Selected Publications

 

Pascale Gaudet, Jeffery G. Williams, Petra Fey and Rex L. Chisholm. 2008. An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum.   BMC Genomics, 9: 130-142. Published online 2008 March 18. PDF

Gene Ontology Consortium.  2008.  The Gene Ontology Project in 2008.  Nuc. Acids. Res. 36 (database issue), D440-444. PDF

Petra Fey, Anthony S. Kowal, Pascale Gaudet, Karen E. Pilcher, and Rex L. Chisholm. 2007.  Protocols for growth and development of Dictyostelium discoideum.  Nature Protocols 2, 1307-1316.

Pascale Gaudet, Karen E. Pilcher, Petra Fey, Rex L. Chisholm.  2007.  Transformation of Dictyostelium discoideum with plasmid DNA.  Nature Protocols 2, 1317-1324.

Karen E. Pilcher, Petra Fey, Pascale Gaudet, and Rex L. Chisholm.  2007.  A reliable general purpose method for extracting genomic DNA from Dictyostelium cells.  Nature Protocols 2, 1325-1328.

Karen E. Pilcher, Pascale Gaudet, Petra Fey, Anthony S. Kowal, and Rex L. Chisholm.  2007. A general purpose method for extracting RNA from Dictyostelium cells.  Nature Protocols 2, 1329-1332.

Bradley I. Arshinoff, Garret Suen, Eric M. Just, Sohel M. Merchant, Warren A. Kibbe, Rex L. Chisholm, and Roy D. Welch.  2007. Xanthusbase:adapting Wikipedia principles to a model organism database.  Nuc. Acids. Res 35: D422-D426.

Gene Ontology Consortium.  The Gene Ontology (GO) Project in 2006.  Nuc. Acids. Res. 34:D322-D326.

Rex L. Chisholm, Pascale Gaudet, Eric M. Just, Karen E. Pilcher, Petra Fey, Sohel N. Merchant, and Warren A. Kibbe.  2006. dictyBase, the model organism database for Dictyostelium discoideum.  Nuc. Acids. Res. 34:D423-D427. PDF

Petra Fey, Pascale Gaudet, Karen E. Pilcher, Jakob Franke, and Rex L. Chisholm.  2006.  dictyBase and the Dicty Stock Center.  Methods in Molecular Biology.  L. Eichinger and F Rivero-Crespo, editors.  Humana Press. Abstract

L. Eichinger, J. A. Pachebat, G. Glockner, M.-A. Rajandream, R. Sucgang, M. Berriman, J. Song, R. Olsen, K. Szafranski, Q. Xu, B. Tunggal, S. Kummerfeld, M. Madera, B. A. Konfortov, F. Rivero, A. T. Bankier, R. Lehmann, N. Hamlin, R. Davies, P. Gaudet, P. Fey, K. Pilcher, G. Chen, D. Saunders, E. Sodergren, P. Davis, A. Kerhornou, X. Nie, N. Hall, C. Anjard, L. Hemphill, N. Bason, P. Farbrother, B. Desany, E. Just, T. Morio, R. Rost, C. Churcher, J. Cooper, S. Haydock, N. van Driessche, A. Cronin, I. Goodhead, D. Muzny, T. Mourier, A. Pain, M. Lu, D. Harper, R. Lindsay , H. Hauser, K. James,M. Quiles, M. Madan Babu, T. Saito, C. Buchrieser, A. Wardroper, M. Felder, M. Thangavelu, D. Johnson, A. Knights, H. Loulseged, K. Mungall, K. Oliver, C. Price, M. A. Quail, H. Urushihara, J. Hernandez, E. Rabbinowitsch, D. Steffen, M. Sanders, J. Ma, Y. Kohara, S. Sharp, M. Simmonds, S. Spiegler, A. Tivey, S. Sugano, B. White, D. Walker, J. Woodward, T. Winckler, Y. Tanaka, G. Shaulsky, M. Schleicher, G. Weinstock, A. Rosenthal, E. C. Cox, R. L. Chisholm, R. Gibbs, W. F. Loomis, M. Platzer, R. R. Kay, J. Williams, P. H. Dear, A. A. Noegel, A. Barrell & A. Kuspa.  2005. The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, Nature. 435, 43-57.

Rex L. Chisholm.  2005. dictyBase: Using the Genome to Organize Dictyostelium Biology.  In The Dictyostelium Genome.  W. Loomis and A. Kuspa, editors.  Horizon Press.  pp. 23-40.

Rex L. Chisholm and Richard A. Firtel.  2004.  Insights into morphogenesis from a simple developmental system.  Nature Cell Mol. Rev. 5, 531-541.

Gene Ontology Consortium: M. A. Harris, J. Clark, A. Ireland, J. Lomax, M. Ashburner, R. Foulger, K. Eilbeck, S. Lewis, B. Marshall, C. Mungall, J. Richter, G. M. Rubin, J. A. Blake, C. Bult, M. Dolan, H. Drabkin, J. T. Eppig, D. P. Hill, L. Ni, M. Ringwald, R. Balakrishnan, J. M. Cherry, K. R. Christie, M. C. Costanzo, S. S. Dwight, S. Engel, D. G. Fisk, J. E. Hirschman, E. L. Hong, R. S. Nash, A. Sethuraman, C. L. Theesfeld, D. Botstein, K. Dolinski, B. Feierbach, T. Berardini, S. Mundodi, S. Y. Rhee, R. Apweiler, D. Barrell, E. Camon, E. Dimmer, V. Lee, R. Chisholm, P. Gaudet, W. Kibbe, R. Kishore, E. M. Schwarz, P. Sternberg, M. Gwinn, L. Hannick, J. Wortman, M. Berriman, V. Wood, N. de la Cruz, P. Tonellato, P. Jaiswal, T. Seigfried, R. White.  2004.  The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource.  Nuc. Acids. Res. 32, D258-261.

Lisa Kreppel, Petra Fey, Pascale Gaudet, Eric Just, Warren A. Kibbe, Rex L. Chisholm and Alan R. Kimmel.  2004.  dictyBase: a new Dictyostelium discoideum genome.  Nuc. Acids Res. 32, D233-234. PDF

Teng-Leong Chew and Rex L. Chisholm. 2003.  Monitoring protein dynamics using FRET-based biosensors.  Live Cell Imaging: A Laboratory Manual, 145-157.

Petra Fey, Stephan Stevens, Margaret A. Titus and Rex L. Chisholm.  2002.  sadA, a novel adhesion receptor in Dictyostelium.  J. Cell. Biol. 159, 1109-1119. PDF

Shuo Ma and Rex L. Chisholm   2002.   Cytoplasmic dynein-associated structures move bidirectionally in vivo.  J. Cell Sci. 115: 1453-1460.  PDF

Teng-Leong Chew, Wendy A. Wolf, Patricia J. Gallagher, Fumio Matsumura, and Rex L. Chisholm.   2002. A fluorescent resonant energy transfer-based biosensor reveals transient and regional myosin light chain kinase activation in lamella and cleavage furrow.  J. Cell Biol., 156, 543-553.  PDF (see also JCB editorial PDF)

 

Xiaoxin Susan Xu, Eunkyung Lee, Tung-ling Chen, Edward Kuczmarski, Rex L. Chisholm, and David A. Knecht.  2001.  During multicellular migration, Myosin II serves a structural role independent of its motor function.  Develop. Biol., 232, 255-264. PDF

 

Shuo Ma, Petra Fey, and Rex L. Chisholm.  2001.  Molecular Motors and Membrane Traffic in Dictyostelium.  Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1525, 234-244.  PDF

 

Patricia A. Clow, Tung-Ling L. Chen, Rex L. Chisholm and James G. McNally.  2000. 3D in vivo analysis of Dictyostelium mounds reveals directional sorting of prestalk cells and defines a role for the myosin II regulatory light chain in prestalk-cell sorting and tip protrusion.  Development, 127, 2715-2728.  PDF

 

Shuo Ma, Leda Trivinos-Lagos, Ralph Graf and Rex L. Chisholm.  1999.  Dynein intermediate chain mediated dynein-dynactin interaction is required for interphase microtubule organization and centrosome replication and separation in Dictyostelium.  J. Cell Biol. 147, 1261-1274. PDF

 

Andrea Habura, Irina Tikhonenko, Rex L. Chisholm and Michael P. Koonce.  1999.  Interaction mapping of a dynein heavy chain: Identification of dimerization and intermediate-chain binding domains.  J. Biol. Chem. 274, 15447-15453.

 

Pengxin Chen, Bernard M. Chaudoir, Kathleen M. Trybus and Rex L. Chisholm.  1999.  Expression of Chicken gizzard RLC complements the cytokinesis and developmental defects of Dictyostelium RLC null cells.  J. Muscle Res. Cell. Motil. 20, 177-186. PDF  

 

Wendy A. Wolf, Teng-Leong Chew and Rex L. Chisholm. 1999. Regulation of cytokinesis. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 55, 108-120. PDF

 

Bernard M. Chaudoir, Patricia A. Kowalczyk and Rex L. Chisholm. 1999. Myosin regulatory light chain mutation affect enzyme function and kinetics. J. Cell Sci. 112, 1611-1620.  PDF

 

Tung-Ling L. Chen, Wendy A. Wolf and Rex L. Chisholm. 1998. Cell type specific rescue of myosin function during Dictyostelium development defines two distinct cell movements required for culmination. Development 125, 3895-3903.  PDF

 

Rex L. Chisholm.  1997.  Cytokinesis: a regulatory role for Ras-related proteins?  Curr. Biol. 7(10):R648-R650 [Abstract] PDF

 

Guyu Ho and Rex L. Chisholm. 1997. Substitution mutations in the myosin essential light chain lead to reduced actin-activated ATPase activity despite stoichiometric binding to the heavy chain. J. Biol. Chem. 272: 4522-4527.  PDF     

 

Guyu Ho, Tung-Ling Chen and Rex L. Chisholm. 1995. Both the Amino and Carboxyl Termini of Dictyostelium Myosin Essential Light Chain Are Required for Binding to Myosin Heavy Chain. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 27977-27981.  PDF [Abstract]

 

Tung-Ling L. Chen, Patricia Kowalczyk, Guyu Ho and Rex L. Chisholm. 1995. Targeted disruption of the Dictyostelium essential myosin light chain produces cells defective in cytokinesis and morphogenesis. J. Cell Sci. 108. 3207-3218.  [Abstract]

 

Bruce D. Ostrow, Pengxin Chen, and Rex L. Chisholm. 1994. Expression of a myosin regulatory light chain phosphorylation site mutant complements the cytokinesis and developmental defects of Dictyostelium RMLC null cells. J. Cell Biol. 127, 1945-1955.   [Abstract]

 

Pengxin Chen, Bruce D. Ostrow, Sherrie R. Tafuri and Rex L. Chisholm. 1994. Targeted disruption of the Dictyostelium RMLC gene produces cells defective in cytokinesis and development. J. Cell Biol. 127, 1933-1944.   [Abstract]

 

Leda Trivinos-Lagos, Tetsuo Omachi, Caryn A. Albrightson, Roy G. Burns, Herbert L. Ennis and Rex L. Chisholm. 1993. The highly divergent a and b tubulins from Dictyostelium discoideum are encoded by single genes. J. Cell Sci. 105, 903-911.  [Abstract]

 

Richard S. Pollenz, Tung-Ling L. Chen, Leda Trivinos-Lagos and Rex L. Chisholm. 1992. The Dictyostelium essential light chain is required for myosin function. Cell 69, 951-962.  [Abstract]

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