Publications Page

Journal Articles:

Ogata, K., Dai, X., and Volini, M. (1989). " Bovine mitochondrial rhodanese is a phosphoprotein". J. Biol. Chem. 264, 2718-2725.

Glucksmann-Kuis, M.A., Dai, X., Markiewicz, P., and Rothman-Denes, L.B.  (1997)  “E. coli SSB activation of N4 virion RNA polymerase: specific activation of an essential DNA hairpin required for promoter recognition”.  Cell 84, 147-154.

Dai, X., Griezerstein, M., Nadas-Chinni, K., and Rothman-Denes, L.B.  (1997)  “Supercoil-induced extrusion of a regulatory DNA hairpin”.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 2174-2179.

Dai, X., and Rothman-Denes, L.B.  (1998)  “Sequence and DNA structural determinants of N4 virion RNA polmerase-promoter recognition”.  Genes & Development 12, 2782-2790.

Dai, X., Kloster, M., and Rothman-Denes, L.B. (1998)  “Sequence-dependent extrusion of a small DNA haipin at the N4 virion RNA polymerase promotes”.  J. Mol. Biol.  283, 43-58.

Dai, X., Schonbaum, C., Degenstein, L., Bai, W., Mahowald, A., and Fuchs, E. (1998)  “The ovo gene required for cuticle formation and oogenesis in flies is involved in hair formation and spermatogenesis in mice”.  Genes & Development 12, 3452-3463.

Li, B., Mackay, D. R., Dai, Q., Li, T. W. H., Nair, M., Fallahi, M., Schonbaum, C., Fantes, J., Mahowald, A., Waterman, M. L., Fuchs, E., and Dai, X.  (2002).  The LEF1/b-catenin complex activates movo1, a mouse homolog of Drosophila ovo gene required for epidermal appendage differentiation.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 6064-6069.

Li, B., Dai, Q., Li, L., Nair, M., Mackay, D. R., and Dai, X.  (2002).  ovol2, a mammalian homolog of Drosophila ovo: gene structure, chromosomal mapping, and aberrant expression in blind-sterile mice.  Genomics 80, 319-325.

Kaufman, C. K., Zhou, P., Pasolli, H. A., Rendl, M., Bolotin, D., Lim, K. C., Dai, X., Alegre, M. L., and Fuchs, E.  (2003).  GATA-3: an unexpected regulator of cell lineage determination in skin.  Genes & Development  17, 2108-2122.

Li, B. Mackay, D. R., Ma, J., and Dai, X.  (2004).  Cloning and developmental expression of mouse pygopus 2, a putative Wnt signaling component. Genomics 84, 398-405.  

Reviews:

Miller, A., Dai, X., Choi, M., Glucksmann-Kuis, M.A., and Rothman-Denes, L.B. (1996)  “Role of single-stranded DNA binding proteins in transcriptional activation”.  Methods in Enxymology 274, 9-20.

Rothman-Denes, L.B., Dai, X., Davydova, E., Carter, R., and Kazmierczak, K. (1998). “Transcriptional regulation by DNA structural transitions and single-stranded DNA binding proteins”.  Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 63-73.

Dai, X. and Rothman-Denes, L.B. (1999).   “DNA structures and transcription”.  Current Opinion in Microbiology 2, 126-130.

Dai, X. and Segre J.  (2004).  Transcriptional regulation of epidermal specification and differentiation.  Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 14, 485-491.