Sara Sigurbjörnsdóttir

University of Iceland — IS

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

melanin and skin pigmentation(6), RNA regulation and disease(4), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics(3), RNA Research and Splicing(3), Cell Adhesion Molecules Research(3)

Publications18 total

Phenotype switching in melanoma cells: MITF regulates the expression of CDH1 through E-boxes in an intronic region
Journal of Investigative Dermatology·2025Open Access
Evolutionary History of Hedgehog Signaling Genes and Smoothened Dose Sensitivity in Teleosts
Evolutionary Biology·2025Open Access
Novel mechanisms of MITF regulation identified in a mouse suppressor screen
EMBO Reports·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Novel mechanisms of MITF regulation and melanoma predisposition identified in a mouse suppressor screen
2023Open Access
Hedgehog signalling in bone and osteoarthritis: the role of Smoothened and cholesterol
FEBS Journal·2022· 29 cited
MITF reprograms the extracellular matrix and focal adhesion in melanoma
eLife·2021· 79 citedOpen Access
Author response: MITF reprograms the extracellular matrix and focal adhesion in melanoma
2020Open Access
MITF reprograms the extracellular matrix and focal adhesion in melanoma
2020· 5 citedOpen Access
MITF has a central role in regulating starvation-induced autophagy in melanoma
Scientific Reports·2019· 105 citedOpen Access
Meta-analysis of Icelandic and UK data sets identifies missense variants in SMO, IL11, COL11A1 and 13 more new loci associated with osteoarthritis
Nature Genetics·2018· 172 cited
Dual function for Tango1 in secretion of bulky cargo and in ER-Golgi morphology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2017· 59 citedOpen Access
Dual function for Tango1 in secretion of bulky cargo and in ER-Golgi morphology
2017· 6 citedOpen Access
A Genome-Wide Screen for Dendritically Localized RNAs Identifies Genes Required for Dendrite Morphogenesis
G3 Genes Genomes Genetics·2016· 16 citedOpen Access
Abstract 224: The role of the microphthalmia associated transcription factor in autophagy regulation in melanoma
Cancer Research·2016
Complex cell shape: Molecular mechanisms of tracheal terminal cell development in Drosophila melanogaster
2015· 1 cited
Molecular mechanisms of de novo lumen formation
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology·2014· 174 cited
A community effort towards a knowledge-base and mathematical model of the human pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium LT2
BMC Systems Biology·2011· 150 citedOpen Access
Gersveppastofnar til framleiðslu lyfjaefna. Áhrif breytinga á tRNA genum á tjáningu utanaðkomandi próteina
2008

Frequent Co-authors

Eirı́kur Steingrı́msson(10), Lionel Larue(7), Katrín Möller(5), Ramile Dilshat(5), Margrét H. Ögmundsdóttir(5), Maria Leptin(4), Valerie Fock(4), Colin Kenny(4), Robert A. Cornell(4), Ilse Gerritsen(3), Romain Lasseur(3), Jana Trávníčková(3), Ossia M. Eichhoff(3), Philipp Cerny(3), Kritika Kirty(3), Berglind O. Einarsdottir(3), Phil F. Cheng(3), E. Elizabeth Patton(3), Marie de Tayrac(3), Erna Magnúsdóttir(3)