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Selected Research Papers

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Schwartz, J.T. and L.-A.H. Allen. Role of urease in megasome formation and Helicobacter pylori survival in macrophages. J. Leukoc. Biol. 79:1214-1225, 2006.

McCaffrey, R.L. and L.-A.H. Allen. Pivotal Advance: Francisella tularensis LVS evades killing by human neutrophils via inhibition of the respiratory burst and phagosome escape.  J. Leukoc. Biol. 80:1224-1230, 2006.


Muradov, K.G., Boyd, K.K., Kerov, V., and Artemyev N.O. PDE6 in lamprey Petromyzon marinus: implications for the evolution of the visual effector in vertebrates. Biochemistry, 46:9992-10000, 2007.

Kerov, V., Rubin, W.W., Natochin, M., Melling, N., Burns, M.E. and Artemyev, N.O. N-terminal fatty acylation of transducin profoundly influences its localization and the kinetics of photoresponse in rods. J. Neurosci., 27:10270-10277, 2007.


Grinnell, K.L. and Bickenbach, J.R. Skin keratinocytes pre-treated with embryoic stem cell-conditioned medium or BMP4 can be directed to an alternative cell lineage. Cell Prolif. 40:685-705, 2007.

Stern, M.M. and Bickenbach, J.R. Epidermal stem cells are resistanct to cellular aging. Aging Cell 6:439-452, 2007.

Xie, P., Stunz, L.L., Larison, K.D., Yang, B. and Bishop, G.A.  TRAF3 is a critical regulator of B cell homeostasis in secondary lymphoid organs.  Immunity 26:253-267, 2007.

Bonthius, D.J.,
McKim, R.A., Koele, L., Harb, H., Kehrberg, A.H., Mahoney, J., Karacay, B., Pantazis, N.J. Severe alcohol-induced neuronal deficits in the hippocampus and neocortex of neonatal mice genetically deficient for neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS). J. Comp. Neurol. 10;499(2):290-305, 2006.

Boddicker, J.D., Anderson, R.A., Jagnow, J., Clegg, S. Signature-tagged mutagenesis of Klebsiella pneumoniae to identify genes that influence biofilm formation on extracellular matrix material. Infect. Immun. 74(8):4590-7, 2006.

Roklin, O.W., Taghiyev, A.F., Bayer, U.K., Brumcrot, D., Kotelianski, V.E., Glover, R.A., and Cohen, M.B. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II plays an important role in prostate cancer cell survival. Cancer Biology & Therapy. 6:e1-e11, 2007.

Li, H., Goswami, P.C., Domann, F.E. AP-2gamma induces p21 expression, arrests cell cycle, and inhibits the tumor growth of human carcinoma cells. Neoplasia. 8(7):568-77, 2006.

Grandgenett, P.M., Otsu, K., Wilson, H.R., Wilson, M.E., and Donelson, J.E.   A function for a specific zinc metalloprotease of African trypanosomes.  PLoS Pathogens 3:1432-1445, 2007.

Yao, C., Donelson, J.E., and Wilson, M.E.   Internal and surface-localized major surface proteases of Leishmania spp. and their differential release from promastigotes. Eukaryot Cell. 6:1905-12, 2007.

Li, Q., Harraz, M.M., Zhou, W., Zhang, L.N., Ding, W., Zhang, Y., Eggleston, T., Yeaman, C., Banfi, B., Engelhardt, J.F. Nox2 and Rac1 regulate H2O2-dependent recruitment of TRAF6 to endosomal interleukin-1 receptor complexes. Mol. Cell. Biol. 26(1):140-54, 2006.

Korovkina, V.P., Brainard, A.M., England, S.K.  Translocation of an endoproteolytically cleaved maxi-K channel isoform: mechanisms to induce human myometrial cell repolarization. J. Physiol. 573(Pt 2):329-41, 2006.

Maluf, N.K., Gaussier, H., Bogner, E., Feiss, M. and Catalano, C.E. Assembly of Bacteriophage l  Terminase into a Viral DNA Maturation and Packaging Machine. Biochemistry 45:15259-15268, 2006.

Allamargot, C. and Gardinier, M.V. Alternative isoforms of myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein with variable cytoplasmic domains are expressed in human brain. J. Neurochem 101:298-312, 2007.

Parnell, T.J., Kuhn, E.J., Gilmore, B.L., Helou, C., Wold, M.S.,
Geyer, P.K., Identification of genomic sites that bind the Drosophila Suppressor of Hairy-wing protein. Mol. Cell. Biol.,26: 5983-5993, 2006.

Gonzalez-Alegre, P. and Paulson, H.L. Technology insight: therapeutic RNA interference - how far from the neurology clinic? Nature Clincial Practice, 3:394-404, 2007 .

Gonzalez-Alegre, P. Therapeutic RNA interference for neurodegenerative diseases: From promise to progress. Pharmacol. Ther. in press, 2007.


Menon, S.G. and Goswami, P.C. A redox cycle within the cell cycle: Ring in the old with the new. Oncogene 26(8):1101-1109, 2007.

Bock, J.M., Menon, S.G., Goswami, P.C., Sinclair, L.L., Bedford, N.S., and Domann, R.E., and Trask, D.K. Relative NSAID antiproliferative activity is mediated through p21-induced G1 arrest and E2F inhibition. Molecular Carcinogenesis, 46:857-864, 2007.

Bok, J., Wang, Q., Huang, J., and Green, S.H. CaMKII and CaMKIV mediate distinct prosurvival signaling pathways in response to depolarization in neurons. Mol. Cell. Neurosci., 36:13-26, 2007.

Alam, S.A., Robinson, B.K., Huang, J. and Green, S.H. Prosurvival and proapoptotic intracellular signaling in rat spiral ganglion neurons in vivo after the loss of hair cells. J. Comp. Neuro. 503:832-852, 2007.

Arachchige Don, A.S., Dallapiazza, R., Bennin, D. A., Brake, T., Cowan, C., Horne, M.C. Cyclin G2 is a centrosome associated nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling protein that influences microtubule stability and induces a p53-dependent cell cycle arrest. Exp. Cell Res. 312:4181-4205, 2006.

Itoh, T., Iwashita, S., Cohen, M.B., Meyerholz, D.K., and Linn, S. Ddb2 is a haploinsufficient tumor suppressor and controls spontaneous germ cell apoptosis. Human Mol. Genetics, 16:1578-1586, 2007.

Darbro, B.W., Lee, K.M., Nguyen, N.K., Domann, F.E., Klingelhutz, A.J. Methylation of the p16(INK4a) promoter region in telomerase immortalized human keratinocytes co-cultured with feeder cells. Oncogene. 2006 Jun 12.

Westin, E.R., Chavez, E., Lee, K.M., Gourronc, F.A., Riley, S., Lansdrop, P.M., Goldman, F.D. and Klingelhutz, A.J. Telomere restoration and extension of proliferative lifespan in dyskeratosis congenita fibroblasts. Aging Cell 6:383-394, 2007.

van de Wetering, C.I. and Knudson, C.M. Chromosomal instability and supernumerary centrosomes represent precursor defects in a mouse model of T-cell lymphoma. Cancer Res. 67:8081-88, 2007.

Wang, L., Goodey, N. M., Benkovic, S. J., and Kohen, A, Coordinated effects of distal mutations on environmentally coupled tunneling in dihydrofolate reductase.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:15753-15758, 2006.

Hong, B., Haddad, M., Maley, F., Jensen, J.H., and Kohen, A. Hydride transfer versus hydrogen radical transfer in thymidylate synthase.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128:5636-5637, 2006.

Sharma, V.M., Litersky, J.M., Bhaskar, K., and Lee, G. Tau impacts on growth factor stimulated actin remodeling. J. Cell Sci. 120:748-57, 2007.


Morita, C.T., Jin, C., Sarikonda, G., and Wang, H. Nonpeptide antigens, presentation mechanisms, and immunological memory of human Vg2Vd2 T cells: discriminating friend from foe through the recognition of prenyl pyrophosphate antigens.  Immunol. Rev. 215:59, 2007.

Puan K-J, Jin C, Wang H, Sarikonda G, Raker AM, Lee HK, Samuelson MI, Märker-Hermann E, Pasa-Tolic L, Kolas-Nieves E, Giner J-L, Kuzuyama T, and Morita CT.  Preferential recognition of a microbial metabolite by human Vg2Vd2 T cells.  Int. Imm. 19:657, 2007.

Riley
, B.M., Mansilla, M.A., Ma, J., Daack-Hirsch, S., Maher, B.S., Raffensperger, L.M., Russo, E.T., Vieira, A.R., Dode, C., Mohammadi, M., Marazita, M.L. and Murray, J.C. Impaired FGF signaling contributes to cleft lip and palate. PNAS 104:4512-4517, 2007.

Shi, M., Chirstensen, K., Weinberg, C.R., Romitti, P., Bathum, L., Lozada, A., Morris, R.W., Lovett, M. and Murray, J.C. Orafacial cleft risk is increased with maternal smoking and specific detoxification-gene variants. Am. J. Human Genetics, 80:76-90, 2007.

Moskwa, P., Lorentzen, D., Excoffon, K.J., Zabner, J., McCray, P.B., Jr., Nauseef, W.M., Dubuy, C., Banfi, B. A novel host defense system of airways is defective in cystic fibrosis. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 175:174-83, 2007.

Nakano, Y., Banfi, B., Jesaitis, A.J., Dinauer, M.C., Allen, L.A., Nauseef, W.M. Critical roles for p22 phox in the structural maturation and subcellular targeting of Nox3. Biochem. J., 403(1):97-108, 2007.


Peterlin, B.M., Price, D.H. Controlling the elongation phase of transcription with P-TEFb. Mol. Cell. 4;23(3):297-305, 2006.

Zhang, Z., Dickerson, I.M., Russo, A.F.     Related Articles, Calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor activation by receptor activity-modifying protein-1 gene transfer to vascular smooth muscle cells. Endocrinology. 147(4):1932-40, 2006.

Zhang, Z., Firm, C.S., Marquez de Prado, B., Russo, A.F. Sensitization of CGRP receptors by receptor activity-modifying protein-1 in the trigeminal ganglion. J. Neurosci. 27: 2693-2703, 2007.

Thompson, A., Nessler, R., Wisco, D., Anderson, E., Winckler, B., and Sheff, D. Recycling Endosomes of Polarized Epithelial Cells Actively Sort Apical and Basolateral Cargos into Separate Subdomains. Mol. Biol. Cell 18:2687-2697, 2007.

Itani, H.A., Liu X., Pratt, J.H. and Sigmund, C.D. Functional Characterization of Polymorphisms in the Kidney Enhancer of the Human Renin Gene. Endocrinology 148: 1424-1430, 2007.

Dickson, M.E.,  Zimmerman, M.B., Rahmouni, K., and Sigmund, C.D. The -20 and -217 Promoter Variants Dominate Differential Angiotensinogen Haplotype Regulation in Angiotensinogen-Expressing Cells. Hypertension 49: 631-639, 2007.

Cribbs, J.T. and Strack, S. Reversible phosphorylation of Drp1 by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase and calcineurin regulates mitochondrial fission and cell death. EMBO Rep, 8, 939-944, 2007.

Thomas, C.P., Liu, K.Z., Vats, H.S.  Medroxyprogesterone acetate binds the glucocorticoid receptor to stimulate aENaC and sgk1 expression in collecting duct epithelia. Am. J. Physiol:Renal Physiol. 290: F306-F312, 2006.

Bartlett, H.B., Sutherland, L., Kolker, S.J., Tajchman, U., DesMarais, V. and Weeks, D.L. Transient early embryonic expression of Nkx2-5 mutations linked to congenital heart defects in human causes heart defects in Xenopus laevis. Dev. Dynamics 236, 2475-2484, 2007.

Jacobi, U.G., Akkers, R.C., Pierson, E.S., Weeks. D.L., Dagle, J.M. and Veenstra, G.J. TBP paralogs accommodate metazoan-and vertebrate-specific developmental gene regulation. EMBO J., 26, 3900-3909, 2007.


Jeronimo, S.M.B., Duggal, P., Ettinger, N.A., Nascimento, E.T., Monteiro, G.R., Cabral, A.P., Pontes, N.N., Lacerda, H.G., Queiroz, P.V., Gomes, C.E.M., Pearson, R.D., Blackwell, J.M., Beaty, T.H., and Wilson, M.E. Genetic predisposition to self-curing infection with the protozan Leismania chagasi: A geneomewide scan. J. Infec. Dis., 196:1261-1269, 2007.

Jeronimo, S.M.B., Holst, A.K.B., Jamieson, S.E., Francis, R., Martins, D.R.A., Bezerra, F.L., Ettinger, N.A., Nascimento, E.T., Monteiro, G.R., Lacerda, H.G., Miller, E.N., Cordell, H.J., Duggal, P., Beaty, T.H., Blackwell, J.M. and Wilson, M.E. Genes at human chromosome 5q31.1 regulate delayed-type hypersensitivity responses associated with Leismania chagasi infection. Genes & Immunity, 8:539-551, 2007.

Majka, J., Binz, S.K., Wold, M.S., Burgers, P.M. Replication protein A directs loading of the DNA damage checkpoint clamp to 5'-DNA junctions. J. Biol. Chem. 281(38):27855-61, 2006.

Vermeer, P.D., Panko, L., Karp, P., Lee, J.H., Zabner, J. Differentiation of human airway epithelia is dependent on erbB2. Am. J. Physiol. Lung Cell Mol. Physiol. 291(2):L175-80, 2006.