Michael R. Lerner

Dr.
Michael Rush Lerner
Born
Portland, Oregon, United States
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
OccupationDermatologist
Known forDiscovery of snRNP; STEP bioassay; research on Smoothened as GPCR
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
FieldDermatology; Molecular biology
Sub-specialtiesDermatology; Molecular biology; GPCR research
ResearchsnRNP; GPCR bioassays


Michael Rush Lerner is a dermatologist in San Diego, California.[1]

Lerner was born in Portland, Oregon.

He discovered snRNPs with Joan A. Steitz,[2] STEP (with Paul Lombroso), created the melanophore based GPCR bioassay and demonstrated that Smoothened is a GPCR.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Michael Lerner, Dermatologist in San Diego, CA | US News Doctors". health.usnews.com. 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b Lerner MR, Steitz JA (November 1979). "Antibodies to small nuclear RNAs complexed with proteins are produced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 (11): 5495–9. Bibcode:1979PNAS...76.5495R. doi:10.1073/pnas.76.11.5495. PMC 411675. PMID 316537.


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