Ralph S. Quatrano


PUBLICATIONS (115 Total):
Ia. Journal Articles (Selected from 1968)

Quatrano, R.S. 1968. Rhizoid formation in Fucus zygotes: Dependence on protein and RNA synthesis. Science 162:468-470.

Quatrano, R.S. 1973. Separation of processes associated with cellular differentiation in two-celled Fucus embryos. Develop. Biol. 30:209-213.

Hogsett, W.E. and R.S. Quatrano. 1978. Sulfation of fucoidan in Fucus embryos. III. Required for localization in the rhizoid wall. J. Cell Biol. 78:866-873.

Brawley, S.H. and R.S. Quatrano. 1979. Sulfation of fucoidan in Fucus embryos. IV.Autoradiographic investigations of fucoidan sulfation and secretion during differentiation and the effect of cytochalasin treatment. Develop. Biol. 73:193-205.

Luthe, D.S. and R.S. Quatrano. 1980. Transcription in isolated wheat nuclei. II. Characterization of RNA synthesized in vitro. Pl. Physiol. 65:309-313.

Triplett, D.S. and R.S. Quatrano. 1982. Timing, localization, and control of wheat germ agglutinin synthesis in developing wheat embryos. Develop. Biol. 91:491-496.

Griffing, L. and R.S. Quatrano. 1984. Isoelectric focusing of plant cell membranes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81:4804-4808.

Williamson, J.D., R.S. Quatrano and A. Cuming. 1985. Em-polypeptide and its messenger RNA levels are modulated by abscisic acid during embryogenesis in wheat. Eur. J. Biochem. 152:501-507.

Kropf, D.L., B. Kloareg, and Quatrano, R. S. 1988. Cell wall is required for fixation of the embryonic axes in Fucus zygotes. Science. 239:187-190.

Marcotte, W.R. Jr., C.C. Bayley and Quatrano, R. S. 1988. Regulation of a wheat promoter by abscisic acid in rice protoplasts. Nature 335:454-457.

Kropf, D.L., S.K. Berge and Quatrano, R. S. 1989. Actin localization during Fucus embryogenesis. Plant Cell 1:191-200.

Feldmann, K.A., M.D. Marks, M.L. Christianson and Quatrano, R.S. 1989. A dwarf mutant of Arabidopsis generated by T-DNA insertion mutagenesis. Science 243:1351-1354.

Marcotte, W.R. Jr., Russell, S.H. and Quatrano, R. S. 1989. Abscisic acid responsive sequences from the Em gene of wheat. Plant Cell 1:969-976.

Guiltinan, M. J., W. R. Marcotte, Jr., and Quatrano, R. S. (1990). A plant leucine zipper protein that recognizes an abscisic acid element. Science 250: 267-271.

Bostock, R. M. and Quatrano, R. S. 1992. Regulation of Em gene expression in rice: interaction between osmotic stress and abscisic acid. Plant Physiol. 98: 1356-1363.

Wagner, V., L. Brian and Quatrano, R. S. 1992. Role of a vitronectin-like molecule in embryo adhesion of the brown alga Fucus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 89: 3644-48.

Schnall, J. and Quatrano, R. S.. 1992. Abscisic acid elicits the water-stress response in root hairs of Arabidopsis thaliana. Pl. Physiol. 100:216-218.


Ib. Journal Articles (1993-98)

Pla, M., J. Vilardell, M.J. Guiltinan, W.R. Marcotte, M.F. Niogret, R. S. Quatrano and M. Pages. 1993. The cis-regulatory element CCACGTGG is involved in ABA and water-stress responses of the maize gene rab 28. Pl. Mol. Biol. 21: 259-266.

Goodner, B. W., Davis, J. D. and Quatrano, R. S. 1995. Sequence of actin cDNA from Fucus disticus. Plant Physiol. 107:1007-1008.

Taylor, J.E., Renwick, K.F., Webb, A.A.R., McAinsh, M. R., Furini, A., Bartels, D., Quatrano, R.S., Marcotte, W.R. and Hetherington, A. M. 1995. ABA-regulated promoter activity in stomatal guard cells. The Plant Journal 7: 129-134.

Knight, C.D., Sehgal, A., Atwal, K., Wallace, J. C., Cove, D.J., Coates, D., Quatrano, R.S., Bahadur, S., Stockley, P. G. and Cuming, A.C. 1995. Molecular responses to abscisic acid and stress are conserved between moss and cereals. Plant Cell 7: 499-506.

Nantel, A., Medina, J. and Quatrano, R.S. 1995. An improved protocol for library screening by protein:protein interactions with biotinylated MBP-fusion proteins. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep13: 164-173.

Shaw, S., Salmon, T. and Quatrano, R.S. 1995. Digital photography for the light microscope: results with a gated video-rate CCD camera and NIH image. Biotechniques 19:946-955.

Vasil, V., Marcotte, W., Rosenkrans, L., Cocciolone, S.M., Vasil, I. K., Quatrano, R. S. and McCarty, D. R. 1995. Overlap of VP1 and ABA Response Elements in the Em Promoter: G-box elements are sufficient but not necessary for VP1 transactivation. Plant Cell 7: 1511-1518.

Bouget, F-Y., Gerttula, S. and Quatrano, R. S. 1995. Spatial distribution of poly A + RNA during polarization of the Fucus zygote is dependent upon microfilaments. Devel. Biol. 171: 258-261.

Bouget, F-Y., Kerbourch, Liaud, M-F., de Goer, S., Quatrano, R. S., Cerff, R. and Kloareg, B. 1995. Structural features and phylogeny of the actin gene of Chondrus crispus (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Curr. Genet. 28: 164-172.

Bouget, F-Y., Gerttula, S. and Quatrano, R. S. 1995. A new non-radioactive in situ hybridization protocol for Fucus (Phaeophyta) embryos. J. Phycol. 31: 1027-1030.

Rock, C. D. and Quatrano, R. S. 1996. Lanthanide ions are agonists of transient gene expression in rice protoplasts and act in synergy with ABA to increase Em gene expression. Plant Cell Rept. 15:371-376.

Shaw, S. and Quatrano, R. S. 1996. Polar localization of a dihydropyridine receptor on living Fucus zygotes. J. Cell Sci. 109: 335-342.

Cove, D. J., Quatrano, R. S. and Hartmann, E. 1996. The alignment of the axis of asymmetry in regenerating protoplasts of the moss, Ceratodon purpureus, is determined independently of axis polarity. Development122:371-379.

Bouget, F-Y., Gertulla, S., Shaw, S.L. and Quatrano, R.S. 1996. Localization of actin mRNA during the establishment of cell polarity and early cell divisions in Fucus embryos. Plant Cell 8: 189-201.

Hill, A., Nantel, A., Rock, C. D. and Quatrano, R. S. 1996. A conserved domain of the viviparous-1 gene product enhances the DNA-binding activity of the bZIP factor EmBP-1 and other transcription factors. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 3366-3374.

Shaw, S. and Quatrano, R.S. 1996. The role of targeted secretion in the establishment of cell polarity and the orientation of the division plane in Fucus zygotes. Development 122: 2623-2630.

Schultz, T., Spiker, S. and Quatrano, R.S. (1996). Histone H1 enhances the binding activity of the transcription factor EmBP-1. J. Biol Chem. 271: 25742-25745.

Nantel, A. and Quatrano, R. S. 1996. Characterization of three rice bZIP factors, including two inhibitors of EmBP-1 DNA-binding activity. J. Biol. Chem. 271:31296-31305.

Schultz, T. and Quatrano, R.S. 1997. Characterization and expression of a rice RAD23 gene. Plant Mol. Biol. 34: 557-562.

Razik, M. A. and Quatrano, R.S. 1997. Effect of the nuclear factors EmBP1 and Viviparous1 on the transcription of the Em gene in HeLa nuclear extracts. Plant Cell 9:1791-1803.

Schultz, T. and Quatrano, R.S. 1997. Evidence for surface perception of abscisic acid by rice suspension cells as assayed by Em gene expression. Plant Science 130: 63-71.

Schultz, T., Medina, J., Hill, A. and Quatrano, R. S. 1998. 14-3-3 proteins are part of an ABA/VP1 response complex in the Em promoter and interact with VP1 and EmBP1. Plant Cell 10: 837-848.


II.a Reviews/Book Chapters (Selected from 1968)

Quatrano, R.S. 1968. Biochemical and fine structural studies on rhizoid formation in Fucus zygotes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 126 pp.

Quatrano, R.S. 1978. Development of cell polarity. Annual Review Plant Physiology. 29:487-510.

Quatrano, R.S., S.H. Brawley and W.E. Hogsett. 1979. The control of the polar deposition of a sulfated polysaccharide in Fucus zygotes. In: Determinants of Spatial Organization (eds. S. Subtelny and I.R. Konigsberg) pp. 77-96, 37th Annual Symposium of the Society for Developmental Biology, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1978. Academic Press, New York.

Quatrano, R.S. 1980. Gamete release, fertilization and embryogenesis in the fucales. In: Handbook of Phycological Methods, Vol. III Developmental and Cytological Methods, (ed. E. Gantt), Chapter 6 pp.59-68. Cambridge University Press.

Quatrano, R.S. 1982. Cell wall formation in Fucus zygotes: A model system to study the assembly and localization of wall polymers. In: Cellulose and Other Natural Polymers Systems: Biogenesis. Structure and Degradation. (ed. R.M. Brown), Chapt. 3, pp 45-59. Plenum.

Quatrano, R.S., B.L. Ballo, J.D. Williamson, M.T. Hamblin, and M. Mansfield. 1983. ABA controlled expression of embryo specific genes during wheat grain development. In Plant Biology (ed. R.L. Goldberg) UCLA Symp. Mol. Cell Biol. New Series. Vol. XII pp. 343-53, Liss, Inc., New York.

Quatrano, R.S. 1986. Regulation of gene expression by abscisic acid during angiosperm embryo development. In: Oxford Surveys of Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (Ed. B. J. Miflin). Vol. 3:467-477. Oxford Press, N.Y.

Kloareg, B. and R.S. Quatrano. 1988. Structure of the cell walls of marine algae and ecophysiological functions of the matrix polysaccharides. Oceanography and Marine Biology:An Annual Review 26:259-315.

Berge, S. K., D. M. Bartholomew and R. S. Quatrano. 1989. Control of the expression of wheat embryo genes by abscisic acid. In: Molecular Basis of Plant Development (ed. R. L. Goldberg), pp.193-201. UCLA Symp. Mol. Cell Biol. New Series, Liss Inc., N. Y.

Kung, S-D., Bills, D. D., and Quatrano, R. 1989. Eds. Biotechnology and Food Quality. Proceedings of the First International Symposium, Univ. of Maryland (1988). 55pp. Butterworths, Boston.

Quatrano, R. S. 1990. Polar axis fixation and cytoplasmic localization in Fucus. In: Genetics of Pattern Formation and Growth Control (Ed. A. Mahowald), Chapt. 3 pp. 31-46. Wiley-Liss, N.Y.

Hetherington, A. and R. S. Quatrano 1991. Mechanisms of action of abscisic acid at the cellular level. New Phytologist 119: 9-32.


II.b Reviews/Book Chapters (1993-98)

Quatrano, R. S., M. J. Guiltinan, and W. R. Marcotte, Jr. 1993. Regulation of gene expression by abscisic acid. In: Control of Plant Gene Expression (Ed. D-P. S. Verma), Chapt. 5 pp. 69-90. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Goodner, B. and Quatrano, R. S. 1993. Fucus embryogenesis: A model to study the establishment of polarity. Plant Cell 5:1471-1481.

Marcotte, W.R., Jr. and Quatrano, R.S. 1993. AB A-regulated gene expression: cis-acting sequences. In: Plant Responses to Cellular Dehydration during Environmental Stress. [Eds. T.J. Close and E.A. Bray], pp. 185-192. American Society of Plant Physiologists, Rockville, MD.

Rock, C. and Quatrano, R.S. 1994. Insensitivity is in the genes. Current Biology 4:1013-1015.

Rock, C. and Quatrano, R.S. 1995. The role of hormones during seed development. In:Plant Hormones: Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. (Ed. P. Davies). pp. 671-697. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Fowler, J. E. and Quatrano, R. S. 1995. Cell polarity, asymmetric division, and cell fate determination in brown algal zygotes. IN: Seminars in Developmental Biology (Ed. D. Kirk), "Simple systems for the analysis of important developmental problems". Vol. 6, pp. 347-358. Acad. Press, Cambridge, UK.

Quatrano, R.S. and Shaw, S. 1997. Role of the cell wall in the determination of cell polarity and the plane of cell division in Fucus> embryos. Trends in Plant Science 2: 15-21.

Quatrano, R.S., Bartels, D, Ho, T-H, and Pages, M. 1997. New insights into ABA-mediated processes. Plant Cell 9: 470-475.

Fowler, J. E. and Quatrano, R.S. 1997. Plant cell morphogenesis: plasma membrane interactions with the cytoskeleton and cell wall. Ann. Rev. Cell & Develop. Biol. 13: 697-743.

Quatrano, R.S. 1997. Cortical asymmetries direct the establishment of cell polarity and the plane of cell division in Fucus embryos. IN: Pattern Formation During Development (Ed. B. Stillman). Vol. LXII. pp. 65-70, Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biololgy, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

Wetherbee, R., Lind, J.L., Burke, J., and Quatrano, R. S. 1998. The first kiss: establishment and control of initial adhesion by raphid diatoms. J. Phycology 34:9-15.

Davies, E., Abe, S., Larkins, B. A., Clore, A. M., Quatrano, R. S. and Weidner, S. 1998. The role of the cytoskeleton in plant protein synthesis. IN: A Look Beyond Transcription: Mechanisms Determining mRNA Stability and Translation in Plants (Eds. J. N. Bailey Serres and D. R. Gallie), pp. 115-124. Amer. Soc. Pl. Physiol., Rockville, MD.

Quatrano, R. S. 1998. Surface control of cell polarity, the plane of cell division, and cell fate in Fucus embryos. IN: Cellular Integration of Signalling Pathways in Plant Development (Eds. LoSchiavo, F., Raikhel, N., Last, R. and Morelli, G.). NATO Advanced Study Institute Series Vol. 104, pp. 189-194.


III. Articles from my lab by research associates

Hansen, J. B., R. Scott Doubet and J. Ram 1984. Alginase enzyme production by Bacillus circulans. Appl. Enviorn. Microbiol. 47: 704-709.

Pedersen, T. J., L. J. Arwood, S. Spiker, M. J. Guiltinan and W. F. Thompson 1991. High mobility group chromosomal proteins bind to AT-rich tracts flanking plant genes. Pl. Mol. Biol. 16: 95-104.

Errampalli, D., D. Patton, L. Castle, L. Mickelson, K. Hansen, J. Schnall, K. Feldmann and D. Meinke 1991. Embryonic lethals and T-DNA insertional mutagenesis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 3:149-157.

Wagner, V. T. and A.G. Matthysse 1992. Involvement of a vitronectin-like protein in the attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to carrot suspension culture cells. J. Bacteriol. 174, 5999-6003.

Matthysse, A. G. and Wagner, V. T. 1994. Attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to host cells. In: C. I. Kado and J. Crosa (Eds.) Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence. pp. 79-92. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.


IV. Patents

James C. Litts, William R. Marcotte, Jr. and Ralph S. Quatrano. DNA promoter fragments from wheat. U.S. Patent # 5,139,954. August 18, 1992.


V. Articles Submitted 1997/98

Cove, D.J., Hope, I.A. and Quatrano, R.S. Polarity in biological systems.
Cove, D.J., Quatrano, R.S. and Hartmann, E. The morphogenetic gradient determining axis polarity in regenerating protoplasts of moss, Ceratadon purpureus, involves phytochrome. Pl. Cell and Environ.


VI. Articles In Preparation

Nagpal, P. and Quatrano, R. S. (1998). Characterization of an Arabidopsis plasma membrane protein with an integrin domain.

Fowler, J. and Quatrano, R. S. (1998). Characterization of a rac-like GTPase from zygotes of Fucus distichus and its role in the establishment of cellular polarity.

Taylor, C and Quatrano, R. S. (1998). Characterization of a gene expressed during Fucus embryogenesis whose product is localized in the cell wall only at the site of polar growth.

Grillo, S. and Quatrano, R.S. (1998). Regulation of Em protein accumulation by ABA and water stress during early seedling growth of cereals.

Magnard, J.L. and Quatrano, R. S. (1998). Regulation of the Em gene by water stress requires the identical promoter elements as abscisic acid.
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