Publications

- Newmeyer, D.D., Lucocq, J.M., Bürglin, T.R., and De Robertis, E.M. (1986). Assembly in vitro of nuclei active in nuclear protein transport: ATP is required for nucleoplasmin accumulation. EMBO J., 5, 501-510.

- Dingwall, C., Bürglin, T.R., Kearsey, S.E., Dilworth, S., and Laskey, R.A. (1986). Sequence features of the nucleoplasmin tail region and evidence for a selective entry mechanism for transport into the cell nucleus. In Peters, R. and Trendelenburg, H.F. (eds.), Nucleocytoplasmic Transport. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 159-169.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1986). SEQGEL: A versatile and comfortable DNA editor which supports a special keyboard and a speech synthesizer. Comput. Appl. Biosci., 2, 99-101.

- Bürglin, T.R., Mattaj, I.W., Newmeyer, D.D., Zeller, R., and De Robertis, E.M. (1987). Cloning of nucleoplasmin from Xenopus laevis oocytes and analysis of its developmental expression. Genes Dev., 1, 97-107.

- Bürglin, T.R., and De Robertis, E.M. (1987). The nuclear migration signal of Xenopus laevis nucleoplasmin. EMBO J., 6, 2617-2625.

- Wright, C.V.E., Cho, K.W.Y., Fritz, A., Bürglin, T.R., and De Robertis, E.M. (1987). A Xenopus laevis gene encodes both homeobox-containing and homeobox-less transcripts. EMBO J., 6, 4083-4094.

- Bürglin, T.R., Wright, C.V.E., and De Robertis, E.M. (1987). Translational control in homoeobox mRNAs? Nature, 330, 701-702.

- De Robertis, E.M., Bürglin, T.R., Fritz, A., Oliver, G., Cho, K., and Wright, C.V.E. (1988). Sequence conservations in vertebrate homeo-box mRNAs. Arch. Biol. Med. Exp., 21, 443-447.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1988). The Yeast Regulatory Gene PHO2 contains a Homeo Box. Cell, 53, 339-340.

- De Robertis, E.M., Bürglin, T.R., Fritz, A., Wright, C.V.E., Jegalian, B., Schnegelsberg, P., Bittner, D., Morita, E., Oliver, G., and Cho, K.W.Y. (1988). Families of vertebrate homeodomain proteins. In Gralla, J. (ed.), DNA-Protein Interactions in Transcription. UCLA Symposium, 95. Alan R. Liss Inc., NY, NY. pp. 107-115.

- Bürglin, T.R., Finney, M., Coulson, A., and Ruvkun, G. (1989). Caenorhabditis elegans has scores of homoeobox-containing genes. Nature, 341, 239-243.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1991). The TEA domain: a novel, highly conserved DNA-binding motif. Cell, 66, 11-12.

- Bürglin, T.R., Ruvkun, G., Coulson, A., Hawkins, N.C., McGhee, J.D., Schaller, D., Wittmann, C., Müller, F., and Waterston, R.H. (1991). Nematode homeobox cluster. Nature, 351, 703.

- Ruvkun, G., Wightman, B., Bürglin, T.R., and Arasu P. (1991). Dominant gain-of-function mutations that lead to misregulation of the C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-14, and the evolutionary implications of dominant mutations in pattern-formation genes. Development, Supplement 1, 47-54.

- Wightman, B.*, Bürglin, T.R.*, Gatto, J., Arasu, P., and Ruvkun, G. (1991). Negative regulatory sequences in the lin-14 3'-untranslated region are necessary to generate a temporal switch during Caenorhabditis elegans development. Genes Dev., 5, 1813-1824. * equal first authorship

- Barnes, T.M., and Bürglin, T.R. (1992). Prune function? Nature, 355, 504-505.

- Miller, D.M., Shen, M.M., Shamu, C.E., Bürglin, T.R., Ruvkun, G., Dubois, M.L., Ghee, M., and Wilson, L. (1992). C. elegans unc-4 gene encodes a homeodomain protein that determines the pattern of synaptic input to specific motor neurons. Nature, 355, 841-845.

- Bürglin, T.R., and Barnes, T.M. (1992). Introns in sequence tags. Nature, 357, 367.

- Rosoff, M.L., Bürglin, T.R., and Li, C. (1992). Alternatively spliced transcripts of the flp-1 gene encode distinct FMRFamide-like peptides in Caenorhabditis elegans. J. Neurosci, 12, 2356-2361.

- Bürglin, T.R., and Ruvkun, G. (1992). New motif in PBX genes. Nature Genet., 1, 319-320.

- Bürglin, T.R., and Ruvkun, G. (1993). The Caenorhabditis elegans homeobox gene cluster. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev., 3, 615-620.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1994). A C. elegans prospero homologue defines a novel domain. Trends Biochem Sci, 19, 70-71.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1994). A comprehensive classification of homeobox genes. In Duboule, D. (ed.), A guidebook to homeobox genes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 25-71.

- Gehring, W.J., Affolter, M., and Bürglin, T.R. (1994) Homeodomain proteins. Annual Review of Biochemistry 63, 487-526.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1995). The evolution of homeobox genes. In Arai, R., Kato, M., Doi, Y. (eds.) Biodiversity and Evolution. The National Science Museum Foundation, Tokyo., pp. 291-336.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1996). Homeodomain Proteins. In Meyers, R.A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine, Vol 3., VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Weinheim, pp. 55-76.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1996). Warthog and Groundhog, novel families related to Hedgehog. Current Biology, 9, 1047-1050.

- Akam, M., Bürglin, T.R., and Gehring, W.J. (1996). Developmental control genes and morphological evolution. Cahiers de la Fondation des Treilles, No 8, 115-131.

- Bürglin, T.R., Kagoshima, H., and Aspöck, G. (1997). GFP in Caenorhabditis elegans. Bioworld, 2, 14-15.

- Bürglin, T.R. (1997). Analysis of TALE superclass homeobox genes (MEIS, PBC, KNOX, Iroquois, TGIF) reveals a novel domain conserved between plants and animals. Nucl. Acids. Res., 25, 4173-4180. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R., Lobos, E., and Blaxter, M. (1998). Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system for parasitic nematodes. Int. J. Parasitol., 28 395-411. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R. (1998). The PBC domain contains a MEINOX domain: Coevolution of Hox and TALE homeobox genes? Dev. Gen. Evol., 208, 113-116. PubMed

- Cassata, G.*, Kagoshima, H.*, Prétôt, R. F., Aspöck, G., Niklaus, G., and Bürglin, T. R. (1998). Rapid expression screening of C. elegans homeobox genes using a 2-step PCR promoter-GFP reporter construction technique. Gene, 212, 127-135. * equal first authorship PubMed

- Lannoy, V.J., Bürglin, T.R., Rousseau, G.G., and Lemaigre, F.P. (1998). DNA-binding properties of Hepatocypte Nuclear Factors-6a and b, the prototypes of a new cut class of homeodomain proteins. J. Biol. Chem., 273, 13552-13562. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R. (1998). PPCMatrix, a PowerPC dotmatrix program to compare large genomic sequences against protein sequences. Bioinformatics, 14, 751-752. PubMed

- Kagoshima, H., Cassata, G., and Bürglin, T.R. (1999). A Caenorhabditis elegans homeobox gene expressed in the male tail,  a link between pattern formation and sexual dimorphism? Dev. Gen. Evol., 209, 59-62. PubMed

- Brunschwig, K., Wittmann, C., Schnabel, R., Bürglin, T.R., Tobler, H., and Müller, F. (1999). Anterior organization of the C. elegans embryo by the labial-like Hox gene ceh-13. Development, 126, 1537-1546. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R., and Aspöck, G. (1999). Exon duplication from a fork head to a homeodomain protein. Dev. Gen. Evol., 209, 629-633. PubMed

- Aspöck, G., Kagoshima, H., Niklaus, G., and Bürglin, T.R. (1999). Caenorhabditis elegans has scores of hedgehog-related genes: sequence and expression analysis. Genome Res., 9, 909-923. PubMed

- Cassata, G., Kagoshima, H., Andachi, Y., Kohara, Y., Dürrenberger, M.B., Hall, D.H. and Bürglin, T.R. (2000). The LIM homeobox gene ceh-14 confers thermosensory function to the AFD neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans. Neuron, 25,587-597. PubMed

- Kagoshima, H., Sommer, R., Reinhart, B.J., Cassata, G., Ruvkun, G., and Bürglin, T.R. (2000). Graded expression of ceh-14 reporters in the hypodermis  is induced by a gonadal signal. Dev. Gen. Evol., 210, 564-569. PubMed

- Cassata, G., Röhrig, S., Kuhn, F., Hauri, H.-P., Baumeister, R., and Bürglin, T.R. (2000). The Caenorhabditis elegans Ldb/NLI/Clim orthologue ldb-1 is required for neuronal function. Dev. Biol., 226, 45-56. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R. (2000) A two-channel four-dimensional image recording and viewing system with automatic drift correction. J. of Microscopy, 200, 75-78. PubMed

- Cassata. G., Kuhn, F., Witmer, A., Kirchhofer, R., and Bürglin, T.R. (2000). A steep termal gradient thermotaxis assay for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Genesis, 27, 141-144. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R., and Ruvkun, G. (2001). Regulation of ectodermal and excretory function by the C. elegans POU homeobox gene ceh-6. Development, 128, 779-790. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R. (2001). Homeobox. In Brenner, S. and Miller, J. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Genetics. 958-962..

- Bürglin, T.R. (2001). Homeotic mutations. In Brenner, S. and Miller, J. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Genetics. 962-963.

- Dozier, C., Kagoshima, H. Niklaus, G., Cassata, G. and Bürglin, T.R. (2001). The Caenorhabditis elegans Six/sine oculis class homeobox gene ceh-32 is required for head morphogenesis. Dev. Biol., 236, 289-303. PubMed

- Aspöck, G., and Bürglin, T.R. (2001). The Caenorhabditis elegans Distal-less ortholog ceh-43 is involved in development of the anterior hypodermis. Dev. Dyn., 222, 403-409. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R., and Cassata, G. (2002 ). Loss and gain of domains during evolution of cut class homeobox genes.  Int. J. Dev. Biol., 46, 115-123. PubMed

-  Becker, A., Bey, M., Bürglin, T.R., Saedler, H., Theissen, G. (2002). Ancestry and diversity of BEL1-like homeobox genes revealed by gymnosperm (Gnetum gnemon) homologs. Dev. Gen. Evol., 212, 452-457. PubMed

-  Björk, P., Baurén, G., Jin, S., Tong, Y.-G., Bürglin, T.R., Hellman, U., and Wieslander, L. (2002). A novel conserved RNA-binding domain protein, RBD-1, is essential for ribosome biogenesis. Mol. Biol. Cell, 13, 3683-3695. PubMed

--  Inoue, T., Sherwood, D.R., Aspöck, G., Butler, J.A., Gupta, B.P., Kirouac, M., Wang, M., Lee, P.-Y., Kramer, J.M., Hope, I., Bürglin, T.R., and Sternberg, P.W. (2002). Gene expression markers for Caenorhabditis  elegans vulval cells. Gene Expr. Patterns, 2, 235-241. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R. (2003). The homeobox genes of Encephalitozoon cuniculi (Microsporidia) reveal a putative mating type locus. Dev. Gen. Evol., 213, 50-52. PubMed

- Aspöck, G., Ruvkun, G., and Bürglin, T.R. (2003). The Caenorhabditis elegans ems class homeobox gene ceh-2 is required for M3 pharynx motoneuron function. Development, 130, 3369-3378. PubMed

- Yu, H., Prétôt, R.F., Bürglin, T.R., and Sternberg, P.W. (2003). Distinct roles of transcription factors EGL-46 and DAF-19 in specifying the functionality of a polycystin-expressing sensory neuron necessary for C. elegans male vulva location behavior. Development, 130, 5217-5227. PubMed

- Bürglin, T.R. ( ). Genome analysis and developmental biology: The model system C. elegans. In Neumann-Held, E.M. and Rehmann-Sutter, C. (eds.) Genes in Development: Re-reading the molecular paradigm. in press.

- Bürglin, T.R. ( ). Homeodomain Proteins. In Meyers, R.A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Weinheim, in press.

- Bürglin, T.R., and Kuwabara, P.E. (2005). The Hh and PTC signaling pathway in C. elegans. In Chalfie, M. and Girard, L.  (eds.) Wormbook, in press.

- Kagoshima, H., Cassata, G., Pujol, N., Niklaus, G., and Bürglin, T.R. ( ). The LIM homeobox gene ceh-14 regulates neurite outgrowth in select neurons. in revision.


Publications by lab members

- Wiederkehr, T., Prétôt, R.F., and Minvielle-Sebastia, L. (1998). Synthetic lethal interactions with conditional poly(A) polymerase alleles identify LCP5, a gene involved in 18S rRNA maturation. RNA, 4, 1357-1372.