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Jeffrey Varner

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
Verified email at cornell.edu
Cited by 3729

A review of the mammalian unfolded protein response

…, AW Chen, JD Varner - Biotechnology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Proteins requiring post‐translational modifications such as N‐linked glycosylation are
processed in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). A diverse array of cellular stresses can lead to …

Engineering the spatial organization of metabolic enzymes: mimicking nature's synergy

RJ Conrado, JD Varner, MP DeLisa - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2008 - Elsevier
A growing body of evidence indicates that many cellular reactions within metabolic pathways
are catalyzed not by free-floating ‘soluble’ enzymes, but via one or more membrane-…

[HTML][HTML] Computationally derived points of fragility of a human cascade are consistent with current therapeutic strategies

D Luan, M Zai, JD Varner - PLoS computational biology, 2007 - journals.plos.org
The role that mechanistic mathematical modeling and systems biology will play in molecular
medicine and clinical development remains uncertain. In this study, mathematical modeling …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of cell free biomanufacturing

M Vilkhovoy, A Adhikari, S Vadhin, JD Varner - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cell-free systems are a widely used research tool in systems and synthetic biology and a
promising platform for manufacturing of proteins and chemicals. In the past, cell-free biology …

[HTML][HTML] Ubiquibodies, synthetic E3 ubiquitin ligases endowed with unnatural substrate specificity for targeted protein silencing

AD Portnoff, EA Stephens, JD Varner… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP) is the main route of protein degradation in
eukaryotic cells and is a common mechanism through which numerous cellular pathways are …

Physicochemical regulation of endothelial sprouting in a 3D microfluidic angiogenesis model

…, P DelNero, B Kwee, JD Varner… - … research Part A, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Both physiological and pathological tissue remodeling (eg, during wound healing and
cancer, respectively) require new blood vessel formation via angiogenesis, but the underlying …

A hybrid model of anaerobic E. coli GJT001: Combination of elementary flux modes and cybernetic variables

JI Kim, JD Varner, D Ramkrishna - Biotechnology progress, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… In adapting the framework to a large network, Varner and Ramkrishna12, 13 developed an
Varner15 used the methodology to simulate various features of E. coli metabolism. However…

Constructing cell-free expression systems for low-cost access

…, J Molloy, S Sanchez-Nieto, JD Varner… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cell-free systems for gene expression have gained attention as platforms for the facile study
of genetic circuits and as highly effective tools for teaching. Despite recent progress, the …

[HTML][HTML] An effective model of the retinoic acid induced HL-60 differentiation program

…, KV Rogers, A Sagar, RP Bunaciu, A Yen, JD Varner - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In this study, we present an effective model All-Trans Retinoic Acid (ATRA)-induced
differentiation of HL-60 cells. The model describes reinforcing feedback between an ATRA-inducible …

Engineering orthogonal human O-linked glycoprotein biosynthesis in bacteria

…, A Shajahan, M Vilkhovoy, S Vadhin, JD Varner… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
A major objective of synthetic glycobiology is to re-engineer existing cellular glycosylation
pathways from the top down or construct non-natural ones from the bottom up for new and …