Wade Harper, Ph.D.

Wade Harper, Ph.D.

Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology (HMS)
Professor of Cell Biology (HMS)
Chair of the Department of Cell Biology (HMS)
C-462A
617-432-6590
Harper Lab

Wade Harper, Ph.D., is the B and N Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology, a Professor of Cell Biology, and the Chair of Cell Biology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology, prior to performing post-doctoral work in protein biochemistry of growth factors at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine in 1988 and subsequently moved to the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (in 2003) and to the Department of Cell Biology in 2011.

The Harper Lab studies mechanisms underlying cellular homeostasis and signaling, with a focus on the ubiquitin system and the autophagy-lysosome system. The interest in the ubiquitin-proteasome system in the Harper Lab initially emerged through studies to understand how cell cycle regulators (cyclins and CDK inhibitors) are degraded to control cell cycle transitions, resulting in the discovery of cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases, and their roles in phosphorylation-dependent protein degradation. The Harper Lab currently uses quantitative proteomics, imaging, and biochemical approaches to elucidate underlying biochemical mechanisms controlling protein turnover, and applies these approaches to examine regulatory pathways relevant to various neurodegenerative disease, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. A major focus currently is the PARKIN ubiquitin ligase, which controls turnover of damaged mitochondria via the autophagy pathway and is mutated in Parkinson’s Disease. The Harper Lab, together with the Gygi Lab at HMS, is also using proteomics to develop a large-scale human protein interaction network including the majority of proteins encoded by the human genome.

Harvard Medical School

Dept. of Cell Biology, C-462A

240 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Lab telephone: 617-432-6590

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Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy.
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Autophagy
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Stuck in the middle: drugging the ubiquitin system at the e2 step.
Authors: Authors: Harper JW, King RW.
Cell
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The DNA damage response: ten years after.
Authors: Authors: Harper JW, Elledge SJ.
Mol Cell
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Structural complexity in ubiquitin recognition.
Authors: Authors: Harper JW, Schulman BA.
Cell
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High levels of phosphorylated form of Akt-1 in prostate cancer and non-neoplastic prostate tissues are strong predictors of biochemical recurrence.
Authors: Authors: Ayala G, Thompson T, Yang G, Frolov A, Li R, Scardino P, Ohori M, Wheeler T, Harper W.
Clin Cancer Res
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The cyclin E/Cdk2 substrate and Cajal body component p220(NPAT) activates histone transcription through a novel LisH-like domain.
Authors: Authors: Wei Y, Jin J, Harper JW.
Mol Cell Biol
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Deafening cycle.
Authors: Authors: Baumgartner B, Harper JW.
Nat Cell Biol
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Exit from exit: resetting the cell cycle through Amn1 inhibition of G protein signaling.
Authors: Authors: Wang Y, Shirogane T, Liu D, Harper JW, Elledge SJ.
Cell
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Doc1 mediates the activity of the anaphase-promoting complex by contributing to substrate recognition.
Authors: Authors: Passmore LA, McCormack EA, Au SW, Paul A, Willison KR, Harper JW, Barford D.
EMBO J
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The anaphase-promoting complex: it's not just for mitosis any more.
Authors: Authors: Harper JW, Burton JL, Solomon MJ.
Genes Dev
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