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Last published 2023
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Zinia D’Souza

Postdoctoral associate

Also affiliated: Tata Memorial Hospital (2017–2018); Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (2017–2018)

Postdoc Researcher

9 h-index 13 pubs 350 cited

  • Golgi Apparatus
  • Humans
  • Animals
  • SNARE Proteins
  • Glycosylation
  • Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport
  • Mouth Neoplasms
  • Mice
  • Biological Transport
  • Mutation
  • Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
  • Vimentin
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Membrane

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Zinia D’Souza investigates the intricate mechanisms governing cellular transport and protein modification, with a particular focus on the Golgi apparatus and its role in glycosylation. Her research explores how the Golgi's trafficking machinery, including SNARE proteins and adaptor complexes like GARP and COG, influences essential cellular processes. D'Souza's work has illuminated the functional flexibility of proteins such as Syntaxin-5 (STX5) in mediating SNARE pairing and maintaining Golgi homeostasis. She has also examined the consequences of disrupting these pathways, such as COG complex inactivation, which leads to impacts on intra-Golgi recycling vesicles and the depletion of critical Golgi components. Her publications also touch upon the role of GARP complex dysfunction in COPI displacement and calcium homeostasis. D'Souza has a publication record of 13 papers with 347 citations and an h-index of 9. She has collaborated extensively with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Vladimir Lupashin and Irina D. Pokrovskaya.

Metrics

  • h-index: 9
  • Publications: 13
  • Citations: 350

Selected Publications

  • Syntaxin‐5's flexibility in <scp>SNARE</scp> pairing supports Golgi functions (2023)
    Traffic 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • GARP dysfunction results in COPI displacement, depletion of Golgi v-SNAREs and calcium homeostasis proteins (2022)
    Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Acute COG complex inactivation unveiled its immediate impact on Golgi and illuminated the nature of intra‐Golgi recycling vesicles (2022)
    Traffic 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • GARP complex controls Golgi physiology by stabilizing COPI machinery and Golgi v-SNAREs (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • Acute COG inactivation unveiled its immediate impact on Golgi and illuminated the nature of intra-Golgi recycling vesicles (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • STX5’s flexibility in SNARE pairing supports Golgi functions (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Getting Sugar Coating Right! The Role of the Golgi Trafficking Machinery in Glycosylation (2021)
    Cells 26 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Golgi inCOGnito: From vesicle tethering to human disease (2020)
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects 56 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Maintaining order: <scp>COG</scp> complex controls Golgi trafficking, processing, and sorting (2019)
    FEBS Letters 110 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Defects in COG-Mediated Golgi Trafficking Alter Endo-Lysosomal System in Human Cells (2019)
    Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 32 citations DOI OpenAlex

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