Bassuk, J. and Mayfield, J. 1982. Major high mobility group like proteins of Drosophila melanogaster embryonic nuclei. Biochemistry 21: 1024-1028.

Bassuk, J. and Sorof, S. 1985. A new nucleosomal protein in normal liver related to the cytoplasmic polypeptide target of a carcinogen. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 68: 49-57.

Bassuk, J.A., Tsichlis, P.N., Sorof, S. 1987. Liver fatty acid binding protein is the mitosis-associated polypeptide target of a carcinogen in rat hepatocytes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84: 7547-7551.

Bassuk, J.A. and Berg, R.A. 1989. Protein disulphide isomerase: A multifunctional endoplasmic reticulum protein. Matrix 9: 244-258.

Bassuk, J.A., Capodici, C., and Berg, R.A. 1990. Protein disulphide isomerase from human peripheral neutrophils. J. Cell. Physiol. 144: 280-286.

Bassuk, J.A., and Berg, R.A. 1991. A novel 53 kDa polypeptide from chicken embryo. J. Biol. Chem. 266: 23732-23738.

Bassuk, J.A., Iruela-Arispe, M.L., Lane, T.F., Benson, J., Berg, R.A., and Sage, E.H. 1993. Molecular analysis of chicken embryo SPARC. Eur. J. Biochem. 218: 117-127.

Sage, E.H., Bassuk, J.A., Yost, J.C., Folkman, M.J., and Lane, T.F. 1995. Inhibition of endothelial cell proliferation by SPARC is mediated through a Ca⁺²-binding EF-hand sequence. J. Cell. Biochem. 57: 127-140.

Presland, R.B., Bassuk, J.A., Kimball, J.R., and Dale, B.A. 1995. Characterization of two distinct calcium-binding sites in the amino-terminus of human profilaggrin. J. Invest. Derm. 104: 218-223.

Pichler, R.H. Bassuk, J.A., Hugo, C., Reed, M.J., Gordon, K.L., Pippin, J., Alpers, C.A., Couser, W.G., Sage, E.H., and Johnson, R. 1996. SPARC is expressed by mesangial cells in experimental mesangial proliferative nephritis and inhibits platelet-derived-growth-factor-mediated mesangial cell proliferation in vitro. Amer. J. Pathol. 148: 1153-1167.

Moutamed, K., Bassuk, J.A., and Sage, E.H. 1996. Anti-adhesive properties of SPARC: Structural and functional correlates. In: Tenascin and Other Counteradhesive Molecules of the Extracellular Matrix. (K.L. Crossin, ed.), Harwood Acad., Amsterdam, pp. 127-144.

Bassuk, J.A., Braun, L.P., Motamed, K. and Sage, E.H. 1996. Renaturation of rSPARC from E.coli requires isomerization of disulfide bonds for recovery of biological activity. Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol.: 28: 1031-1043.  Link

Pichler, R., Hugo, C., Shankland, S.J., Reed, M.J., Bassuk, J.A., Andoh, T.F., Lombardi, D.M., Schwartz, S.M., Bennet, W.M., Alpers, C.E., Sage, E.H., Couser, W.G., and Johnson, R.J. 1996. SPARC is expressed in renal interstitial fibrosis and in renal vascular injury. Kidney International 50, 1978-1989.

Rosenblatt, S., Bassuk, J.A., Alpers, C., Timpl, R., H., Sage, E.H., and Preissner, K.T. 1997. Differential modulation of cell adhesion by interaction between adhesive and counteradhesive proteins: Characterization of vitronectin binding to osteonectin (SPARC, BM 40). Biol. J., 324: 311-319.

Schneider, Thomas, J. E. Bassuk, J.A., Sage, E.H., and Baneyx, F. 1997. Manipulating the aggregation and oxidation of human SPARC overexpressed in the cytoplasm of E. coli. Nature Biotech. 15, 581-585.

Gilles, C., Bassuk, J.A., Pulyaeva, H., Sage, E.H., Foidart, J.M., and Thompson, E.W. 1998. SPARC induces MMP-2 activation in human breast cancer cell lines. Canc. Res. 58, 5529-36.

Johnson, R.J., Hugo, C.H., Pichler, R., Bassuk, J.A., Couser, W.G., and Shankland, S.J. 1998. Mechanisms of progressive glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis. Clin. Exp. Nephrol. 2, 307-312.

Gooden, M.D., Vernon, R.B., Bassuk, J.A., and Sage, E.H. 1999. Cell cycle-dependent location of the matricellular protein SPARC: Association with the nuclear matrix. J. Cell. Biochem. 74, 152-67. Link

Bassuk, J.A., Birkebak, T., Rothmier, J., Bradshaw, A., Muchowski, P., Clark, J.I., and Sage, E.H. 1999. Disruption of the Sparc locus in mice alters the differentiation of lenticular secondary epithelial cells and leads to cataract formation. Exp. Eye Res. 68, 321-31.

Mooney, A., Bassuk, J.A., and Savill, J. Type IV collagen and laminin regulate rat mesangial cell susceptibility to apoptosis via beta1 integrin mediated survival signals. 1999. Amer. J. Pathol., 155, 599-606.

Bassuk, J.A., Grady, R., and Mitchell, M. 2000. The molecular era of bladder research: Transgenic mice as experimental tools in the study of outlet obstruction. J. Urol. 164, 170-179. Link

Bradshaw, A.D., Bassuk, J.A., and Sage, E.H. Expression of recombinant SPARC in a baculovirus expression system. 2000. Mol. Cell Biol Res. Commun. 3, 345-351.  Link

Bassuk, J.A., Cochrane, K., and Mitchell, M. Induction of urothelial cell proliferation by FGF-7 in RAG-1 deficient mice. 2002. in Bladder Disease: Research Concepts and Clinical Applications (A. Atala, ed.), in press.

Bagai, S., Rubio, E., Cheng, J.F., Sweet, R., Thomas, R., Fuchs, E. Grady, R., Mitchell, M.,
and Bassuk, J.A. Fibroblast growth factor-10 is a mitogen for urothelial cells. 2002. 
J. Biol. Chem., 277, 23828-23837.  Link

Alpers, C.E., Hudkins, K.L., Segerer, S., Sage, E.H., Pichler, R., Couser, W.G., Johnson, R.J., and Bassuk, J.A.  2002. Localization of SPARC in developing, mature, and injured human
kidneys. Kidney International, 62: 2073-2086.  Link 

Bassuk, JA, Cochrane, K, Mitchell, ME. 2003. Induction of urothelial cell proliferation by fibroblast growth factor-7 in RAG1-deficient mice. Adv Exp Med Biol. 539(B):623-33.  

Sage, E.H., Reed, M., Funk, S.E., Truong, T., Steadele, M., Puolakkainen, P., Maurice, D.H., and Bassuk, J.A. 2003.  Cleavage of the matricellular protein SPARC by matrix metalloproteinase 3 produces polypeptides that influence angiongenesis.  J. Biol. Chem. 278:37849-35857.  Link

Hudson, A.E., Feng, W.C., Delostrinos, C.F., Carmean, N., and Bassuk, J.A. 2005.  Spreading of Embryologically Distinct Urothelial Cells is Inhibited by SPARC.  J. Cell. Physiol. 202, 453-464. Link.

Delostrinos, C.F., Hudson, A.E., Feng, W.C., Kosman, J., and Bassuk, J.A. 2005. The C-terminal extracellular Ca⁺²-binding domain of SPARC confers anti-spreading activity to human urothelial cells.  J. Cell. Physiol. in press.