Department of Biology

Dr. Mark Peifer's Journal Publications
with UNC Undergraduates as Co-Authors

Undergraduates Indicated by *

J. Gates, S.H. Nowotarski, H. Yin, J.P. Mahaffey*, T. Bridges, C. Herrera, C.C.F. Homem, F. Janody, D.J. Montell, and M. Peifer (2009) Enabled and Capping protein play important roles in shaping cell behavior during Drosophila oogenesis. Developmental Biology 333: 90-107.

T.L. Stevens, E.M. Rogers, L.M. Koontz*, D.T. Fox, C.C.F. Homem, S.H. Nowotarski, N.B. Artabazon, and M. Peifer M. (2008) Using Bcr-Abl to examine mechanisms by which Abl kinase regulates morphogenesis in Drosophila. Molecular Biology of the Cell 19: 378-393.

J. Gates, J.P. Mahaffey*, M. Emerson, E.M. Rogers, S.L. Sottile, S. van Vactor, F.B. Gertler, and M. Peifer (2007) Enabled plays key roles in embryonic epithelial morphogenesis in Drosophila. Development 134: 2027-2039.

McCartney, B.M., *Price, M.H., Webb, R., , Hayden, M.A., Holot, L., Zhou, M, Bejsovec, A., and Peifer, M. (2006). Testing hypotheses for the functions of APC family proteins using null and truncation alleles in Drosophila. Development 133: 2407-18.

*Price, M.H., Roberts, D.M., McCartney, B.M., Jezuit, E., and Peifer, M. (2005). Cytoskeletal dynamics and cell signaling during planar polarity establishment in the Drosophila embryonic denticle. Journal of Cell Science 119: 403-415

Fox, D.T., Homem, C.C.F., Myster, S.H., Wang, F., *Bain, E.E., and Peifer, M. (2005). Rho1 Regulates Drosophila Adherens Junctions Independently of p120ctn. Development, 132, 4819-4831

Myster, S.H., Wang, F., Cavallo, R., Christian, W., *Bhotika, S., *Anderson, C.T., and Peifer, M. (2004). Genetic and bioinformatic analysis of 41C and the 2R heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster: A window on the heterochromatin-euchromatin junction. Genetics 166, 807-22.

Myster, S.H.,, Cavallo, R., *Anderson, C.T., Fox, D.T.. and Peifer, M. (2003). Drosophila p120catenin plays a supporting role in cell adhesion but is not an essential adherens junction component. Journal of Cell Biology160 433-449.

Akong, K., Grevengoed, E.E., *Price, M.H., McCartney, B.M., Hayden, M.A., DeNofrio, J.C., and Peifer, M. (2002). Drosophila APC2 and APC1 play overlapping roles in Wingless signaling in the embryo and imaginal discs. Developmental Biology 250, 91-100.

Loureiro, J.J., Akong, K., Cayirlioglu, P., *Baltus, A.E., DiAntonio, A., and Peifer, M. (2001) Activated Armadillo/ß-catenin does not play a general role in cell migration and process extension in Drosophila. Developmental Biology 235: 33-44.

McCartney, B., Dierick, H.A., Kirkpatrick, C., Moline, M.M., *Baas, A., Peifer, M., and Bejsovec, A. Drosophila APC2 is a cytoskeletally-associated protein that regulates Wingless signaling in the embryonic epidermis. Journal of Cell Biology 146: 1303-1318.

Cox, R.T., Pai, L.-M., Miller, J.R., Orsulic, S., *Stein,J., McCormick, C.A., *Audeh, Y., Wang, W., Moon, R.T., and Peifer, M. (1999). Membrane-tethered Drosophila Armadillo cannot transduce Wingless signal on its own. Development 126, 1327-1335.

Cox, R.T., Pai,L.-M., Kirkpatrick, C., *Stein,J., and Peifer, M. (1999). Roles of the C-terminus of Armadillo in Wingless signaling in Drosophila. Genetics 153: 319-332.

Pai, L.-M., Kirkpatrick, C., *Blanton, J., Oda, H., Takeichi, M., and Peifer, M. (1996). alpha-catenin and DE-cadherin occupy distinct binding sites on Drosophila Armadillo that differ substantially in size. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 32411-32420.

Rauskolb, C., *Smith, K., Peifer, M., and Wieschaus, E. (1995). Extradenticle determines segmental identities throughout Drosophila development. Development 121: 3663-3673.

Peifer, M., Pai, L.-M., and *Casey, M. (1994). Phosphorylation of the Drosophila adhesive junction protein Armadillo: roles for Wingless signal and Zeste white-3 kinase. Dev. Biol. 166: 543-556.

Peifer, M., Sweeton, D., *Casey, M., and Wieschaus, E. (1994). Wingless signal and Zeste-white 3 kinase trigger opposing changes in the intracellular distribution of Armadillo. Development 120: 369-380.


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