Publications

Jafari G., Burghoorn J., Kawano T., Mathew M., Mörck C, Axäng C., Ailion M., Thomas J.H., Culotti J.G., Swoboda P., and Pilon M. (2010). Genetics of extracellular matrix remodeling during organ growth using the Caenorhabditis elegans pharynx model. Genetics 186: 969-982.

Piasecki B.P., Burghoorn J., and Swoboda P. (2010). Regulatory Factor X (RFX)-mediated transcriptional rewiring of ciliary genes in animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107: 12969-12974.

Burghoorn J., Dekkers M.P.J., Rademakers S., Jong T. d., Willemsen R., Swoboda P., and Jansen G. (2010). Dauer pheromone and G-protein signaling modulate the coordination of intraflagellar transport kinesin motor proteins in C. elegans. Journal of Cell Science 123: 2077-2084.

Senti G., Ezcurra M., Löbner J, Schafer WR, and Swoboda P. (2009). Worms with a single functional sensory cilium generate proper neuron-specific behavioral output. Genetics 183: 595-605.

Senti G. and Swoboda P. (2008). Distinct isoforms of the RFX transcription factor DAF-19 regulate ciliogenesis and maintenance of synaptic activity. Molecular Biology of the Cell 12: 5517-5528.

Ceron J. and Swoboda P. (2008). Caenorhabditis elegans comes of age. Genome Biology 9: 312 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-6-312.

Li C., Inglis P.N., Leitch C.C., Efimenko E., Zaghloul N.A., Mok C.A., Davis E.E., Bialas N.J., Healey M.P., Héon E., Zhen M. Swoboda P., Katsanis N., and Leroux M.R. (2008). An essential role for DYF-11/MIP-T3 in assembling functional intraflagellar transport complexes. PLoS Genetics 4(3): e1000044. doi:10.137/journal.pgen.1000044.

Laurencon A., Dubruille R., Efimenko E., Grenier G., Bissett R., Cortier E., Rolland V., Swoboda P. and Durand B. (2007). Identification of novel Regulatory Factor X (RFX) target genes by comparative genomics in Drosophila species. Genome Biology 8, R195.

Chen N., Mah A, Blacque O. E., Chu J., Phgora K., Bakhoum M. W., Hunt Newbury C. R., Khattra J., Chan S., Go A., Efimenko E., Johnsen R., Phirke P., Swoboda P., Marra M., Moerman D. G., Leroux M. R., Baillie D. L. and Stein L. D. (2006). Identification of ciliary and ciliopathy genes in Caenorhabditis elegans through comparative genomics. Genome Biology 7, R126.

Efimenko E., Blacque O. E., Ou G., Haycraft C. J., Yoder B. K., Scholey J. M., Leroux M. R. and Swoboda P. (2006). Caenorhabditis elegans DYF-2, an ortholog of human WDR19, is a component of the IFT machinery in sensory cilia. Molecular Biology of the Cell 17, 4801-4811.

Miranda-Vizuete A., Fierro González J. C., Gahmon G., Burghoorn J., Navas P. and Swoboda P. (2006). Lifespan decrease in a Caenorhabditis elegans mutant lacking TRX-1, a thioredoxin expressed in ASJ sensory neurons. FEBS Letters 580, 484-490.

Winkelbauer M. E., Schafer J. C., Haycraft C. J., Swoboda P. and Yoder B. K. (2005). The C. elegans homologs of nephrocystin-1 and nephrocystin-4 are cilia transition zone proteins involved in chemosensory perception. Journal of Cell Science 118, 5575-5587.

Blacque O. E., Perens E. A., Boroevich K. A., Inglis P. N., Li C., Warner A., Khattra J., Holt R. A., Ou G., Mah A. K., McKay S. J., Huang P., Swoboda P., Jones S. J. M., Marra M. A., Baillie D. L., Moerman D. G., Shaham S. and Leroux M. R. (2005). "Functional Genomics of the Cilium, a Sensory Organelle." Current Biology 15, 935-941.

Efimenko E., Bubb K., Mak H. Y., Holzman T., Leroux M. R., Ruvkun G., Thomas J. H. and Swoboda P. (2005). "Analysis of xbx genes in C. elegans." Development 132, 1923-1934.

Schafer J. C., Haycraft C. J., Thomas J. H., Yoder B. K. and Swoboda P. (2003). "XBX-1 encodes a dynein light intermediate chain (DLIC) required for retrograde intraflagellar transport and cilia assembly in C. elegans." Molecular Biology of the Cell 14, 2057-2070.

Dubruille R., Laurencon A., Vandaele C., Shishido E., Coulon-Bublex M., Swoboda P., Couble P., Kernan M. and Durand B. (2002). "Drosophila Regulatory factor X is necessary for ciliated sensory neuron differentiation." Development 129, 5487-5498.

Haycraft C.J., Swoboda P., Taulman P. D., Thomas J. H. and Yoder B. K. (2001). "The C. elegans homolog of the murine cystic kidney disease gene Tg737 functions in a ciliogenic pathway and is disrupted in osm-5 mutant worms." Development 128, 1493-1505.

Swoboda P., Adler H. T. and Thomas J. H. (2000). "The RFX-type transcription factor DAF-19 regulates sensory neuron cilium formation in C. elegans." Molecular Cell 5, 411-421.