Sharof Tugizov , D.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
tugizov@itsa.ucsf.edu

Mailing Address:
University of California, San Francisco
Division of Infectious Diseases
521 Parnassus Avenue, Room C-443
San Francisco, CA 94143-0654

Office Location:
Medical Sciences Building, S420

Research Interests:
Molecular mechanisms of HIV and EBV interactions with mucosal epithelium

Select Publications:

Maidji, E., Tugizov, S., Abenes, G., Jones, T., and Pereira, L., A novel human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein, gpUS9, which promotes cell-to-cell spread in polarized epithelial cells, colocalizes with cytoskletal proteins E-cadherin and F-actin. J. Virol., 72:5717-5727, 1998.

Tugizov, S., Maidji, E., Xiao, J., Z., Zheng and Pereira, L., Human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B contains autonomous determinants for vectorial targeting to apical membranes of polarized cells. J. Virol., 72:7374-7386, 1998.

Tugizov, S., Maidji, E., Xiao, J., and L. Perera., An acidic cluster in the cytosolic domain of human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B functions as a signal for internalization of CMV gB. J. Virol., 73:8677-8688, 1999.

Tugizov, S., Berline, J., and Palefsky, J., Epstein-Barr virus infection of polarized tongue and nasopharyngeal epithelial cells. Nature Medicine, 9:307-314 (2003).

Tugizov, S., Berline, J., Herrera, R., Penaranda, M., Nakagawa, M., and Palefsky, J., Inhibition of HPV16 E7 phosphorylation by the S100 MRP-8/14 protein complex. J. Virol., 79:1090-1112, 2005.

Education and Training:

PhD, Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, Moscow, 1985

DSc, Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, Moscow, 1996