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STEPHANE LAPORTE


Associate Professor –Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine

Contact information:

Telephone: (514) 398-4487
e-mail address: stephane.laporte@mcgill.ca


Projects for Thesis Supervision:

1. Role of adaptors in the internalization and signaling of the angiotensin type II receptors.

2. Regulation of the bradykinin B2 receptor internalization and signaling.

3. Development of biosensor and use of real time cell imaging for studying G protein-coupled receptor functions.

4. Study of cross talk between G protein-coupled receptor and growth factor receptor signaling.


Recent Publications:

Fessart D, Simaan M, Hamdan FF, Zimmerman B, Comeau J, Wiseman PW, Bouvier M, Laporte SA.
Src-dependent phosphorylation of beta2-adaptin dissociates the beta-arrestin-AP-2 complex. J Cell Sci. 120: 1723-1732, 2007.

Claing A, Laporte SA.
Novel roles for arrestins in GPCR biology and drug discovery. Curr Opin Drug Dis & Develop. 8: 585-589, 2005.

Ho J, Cocolakis E, Dumas VM, Posner BI, Laporte SA, Lebrun JJ.
The G protein-coupled receptor kinase-2 in a TGFb-inducible antagonist of TGFb signal transduction. EMBO J, 24: 3274-3258, 2005.