
Vivi Talstad Monsen
- Senior Engineer; PhD
Vivi T. Monsen has a M.Sc degree in Biotechnology and a PhD degree in Molecular Medicine from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her background includes studying DNA repair mechanisms, protein structure-activity relationships, and cellular stress response mechanisms like autophagy.
She has been working at the Institute for Surgical Research for several years and studies mechanisms contributing to tissue repair and fibrosis, focusing on a family of matricellular proteins/growth factors called CCN proteins.
Publications 2023
Structural insights into regulation of CCN protein activities and functions
17 (2), 371-390
DOI 10.1007/s12079-023-00768-5, PubMed 37245184
Publications 2022
The carboxyl-terminal TSP1-homology domain is the biologically active effector peptide of matricellular protein CCN5 that counteracts profibrotic CCN2
299 (1), 102803
DOI 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102803, PubMed 36529291
Publications 2021
Tissue distribution and transcriptional regulation of CCN5 in the heart after myocardial infarction
16 (3), 377-395
DOI 10.1007/s12079-021-00659-7, PubMed 34854055
Publications 2018
Connective tissue growth factor (CCN2) is a matricellular preproprotein controlled by proteolytic activation
293 (46), 17953-17970
DOI 10.1074/jbc.RA118.004559, PubMed 30262666
Publications 2015
The marine n-3 PUFA DHA evokes cytoprotection against oxidative stress and protein misfolding by inducing autophagy and NFE2L2 in human retinal pigment epithelial cells
Autophagy, 11 (9), 1636-1651
DOI 10.1080/15548627.2015.1061170
DHA-induced stress response in human colon cancer cells - Focus on oxidative stress and autophagy
90, 158-72
DOI 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2015.11.018, PubMed 26585906
Publications 2012
Structure-function studies of an unusual 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase II (AlkA) from Deinococcus radiodurans
Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D-Biol. Crystallogr., 68, 703-712
DOI 10.1107/S090744491200947X
Publications 2010
Divergent beta-hairpins determine double-strand versus single-strand substrate recognition of human AlkB-homologues 2 and 3
Nucleic Acids Res., 38 (19), 6447-6455
DOI 10.1093/nar/gkq518