Marianna Pintér

Division of Neurobiology

Arizona Research Laboratories

611 Gould-Simpson Building

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona 85721

Telephone: (520) 621-8383

Fax: (520) 621-8282

e-mail: marianna@u.arizona.edu

 

Education

 

1992 PhD, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary)

Thesis: Ca2+-dependent proteolytic system in Drosophila

1983 Masters Degree in Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary)

Thesis: Purification of Walsh inhibitor and cAMP-dependent protein kinases from rabbit skeletal muscle and their effect on protein phosphorylation in Drosophila

 

Honors

 

1995 EMBO Fellowship

1995 FEBS Fellowship

1993 Wenner-Gren Fellowship

1993 EMBO Fellowship

1992 FEBS Fellowship

1988 ESF Fellowship

 

Postdoctoral positions held

 

2001-present Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

2000-2001 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

1997-2000 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

1996-1997 Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

1995-1996 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

1992-1995 Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

 

Publications

 

Refereed Journal Articles

 

Jékely G, Pintér M, Friedrich P.

Drosophila calpains. Purification of a calpain-like enzyme from fruit flies, and expression in Escherichia coli.

Methods Mol Biol. 2000;144:67-74.

Pintér M, Jékely G, Szepesi RJ, Farkas A, Theopold U, Meyer HE, Lindholm D, Nässel DR, Hultmark D, Friedrich P.

TER94, a Drosophila homolog of the membrane fusion protein CDC48/p97, is accumulated in nonproliferating cells: in the reproductive organs and in the brain of the imago.

Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 1998 Feb;28(2):91-8.

Theopold U, Pintér M, Daffre S, Tryselius Y, Friedrich P, Nässel DR, Hultmark D.

CalpA, a Drosophila calpain homolog specifically expressed in a small set of nerve, midgut, and blood cells.

Mol Cell Biol. 1995 Feb;15(2):824-34.

Pintér M, Aszódi A, Friedrich P, Ginzburg I.

Calpeptin, a calpain inhibitor, promotes neurite elongation in differentiating PC12 cells

Neurosci Lett. 1994 Mar 28;170(1):91-3.

Pintér M, Stierandova A, Friedrich P.

Purification and characterization of a Ca(2+)-activated thiol protease from Drosophila melanogaster.

Biochemistry. 1992 Sep 8;31(35):8201-6

Dévay P, Pintér M, Kiss I, Faragó A, Friedrich P.

Protein kinase C in larval brain of wild-type and dunce memory-mutant Drosophila.

J Neurogenet. 1989 May;5(2):119-26.

Pintér M, Friedrich P.

The calcium-dependent proteolytic system calpain-calpastatin in Drosophila melanogaster.

Biochem J. 1988 Jul 15;253(2):467-73.

Devay P, Pinter M, Yalcin AS, Friedrich P.

Altered autophosphorylation of adenosine 3',5'-phosphate-dependent protein kinase in the dunce memory mutant of Drosophila melanogaster.

Neuroscience. 1986 May;18(1):193-203.

Friedrich P, Dévay P, Dombrádi V, Kiss Z, Láng I, Pintér M, Solti M.

Drosophila mutants with memory deficits.

Prog Brain Res. 1986;69:309-21.

 

Chapter and Review

 

Friedrich P, Pintér M

The Ca2+-dependent proteolytic system of Drosophila

In: The Ca2+-Dependent Proteolytic System of Animal Cells, 1990, pp129-138 (eds:R.L. Mellgren and T. Murachi)

Friedrich P, Dévay P, Solti M, Pintér M.

Protein phosphorylation in dunce memory-mutant Drosophila.

Acta Biochim Biophys Hung. 1986;21(3):193-203