Our department makes significant strides in advancing Biomedical research and publishing our findings in the best international journals.
Shown below are selected publications showcasing the work of MBB research groups.
Baillie Lab
- Simms et al. A strawberry notch homolog, let-765/nsh-1, positively regulates lin-3/egf expression to promote RAS-dependent vulval induction in C. elegans.
Dev Biol 2010 - Mah et al. Characterization of the octamer, a cis-regulatory element that modulates excretory cell gene-expression in Caenorhabditis elegans.
BMC Mol Biol 2010 - Jones et al. Quality High resolution molecular analysis of deficiencies affecting recombination in C. elegans.
Mol Genet Genomics 2009
Beh Lab
- Fei et al. Genome-wide analysis of sterol-lipid storage and trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Eukaryot Cell 2008 - Kozminski et al. Homologues of oxysterol-binding proteins affect Cdc42p- and Rho1p-mediated cell polarization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Traffic 2006 - Baumann et al. Transport of newly synthesized sterol to the sterol-enriched plasma membrane occurs via nonvesicular equilibration.
Biochemistry 2005
Brandhorst Lab
- Bishop, C.D., and B.P. Brandhorst. Development of nitric oxide synthase-defined neurons in the sea urchin larval ciliary band and evidence for a chemosensory function during metamorphosis.
Dev Dyn 2007 - Burke et al.
A genomic view of the sea urchin nervous system.
Devel Biol 2006 - Bishop, C.D., and B.P. Brandhorst. On nitric oxide signaling, metamporphosis, and the evolution of life cycles.
Evol Dev 2003
Brinkman Lab
- Winstanley et al. Newly introduced genomic prophage islands are critical determinants of in vivo competitiveness in the Liverpool Epidemic Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Genome Res 2009 - Bovine Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. The genome sequence of taurine cattle: a window to ruminant biology and evolution.
Science 2009 - Lynn et al. Facilitating Systems Level Analyses of the Mammalian Innate Immune Response.
Mol Syst Biol 2008
Brockman Lab
- Berger et al. Viral adaptation to immune selection pressure by HLA class I-restricted CTL responses targeting epitopes in HIV frameshift sequences.
J Exp Med 2010 - Brockman et al.IL-10 is up-regulated in multiple cell types during viremic HIV infection and reversibly inhibits virus-specific T cells.
Blood 2009 - Miura et al.HLA-associated alterations in replication capacity of chimeric NL4-3 viruses carrying gag-protease from elite controllers of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
J Virol 2009
Chen Lab
- Chu JSC, Baillie DL, Chen N. Convergent evolution of RFX transcription factors and ciliary genes predated the origin of metazoans.
BMC Evol Biol 2010 - Vergara et al. Polymorphic segmental duplication in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
BMC Genomics 2009 - She R, Chu JSC, Wang K, Pei J, Chen N. genBlastA: enabling BLAST to identify homologous gene sequences.
Genome Res 2009
Choy Lab
- Choy JC .Granzymes in solid organ transplant rejection.
Cell Death and Diff 2010 - Choy JC and Pober JS. Paracrine generation of NO by bystander human CD8 T cells augments allogeneic responses by inhibiting cytokine deprivation-induced cell death.
Am J Transplant 2009 - Choy et al. Induction of inducible NO synthase in bystander human T cells increases allogeneic responses in the vasculature.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2007
Cornell Lab
- Lee J, Johnson J, Ding Z, Paetzel M, Cornell RB. Phosphoninositide 3-kinase regulates plasma membrane targeting of Ras-specific exchange factor RasGRp1.
J Biol Chem 2011 - Taneva et al. Contribution of Each Membrane Binding Domain of the CTP:Phosphocholine Cytidylyltransferase-alpha Dimer to Its Activation, Membrane binding, and Membrane Cross-bridging.
J Biol Chem 2008
Craig Lab
- Megli, et al.Crystal structure of the Vibrio choleraecolonization factor TcpF and identification of a functional immunogenic site.
J Mol Biol 2011 - Lim et al. Vibrio cholerae El Tor TcpA crystal structure and mechanism for pilus-mediated microcolony formation.
Mol Microbiol 2010 - Li et al. Vibrio cholerae toxin-coregulated pilus structure analyzed by hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry.
Structure 2008
Davidson Lab
- Phillips et al. Assignment of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) linkage groups to specific chromosomes: Conservation of large syntenic blocks corresponding to whole chromosome arms in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).
BMC Genet 2009 - Davidson et al. The Sex Determining Loci and Sex Chromosomes in the Family Salmonidae.
Sex Dev 2009 - Johnstone et al. Genomic Organization and Evolution of the Vomeronasal Type 2 Receptor-Like (OlfC) Gene Clusters in Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar.
Mol Biol Evol 2009
Gorski Lab
- Chittaranjan et al. Steroid hormone control of cell death and cell survival: molecular insights using RNAi.
PLoS Genet 2009 - Hou et al. Effector caspase Dcp-1 and IAP protein Bruce regulate starvation-induced autophagy during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis.
J Cell Biol 2008 - Qadir et al. Macroautophagy inhibition sensitizes tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cells and enhances mitochondrial depolarization.
Breast Cancer Res Treat 2008
Harden Lab
- Bahri et al. The leading edge during dorsal closure as a model for epithelial plasticity: Pak is required for recruitment of the Scribble complex and septate junction formation.
Development 2010 - Zahedi et al. Leading edge-secreted Dpp cooperates with ACK-dependent signaling from the amnioserosa to regulate myosin levels during dorsal closure.
Dev Dyn 2008 - Conder et al. The serine/threonine kinase dPak is required for polarized assembly of F-actin bundles and apical-basal polarity in the Drosophila follicular epithelium.
Dev Biol 2007
Hawkins Lab
- Hingwing et al. CWN-1 functions with DSH-2 to regulate C. elegans asymmetric neuroblast division in a β-catenin independent Wnt pathway.
Dev Biol 2009 - King et al. The N- or C-terminal domains of DSH-2 can activate the C. elegans Wnt/β-catenin asymmetry pathway.
Dev Biol 2009
Holt Lab
- Warren RL, Holt RA. A census of predicted mutational epitopes suitable for immunologic cancer control.
Hum Immunol 2010 - Mead et al. Cytosolic protein interactions of the schizophrenia susceptibility gene dysbindin.
J Neurochem 2010 - Freeman et al. Profiling the T-cell receptor beta-chain repertoire
by massively parallel sequencing.
Genome Res. 2009
Honda Lab
- Sinclair et al.Drosophila O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) is encoded by the Polycomb group (PcG) gene, super sex combs (sxc). .
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009 - Hallson et al. The Drosophila cohesin subunit Rad21 is a trithorax group (trxG) protein.
Proc Natl Acad Sci 2008 - Schulze et al. Heterochromatic genes in Drosophila: a comparative analysis of two genes.
Genetics 2006
Jones Lab
- Diguistini et al. De novo genome sequence assembly of a filamentous fungus using Sanger, 454 and Illumina sequence data.
Genome Biol 2009 - Birol et al. De novo transcriptome assembly with ABySS.
Bioinformatics 2009 - Robertson et al. Genome-wide relationship between histone H3 lysine 4 mono- and tri-methylation and transcription factor binding.
Genome Res 2008
Leroux Lab
- Williams et al. MKS and NPHP modules cooperate to establish basal body/transition zone membrane associations and ciliary gate function during ciliogenesis.
J Cell Biol 2011 - Huang et al. TMEM237 is mutated in individuals with a Joubert syndrome related disorder and expands the role of the TMEM family at the ciliary transition zone.
Am J Hum Genet 2011 - Jensen et al. Localization of a guanylyl cyclase to chemosensory cilia requires the novel ciliary MYND domain protein DAF-25.
PLoS Genet 2010
Paetzel Lab
- Nam et al. Crystal structure of Bacillus subtilis signal peptide peptidase A.
J Mol Biol 2012 - Kim et al. Crystal structure of the beta-barrel assembly machinery BamCD complex.
J Biol Chem 2011 - Chung & Paetzel Crystal structure of a viral protease intramolecular acyl-enzyme complex. Insights into cis-cleavage at the VP4/VP3 junction of Tellina birnavirus.
J Biol Chem 2011
Pio Lab
- Yan et al. RPA nucleic acid-binding properties of IFI16-HIN200.
Biochim Biophys Acta 2008 - Dalal K, Pio F. Thermodynamics and stability of the PAAD/DAPIN/PYRIN domain of IFI-16.
FEBS Lett 2006 -
Cooper et al. Aedes Dronc: a novel ecdysone-inducible caspase in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti.
Insect Mol Biol 2007
Quarmby Lab
- Parker et al. Centrioles are Freed From Cilia by Severing Prior to Mitosis.
Cytoskeleton 2010 - Rasi et al. Katanin Knockdown Supports a Role for Microtubule Severing in Release of Basal Bodies before Mitosis in Chlamydomonas.
Mol Biol Cell 2009 - Hilton et al. The NIMA-related kinase NEK1 cycles through the nucleus.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2009
Scott Lab
- van Houten et al. Engineering filamentous phage carriers to improve focusing of antibody
responses against peptides.
Vaccine 2010 - Montero et al. The Membrane-Proximal External Region of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Envelope: Dominant Site of Antibody Neutralization and Target for Vaccine Design.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2008 - Scott JK, Smith GP. Searching for peptide ligands with an epitope library.
Science 1990
Sen Lab
- Huang Y.C. and Sen D. A contractile electronic switch made of DNA.
J Am Chem Soc 2010 - Lee H.W. et al. Reversible Photo-Regulation of a Hammerhead Ribozyme using a Diffusible Effector.
J Mol Biol 2007 - Chinnapen, D. J.-F. and Sen, D. A Deoxyribozyme that Harnesses Light to Repair Thymine Dimers in DNA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2004
Thewalt Lab
- Hsueh et al. Deuterium NMR study of the effect of ergosterol on POPE membranes.
Biophys J 2010 - Sikor et al. Interaction of a charged polymer with zwitterionic lipid vesicles.
Langmuir 2010 - Goni et al. Phase diagrams of lipid mixtures relevant to the study of membrane rafts.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008
Unrau Lab
- Lau MW, Unrau PJ. A promiscuous ribozyme promotes nucleotide synthesis in addition to ribose chemistry.
Chem Biol 2009 - Morin et al. Comparative analysis of the small RNA transcriptomes of Pinus contorta and Oryza sativa.
Genome Res 2008 - Zaher et al.Selection of an improved RNA polymerase ribozyme with superior extension and fidelity.
RNA 2007
Verheyen Lab
- Lee et al. Homeodomain-interacting protein kinases (Hipks) promote Wnt/Wg signaling through stabilization of beta-catenin/Arm and stimulation of target gene expression.
Development 2009 - Lee et al. Hipk is an essential protein that promotes Notch signal transduction in the Drosophila eye by inhibition of the global co-repressor Groucho.
Dev Biology 2009 - Braid and Verheyen. Drosophila nemo promotes eye specification directed by the retinal determination gene network.
Genetics 2008
Young Lab
- Chan et al. Bimodal agonism in heteromeric cyclic nucleotide-gated channels.
Channels (Austin) 2009 - Wicks et al. Sensitivity of HCN channel deactivation to cAMP is amplified by an S4 mutation combined with activation mode shift.
Channels (Austin) 2009 - Wicks et al. The cytoplasmic cAMP-sensing domain of pacemaker HCN channels uses two structurally distinct mechanisms to regulate voltage-gating. [Refereed presentation]
Circulation 120: S664 2009

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