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.

Follow

Publications from 2007

Link

Dorfin-CHIP chimeric proteins potently ubiquitylate and degrade familial ALS-related mutant SOD1 proteins and reduce their cellular toxicity, Shinsuke Ishigaki, Jun-ichi Niwa, Shin-ichi Yamada, Miho Takahashi, Takashi Ito, Jun Sone, Manabu Doyu, Fumihiko Urano, and Gen Sobue

Link

Cbfbeta-SMMHC impairs differentiation of common lymphoid progenitors and reveals an essential role for RUNX in early B-cell development, Ya-Huei Kuo, Rachel M. Gerstein, and Lucio H. Castilla

Link

Polycomb response elements mediate the formation of chromosome higher-order structures in the bithorax complex, Chiara Lanzuolo, Virginie Roure, Job Dekker, Frederic Bantignies, and Valerio Orlando

PDF

Profiling the DNA-binding specificities of engineered Cys2His2 zinc finger domains using a rapid cell-based method, Xiangdong Meng, Stacey Thibodeau-Beganny, Tao Jiang, J. Keith Joung, and Scot A. Wolfe

PDF

Shh signaling and pancreatic cancer: implications for therapy, Jennifer P. Morton and Brian C. Lewis

Link

Sonic hedgehog acts at multiple stages during pancreatic tumorigenesis, Jennifer P. Morton, Michelle E. Mongeau, David S. Klimstra, John P. Morris, Yie Chia Lee, Yoshiya Kawaguchi, Christopher V. E. Wright, Matthias Hebrok, and Brian C. Lewis

Link

An endocytic pathway as a target of tubby for regulation of fat storage, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Xiaojing Pan, David G. Lambright, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

Link

Reproduction and longevity: secrets revealed by C. elegans, Arnab Mukhopadhyay and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

Link

The alternative reading frame tumor suppressor antagonizes hypoxia-induced cancer cell migration via interaction with the COOH-terminal binding protein corepressor, Seema Paliwal, Ramesh C. Kovi, Bharath D. Nath, Ya-Wen Chen, Brian C. Lewis, and Steven R. Grossman

Link

Ceramide transfer protein function is essential for normal oxidative stress response and lifespan, Raghavendra Pralhada Rao, Changqing Yuan, Jeremy C. Allegood, Satinder S. Rawat, Michael Beth Edwards, Xin Wang, Alfred H. Merrill Jr., Usha Acharya, and Jairaj K. Acharya

PDF

Insight into transcription factor gene duplication from Caenorhabditis elegans Promoterome-driven expression patterns, John S. Reece-Hoyes, Jane Shingles, Denis Dupuy, Christian A. Grove, Albertha J. M. Walhout, Marc Vidal, and Ian A. Hope

Link

Light-induced recruitment of INAD-signaling complexes to detergent-resistant lipid rafts in Drosophila photoreceptors, Parthena D. Sanxaridis, Michelle A. Cronin, Satinder S. Rawat, Girma Waro, Usha Acharya, and Susan Tsunoda

Link

RS domain-splicing signal interactions in splicing of U12-type and U2-type introns, Haihong Shen and Michael R. Green

Link

Notch signalling limits angiogenic cell behaviour in developing zebrafish arteries, Arndt F. Siekmann and Nathan D. Lawson

Link

Histone H3-K56 acetylation is catalyzed by histone chaperone-dependent complexes, Toshiaki Tsubota, Christopher E. Berndsen, Judith A. Erkmann, Corey Lewis Smith, Lanhao Yang, Michael A. Freitas, John M. Denu, and Paul D. Kaufman

PDF

Transcription factor modularity in a gene-centered C. elegans core neuronal protein-DNA interaction network, Vanessa Vermeirssen, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Cesar A. Hidalgo, Jenny Aurielle B. Babon, Reynaldo Sequerra, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

Link

Matrix and Steiner-triple-system smart pooling assays for high-performance transcription regulatory network mapping, Vanessa Vermeirssen, Bart Deplancke, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, John S. Reece-Hoyes, H. Efsun Arda, Christian A. Grove, Natalia Julia Martinez, Reynaldo Sequerra, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, Michael R. Brent, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

Link

Gateway compatible vectors for analysis of gene function in the zebrafish, Jacques A. Villefranc, Julio D. Amigo, and Nathan D. Lawson

Link

Genetic variation in Mon1a affects protein trafficking and modifies macrophage iron loading in mice, Fudi Wang, Prasad N. Paradkar, Angel O. Custodio, Diane McVey Ward, Mark D. Fleming, Dean Campagna, Kristina A. Roberts, Victor L. Boyartchuk, William F. Dietrich, Jerry Kaplan, and Nancy C. Andrews

Link

CBFB-MYH11 hinders early T-cell development and induces massive cell death in the thymus, Ling Zhao, Jennifer Cannons, Stacie Anderson, Martha Kirby, Liping Xu, Lucio H. Castilla, Pamela L. Schwartzberg, Remy Bosselut, and P. Paul Liu

Publications from 2006

PDF

Drosophila melanogaster Scramblases modulate synaptic transmission, Usha Acharya, Michael Beth Edwards, Ramon A. Jorquera, Hugo Silva, Kunio Nagashima, Pedro Labarca, and Jairaj K. Acharya

PDF

Structure of the yeast histone H3-ASF1 interaction: implications for chaperone mechanism, species-specific interactions, and epigenetics, Andrew J. Antczak, Toshiaki Tsubota, Paul D. Kaufman, and James M. Berger

Link

Global analysis of hematopoietic and vascular endothelial gene expression by tissue specific microarray profiling in zebrafish, Laurence D. Covassin, Julio D. Amigo, Kana Suzuki, Viktor Teplyuk, Juerg R. Straubhaar, and Nathan D. Lawson

Link

Distinct genetic interactions between multiple Vegf receptors are required for development of different blood vessel types in zebrafish, Laurence D. Covassin, Jacques A. Villefranc, Michael C. Kacergis, Brant M. Weinstein, and Nathan D. Lawson

Link

The three 'C' s of chromosome conformation capture: controls, controls, controls, Job Dekker

Link

A gene-centered C. elegans protein-DNA interaction network, Bart Deplancke, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Wanyuan Ao, Ahmed M. Elewa, Christian A. Grove, Natalia Julia Martinez, Reynaldo Sequerra, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, John S. Reece-Hoyes, Ian A. Hope, Heidi A. Tissenbaum, Susan E. Mango, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

Link

Gateway-Compatible Yeast One-Hybrid Screens, Bart Deplancke, Vanessa Vermeirssen, H. Efsun Arda, Albertha J. M. Walhout, and Natalia Julia Martinez

PDF

Chromosome Conformation Capture Carbon Copy (5C): a massively parallel solution for mapping interactions between genomic elements, Josee Dostie, Todd A. Richmond, Ramy A. Arnaout, Rebecca R. Selzer, William L. Lee, Tracey A. Honan, Eric D. Rubio, Anton Krumm, Justin Lamb, Chad Nusbaum, Roland D. Green, and Job Dekker

Link

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy in mice overexpressing FRG1, Davide Gabellini, Giuseppe D'Antona, Maurizio Moggio, Alessandro Prelle, Chiara Zecca, Raffaella Adami, Barbara Angeletti, Patrizia Ciscato, Maria Antonietta Pellegrino, Roberto Bottinelli, Michael R. Green, and Rossella Tupler

Link

Listeria monocytogenes as a probe of immune function, Oleg Garifulin and Victor L. Boyartchuk

PDF

The active FMR1 promoter is associated with a large domain of altered chromatin conformation with embedded local histone modifications, Nele Gheldof, Tomoko M. Tabuchi, and Job Dekker

PDF

Apoptin nucleocytoplasmic shuttling is required for cell type-specific localization, apoptosis, and recruitment of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome to PML bodies, Destin W. Heilman, Jose G. Teodoro, and Michael R. Green

PDF

Cbfbeta reduces Cbfbeta-SMMHC-associated acute myeloid leukemia in mice, Susan Ann Heilman, Ya-Huei Kuo, Chantal S. Goudswaard, Peter J. Valk, and Lucio H. Castilla

Link

Cbf beta-SMMHC induces distinct abnormal myeloid progenitors able to develop acute myeloid leukemia, Ya-Huei Kuo, Sean F. Landrette, Susan Ann Heilman, Paola N. Perrat, Lisa Garrett, Pu P. Liu, Michelle M. Le Beau, Scott C. Kogan, and Lucio H. Castilla

Link

Development of the pancreas and pancreatic cancer, Brian C. Lewis

Link

Regulation of insulin biosynthesis in pancreatic beta cells by an endoplasmic reticulum-resident protein kinase IRE1, Kathryn L. Lipson, Sonya G. Fonseca, Shinsuke Ishigaki, Linh X. Nguyen, Elizabeth Foss, Rita Bortell, Aldo A. Rossini, and Fumihiko Urano

Link

Endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis and auto-immunity in diabetes, Kathryn L. Lipson, Sonya G. Fonseca, and Fumihiko Urano

PDF

Counter-selectable marker for bacterial-based interaction trap systems, Xiangdong Meng, Robin M. Smith, Astrid V. Giesecke, J. Keith Joung, and Scot A. Wolfe

Link

Identifying DNA sequences recognized by a transcription factor using a bacterial one-hybrid system, Xiangdong Meng and Scot A. Wolfe

Link

Mapping chromatin interactions by chromosome conformation capture, Adriana Miele, Nele Gheldof, Tomoko M. Tabuchi, Josee Dostie, and Job Dekker

Link

Worming pathways to and from DAF-16/FOXO, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Seung Wook Oh, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

PDF

Autophagy is activated for cell survival after endoplasmic reticulum stress, Maiko Ogata, Shin-ichiro Hino, Atsushi Saito, Keisuke Morikawa, Shinichi Kondo, Soshi Kanemoto, Tomohiko Murakami, Manabu Taniguchi, Ichiro Tanii, Kazuya Yoshinaga, Sadao Shiosaka, James A. Hammarback, Fumihiko Urano, and Kazunori Imaizumi

Link

Identification of direct DAF-16 targets controlling longevity, metabolism and diapause by chromatin immunoprecipitation, Seung Wook Oh, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Bharat L. Dixit, Tamal Raha, Michael R. Green, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

PDF

Epigenetic telomere protection by Drosophila DNA damage response pathways, Sarah R. Oikemus, Joana Queiroz-Machado, KuanJu Lai, Nadine Schultz, Claudio E. Sunkel, and Michael H. Brodsky

Link

Dynamic expression of LIM cofactors in the developing mouse neural tube, Heather P. Ostendorff, Baris Tursun, Kerstin Cornils, Anne Schluter, Alexander Drung, Cenap Gungor, and Ingolf Bach

Link

Histone chaperone Asf1 is required for histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation, a modification associated with S phase in mitosis and meiosis, J. Recht, Toshiaki Tsubota, J. C. Tanny, R. L. Diaz, James M. Berger, X. Zhang, B. A. Garcia, J. Shabanowitz, A. L. Burlingame, D. F. Hunt, Paul D. Kaufman, and C. David Allis

PDF

A compendium of Caenorhabditis elegans regulatory transcription factors: a resource for mapping transcription regulatory networks, John S. Reece-Hoyes, Bart Deplancke, Jane Shingles, Christian A. Grove, Ian A. Hope, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

Link

RS domains contact splicing signals and promote splicing by a common mechanism in yeast through humans, Haihong Shen and Michael R. Green

Link

p53-mediated inhibition of angiogenesis through up-regulation of a collagen prolyl hydroxylase, Jose G. Teodoro, Albert E. Parker, Xiaochun Zhu, and Michael R. Green

Link

Networking at the second Interactome Meeting, Albertha J. M. Walhout

PDF

Unraveling transcription regulatory networks by protein-DNA and protein-protein interaction mapping, Albertha J. M. Walhout

PDF

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Albertha J. M. Walhout and Simon J. Boulton

Link

C. elegans 14-3-3 proteins regulate life span and interact with SIR-2.1 and DAF-16/FOXO, Yamei Wang, Seung Wook Oh, Bart Deplancke, Jianyuan Luo, Albertha J. M. Walhout, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

Link

Overlapping and distinct functions for a Caenorhabditis elegans SIR2 and DAF-16/FOXO, Yamei Wang and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

Publications from 2005

Link

Enzymes of sphingolipid metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster, Usha Acharya and Jairaj K. Acharya

Link

lin-8, which antagonizes Caenorhabditis elegans Ras-mediated vulval induction, encodes a novel nuclear protein that interacts with the LIN-35 Rb protein, Ewa M. Davison, Melissa M. Harrison, Albertha J. M. Walhout, Marc Vidal, and H. Robert Horvitz

Link

A cell-surface receptor for lipocalin 24p3 selectively mediates apoptosis and iron uptake, Laxminarayana R. Devireddy, Claude Gazin, Xiaochun Zhu, and Michael R. Green

Link

WFS1 is a novel component of the unfolded protein response and maintains homeostasis of the endoplasmic reticulum in pancreatic beta-cells, Sonya G. Fonseca, Mariko Fukuma, Kathryn L. Lipson, Linh X. Nguyen, Jenny R. Allen, Yoshitomo Oka, and Fumihiko Urano

Link

Histone deposition proteins: links between the DNA replication machinery and epigenetic gene silencing, Alexa A. Franco and Paul D. Kaufman

Link

Histone deposition protein Asf1 maintains DNA replisome integrity and interacts with replication factor C, Alexa A. Franco, Wendy M. Lam, Peter M. Burgers, and Paul D. Kaufman

Link

Bloom syndrome ortholog HIM-6 maintains genomic stability in C. elegans, Melissa M. Grabowski, Nenad Svrzikapa, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

Link

Replication-independent histone deposition by the HIR complex and Asf1, Erin M. Green, Andrew J. Antczak, Aaron O. Bailey, Alexa A. Franco, Kevin J. Wu, John R. Yates III, and Paul D. Kaufman

Link

The anaphase promoting complex: a critical target for viral proteins and anti-cancer drugs, Destin W. Heilman, Michael R. Green, and Jose G. Teodoro

Link

XBP1 activates the transcription of its target genes via an ACGT core sequence under ER stress, Soshi Kanemoto, Shinichi Kondo, Maiko Ogata, Tomohiko Murakami, Fumihiko Urano, and Kazunori Imaizumi

Link

Fluoride induces endoplasmic reticulum stress in ameloblasts responsible for dental enamel formation, Kaori Kubota, Daniel H. Lee, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Conan S. Young, Eric T. Everett, Esperanza A. Martinez-Mier, Malcolm Snead, Linh X. Nguyen, Fumihiko Urano, and John D. Bartlett

PDF

The absence of p53 promotes metastasis in a novel somatic mouse model for hepatocellular carcinoma, Brian C. Lewis, David S. Klimstra, Nicholas D. Socci, Su Xu, Jason A. Koutcher, and Harold E. Varmus

Link

A bacterial one-hybrid system for determining the DNA-binding specificity of transcription factors, Xiangdong Meng, Michael H. Brodsky, and Scot A. Wolfe

Link

C. elegans tubby regulates life span and fat storage by two independent mechanisms, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Bart Deplancke, Albertha J. M. Walhout, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

Link

JNK regulates lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans by modulating nuclear translocation of forkhead transcription factor/DAF-16, Seung Wook Oh, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Nenad Svrzikapa, Feng Jiang, Roger J. Davis, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum

PDF

HIV-1 Tat stimulates transcription complex assembly through recruitment of TBP in the absence of TAFs, Tamal Raha, S. W. Grace Cheng, and Michael R. Green

Link

Regulation of histone deposition proteins Asf1/Hir1 by multiple DNA damage checkpoint kinases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Judith A. Sharp, Gizem Rizki, and Paul D. Kaufman

Link

The ubiquitin ligase Rnf6 regulates local LIM kinase 1 levels in axonal growth cones, Baris Tursun, Anne Schluter, Marvin A. Peters, Birte Viehweger, Heather P. Ostendorff, Juliana Soosairajah, Alexander Drung, Michael Bossenz, Steven A. Johnsen, Michaela Schweizer, Ora Bernard, and Ingolf Bach

Link

Proximity among distant regulatory elements at the beta-globin locus requires GATA-1 and FOG-1, Christopher R. Vakoc, Danielle L. Letting, Nele Gheldof, Tomoyuki Sawado, M. A. Bender, Mark Groudine, Mitchell J. Weiss, Job Dekker, and Gerd A. Blobel

Link

Formation of MacroH2A-containing senescence-associated heterochromatin foci and senescence driven by ASF1a and HIRA, Rugang Zhang, Maxim V. Poustovoitov, Xiaofen Ye, Hidelita A. Santos, Wei Chen, Sally M. Daganzo, Jan P. Erzberger, Ilya G. Serebriiskii, Adrian A. Canutescu, Roland L. Dunbrack, John R. Pehrson, James M. Berger, Paul D. Kaufman, and Peter D. Adams

Publications from 2004

Link

Ceramidase expression facilitates membrane turnover and endocytosis of rhodopsin in photoreceptors, Usha Acharya, Michael Beth Mowen, Kunio Nagashima, and Jairaj K. Acharya

Link

High ER stress in beta-cells stimulates intracellular degradation of misfolded insulin, Jenny R. Allen, Linh X. Nguyen, Karen E.G. Sargent, Kathryn L. Lipson, Anthony Hackett, and Fumihiko Urano

Link

In vivo target of a transcriptional activator revealed by fluorescence resonance energy transfer, Sukesh R. Bhaumik, Tamal Raha, David P. Aiello, and Michael R. Green

Link

The host resistance locus sst1 controls innate immunity to Listeria monocytogenes infection in immunodeficient mice, Victor L. Boyartchuk, Mauricio Rojas, Bo-Shiun Yan, Ousman Jobe, Nicholas Hurt, David M. Dorfman, Darren E. Higgins, William F. Dietrich, and Igor Kramnik

PDF

Drosophila melanogaster MNK/Chk2 and p53 regulate multiple DNA repair and apoptotic pathways following DNA damage, Michael H. Brodsky, Brian T. Weinert, Garson Tsang, Yikang S. Rong, Nadine Schultz, Kent G. Golic, Donald C. Rio, and Gerald M. Rubin

Link

Identification of genes that synergize with Cbfb-MYH11 in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia, Lucio H. Castilla, Paola N. Perrat, Natalia Julia Martinez, Sean F. Landrette, R. Keys, Sarah R. Oikemus, J. Flanegan, Susan Ann Heilman, Lisa Garrett, A. Dutra, S. Anderson, German A. Pihan, L. Wolff, and Pu P. Liu

PDF

A gateway-compatible yeast one-hybrid system, Bart Deplancke, Denis Dupuy, Marc Vidal, and Albertha J. M. Walhout

PDF

A first version of the Caenorhabditis elegans Promoterome, Denis Dupuy, Qian-Ru Li, Bart Deplancke, Mike Boxem, Tong Hao, Philippe Lamesch, Reynaldo Sequerra, Stephanie Bosak, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, Ian A. Hope, David E. Hill, Albertha J. M. Walhout, and Marc Vidal

Link

PPARs and the complex journey to obesity, Ronald M. Evans, Grant D. Barrish, and Yong-Xu Wang

Link

When enough is enough: genetic diseases associated with transcriptional derepression, Davide Gabellini, Michael R. Green, and Rossella Tupler

Link

Identification of critical domains and putative partners for the Caenorhabditis elegans spindle component LIN-5, Ridgely Fisk Green, Monique A. Lorson, Albertha J. M. Walhout, Marc Vidal, and Sander van den Heuvel

Link

Evidence for dynamically organized modularity in the yeast protein-protein interaction network, Jing-Dong J. Han, Nicolas Bertin, Tong Hao, Debra S. Goldberg, Gabriel F. Berriz, Lan V. Zhang, Denis Dupuy, Albertha J. M. Walhout, Michael E. Cusick, Frederick P. Roth, and Marc Vidal

Link

Amyloid beta induces neuronal cell death through ROS-mediated ASK1 activation, H. Kadowaki, H. Nishitoh, Fumihiko Urano, C. Sadamitsu, A. Matsuzawa, K. Takeda, H. Masutani, J. Yodoi, Y. Urano, T. Nagano, and H. Ichijo

Link

U2AF homology motifs: protein recognition in the RRM world, Clara L. Kielkopf, Stephan Lucke, and Michael R. Green

PDF

A mechanical basis for chromosome function, Nancy Kleckner, Denise Zickler, Gareth H. Jones, Job Dekker, Ruth Padmore, Jim Henle, and John N. Hutchinson

PDF

Plag1 and Plagl2 are oncogenes that induce acute myeloid leukemia in cooperation with Cbfb-MYH11, Sean F. Landrette, Ya-Huei Kuo, Karen Hensen, Sahar Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn-Khosrovani, Paola N. Perrat, Wim J. M. Van de Ven, Ruud Delwel, and Lucio H. Castilla

PDF

Lhx9 and lhx9alpha: differential biochemical properties and effects on neuronal differentiation, Bertrand Molle, Stephane Pere, Vieri Failli, Ingolf Bach, and Sylvie Retaux

Link

Drosophila atm/telomere fusion is required for telomeric localization of HP1 and telomere position effect, Sarah R. Oikemus, Nadine Schultz, Joana Queiroz-Machado, Hanna Tukachinsky, Saeko Takada, Claudio E. Sunkel, and Michael H. Brodsky

Link

A pathway of sequential arginine-serine-rich domain-splicing signal interactions during mammalian spliceosome assembly, Haihong Shen and Michael R. Green

Link

A single polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) binding site mediates splicing inhibition at mouse IgM exons M1 and M2, Haihong Shen, Julie L. C. Kan, Claudia Ghigna, Giuseppe Biamonti, and Michael R. Green

Link

Arginine-serine-rich domains bound at splicing enhancers contact the branchpoint to promote prespliceosome assembly, Haihong Shen, Julie L. C. Kan, and Michael R. Green

Link

The viral protein Apoptin associates with the anaphase-promoting complex to induce G2/M arrest and apoptosis in the absence of p53, Jose G. Teodoro, Destin W. Heilman, Albert E Parker, and Michael R. Green

[Stress signaling from the endoplasmic reticulum], Fumihiko Urano

PDF

Regulation of muscle fiber type and running endurance by PPARdelta, Yong-Xu Wang, Chung-Li Zhang, Ruth T. Yu, Helen K. Cho, Michael C. Nelson, Corinne R. Bayuga-Ocampo, Jungyeob Ham, Heonjoong Kang, and Ronald M. Evans

PDF

Compartment-specific perturbation of protein handling activates genes encoding mitochondrial chaperones, Takunari Yoneda, Cristina Benedetti, Fumihiko Urano, Scott G. Clark, Heather P. Harding, and David Ron

Publications from 2003

Link

Integrating 'omic' information: a bridge between genomics and systems biology, Hui Ge, Albertha J. M. Walhout, and Marc Vidal