University of California, San Diego | Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

CONTACT

Dr. Vivian Hook

Distinguished Professor


Mailing Address:
9500 Gilman Drive MC0657
La Jolla, CA 92093-0657

Telephone: 858-822-6682
Fax: 858-822-6681
E-mail: vhook@ucsd.edu

Jill Wegrzyn

Webmaster


Mailing Address:
9500 Gilman Drive #0744
La Jolla, CA 92093-0744

Telephone: 858-822-6695
Fax: 858-822-6696
E-mail: jwegrzyn@ucsd.edu

Members

Sonia Podvin Project scientist
Charles Mosier Staff research associate
Michael Yoon PharmD/PhD student
Von Phan PharmD/PhD student
Diego Trujillo PhD student
Laura Seyffert MS student
Enlin Wei MS student
Ben Boyarko Student
Gen Ito Lab Assistant
Charisse Winston Postdoctoral Scholar
Nicole Avalon Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate Student Research Rotations - Summer Research Internships
Undergraduate Research, Independent Study
Visiting Students and Scientists

Recent Publications:

Hook, V., Yoon, M., Mosier, C., Ito, G., Podvin, S., Head, B.P., Rissman, R., O'Donoghue, A.J., Hook, G. (2020) Cathepsin B in neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, and related brain disorders. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom. 1868, 140428.

Boutté, A.M., Hook, V., Thangavelu, B., Sarkis, G.A., Abbatiello, B.N., Hook, G., Jacobsen, J.S., Robertson, C.S., Gilsdorf, J., Yang, Z., Wang, K.K.W., Shear, D.A. (2020) Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury Triggers Dysregulation of Cathepsin B Protein Levels Independent of Cysteine Protease Activity in Brain and Cerebral Spinal Fluid. J Neurotrauma 37(13),1574-1586.

Podvin, S., Jones, A., Liu, Q., Aulston, B., Ransom, L., Ames, J., Shen, G., Lietz, C.B., Jiang, Z., O'Donoghue, A.J., Winston, C., Ikezu, T., Rissman, R.A., Yuan, S., Hook, V. (2020) Dysregulation of Exosome Cargo by Mutant Tau Expressed in Human-induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Neurons Revealed by Proteomics Analyses. Mol Cell Proteomics 9, 1017-1034.

Yoon, M.C., Solania, A., Jiang, Z., Christy, M.P., Podvin, S., Mosier, C., Lietz, C.B., Ito, G., Gerwick, W.H., Wolan, D.W., Hook, G., O'Donoghue, A.J., Hook, V. (2021) Selective Neutral pH Inhibitor of Cathepsin B Designed Based on Cleavage Preferences at Cytosolic and Lysosomal pH Conditions. ACS Chem Biol. 16, 1628-1643.

Jiang, Z., Lietz, C.B., Podvin, S., Yoon, M.C., Toneff, T., Hook, V., O'Donoghue, A.J. (2021) Differential Neuropeptidomes of Dense Core Secretory Vesicles (DCSV) Produced at Intravesicular and Extracellular pH Conditions by Proteolytic Processing. ACS Chem Neurosci. 12, 2385-2398.

Campeau, A., Mills, R.H., Stevens, T., Rossitto, L.A., Meehan, M., Dorrestein, P., Daly, R., Nguyen, T.T., Gonzalez, D.J., Jeste, D.V., Hook V. (2021) Multi-omics of Human Plasma Reveals Molecular Features of Dysregulated Inflammation and Accelerated Aging in Schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry Nature 2021 Nov 5.

Podvin, S., Jones, A., Liu, Q., Aulston, B., Mosier, C., Ames, J., Winston, C., Lietz, C.B., Jiang, Z., O'Donoghue, A.J., Ikezu, T., Rissman, R.A., Yuan, S.H., Hook, V. (2021) Mutant Presenilin 1 Dysregulates Exosomal Proteome Cargo Produced by Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Neurons. ACS Omega 6(20), 13033-13056.

Boyarko, B., Hook, V. (2021) Human tau isoforms and proteolysis for production of toxic tau fragments in neurodegeneration. Frontiers in Neuroscience 15, 1-19.

Ashhurst, A.S., Tang, A.H., Fajtová, P., Yoon, M.C., Aggarwal, A., Bedding, M.J., Stoye, A., Beretta, L., Pwee, D., Drelich, A., Skinner, D., Li, L., Meek, T.D., McKerrow, J.H., Hook, V., Tseng, C.T., Larance, M., Turville, S., Gerwick, W.H., O'Donoghue, A.J., Payne, R.J. (2021) Potent Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity by the Natural Product Gallinamide A and Analogues via Inhibition of Cathepsin L. J Med Chem. 2021 Nov 3