Student's Publications

Mutations in smooth muscle alpha-actin (ACTA2) lead to thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections.Nat Genet. 2007 Nov 11; [Epub ahead of print]
Guo DC, Pannu H, Tran-Fadulu V, Papke CL, Yu RK, Avidan N, Bourgeois S, Estrera AL, Safi HJ, Sparks E, Amor D, Ades L, McConnell V, Willoughby CE, Abuelo D, Willing M, Lewis RA, Kim DH, Scherer S, Tung PP, Ahn C, Buja LM, Raman CS, Shete SS, Milewicz DM.

MYH11 mutations result in a distinct vascular pathology driven by insulin-like growth factor 1 and angiotensin II.Hum Mol Genet. 2007 Oct 15;16(20):3453-62. Epub 2007 Jul 31.
Pannu H, Tran-Fadulu V, Papke CL, Scherer S, Liu Y, Presley C, Guo D, Estrera AL, Safi HJ, Brasier AR, Vick GW, Marian AJ, Raman CS, Buja LM, Milewicz DM.

Western Diet, but not high fat diet, causes derangements of fatty acid metabolism and contractile dysfunction in the heart of Wistar rats. Biochem J. 2007;
Wilson CR, Tran MK, Salazar KL, Young ME, Taegtmeyer H.

Wnt7a Interacts with Fzd5 and Fzd10 and can Activate Two Distinct Wnt Signaling Pathways in Endometrial Cells.
Carmon, K.S.and Loose, D.S. (2007). Submitted.

Transgenic expression of the human Vitamin D receptor (hVDR) in the duodenum of VDR-null mice attenuates the age-dependent decline in calcium absorption.
J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2007 ;103(3-5):513-6.
Marks HD, Fleet JC, Peleg S.

Cellular mechanisms underlying prostaglandin-induced transient cAMP signals near the plasma membrane of HEK-293 cells. Am.J.Physiol.Cell and Physiol. 2007, 292 (1):C319-31.
Rich TC, Xin W,Mehats C, Hassell KA, Piggott LA, Le X, Karpen JW, Conti M.

Characterization of beta2-adrenergic receptor dephosphorylation: Comparison with the rate of resensitization Mol Pharmacol. 2007 ;71(1):47-60.
Tran TM, Friedman J, Baameur F, Knoll BJ, Moore RH, Clark RB.

Pathogenesis of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms.Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2006 Nov;1085:339-52. Review. Guo DC, Papke CL, He R, Milewicz DM.

Multiple Rho proteins regulate the subcellular targeting of PAK5.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 15;351(2):328-35.
Wu X, Frost JA.

Overexpression of the insulin-like growth factor I receptor and activation of the AKT pathway in hyperplastic endometrium. Clin Cancer Res. 2006 1;12(21):6373-8
McCampbell AS, Broaddus RR, Loose DS, Davies PJ.

Natriuretic peptides and nitric oxide stimulatecGMP synthesis in different cellular compartments. J. Gen. Physiol, J 2006, 128(1): 3-14.
Piggott LA, Hassell KA, Silberbach M, and Rich, T.C.

Atrophy, hypertrophy, and hypoxemia induce transcriptional regulators of the ubiquitin proteasome system in the rat heart. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006. 7; 342(2):361-4.
Razeghi P, Baskin KK, Sharma S, Young ME, Stepkowski S, Essop MF, Taegtmeyer H.

Relaxin stimulates cAMP production in MCF-7 cells upon overexpression of type V adenylyl cyclase. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 May;1041:296-9. Nguyen BT, Dessauer CW.

Relaxin stimulates multiple signaling pathways: activation of cAMP, PI3K, and PKCzeta in THP-1 cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005;1041:272-9.
Dessauer CW, Nguyen BT.

B-Raf and Raf-1 are regulated by distinct autoregulatory mechanisms.
J Biol Chem. 2005 22;280(16):16244-53.
Tran NH, Wu X, Frost JA

Memory-like alterations in Aplysia axons after nerve injury or localized depolarization.
J Neurosci. 2004 ;24(46):10393-401.
Weragoda RM, Ferrer E, Walters ET.

Regulation of lymphoid cell apoptosis by Jaks and Stats.
Crit Rev Immunol. 2004 ;24(2):87-110.
Nagy ZS, Ross J, Cheng H, Stepkowski SM, Kirken RA.

Characterization of agonist stimulation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and G protein-coupled receptor kinase phosphorylation of the beta2-adrenergic receptor using phosphoserine-specific antibodies. Mol Pharmacol. 2004 ;65(1):196-206.
Tran TM, Friedman J, Qunaibi E, Baameur F, Moore RH, Clark RB.

Expression of class III beta-tubulin reduces microtubule assembly and confers resistance to paclitaxel. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 2003 ;56(1):45-56.
Hari M, Yang H, Zeng C, Canizales M, Cabral F.

Activation of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 by full length and low molecular weight forms of cyclin E in breast cancer cells. J Biol Chem. 2004 26;279(13):12695-705.
Harwell RM, Mull BB, Porter DC, Keyomarsi K.