Selected Publications 2018

Wang, S., Xing, Z., Pascuzzi, P. E., Tran, E. J. (2017) Metabolic Adaptation to Nutrients Involves Coregulation of Gene Expression by the RNA Helicase Dbp2 and the Cyc8 Co-repressor. G3. 7(7):2235-2247.

 

Xing, Z., Wang, S., Tran, E.J. (2017) Characterization of the mammalian DEAD-box protein DDX5 reveals functional conservation with S. cerevisiae ortholog Dbp2 in transcriptional control and glucose metabolism.  RNA.  23(7):1125-1138.

 

Yang, Y., H. La, K. Tang, D. Miki, L. Yang, B. Wang, C.G. Duan, W. Nie, X. Wang, S. Wang¹, Y. Pan, J. Tran, L. An, H. Zhang, and J.K. Zhu. (2017) SAC3B, a central component of the mRNA export complex TREX-2, is required for prevention of epigenetic gene silencing in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Res. 45(1): p. 181-197.

 

Beck, Z.T., Xing, Z., and Tran, E. J. (2016) LncRNAs: Bridging environmental sensing and gene expression. RNA Biol. 13(12): p. 1189-1196.

 

Zhang H, Xing Z¹, Mani SK, Bancel B, Durantel D, Zoulim F, Tran E. J., Merle P, Andrisani O. (2016) RNA helicase DEAD box protein 5 regulates Polycomb repressive complex 2/Hox transcript antisense intergenic RNA function in hepatitis B virus infection and hepatocarcinogenesis. 64(4): p. 1033-48.

 

Ma, W. K., Paudel, B. P., Xing, Z., Sabath, I. G., Rueda, D., Tran, E. J. (2016) Recruitment, Duplex Unwinding and Protein-mediated Inhibition of the DEAD-box RNA helicase Dbp2 at Actively Transcribed Chromatin. J Mol Biol. 428, 1091-1106.

 

Cloutier, S.C., Wang, S., Ma, W. K., Al Husini, N., Dhoondia, A., Ansari, A., Pascuzzi, P. E., Tran E. J. (2016) Regulated formation of lncRNA-DNA hybrids enables faster transcriptional induction and environmental adaptation. Cell. 61(3): 393-404. ***Highlighted in Science Signaling: http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/9/416/ec36.abstract

 

Shively, C. A., Kweon, H. K., Norman, K. L., Mellacheruvu, D., Xu, T., Sheidy, D. T., Dobry, C. J., Sabath, I., Cosky, E. E. P., Tran, E. J., Nesvizhskii, A., Andrews, P. C., Kumar, A. (2015)  Large-scale Analysis of Kinase Signaling in Yeast Pseudohyphal Development Identifies Regulation of Ribonucleoprotein Granules.  PLoS Genetics. ***Selected by Faculty of 1000: http://f1000.com/prime/725838738?ref=ypp

 

Ma, W.K. and Tran, E.J. 2015. Measuring helicase inhibition of the DEAD-box protein Dbp2 by Yra1 in RNA Remodeling Proteins: Methods and Protocols, Vol. 1259. (M. Boudvillain, Ed.), Springer New York, pp. 183-197.

 

Beck, Z., Cloutier, S. C., Schipma, M., Petell, C. J., Ma, W. K., Tran, E. J. (2014) Regulation of Glucose-dependent Gene Expression by the RNA Helicase Dbp2 in cerevisiae. Genetics.  198:1001-1014.