Publications -2008

  • Bushati, N and SM Cohen. 2008. microRNAs in neurodegeneration. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 18: 292-296.
  • Hietakangas, V and SM Cohen. 2008. TORCing Up Metabolic Control in the Brain. Cell Metabolism 7: 357-358.
  • Jiang, D, Y Wang, Y Wang and Y He. 2008. Repression of FLOWERING LOCUS C and FLOWERING LOCUS T by the Arabidopsis Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Components. PLoS ONE 3: e3404.
  • Kaspar, M, M Schneider, W Chia and T Klein. 2008. Klumpfuss is involved in the determination of the sensory organ precursor in Drosophila. Developmental Biology 324: 177-191.
  • McGurk, L, S Pathirana, K Rothwell, T Trimbuch, P Colombini, F Yu, W Chia and M Bownes. 2008. The RGS gene loco is essential for male reproductive system differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Developmental Biology 8: 37.
  • Huang, Y, H Yan and MK Balasubramanian. 2008. Assembly of normal actomyosin rings in the absence of Mid1p and cortical nodes in fission yeast. The Journal of Cell Biology 183: 979-988.
  • He, F, Y Ho, L Yu and J Kwang. 2008. WSSV ie1 promoter is more efficient than CMV promoter for H5 Hemagglutinin expression in baculovirus as a chicken vaccine. BMC Microbiology 8: 238.
  • He, F and J Kwang. 2008. Identification and characterization of a new E3 ubiquitin ligase in white spot syndrome virus involved in virus latency. Virology Journal 5: 151.
  • Wei, L, LL Chee, T Wei, J Kwang, J Zhou, J Wang, L Shi and J Liu. 2008a. The VP1 protein of avian encephalomyelitis virus is a major host-protective immunogen that serves as diagnostic potential. Journal of Virological Methods 149: 56-62.
  • Wei, L, J Kwang, J Wang, L Shi, B Yang, Y Li and J Liu. 2008b. Porcine circovirus type 2 induces the activation of nuclear factor kappa B by IκBα degradation. Virology 378: 177-184.
  • D, Williams, W Li, MA Hughes, SF Gonzalez, C Vernon, VC Montserrat, MC Vidal, Z Jeney, G Jeney, P Dixon, B McAndrew, R Bartfai, L Orban, V Trudeau, J Rogers, L Matthews, EJ Fraser, AY Gracey and AR Cossins. 2008. Genomic resources and microarrays for the common carp Cyprinus carpio L. Journal of Fish Biology 72: 2095-2117.
  • Sung, H-H, IA Telley, P Papadaki, A Ephrussi, T Surrey and P Rørth. 2008. Drosophila Ensconsin Promotes Productive Recruitment of Kinesin-1 to Microtubules. Developmental Cell 15: 866-876.
  • Loo, T-H and M Balasubramanian. 2008. Schizosaccharomyces pombe Pak-related protein, Pak1p/Orb2p, phosphorylates myosin regulatory light chain to inhibit cytokinesis. The Journal of Cell Biology 183: 785-793.
  • Capron, A, M Gourgues, LS Neiva, J-E Faure, F Berger, G Pagnussat, A Krishnan, C Alvarez-Mejia, J-P Vielle-Calzada, Y-R Lee, B Liu and V Sundaresan. 2008. Maternal Control of Male-Gamete Delivery in Arabidopsis Involves a Putative GPI-Anchored Protein Encoded by the LORELEI Gene. The Plant Cell 20: 3038-3049.
  • Neumüller, RA, J Betschinger, A Fischer, N Bushati, I Poernbacher, K Mechtler, SM Cohen and JA Knoblich. 2008. Mei-P26 regulates microRNAs and cell growth in the Drosophila ovarian stem cell lineage. Nature 454: 241-246.
  • Wu, L, ML Goh, C Sreekala and Z Yin. 2008. XA27 Depends on an Amino-Terminal Signal-Anchor-Like Sequence to Localize to the Apoplast for Resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae. Plant Physiology 148: 1497-1509.
  • Wang, CM, LC Lo, ZY Zhu, G Lin, F Feng, J Li, WT Yang, J Tan, R Chou, HS Lim, L Orban and GH Yue. 2008. Estimating reproductive success of brooders and heritability of growth traits in Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) using microsatellites. Aquaculture Research 39: 1612-1619.
  • Prabakaran, M, S Velumani, F He, AK Karuppannan, GY Geng, LK Yin and J Kwang. 2008. Protective immunity against influenza H5N1 virus challenge in mice by intranasal co-administration of baculovirus surface-displayed HA and recombinant CTB as an adjuvant. Virology 380: 412-420.
  • Qian, H, E Pang, J Chang, SL Toh, FK Ng, AL Tan and J Kwang. 2008. Monoclonal antibody binding to the major outer membrane protein of Campylobacter coli. Journal of Immunological Methods 339: 104-113.
  • Deng, YZ, M Ramos-Pamplona and NI Naqvi. 2008. Methods for the functional analysis of macroautophagy in filamentous fungi. Methods in Enzymology 451: 295-310.
  • Lin, C and A Yuan. 2008. Structural Insights into Histone H3 Lysine 56 Acetylation by Rtt109. Structure 16: 1503-1510.
  • Hietakangas, V and SM Cohen. 2008. TOR complex 2 is needed for cell cycle progression and anchorage-independent growth of MCF7 and PC3 tumor cells. BMC Cancer 8: 282.
  • Yue, GH, GL Wang, BQ Zhu, CM Wang, ZY Zhu and LC Lo. 2008. Discovery of four natural clones in a crayfish species Procambarus clarkii. International Journal of Biological Sciences 4: 279-282.
  • Yan, H, W Ge, TG Chew, JY Chow, D McCollum, AM Neiman and MK Balasubramanian. 2008. The Meiosis-Specific Sid2p-related Protein Slk1p Regulates Forespore Membrane Assembly in Fission Yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell 19: 3676-3690.
  • Wang, D, D Hong, H Koh, Y Zhang, C Yang and Y Hong. 2008. Biodiversity in cultivated Panax notoginseng populations. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica 29: 1137-1140.
  • Lin, G, A Chang, HW Yap and GH Yue. 2008. Characterization and cross-species amplification of microsatellites from the endangered Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricate). Conservation Genetics 9: 1071-1073.
  • Jullien, PE, A Mosquna, M Ingouff, T Sakata, N Ohad, F Berger. 2008. Retinoblastoma and Its Binding Partner MSI1 Control Imprinting in Arabidopsis. PLoS Biology 6: e194.
  • Berger, F, Y Hamamura, M Ingouff and T Higashiyama. 2008. Double fertilization - caught in the act. Trends in Plant Science 13: 437-443.
  • Chen, H-Y, J Yang, C Lin and YA Yuan. 2008. Structural basis for RNA-silencing suppression by Tomato aspermy virus protein 2b. EMBO reports 9: 754-760.
  • Orban, L and Q Wu. 2008. Cyprinids. In Genome Mapping and Genomics in Fishes and Aquatic Animals (eds. Thomas D Kocher and Chittaranjan Kole) Springer Chapter 2: 45-84.
  • Rotman, N, M Gourgues, A-E Guitton, J-E Faure and F Berger. 2008. A Dialogue between the Siréne Pathway in Synergids and the Fertilization Independent Seed Pathway in the Central Cell Controls Male Gamete Release during Double Fertilization in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant 1: 659-666.
  • Emelyanov, A and S Parinov. 2008. Mifepristone-inducible LexPR system to drive and control gene expression in transgenic zebrafish. Developmental Biology 320: 113-121.
  • Hou, X, W-W Hu, L Shen, LYC Lee, Z Tao and H Yu. 2008. Global Identification of DELLA Target Genes during Arabidopsis Flower Development. Plant Physiology 147: 1126-1142.
  • Han, P, B García-Ponce, G Fonseca-Salazar, ER Alvarez-Buylla and H Yu. 2008. AGAMOUS-LIKE 17, a novel flowering promoter, acts in a FT-independent photoperiod pathway. The Plant Journal 55: 253-265.
  • Lim, TS, TR Chitra, BH Tay, EC Pua and H Yu. 2008. Molecular Characterization of Arabidopsis and Brassica juncea Cu/Zn-Superoxide Dismutases Reveals Their Regulation of Shoot Regeneration. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 27: 99-109.
  • Tian, J, B Andree, CM Jones and K Sampath. 2008. The pro-domain of the zebrafish Nodal-related protein Cyclops regulates its signaling activities, Development 135: 2649-2658.
  • Srinivasan, R, M Mishra, L Wu, Z Yin and MK Balasubramanian. 2008. The bacterial cell division protein FtsZ assembles into cytoplasmic rings in fission yeast. Genes & Development 22:1741-1746.
  • Li, D, C Liu, L Shen, Y Wu, H Chen, M Robertson, CA Helliwell, T Ito, E Meyerowitz and H Yu. 2008. A repressor complex governs the integration of flowering signals in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell 15:110-120.
  • Zhong, W and W Chia. 2008. Neurogenesis and asymmetric cell division. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 18: 4-11.
  • Jiang, S-Y, R Ramamoorthy, R Bhalla, H-F Luan, PN Venkatesh, M Cai and S Ramachandran. 2008. Genome-wide survey of the RIP domain family in Oryza sativa and their expression profiles under various abiotic and biotic stresses. Plant Molecular Biology 67: 603-614.
  • Zhu, ZY and GH Yue. 2008. Eleven polymorphic microsatellites isolated from red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 796-798.
  • Rotman, N, M Gourgues, A-E Guitton, J-E Faure and F Berger. 2008. A dialogue between the sirène pathway in synergids and the fertilization independent seed pathway in the central cell controls male gamete release during double fertilization in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant doi: 10.1093/mp/ssn023.
  • FitzGerald, J, M Luo, A Chaudhury and F Berger. 2008. DNA Methylation Causes Predominant Maternal Controls of Plant Embryo Growth. PLoS ONE 3: e2298.
  • Berger, F. 2008. Double-fertilization, from myths to reality. Sexual Plant Reproduction 21: 3-5.
  • Ramamoorthy, R, SY Jiang, N Kumar, P Venkatesh and S Ramachandran. 2008. A Comprehensive Transcriptional Profiling of the WRKY Gene Family in Rice under Various Abiotic and Phytohormone Treatments. Plant and Cell Physiology 49: 865-879.
  • Chang, J, E Pang, H He and J Kwang. 2008. Identification of novel attenuated Salmonella Enteritidis mutants. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology 53: 26-34.
  • Zhu, ZY and GH Yue. 2008. The complete mitochondrial genome of red grouper Plectropomus leopardus and its applications in identification of grouper species. Aquaculture 276: 44-49.
  • Wang, CM, LC Lo, F Feng, P Gong, J Li, ZY Zhu, G Lin and GH Yue. 2008. Construction of a BAC library and mapping BAC clones to the linkage map of Barramundi, Lates calcarifer. BMC Genomics 9: 139.
  • Bushati, N, A Stark, J Brennecke and SM Cohen. 2008. Temporal Reciprocity of miRNAs and Their Targets during the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in Drosophila. Current Biology 18: 501-506.
  • Ge, W and MK Balasubramanian. 2008. Pxl1p, a Paxillin-related Protein, Stabilizes the Actomyosin Ring during Cytokinesis in Fission Yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell 19: 1680-1692.
  • Lo, LC and GH Yue. 2008. Microsatellites for broodstock management of the Tiger grouper, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus. Animal Genetics 39: 90-91.
  • Wang, CM, LC Lo, F Feng, ZY Zhu and GH Yue. 2008. Identification and verification of QTL associated with growth traits in two genetic backgrounds of Barramundi (Lates calcarifer). Animal Genetics 39: 34-39.
  • Mishra, M and S Oliferenko. 2008. Cytokinesis: Catch and Drag. Current Biology 18: R247-250.
  • Zhang, J, L Cai, J Cheng, H Mao, X Fan, Z Meng, KM Chan, H Zhang, J Qi, L Ji and Y Hong. 2008. Transgene integration and organization in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) genome. Transgenic Research 17: 293-306.
  • Liu, C, H Chen, HL Er, HM Soo, PP Kumar, J-H Han, YC Liou and H Yu. 2008. Direct interaction of AGL24 and SOC1 integrates flowering signals in Arabidopsis. Development 135: 1481-1491.
  • Tang, YZ, TA Egerton, L Kong and HG Marshal. 2008. Morphological Variation and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Dinoflagellate Gymnodinium aureolum from a Tributary of Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 55: 91-99.
  • Sreenivasan, R, M Cai, R Bartfai, X Wang, A Christoffels and L Orban. 2008. Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal Novel Genes with Sexually Dimorphic Expression in the Zebrafish Gonad and Brain. PLoS ONE 3: e1791.
  • Yi, CX, J Zhang, KM Chan, XK Liu and Y Hong. 2008. Quantitative real-time PCR assay to detect transgene copy number in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). Analytical Biochemistry 375: 150-152.
  • Vjestica, A, X-Z Tang and S Oliferenko. 2008. The actomyosin ring recruits early secretory compartments to the division site in fission yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell 19: 1125-1138.
  • Murata, M. 2008. Lab Report (short essay in Japanese). Experimental Medicine 26: 592-594.
  • Wang, L, Z Li and Y Cai. 2008. The JAK/STAT pathway positively regulates DPP signaling in the Drosophila germline stem cell niche. The Journal of Cell Biology 180: 721-728.
  • Boylan, KLM, S Mische, M Li, G Marqués, X Morin, W Chia and TS Hays. 2008. Motility Screen Identifies Drosophila IGF-II mRNA-Binding Protein - Zipcode-Binding Protein Acting in Oogenesis and Synaptogenesis. PLoS Genetics 4: e36.
  • Klionsky, DJ and NI Naqvi et al. 2008. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes. Autophagy 4: 151-175.
  • Kong, L and S Ranganathan. 2008. Tandem duplication, circular permutation, molecular adaptation: how Solanaceae resist pests via inhibitors. BMC Bioinformatics 9(Suppl 1): S22.
  • Degitz, SJ, RA Hoke, S Bradbury, R Brennan, L Ferguson, R Klaper, L Orban, D Spurgeon and S Tilton. 2008. Application of genomics to regulatory ecological risk assessments for pesticides. In Genomics in Regulatory Ecotoxicology: Applications and Challenges (Eds GT Ankley, AL Miracle, EJ Perkins and GP Daston), SETAC, Pensacola, FL, USA, Chapter 4: 63-85.
  • Chia, W, WG Somers and H Wang. 2008. Drosophila neuroblast asymmetric divisions: cell cycle regulators, asymmetric protein localization, and tumorigenesis. The Journal of Cell Biology 180: 267-272.
  • Jiang, S-Y, R Rengasamy and S Ramachandran. 2008. Comparative transcriptional profiling and evolutionary analysis of the GRAM domain family in eukaryotes. Developmental Biology 314: 418-432.
  • Qian, H, E Pang, Q Du, J Chang, J Dong, SL Toh, FK Ng, AL Tan and J Kwang. 2008. Production of a Monoclonal Antibody Specific for the Major Outer Membrane Protein of Campylobacter jejuni and Characterization of the Epitope. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74: 833-839.
  • Hendricks M, A Mathuru, H Wang, O Silander, M Kee and S Jesuthasan. 2008. Disruption of Esrom and Ryk identifies the roofplate boundary as an intermediate target for commissure formation. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 37: 271-283.
  • Hossain, MS, A Larsson, N Scherbak, P-E Olsson and L Orban. 2008. Zebrafish Androgen Receptor: Isolation, Molecular, and Biochemical Characterization. Biology of Reproduction 78: 361-369.
  • Liu, F, SK Ng, Y Lu, W Low, J Lai and G Jedd. 2008. Making two organelles from one: Woronin body biogenesis by peroxisomal protein sorting. The Journal of Cell Biology 180: 325-339.
  • Li, Z, L Wang, TS Hays and Y Cai. 2008. Dynein-mediated apical localization of crumbs transcripts is required for Crumbs activity in epithelial polarity. The Journal of Cell Biology 180: 31-38.
  • Chai, D and H Yu. 2008. Bloom Time for Genetically Engineered Orchids. Innovation 8: 68-69.
  • Gu, K, JS Sangha, Y Li and Z Yin. 2008. High-resolution genetic mapping of bacterial blight resistance gene Xa10. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 116: 155-163.
  • Velumani, S, Q Du, BJ Fenner, M Prabakaran, CW Lim, YN Lin and J Kwang. 2008. Development of an antigen-capture ELISA for detection of H7 subtype avian influenza from experimentally infected chickens. Journal of Virological Methods 147: 219-225.
  • Teleman, AA, V Hietakangas, AC Sayadian and SM Cohen. 2008. Nutritional Control of Protein Biosynthetic Capacity by Insulin via Myc in Drosophila. Cell Metabolism 7: 21-32.
  • Gilligan, PC and K Sampath. 2008. Reining in RNA. EMBO reports 9: 22-26.
  • Chew, TG and MK Balasubramanian. 2008. Nuc2p, a Subunit of the Anaphase Promoting Complex, Inhibits Septation Initiation Network Following Cytokinesis in Fission Yeast. PLoS Genetics 4: e17.
  • Chen, Z, JLH Tan, M Ingouff, V Sundaresan and F Berger. 2008. Chromatin assembly factor 1 regulates the cell cycle but not the cell fate during male gametogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Development 135: 65-73.
  • Stark, A, N Bushati, CH Jan, P Kheradpour, E Hodges, J Brennecke, DP Bartel, SM Cohen and M Kellis. 2008. A single Hox locus in Drosophila produces functional microRNAs from opposite DNA strands. Genes & Development 22: 8-13.