Larkins Lab



	Jose A. Lopez-Valenzuela, Bryan C. Gibbon, David R. Holding and Brian A. Larkins (2004). Cytoskeletal Proteins Are Coordinately Increased in Maize Genotypes with High Levels of eEF1A. Plant Physiol. 135(3):1784-97
	João T. Leiva-Neto, Gideon Grafi, Paolo A. Sabelli, Ricardo A. Dante, Young-min Woo, Sheila Maddock, William J. Gordon-Kamm and Brian A. Larkins (2004). A Dominant Negative Mutant of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase A Reduces Endoreduplication but Not Cell Size or Gene Expression in Maize Endosperm. Plant Cell 16:1854-1869
	Cheol Soo Kim, Brenda G. Hunter, Jeffery Kraft, Rebecca S. Boston, Sarah Yans, Rudolf Jung and Brian A. Larkins (2004). A Defective Signal Peptide in a 19-kD a-Zein Protein Causes the Unfolded Protein Response and an Opaque Endosperm Phenotype in the Maize De-B30 Mutant. Plant Physiol. 134* (1): 380-387
	Bryan C. Gibbon, Xuelu Wang and Brian A. Larkins (2003). Altered starch structure is associated with endosperm modification in Quality Protein Maize. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100* (26):15329-34*
	Jose A. Lopez-Valenzuela, Bryan C. Gibbon, Peter A. Hughes, Theo W. Dreher and Brian A. Larkins (2003). eEF1A Isoforms Change in Abundance and Actin-Binding Activity during Maize Endosperm Development. Plant Physiol. 133(3):1285-1295
	Brenda G. Hunter, Mary K. Beatty, George W. Singletary, Bruce R. Hamaker, Brian P. Dilkes, Brian A. Larkins and Rudolf Jung (2002). Maize opaque endosperm mutations create extensive changes in patterns of gene expression. Plant Cell 14(10):2591-612
	William Gordon-Kamm, Brian P. Dilkes, Keith Lowe, George Hoerster, Xifan Sun, Margit Ross, Laura Church, Chris Bunde, Jeff Farrell, Patrea Hill, Sheila Maddock, Jane Snyder, Louisa Sykes, Zhongsen Li, Young-min Woo, Dennis Bidney, and Brian A. Larkins (2002). Stimulation of the cell cycle and maize transformation by disruption of the plant retinoblastoma pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99 (18):11975-80
	Rongling Wu, Xiang-Yang Lou, Chang-Xing Ma, Xuelu Wang, Brian A. Larkins, and George Casella (2002). An Improved genetic model generates high-resolution mapping of QTL for protein quality in maize endosperm. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99 (17):11281-6
	Cheol Soo Kim, Young-min Woo, Amy M. Clore, Ronald J. Burnett, Newton P. Carneiro and Brian A. Larkins (2002). Zein Protein Interactions, Rather Than the Asymmetric Distribution of Zein mRNAs on Endoplasmic Reticulum Membranes, Influence Protein Body Formation in Maize Endosperm. Plant Cell 14 (3):655-72.
	Brian P. Dilkes, Ricardo A. Dante, Cintia Coelho, and Brian A. Larkins (2002). Genetic Analyses of Endoreduplication in Zea mays Endosperm: Evidence of Sporophytic and Zygotic Maternal Control. Genetics 160 (3):1163-77.
	Young-Min Woo, David Wang-Nan Hu, Brian A. Larkins, and Rudolf Jung (2001). Genomics Analysis of Genes Expressed in Maize Endosperm Identifies Novel Seed Proteins and Clarifies Patterns of Zein Gene Expression. Plant Cell 13 (10): 2297-2317.
	Xuelu Wang, Young-min Woo, Cheol Soo Kim, and Brian A. Larkins (2001) Quantitative trait locus mapping of loci influencing elongation factor 1a content in maize endosperm. Plant Physiol. 125 (3): 1271-1282.
	Xuelu Wang, Brian A. Larkins (2001) Genetic analysis of amino acid accumulation in opaque-2 maize endosperm. Plant Physiol. 125 (4): 1766-1777.
	Xuelu Wang, David K. Stumpf, and Brian A. Larkins (2001) Aspartate kinase2: A candidate gene of a quantitative trait locus influencing free amino acid content in maize endosperm. Plant Physiol. 125 (4): 1778-1787.
	Brian A. Larkins, Brian P. Dilkes, Ricardo A. Dante, Cintia M. Coelho, Young-min Woo, and Yan Liu (2001) Investigating the hows and whys of DNA endoreduplication. Journal of Experimental Botany 52 (355), 183-192.
	Newton, P. Carneiro, Peter A. Hughes and Brian A. Larkins (1999) The eEF1A gene family is differentially expressed in maize endosperm. Plant Molecular Biology 41 (6), 801-814.
	Ronald J. Burnett and Brian A. Larkins (1999) opaque2 modifiers alter transcription of the 27-kD g -zein genes. Molecular and General Genetics 261, 908-916.
	Eliot M. Herman and Brian A. Larkins (1999) Protein storage bodies and vacuoles. Plant Cell 11, 601-613.
	Yeujin Sun, Brian P. Dilkes, Chungshen Zhang, Ricardo A. Dante, Newton P. Carneiro, Keith S. Lowe, Rudolf Jung, William J. Gordon-Kamm and Brian A. Larkins (1999) *Characterization of maize (Zea mays* L.) Wee1 and its activity in developing endosperm.** Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96, 4180-4185.
	Peter F. McGrath, Jeffrey R. Vincent, C-H Lei, W.P. Pawlowski, K.A. Torbert., W. Gu, H.F. Kaeppler, Y. Wan, Peggy G. Lemaux, H.R. Hines, David A. Somers, Brian A. Larkins and Richard A. Lister. (1997) Coat protein-mediated resistance to isolates of Barley Yellow Dwarf in oats and barley. European Journal of Plant Pathology 103, 695-710.
	Yuejin Sun, Newton Carneiro, Amy M. Clore, Gloverson L. Moro, Jeffrey E. Habben and Brian A. Larkins (1997) Characterization of maize elongation factor 1A and its relationship to protein quality in the endosperm. Plant Physiology 115, 1101-1107.
	Craig E. Coleman, Amy M. Clore, Jerry P. Ranch, Regina Higgins, Mauricio A. Lopes, and Brian A. Larkins (1997) *Expression of a mutant a -zein creates the floury2 phenotype in transgenic maize.* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94, 7094-7097.
	Jeffery W. Gillikin, Fan Zhang, Craig E. Coleman, Hank W. Bass, Brian A. Larkins and Rebecca S. Boston (1997) A defective signal peptide tethers the floury-2 zein to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Plant Physiology 114, 345-352.
	Craig E. Coleman, Eliot M. Herman, Koichi Takasaki and Brian A. Larkins (1996) The maize g-zein sequesters a-zein and stabilizes its accumulation in protein bodies of transgenic tobacco endosperm. Plant Cell 12, 2335-2345.
	Amy M. Clore, Joanne M. Dannenhoffer and Brian A. Larkins (1996) EF-1a is associated with a cytoskeletal network surrounding protein bodies in maize endosperm cells. Plant Cell 11, 2003-2014.
	Gideon Grafi, Ronald J. Burnett, Tim Helentjaris, Brian A. Larkins, James A. DeCaprio, William R. Sellers, and William G. Kaelin, Jr. (1996) A maize cDNA encoding a member of the retinoblastoma protein family: Involvement in endoreduplication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 93, 8962-8967.
	Gloverson L. Moro, Jeffrey E. Habben, Bruce R. Hamaker, and Brian A. Larkins (1996) *Characterization of the variability in lysine content for normal and opaque2 maize endosperm.* Crop Science 36, 1651-1659.
	Chun-Ping Li and Brian A. Larkins (1996) *Expression of protein disulfide isomerase is elevated in the endosperm of the maize floury2 mutant.* Plant Molecular Biology 30, 873-882.
	Chun-Ping Li and Brian A. Larkins (1996) Identification of a maize endosperm-specific cDNA encoding farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase. Gene 171, 193-196.
	Bruce R. Hamaker, A.A. Mohammed, Jeffery E. Habben, C-P. Huang, and Brian A. Larkins (1995) An efficient procedure for extracting maize and sorghum kernel proteins reveals higher prolamin contents that the conventional method. Cereal Chemistry 72, 583-588.
	Gideon Grafi and Brian A. Larkins (1995) Activity of single-stranded DNA endonucleases in mung bean is associated with cell division. Plant Molecular Biology 29, 703-710.
	Gideon Grafi and Brian A. Larkins (1995) Endoreduplication in maize endosperm: Involvement of M phase-promoting factor inhibition and induction of S phase-related kinases. Science 269, 1262-1264.
	Jeffrey E. Habben, Gloverson L. Moro, Brenda G. Hunter, Bruce Hamaker, and Brian A. Larkins (1995) Elongation factor 1a concentration is highly correlated with the lysine content of maize endosperm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 92, 8640-8644.
	Craig E. Coleman, Mauricio A. Lopes, Jeffery W. Gillikin, Rebecca S. Boston, and Brian A. Larkins (1995) *A defective signal peptide in the maize high-lysine mutation floury2.* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 92, 6828-6831.
	Joanne M. Dannenhoffer, Dwight E. Bostwick, Etti Or, and Brian A. Larkins (1995) opaque15, a maize mutation with properties of a defective opaque2 modifier. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 92, 1931-1935.
	Mauricio A. Lopes, Koichi Takasaki, Dwight E. Bostwick, Tim Helentjaris, and Brian A. Larkins (1995) *Identification of two opaque2 modifier loci in Quality Protein Maize.* Molecular and General Genetics 247, 603-613.
	Mauricio A. Lopes and Brian A. Larkins (1995) *Genetic analysis of opaque2 modifier gene activity in maize endosperm.* Theoretical and Applied Genetics 19, 274-281.
	Gloverson L. Moro, Mauricio A. Lopes, Jeffery E. Habben, Bruce R. Hamaker and Brian A. Larkins (1995) *Phenotypic effects of opaque2 modifier genes in normal maize endopserm.* Cereal Chemistry 72, 94-99.
	Bo Shen, Neuton Carniero, Ivone Torres-Jerez, Becky Stevenson, Tom McCreery, Tim Helentjaris, Chris Baysdorfer, Ernesto Almira, Robert J. Ferl, Jeffery E. Habben, and Brian Larkins (1994) Partial sequencing and mapping of clones from two maize cDNA libraries. Plant Molecular Biology 26, 1085-1101.
	Mauricio A. Lopes, Craig E. Coleman, Robert Kodrzycki, Craig R. Lending and Brian A. Larkins (1994) *Synthesis of an unusual alpha-zein protein is correlated with the phenotypic effects of the floury2 mutation in maize.* Molecular and General Genetics 245, 537-547.
	Everaldo G. deBarros and Brian A. Larkins (1994) Cloning of a cDNA encoding a putative cysteine protease from germinating maize seeds. Plant Science 99, 189-197.
	Jeffery E. Habben, Allen W. Kirlies, and Brian A. Larkins (1993) *The origin of lysine-containing proteins in opaque2 maize endosperm.* Plant Molecular Biology 23, 825-838.
	Etti Or, Scott K. Boyer, and Brian A. Larkins (1993) opaque2 modifiers act post-transcriptionally and in a polar manner on gamma-zein gene expression in maize endosperm. Plant Cell 5, 1599-1609.
	Mauricio A. Lopes and Brian A. Larkins (1993) Endosperm origin, development, and function. Plant Cell 5, 1383-1399.
	Craig R. Lending and Brian A. Larkins (1992) Effect of the floury-2 locus on protein body formation during maize endosperm development. Protoplasma 171, 123-133.
	Dwight E. Bostwick, Joanne M. Dannenhoffer, Megan I. Skaggs, Richard A. Lister, Brian A. Larkins, and Gary A. Thompson (1992) Cucurbita phloem lectin genes are specifically expressed in companion cells. Plant Cell 4, 1539-1548.
	Scott K. Boyer, Mark A. Shotwell, and Brian A. Larkins (1992) Evidence for the translational control of storage protein gene expression in oat seeds. Journal of Biological Chemistry 267, 17449-17457.
	Peter P. Ueng, Jeffery R. Vincent, Evelynn E. Kawata, C.-H Lei, Richard A. Lister, and Brian A. Larkins (1992) Nucleotide sequence analysis of the genomes of the MAV-PS1 and P-PAV isolates of barley yellow dwarf virus. Journal of General Virology 73, 487-492.
	Gary A. Thompson, David R. Siemieniak, Leang C. Sieu, Jerry L. Slightom, and Brian A. Larkins (1992) Sequence analysis of linked maize 22 kDA alpha-zein genes. Plant Molecular Biology 18, 827-833.
	Mauricio A. Lopes and Brian A. Larkins (1991) Relationship between gamma-zein content and endosperm modification in Quality Protein Maize. Crop Science 31, 1655-1662.
	Everaldo de Barros, Koichi Takasaki, Allen W. Kirlies, and Brian A. Larkins (1991) Nucleotide sequence of a cDNA clone encoding gamma-kafirin protein from sorghum. Plant Physiology 97, 1606-1607.
	K.B. Geetha, Craig R. Lending, Mauricio A. Lopes, John C. Wallace, and Brian A. Larkins (1991) opaque-2 modifiers increase gamma-zein synthesis and alter its distribution in maize endosperm. Plant Cell 3, 1207-1219.
	Jeffery R. Vincent, Richard A. Lister, and Brian A. Larkins (1991) Nucleotide sequence analysis and genome organization of the NY-RPV isolate of barley yellow dwarf virus. Journal of General Virology 72, 2347-2355.
	Jae-Seong So and Brian A. Larkins (1991) The binding of an endosperm-specific nuclear protein to the promoter of a maize beta-zein gene correlates with its transcriptional activity. Plant Molecular Biology 17, 309-319.
	Edilson Paiva, Alan L. Kriz, Maria J. V. D. Peixata, John C. Wallace, and Brian A. Larkins (1991) Quantitation and distribution of gamma-zein in the endosperm of maize kernels. Cereal Chemistry 68, 276-279.
	Takeshi Ohtani, Gad Galili, John C. Wallace, Gary A. Thompson, and Brian A. Larkins. (1991) Normal and lysine-containing zeins are unstable in transgenic tobacco seeds. Plant Molecular Biology 16, 117-128.
	Gary A. Thompson, Rebecca S. Boston, Leszek A. Lyznik, Thomas K. Hodges, and Brian A. Larkins (1991) Analysis of promoter activity from an alpha-zein 5' flanking sequence in transient expression assays. Plant Molecular Biology 15, 755-764.
	J. R. Vincent. P. P. Ueng, R. A. Lister, and B. A. Larkins (1990) Coat protein sequences for three isolates of barley yellow dwarf virus and their relationships to other luteovirus coat protein sequences. Journal of General Virology 71, 2791-2799.
	F. A. Fattouh, P. P. Ueng, E. E. Kawata, D. J. Barbara, B. A. Larkins, and R. A. Lister (1990) Luteovirus relationships assessed by cDNA clones from barley yellow dwarf viruses. Phytopathology 80, 913-920.
	Everaldo G. de Barros and Brian A. Larkins (1990) Purification and characterization of zein-degrading proteases from endosperm of germinating maize seeds. Plant Physiology 94, 297-303.
	Mark A. Shotwell, Scott K. Boyer, Ruth S. Chesnut, and Brian A. Larkins (1990) Analysis of seed storage protein genes in oats. Journal of Biological Chemistry 265, 9652-9658
	John C. Wallace, Mauricio A. Lopes, Edilson Paiva, and Brian A. Larkins (1990) *New methods for extraction and quantitation of zeins reveal a high content of gamma-zein in modified opaque-2* maize.** Plant Physiology 92, 191-196.


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Brian P. Dilkes, Ricardo A. Dante, Cintia Coelho, and Brian A. Larkins (2002). Genetic Analyses of Endoreduplication in Zea mays Endosperm: Evidence of Sporophytic and Zygotic Maternal Control. Genetics 160 (3):1163-77.