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Ira Pastan

Researcher at Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Publications -  1304
Citations -  113191

Ira Pastan is an academic researcher from Laboratory of Molecular Biology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Immunotoxin & Pseudomonas exotoxin. The author has an hindex of 160, co-authored 1286 publications receiving 110069 citations. Previous affiliations of Ira Pastan include Heidelberg University & National Institutes of Health.

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Cyclic AMP-dependent phosphorylation of filamin in mammalian smooth muscle.

TL;DR: Phosphorylation of filamin is a high molecular weight actin-binding protein found in large quantities in smooth muscle and other non-muscle cells and is due to a soluble kinase stimulated only by Cyclic AMP and not by cyclic GMP or Ca2+.
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Recombinant Toxins Containing Human Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor and Either Pseudomonas Exotoxin or Diphtheria Toxin Kill Gastrointestinal Cancer and Leukemia Cells

TL;DR: The fact that PE is more effective than DT in killing GI but not leukemic tumor cells targeted by GM-CSF indicates a fundamental difference in the way PE or DT gains access to the cytosol in these cells.
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Permanent Genetic Tagging of Podocytes: Fate of Injured Podocytes in a Mouse Model of Glomerular Sclerosis

TL;DR: When podocytes are severely injured, proliferating parietal epithelial cells migrate onto the visceral site, thereby mimicking proliferating podocytes, and the fate of injured podocytes was pursued.
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Cytotoxic effects of a recombinant chimeric toxin on rapidly proliferating vascular smooth muscle cells.

TL;DR: A chimeric toxin targeted toward the EGF receptor can selectively kill rapidly proliferating SMCs, and competition studies using excess EGF indicated that the cytotoxic effects of TGFa-PE40 are specifically mediated by the E GF receptor.