Kenneth Adolph
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Office Address

420 Washington Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

Kenneth Adolph

Associate Professor
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics

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Research statement

My research is concerned with a group of proteins that share a similar protein domain structure. These are the metaxin proteins, FAXC proteins, and CDR proteins. The metaxin proteins are mitochondrial membrane proteins that are involved in the process of protein import into mitochondria. The roles of FAXC proteins and CDR proteins are unknown. I also have an interest in the thrombospondin proteins, which are large proteins (~1000 amino acids or greater) and have complex protein domain structures. The thrombospondins are extracellular matrix proteins with roles in various processes including angiogenesis, tumor growth, and skeletal development.

Selected publications

Adolph, K.W. (2025). FAXC and metaxin proteins of fungi and bacteria: Distinct categories of proteins with shared structural features. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2025.01.06.631459

Adolph, K.W. (2024). Thrombospondin proteins: Versatile extracellular proteins with multiple biological functions. Semin. Cell Dev. Biol. Volume 155, Part B, Pages 1-2, 1 March 2024 doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2023.09.003

Adolph, K.W. (2024). CDR proteins of C. elegans and related species: Relationship to metaxin and FAXC proteins. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.01.02.573863

Adolph, K.W. (2023). FAXC proteins of vertebrates and invertebrates: Relationship to metaxin proteins. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.01.04.522723

Adolph, K.W. (2022). The metaxin mitochondrial import proteins: Multiple metaxin-like proteins in fungi. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2022.01.04.474931