Molecular biologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate 2021
Ardem Patapoutian (born 1967)[ 1] is a Lebanese-American molecular biologist , neuroscientist , and Nobel Prize laureate of Armenian descent.[ 2] He is known for his work in characterizing the PIEZO1 , PIEZO2 , and TRPM8 receptors that detect pressure, menthol , and temperature. Patapoutian is a neuroscience professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California . In 2021, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with David Julius .[ 3]
Early life
Ardem Patapoutian (Armenian : Արտեմ Փաթափութեան ) was born to a Lebanese Armenian family in Beirut , Lebanon.[ 2] [ 4] [ 5] His father, Sarkis Patapoutian (better known by the pen name Sarkis Vahakn [hy ] ), is a poet and an accountant,[ 6] while his mother, Haiguhi Adjemian, was the principal of an Armenian school in Beirut. He has a brother, Ara, and a sister, Houry.[ 7] His grandparents settled in Lebanon from Hadjin after surviving the Armenian Genocide .[ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
He is childhood friends with journalist and author Vicken Cheterian .[ 11] He attended the Demirdjian and Hovagimian Armenian schools in Beirut.[ 11] He enrolled at the American University of Beirut for a year before emigrating to the United States in 1986.[ 5] [ 12] He received a B.S. degree in cell and developmental biology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990 and a Ph.D. degree in biology from the California Institute of Technology in 1996 under direction of Barbara Wold .[ 13] [ 5] [ 14]
As a postdoctoral fellow, Patapoutian worked with Louis F. Reichardt at the University of California, San Francisco .[ 15] In 2000, he became an assistant professor at the Scripps Research Institute.[ 16] Between 2000 and 2014, he had an additional research position for the Novartis Research Foundation.[ 17] Since 2014, Patapoutian has been an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).[ 14]
Personal life
Patapoutian, a naturalized US citizen,[ 5] lives in Del Mar, California with his wife Nancy Hong, a venture capitalist , and son, Luca.[ 18] [ 19] [ 20] [ 21]
Research
Patapoutian's research is into the biological receptors for temperature and touch (nociception ).[ 3] The knowledge is used to develop treatments for a range of diseases, including chronic pain.[ 22] The discoveries made it possible to understand how heat, cold and mechanical forces trigger nerve impulses.[ 22]
Patapoutian researches the signal transduction of sensors. Patapoutian and co-workers inactivated genes.[ 23] In this way, they identified the gene, that made the cells insensitive for touch.[ 23] The channel for the sense of touch was called PIEZO1 (transl. pressure ).[ 23] Through its similarity to PIEZO1, a second gene was discovered and named PIEZO2 .[ 24] This ion channel , the more important of the two mechanoreceptors, is essential for the sense of touch.[ 24] [ 25] PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 channels have been shown to regulate additional important physiological processes including blood pressure, respiration and urinary bladder control.[ 24]
Patapoutian also made significant contributions to the identification of novel ion channels and receptors that are activated by temperature, mechanical forces or increased cell volume.[ 26] [ 27] Patapoutian and his collaborators were able to show that these ion channels play an outstanding role in the sensation of temperature, in the sensation of touch, in proprioception ,[ 28] in the sensation of pain and in the regulation of vascular tone. More recent work uses functional genomics techniques to identify and characterize mechanosensitive ion channels (mechanotransduction ).[ 16] [ 29] [ 30] [ 31]
Awards and honors
Patapoutian on a 2022 stamp of Armenia
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021: Discovery of TRPV1 and PIEZO2
Patapoutian has an h-index of 68 according to Google Scholar ,[ 32] and of 63 according to Scopus [ 33] (As of May 2020[update] ). He has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2016, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2017[ 34] and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2020.[ 35]
In 2017, Patapoutian received the W. Alden Spencer Award ,[ 36] in 2019 the Rosenstiel Award ,[ 37] in 2020 the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience,[ 38] and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology / Biomedicine.[ 39]
In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with David Julius for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch .[ 3] [ 40] [ 41]
In October 2021 President of Lebanon Michel Aoun awarded Patapoutian the Lebanese Order of Merit .[ 42]
In December 2021, Patapoutian received the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award presented by Awards Council member Frances Arnold .[ 43]
In 2022, Patapoutian was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award .[ 44]
Recognition in Armenia
Patapoutian, the first Armenian Nobel laureate, received a hero's welcome when he visited Armenia in June 2022. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan awarded him the Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots ,[ 45] while the Armenian National Academy of Sciences elected him an honorary member,[ 46] and the Yerevan State Medical University awarded him an honorary doctorate.[ 47] Patapoutian gifted a replica of his Nobel medal to the History Museum of Armenia .[ 48] [ 49] HayPost issued a stamp dedicated to him.[ 50]
Selected publications
PIEZO1 + PIEZO2
Coste, B.; Mathur, J.; Schmidt, M.; Earley, T. J.; Ranade, S.; Petrus, M. J.; Dubin, A. E.; Patapoutian, A. (September 2, 2010). "Piezo1 and Piezo2 Are Essential Components of Distinct Mechanically Activated Cation Channels" . Science . 330 (6000). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 55–60. Bibcode :2010Sci...330...55C . doi :10.1126/science.1193270 . ISSN 0036-8075 . PMC 3062430 . PMID 20813920 . [ 23]
Coste, Bertrand; Xiao, Bailong; Santos, Jose S.; Syeda, Ruhma; Grandl, Jörg; Spencer, Kathryn S.; Kim, Sung Eun; Schmidt, Manuela; Mathur, Jayanti; Dubin, Adrienne E.; Montal, Mauricio; Patapoutian, Ardem (February 19, 2012). "Piezo proteins are pore-forming subunits of mechanically activated channels" . Nature . 483 (7388). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 176–181. Bibcode :2012Natur.483..176C . doi :10.1038/nature10812 . ISSN 0028-0836 . PMC 3297710 . PMID 22343900 .
Kim, Sung Eun; Coste, Bertrand; Chadha, Abhishek; Cook, Boaz; Patapoutian, Ardem (February 19, 2012). "The role of Drosophila Piezo in mechanical nociception" . Nature . 483 (7388). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 209–212. Bibcode :2012Natur.483..209K . doi :10.1038/nature10801 . ISSN 0028-0836 . PMC 3297676 . PMID 22343891 .
PIEZO2
Ranade, Sanjeev S.; Woo, Seung-Hyun; Dubin, Adrienne E.; Moshourab, Rabih A.; Wetzel, Christiane; Petrus, Matt; Mathur, Jayanti; Bégay, Valérie; Coste, Bertrand; Mainquist, James; Wilson, A. J. (December 2014). "Piezo2 is the major transducer of mechanical forces for touch sensation in mice" . Nature . 516 (7529): 121–125. Bibcode :2014Natur.516..121R . doi :10.1038/nature13980 . ISSN 1476-4687 . PMC 4380172 . PMID 25471886 . [ 25]
Woo, Seung-Hyun; Ranade, Sanjeev; Weyer, Andy D.; Dubin, Adrienne E.; Baba, Yoshichika; Qiu, Zhaozhu; Petrus, Matt; Miyamoto, Takashi; Reddy, Kritika; Lumpkin, Ellen A.; Stucky, Cheryl L.; Patapoutian, Ardem (April 6, 2014). "Piezo2 is required for Merkel-cell mechanotransduction" . Nature . 509 (7502). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 622–626. Bibcode :2014Natur.509..622W . doi :10.1038/nature13251 . ISSN 0028-0836 . PMC 4039622 . PMID 24717433 .
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