Michael J. Rynkiewicz, PhD

Instructor, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics

Michael Rynkiewicz
617.358.8482
700 Albany St Ctr for Adv Biomed Res

Biography

I am a protein crystallographer with extensive experience in computational structural analysis. My work over the years has encompassed a broad range of techniques, including protein crystallography, kinetic assays, organic synthesis, NMR and ultraviolet spectroscopy, small molecule structure-based drug design, epitope mapping of antibodies, and molecular dynamics calculations.

Education

  • Boston University School of Medicine, PhD
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS

Publications

  • Published on 1/22/2024

    Barry ME, Rynkiewicz MJ, Pavadai E, Viana A, Lehman W, Moore JR. Glutamate 139 of tropomyosin is critical for cardiac thin filament blocked-state stabilization. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2024 Mar; 188:30-37. PMID: 38266978.

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  • Published on 11/27/2023

    Lewkowicz E, Nakamura MN, Rynkiewicz MJ, Gursky O. Molecular modeling of apoE in complexes with Alzheimer's amyloid-ß fibrils from human brain suggests a structural basis for apolipoprotein co-deposition with amyloids. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2023 Nov 27; 80(12):376. PMID: 38010414.

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  • Published on 8/6/2023

    Lewkowicz E, Nakamura MN, Rynkiewicz MJ, Gursky O. Molecular modeling of apoE in complexes with Alzheimer's amyloid-ß fibrils from human brain suggests a structural basis for apolipoprotein co-deposition with amyloids. bioRxiv. 2023 Aug 06. PMID: 37577501.

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  • Published on 5/30/2023

    Lehman W, Rynkiewicz MJ. Troponin-I-induced tropomyosin pivoting defines thin-filament function in relaxed and active muscle. J Gen Physiol. 2023 Jul 03; 155(7). PMID: 37249525.

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  • Published on 1/21/2023

    Halder SS, Rynkiewicz MJ, Creso JG, Sewanan LR, Howland L, Moore JR, Lehman W, Campbell SG. Mechanisms of pathogenicity in the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-associated TPM1 variant S215L. PNAS Nexus. 2023 Mar; 2(3):pgad011. PMID: 36896133.

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  • Published on 1/12/2023

    Doran MH, Rynkiewicz MJ, Rassici D, Bodt SML, Barry ME, Bullitt E, Yengo CM, Moore JR, Lehman W. Conformational changes linked to ADP release from human cardiac myosin bound to actin-tropomyosin. J Gen Physiol. 2023 Mar 06; 155(3). PMID: 36633586.

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  • Published on 12/2/2022

    Doran MH, Rynkiewicz MJ, Pavadai E, Bodt SML, Rasicci D, Moore JR, Yengo CM, Bullitt E, Lehman W. Myosin loop-4 is critical for optimal tropomyosin repositioning on actin during muscle activation and relaxation. J Gen Physiol. 2023 Feb 06; 155(2). PMID: 36459134.

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  • Published on 6/22/2022

    Rynkiewicz MJ, Pavadai E, Lehman W. Modeling Human Cardiac Thin Filament Structures. Front Physiol. 2022; 13:932333. PMID: 35812320.

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  • Published on 5/14/2022

    Pavadai E, Rynkiewicz MJ, Yang Z, Gould IR, Marston SB, Lehman W. Modulation of cardiac thin filament structure by phosphorylated troponin-I analyzed by protein-protein docking and molecular dynamics simulation. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2022 Aug 15; 725:109282. PMID: 35577070.

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  • Published on 2/15/2022

    Teekakirikul P, Zhu W, Xu X, Young CB, Tan T, Smith AM, Wang C, Peterson KA, Gabriel GC, Ho S, Sheng Y, Moreau de Bellaing A, Sonnenberg DA, Lin JH, Fotiou E, Tenin G, Wang MX, Wu YL, Feinstein T, Devine W, Gou H, Bais AS, Glennon BJ, Zahid M, Wong TC, Ahmad F, Rynkiewicz MJ, Lehman WJ, Keavney B, Alastalo TP, Freckmann ML, Orwig K, Murray S, Ware SM, Zhao H, Feingold B, Lo CW. Genetic resiliency associated with dominant lethal TPM1 mutation causing atrial septal defect with high heritability. Cell Rep Med. 2022 02 15; 3(2):100501. PMID: 35243414.

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