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UMBC Biological Sciences
departmental publications
2004

Kataoka S, Toyono T, Seta Y, Ogura T, Toyoshima K. Expression of P2Y1 receptors in rat taste buds.  Histochem. Cell Biol. (2004) 121:419-426.

Griffith, K.L. and R.E. Wolf, Jr. 2004. Genetic evidence for pre-recruitment as the mechanism of transcription activation by SoxS of Escherichia coli: the dominance of DNA binding mutations of SoxS. J. Mol. Biol. 344:1-10. [Abstract]

C.H. Mazel, T.W. Cronin, R.L. Caldwell, and J. Marshall.  2004. Fluorescent enhancement of signaling in a mantis shrimp.  Science 303:51. [Abstract]

Ostrand-Rosenberg S, Sinha P, Clements VK, Dissanayake SK, Miller S, Davis C, Danna EA. Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 6 (Stat6) and CD1: Inhibitors of Immunosurveillance Against Primary Tumors and Metastatic Disease. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2004: 53: 86-91. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Warashina A, Ogura T . Modeling of stimulation-secretion coupling in a chromaffin cell. Pfluger Arch Eur J Physiol. (2004) 448:161-174 [Abstract]

Jong Tae Song, Hua Lu, John M. McDowell, Jean T. Greenberg (2004) A key role for ALD1 in activation of local and systemic defenses in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 40: 200-212. [Abstract]

Shah, I.M. and R.E. Wolf, Jr. 2004. Novel protein-protein interaction between Escherichia coli SoxS and the DNA binding determinant of the RNA polymerase α subunit: SoxS functions as a co-sigma factor and redeploys RNA polymerase from UP-element-containing promoters to SoxS-dependent promoters during oxidative stress. J. Mol. Biol. 343:513-532. [Abstract]

Abella, M; Erill, I; Jara, M; Mazón, G; Campoy, S; Barbé, J. “Widespread distribution of a lexA-regulated DNA damage-inducible multiple gene cassette in the Proteobacteria phylum”, Molecular Microbiology, 54, 212-222, (2004).
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Allen T.D., T. Watkins, L. Lindahl, and J.M. Zengel. 2004. Regulation of ribosomal protein synthesis in Vibrio cholerae. J Bacteriol. 186:5933-7. [Abstract]

A. Siddiqi, T.W. Cronin, E.R. Loew, M. Vorobyev, and K. Summers.  2004.  Interspecific and intraspecific views of color signals in the strawberry poison frog, Dendrobates pumilio.  J. Exp. Biol. 207:2471-2485. [Abstract]

Sinha P, Chi H, Kim HR, Clausen BE, Pederson B, Sercarz EE, Forster I and Moudgil KD. Mouse lysozyme-M knockout mice reveal how the self-determinant hierarchy shapes the T cell repertoire against this circulating self antigen in wild-type mice. J. Immunology 2004: 173; 1763-1771. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Lin, W., Arellano, J., Slotnick, B. and Restrepo, D. (2004).  Odors detected by mice deficient in cyclic nucleotide-gated channel subunit A2 stimulate the main olfactory system.  J. Neuroscience 24:3703-10. [Abstract] [PDF]

Restrepo, D., Arellano, J., Oliva, A., Schaefer, M and Lin, W. (2004).  Emerging views on the distinct, but overlapping roles of the main and accessory olfactory systems in responsiveness to chemosensory signals in mice.  Hormones and behavior 46:47-56. [Abstract] [PDF]

Natarajan, L., B. M. Jackson, E. Szyleyko** and D. M. Eisenmann. 2004. Identification of evolutionarily conserved promoter elements and amino acids required for function of the C. elegans beta-catenin homolog BAR-1. Developmental Biology 272: 536-557. [Text]

Li X, S. Zaman, Y. Langdon, J.M. Zengel and L. Lindahl. 2004. Identification of a functional core in the RNA component of RNase MRP of budding yeasts. Nucleic Acids Res. 32:3703-11. [Abstract]

Lin, W., Burks, C.A., Hansen, D.R., Kinnamon, S.C. and Gilbertson, T.A. (2004).  Taste receptor cells express pH-sensitive leak K+ channels.  J. Neurophysiol. 92: 2909-19. [Abstract] [PDF]

Kann, M. and R. A. Goldstein (2004). OPTIMA: A new score function for the detection of remote homologs. in Mathematical Methods for Protein Structure Analysis and Design. Lectures Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag. Heidelberg: 99-107. [Abstract] [PDF]

Ostrand-Rosenberg S, Sinha P, Danna EA, Miller S, Davis C, Dissanayake SK. Antagonists of Tumor-Specific Immunity: Tumor-Induced Immune Suppression and Host Genes that Co-opt the Anti-tumor Immune Response. In Immunology of Breast Cancer, Breast Disease. Ed. WZ Wei and D.Lopez. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2004; 20: 127-35 [Abstract]

Joshi, P. and D. M. Eisenmann. 2004. The C. elegans pvl-5 gene protects hypodermal cells from ced-3-dependent, ced-4-independent cell death. Genetics 167: 673-685. [Text]

Stahl G, Salem SN, Chen L, Zhao B, Farabaugh PJ. Translational accuracy during exponential, postdiauxic, and stationary growth phases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Eukaryot Cell. 2004 3:331-338. [Abstract] [PDF]

Danna EA, Sinha P, Gilbert M, Clements VK, Pulaski BA and Ostrand-Rosenberg S. Surgical Removal of Primary Tumor Reverses Tumor-induced Immunosuppression Despite the Presence of Metastatic Disease. Cancer Research 2004: 64; 2205-2211. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Griffith, K .L., I.M. Shah, and R. E. Wolf, Jr. 2004. Proteolytic degradation of the Escherichia coli transcription activators SoxS and MarA as the mechanism for reversing the induction of the superoxide (SoxRS) and multiple antibiotic resistance (Mar) regulons. Mol. Microbiol. 51:1801-1816 [Abstract]

Jong Tae Song, Hua Lu, Jean T. Greenberg (2004) Divergent roles in Arabidopsis development and defense of two homologous genes, aberrant growth and death2 and AGD2-LIKE DEFENSE RESPONSE PROTEIN1, encoding novel aminotransferases. Plant Cell 16 (2): 353-66. [Abstract]

Lohr, B., Lauer, A., Newman, M.R., & Dooling, R.J. 2004. Hearing in the red-billed firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala) and the Spanish timbrado canary (Serinus canaria): the influence of natural and artificial selection on auditory abilities and vocal structure. Bioacoustics 14: 83-98.