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Recent Publications

Marquis T. Walker, R. Lane Brown, Thomas W. Cronin, and Phyllis R. Robinson. 2008. Photochemistry of retinal chromophore in mouse melanopsin. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (in press).

Lawrence M, Lindahl L, Zengel JM. Effects on translation pausing of alterations in protein and RNA components of the ribosome exit tunnel. J Bacteriol. 2008. [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [PDF]

Thompson JA, Srivastava MK, Bosch JJ, Clements VK, Ksander BR, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.  2008. The absence of invariant chain in MHC II cancer vaccines enhances the activation of tumor-reactive type 1 CD4(+) T lymphocytes.  Cancer Immunol. Immunother. 57:389-398.  E-pub ahead of print. [Abstract]

Bomakanti, A.S., Lindahl, L. and Zengel, J.M.  2008. Mutation from guanine to adenine in 25S rRNA at the position equivalent to E. coli A2058 does not confer erythromycin sensitivity in Saccaromyces cerevisiae.  RNA, 14:460-464 [Abstract]

Zaman, S.M., Lindahl, L. and Zengel, J.M.  2007.  Novel mutations in ribosomal proteins L4 and L22 that confer erythromycin resistance in E. coli.  Mol. Microbiology, 66:1039-1050. [Abstract]

Harrington MJ, Hong E, Fasanmi O, Brewster R. (2007) Cadherin-mediated adhesion regulates posterior body formation. BMC Dev Biol. 7:130 [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract]

Min Woo Lee, Hua Lu, Ho Won Jung, Jean T. Greenberg (2007) A key role for the Arabidopsis WIN3 protein in disease resistance triggered by Pseudomonas syringae that secrete AvrRpt2. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 20(10): 1192-1200.

Chiou TH, Mathger LM, Hanlon RT, and Cronin TW. 2007.  Spectral and spatial  properties of polarized light reflections from the arms of squid  (Loligo pealeii) and cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis L.).  J Exp Biol.  210:3624-3635. [Abstract]

Ogura T, Margolskee RF, Tallini YN, Shui B, Kotlikoff MI, Lin W.   
Immuno-localization of vesicular acetylcholine transporter in mouse taste cells and adjacent nerve fibers: indication of acetylcholine release. Cell Tissue Res. (2007) Oct;330(1):17-28. Epub 2007 Aug 18. [Abstract] [PDF]

Guarraia C, Norris L, Raman A, Farabaugh PJ. Saturation mutagenesis of a +1 programmed frameshift-inducing mRNA sequence derived from a yeast retrotransposon. RNA. 2007 [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [PDF]

Mendelson TC, Imhoff VE, Venditti JJ. 2007. The accumulation of reproductive barriers during speciation: postmating barriers in two behaviorally isolated species of darters (Percidae: Etheostoma). Evolution 2007 Sep 25;. [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract]

Reynolds, R.M., Temiyasathit, S., Reedy, M.M., Ruedi, E.A., Drnevich, J.M., Leips, J. and Hughes, K.A. 2007. Age specificity of inbreeding load in Drosophila melanogaster and implications for the evolution of late-life mortality plateaus.  Genetics 177:587-595. [Abstract]

Lai, C.Q., Leips, J., Zou, W., Roberts, J.F., Wollenberg, K.R., Parnell, L.D., Zeng, Z.B., Ordovas, J.M., Mackay, T.F.C.  2007. Speed-mapping quantitative trait loci using microarrays.  Nature Methods 4:839-841.

Bunt, S.K., Yang, L., Sinha, P., Clements, V.K., Leips, J., Ostrand-Rosenberg, S.  2007.  Reduced inflammation in the tumor microenvironment delays the accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells and limits tumor progression. Cancer Research 67:10019-10026.

Taliaferro DL, Farabaugh PJ. Testing constraints on rRNA bases that make nonsequence-specific contacts with the codon•anticodon complex in the ribosomal A site. RNA. 2007 13:1279-1286. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]