Team:ESBS-Strasbourg/Essential publications

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Project essentials

  • Caroline M. Ajo-Franklin et al. Rational design of memory in eukaryotic cells. (2007) PMID 17875664
  • Attila Becskei et al. Positive feedback in eukaryotic gene networks: cell differentiation by graded to binary response conversion. (2001) PMID 11350942
  • Christina B. Tyson et al. Dependency of size of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells on growth rate. (1978) PMID 374379
  • Nathan C. Shaner et al. A guide to choosing fluorescent proteins. (2005) PMID 16299475


Transcriptional/translational control

  • Gudrun Bjornsdottir and Lawrence C. Myers. Minimal components of the RNA polymerase II transcription apparatus determine the consensus TATA box. (2008) PMID 18385157
  • Thomas Masek et al. Hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site initiates protein synthesis at the authentic initiation codon in yeast. (2007) PMID 17554033
  • Wei Zhouet et al. Isolation and identification of short nucleotide sequences that affect translation initiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (2002) PMID 12679518


Eukaryotic activation/repression domains

  • Gerald Thiel et al. How mammalian transcriptional repressors work. (2004) PMID 15233782
  • Gemma BellĂ­ et al. An activator/repressor dual system allows tight tetracycline-regulated gene expression in budding yeast. (1998) PMID 9461451
  • Jae-Ryeon Ryu et al. Cell-type specificity of short-range transcriptional repressors. (2001) PMID 11687630
  • Tania M. MalavĂ© and Sharon Y.R. Dent. Transcriptional repression by Tup1-Ssn6. (2006) PMID 16936817


Prokaryotic DNA binding domains (+ affinity mutations)

  • M. Madan Babu and Sarah A. Teichmann. Functional determinants of transcription factors in Escherichia coli: protein families and binding sites. (2003) PMID 12547514
  • Christian Berens and Wolfgang Hillen. Gene regulation by tetracyclines. Constraints of resistance regulation in bacteria shape TetR for application in eukaryotes. (2003) PMID 12869186
  • A. Wissmann et al. Amino acids determining operator binding specificity in the helix-turn-helix motif of Tn10 Tet repressor. (1991) PMID 1756721
  • Hillary C.M. Nelson and Robert T. Sauer. Lambda repressor mutations that increase the affinity and specificity of operator binding. (1985) PMID 3161621
  • Nicholas Benson et al. Mutant lambda repressors with increased operator affinities reveal new, specific protein-DNA contacts. (1992) PMID 1531047
  • P. Oertel-Buchheit et al. Isolation and characterization of LexA mutant repressors with enhanced DNA binding affinity. (1992) PMID 1602473
  • Liskin Swint-Kruse et al. Perturbation from a distance: mutations that alter LacI function through long-range effects. (2003) PMID 14636069


Protein degradation motifs

  • Emily R. Hildebrandt and M. Andrew Hoyt. Cell cycle-dependent degradation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae spindle motor Cin8p requires APC(Cdh1) and a bipartite destruction sequence. (2001) PMID 11694576
  • Janet L. Burton and Mark Solomon. D box and KEN box motifs in budding yeast Hsl1p are required for APC-mediated degradation and direct binding to Cdc20p and Cdh1p. (2001) PMID 11562348
  • Sofie R. Salama et al. G1 cyclin degradation: the PEST motif of yeast Cln2 is necessary, but not sufficient, for rapid protein turnover. (1994) PMID 7969135
  • Carolina Mateus and Simon V. Avery. Destabilized green fluorescent protein for monitoring dynamic changes in yeast gene expression with flow cytometry. (2000) PMID 11015728
  • Catherine Berset et al. Transferable domain in the G(1) cyclin Cln2 sufficient to switch degradation of Sic1 from the E3 ubiquitin ligase SCF(Cdc4) to SCF(Grr1). (2002) PMID 12052857
  • Matthew D. Petroski and Raymond J. Deshaies. Redundant degrons ensure the rapid destruction of Sic1 at the G1/S transition of the budding yeast cell cycle. (2003) PMID 12963827
  • Alexander Varshavsky. The N-end rule: functions, mysteries, uses. (1996) PMID 8901547


Nuclear localistation

  • Gabriel Schlenstedt et al. Reconstitution of nuclear protein transport with semi-intact yeast cells. (1993) PMID 8227140
  • Julia M. Sidorova et al. Cell cycle-regulated phosphorylation of Swi6 controls its nuclear localization. (1995) PMID 8590795
  • Michelle T. Harreman et al. Regulation of nuclear import by phosphorylation adjacent to nuclear localization signals. (2004) PMID 14998990


Site-specific proteases

  • Sung Yun Kim et al. In vivo determination of substrate specificity of hepatitis C virus NS3 protease: genetic assay for site-specific proteolysis. (2000) PMID 10933854
  • Hara Kang et al. An improved strategy for a genetic assay for site-specific proteolysis. (2001) PMID 11355710
  • Sung Yun Kim et al. Detection of site-specific proteolysis in secretory pathways. (2002) PMID 12163035


mRNA instability

  • T. Chinnappan Santiago et al. The relationship between mRNA stability and length in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (1986) PMID 3537957
  • Reut Shalgi et al. A catalog of stability-associated sequence elements in 3'UTRs of yeast mRNAs. (2005) PMID 16207357
  • Tina Gill et al. RNase MRP cleaves the CLB2 mRNA to promote cell cycle progression: novel method of mRNA degradation. (2003) PMID 14729943
  • Bernard J. de la Cruz et al. The role of the 5' untranslated region (UTR) in glucose-dependent mRNA decay. (2002) PMID 12112242
  • Benoit Pierrat et al. The 5' untranslated region of the PPR1 regulatory gene dictates rapid mRNA decay in yeast. (1993) PMID 8370540


Toggle switches

  • Timothy S. Gardner et al. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. (2000) PMID 10659857
  • Beat P. Kramer and Martin Fussenegger. Hysteresis in a synthetic mammalian gene network. (2005) PMID 15972812


BioBrick assembly

  • Tom Knight. Idempotent Vector Design for Standard Assembly of Biobricks (2003) [1]
  • Ira E. Phillips and Pamela A. Silver. A New Biobrick Assembly Strategy Designed for Facile Protein Engineering (2006) [2]


Miscellaneous

  • Pawan K. Dhar. The next step in biology: a periodic table? (2007) PMID 17914242