SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Zhang L., Das P., Schmolke M., Manicassamy B., Wang Y., Deng X., Cai L., Tu B.P., Forst C., Roth, M.G., Levy D.E., Garcia-Sastre A., Brabander, J.d., Phillips M.A., and B.M.A. Fontoura. "Inhibition of Pyrimidine Synthesis Reverses Viral Virulence Factor-Mediated Block of mRNA Nuclear Export." J. Cell Biol.196: 315-26, 2012

Highlighted in the same issue by Ben Short: "A pyrimidine scheme to restore mRNA export.” J. Cell Biol.196: 300, 2012.

Mata M.A., Satterly N., Versteeg G.A., Frantz D., Wei S., Williams N., Schmolke M., Peña-Llopis S., Brugarolas J., Forst C.V., White M.A., García-Sastre A., Roth M.G., Fontoura B.M.A. "Chemical inhibition of RNA viruses reveals REDD1 as a host defense factor." Nature Chemical Biology 7: 712-0, 2011.

Mishra R.K., Chakraborty P., Arnaoutov A., Fontoura B.M.A., Dasso M. "The Nup107-160 complex and gamma-TuRC regulate microtubule polymerization at kinetochores." Nat Cell Biol. 2010 Feb;12(2):164-9. Epub 2010 Jan 17.

Chakraborty P., Seemann J., Mishra R.K., Wei J.H., Weil L., Nussenzveig D.R., Heiber J., Barber G.N., Dasso M., Fontoura B.M.A. "Vesicular stomatitis virus inhibits mitotic progression and triggers cell death." EMBO Rep. 2009 Oct;10(10):1154-60. Epub 2009 Sep 11.

Chakraborty P., Wang Y., Wei J.-H., van Deursen J., Yu H., Malureanu L., Dasso M., Forbes D.J., Levy D.E., Seemann J., and Fontoura B.M.A. "Nucleoporin Levels Regulate Cell Cycle Progression and Phase-Specific Gene Expression." Dev. Cell 15: 657-667, 2008.

Satterly, N. Tsai, P-L., van Deursen, J., Nussenzveig, D.R., Wang, Y., Faria, P.A., Levay, A., Levy, D.E., and Fontoura B.M.A. "Influenza Virus Targets the mRNA Export Machinery and the Nuclear Pore Complex" PNAS, 104 (6):1853-1858, February 2007.

Faria A.M., Levay A., Wang Y., Kamphorst A.O., Rosa M.L., Nussenzveig D.R., Balkan W., Chook Y.M., Levy D.E., and Fontoura B.M.A. "The Nucleoporin Nup96 is Required for Proper Expression of Interferon-Regulated Proteins and Functions" Immunity, 24 (3):295-304, March 2006.

Faria, P.A., Chakraborty, P., Levay, A., Barber, G.N., Ezelle, H., Enninga, J., Arana, C., van Deursen, J., and Fontoura B.M.A. "VSV disrupts the Rae1/mrnp41 mRNA nuclear export pathway." Mol. Cell, 17:93-102, 2005.

Enninga, J., Levay, A., and Fontoura B.M.A. "Sec13 shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm and stably interacts with Nup96 at the Nuclear Pore Complex." Mol Cell. Biol., 23:7271-7284, 2003.

Enninga, J., Levy, D.E., Blobel, G., and Fontoura B.M.A. "Role of nucleoporin induction in releasing an mRNA nuclear export block." Science, 295:1523-1525, 2002.