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Dr. Robert Screaton’s Group - Selected Publications

 

Fu, A., Ng, A. C-H., Depatie, C., Wijesekara, N., He, Y. Wang, G-S., Bardeesy, N., Scott, F.W., Touyz, R.M., Wheeler, M.B, and Screaton, R.A. Loss of Lkb1 in adult β cells increases β cell mass and enhances glucose tolerance in mice. Cell Metabolism 10: 285-95 (2009).

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Lerner, R.G., Depatie, C., Rutter, G.A., Screaton, R.A., Balthasar, N. A role for the CREB coactivator CRTC2 in the hypothalamic mechanisms linking glucose-sensing with gene regulation. EMBO Reports 10: 1175-81 (2009).
 

Goh, S-L, Looi, Y., Fang, J., Shen, H., Bodner, C. Houle, M., Ng, A. C-H., Screaton, R.A.,* and Featherstone, M*. Transcriptional activation by Meis1A in response to PKA signalling requires the TORC family of CREB co-activators. JBC, 284, 18904-12 (2009). *corresponding authors.

 

Fu, A. and Screaton, R.A. Using Kinomics to Delineate Signaling Pathways: Control of CRTC2/TORC2 by the AMPK Family. Cell Cycle, 7: 3823-28 (2009).

 

Jansson, D., Cheuk-Him Ng, A., Fu, A., Depatie, C., Al Azzabi, M, and Screaton, R.A. Glucose controls CREB activity in islet cells via regulated phosphorylation of TORC2. PNAS 105: 10161-10166 (2008).

 

Qi, L., Heredia, J., Altarejos, J.Y., Screaton, R., Goebel, N., Niessen, S., MacLeod, I.X., Liew, C.W., Kulkarni, R., Bain, J., Newgard, C., Nelson, M., Evans, R.M., Yates, J., and Montminy, M.  TRB3 links the E3 ubiquitin ligase COP1 to lipid metabolism.  Science 312: 1763-66 (2006).

 

Koo, S-H, Flechner, L., Qi, L., Zhang, X., Screaton, R.A., Jeffries, S., Hedrick, S., Xu, W., Boussouar, F., Brindle, P., Takemori, H., and Montminy, M. The CREB coactivator TORC2 is a key regulator of fasting glucose metabolism. Nature 437:1109-11 (2005).

 

Screaton R.A., Conkright, M.D., Katoh, Y., Best, J., Canettieri, G., Jeffries, S., Guzman, E., Niessen, S., Yates, J.R. III, Takemori, H., Okamoto, M., Montminy, M..The CREB Coactivator TORC2 Functions as a Calcium and cAMP Sensitive Coincidence Detector. Cell 119: 61-74 (2004).

 

Conkright, M.D., Canettieri, G., Screaton, R., Guzman, E., Miraglia, L., Hogenesch, J., Montminy, M. TORCs: Novel Transducers of Regulated CREB Activity. Mol. Cell 12: 413-23 (2003).

 

Jhala, U., Canettieri, G., Screaton, R.A., Kulkarni, R.N., Krajewski, S., Reed, J., Walker, J., Lin, X., White, M., and Montminy, M. cAMP Promotes Pancreatic Beta Cell Survival via CREB Mediated Induction of IRS2. Genes Dev. 15: 1575-1580 (2003).

 

Screaton, R.A., Kiessling, S., Sansom, O., Millar, C., Maddison, K., Bird, A., Clarke, A., and Frisch, S.M. Fas-associated death domain protein interacts with methyl-CpG binding domain protein 4: A potential link between genome surveillance and apoptosis. PNAS 100: 5211-5216 (2003).

 

Screaton, R.A., DeMarte, L., Draber, P, and Stanners, C.P.  The specificity for the differentiation blocking activity of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) resides in its glycophosphatidyl-inositol (GPI) anchor.  J. Cell. Biol. 150: 613-626  (2000).

 

Screaton, R.A., Penn, L.Z., and Stanners, C.P. Carcinoembryonic antigen, a human tumor marker, cooperates with Myc and Bcl-2 in cellular transformation. J. Cell. Biol. 137: 939-952 (1997).

 

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