Nathan A. McDonald

2.0k total citations
18 papers, 486 citations indexed

About

Nathan A. McDonald is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Aging. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan A. McDonald has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 486 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Aging. Recurrent topics in Nathan A. McDonald's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (8 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (8 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (7 papers). Nathan A. McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (8 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (8 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (7 papers). Nathan A. McDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Nathan A. McDonald's co-authors include Kathleen L. Gould, Kang Shen, Richard D. Fetter, Alaina H. Willet, Melanie D. Ohi, Craig W. Vander Kooi, Sarah E. Smith, Rong Li, Abigail Lind and Anna Feoktistova and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Journal of Cell Biology and Genome Research.

In The Last Decade

Nathan A. McDonald

18 papers receiving 483 citations

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Xiaobo Bai United States

Jonathan R. Bowen United States

Ting Gang Chew Singapore

Adeline Mayeux France

Parvin Bolourani Canada

Kausalya Murthy United States

Diana Pinheiro Austria

Valerie C. Coffman United States

Tetsuo Ichii Japan

Karen M. Plevock United States

Xiaobo Bai United States

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18 of 18 papers shown

Lind, Abigail, Nathan A. McDonald, Elias R. Gerrick, Ami S. Bhatt, & Katherine S. Pollard. (2025). Contiguous and complete assemblies of Blastocystis gut microbiome–associated protists reveal evolutionary diversification to host ecology. Genome Research. 35(6). 1377–1390. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Jun‐Song, Liping Ren, Lesley Turner, et al.. (2024). The core spindle pole body scaffold Ppc89 links the pericentrin orthologue Pcp1 to the fission yeast spindle pole body via an evolutionarily conserved interface. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 35(8). ar112–ar112. 1 indexed citations

McDonald, Nathan A., Tao Li, Meng‐Qiu Dong, & Kang Shen. (2023). SAD-1 kinase controls presynaptic phase separation by relieving SYD-2/Liprin-α autoinhibition. PLoS Biology. 21(12). e3002421–e3002421. 5 indexed citations

McDonald, Nathan A. & Kang Shen. (2021). Finding functions of phase separation in the presynapse. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 69. 178–184. 7 indexed citations

McDonald, Nathan A., Richard D. Fetter, & Kang Shen. (2020). Assembly of synaptic active zones requires phase separation of scaffold molecules. Nature. 588(7838). 454–458. 104 indexed citations

Bhattacharjee, Rahul, Jun‐Song Chen, Rachel H. Roberts-Galbraith, et al.. (2020). DYRK kinase Pom1 drives F-BAR protein Cdc15 from the membrane to promote medial division. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 31(9). 917–929. 17 indexed citations

Chandra, Mintu, Nathan A. McDonald, Alaina H. Willet, et al.. (2020). Opposite Surfaces of the Cdc15 F-BAR Domain Create a Membrane Platform That Coordinates Cytoskeletal and Signaling Components for Cytokinesis. Cell Reports. 33(12). 108526–108526. 11 indexed citations

Liu, Yajun, et al.. (2019). The F-BAR Domain of Rga7 Relies on a Cooperative Mechanism of Membrane Binding with a Partner Protein during Fission Yeast Cytokinesis. Cell Reports. 26(10). 2540–2548.e4. 9 indexed citations

McDonald, Nathan A., Abigail Lind, Sarah E. Smith, Rong Li, & Kathleen L. Gould. (2017). Nanoscale architecture of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe contractile ring. eLife. 6. 58 indexed citations

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McDonald, Nathan A., Yoshimasa Takizawa, Anna Feoktistova, et al.. (2016). The Tubulation Activity of a Fission Yeast F-BAR Protein Is Dispensable for Its Function in Cytokinesis. Cell Reports. 14(3). 534–546. 23 indexed citations

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McDonald, Nathan A. & Kathleen L. Gould. (2016). Linking up at the BAR: Oligomerization and F-BAR protein function. Cell Cycle. 15(15). 1977–1985. 26 indexed citations

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Foegeding, Nora J., Christian González‐Rivera, Nathan A. McDonald, et al.. (2016). Structural organization of membrane‐inserted hexamers formed by Helicobacter pylori VacA toxin. Molecular Microbiology. 102(1). 22–36. 15 indexed citations

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McDonald, Nathan A., Craig W. Vander Kooi, Melanie D. Ohi, & Kathleen L. Gould. (2015). Oligomerization but Not Membrane Bending Underlies the Function of Certain F-BAR Proteins in Cell Motility and Cytokinesis. Developmental Cell. 35(6). 725–736. 57 indexed citations

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McDonald, Nathan A. & Kathleen L. Gould. (2015). Characterization of Cytokinetic F-BARs and Other Membrane-Binding Proteins. Methods in molecular biology. 1369. 181–189. 4 indexed citations

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Willet, Alaina H., Nathan A. McDonald, & Kathleen L. Gould. (2015). Regulation of contractile ring formation and septation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 28. 46–52. 38 indexed citations

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Willet, Alaina H., Nathan A. McDonald, K. Adam Bohnert, et al.. (2015). The F-BAR Cdc15 promotes contractile ring formation through the direct recruitment of the formin Cdc12. The Journal of Cell Biology. 208(4). 391–399. 48 indexed citations

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Chen, Jun‐Song, Nathan A. McDonald, Liping Ren, et al.. (2015). Identification of New Players in Cell Division, DNA Damage Response, and Morphogenesis Through Construction of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Deletion Strains. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 5(3). 361–370. 20 indexed citations

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Ren, Liping, Alaina H. Willet, Rachel H. Roberts-Galbraith, et al.. (2014). The Cdc15 and Imp2 SH3 domains cooperatively scaffold a network of proteins that redundantly ensure efficient cell division in fission yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 26(2). 256–269. 41 indexed citations

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