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Members, Directors, and their Publications -
Plant Molecular Biology Center at NIU

Jozef J. Bujarski, Member 1987-present, Director 2004-present
(Research interest: Molecular virology, RNA recombination)

  • Ahlquist, P., French, R. and J.J. Bujarski. 1987. Molecular studies of brome mosaic virus using infectious transcripts from cloned cDNA. Advances in Virus Res., 32:251-242.

  • Bujarski, J.J. and P. Kaesberg. 1987. DNA inserted two bases down from the initiation site of a SP6 polymerase transcription vector is transcribed efficiently in vitro. Nucl. Acid Res. 15, 1337.

  • Dzianott, A.M. and J.J. Bujarski. 1988. An in vitro transcription vector which generates nearly correctly ended RNAs by self-cleavage of longer transcripts. Nucleic Acids Res. 16 (22), 10940.

  • Dzianott, A.M. and J.J. Bujarski. 1989. Derivation of an infectious viral RNA by autolytic cleavage of in vitro transcribed viral cDNAs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 4823-4827.

  • Dzianott, A. and J. Bujarski. 1990. The nucleotide sequence and genomic organization of RNA3 and RNA4 components of broad bean mottle virus. Virology.

  • Bujarski, J. and A. Dzianott. 1991. Generation and analysis of nonhomologous RNA-RNA recombinants in brome mosaic virus: sequence complementarities at crossover sites. J. of Virology 65, 4153-4159.

  • Dzianott, A. and J. Bujarski. 1991. The nucleotide sequence and genome organization of the RNA-1 segment in two bromoviruses: broad bean mottle virus and cowpea chlorotic mottle virus. Virology 185, 553-562.

  • Bujarski, J.J. and W.A. Miller. 1992. Application of in vitro transcription to studies on small spherical RNA viruses. A review chapter in CRC series. Plant Genetic Engineering with Small Spherical RNA Viruses.

  • Romero, J., Dzianott, A. and J. Bujarski. 1992. The nucleotide sequence and genome organization of the RNA2 and RNA3 segments in broad bean mottle virus. Virology 187, 671-681.

  • Nagy, P. and J. Bujarski. 1992. Genetic recombination in brome mosaic virus: effect of sequence and replication of RNA on accumulation of recombinants. J. Virol. 66, 6824-6828.

  • Romero, J., Huang, Q., Pogany, J. and J.J. Bujarski. 1993. Characterization of defective interfering RNA components that increase symptom severity of broad bean mottle virus. Virology 194, 576-584.

  • Nagy, P. and J.J. Bujarski. 1993. Targeting the site of RNA-RNA recombination in brome mosaic virus with antisense sequence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 6390-6394.

  • Shang, H. and J.J. Bujarski. 1993. Systemic spread and symptom formation of cowpea chlorotic mottle virus in soybean and cowpea plants map to the RNA-3 component. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 6, 755-763.

  • Bujarski, J.J. and P. Nagy. 1994. RNA-RNA recombination in plant RNA viruses. In J. Paszkowski (ed.), Homologous Recombination in Plants. Kluwer Academic Publishers, in press.

  • Simon, A. and J.J. Bujarski. 1994. RNA-RNA recombination and evolution in virus infected plants. Annual Review of Phytopathology 32:337-362.

  • Nagy, P. and J. Bujarski. 1994. Targeting of the site of nonhomologous genetic recombination in brome mosaic virus. Arch. Virol. (supl.) 9, 231-238.

  • Bujarski, J.J., Nagy, P.D. and S. Flasinski. 1994. Molecular studies of genetic RNA-RNA recombination in brome mosaic virus. Adv. Vir. Res. 43, 275-302.

  • Pogany, J., Huang, Q., Romero, J., Nagy, P. and J.J. Bujarski. 1994. Infectious transcripts from PCR-amplified broad bean mottle bromovirus cDNA clones and variable nature of leader regions in RNA3 segment. J. Gen. Virol. 75, 693-699.

  • Flasinski, S., Dzianott, A., Pratt, S. and J. Bujarski. 1994. Mutational analysis of the coat protein gene of brome mosaic virus. Mol. Plant-Micro. Interactions 8:23-31.

  • Nagy, P., Dzianott, A., Ahlquist, P. and J.J. Bujarski. 1995. Mutations in the helicase-like domain of 1a protein alter the sites of RNA-RNA recombination in brome mosaic virus. J. Virol. 69:2547-2556.

  • Nagy, P. and J. Bujarski. 1995. Efficient system of homologous RNA recombination in brome mosaic virus: sequence and structure requirements and accuracy of crossovers. J. Virol. 69:131-140.

  • Dzianott, A., Flasinski, S., Pratt, S. and J. Bujarski. 1995. Foreign complementary sequences facilitate genetic recombination in brome mosaic virus. Virology 208:370-375.

  • Pogany, J., Romero, J., Huang, A. and J.J. Bujarski. 1995. De novo generation of defective interfering RNAs in broad bean mottle bromovirus. Virology 212:574-586.

  • Nagy, P. and J.J. Bujarski. 1996. Homologous RNA recombination in brome mosaic virus: AU-rich sequences decrease the accuracy of crossovers. J. Virol. 70:415-426.

  • Flasinski, S., Dzianott, A., Spear, J., Johnson, J. and J.J. Bujarski. 1997. Structure-based rationale for the rescue of systematic movement of brome mosaic virus by spontaneous second-site mutations in the coat protein gene. J. Virol. 71:2500-2504.

  • Nagy, P. and J.J. Bujarski. 1997. Engineering of homologous recombination hot-spots with AU-rich sequences in brome mosaic virus. J. Virol. 71:3799-3810.

  • Pogany, J., Romero, J. and J.J. Bujarski. 1997. Effect of 5' and 3' terminal sequences, overall length and coding capacity on the accumulation of defective-like RNAs associated with broad bean mottle virus. Virology 228:236-243.

  • Figlerowicz, M., Nagy, P. and J.J. Bujarski. 1997. A mutation in the putative RNA polymerase gene inhibits nonhomologous but not homologous genetic recombination in brome mosaic virus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:2073-2078.

  • Bujarski, J.J. 1998. Bromovirus isolation and RNA extraction. In G.D. Foster and S.C. Taylor (eds.), Plant Virology Protocols: From virus isolation to transgenic resistance. Humana Press.

  • Bujarski, J. 1999. Recombination in viruses. In R.G. Webster and A. Granoff (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Virology, Second Edition.

  • Bujarski, J. 1999. Molecular basis of genetic variability in plant RNA viruss. In C.L. Mandahar (ed.), Molecular Biology of Plant Viruses, pp. 121-141. Kluwer Acad. Publ.

  • Roosinck, M.J., J. Bujarski, S.W. Ding, R. Hajimorad, K. Hanada, S. Scott, and M. Tousignant. 1999. Family bromoviridae, p. 923-935. In M.H.V. vanRegenmortel, C.M. Fauquet, and D.H.L. Bishop (ed), Virus taxonomy-seventh report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Academic Press, San Diego.

  • Nagy, P.D. and J.J. Bujarski. 1998. Silencing homologous RNA recombination h9ot spots with GC-rich sequences in brom mosaic virus. J. Virol. 72:1122-1130.

  • Figlerowicz, M., Nagy, P., Tang, N., Kao, C.C. and J.J. Bujarski. 1998. Mutations in the N-terminus of the brome mosaic virus polymerase affect genetic RNA-RNA recombination. J. Virol. 9192-9200.

  • Nagy, P.D., Ogiela, C. and J.J. Bujarski. 1999. Mapping sequences active in homologous recombination in brome mosaic virus: prediction of recombination hot-spots. Virology 254:92-104.

  • Bruyere, A., Wantroba, M., Flasinski, S., Dzianott, A. and J.J. Bujarski. 2000. Frequent homologous recombination events between molecules of one RNA component in a multipartite RNA virus. J. Virology 74:4214-4219.

  • Dzianott, A., Rauffer-Bruyere, N. and J. J. Bujarski. 2001. Studies on functional interaction between brome mosaic virus replicase proteins during RNA recombination, using combined mutants in vivo and in vitro. Virology 289, 137-149.

  • Olsthoorn, R.C., Bruyere, A., Dzianott, A. and J.J. Bujarski. 2002. RNA recombination in brome mosaic virus: effects of strand-specific stem-loop inserts. J Virol. 76(24):12654-62.

  • Wierzchoslawski, R., Dzianott, A., Kunimalayan, S. and J.J. Bujarski. 2003. A transcriptionally active subgenomic promoter supports homologous crossovers in a plus-strand RNA virus. J Virol. 77:6769-76.

  • Llamas, S., Sandoval, C., Babin, M., Pogany, J., Bujarski, J.J. and J. Romero. 2004. Effect of the Host and Temperature on the Formation of Defective RNAs Associated with Broad Bean Mottle Bromovirus Infection. Phytopathology 94:69-75.

  • Dzianott, A. and J.J. Bujarski. 2004. Infection and RNA Recombination of Brome mosaic virus in Arabidopsis thaliana. Virology 318(2):482-92.

  • Wierzchoslawski, R., Dzianott, A., and J. Bujarski. 2004. Dissecting the requirement for subgenomic promoter sequences by RNA recombination of brome mosaic virus in vivo: evidence for functional separation of transcription and recombination. J. Virol. 78:8552-64.

  • Urbanowicz A., Alejska M., Formanowicz P., Blazewicz J., Figlerowicz M., Bujarski J.J. 2005. Homologous crossovers among molecules of brome mosaic bromovirus RNA1 or RNA2 segments in vivo. J Virol. 79:5732-42.

Joel P. Stafstrom, Member 1991-present, Director 2001-2004
(Research Interest: Regulation of apical meristem development)

  • Stafstrom J.P. and I.M. Sussex. 1992. Expression of a ribosomal protein gene in axillary buds of pea. Plant Physiology 100:1494-1502.

  • Stafstrom, J.P. 1993. Axillary bud development in pea: apical dominance, growth cycles, hormonal regulation and plant architecture. IN Cellular Communication in Plants, RM Amasino, ed., Plenum Press, New York; pp 75-86.

  • Stafstrom, J.P., Altschuler, M. and D.H. Anderson. 1993. Molecular cloning and expression of a MAP kinase homologue from pea. Plant Mol. Biol. 22:83-90.

  • Stafstrom, J.P. 1995. Developmental potential of shoot buds. IN Plant Stems: Physiology and Functional Morphology, BL Gartner, ed., Academic Press, San Diego; pp 257-279.

  • Devitt, M.L. and J.P. Stafstrom. 1995. Cell cycle regulation during growth-dormancy cycles in pea axillary buds. Plant Mol. Biol. 29:255-265.

  • Stafstrom, J.P. 1995. Influence of bud position and plant ontogeny on the morphology of branch shoots in pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Alaska). Ann. Bot. 76:343-348.

  • Stafstrom, J.P. and M.L. Devitt. 1995. Nucleotide sequence of four ribosomal protein L27 cDNAs from growing axillary buds of pea. Plant Physiol. 107:1031-1032.
    Sarup, V.B. and J.P. Stafstrom. 1995. Identification of a high copy number, retrotransposon-like sequence: Results from an unsuccessful PCR search for a pea homologue of the p53 tumor suppressor gene. Pisum Genetics 27:14-19.

  • Stafstrom, J.P., Krueger, M.T. and W. Stoudt. 1998. Nucleotide sequence of cDNA and genomic clones of AtDRM1 (Accession Nos. AF053746 and AF053747), an Arabidopsis homologue of a pea dormant bud-associated gene. Plant Physiology 117:718.

  • Stafstrom, J.P., Ripley, B.D., Devitt, M.L. and B. Drake. 1998. Dormancy-associated gene expression in pea axillary buds. Cloning and expression of PsDRM1 and PsDRM2. Planta 205:547-552.
    Devitt, M.L., Maas, K.J. and J.P. Stafstrom. 1999. Characterization of developmentally regulated GTP binding protein (DRG) cDNAs from pea and Arabidopsis. Plant Mol. Biol. 39:75-82.

  • Stafstrom, J.P. and V.B. Sarup. 2000. Development of Supernumerary Buds from the Axillary Meristem of Pea, Pisum sativum (Fabaceae). Aust. J. Bot. 48:271-278.

  • Stafstrom, J.P. 2000. Regulation of growth and dormancy in axillary buds. IN: Dormancy in Plants: From Whole plant Behaviour to Cellular Control, J-D Viémont and J Crabbé, eds., CAB International, Wallingford UK; pp 331-346.

  • Stafstrom, J.P. and P. Ingram. 2004. TCA microsatellite repeats in the 5’UTR of the Sat5 gene of wild and cultivated accessions of Pisum and of four closely related genera. Int. J. Plant Sci. 165:273-280.

Thomas L. Sims, Member 1992-present, Director 1995-2001
(Research Interest: Self-incompatibility in Petunia, molecular biology)

  • Sims, T.L., Okuley, J.J., Clark, K.R. and P.D. Collins. (1993) "Structure and expression of style-expressed and pollen-expressed components of gametophytic self-incompatibility in Petunia hybrida. In R.M. Amasino (Ed.), Cellular Communication in Plants, pp. 105-113.

  • Sims, T.L. 1993. "Genetic Regulation of Self-Incompatibility", CRC Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 12 129-167.
    Clark, K.R. and T.L. Sims. 1994. The S-RNase gene of Petunia hybrida is expressed in non-stylar tissue, including developing anthers. Plant Physiology 106:25-36.

  • Sims, T.L. 1994. Molecular biology of gametophytic self-incompatibility in Petunia hybrida. In E.G. Williams, R.B. Knox, and A.E. Clarke (Eds.) Genetic Control of Self-Incompatibility and Reproductive Development in Flowering Plants, Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 19-41

  • Clark, K.R., Okuley, J.J. and T.L. Sims. 1995. Complete nucleotide sequence of the S1-RNase gene of Petunia hybrida. Plant Physiology 107:307-308.

  • Grayburn, W.S. and T.L. Sims. 1998. Anchored Oligo dT primers for automated dye terminator DNA sequencing. Biotechniques 25:340-346

  • Sims, T.L. and M. Ordanic. 2001. Identification of a S-Ribonuclease binding protein in Petunia hybrida. Plant Molecular Biology 47:771-783

  • T. L. Sims (2005) Pollen recognition and rejection in different self-incompatibility systems. in Recent Research Developments in Plant Molecular Biology 2 31-62.

Melvin R. Duvall, Member 2001-present
(research interest: Molecular evolutionary biology)

  • Leseberg C. H., A. Li, H. Kang, M. R. Duvall and L. Mao. 2006. Genome-wide analysis of the MADS-box gene family in Populus trichoapa. gene 378:84-94.
  • Duvall, M. R., Davis, J. I., Clark, L. G., Noll, J. D. Goldman, D. H. and Sánchez-Ken, J. G. In press. Phylogeny of the grasses (pPoaceae) revisited. Doncurrent publication In: Aliso and J. T. Columbus, E. A. Friar, C. W. Hamilton, J. M. Porter, L. M. Prince, and M. G. Simson [eds], Grass Systematics and Evolution. ranmcho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont, Ca.
  • Duvall, M., S. Mathews, N. Mohammad and T. Russell. 2005. Placing the monocots; conflicting signal from trigenomic analyses. Concurrent publication In: Aliso and J. T. Columbus, E. A. Friar, C. W. Hamilton, J. M. Porter, L. M. Prince, and M. G. Simpson [eds.], Monocots: Comparative Biology and Evolution. Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont, Ca. In press.
  • Duvall, M. and A.J. Bricker Ervin. 2004. 18S Gene Trees are positively misleading for monocot/dicot phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30:97-106.
  • Grass Phylogeny Working Group (Authors listed alphabetically: Barker, N., Clark, L., Davis, J., Duvall, M. R., Guala, G., Hsiao, C., Kellogg, E., Linder, H. P., Mason-Gamer, R., Mathews, S., Soreng, R., and Spangler, R. et al.). 2003. In
  • Barkworth, M., K. Capels, S. Long and M. Piep (eds.). Flora of North America 25. Oxford University Press, New York.
  • Duvall, M., D. Saar, W.S. Grayburn, and G. Holbrook. 2003. Complex transitions between C3 and C4 photosynthesis during the evolution of Paniceae: a phylogenetic case study emphasizing the position of Steinchisma hians (Poaceae), a C3 - C4 intermediate. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 164:949-958.
  • Duvall, M. R., J.D. Noll, and A.H. Minn. 2001. Phylogenetics of Paniceae (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany 88: 1988-1992.
  • Grass Phylogeny Working Group (Alphabetically: Barker, N., Clark, L., Davis, J., Duvall, M. R., Guala, G., Hsiao, C., Kellogg, E., Linder, H. P., Mason-Gamer, R., Mathews, S., Soreng, R., and Spangler, R. 2001. Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the grasses (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88: 373-457.
  • Duvall, M.R. 2001. An anatomical study of anther development in Acorus L.: phylogenetic implications. Plant Systematics and Evolution 228: 143-152.

Gabriel P. Holbrook, Member 1989-present
(Reserach interest: Photosynthesis, carbon metabolism)

  • Holbrook, G.P., Bowes, G. and M.E. Salvucci. 1989. Degradation of 2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate by a specific chloroplast phosphatase. Plant Physiol. 90:673-678.

  • Salvucci, M.E. and G.P. Holbrook. 1989. Purification and properties of 2-carboxy-D-arabinitol 1-phosphatase. Plant Physiol 90:679-685.

  • Beer S., Spencer W., Holbrook, G.P. and G. Bowes. 1990. Gas exchange and carbon fixation properties of the mat forming cyanophyte Lyngbya birgei. Aquatic Botany 38:221-230.

  • Holbrook, G.P., Galasinski, S.C. and M.E. Salvucci. 1991. Regulation of 2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphatase. Plant Physiol. 97:894-899.

  • Holbrook, G.P., Turner, J.A. and N.O. Polans. 1992. Dark inhibition of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in legumes: a biosystematic study. Photosynthesis Research 32:37-44.

  • Holbrook, G.P., Campbell, W.J., Rowland-Bamford, A. and G. Bowes. 1994. Intraspecific variation in the light/dark modulation of ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase activity in soybean. J. Exp. Bot. 45:1119-1126.

  • Holbrook, G.P., Hansen, J., Wallick, K. and T.M. Zinnen. 1993. Starch accumulation during hydroponic growth of spinach and basil plants under carbon dioxide enrichment. Environ. Exp. Bot. 33(2):313-321.

  • Heo, J. and G.P. Holbrook. 1999. Regulation of 2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate phosphatase: Activation by glutathione and interaction with thiol reagents. Biochemical Journal 338: 409-416.

  • Swiech, R., Browning, S., Molsen, D., Stenger, D.C. and G.P. Holbrook. 2001. Photosynthetic responses of sugar beet and Nicotiana benthamiana Domin. infected with Beet Curly Top Virus. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 58: 43-52.

  • Holbrook, G.P. and A.J. Keys. 2003 Evidence for recycling of inorganic phosphate by wheat chloroplasts during photosynthesis at air levels of CO2 and O2. Journal of Plant Physiology 160: 1351-1360.

  • Duvall M.R., Saar D.E., Grayburn W.S. and G.P. Holbrook. 2003. Complex transitions between C3 and C4 photosynthesis during the evolution of Paniceae: a phylogenetic case study emphasizing the position of Steinchisma Hians (Poaceae), a C3-C4 intermediate. International Journal of Plant Science 164: 949-958.

  • Glockling, S.L. and G.P. Holbrook. 2003. Endoparasites of soil nematodes and rotifers 1: the common and the rare. Mycologist 17 Part 4 :150-154

  • Holbrook, G.P. Navaleza A. and Kwong F. 2005 Water stress effects on Impatiens wallerana. Floriculture Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology: advances and topical issues. J. de Teixteira. (ed) Global Science Books (in press)

  • Glockling S.L., and Holbrook G.P. 2005 Endoparasites of soil nematodes and rotifers II The genus Haptocillium. Mycologist, 19: 2-9

Mitchell Altschuler, Member 1988-1997

  • Wang, X.M., M. Altschuler, G. Bookjans, G.B. Collins, and D.F. Hildebrand. 1988. Alteration of Protein Synthesis during Initiation of Soybean Cotyledon Culture: A Transient Reduction of Lipoxygenase Synthesis and its RNA Level. Planta.

  • Ebert, P.R., M. Altschuler, and A.E. Clarke. 1989. Molecular Genetics of Self-Incompatibility in Flowering Plants. Genetic Engineering, Vol. 2, Dr. I. Setlow, ed. Plenum Publishing Corporation, N.Y.

  • Altschuler, M., W.S. Grayburn, G.B. Collins, and D.F. Hildebrand. 1989. Developmental Expression of Lioxygenase in Soybeans. Plant Science 63:151-158.

  • Ebert, P.R., M.A. Anderson, R. Bernatzky, M. Altschuler, and A.E. Clarke. 1989. Genetic Polymorphism of Self-Incompatibility in Flowering Plants. Cell 56:255-262.

  • Altschuler, M., R. Tritz, and A. Hampel. 1992. A method for generating transcripts with defined 5' and 3' termini by autolytic processing. Gene 122:85-90.

  • Hampel, A., S. Nesbitt, R. Tritz, and M. Altschuler. (1993). The hairpin ribozyme. In Methods: A Companion to Methods in Enzymology. Antisence RNA, J. Rossi (ed.)

  • Stafstrom, J., M. Altschuler, M. and D.H. Anderson. 1993. Isolation and expression of a MAP kinase from pea. Plant Molecular Biology 22:83-90.

  • Ashraf, M., M. Altschuler, S. Galasinski, and D. Griffiths. 1993. Alteration of gene expression by restriction enzymes electroporated into plant cells. Mutation Research 302:75-82.

  • Keward, K.D., M. Altschuler, D. Hildebrand, and L. Davies. 1993. Accumulation of type I antifreeze protein in transgenic tobacco is cold specific. Plant Molecular Biology.

  • Altschuler, M., D.K. Heddens, R.R. Diveley, Jr. and G.C. Kresheck. 1994. Plasmid DNA isolation utilizing a novel nonionic detergent. Biotechniques 17:434-436.

  • DeGrandis, P., Hampel, A., Galasinski, S., Borneman, J., Siwkowski, A. and M. Altschuler. 1994. Alteration of hairpin targeting domains utilizing PCR. PCR Methods and Applications 4:139-144.

  • Borneman, J. and M. Altschuler. 1995. Generation of RNA transcripts of defined size for use as RNA markers. Biotechniques 18:404-406.

  • Borneman, J., Tritz, R., Hampel, A. and M. Altschuler. 1995. Detection of cleavage products from an in vivo transcribed cis hairpin ribozyme in turnips using CaMV plant virus. Gene 159:137-142.

  • Scott, T.M., Dace, G.L. and M. Altschuler. 1996. Low cost agarose gel documentation system. Biotechniques 21:68-70.

  • Morrow, S.L., Mascia, P., Self, K. and M. Altschuler. 1997. Characterization of a brown midrib mutation in corn. Molecular Breeding 3:349-351.

Arthur L. Hooker, Member 1986-1991. Served as Senior Scientist. 15% appointment.

  • Dodd, J.L. and A.L. Hooker. 1990. Previously undescribed pathotype of Bipolaris zeicola on corn. Plant Disease 74:530.

 

Thomas M. Zinnen, Member 1987-1991?

  • Loesch-Fries, L.S., Merlo, D., Zinnen, T., Burhop, L., Hill, K., Krahn, K., Jarvis, N., Nelson, S. and E. Halk. 1987. Expression of alfalfa mosaic virus RNA 4 in transgenic plants confers virus resistance. EMBO Journal 6:1848-1851.

  • Zinnen, T.M. 1988. Assessment of plant diseases in hydroponically grown crops. Plant Disease 72:96-99.
    Wallick, K. and T.M. Zinnen 1990. Basil chlorosis: A physiological disorder in CO2-enriched atmospheres. Plant Disease 74:171-173.

  • Zinnen, T.M. and J.W. Vachris. 1990. Insecticidal soap reduces infection by two mechanically transmitted plant viruses. Plantt Disease 74:201-202.

  • Zinnen, T.M., Heinkel, C.M., Hudspeth, M.E.S. and R. Meganathan. 1991. Cytoplasmic mycolaminaran inhibits initial viral infection of certain Nicotiana species. Phytopathology 81:426-428.

Marvin J. Starzyk, Acting Director 1985-1986, Director 1991-1995

  • Starzyk, M.J., S.R. Stengren and L.H. Jacoby. 1985. Evaluation of a modified medium for the recovery of staphylococci from water. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. Gustav Fisher Verlag. P. 673-674.

  • LaZonby, J.G. and M.J. Starzyk. 1986. Screening method for recovery of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from primary plates. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 24:186-188.

  • Becker, Deborah A., Kathleen A. Glass and M. J. Starzyk. 1986. Isolation and curing of extrachromosal DNA in Thermus aquaticus. Microbios. 48:71-79.

  • Becker, R and M.J. Starzyk. 1986. Presence of bacteriocin-like activity within the genus Thermus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 52:1203-1205.

  • Becker, R.J. and M.J. Starzyk. 1993. Evidence for association of bacterionin activity with membrane vesicles of Thermus rubens. Microbios 73:123-133.

Randal Hauptmann, Member 1988-1989, Director 1989-1991

  • Hauptmann, R.M., Ashraf, M., Vasil, V., Hannah, L.C., Vasil, I.K. and R. Ferl. 1989. Promoter strength comparisons of Maize shrunken 1 and alcohol dehydrogenase and 1 and 2 promoters in mono- and dicotyledonous species. Plant Physiol. 88:1063-1066.

  • Hauptmann, R.M. and J.M. Widholm. 1989. Selection of somatic hybrids by resistance complementation. IN: Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 6, Walker, J.M., Pollard, J.W. (Eds.)

Arnold Hampel, Director 1984-1985 and 1987-1989
(Fields of interest: Biochemistry and molecular biology of hairpin catalytic RNA)

  • Mansukhani, A., Condon, T., Oxender, D. and A. Hampel. 1984. A CHO Leucyl-tRNA synthetase mutant with a uniquely altered high molecular weight leucyl-tRNA synthetase complex. Biochemical Genetics 22:349-355.

  • Hampel, A., Mansukhani, A. and T. Condon. 1984. Cell culture mutants as aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase complex probes: A review. Federation Proceedings 43:2991-2993.

  • Bruening, G., Buzayan, J. and A. Hampel. 1987. Non-enzymatic cleavage and ligation of satellite RNAs. IN: Diter von Wettstein and Nam-Hai Chua, Plant Molecular Biology. Plenum Press, pp 495-502.

  • Bruening, G., Buzayan, J., Hampel, A. and W. Gerlach. 1988. Replication of small satellite RNAs and viroids: possible participation in non-enzymatic reactions. IN: J. Holland, E. Domingo and P. Ahlquist (eds.), RNA Genetics: Vol 11, Retroviruses, Viroids and RNA Recombination. CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, Florida.

  • Bruening, G., Buzayan, J., Gerlach, W. and A. Hampel. 1988. Small RNA cleavage and ligation. IN: M. Sarma and R. Sarma (eds.), Structure and Expression Vol. 1: From Proteins to Ribosomes. Adenine Press, pp 239-248.

  • Hampel, A.E. and R. Tritz. 1988. Leucyl-tRNA synthetase in mammalian cells: structure - function. Methods in Enzymology: Branched Chain Amino Acids 166:260-265.

  • Hampel, A. and R. Tritz. 1988. A model for the RNA catalyzed cleavage of a plant satellite RNA. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 12D:31.

  • Tritz, R. and A. Hampel. 1988. RNA catalytic fragments of a plant satellite RNA. FASEB Journal 2:1418.

  • Hampel, A. and J. Sachay. 1988. Protein Purification: Principles and Practice. 2nd Edition - A Review. J. American Chemical Society 110:6285.

  • Tritz, R. and A. Hampel. 1989. Specific RNA/RNA catalysis by the 'hairpin' model. J. Cell Biology 107:1819.
    Hampel, A. and R. Tritz. 1989. RNA catalytic properties of the minimum (-)sTRSV sequence. Biochemistry 28:4929-4933.

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  • Ana Calvo
  • Sonya Conway
  • Laszlo Hanzely*
  • Stuart Hill
  • Michael E. S. Hudspeth
  • Mitrick A. Johns
  • Barbara Johnson-Wint
  • Richard King
  • Long Mao
  • R. Meganathan
  • John Mitchell
  • Neil Polans
  • Paul Sorensen*
  • Ronald Toth
  • Patricia Vary*
  • Linda Yasui
  • Jerrold Zar*
  • Shengde Zhou

CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY

  • Gary Baker
  • James Erman*
  • Elizabeth Gaillard

For more information, contact:

Jozef J. Bujarski, Ph. D., Director, Plant Molecular Biology Center

Northern Illinois University
342 Montgomery Hall
DeKalb, IL 60115-2861
815-753-7841 telephone
815-753-7855 FAX