This collection showcases the journal articles, book chapters, and other publications and presentations written by faculty and researchers of the Program in Gene Function and Expression (PGFE) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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Publications from 2010

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AATF mediates an antiapoptotic effect of the unfolded protein response through transcriptional regulation of AKT1, Shinsuke Ishigaki, Sonya G. Fonseca, Christine M. Oslowski, Agata Jurczyk, Jeffrey R. Shearstone, Lihua Julie Zhu, M. A. Permutt, Dale L. Greiner, Fumihiko Urano, and Rita Bortell

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A novel role for the centrosomal protein, pericentrin, in regulation of insulin secretory vesicle docking in mouse pancreatic beta-cells, Agata Jurczyk, Steven C. Pino, Bryan O'Sullivan-Murphy, Martha Addorio, Erich A. Lidstone, Philip diLorio, Kathryn L. Lipson, Clive Standley, Kevin E. Fogarty, Lawrence M. Lifshitz, Fumihiko Urano, John P. Mordes, Dale L. Greiner, Aldo A. Rossini, and Rita Bortell

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Mediator and cohesin connect gene expression and chromatin architecture, Michael H. Kagey, Jamie J. Newman, Steve Bilodeau, Ye Zhan, David A. Orlando, Nynke L. van Berkum, Christopher C. Ebmeier, Jesse Goossens, Peter B. Rahl, Stuart S. Levine, Dylan J. Taatjes, Job Dekker, and Richard A. Young

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Chromatin as a potential carrier of heritable information, Paul D. Kaufman and Oliver J. Rando

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Sister cohesion and structural axis components mediate homolog bias of meiotic recombination, Keun P. Kim, Beth M. Weiner, Liangran Zhang, Amy Jordan, Job Dekker, and Nancy Kleckner

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Catalytic activation of histone acetyltransferase Rtt109 by a histone chaperone, Erin M. Kolonko, Brittany N. Albaugh, Scott E. Lindner, Yuanyuan Chen, Kenneth A. Satyshur, Kevin M. Arnold, Paul D. Kaufman, James G. Keck, and John M. Denu

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A new DAF-16 isoform regulates longevity, Eun-Soo Kwon, Sri Devi Narasimhan, Kelvin Yen, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

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Histone acetyltransferase Rtt109 is required for Candida albicans pathogenesis., Jessica Lopes da Rosa Spiegler, Victor L. Boyartchuk, Lihua Julie Zhu, and Paul D. Kaufman

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Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is required for cell cycle-regulated silent chromatin on replicated and nonreplicated genes, Andrew Miller, Jiji Chen, Taichi E. Takasuka, Jennifer L. Jacobi, Paul D. Kaufman, Joseph M.K. Irudayaraj, and Ann L. Kirchmaier

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Integrating one-dimensional and three-dimensional maps of genomes, Natalia Naumova and Job Dekker

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MicroRNA-mediated integration of haemodynamics and Vegf signalling during angiogenesis, Stefania Nicoli, Clive Standley, Paul Walker, Adam Hurlstone, Kevin E. Fogarty, and Nathan D. Lawson

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A switch from life to death in endoplasmic reticulum stressed beta-cells, Christine M. Oslowski and Fumihiko Urano

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The binary switch between life and death of endoplasmic reticulum-stressed beta cells, Christine M. Oslowski and Fumihiko Urano

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The binary switch that controls the life and death decisions of ER stressed beta cells, Christine M. Oslowski and Fumihiko Urano

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A genome-wide RNA interference screen reveals an essential CREB3L2-ATF5-MCL1 survival pathway in malignant glioma with therapeutic implications, Zhi Sheng, Li Li, Lihua Julie Zhu, Thomas W. Smith, Andrea Demers, Alonzo H. Ross, Richard P. Moser, and Michael R. Green

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The U2AF35-related protein Urp contacts the 3' splice site to promote U12-type intron splicing and the second step of U2-type intron splicing, Haihong Shen, Xuexiu Zheng, Stephan Luecke, and Michael R. Green

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Maternal Rnf12/RLIM is required for imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice, JongDae Shin, Michael Bossenz, Young Chung, Hong Ma, Meg Byron, Naoko Taniguchi-Ishigaki, Xiaochun Zhu, Jiao Baowei, Lisa L. Hall, Michael R. Green, Stephen N. Jones, Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer, Jeanne B. Lawrence, and Ingolf Bach

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Hi-C: a method to study the three-dimensional architecture of genomes, Nynke L. van Berkum, Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Louise Williams, Maxim Imakaev, Andreas Gnirke, Leonid A. Mirny, Job Dekker, and Eric S. Lander

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Genomics tools for unraveling chromosome architecture, Bas van Steensel and Job Dekker

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Role for IGFBP7 in senescence induction by BRAF, Narendra Wajapeyee, Ryan W. Serra, Xiaochun Zhu, Meera Mahalingam, and Michael R. Green

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Role for IGFBP7 in senescence induction by BRAF., Narendra Wajapeyee, Ryan W. Serra, Xiaochun Zhu, Meera Mahalingam, and Michael R. Green

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Senescence induction in human fibroblasts and hematopoietic progenitors by leukemogenic fusion proteins., Narendra Wajapeyee, Shu-Zong Wang, Ryan W. Serra, Peter D. Solomon, Arvindhan Nagarajan, Xiaochun Zhu, and Michael R. Green

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PPARs: diverse regulators in energy metabolism and metabolic diseases, Yong-Xu Wang

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Rescue of HIV-1 Release by Targeting Widely Divergent NEDD4-Type Ubiquitin Ligases and Isolated Catalytic HECT Domains to Gag, Eric R. Weiss, Elena Popova, Hikaru Yamanaka, Hyung Cheol Kim, Jon M. Huibregtse, and Heinrich G. Göttlinger

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A comparative study of fat storage quantitation in nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using label and label-free methods, Kelvin Yen, Thuc T. Le, Ankita Bansal, Sri Devi Narasimhan, Ji-Xin Cheng, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

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ChIPpeakAnno: a Bioconductor package to annotate ChIP-seq and ChIP-chip data, Lihua Julie Zhu, Claude Gazin, Nathan D. Lawson, Herve Pages, Simon M. Lin, David S. Lapointe, and Michael R. Green

Publications from 2009

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A Versatile Viral System for Expression and Depletion of Proteins in Mammalian Cells, Eric Campeau, Victoria E. Ruhl, Francis Rodier, Corey Lewis Smith, Brittany L. Rahmberg, Jill O. Fuss, Judith Campisi, Paul Yaswen, Priscilla K. Cooper, and Paul D. Kaufman

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Gene dates, parties and galas. Symposium on Chromatin Dynamics and Higher Order Organization, Howard Y. Chang, Olivier Cuvier, and Job Dekker

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Differential roles of insulin-like growth factor receptor- and insulin receptor-mediated signaling in the phenotypes of hepatocellular carcinoma cells, Ya-Wen Chen, Victor L. Boyartchuk, and Brian C. Lewis

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A genetic screen for vascular mutants in zebrafish reveals dynamic roles for Vegf/Plcg1 signaling during artery development, Laurence D. Covassin, Arndt F. Siekmann, Michael C. Kacergis, Elizabeth Laver, John C. Moore, Jacques A. Villefranc, Brant M. Weinstein, and Nathan D. Lawson

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Ceramide kinase regulates phospholipase C and phosphatidylinositol 4, 5, bisphosphate in phototransduction, Ujjaini Dasgupta, Takeshi Bamba, Salvatore Chiantia, Pusha Karim, Ahmad N. Abou Tayoun, Ikuko Yonamine, Satinder S. Rawat, Raghavendra Pralhada Rao, Kunio Nagashima, Eiichiro Fukusaki, Vishwajeet Puri, Patrick J. Dolph, Petra Schwille, Jairaj K. Acharya, and Usha Acharya

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Disease-causing 7.4 kb cis-regulatory deletion disrupting conserved non-coding sequences and their interaction with the FOXL2 promotor: implications for mutation screening, Barbara D'haene, Catia Attanasio, Diane Beysen, Josee Dostie, Edmond Lemire, Philippe Bouchard, Michael Field, Kristie Jones, Birgit Lorenz, Bjorn Menten, Karen Buysse, Filip Pattyn, Marc Friedli, Catherine Ucla, Colette Rossier, Carine Wyss, Frank Speleman, Anne De Paepe, Job Dekker, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, and Elfride De Baere

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A negatively charged residue in place of histone H3K56 supports chromatin assembly factor association but not genotoxic stress resistance, Judith A. Erkmann and Paul D. Kaufman

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Endoplasmic reticulum stress in beta-cells and development of diabetes, Sonya G. Fonseca, Mark Burcin, Jesper Gromada, and Fumihiko Urano

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A multiparameter network reveals extensive divergence between C. elegans bHLH transcription factors, Christian A. Grove, Federico De Masi, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Daniel E. Newburger, Mark J. Alkema, Martha L. Bulyk, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

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Selective interaction between Trf3 and Taf3 required for early development and hematopoiesis, Daniel O. Hart, Manas K. Santra, Tamal Raha, and Michael R. Green

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Regulation of estrogen-dependent transcription by the LIM cofactors CLIM and RLIM in breast cancer, Steven A. Johnsen, Cenap Gungor, Tanja Prenzel, Sabine Riethdorf, Lutz Riethdorf, Naoko Taniguchi-Ishigaki, Thomas Rau, Baris Tursun, J. David Furlow, Guido Sauter, Martin Scheffner, Klaus Pantel, Frank Gannon, and Ingolf Bach

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Valproate, a mood stabilizer, induces WFS1 expression and modulates its interaction with ER stress protein GRP94, Chihiro Kakiuchi, Shinsuke Ishigaki, Christine M. Oslowski, Sonya G. Fonseca, Tadafumi Kato, and Fumihiko Urano

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Runx2 induces acute myeloid leukemia in cooperation with Cbfbeta-SMMHC in mice, Ya-Huei Kuo, Sayyed K. Zaidi, Svetlana Gornostaeva, Toshihisa Komori, Gary S. Stein, and Lucio H. Castilla

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My5C: web tools for chromosome conformation capture studies, Bryan R. Lajoie, Nynke L. van Berkum, Amartya Sanyal, and Job Dekker

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Comprehensive mapping of long-range interactions reveals folding principles of the human genome, Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Nynke L. van Berkum, Louise Williams, Maxim Imakaev, Tobias Ragoczy, Agnes Telling, Ido Amit, Bryan R. Lajoie, Peter J. Sabo, Michael O. Dorschner, Richard Sandstrom, Bradley Berstein, M. A. Bender, Mark Groudine, Andreas Gnirke, John A. Stamatoyannopoulos, Leonid A. Mirny, Eric S. Lander, and Job Dekker

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The interplay between transcription factors and microRNAs in genome-scale regulatory networks, Natalia Julia Martinez and Albertha J. M. Walhout

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Yeast silent mating type loci form heterochromatic clusters through silencer protein-dependent long-range interactions, Adriana Miele, Kerstin Bystricky, and Job Dekker

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Mapping cis- and trans- chromatin interaction networks using chromosome conformation capture (3C), Adriana Miele and Job Dekker

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InAKTivation of insulin/IGF-1 signaling by dephosphorylation., Sri Devi Narasimhan, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

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Converging pathways in lifespan regulation., Sri Devi Narasimhan, Kelvin Yen, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

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Annotating the human genome with Disease Ontology, John D. Osborne, Jared M. Flatow, Michelle Holko, Simon M. Lin, Warren A. Kibbe, Lihua Julie Zhu, Maria I. Danila, Gang Feng, and Rex L. Chisholm

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Mechanisms that regulate localization of a DNA double-strand break to the nuclear periphery, Pranav O. Oza, Sue L. Jaspersen, Adriana Miele, Job Dekker, and Craig L. Peterson

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A PP2A regulatory subunit regulates C. elegans insulin/IGF-1 signaling by modulating AKT-1 phosphorylation., Srivatsan Padmanabhan, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Sri Devi Narasimhan, Gregory J. Tesz, Michael P. Czech, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

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Epigenetic silencing of the RASSF1A tumor suppressor gene through HOXB3-mediated induction of DNMT3B expression, Rajendra Kumar Palakurthy, Narendra Wajapeyee, Manas K. Santra, Claude Gazin, Ling Lin, Stephane Gobeil, and Michael R. Green

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Notch-responsive cells initiate the secondary transition in larval zebrafish pancreas, Michael J. Parsons, Harshan Pisharath, Shamila Yusuff, John C. Moore, Arndt F. Siekmann, Nathan D. Lawson, and Steven D. Leach

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The C. elegans Snail homolog CES-1 can activate gene expression in vivo and share targets with bHLH transcription factors, John S. Reece-Hoyes, Bart Deplancke, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Julia Hatzold, Ryan B. Smit, H. Efsun Arda, Patricia A. Pope, Jeb Gaudet, Barbara Conradt, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

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F-box protein FBXO31 mediates cyclin D1 degradation to induce G1 arrest after DNA damage, Manas K. Santra, Narendra Wajapeyee, and Michael R. Green

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Transcription and signalling pathways involved in BCR-ABL-mediated misregulation of 24p3 and 24p3R, Zhi Sheng, Shu-Zong Wang, and Michael R. Green

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Chemokine signaling guides regional patterning of the first embryonic artery, Arndt F. Siekmann, Clive Standley, Kevin E. Fogarty, Scot A. Wolfe, and Nathan D. Lawson

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Determining spatial chromatin organization of large genomic regions using 5C technology, Nynke L. van Berkum and Job Dekker

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Efficacy of IGFBP7 for treatment of metastatic melanoma and other cancers in mouse models and human cell lines, Narendra Wajapeyee, Varun Kapoor, Meera Mahalingam, and Michael R. Green

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Getting an edge on human disease, Albertha J. M. Walhout

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Mitochondrial degeneration and not apoptosis is the primary cause of embryonic lethality in ceramide transfer protein mutant mice, Xin Wang, Raghavendra Pralhada Rao, Teresa Kosakowska-Cholody, M. Athar Masood, Eileen Southon, Helin Zhang, Cyril Berthet, Kunio Nagashima, Timothy K. Veenstra, Lino Tessarollo, Usha Acharya, and Jairaj K. Acharya

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Identification of a protein, G0S2, that lacks Bcl-2 homology domains and interacts with and antagonizes Bcl-2, Christian Welch, Manas K. Santra, Wissal El-Assaad, Xiaochun Zhu, Wade E. Huber, Richard A. Keys, Jose G. Teodoro, and Michael R. Green

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Nuclear factor-kappaB-mediated transforming growth factor-beta-induced expression of vimentin is an independent predictor of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy, Qiang Zhang, Brian T. Helfand, Thomas L. Jang, Lihua Julie Zhu, Lin Chen, Ximing J. Yang, James Kozlowski, Norm Smith, Shilajit Kundu, Guangyu Yang, Adekunle A. Raji, Borko Javonovic, Michael Pins, Paul Lindholm, Yinglu Guo, William J. Catalona, and Chung Lee

Publications from 2008

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Cell-nonautonomous function of ceramidase in photoreceptor homeostasis, Jairaj K. Acharya, Ujjaini Dasgupta, Satinder S. Rawat, Changqing Yuan, Parthena D. Sanxaridis, Ikuko Yonamine, Pusha Karim, Kunio Nagashima, Michael H. Brodsky, Susan Tsunoda, and Usha Acharya

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RTEL1 maintains genomic stability by suppressing homologous recombination, Louise J. Barber, Jillian L. Youds, Jordan D. Ward, Michael J. McIlwraith, Nigel J. O'Neil, Mark I.R. Petalcorin, Julie S. Martin, Spencer J. Collis, Sharon B. Cantor, Melissa M. Auclair, Heidi A. Tissenbaum, Stephen C. West, Ann M. Rose, and Simon J. Boulton

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Molecular functions of the histone acetyltransferase chaperone complex Rtt109-Vps75, Christopher E. Berndsen, Toshiaki Tsubota, Scott E. Lindner, Susan Lee, James M. Holton, Paul D. Kaufman, James G. Keck, and John M. Denu

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Implementing the LIM code: the structural basis for cell type-specific assembly of LIM-homeodomain complexes, Mugdha Bhati, Christopher Lee, Amy L. Nancarrow, Mihwa Lee, Vanessa J. Craig, Ingolf Bach, J. Mitchell Guss, Joel P. Mackay, and Jacqueline M. Matthews

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C/EBPalpha in leukemogenesis: a matter of being in the right place with the right signals, Lucio H. Castilla

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The role of nitric oxide and the unfolded protein response in cytokine-induced beta-cell death, Kari T. Chambers, Julie A. Unverferth, Sarah M. Weber, Ronald C. Wek, Fumihiko Urano, and John A. Corbett

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p19Arf inhibits the invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by binding to C-terminal binding protein, Ya-Wen Chen, Seema Paliwal, Kyle M. Draheim, Steven R. Grossman, and Brian C. Lewis

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Gene regulation in the third dimension, Job Dekker

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Mapping in vivo chromatin interactions in yeast suggests an extended chromatin fiber with regional variation in compaction, Job Dekker

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A genome-wide shRNA screen identifies GAS1 as a novel melanoma metastasis suppressor gene, Stephane Gobeil, Xiaochun Zhu, Charles J. Doillon, and Michael R. Green

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Transcription factor functionality and transcription regulatory networks, Christian A. Grove and Albertha J. M. Walhout

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Cell cycle- and chaperone-mediated regulation of H3K56ac incorporation in yeast, Tommy Kaplan, Chih Long Liu, Judith A. Erkmann, John Holik, Michael Grunstein, Paul D. Kaufman, Nir Friedman, and Oliver J. Rando

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A mechanism for Ikaros regulation of human globin gene switching, Janelle R. Keys, Michael R. Tallack, Ye Zhan, Peter Papathanasiou, Christopher Goodnow, Karin M. Gaensler, Merlin Crossley, Job Dekker, and Andrew C. Perkins

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The role of IRE1alpha in the degradation of insulin mRNA in pancreatic beta-cells, Kathryn L. Lipson, Rajarshi Ghosh, and Fumihiko Urano

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AIP1 is critical in transducing IRE1-mediated endoplasmic reticulum stress response, Dianhong Luo, Yun He, Haifeng Zhang, Luyang Yu, Hong Chen, Zhe Xu, Shibo Tang, Fumihiko Urano, and Wang Min

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A C. elegans genome-scale microRNA network contains composite feedback motifs with high flux capacity, Natalia Julia Martinez, Maria C. Ow, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Molly Hammell, Reynaldo Sequerra, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, Frederick P. Roth, Victor R. Ambros, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

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Genome-scale spatiotemporal analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans microRNA promoter activity, Natalia Julia Martinez, Maria C. Ow, John S. Reece-Hoyes, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Victor R. Ambros, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

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Targeted gene inactivation in zebrafish using engineered zinc-finger nucleases, Xiangdong Meng, Marcus Blaine Noyes, Lihua Julie Zhu, Nathan D. Lawson, and Scot A. Wolfe

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Long-range chromosomal interactions and gene regulation, Angela Miele and Job Dekker

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Trp53 deletion stimulates the formation of metastatic pancreatic tumors, Jennifer P. Morton, David S. Klimstra, Michelle E. Mongeau, and Brian C. Lewis

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Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) coupled to detection by quantitative real-time PCR to study transcription factor binding to DNA in Caenorhabditis elegans, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Bart Deplancke, Albertha J. M. Walhout, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

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Analysis of homeodomain specificities allows the family-wide prediction of preferred recognition sites, Marcus Blaine Noyes, Ryan G. Christensen, Atsuya Wakabayashi, Gary D. Stormo, Michael H. Brodsky, and Scot A. Wolfe

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The FLYWCH transcription factors FLH-1, FLH-2, and FLH-3 repress embryonic expression of microRNA genes in C. elegans, Maria C. Ow, Natalia Julia Martinez, Philip H. Olsen, Howard S. Silverman, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Barbara Conradt, Albertha J. M. Walhout, and Victor R. Ambros

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Protein kinase C signaling during T cell activation induces the endoplasmic reticulum stress response, Steven C. Pino, Bryan O'Sullivan-Murphy, Erich A. Lidstone, Thomas B. Thornley, Agata Jurczyk, Fumihiko Urano, Dale L. Greiner, John P. Mordes, Aldo A. Rossini, and Rita Bortell

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Distinct activities of the DExD/H-box splicing factor hUAP56 facilitate stepwise assembly of the spliceosome, Haihong Shen, Xuexiu Zheng, Jingping Shen, Lingdi Zhang, Rui Zhao, and Michael R. Green

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Oncogenic BRAF induces senescence and apoptosis through pathways mediated by the secreted protein IGFBP7, Narendra Wajapeyee, Ryan W. Serra, Xiaochun Zhu, Meera Mahalingam, and Michael R. Green

Publications from 2007

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EDGEdb: a transcription factor-DNA interaction database for the analysis of C. elegans differential gene expression, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Philippe Vaglio, Fabien Cavasino, Laurent Jacotot, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

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Loss of p53 and Ink4a/Arf cooperate in a cell autonomous fashion to induce metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma cells, Ya-Wen Chen, David S. Klimstra, Michelle E. Mongeau, Jessica L. Tatem, Victor L. Boyartchuk, and Brian C. Lewis

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GC- and AT-rich chromatin domains differ in conformation and histone modification status and are differentially modulated by Rpd3p, Job Dekker

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Mapping networks of physical interactions between genomic elements using 5C technology, Josee Dostie and Job Dekker

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Chromosome conformation capture carbon copy technology, Josee Dostie, Ye Zhan, and Job Dekker

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Assessing tumor progression factors by somatic gene transfer into a mouse model: Bcl-xL promotes islet tumor cell invasion, Yi-Chieh Nancy Du, Brian C. Lewis, Douglas Hanahan, and Harold E. Varmus

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Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project, ENCODE Project Consortium, Zhiping Weng, and Job Dekker

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Endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling in pancreatic beta-cells, Sonya G. Fonseca, Kathryn L. Lipson, and Fumihiko Urano

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Irf3 polymorphism alters induction of interferon beta in response to Listeria monocytogenes infection, Oleg Garifulin, Zanmei Qi, Haihong Shen, Sujatha Patnala, Michael R. Green, and Victor L. Boyartchuk

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An elaborate pathway required for Ras-mediated epigenetic silencing, Claude Gazin, Narendra Wajapeyee, Stephane Gobeil, Ching-man A. Virbasius, and Michael R. Green

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Proteasomal selection of multiprotein complexes recruited by LIM homeodomain transcription factors, Cenap Gungor, Naoko Taniguchi-Ishigaki, Hong Ma, Alexander Drung, Baris Tursun, Heather P. Ostendorff, Michael Bossenz, Catherina G. Becker, Thomas Becker, and Ingolf Bach

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Quantitative analysis of chromosome conformation capture assays (3C-qPCR), Helene Hagege, Petra Klous, Caroline Braem, Erik Splinter, Job Dekker, Guy Cathala, Wouter de Laat, and Thierry Forne

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Initiation of zebrafish haematopoiesis by the TATA-box-binding protein-related factor Trf3, Daniel O. Hart, Tamal Raha, Nathan D. Lawson, and Michael R. Green