Pu Lab Publications 2005 and before


2005
  • Zeisberg, E. M., Ma, Q., Juraszek, A. L., Moses, K., Schwartz, R. J., Izumo, S. and Pu, W. T. (2005) Morphogenesis of the right ventricle requires myocardial expression of Gata4. J Clin Invest 115, 1522-1531 PDF
2004
  • Pu, W. T., Ishiwata, T., Juraszek, A. L., Ma, Q. and Izumo, S. (2004) GATA4 is a dosage-sensitive regulator of cardiac morphogenesis. Dev Biol 275, 235-244 PDF
  • Izumo, S. and Pu, W. T. (2004) in Heart Failure: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease (Mann, D. L., ed.) pp. 10-40, Saunders, Philadelphia
2003
  • Pu, W. T., Ma, Q. & Izumo, S. NFAT transcription factors are critical survival factors that inhibit cardiomyocyte apoptosis during phenylephrine stimulation in vitro. Circ. Res. 92, 725–731 (2003). PDF.
  • Ishiwata, T., Nakazawa, M., Pu, W. T., Tevosian, S. G. and Izumo, S. (2003) Developmental Changes in Ventricular Diastolic Function Correlate With Changes in Ventricular Myoarchitecture in Normal Mouse Embryos. Circ Res 93, 857-865
2002
  • Wickman, K., Pu, W. T. and Clapham, D. E. (2002) Structural characterization of the mouse Girk genes. Gene 284, 241-250
2001
  • Kovoor, P., Wickman, K., Maguire, C. T., Pu, W. T., Gehrmann, J., Berul, C. I. and Clapham, D. E. (2001) Evaluation of the role of I(KACh) in atrial fibrillation using a mouse knockout model. J Am Coll Cardiol 37, 2136-2143
  • Pu, W. T. and Izumo, S. (2001) Transcription factors and heart failure: does the stressed heart need a hand? J Mol Cell Cardiol 33, 1765-1767
2000
  • Pu, W. T., Wickman, K. and Clapham, D. E. (2000) ICln is essential for cellular and early embryonic viability. J Biol Chem 275, 12363-12366
pre-2000
  • Pu, W. T., Krapivinsky, G. B., Krapivinsky, L. and Clapham, D. E. (1999) pICln inhibits snRNP biogenesis by binding core spliceosomal proteins. Mol Cell Biol 19, 4113-4120
  • Krapivinsky, G., Pu, W. T., Wickman, K., Krapivinsky, L. and Clapham, D. E. (1998) pICln binds to a mammalian homolog of a yeast protein involved in regulation of cell morphology. J. Biol. Chem. 273, 10811-10814
  • Pu, W. T., Chung, T., Hoffer, F. A., Jonas, R. A. and Geva, T. (1996) Diagnosis and management of agenesis of the right lung and left pulmonary artery sling. Am J Cardiol 78, 723-727
  • Pu, W. T. and Struhl, K. (1993) Dimerization of leucine zippers analyzed by random selection. Nucleic Acids Res 21, 4348-4355
  • Pu, W. T. and Struhl, K. (1992) Uracil interference, a rapid and general method for defining protein-DNA interactions involving the 5-methyl group of thymines: the GCN4-DNA complex. Nucleic Acids Res 20, 771-775
  • Tzamarias, D., Pu, W. T. and Struhl, K. (1992) Mutations in the bZIP domain of yeast GCN4 that alter DNA-binding specificity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89, 2007-2011
  • Pu, W. T. and Struhl, K. (1991) The leucine zipper symmetrically positions the adjacent basic regions for specific DNA binding. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 88, 6901-6905
  • Pu, W. T. and Struhl, K. (1991) Highly conserved residues in the bZIP domain of yeast GCN4 are not essential for DNA binding. Mol Cell Biol 11, 4918-4926
  • Pu, W. T., Kahn, R., Munn, M. M. and Rupp, W. D. (1989) UvrABC incision of N-methylmitomycin A-DNA monoadducts and cross-links. J Biol Chem 264, 20697-20704