McLaren; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Heat shock-regulated expression of calreticulin in retinal pigment epithelium.
Molecular and cellular biochemistry 1997;177(1-2):145-52.
1997: Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Functions of dystrophin and dystrophin associated proteins.
Current opinion in neurology 1997;10(5):436-42.
1997: K Burns; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Calreticulin inhibits glucocorticoid- but not cAMP-sensitive expression of tyrosine aminotransferase gene in cultured McA-RH7777 hepatocytes.
Molecular and cellular biochemistry 1997;171(1-2):37-43.
1996: Michal Opas; M Szewczenko-Pawlikowski; G K Jass; Nasrin Mesaeli; Marek Michalak
Calreticulin modulates cell adhesiveness via regulation of vinculin expression.
The Journal of cell biology 1996;135(6 Pt 2):1913-23.
1996: Marek Michalak; K Burns; C Andrin; Nasrin Mesaeli; G H Jass; J L Busaan; Michal Opas
Endoplasmic reticulum form of calreticulin modulates glucocorticoid-sensitive gene expression.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1996;271(46):29436-45.
1996: L Mery; Nasrin Mesaeli; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas; Daniel Lew; Karl-Heinz Krause
Overexpression of calreticulin increases intracellular Ca2+ storage and decreases store-operated Ca2+ influx.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1996;271(16):9332-9.
1996: S Tharin; P A Hamel; Edward M Conway; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Regulation of calcium binding proteins calreticulin and calsequestrin during differentiation in the myogenic cell line L6.
Journal of cellular physiology 1996;166(3):547-60.
1995: Michal Opas
Cellular adhesiveness, contractility, and traction: stick, grip, and slip control.
Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire 1995;73(7-8):311-6.
1995: Y Zhou; E M Marcus; R P Haugland; Michal Opas
Use of a new fluorescent probe, seminaphthofluorescein-calcein, for determination of intracellular pH by simultaneous dual-emission imaging laser scanning confocal microscopy.
Journal of cellular physiology 1995;164(1):9-16.
1994: Y Zhou; Michal Opas
Cell shape, intracellular pH, and fibroblast growth factor responsiveness during transdifferentiation of retinal pigment epithelium into neuroepithelium in vitro.
Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire 1994;72(7-8):257-65.
1994: P D Nash; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Calreticulin: not just another calcium-binding protein.
Molecular and cellular biochemistry 1994;135(1):71-8.
1994: Y Zhou; Anna Moszczynska; Michal Opas
Generation and characterization of antibodies to adhesion-related molecules of retinal pigment epithelial cells.
Experimental eye research 1994;58(5):585-93.
1994: Anna Moszczynska; Michal Opas
Involvement of non-receptor protein tyrosine kinases in expression of differentiated phenotype by cells of retinal origin.
The International journal of developmental biology 1994;38(1):1-12.
1994: Y Zhou; Ewa Dziak; T R Unnasch; Michal Opas
Major retinal cell components recognized by onchocerciasis sera are associated with the cell surface and nucleoli.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 1994;35(3):1089-99.
1994: Michal Opas; Ewa Dziak
bFGF-induced transdifferentiation of RPE to neuronal progenitors is regulated by the mechanical properties of the substratum.
Developmental biology 1994;161(2):440-54.
1994: Anna Moszczynska; Michal Opas
Regulation of adhesion-related protein tyrosine kinases during in vitro differentiation of retinal pigment epithelial cells: translocation of pp60c-src to the nucleus is accompanied by downregulation of pp125FAK.
Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire 1994;72(1-2):43-8.
1993: Y Zhou; Ewa Dziak; Michal Opas
Adhesiveness and proliferation of epithelial cells are differentially modulated by activation and inhibition of protein kinase C in a substratum-dependent manner.
Journal of cellular physiology 1993;155(1):14-26.
1992: Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Calcium storage in nonmuscle tissues: is the retina special?
Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire 1992;70(10-11):972-9.
1992: Marek Michalak; R E Milner; K Burns; Michal Opas
Calreticulin.
The Biochemical journal 1992;285 ( Pt 3)():681-92.
1992: S Tharin; Ewa Dziak; Marek Michalak; Michal Opas
Widespread tissue distribution of rabbit calreticulin, a non-muscle functional analogue of calsequestrin.
Cell and tissue research 1992;269(1):29-37.
1991: Marek Michalak; S Baksh; Michal Opas
Identification and immunolocalization of calreticulin in pancreatic cells: no evidence for "calciosomes".
Experimental cell research 1991;197(1):91-9.
1991: Michal Opas; Ewa Dziak
Adhesion, spreading, and proliferation of cells on protein carpets: effects of stability of a carpet.
In vitro cellular & developmental biology : journal of the Tissue Culture Association 1991;27A(11):878-85.
1991: Michal Opas; Ewa Dziak; Larry Fliegel; Marek Michalak
Regulation of expression and intracellular distribution of calreticulin, a major calcium binding protein of nonmuscle cells.
Journal of cellular physiology 1991;149(1):160-71.
1991: R E Milner; S Baksh; C Shemanko; M R Carpenter; Lawrence B Smillie; Jean E Vance; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
Calreticulin, and not calsequestrin, is the major calcium binding protein of smooth muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum and liver endoplasmic reticulum.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1991;266(11):7155-65.
1990: Michal Opas; Ewa Dziak
Effects of a tumour promoter, 12-0-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA), on expression of differentiated phenotype in the chick retinal pigmented epithelial cells and on their interactions with the native basement membrane and with artificial substrata.
Differentiation; research in biological diversity 1990;43(1):20-8.
1989: Larry Fliegel; K Burns; Michal Opas; Marek Michalak
The high-affinity calcium binding protein of sarcoplasmic reticulum. Tissue distribution, and homology with calregulin.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 1989;982(1):1-8.
1989: Michal Opas
Expression of the differentiated phenotype by epithelial cells in vitro is regulated by both biochemistry and mechanics of the substratum.
Developmental biology 1989;131(2):281-93.
1989: K Turksen; Michal Opas; VI Kalnins
Cytoskeleton, adhesion, and extracellular matrix of fetal human retinal pigmented epithelial cells in culture.
Ophthalmic research 1989;21(1):56-66.
1989: Michal Opas; Ewa Dziak
Effects of TGF-beta on retinal pigmented epithelium in vitro.
Experimental cell biology 1989;57(4):206-12.
1988: Michal Opas; Ewa Dziak
Effects of substrata and method of tissue dissociation on adhesion, cytoskeleton, and growth of chick retinal pigmented epithelium in vitro.
In vitro cellular & developmental biology : journal of the Tissue Culture Association 1988;24(9):885-92.
1988: K Turksen; J Kanehisa; Michal Opas; Johan N M Heersche; Jane E Aubin
Adhesion patterns and cytoskeleton of rabbit osteoclasts on bone slices and glass.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 1988;3(4):389-400.
1988: Michal Opas
Adhesion of cells to protein carpets: do cells' feet have to be black?
Cell motility and the cytoskeleton 1988;11(3):178-81.
1987: K Turksen; Michal Opas; VI Kalnins
Preliminary characterization of cell surface-extracellular matrix linkage complexes in cultured retinal pigmented epithelial cells.
Experimental cell research 1987;171(1):259-64.
1986: Michal Opas; K Turksen; VI Kalnins
Effects of iodoacetic acid on cytoskeleton and adhesiveness of the chick RPE cells in vitro.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 1986;27(7):1068-74.
1985: Michal Opas; K Turksen; VI Kalnins
Adhesiveness and distribution of vinculin and spectrin in retinal pigmented epithelial cells during growth and differentiation in vitro.
Developmental biology 1985;107(2):269-80.
1983: K Turksen; Michal Opas; Jane E Aubin; VI Kalnins
Microtubules, microfilaments and adhesion patterns in differentiating chick retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells in vitro.
Experimental cell research 1983;147(2):379-91.