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Publications (last updated 13/9/11)

St Johnston D, Sanson B.
Epithelial polarity and morphogenesis.
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2011 Jul 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Chang CW, Nashchekin D, Wheatley L, Irion U, Dahlgaard K, Montague TG, Hall J, St Johnston D.
Anterior-Posterior Axis Specification in Drosophila Oocytes: Identification of Novel bicoid and oskar mRNA Localization Factors.
Genetics. 2011 Aug;188(4):883-96. Epub 2011 May 30.

Rees JS, Lowe N, Armean IM, Roote J, Johnson G, Drummond E, Spriggs H, Ryder E, Russell S, St Johnston D, Lilley KS.
In vivo analysis of proteomes and interactomes using Parallel Affinity Capture (iPAC) coupled to mass spectrometry.
Mol Cell Proteomics. 2011 Jun;10(6):M110.002386. Epub 2011 Mar 29.

Belaya K, St Johnston D.
Using the mRNA-MS2/MS2CP-FP system to study mRNA transport during Drosophila oogenesis.
Methods Mol Biol. 2011;714:265-83.

Bastock R, St Johnston D.
Oogenesis: matrix revolutions.
Curr Biol. 2011 Mar 22;21(6):R231-3.

St Johnston D, Ahringer J.
Cell polarity in eggs and epithelia: parallels and diversity.
Cell. 2010 May 28;141(5):757-74.

Morais-de-Sá E, Mirouse V, St Johnston D.
aPKC Phosphorylation of Bazooka Defines the Apical/Lateral Border in Drosophila Epithelial Cells.
Cell. 2010 Apr 30;141(3):509-23.

Doerflinger H, Vogt N, Torres IL, Mirouse V, Koch I, Nüsslein-Volhard C, St Johnston D.
Bazooka is required for polarisation of the Drosophila anterior-posterior axis.
Development. 2010 May;137(10):1765-73.

Nashchekin D, St Johnston D.
Egalitarian recruitment of localized mRNAs.
Genes Dev. 2009 Jul 1;23(13):1475-80. (Comment on:
Genes Dev. 2009 Jul 1;23(13):1546-58.)

Mirouse V, Christoforou CP, Fritsch C, St Johnston D, Ray RP.
Dystroglycan and Perlecan provide a basal cue required for epithelial polarity during energetic stress.

Dev Cell. 2009 Jan;16(1):83-92.

Ryder E, Spriggs H, Drummond E, St Johnston D, Russell S.
The Flannotator--a gene and protein expression annotation tool for Drosophila melanogaster.

Bioinformatics. 2009 Feb 15;25(4):548-9. Epub 2009 Jan 6.

St Johnston D.
Counting motors by force.

Cell. 2008 Dec 12;135(6):1000-1.

Bastock R, St Johnston D.
Drosophila oogenesis.

Curr Biol. 2008 Dec 9; 18(23): R1082-7.

Zimyanin VL, Belaya K, Pecreaux J, Gilchrist MJ, Clark A, Davis I, St Johnston D.
In Vivo Imaging of oskar mRNA Transport Reveals the Mechanism of Posterior Localization.

Cell. 2008 Sep 5;134(5):843-853.

Dahlgaard K, Raposo AA, Niccoli T, St Johnston D.
Capu and Spire Assemble a Cytoplasmic Actin Mesh that Maintains Microtubule Organization in the Drosophila Oocyte.

Dev Cell. 2007 Oct 9;13(4):539-53.

Stevens NR, Raposo AA, Basto R, St Johnston D, Raff JW.
From Stem Cell to Embryo without Centrioles.

Curr Biol. 2007 Sep 4;17(17):1498-503. Epub 2007 Aug 23.

Mirouse V, Swick LL, Kazgan N, St Johnston D, Brenman JE.
LKB1 and AMPK maintain epithelial cell polarity under energetic stress.

J Cell Biol. 2007 May 7;177(3):387-92. Epub 2007 Apr 30.

Assa-Kunik E, Torres IL, Schejter ED, St Johnston D, Shilo BZ.
Drosophila follicle cells are patterned by multiple levels of Notch signaling and antagonism between the Notch and JAK/STAT pathways.

Development. 2007 Mar 1;134(6):1161-9.

Zimyanin V, Lowe N, St Johnston D.
An Oskar-Dependent Positive Feedback Loop Maintains the Polarity of the Drosophila Oocyte.

Current Biology. 2007 Feb 20;17(4):353-9.

Irion U, St Johnston D.
bicoid RNA localization requires specific binding of an endosomal sorting complex.

Nature. 2007 Feb 1;445(7127):554-8.

McCaffrey R, St Johnston D, Gonzalez-Reyes A.
Drosophila mus301/spindle-C encodes a helicase with an essential role in double-strand DNA break repair and meiotic progression.

Genetics. 2006 Nov;174(3):1273-85.

Irion U, Adams J, Chang CW, St Johnston D.
Miranda couples oskar mRNA/Staufen complexes to the bicoid mRNA localization pathway.

Dev Biol. 2006 Sep 15;297(2):522-33.

Doerflinger H, Benton R, Torres IL, Zwart MF, St Johnston D.
Drosophila anterior-posterior polarity requires actin-dependent PAR-1 recruitment to the oocyte posterior.
Curr. Biol. 2006 Jun 6;16(11): 1090-5.

Munro TP, Kwon S, Schnapp BJ, St Johnston D.
A repeated IMP-binding motif controls oskar mRNA translation and anchoring independently of Drosophila melanogaster IMP.
J Cell Biol. 2006 Feb 13;172(4):577-88.

McCaffrey R, St Johnston D, Gonzalez-Reyes A.
A novel mutant phenotype implicates dicephalic in cyst formation in the Drosophila ovary.
Dev Dyn. 2005 Oct 28


St Johnston D.
Moving messages: the intracellular localization of mRNAs.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2005 May;6(5):363-75. Review.

Cinnamon E, Gur-Wahnon D, Helman A, St Johnston D, Jimenez G, Paroush Z.
Capicua integrates input from two maternal systems in Drosophila terminal patterning.
EMBO J. 2004 Nov 24;23(23):4571-82. Epub 2004 Oct 28.

Huynh JR, St Johnston D.
The origin of asymmetry: early polarisation of the Drosophila germline cyst and oocyte.
Curr Biol. 2004 Jun 8;14(11):R438-49. Review.

Huynh JR, Munro TP, Smith-Litiere K, Lepesant JA, St Johnston D."The Drosophila hnRNPA/B Homolog, Hrp48, Is Specifically Required for a Distinct Step in osk mRNA Localization" Dev Cell. 2004 May;6(5):625-35.

ISABEL M. PALACIOS, DAVID GATFIELD, DANIEL ST JOHNSTON & ELISA IZAURRALDE An eIF4AIII-containing complex required for mRNA localization and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Nature 427, 753 - 757. Feb 2004.

Richard Benton and Daniel St Johnston
Drosophila PAR-1 and 14-3-3 Inhibit Bazooka/PAR-3 to Establish Complementary Cortical Domains in Polarized Cells. Cell, Vol 115, 691-704, 12 December 2003

Isabel L. Torres, Hernán López-Schier and Daniel St Johnston
A Notch/Delta-Dependent Relay Mechanism Establishes Anterior-Posterior Polarity in Drosophila. Developmental Cell, Vol 5, 547-558, October 2003

Richard Benton and Daniel St. Johnston
A Conserved Oligomerization Domain in Drosophila Bazooka/PAR-3 Is Important for Apical Localization and Epithelial Polarity. Current Biology 2003 13: 1330-1334

Sophie G. Martin, Vincent Leclerc, Katie Smith-Litière, and Daniel St Johnston
The identification of novel genes required for Drosophila anteroposterior axis formation in a germline clone screen using GFP-Staufen. Development 2003 130: 4201-4215. | Full Text | Movies |

Hélène Doerflinger, Richard Benton, Joshua M. Shulman, and Daniel St Johnston
The role of PAR-1 in regulating the polarised microtubule cytoskeleton in the Drosophila follicular epithelium. Development 2003 130: 3965-3975. | Full Text |

Martin SG, St Johnston D.
A role for Drosophila LKB1 in anterior-posterior axis formation and epithelial polarity. Nature. 2003 Jan 23;421(6921):379-84.

Jens Januschke, Louis Gervais, Sajith Dass, Julia A. Kaltschmidt, Hernan Lopez-Schier , Daniel St. Johnston, Andrea H. Brand, Siegfried Roth, and Antoine Guichet
Polar Transport in the Drosophila Oocyte Requires Dynein and Kinesin I Cooperation. Current Biol. Vol 12, 1971-1981, December 2002

Richard Benton, Isabel M. Palacios, and Daniel St Johnston
Drosophila 14-3-3/PAR-5 Is an Essential Mediator of PAR-1 Function in Axis Formation. Developmental Cell, Vol 3, 659-671, November 2002

Isabel M. Palacios and Daniel St Johnston
Kinesin light chain-independent function of the Kinesin heavy chain in cytoplasmic streaming and posterior localisation in the Drosophila oocyte. Development 2002 129: 5473-5485.
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Benton R, St Johnston D. Cell polarity: posterior par-1 prevents proteolysis. Curr Biol 2002 Jul 23;12(14):R479 | Full Text |

St Johnston D. The art and design of genetic screens: Drosophila melanogaster. Nat Rev Genet. 2002 Mar;3(3):176-88.

Lopez-Schier H, St Johnston D. Drosophila nicastrin is essential for the intramembranous cleavage of notch. Dev Cell. 2002 Jan;2(1):79-89.

St Johnston D The beginning of the end. EMBO J. 2001 Nov 15;20(6169-79)

Wagner C, Palacios I, Jaeger L, St Johnston D, Ehresmann B, Ehresmann C, Brunel C. Dimerization of the 3'UTR of bicoid mRNA involves a two-step mechanism. J Mol Biol. 2001 Oct 26;313(3):511-24.

Palacios IM, St Johnston D. Getting the message across: the intracellular localization of mRNAs in higher eukaryotes.Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2001;17:569-614. | Full Text (pdf) |

Martin SG, Dobi KC, St Johnston D. A rapid method to map mutations in Drosophila. Genome Biol. 2001;2(9):RESEARCH0036. | Full text |

Huynh JR, Petronczki M, Knoblich JA, St Johnston D. Bazooka and PAR-6 are required with PAR-1 for the maintenance of oocyte fate in Drosophila. Curr Biol. 2001 Jun 5;11(11):901-6.

van Eeden FJ, Palacios IM, Petronczki M, Weston MJ, St Johnston D. Barentsz is essential for the posterior localization of oskar mRNA and colocalizes with it to the posterior pole. J Cell Biol. 2001 Aug 6;154(3):511-23. | Full Text (pdf) | Originaly published by The Rockefeller University Press.

Lopez-Schier H, St Johnston D. Delta signaling from the germ line controls the proliferation and differentiation of the somatic follicle cells during Drosophila oogenesis. Genes Dev. 2001 Jun 1;15(11):1393-405.

Bolivar J, Huynh JR, Lopez-Schier H, Gonzalez C, St Johnston D, Gonzalez-Reyes A. Centrosome migration into the Drosophila oocyte is independent of BicD and egl, and of the organisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton. Development. 2001 May;128(10):1889-97.

Huynh JR, Shulman JM, Benton R, St Johnston D. PAR-1 is required for the maintenance of oocyte fate in Drosophila. Development. 2001 Apr;128(7):1201-9.

Huynh JR, St Johnston D. The role of BicD, Egl, Orb and the microtubules in the restriction of meiosis to the Drosophila oocyte. Development. 2000 Jul;127(13):2785-94.

Shulman JM, Benton R, St Johnston D. The Drosophila homolog of C. elegans PAR-1 organizes the oocyte cytoskeleton and directs oskar mRNA localization to the posterior pole. Cell. 2000 May 12;101(4):377-88.

Micklem DR, Adams J, Grunert S, St Johnston D. Distinct roles of two conserved Staufen domains in oskar mRNA localization and translation. EMBO J. 2000 Mar 15;19(6):1366-77.

Ramos A, Grunert S, Adams J, Micklem DR, Proctor MR, Freund S, Bycroft M, St Johnston D, Varani G. RNA recognition by a Staufen double-stranded RNA-binding domain. EMBO J. 2000 Mar 1;19(5):997-1009.

Shulman JM, St Johnston D. Pattern formation in single cells. Trends Cell Biol. 1999 Dec;9(12):M60-4.

van Eeden F, St Johnston D. The polarisation of the anterior-posterior and dorsal-ventral axes during Drosophila oogenesis. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 1999 Aug;9(4):396-404. G

Gurdon JB, Dyson S, St Johnston D. Cells' perception of position in a concentration gradient. Cell. 1998 Oct 16;95(2):159-62.

Gonzalez-Reyes A, St Johnston D. The Drosophila AP axis is polarised by the cadherin-mediated positioning of the oocyte. Development. 1998 Sep;125(18):3635-44.

Gonzalez-Reyes A, St Johnston D. Patterning of the follicle cell epithelium along the anterior-posterior axis during Drosophila oogenesis. Development. 1998 Aug;125(15):2837-46.

Schuldt AJ, Adams JH, Davidson CM, Micklem DR, Haseloff J, St Johnston D, Brand AH. Miranda mediates asymmetric protein and RNA localization in the developing nervous system. Genes Dev. 1998 Jun 15;12(12):1847-57.

Gonzalez-Reyes A, Elliott H, St Johnston D. Oocyte determination and the origin of polarity in Drosophila: the role of the spindle genes. Development. 1997 Dec;124(24):4927-37.

Micklem DR, Dasgupta R, Elliott H, Gergely F, Davidson C, Brand A, Gonzalez-Reyes A, St Johnston D. The mago nashi gene is required for the polarisation of the oocyte and the formation of perpendicular axes in Drosophila. Curr Biol. 1997 Jul 1;7(7):468-78.

Grunert S, St Johnston D. RNA localization and the development of asymmetry during Drosophila oogenesis. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 1996 Aug;6(4):395-402. St Johnston D. Developmental biology. New role for tropomyosin. Nature. 1995 Oct 12;377(6549):483.

Bycroft M, Grunert S, Murzin AG, Proctor M, St Johnston D. NMR solution structure of a dsRNA binding domain from Drosophila staufen protein reveals homology to the N-terminal domain of ribosomal protein S5. EMBO J. 1995 Jul 17;14(14):3563-71.

Gonzalez-Reyes A, Elliott H, St Johnston D. Polarization of both major body axes in Drosophila by gurken-torpedo signalling. Nature. 1995 Jun 22;375(6533):654-8.

St Johnston D. The intracellular localization of messenger RNAs. Cell. 1995 Apr 21;81(2):161-70.

Bycroft M, Proctor M, Freund SM, St Johnston D. Assignment of the backbone 1H,15N,13C NMR resonances and secondary structure of a double-stranded RNA binding domain from the Drosophila protein staufen. FEBS Lett. 1995 Apr 10;362(3):333-6.

Ferrandon D, Elphick L, Nusslein-Volhard C, St Johnston D. Staufen protein associates with the 3'UTR of bicoid mRNA to form particles that move in a microtubule-dependent manner. Cell. 1994 Dec 30;79(7):1221-32.

Gonzalez-Reyes A, St Johnston D. Role of oocyte position in establishment of anterior-posterior polarity in Drosophila. Science. 1994 Oct 28;266(5185):639-42.

St Johnston D. RNA localization. Getting to the top. Curr Biol. 1994 Jan 1;4(1):54-6.

St Johnston D, Brown NH, Gall JG, Jantsch M. A conserved double-stranded RNA-binding domain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1992 Nov 15;89(22):10979-83.

St Johnston D, Nusslein-Volhard C. The origin of pattern and polarity in the Drosophila embryo. Cell. 1992 Jan 24;68(2):201-19.

St Johnston D, Beuchle D, Nusslein-Volhard C. Staufen, a gene required to localize maternal RNAs in the Drosophila egg. Cell. 1991 Jul 12;66(1):51-63.

St Johnston D, Driever W, Berleth T, Richstein S, Nusslein-Volhard C. Multiple steps in the localization of bicoid RNA to the anterior pole of the Drosophila oocyte. Development. 1989;107 Suppl:13-9.