Selected publications

In preparation & preprints

• Higher Order Signaling of GPCR-mediated Glucose Stimulated Insulin Secretion in Pancreatic Beta Cells via metabolic STAMP.

  Aziz-Zanjani MO, Turn RE, et al. bioRxiv (preprint).
• TULP3 Regulates Axonemogenesis and Golgi-to-Cilia Membrane Traffic.

  Turn RE, et al. In preparation.
• ARF GEFs BIG1 and BIG2 have opposing roles in ciliogenesis.

  Turn RE, et al. In preparation.

Previous work

• ARF: the most misunderstood GTPase I ever knew. Why study ARF GAPs.

  Turn RE, Dacks J, Soubias O, Rosenberg EM, Northup JK, Randazzo PA. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2025 (in press).
• Multimodal Strategies for Spatiotemporal Profiling of Phosphorylation in Cilia Biology.

  Turn RE, Aziz-Zanjani MO, Asthana A, Jackson PK. Journal of Cell Science, 2025 (in press).
• A CRISPR-based genome-wide screen for adipogenesis reveals new insights into mitotic expansion and lipogenesis.

  Turn RE*, Hilgendorf KI, Johnson CT, Han K, Rabiee A, Demeter J, Aziz-Zanjani MO, Cheng R, Domizi P, Zhu Y, Jiang Z, Svensson KJ, Bassik MC, Jackson PK. Genes & Development, 2025.
• Synchronized temporal-spatial analysis via microscopy and phosphoproteomics (STAMP) of quiescence.

  Aziz-Zanjani MO*, Turn RE*, Asthana A, Linde-Garelli KY, Xu LA, Labrie LE, Mobedi M, Jackson PK. Science Advances, 2025;11(17):eadt9712. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt9712
• Antibody characterization is critical to enhance reproducibility in biomedical research.

  Kahn RA, … Turn RE, … et al. eLife, 2024;13:e100211. doi:10.7554/eLife.100211
• SARS-CoV-2 replication in airway epithelia requires motile cilia and microvillar reprogramming.

  Wu CT, … Turn RE, … Jackson PK. Cell, 2023;186(1):112-130.e20.
• The ARF GAPs ELMOD1 and ELMOD3 act at the Golgi and cilia to regulate ciliogenesis and ciliary protein traffic.

  Turn RE*, Hu Y, Dewees SI, et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2022;33(7).
• Phylogenetic profiling and cellular analyses of ARL16 reveal roles in traffic of IFT140 and INPP5E.

  Dewees SI, Vargová R, Hardin KR, Turn RE, et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2022;33(4):ar33.
• Roles for ELMOD2 and Rootletin in ciliogenesis.

  Turn RE, Linnert J, Gigante ED, Wolfrum U, Caspary T, Kahn RA. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2021;32(8):800-822.
• The ARF GAP ELMOD2 acts with different GTPases to regulate centrosomal microtubule nucleation and cytokinesis.

  Turn RE, East MP, Prekeris R, Kahn RA. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2020;31(18):2070-2091.
• ELMOD2 regulates mitochondrial fusion in a mitofusin-dependent manner, downstream of ARL2.

  Schiavon CR*, Turn RE*, Newman LE, Kahn RA. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2019;30(10):1198-1213.
• Meeting report. Small GTPases in membrane processes: FASEB summer research conference.

  Turn RE, D'Souza RS, Wall AA. Traffic, 2019;20(3):259-262.
• The ARL2 GTPase regulates mitochondrial fusion from the intermembrane space.

  Newman LE, Schiavon CR, Turn RE, Kahn RA. Cellular Logistics, 2017;7(3):e1340104.
• Higher order signaling: ARL2 as regulator of both mitochondrial fusion and microtubule dynamics.

  Francis JW, Turn RE, Newman LE, Schiavon C, Kahn RA. Small GTPases, 2016;7(4):188-196.
• Autocrine selection of a GLP-1R G-protein biased agonist with potent antidiabetic effects.

  Zhang H, … Turn R, … Lerner RA. Nature Communications, 2015;6:8918.

Public datasets

Public datasets will be shared here when they are available.