2004 publication highlights

Selected publications for 2004, alphabetically by first author.

Beaujean N, Taylor JE, McGarry M, Gardner JO, Wilmut I, Loi P, Ptak G, Galli C, Lazzari G, Bird A, Young LE, Meehan RR (2004) The effect of interspecific oocytes on demethylation of sperm DNA.Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 101: 7636-7640.

Duncan RR, Bergmann A, Cousin MA, Apps DK, Shipston MJ (2004) A novel multidimensional fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) technique to detect FRET in cells. Journal of Microscopy 215: 1-12.

Fowler PA, Spears, N (2004) The cultured rodent follicle as a model for investigations of gonadotrophin surge-attenuating factor production. Reproduction 127: 679-688.

Freitag M, Hickey PC, Khlafallah TK, Read ND, Selker EU (2004) HP1 is essential for DNA methylation in Neurospora. Molecular Cell 13: 427-434.

Paterson J, Morton N, Fievet C, Kenyon C, Holmes M, Staels B, Seckl J, Mullins J (2004) Metabolic syndrome without obesity: Hepatic overexpression of 11Beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 in transfenic mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 101: 7088-7093.

Pratt T, Tian N, Simpson TI, Mason JO, Price DJ (2004) The winged helix transcription factor Foxg1 facilitates retinal ganglion cell axon crossing of the ventral midline in the mouse. Development 131: 3773-3784.

Ruzov A, Dunican DS, Prokhortchouk A, Pennings S, Stancheva I, Prokhortchouk E, Meehan RR (2004) Kaiso is a genome-wide repressor of transcription that is essential for amphibian development. Development 131: 6185-6194.

Sabatier N, Brown CH, Ludwig M, Leng G (2004) Phasic spike patterning in rat supraoptic neurones in vivo and in vitro. Journal of Physiology 558: 161-180.

Sandeep T, Yau JLW, MacLullich AMW, Noble J, Deary I, Walker BR, Seckl JR (2004) Effects of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase inhibition on cognitive function in healthy elderly men and patients with type 2 diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 101: 6734-6739.

Sarraf SA, Stancheva I (2004) Methyl-CpG binding protein MBD1 couples histone H3 methylation at lysine 9 by SETDB1 to DNA replication and chromatin assembly. Molecular Cell 15: 595-605.

Sausbier M, Hu H, Arntz C, Feil S, Kamm S, Adelsberger H, Sausbier U, Sailer CA, Feil R, Hofmann F, Korth M, Shipston MJ, Knaus H-G, Wolfer DP, Pedroarena CM, Storm JF Ruth P (2004) Cerebellar ataxia and Purkinje cell dysfunction caused by Ca2+-activated K+ channel deficiency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 25: 9474-9478.

Tian L, Coghill LS, McClafferty H, MacDonald SH-F, Antoni FA, Ruth P, Knaus H-G, Shipston MJ (2004) Distinct stoichiometry of BKCa channel tetramer phosphorylation specifies channel activation and inhibition by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 101: 11897-11902.

Weaver ICG, Cervoni N, Champagne FA, D’Alessio AC, Sharma S, Seckl JR, Dymov S, Szyf M, Meaney MJ (2004) Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior. Nature Neuroscience 7: 847-854.

zur Lage PI, Powell LM, Prentice DRA, Jarman AP (2004) EGF receptor signalling triggers recruitment of Drosophila sense organ precursors by stimulating proneural gene autoregulation. Developmental Cell 5: 687-696.