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1.
Fernández, J.R.,
Firestein, B.L. (2008) Novel pharmacological targets to control dendritic branching
and growth during neuronal development. CNSAMC.
8(2): xx-xx. In press
2.
Kutzing,
M.K. and
Firestein, B.L. (2008)
Altered Uric Acid
Levels and Disease States. JPET,
324(1):1-7. (peer reviewed)
3.
Hadzimichalis,
N.M., Baliga, S.S., Golfetti, R., Jaques, K.M.,
Firestein, B.L. and Merrill, G.F. (2007)
Acetaminophen-mediated cardioprotection via
inhibition of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore-induced apoptotic
pathway. AJP, 293(6):H3348-55.
4.
Jiang,
X.*, Georges, P.C.*, Li, B.*,
Du, Y., Kutzing, M.K., Previtera, M.L., Langrana, N.A. and
Firestein,
B.L.
(2007)
Cell growth in response to mechanical
stiffness by neuron-astroglia interactions. The Open Neuroscience Journal,
1: 7-14.
(*equal
contributors).
5. Fernández,
J.R., Welsh, W.J. and
Firestein, B.L. Structural characterization of the zinc
binding domain in Cytosolic PSD-95 interactor (CYPIN): Role of zinc binding in
guanine deamination and dendrite branching.
(2007)
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics,
70(3):873-881.
6.
Chen, H.X. and
Firestein, B.L.
(2007) Cypin acts
downstream of RhoA to regulate dendrite branching in hippocampal neurons.
Journal of Neuroscience 7(31):8378-86.
7. Du Y, Chen CP, Tseng CY, Eisenberg Y,
Firestein BL. (2007) Astroglia-mediated effects of uric acid to protect
spinal cord neurons from glutamate toxicity. Glia Apr 1;55(5):463-72.
8. Charych EI*, Akum BF* , Goldberg JS, Jornsten RJ, Rongo C, Zheng JQ, Firestein BL. (2006) Activity-independent regulation of dendrite patterning by postsynaptic density protein PSD-95. J Neurosci. 26(40):10164-76. (* equal contributors) Featured in This week in the Journal
9. Van den Bergh, G., Clerens, S., Firestein, B.L., Bernat, K. and Arckens, L. (2006) Development and plasticity-related changes in protein expression patterns in cat visual cortex: a fluorescent two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis approach. Proteomics, 6(13):3821-32.
10. Chen, M.*, Lucas, K.G.*, Akum, B.F., Balasingam, G., Stawicki, T.M., Provost, J.M., Riefler, G.M., Jornsten, R., and Firestein, B.L. (2005) A novel role for snapin in dendrite patterning: Interaction with cypin. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 16 (11), 5103-14. (*co-first authors)
11. Xu, B., Wratten, N., Charych, E.I, Buyske, S., Firestein, B.L., and Brzustowicz, L.M. (2005) Increased Expression in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex of CAPON in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder. PLoS Medicine, 2 (10), e263.
12. Akum, B.F., Chen, M.*, Gunderson, S.I.*, Riefler, G.M., Scerri-Hansen, M.M. and Firestein, B.L. (2004) Cypin regulates dendrite patterning in hippocampal neurons by promoting microtubule assembly. Nature Neuroscience, 7:145-152. (*equal contributors) Featured in Faculty of 1000 as a "Must Read"
13. Riefler, G.M., Balasingam, G.*, Lucas, K.G.*, Wang, S., Hsu, S.-C., and Firestein, B.L. (2003) Sec8 binds to Postsynaptic Density Protein 95: A Novel Interaction Regulated by Cypin. Biochemical Journal, 373:49-55. (*equal contributors) This work was discussed in Hoogenraad, C.C. and Sheng, M. The return of the exocyst. Nat Cell Biol. 2003 Jun; 5(6): 493-5.
14. Zimmerman, C., K. C. Klein, P. K. Kiser, A. R. Singh, B. L. Firestein, S. C. Riba, and J. R. Lingappa. (2002) Identification of a host protein essential for assembly of immature Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 capsids. Nature, 415:88-92.
15. Riefler, G.M. and Firestein, B.L. (2001) Binding of nNOS to CtBP changes the localization of CtBP from the nucleus to the cytosol. A NOVEL FUNCTION FOR TARGETING BY THE PDZ DOMAIN OF nNOS. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276:48262-48268.
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