Michael Caterina MD, PhD

Professor of Biological Chemistry




Munns CH, Chung MK, Amzel LM, and Caterina MJ. (2015) Role of the outer pore domain in TRPV1 dynamic permeability to large cations. J. Biol Chem. 290: 5707-5724. PMID: 25568328

Pang Z, Sakamoto T, Kim YS, Yang F, Guan Y, Dong X, Guler A, Caterina MJ. Keratinocyte stimulation is sufficient to evoke nociception in the mouse  (2015) Pain Apr;156(4):656-65. (cover article) PMID: 25790456

Hua ZL, Jeon S, Caterina MJ, and Nathans JN. Frizzled3 is required for the development of multiple axon tracts in the mouse central nervous system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Jul 22;111(29):E3005-14.PMID: 24799694

Km YS, Chu Y, Han L, Li M, Li Z, LaVinka PC, Sun S, Tang Z, Park K, Caterina MJ, Ren K, Dubner R, Wei F and Dong X. Central Terminal Sensitization of TRPV1 by Descending Serotonergic Facilitation Modulates Chronic Pain. Neuron (2014) Feb 19;81(4):873-87. PMID: 24462040

Caterina MJ (2014) TRP channel cannabinoid targets and skin inflammation ACS Chem Neurosci. 5(11):1107-16 PMID: 24915599

Park U, Vastani N, Guan Y, Raja S, Koltzenberg M. and Caterina MJ.  TRPV2 knockout mice are susceptible to perinatal lethality but display normal thermal and mechanical nociception  (2011) J Neurosci. 31(32):11425-36.

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Huang SM, Li X, Yu Y, Wang J, Caterina MJ.  TRPV3 and TRPV4 ion channels are not major contributors to mouse heat sensation. (2011) Mol Pain. 2011 May 17;7(1):37.

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Cheng X, Jin, J, Hu L, Shen D, Dong X, Samie MA, Knoff J, Eisinger B, Liu M, Huang SM, Caterina MJ, Dempsey P, Michael E, Dlugosz A, Andrews NC, Clapham DE, and Xu H. A Keratinocyte TRP Channel Controls Hair Morphogenesis and Skin Barrier Formation via EGFR signaling and Transglutaminase Activity. (2010)  Cell  141, 331-343.

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Link TM, Park U, Vonakis BM, Raben DM, Soloski MJ, Caterina MJ. TRPV2 has a pivotal role in macrophage particle binding and phagocytosis. (2010)  Nature Immunology  11, 232-239.

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Landouré G, Zdebik AA, Martinez TL, Burnett BG, Stanescu HC, Inada H, Shi Y, Taye AA, Kong L, Munns CH, Choo SS, Phelps CB, Paudel R, Houlden H, Ludlow CL, Caterina MJ, Gaudet R, Kleta R, Fischbeck KH, Sumner CJ. Mutations in TRPV4 cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2C Nature Genet. (2010) Feb;42(2):170-4.

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Huang SM, Lee H, Chung MK, Park, U, Yu YY, Bradshaw H, Coulombe PA, Walker JM, and Caterina MJ.  Skin keratinocyte TRPV3 ion channels modulate pain sensitivity via prostaglandin E2. (2008) J. Neurosci. 28, 13727- 13737.

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Chung MK, Guler AD and Caterina MJ. TRPV1 exhibits dynamic ionic selectivity during agonist stimulation. (2008) Nature Neuroscience 11, 555-564 (Highlighted in Nat Neurosci. 2008 May;11(5):528-9)

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Moussaieff A, Rimmerman N, Bregman T, Straiker A, Felder CC, Shoham S, Kashman Y, Huang SM, Lee H, Shohami E, Mackie K, Caterina MJ, Walker JM, Fride E and Mechoulam R.    Incensole acetate, an incense component, elicits psychoactivity by activating TRPV3 channels in the brain (2008)  FASEB J 22(8):3024-34.

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Lumpkin EA and Caterina MJ.   Mechanisms of Sensory Transduction in the Skin. (2007) Nature 445(7130):858-65.

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Birder L, Negoita F, Lee H, de Groat W, Kanai A, Barrick S, Meyers S, and Caterina, MJ.    Activation of Urothelial-TRPV4 by 4a-PDD contributes to altered bladder reflexes in the rat. (2007)  J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 323(1):227-35. PubMed Reference

Sidhaye VK, Guler AD, Schweitzer KS, D’Alessio F, Caterina MJ and King LS    Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 regulates aquaporin-5 abundance under hypotonic conditions. (2006) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 103(12):4747-52.

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Shimizu I, Iida T, Horiuchi N and Caterina MJ.   5-Iodoresiniferatoxin evokes hypothermia in mice and is a partial TRPV1 agonist in vitro .(2005) J. Pharm. Exp. Ther., 314:1378-85.

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Shimizu I, Iida T, Guan Y, Zhao C, Raja SN, Jarvis MF, Cockayne DA, and Caterina MJ.    Enhanced thermal avoidance in mice lacking the ATP receptor P2X3. (2005) Pain, 116, 96-108.

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Pogatzki-Zahn E,, Shimizu I, Caterina MJ and Raja SN.   Heat hyperalgesia after incision requires TRPV1 and is distinct from pure inflammatory pain. (2005) Pain, 115, 296-307.

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Chung MK, Guler AD, and Caterina MJ.   Biphasic currents evoked by chemical or thermal activation of the heat-gated ion channel, TRPV3. (2005)  J. Biol Chem. 280, 15928-15941.

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Lee H, Iida T, Mizuno A, Suzuki M, Caterina MJ.   Altered thermal preference in mice lacking TRPV4. (2005) J. Neurosci. 25 1304-10.

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Iida T, Shimizu I, Nealen ML, Campbell, A., and Caterina MJ.  Attenuated fever response in mice lacking TRPV1. (2005) Neurosci. Lett. 378, 28-33.

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Chung MK, Lee H, Mizuno A, Suzuki M, Caterina MJ.   2-aminonethoxydiphenyl borate activates and sensitizes the heat-gated ion channel, TRPV3. (2004) J. Neurosci. 24, 5177-5182.

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Chung MK, Lee H, Mizuno A, Suzuki M, Caterina MJ .  TRPV3 and TRPV4 mediate warmth-evoked currents in primary mouse keratinocytes. (2004) J Biol. Chem. 279, 21569-21575.

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Nealen M, Thut P, Gold M and Caterina MJ. TRPM8 is expressed in a subset of cold-responsive trigeminal neurons from rat. (2003) J. Neurophysiology 90, 515-520.

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Birder LA, Nakamura Y, Kiss S, Nealen ML, Barrick S, Kanai AJ, Wang E, Ruiz G, De Groat WC, Apodaca G, Watkins S, Caterina M.J.  Altered urinary bladder function in mice lacking the vanilloid receptor TRPV1. (2002) Nature Neurosci. 5, 856-860.

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Guler A, Lee H, Iida T, Shimizu I,  Tominaga M, and Caterina MJ.  Heat-evoked activation of the ion channel, TRPV4. (2002) J. Neurosci. 22, 6408-6414.

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Caterina MJ, Leffler A, Malmberg A, Martin W, Trafton J, Petersen-Zeitz KR, Koltzenberg M, Basbaum A and Julius D (2000) Impaired nociception and pain sensation in mice lacking the capsaicin receptor. Science 288, 306-313. (cover article)

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Caterina MJ, Rosen A, Tominaga M, Brake AJ, and Julius D (1999) A capsaicin receptor homologue with a threshold for noxius heat. Nature, 398, 436-441.

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Caterina MJ, Schumacher M, Tominaga M,, Rosen TA, Levine JD and Julius, D.  The capsaicin receptor, a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway.  (1997) Nature, 389, 816-824.

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