Livingston Laboratory

Department of Biological Sciences

Publications (last 10 years)

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Hussain, S. and Livingston, B.T., (2008) Tracing misalignment and unequal crossing over during evolution of the repetitive region of the SM50 gene in sea urchins. J. of Exp. Zool 309A:1-12  (in press)

 

Lykourinou, V.L., Hanafy, A.I., da Silva, G.F.Z., Bisht, K.S., Larsen, R.W., Livingston, B.T., Angerhofer, A. and Ming, L-J. (2008) How well should the active site and the specific recognition be defined for proficient catalyses?- Effective and cooperative polyphenolcatechol oxidation and oxidative DNA cleavage by a Copper(II)-binding and H-bonding co-polymer. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 16: 2584-2592

 

Livingston, B. T., Killian, C. E., Wilt, F., Cameron, A., Landrum, M. J., Ermolaeva, O., Sapojnikov, V., Maglott, D. R., Buchanan, A. M., and Ettensohn, C. A. (2006) A Genome-Wide Analysis of Biomineralization-Related Proteins in the Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Developmental Biology, 300(1):335-48.

 

Lynne Angerer, Sofia Hussain, Zheng Wei and Brian T. Livingston (2006). Sea urchin metalloproteases: a genomic survey of the BMP-1/tolloid-like, MMP and ADAM families. Developmental Biology, 300(1):267-81.

 

Sea Urchin Genome Sequencing Consortium (Livingston, B. T. and Hussain, S included). (2006) The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Science. 314(5801):941-52.

 

Da Silva, G.F., Reuille, R.L., Ming, L.-J., and Livingston, B.T.. (2006) Overexpression and characterization of blastula protease 10, an astacin family metalloprotease involved in sea urchin development. J Biol Chem. 281(16):10737-44.

 

Fung, E.-S., Thurm, C., Reuille, R., Brede, B. and Livingston, BT (2005) Identification of cis-regulatory elements involved in transcriptional regulation of the sea urchin SpFoxB gene. Develop. Growth and Differ. 47, 479-488.

 

Wilt, F.H., Killian, C.E. and Livingston, B.T. (2003) Development of calcareous skeletal elements in invertebrates. Differentiation 71:237-250.

 

Meeds, T., Lockhard, E. and Livingston, B.T. Special evolutionary properties of genes encoding a protein with simple amino acid repeats. (2001) J. Mol. Evol. 53(3):180-90.

 

Cameron, R.A., Mahairas, G., Rast, J., Martinez, P., Biondi, T.R., Swartzell, S., Wallace, J.C., Poustka, A.J., Livingston, B.T., Wray, G.A., Ettensohn, C.A., Lehrach, H., Britten, R.J., Davidson, E.H., and Hood, L. (2000) A sea urchin genome project: sequence scan, virtual map, and additional resources. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97(17):9514-9518

 

Suprenant, K.A., Tuxhorn, J.,Dagget, M.A.F., Li, Q.,  Ahrens, D. P., Hostetler, A., and Livingston, B. T.  (2000) Conservation of the WD-repeat, microtubule-binding protein, EMAP, in sea urchin embryos. Dev. Genes and Evol. 210, 2-10

 

David, Elizabeth-Sharon, Luke, Natalie, and Livingston, B.T. (1999)  Characterization of a gene encoding a developmentally regulated winged helix transcription factor. Gene 236, 97-105.

 

Livingston, B.T., VanWinkle, C., and Kinsey, W.H.  (1998) Fertilization activated protein tyrosine kinase activity is required to complete gastrulation, but not for initial specification of endoderm and mesoderm in the sea urchin embryo. Dev. Biol. 193(1), 90-99