Craig S. Pikaard Papers Published

Papers Published

Pikaard, Craig S. and Joe H. Cherry, 1984. Maintenance of normal or supranormal protein accumulation in developing soybean ovules of Glycine max L. Merr. during PEG-induced water stress. Plant Physiology 75:176-180.

Kanabus, Jan, Craig S. Pikaard and Joe H. Cherry, 1984. Heat shock proteins in tobacco cell suspensions. Plant Physiology 75: 639-644.

Cherry, Joe H., Lauren Bishop, Nancy Leopold, Craig S. Pikaard and Paul M. Hasegawa, 1984. Patterns of fatty acid deposition during development of soybean seed. Phytochemistry 23: 2183-2186.

Mignery, Greg A., Craig S. Pikaard, David Hannapel and William D. Park, 1984. Isolation and sequence analysis of cDNAs for the major potato tuber protein, patatin. Nucleic Acids Research 12: 7987-8000.

Park, William D., David Hannapel, Greg A. Mignery and Craig S. Pikaard, 1984. Molecular approaches to the study of the major potato tuber proteins. In: Potato Physiology. Paul Li, editor. Academic Press, N.Y.

Pikaard, Craig S., 1985. Molecular Characterization of the patatin gene family of potato. Ph. D. Thesis, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Pikaard, Craig S., Greg A. Mignery, Din Pow Ma, Vincent J. Stark and William D. Park, 1986. Sequence of two apparent pseudogenes of the major potato tuber protein, patatin. Nucleic Acids Research 14: 5564-5566.

Pikaard, Craig S., John S. Brusca, David J. Hannapel and William D. Park, 1987. The two classes of genes for the major potato tuber protein, patatin, are differentially expressed in tubers and roots. Nucleic Acids Research 15: 1979-1994.

Mignery, Gregory A., Craig S. Pikaard and William D. Park, 1988. Molecular characterization of the patatin multigene family of potato. Gene 62:27-44.

Pikaard, Craig S. and Ronald H. Reeder, 1988. Sequence elements essential for function of the Xenopus laevis ribosomal DNA enhancers. Molecular and Cellular Biology 8:4282-4288.

Pikaard, Craig S., Brian McStay, Michael C. Schultz, Stephen P. Bell and Ronald H. Reeder, 1989. The Xenopus laevis ribosomal gene enhancers bind an essential Pol I transcription factor, XUBF. Genes and Development 3:1779-1788.

Bell, Stephen P., Craig S. Pikaard, Ronald H. Reeder and Robert Tjian, 1989. Molecular mechanisms governing species-specific transcription of ribosomal RNA. Cell 59:489-497.

Pikaard, Craig S., David Smith, Ronald H. Reeder, and Larry Rothblum, 1990. rUBF, an RNA polymerase I transcription factor from rat, produces DNase I footprints identical to those produced by its homologue from the frog, xUBF. Molecular and Cellular Biology 10: 3810-3812.

Pikaard, Craig S., Louise K. Pape, Sheryl L. Henderson, Kenneth Ryan, Mark Paalman, Margaret A. Lopata, Ronald H. Reeder, and Barbara Sollner-Webb, 1990.Enhancers for RNA polymerase I in mouse ribosomal DNA. Molecular and Cellular Biology 10:4816-4825.

McStay, B., Chin-Hwa Hu, Craig S. Pikaard and Ronald H. Reeder (1990). xUBF and Rib1 are both required for formation of a stable RNA polymerase I promoter complex in X. laevis. EMBO Journal 10: 2297-2303.

Putnam, Christopher D. and Craig S. Pikaard (1992). Cooperative binding of the Xenopus RNA polymerase I transcription factor xUBF to repetitive ribosomal gene enhancers. Molecular and Cellular Biology 12: 4970-4980.

Doelling, Jed H. and Craig S. Pikaard (1993). Transient expression in Arabidopsis thaliana protoplasts derived from rapidly established cell suspension cultures. Plant Cell Reports 12: 241-244.

Doelling, Jed H., Reginald Gaudino, and Craig S. Pikaard (1993). Functional analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana rRNA gene and spacer promoters by transient expression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 7528-7532.

Pikaard, Craig S. (1994). Ribosomal gene promoter domains can function as artificial enhancers of RNA polymerase I transcription, supporting a promoter origin for natural enhancers in Xenopus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 91: 464-468.

Copenhaver, Gregory P., Christopher D. Putnam, Michael L. Denton and Craig S. Pikaard (1994). The RNA polymerase I transcription factor UBF is a sequence-tolerant HMG-box protein that can recognize structured nucleic acids. Nucleic Acids Research 22: 2651-2657.

Putnam, Christopher D., Gregory P.Copenhaver, Michael L. Denton and Craig S. Pikaard (1994). The RNA polymerase I transactivator UBF requires its dimerization domain and HMG-box 1 to bend, wrap and positively supercoil enhancer DNA. Molecular and Cellular Biology 14: 6476-6488.

Copenhaver, Gregory P., Jed H. Doelling, J. Scott Gens and Craig S. Pikaard (1995). Use of RFLPs larger than 100 kbp to map the position and internal organization of the nucleolus organizer region on chromosome 2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal 7: 273-286.

Doelling, Jed H. and Craig S. Pikaard (1995). The minimal ribosomal RNA gene promoter of Arabidopsis thaliana includes a critical element at the transcription initiation site. The Plant Journal 8: 683-692.

Reeder, R.H., Craig S. Pikaard and Brian McStay (1995). UBF, an architectural element for RNA polymerase I promoters. Nucleic Acids & Mol. Biol. 9:251-263.

Copenhaver, Gregory P. and Craig S. Pikaard (1996). RFLP and physical mapping with an rDNA-specific endonuclease reveals that nucleolus organizer regions of Arabidopsis thaliana adjoin the telomeres on chromosomes 2 and 4. The Plant Journal 9: 259-272.

Copenhaver, Gregory P. and Craig S. Pikaard (1996). Two-dimensional RFLP analyses reveal megabase-sized clusters of rRNA gene variants in Arabidopsis thaliana, suggesting local spreading of variants as the mode for homogenization during concerted evolution. The Plant Journal 9: 273-282.

Copenhaver, Gregory P. and Craig S. Pikaard (1996). Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosomal DNA. Weeds World 3(i) [Note: Weeds World is the internet journal for Arabidopsis research].

Doelling, Jed H. and Craig S. Pikaard (1996). Species-specificity of rRNA gene transcription in plants manifested as a switch in polymerase specificity. Nucleic Acids Research 24: 4725-4732.

Gaudino, Reginald J. and Craig S. Pikaard (1997). Cytokinin induction of RNA polymerase I transcription in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Biological Chemistry 272: 6799-6804.

Chen, Z. Jeffrey and Craig S. Pikaard (1997). Transcriptional analysis of nucleolar dominance in polyploid plants: biased expression/silencing of progenitor rRNA genes is developmentally regulated in Brassica. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94: 3442-3447.

Chen, Z. J. and Craig S. Pikaard (1997). Epigenetic silencing of RNA polymerase I transcription: a role for DNA methylation and histone modification in nucleolar dominance. Genes & Development 11: 2124-2136.

Pikaard, Craig S. (1997). Making Ribosomes - Fourth International Symposium on Ribosome Synthesis and Nucleolar Function: A meeting brief. In HMS Beagle: A BioMedNet Publication (http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/16/resnews/meeting.htm) Issue 16 (Sept. 19).

Kermekchiev, Milko, Jerry Workman and Craig S. Pikaard (1997). Nucleosome Binding by the Polymerase I Transactivator Upstream Binding Factor Displaces Linker Histone H1. Molecular and Cellular Biology 17:5833-5842.

Saez-Vasquez, J. and Craig S. Pikaard (1997). Extensive purification of a putative RNA polymerase I holoenzyme from plants that accurately initiates rRNA gene transcription in vitro. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94: 11869-11874.

Pikaard, Craig S. and Z. Jeffrey Chen (1998). Nucleolar dominance. In: Transcription of ribosomal RNA genes by eukaryotic RNA polymerase I, Marvin Paule, editor. R.G. Landes Co., Georgetown, TX. pp: 277-294.

Pikaard, Craig S. (1998). Chromosome topology: organizing genes by loops and bounds. Plant Cell 10: 1229:1232.

Chen, Z. Jeffrey, Luca Comai and Craig S. Pikaard (1998). Gene dosage and stochastic effects determine the severity and direction of uniparental rRNA gene silencing (nucleolar dominance) in Arabidopsis allopolyploids. Proc. Natl. Sci. USA 95: 14891-14896.

Albert, Annie-Claude, Michael Denton, Milko Kermekchiev, and Craig S. Pikaard (1999). Histone acetyltransferase and protein kinase activities co-purify with a Xenopus RNA polymerase I holoenzyme self-sufficient for promoter-dependent transscription. Mol. Cell. Biol (in press; will be published January 1999).

Frieman, Matthew, Z. Jeffrey Chen, Julio Saez-Vasquez, L. Annie Shen, and Craig S. Pikaard. RNA polymerase I transcription in a Brassica interspecific hybrid and its progenitors: tests of transcription factor involvement in nucleolar dominance. (submitted)

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