Richard Nowak, MD, MS

• Daniel DiCapua

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease; Myasthenia Gravis; Neurology; Guillain-Barre Syndrome; Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating

• Response of patients with refractory myasthenia gravis to rituximab: a retrospective study.Nowak RJ, Dicapua DB, Zebardast N, Goldstein JM. Response of patients with refractory myasthenia gravis to rituximab: a retrospective study. Therapeutic Advances In Neurological Disorders 2011, 4: 259-66. PMID: 22010039, PMCID: PMC3187675, DOI: 10.1177/1756285611411503.
• Improving binding specificity of pharmacological chaperones that target mutant superoxide dismutase-1 linked to familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using computational methods.Nowak RJ, Cuny GD, Choi S, Lansbury PT, Ray SS. Improving binding specificity of pharmacological chaperones that target mutant superoxide dismutase-1 linked to familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using computational methods. Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry 2010, 53: 2709-18. PMID: 20232802, PMCID: PMC2881568, DOI: 10.1021/jm901062p.
• Small-molecule-mediated stabilization of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked superoxide dismutase mutants against unfolding and aggregation.Ray SS, Nowak RJ, Brown RH, Lansbury PT. Small-molecule-mediated stabilization of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked superoxide dismutase mutants against unfolding and aggregation. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2005, 102: 3639-44. PMID: 15738401, PMCID: PMC553303, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408277102.
• An intersubunit disulfide bond prevents in vitro aggregation of a superoxide dismutase-1 mutant linked to familial amytrophic lateral sclerosis.Ray SS, Nowak RJ, Strokovich K, Brown RH, Walz T, Lansbury PT. An intersubunit disulfide bond prevents in vitro aggregation of a superoxide dismutase-1 mutant linked to familial amytrophic lateral sclerosis. Biochemistry 2004, 43: 4899-905. PMID: 15109247, DOI: 10.1021/bi030246r.
• Self-assembly of Abeta(1-42) into globular neurotoxins.Chromy BA, Nowak RJ, Lambert MP, Viola KL, Chang L, Velasco PT, Jones BW, Fernandez SJ, Lacor PN, Horowitz P, Finch CE, Krafft GA, Klein WL. Self-assembly of Abeta(1-42) into globular neurotoxins. Biochemistry 2003, 42: 12749-60. PMID: 14596589, DOI: 10.1021/bi030029q.
• Alpha-synuclein, especially the Parkinson's disease-associated mutants, forms pore-like annular and tubular protofibrils.Lashuel HA, Petre BM, Wall J, Simon M, Nowak RJ, Walz T, Lansbury PT. Alpha-synuclein, especially the Parkinson's disease-associated mutants, forms pore-like annular and tubular protofibrils. Journal Of Molecular Biology 2002, 322: 1089-102. PMID: 12367530, DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(02)00735-0.
• Protofibrillar islet amyloid polypeptide permeabilizes synthetic vesicles by a pore-like mechanism that may be relevant to type II diabetes.Anguiano M, Nowak RJ, Lansbury PT. Protofibrillar islet amyloid polypeptide permeabilizes synthetic vesicles by a pore-like mechanism that may be relevant to type II diabetes. Biochemistry 2002, 41: 11338-43. PMID: 12234175, DOI: 10.1021/bi020314u.