2003 publication highlights

Selected publications for 2003, alphabetically by first author.

Aubert J, Stavridis MP, Tweedie S, O’Reilly M, Vierlinger K, Li M, Ghazal P, Pratt T, Mason JO, Roy D, Smith A (2003) Screening for mammalian neural genes via fluorescence-activated cell sorter purification of neural precursors from Sox1-gfp knock-in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 100: 11836-11841.

Chen HK, Fernandez-Funez P, Acevedo SF, Lam YC, Kaytor MD, Fernandez MH, Aitken A, Skoulakis EMC, Orr HT, Botas J, Zoghbi HY (2003) Interaction of Akt-phosphorylated ataxin-1 with 14-3-3 mediates neurodegeneration in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1. Cell 113: 457-468.

Duncan RR, Greaves J, Wiegand UK, Matskovich I, Bodammer G, Apps DK, Shipston MJ, Chow RH (2003) Functional and spatial segregation of secretory vesicle pools according to vesicle age. Nature 422: 176-180.

Galagan JE, Calvo SE, Borkovich KA, Selker EU, Read ND, Jaffe D, FitzHugh W, Ma LJ, Smirnov S, Purcell S, Rehman B, Elkins T, Engels R, Wang SG, Nielsen CB, Butler J, Endrizzi M, Qui DY, Ianakiev P, Pedersen DB, Nelson MA, Werner-Washburne M, Selitrennikoff CP, Kinsey JA, Braun EL, Zelter A, Schulte U, Kothe GO, Jedd G, Mewes W, Staben C, Marcotte E, Greenberg D, Roy A, Foley K, Naylor J, Stabge-Thomann N, Barrett R, Gnerre S, Kamal M, Kamvysselis M, Mauceli E, Bielke C, Rudd S, Frishman D, Krystofova S, Rasmussen C, Metzenberg RL, Perkins DD, Kroken S, Cogoni C, Macino G, Catcheside D, Li WX, Pratt RJ, Osmani SA, DeSouza CPC, Glass, L, Orbach MJ, Berglund JA, Voelker R, Yarden O, Plamann M, Seller S, Dunlap J, Radford A, Aramayo R, Natvig DO, Alex LA, Mannhaupt G, Ebbole DJ, Freitag M, Paulsen I, Sachs MS, Lander ES, Nusbaum C Birren B (2003) The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Nature 422: 859-868.

Meehan RR, Kao CF, Pennings S (2003) HP1 binding to native chromatin in vitro is determined by the hinge region and not by the chromodomain. EMBO Journal 22: 3164-3174.

Stancheva I, Collins AL, Van den Veyver IB, Zoghbi H Meehan RR (2003) A mutant form of MeCP2 protein associated with human Rett syndrome cannot be displaced from methylated DNA by notch in Xenopus embryos. Molecular Cell 12: 425-435.

Tan TC, Valova VA, Malladi CS, Graham ME, Berven LA, Jupp OJ, Hansra G, McClure SJ, Sarcevic B, Boadle RA, Larsen MR, Cousin MA Robinson PJ (2003) Cdk5 is essential for synaptic vesicle endocytosis. Nature Cell Biology 5: 701-710.