Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

Key Publications of James Rothman

Fries, E. and Rothman, J.E. (1980) Transport of vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein in a cell-free extract. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77: 3870–3874.

Block, M.R., Glick, B.S., Wilcox, C.A., Wieland, F.T. and Rothman, J.E. (1988) Purification of an N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive protein catalyzing vesicular transport. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85: 7852–7856.

Serafini, T., Orci, L., Amherdt, M., Brunner, M., Kahn, R.A. and Rothman, J.E. (1991) ADP-Ribosylation Factor (ARF) Is a Subunit of the Coat of Golgi-Derived COP-Coated Vesicles: A Novel Role for a GTP-Binding Protein. Cell 67: 239–253.

Söllner, T., Whiteheart, S.W., Brunner, M., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Geromanos, S., Tempst, P. and Rothman, J.E. (1993) SNAREs, SNAP receptors implicated in vesicle targeting and fusion. Nature 362: 318–324.

Weber, T., Zemelman, B.V., McNew, J.A., Westermann, B., Gmachi, M., Parlati, F., Söllner, T.H., and Rothman, J.E. (1998) SNAREpins: Minimal Machinery for Membrane Fusion. Cell 92: 759–772.

McNew, J.A., Fukuda, R., Parlati, F., Johnston, R.J., Paz, K., Paumet, F., Söllner, T.H., and Rothman, J.E. (2000) Compartmental specificity of cellular membrane fusion encoded in SNARE proteins. Nature 407: 152–159.