Jonathan D. Smith
 Staff
                            Cellular and Molecular Medicine                                                        
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
                                                        United States of America
                        
Biography
We apply cell/molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics/genomics to study three areas related to cardiovascular disease.
Research Interest
Atherosclerosis; HDL metabolism; Atrial fibrillation; Genetics; Genomics; eQTL; Gene expression; Reverse cholesterol transport; Dysfunctional HDL; RNAseq; Allelic expression imbalance; ABCA1; Mouse models; Zinc finger nuclease
Publications
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                            Wang S, Brubaker G, Robinet P, Smith JD, Gulshan K. ORMDL orosomucoid-like proteins are degraded by free cholesterol loading induced autophagy. (2015) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112:3728-33. 
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                            ore-Panter SR, Hsu J, Barnard J, Moravec CS, Van Wagoner DR, etal. the PITX2 adjacent noncoding RNA, is expressed in human left atria and regulates PITX2c expression. (2016) Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 9:e003197. 
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                            Gulshan K, Brubaker G, Conger H, Wang S, Zhang R, et al.PI(4,5)P2 is translocated by ABCA1 to the cell surface where it mediates apolipoprotein A1 binding and nascent HDL assembly, and it is carried on HDL. (2016) Circ Res 119:827-838. 

