L. Michael Carastro Jr.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Tampa
United States of America
Biography
Carastro has published peer-reviewed research articles in the Journal of Biological Chemistry , Molecular Cancer Research , Nucleic Acids Research , Biochemical Journal and Journal of Steroid Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Additionally, he has been a peer-reviewer for the biomedical journals Carcinogenesis and Nucleic Acids Research.Carastro is a member in the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the American Association for Cancer Research.
Research Interest
Michael Carastro earned his doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Subsequent to completing his doctoral studies, he acquired extensive postdoctoral training in human gene expression and molecular oncology. Before coming to The University of Tampa in 2006, he was an assistant professor of pharmacology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and an associate member of the Penn State Cancer Institute. In addition to his current faculty position at UT, the H. Lee Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center and Research Institute awarded him an appointment at the level of member in 2007.
Publications
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Strudwick S, Carastro LM, Stagg T, Lazarus P. Differential transcription-coupled translational inhibition of human p53 expression: a potentially important mechanism of regulating p53 expression in normal versus tumor tissue. Molecular cancer research. 2003 Apr 1;1(6):463-74.
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Carastro LM, Tan CK, Selg M, Jack HM, So AG, Downey KM. Identification of delta helicase as the bovine homolog of HUPF1: demonstration of an interaction with the third subunit of DNA polymerase delta. Nucleic acids research. 2002 May 15;30(10):2232-43.
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Lu X, Tan CK, Zhou JQ, You M, Carastro LM, Downey KM, So AG. Direct interaction of proliferating cell nuclear antigen with the small subunit of DNA polymerase δ. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2002 Jul 5;277(27):24340-5.
