PUBLICATIONS

 

Invited reviews and chapters in books

 

Ambros, V. "Genetic basis for heterochronic variation" in Heterochrony in Evolution, Michael L. McKinney, Ed. Plenum, New York.

 

Ambros, V., and Moss, E. (1994) The heterochronic genes and developmental timing in C. elegans.  Trends in Genetics, 10, 123-127. ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros, V. R. (1997) Heterochronic genes.  In "Caenorhabditis elegans" D. Riddle, Ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor.

 

Ambros, V. (2000) Control of developmental timing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Current Opinions in Development and Genetics 10, 428-433. ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros, V. (2000) The temporal control of cell cycle and cell fate in Caenorhabditis elegans. In Novartis Symposium on The Cell Cycle in Development, Novartis Foundation P. Nurse, Ed.

 

Ambros, V. (2001) Dicing up RNAs. Science (Perspectives) Aug 3;293(5531):811-3. ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros, V. (2001) MicroRNAs: Tiny regulators with great potential. Cell 107, 823-826. ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros, V., and Lee, R. (2003) Identification of microRNAs and other tiny noncoding RNAs by cDNA cloning in  RNA Interference, Editing, and Modification, Methods and Protocols , J.Gott ,Ed.

 

Carrington, J., Ambros, V. (2003) Roles of Small RNAs in Development of Plants and Animals. Science 301 July 18(5631):336-8 ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros V.  (2003). MicroRNA pathways in flies and worms: growth, death, fat, stress, and timing. Cell. 113, 673-676. ¥PDF¥

 

Lee, R. C., Feinbaum, R. and Ambros, V. (2004). A short History of a Short RNA Cell, Vol. S116, S89–S92 ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros, V. (2004). The functions of animal microRNAs. Nature (Insight) 431, 350 – 355  ¥PDF¥

 

Karp, X. and Ambros,V (2005) Encountering MicroRNAs in Cell Fate Signaling. Science 310(5752): 1288 - 1289  ¥PDF¥

Peer reviewed articles

 

Gruberg ER, Ambros VR.( 1974 ) A forebrain visual projection in the frog (Rana pipiens).

Exp Neurol. Aug;44(2):187-197.

 

Ambros VR, Chen LB, Buchanan JM(1975).Surface ruffles as markers for studies of cell transformation by Rous sarcoma virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Aug;72(8):3144-8.

 

Flanegan JB, Pettersson RF, Ambros V, Hewlett NJ, Baltimore D.( 1977)Covalent linkage of a protein to a defined nucleotide sequence at the 5'-terminus of virion and replicative intermediate RNAs of poliovirus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Mar;74(3):961-5.

 

Hewlett MJ, Rozenblatt S, Ambros V, Baltimore D.( 1977) Separation and quantitation of intracellular forms of poliovirus RNA by agarose gel electrophoresis

Biochemistry. Jun 14;16(12):2763-7.

 

Pettersson RF, Ambros V, Baltimore D.(1978) Identification of a protein linked to nascent poliovirus RNA and to the polyuridylic acid of negative-strand RNA.

J Virol Aug;27(2):357-65.

 

Ambros V, Baltimore D.(1978) Protein is linked to the 5' end of poliovirus RNA by a phosphodiester linkage to tyrosine. J Biol Chem Aug 10;253(15):5263-6.

 

Ambros V, Pettersson RF, Baltimore D. (1978) An enzymatic activity in uninfected cells that cleaves the linkage between poliovirion RNA and the 5' terminal protein.

Cell. Dec;15(4):1439-46.

 

Ambros V, Baltimore D. (1980) Purification and properties of a HeLa cell enzyme able to remove the 5'-terminal protein from poliovirus RNA. J Biol Chem. Jul 25;255(14):6739-44.

 

Ambros V, Horvitz HR. (1984) Heterochronic mutants of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Science. Oct 26;226(4673):409-16.

 

Ambros V, Horvitz HR. (1987) The lin-14 locus of Caenorhabditis elegans controls the time of expression of specific postembryonic developmental events.

Genes Dev. Jun;1(4):398-414.

 

Ruvkun G, Ambros V, Coulson A, Waterston R, Sulston J, Horvitz HR.(1989)

Molecular genetics of the Caenorhabditis elegans heterochronic gene lin-14.

Genetics. Mar;121(3):501-516.

 

Ambros V. (1989)A hierarchy of regulatory genes controls a larva-to-adult developmental switch in C. elegans. Cell. Apr 7;57(1):49-57.

 

Hodgkin J, Papp A, Pulak R, Ambros V, Anderson P. (1989) A new kind of informational suppression in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. Oct;123(2):301-13.

 

Liu ZC, Ambros V. (1989) Heterochronic genes control the stage-specific initiation and expression of the dauer larva developmental program in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Genes Dev. Dec;3(12B):2039-49. ¥PDF¥

 

Papp A, Rougvie AE, Ambros V. (1991) Molecular cloning of lin-29, a heterochronic gene required for the differentiation of hypodermal cells and the cessation of molting in C.elegans. Nucleic Acids Res. Feb 11;19(3):623-30.

 

Liu, Z and Ambos, V (1991). Alternative temporal control systems for hypodermal cell differentiation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 350, 162-165.

 

Mello CC, Kramer JM, Stinchcomb D, Ambros V. (1991) Efficient gene transfer in C.elegans: extrachromosomal maintenance and integration of transforming sequences.

EMBO J. Dec;10(12):3959-70. ¥PDF¥

 

Lee, R., Feinbaum, R., and Ambros, V. (1993).  The heterochronic gene lin-4 of C. elegans encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14.  Cell, 75, 843-854. ¥PDF¥

 

Liu, Z., Kirch, S., and Ambros, V. R. (1995)  The C. elegans heterochronic gene pathway controls the stage-specific transcription of collagen genes. Development, 121, 2471-2478. ¥PDF¥

 

Rougvie, A. and Ambros, V. R. (1995) The lin-29 locus of C. elegans encodes a Zn-finger protein that regulates a stage-specific transcriptional switch. Development, 121, 2491-2500. ¥PDF¥

 

Euling, S., and Ambros, V. R. (1996)  Heterochronic genes control cell cycle progress and developmental competence of C. elegans vulva precursor cells. Cell 84, 667-676. ¥PDF¥

 

Euling, S., and Ambros, V. R. (1996)  Reversibility of vulval cell determination in C. elegans.

Development 122, 2507-2515. ¥PDF¥

 

Moss, E., Lee, R., and Ambros, V. (1997) Control of developmental timing by the cold shock domain protein Lin-28 and its regulation by the lin-4 RNA. Cell 88, 637-646. ¥PDF¥

 

Hong, Y., Roy, R. and Ambros, V. (1998) Developmental regulation of a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor controls postembryonic cell cycle progression in C. elegans.   Development 125, 3585-3597. ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros, V. (1999) Cell cycle-dependent sequencing of cell fate decisions in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 126, 1947-1956. ¥PDF¥

 

Feinbaum, R. and Ambros, V. (1999) The timing of lin-4 RNA accumulation controls

the timing of postembryonic developmental events in C. elegans.  Develop. Biol. 210, 87-95. ¥PDF¥

 

Olsen, P. H. and Ambros, V. (1999) The lin-4 regulatory RNA controls developmental timing in C. elegans by blocking LIN-14 protein synthesis after the initiation of translation.  Develop Biol. 216,671-680 ¥PDF¥

 

Hong, Y., Lee, R. C.  and Ambros, V. (2000) Structure and function analysis if LIN-14, a temporal regulator of postembryonic developmental events in C. elegans. Molecular and Cell. Biol. 20, 2285-95 ¥PDF¥

 

Slack, F. J., Basson, M., Liu, Z., Ambros, V., Horvitz, H. R. and Ruvkun, G. (2000) The lin-41 RBCC gene acts in the C. elegans heterochronic pathway between the let-7 regulatory RNA and the LIN-29 transcription factor. Molecular Cell 5, 659-669. ¥PDF¥

 

Lee, R. C. and Ambros, V. (2001) An extensive class of small RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 294, 862-864 ¥PDF¥

 

Sempere, L. F., Dubrovsky, E. B., Dubrovskaya, V.A., Berger, E. M., and Ambros, V. (2002). The expression of the let-7 small regulatory RNA is controlled by ecdysone during metamorphosis in Drosophila melanogaster" Develop. Biol. 244, 170-179 ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros V, Bartel B, Bartel DP, Burge CB, Carrington JC, Chen X, Dreyfuss G, Eddy SR, Griffiths-Jones S, Marshall M, Matzke M, Ruvkun G, Tuschl T (2003).  A uniform system for microRNA annotation. RNA  9, 277-279 ¥PDF¥

 

Ambros, V., Lee, R.C., Lavanway, A., Williams, P.T. and Jewell, D. (2003) microRNAs and other tiny endogenous RNAs in C. elegans. Current Biology 13, 807-818. ¥PDF¥

 

Sempere, L.F., Sokol, N.S., Dubrovsky, E.B., Berger, E.M., and Ambros, V. (2003) Temporal Regulation of microRNA Expression in Drosophila melanogaster mediated by Hormonal Signals and Broad-Complex gene activity. Develop Biol 259, 9-18. ¥PDF¥

 

Pepper, A. S-R., McCane, J. E., Kemper, K., Yeung, D. A. Y., Lee, R. C., Ambros, V., Moss, E. (2004) The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-46 affects developmental timing at two larval stages and encodes a relative of the scaffolding protein gephyrin. Development 131(9):2049-59 ¥PDF¥

 

Sempere, L. F., Freemantle, S., Pitha-Rowe, I., Moss, E., Dmitrovsky, E., Ambros, V. (2004). Expression profiling of mammalian microRNAs uncovers a subset of brain-expressed microRNAs with possible roles in murine and human neuronal differentiation. Genome Biology 5(3):R13. Epub 2004 Feb 16. ¥PDF¥

 

Sokol, N. S. and Ambros, V. (2005) Mesodermally expressed Drosophila microRNA-1 is regulated by Twist and is required in muscles during larval growth. Genes and Development 19: 2343-2354 ¥PDF¥

 

Abbott, A. L., Alvarez-Saavedra, E., Miska, E. A., Lau, N. C.,  Bartel, D. P., Horvitz, H. R. and Ambros, V. (2005). The let-7 MicroRNA Family Members mir-48, mir-84, and mir-241 Function Together to Regulate Developmental Timing in Caenorhabditis elegans.  Developmental Cell, Vol. 9, 1-12 ¥PDF¥

 

Kuhlmann, M., Borisova, B. E., Kaller, M., Larsson, P., Stach, D., Na, J. Eichinger, L., Lyko, F., Ambros, V., Sšderbom, F., Hammann, C. and Nellen, W. (2005) Silencing of retrotransposons in Dictyostelium by DNA methylation and RNAi. Nucl. Acids Res. Nov 10;33(19):6405-17 ¥PDF¥

 

Hristova, M., Birse, D., Hong, Y. and Ambros, V. (2005) The C. elegans heterochronic regulator LIN-14 is a novel transcription factor that controls the developmental timing of transcription from the insulin/IGF gene ins-33 by direct DNA binding. Mol CellBiol. 2005 Dec;25(24):11059-72 ¥PDF¥

 

Lee, R.C., Hammell C.H., Ambros V.R. (2006) Interacting endogenous and exogenous RNAi pathways in C. elegans. RNA, Apr;12(4):589-97 ¥PDF¥