THE MIVECHI LAB
Selected Bibliography

1. He, B. Meng, Y-H., Mivechi, N. F. Glycogen synthase kinase 3b and extracellular signal regulated kinase inactivate heat shock transcription factor-1 by facilitating the disappearance of transcriptionally active granules after heat shock. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18:6624-6633, 1998.


2. Zhang, Y., Koushik, S., Dai, R, Mivechi, N. F. Structural Organization and promoter analysis of murine heat shock transcription factor-1 gene. J. Biol. Chem., 273:32514-32521, 1998.


3. Dai, R. Frejtag, W., He, B., Zhang, Y. Mivechi, N.F. c-Jun N-terminal kinase targeting and phosphorylation of heat shock factor-1 suppress its transcriptional activity. J. of Biol. Chem, 275:18210-18218, 2000.


4. Frejtag, W, Zhang, Y., Dai, R., Anderson, M., Mivechi, N.F. Heat shock factor 4 (HSF-4a) represses basal transcription through interaction with TFIIF, J. of Biol. Chem, 276:14685-14694, 2001.


5. Huang, L., Mivechi, N.F., Moskofidis, D. Insights into regulation and function of the major stress-induced hsp 70 molecular chaperone in vivo: analysis of mice with targeted gene disruption of hsp70.1 or 70.3 genes. Mol. Cell. Biol. 21:8571-8591, 2001.


6. Hu, Y., Mivechi, N. F., HSF1 interacts with Ral-binding protein 1 (Ral BP1) in a stress- responsive, multiprotein complex with Hsp90 in vivo. J. Biol. Chem. 278:17299-17306, 2003.


7. Wang, G., Ying, Z., Jin. X., Tu, N., Zhang, Y., Phillips, M., Moskophidis, D., Mivechi, N. F. Essential requirement for both hsf1 and hsf2 transcriptional activity in spermatogenesis and male infertility. Genesis, 38:66-80, 2004.


8. Min, J-N., Zhang, Y., Moskophidis, D., Mivechi, N.F. Unique contribution of heat shock factor 4 in lens development and fiber cell differentiation. Genesis, 40:205-217, 2004.
9. Hu, Y., Mivechi, N.F. Heat shock transcription factor 4b acts as a
   regulated scaffold protein for both ERK MAP kinase and a novel dual specificity tyrosine phosphatase. Mol. Cell. Biol. 26: 3282-3294, 2006.
10. Tu, N., Hu, Y., Mivechi, N. F. Heat Shock factor 4b is activated during the G1 phase of the cell cycle and drives the expression of heat shock proteins. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, In Press, 2006.
11. Binnur, E., Wang, G., Tu, N., Sun, T., and Mivechi, N.F. Critical role of Brg1 member of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling protein during neurogenesis and neural crest induction in zebrafish. Developmental Dynamics, In press, 2006.