Selected Publications

Rowley, A., Johnston, G.C., Butler, B., Werner-Washburne, M. and Singer, R.A. 1993. Heat-shock mediated cell-cycle blockage and G1 cyclin expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:1034-1041.

Werner-Washburne, M., Braun, E., Johnston, G.C., and Singer, R.A. 1993. Stationary phase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Microbiol. Rev. 57:383-401.

Xu, Q., Johnston, G.C. and Singer, R.A. 1993. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cdc68 transcription activator is antagonized by San1, a protein implicated in transcriptional silencing. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:7553-7565.

Ireland, L.S., Johnston, G.C., Drebot, M.A., Dhillon, N., DeMaggio, A.J., Hoekstra, M.F. and Singer, R.A. 1994. A member of a novel family of yeast "Zn-finger" proteins mediates the transition from stationary phase to cell proliferation. EMBO J. 13:3812-3821.

Evans, D.R.H., Rasmussen, C., Hanic-Joyce, P.J., Johnston, G.C., Singer, R.A. and Barnes, C.A. 1995. Mutational analysis of the Prt1 protein subunit of yeast translation initiation factor 3. Mol. Cell. Biol. 15:4525-4535.

Xu, Q., Singer, R.A. and Johnston, G.C. 1995. Sug1 modulates yeast transcription activation by Cdc68. Mol. Cell. Biol. 15:6025-6035.

Poon, P.P., Wang, X., Rotman, M., Huber, I., Cukierman, E., Cassel, D., Singer, R.A. and Johnston, G.C. 1996. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gcs1 is an ARF GTPase-activating protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:10074-10077.

Brewster, N., Johnston, G. C. and Singer, R. A. 1998. Characterization of the CP complex, an abundant dimer of Cdc68 and Pob3 proteins that regulates yeast transcriptional activation and chromatin repression. J. Biol. Chem. 273:21972-21979.

Evans, D. R. H., Brewster, N., Xu, Q., Rowley, A., Altheim, B, Johnston, G. C. and Singer, R. A. 1998. The yeast protein complex containing Cdc68 and Pob3 mediates core-promoter repression through the Cdc68 N-terminal domain. Genetics 150:1393-1405.

Poon, P.P., Cassel, D., Spang, A., Rotman, M., Pick, E, Singer, R.A. and Johnston, G.C. 1999. Retrograde transport from the yeast Golgi is mediated by two ARF GAP proteins with overlapping function. EMBO J. 18:555-564.

Manuscripts Submitted or in Preparation

Pak Phi Poon, Dan Cassel, Irit Huber, Richard A. Singer and Gerald C. Johnston (2000). Expression, analysis and properties of the yeast ARF GAPs Gcs1 and Glo3. Methods Enzymol.

Neil Brewster, Gerald C. Johnston and Richard A. Singer (2000) A bipartite yeast SSRP1 analog comprised of Pob3 and Nhp6 proteins modulates chromatin for transcription. Mol. Cell. Biol.