Matthew Lee

Matthew Lee, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY / THERAPEUTICS
Business Phone: (352) 294-5661
Business Email: youngil.lee@ufl.edu

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2022-2025
GMS6476 Fundamentals of Skeletal Muscle

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0003-4993-9038

Publications

Academic Articles
2024
Myospreader improves gene editing in skeletal muscle by myonuclear propagation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121(19) [DOI] 10.1073/pnas.2321438121. [PMID] 38687782.
2024
Potential limitations of micro-dystrophin gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
JCI insight. 9(11) [DOI] 10.1172/jci.insight.165869. [PMID] 38713520.
2022
Transcription Factor Hb9 Is Expressed in Glial Cell Lineages in the Developing Mouse Spinal Cord.
eNeuro. 9(6) [DOI] 10.1523/ENEURO.0214-22.2022. [PMID] 36265906.
2020
Lifetime analysis of mdx skeletal muscle reveals a progressive pathology that leads to myofiber loss.
Scientific reports. 10(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41598-020-74192-9. [PMID] 33057110.
2019
Sarcopenia: Aging-Related Loss of Muscle Mass and Function.
Physiological reviews. 99(1):427-511 [DOI] 10.1152/physrev.00061.2017. [PMID] 30427277.
2018
Cycles of myofiber degeneration and regeneration lead to remodeling of the neuromuscular junction in two mammalian models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
PloS one. 13(10) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0205926. [PMID] 30379896.
2017
Schwann cells participate in synapse elimination at the developing neuromuscular junction.
Current opinion in neurobiology. 47:176-181 [DOI] 10.1016/j.conb.2017.10.010. [PMID] 29121585.
2013
Terminal Schwann cells participate in the competition underlying neuromuscular synapse elimination.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 33(45):17724-36 [DOI] 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3339-13.2013. [PMID] 24198364.
2011
Changes in aging mouse neuromuscular junctions are explained by degeneration and regeneration of muscle fiber segments at the synapse.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 31(42):14910-9 [DOI] 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3590-11.2011. [PMID] 22016524.
2011
Muscles in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy show profound defects in neuromuscular development even in the absence of failure in neuromuscular transmission or loss of motor neurons.
Developmental biology. 356(2):432-44 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.05.667. [PMID] 21658376.
2009
Rapsyn interacts with the muscle acetylcholine receptor via alpha-helical domains in the alpha, beta, and epsilon subunit intracellular loops.
Neuroscience. 163(1):222-32 [DOI] 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.05.057. [PMID] 19482062.
2008
Identification of a motif in the acetylcholine receptor beta subunit whose phosphorylation regulates rapsyn association and postsynaptic receptor localization.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 28(45):11468-76 [DOI] 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2508-08.2008. [PMID] 18987183.

Grants

Aug 2021 ACTIVE
Understanding and Improving Therapies for the Muscular Dystrophies
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAMS

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 294-5661
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PO Box 100267
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
R5-128
1200 Newell Dr
Gainesville FL 32610