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Recent Publications
Li, S., L. Yin, E.S. Cole, R.A. Udani, and K.M. Karrer. 2006. Progeny of germ line knockouts of ASI2, a gene encoding a putative signal transduction receptor in Tetrahymena thermophila, fail to make the transition from sexual reproduction to vegetative growth. Developmental Biology, 295:633-646.
Liu, Y., X. Song, M.A. Gorovsky and K.M. Karrer. 2005. Elimination of foreign DNA during somatic differentiation in Tetrahymena is dosage dependent. Eukaryotic Cell, 4:421-431.
Wuitschick, J.D., P.A. Lindstrom, A.E. Meyer and K.M. Karrer. 2004. Homing endonucleases encoded by germ line limited genes in the ciliate Tetrahymena have APETELA2 DNA binding domains. Eukaryotic Cell, 3:685-694.
Wuitschick, J.D. and K.M. Karrer. 2003. Diverse sequences within Tlr elements target programmed DNA elimination in Tetrahymena thermophila. Eukaryotic Cell, 2:678-689.
Karrer, K.M. and T.A. VanNuland. 2002. Methylation of adenine in the nuclear DNA of Tetrahymena is internucleosomal and independent of histone H1. Nucl. Acids Res., 30:1364-1370.
Udani, R.A. and K.M. Karrer. 2002. ASI1, a gene encoding a novel leucine zipper protein, is induced during development of the macronucleus in Tetrahymena. Mech. Dev., 118:215-218.
Wuitschick, J.D., J.A. Gershan, A.J. Lochowicz, S. Li and K.M. Karrer. 2002. A novel family of mobile genetic elements are limited to the germ line genome in Tetrahymena thermophila Nucleic Acids Res., 30:2524-2537.
Gershan, J.A. and Karrer, K.M. 2000. A family of developmentally excised DNA elements in Tetrahymena is under selective pressure to maintain an open reading frame encoding an integrase-like protein. Nucl. Acids Res., 28:4105-4112.
