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200B
Expression and functions of Drosophila Mmp1 and Mmp2 in Drosophila
oogenesis.
Xiaoxi Wang, Kimberly LaFever, Andrea Page-McCaw.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
201C
The extracellular loops of Smoothened play a regulatory role in
Hedgehog signaling.
Candace E. Carroll, Marada Suresh, Daniel
Stewart, J. Xiaoxi Oyang, Stacey K. Ogden.
Biochemistry, St Jude
Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
202A
A sensitized suppressor/enhancer screen for Hedgehog pathway
components identifies the kinase
Darkener of apricot
as a direct
regulator of the transcription factor Ci.
Ryan R. Hurtado
1
, Cheng Du
2
,
Leonard Rabinow
3
, Robert Holmgren
1
.
1) Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL; 2) Univ. Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; 3)
Université de Paris XI, Paris, France.
203B
Altered localization of activating Smoothened mutants.
Suresh Marada,
Candace Carroll, Daniel Stewart, Jessica Ouyang, Stacey Ogden.
Biochemistry, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
204C
The Hedgehog-induced Smoothened conformational switch assembles a
signaling complex that activates Fused by promoting its dimerization
and phosphorylation.
Qing Shi
1
, Shuang Li
1
, Jianhang Jia
2
, Jin
Jiang
1
.
1) Department of Developmental Biology, UT Southwestern
Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; 2) Markey Cancer
Center and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
205A
A dsRNA Based Screen Identifies Novel Proteins Involved in
Drosophila Hedgehog Signaling Pathway.
Maggie Sledd, Ryan
Hurtado, Robert Holmgren.
Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL.
206B
USP8 promotes Smoothened signaling by preventing its ubiquitination
and changing its subcellular localization.
Ruohan Xia, Hongge Jia,
Junkai Fan, Yajuan Liu, Jianhang Jia.
Department of Molecular and
Cellular Biochemistry, Markey Cancer Center,University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
207C
Rab GTPase mediated Golgi trafficking as a potential major orchestrator
of Autophagy in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Carlos I. Ayala-Navarro,
Thomas P. Neufeld.
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
208A
Investigating the Role of PI4P in Lysosome-related Organelle
Biogenesis in the
Drosophila
Eye.
Lauren M. Del Bel
1,2
, Ronit Wilk
2
,
Jason Burgess
1,2
, Gordon Polevoy
2
, Ho-Chun Wei
2
, Julie A. Brill
1,2
.
1) Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; 2) Cell
Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.
209B
Notch signaling from
vps25
mutant cells confers apoptotic protection to
neighboring cells via Yorkie activation in
Drosophila
.
Hillary K.
Graves
1
, Sarah E. Woodfield
1,2
, Georg Halder
1,2
, Andreas
Bergmann
1,2,3
.
1) Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, MD Anderson
Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; 2) Baylor College of Medicine,
Graduate Program in Developmental Biology, Houston, TX, USA; 3)
Department of Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical
School, Worcester, MA, USA.
210C
The molecular basis of airway maturation in Drosophila.
Chie Hosono,
Rho Matsuda, Christos Samakovlis.
Developmental Biology, The
Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
211A
Searching for substrates of the MAST kinase homolog Drop out using
SILAC based phospho-proteomics.
Alistair J. Langlands, Daniel Hain,
H.-Arno J. Muller.
Division of Cell & Developmental Biology,
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
212B
Moesin is required for trafficking of Crumbs in the follicular epithelium.
Kristin Sherrard, Richard Fehon.
Molecular Genetics and Cell
Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
213C
The chocolate and maroon genes are involved in intracellular transport.
Rishi Singhal
1
, Aminah Wali
1,2
, Paaqua Grant
1
, Diana Johnson
1
.
1)
Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC;
2) University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
214A
PP2A binds to β
H
-spectrin and modulates endosomal maturation and
zonula adherens
stability.
Graham Thomas
1
, Seung-Kyu Lee
1
,
Elizabeth Klipfell
2
, Joanna Sandilos
1
.
1) Dept Biology/BMB, Penn
State, University Park, PA; 2) Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
215B
V0-ATPase subunit a1 regulates vesicle sorting through binding to t-
SNARE acceptor complexes.
Dong Wang
1,4
, W. Ryan Williamson
1,4
,
Sankaranarayanan Srinivasan
2
, Daniel Epstein
1
, Florante A.
Quiocho
2
, P. Robin Hiesinger
1,3
.
1) Dept Physiology, UT Southwestern
Med Ctr, Dallas, Texas 75390; 2) Verna and Marrs McLean Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Texas 77030; 3) Green Center Division for Systems Biology,
University of Texas Southwestern Med Ctr, Dallas, Texas 75390; 4)
Equal contribution.
216C
The interaction between two JAK signaling ligands: Upd and Upd3.
Qian Chen, Douglas Harrison.
Dept Biol, Univ Kentucky, Lexington,
KY.
217A
Refinement of the JAK/STAT Genetic Circuit in Border Cell
Recruitment and Detachment.
Amanda J. Monahan, Michelle Starz-
Gaiano.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21250.
218B
The Distribution of the JAK/STAT Ligand Unpaired (Upd) During
Oogenesis.
Dustin W. Perry, Travis R. Sexton, Douglas A. Harrison.
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
219C
Elucidating the mechanism by which Apontic inhibits JAK/STAT
activity.
Afsoon Saadin, Michelle Starz-Gaiano.
University of
Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD.
220A
The effect of Upd3 on stem cells in Drosophila testes.
Lingfeng Tang,
Douglas Harrision.
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY.
221B
Transcriptional regulation of the
unpaired3
gene in
Drosophila
development.
Yu-Chen Tsai, Hsin-Yi Huang.
Dept Life Science,
Tung-hai Univ, Taichung, Taiwan.