Selected Publications on Translational Control

 

Degen, J. L., Neubauer, M. G., Degen, S. J. F., Seyfried, C. E., and Morris, D. R. Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Mitogen-Activated Bovine Lymphocytes. Analysis of Actin Specific and Total mRNA Accumulation and Utilization. J. Biol. Chem. 258, 12153-12162 (1983).

Mach, M., White, M. W., Degen, J. L., Neubauer, M., and Morris, D. R. Isolation of a cDNA Clone Encoding S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase. Expression of the Gene in Mitogen-Activated Lymphocytes. J. Biol. Chem. 261, 11697-11703 (1986). [Abstract]

White, M. W., Kameji, T., Pegg, A. E., and Morris, D. R. Increased Efficiency of Translation of Ornithine Decarboxylase mRNA in Mitogen-Activated Lymphocytes. Eur. J. Biochem. 170, 87-92 (1987). [Abstract ]

Kaspar, R. L., Rychlik, W., White, M. W., Rhoads, R. E., and Morris, D. R. Simultaneous Cytoplasmic Redistribution of Ribosomal Protein L32 mRNA and Phosphorylation of eIF-4E after Mitogenic Stimulation of Swiss 3T3 Cells. J. Biol. Chem. 265, 3619-3622 (1990).

White, M. W., Degnin, C., Hill, J., and Morris, D. R. Specific Regulation by Endogenous Polyamines of Translational Initiation of S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase mRNA in Swiss 3T3 Fibroblasts. Biochem. J. 268, 657-660 (1990).

Kaspar, R. L., Kakegawa, T., Cranston, H., Morris, D. R., and White, M. W. A Regulatory Cis Element and a Specific Binding Factor Involved in the Mitogenic Control of Murine Ribosomal Protein L32 Translation. J. Biol. Chem. 267, 508-514 (1992).

Hill, J. R., and Morris, D. R. Cell-Specific Translation of S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase mRNA. Regulation by the 5' Transcript Leader. J. Biol. Chem. 267, 21886-21893 (1992). [Abstract]

Hill, J. R., and Morris, D. R. Cell-Specific Translation of S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase mRNA. Dependence on Translation and Coding Capacity of the Cis-Acting Upstream Open Reading Frame. J. Biol. Chem. 268, 726-731 (1993). [Abstract]

Kaspar, R. L., Morris, D. R., and White, M. W. Control of Ribosomal Protein Synthesis in Eukaryotic Cells. In Translational Regulation of Gene Expression II (J. Ilan, ed.), Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, pp. 335-348, 1993.

Morris, D. R., Kakegawa, T., Kaspar, R., and White, M. W. Polypyrimidine Tracts and Their Binding Proteins: Regulatory Sites for Post-Transcriptional Modulation of Gene Expression. Biochemistry 32, 2931-2937 (1993).

Geballe, A. P., and Morris, D. R. Initiation Codons within 5'-Leaders of mRNAs as Regulators of Translation. Trends Biochem. Sci. 19, 159-164 (1994).

Ruan, H., Hill, J. R., Fatemie-Nainie, S., and Morris, D. R. Cell-Specific Translational Regulation of S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase mRNA: Influence of the Structure of the 5' Transcript Leader on Regulation by the Upstream Open Reading Frame. J. Biol. Chem. 269, 17905-17910 (1994). [Abstract]

Morris, D. R. Growth Regulation of Translation in Mammalian Cells. Prog. Nucl. Acids Res. Mol. Biol. 51, 339-363 (1995).

Ruan, H., Shantz, L. M., Pegg, A. E., and Morris, D. R. The Upstream Open Reading Frame of the mRNA Encoding S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase is a Polyamine-Responsive Translational Control Element. J. Biol. Chem. 271, 29576-29582 (1996). [Abstract]

Morris, D. R. cis-Acting mRNA Structures in Gene-Specific Translational Control. In Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation (Harford, J. B., and Morris, D. R., eds.), Wiley-Liss, Inc., New York, pp. 165-180, 1997.

Ruan, H., Brown, C. Y., and Morris, D. R. Analysis of Ribosome Loading onto mRNA Species: Implications for Translational Control. In mRNA Formation and Function (Richter, J. D., ed.), Academic Press, New York, pp. 305-321, 1997.

Mize, G. J., Ruan, H., Low, J. J., and Morris, D. R. The Inhibitory Upstream Open Reading Frame from Mammalian S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase mRNA Has a Strict Sequence Specificity in Critical Positions. J. Biol. Chem. 273, 32500-32505 (1998). [Abstract]

Zong, Q., Schummer, M., Hood, L., and Morris, D. R. Messenger RNA Translation State: The Second Dimension of High-Throughput Expression Screening.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 10632-10636 (1999). [Abstract]

Brown, C. Y., Mize, G. J., Pineda, M., George, D. L., and Morris, D. R.  Role of Two Upstream Open Reading Frames
in the Translational Control of Oncogene mdm2.  Oncogene 18, 5631-5637 (1999). [Abstract]

Raney, A., Baron, A. C., Mize, G. J., Law, G. L., and Morris, D. R. In Vitro Translation of the Upstream Open Reading Frame in the Mammalian mRNA Encoding S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase.  J. Biol. Chem.275, 24444-24450 (2000). [Abstract]

Morris, D. R., and Geballe, A. P.  Upstream Open Reading Frames as Regulators of mRNA Translation.  Mol. Cell. Biol. 20, 8635-8642 (2000).

Mize, G. J., and Morris, D. R. A Mammalian Sequence-Dependent Upstream Open Reading Frame Mediates Polyamine-Regulated Translation in Yeast.   RNA 7, 374-381 (2001). [Abstract]
 
Law, G. L., Raney, A., Heusner, C. and Morris, D R.  Polyamine Regulation of Ribosome Pausing at the Upstream Open Reading Frame of S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase.  J. Biol. Chem. 276, 38036-38043 (2001)  [Abstract]

Raney, A.., Law, G. L., Mize, G. J., and Morris, D. R.  Regulated Translation Termination at the Upstream Open Reading Frame in S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase mRNA.  J. Biol. Chem. 277, 5988-5994 (2002) [Abstract]

Serikawa, K.A., X.L.Xu, V.L.MacKay, G.L.Law, Q.Zong, L.P.Zhao, R.Bumgarrner, and D.R.Morris. The transcriptome and its translation during recovery from cell-cycle arrest in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 2:191-204. (2003).

Jin, X., E.Turcott, S.Englehardt, G.J.Mize, and D.R.Morris. The two upstream open reading frames of oncogene mdm2 have different translational regulatory properties. J. Biol. Chem. 278:25716-25721 (2003).

MacKay, V.L., X.Li, M.R.Flory, E.Turcott, G.L.Law, K.A.Serikawa, X.L.Xu, H.Lee, D.R.Goodlett, R.Aebersold, L.P.Zhao, and D.R.Morris. Gene expression in yeast responding to mating pheromone: Analysis by high-resolution translation state analysis and quantitative proteomics. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 3:478-489 (2004).

Law, G.L., Bickel, K.S., MacKay, V.L., and Morris, D.R. The Under-Translated Transcriptome Reveals Widespread Translational Silencing by Alternative 5’ Transcript Leaders. Genome Biol. 6, R111 (2005).

Bickel, K.S.and Morris, D.R. Silencing the transcriptome's dark matter: mechanisms for suppressing translation of intergenic transcripts. Mol. Cell 22, 309-316 (2006).

Bickel, K.S.and Morris, D.R. Role of the transcription activator, Ste12p, as a repressor of PRY3 expression. Mol. Cell. Biol. 26, 7901-7912 (2006).

Flory,M.R., Lee,H., Bonneau,R., Mallick,P., Serikawa,K., Morris,D.R., and Aebersold,R. Quantitative proteomic analysis of the budding yeast cell cycle using acid-cleavable isotope-coded affinity tag reagents. Proteomics. 6, 6146-6157 (2006).

Fox, R., Nhan, T.Q., Law, G.L., Morris, D.R., Liles, W.C., and Schwartz, S.M. mTOR-mediated translational control of ROCK-1 is a pivotal control point in the activation of macrophages. EMBO J. 26, 505-515 (2007).

Skjondal-Bar, N. and Morris, D.R. Dynamic Model of the Process of Protein Synthesis in Eukaryotic Cells. Bull. Math. Biol., 69, 361-93 (2007).

Sampath, S., Pritchard, D.K., Pabon, L, Reinecke, H., Schwartz, S.M., Morris, D.R., Murry, C.E. A Hierarchical Network Controls Protein Translation during Murine Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation. Cell Stem Cell, 2, 448-460 (2008).

Morris, D.R. Ribosomal footprints on a transcriptome landscape. Genome Biol. 10, 215 (2009).

Sanz, E., Yang, L., Su, T., Morris, D.R., McKnight, G.S., and Amieux, P.S. Cell-type-specific isolation of ribosome-associated mRNA from complex tissues. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A. 106, 13939-13944 (2009).

Schaeffer, V., Hansen, K.M., Morris, D.R., and Abrass, C.K. Reductions in laminin b2 mRNA translation are responsible for impaired IGFBP-5-mediated mesangial cell migration in the presence of high glucose. Am. J. Physiol. 298, F314-F322 (2010).


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