Publications

Research Papers

Leon F, Espinoza-Esparza JM, Deng V, Coyle MC, Espinoza S, Booth DS. (2024) Cell differentiation controls iron assimilation in a choanoflagellate. bioRxiv [Preprint] 2024.05.25.595918 doi: 10.1101/2024.05.25.595918 PMID: 39345370

Gahan JM, Helfrich LW, Wetzel LA, Bhanu NV, Yuan ZF, Garcia BA, Klose R, Booth DS. (2024) Chromatin profiling identifies putative dual roles for H3K27me3 in regulating transposons and cell type-specific genes in choanoflagellates. bioRxiv [Preprint] 2024.05.28.596151 doi: 10.1101/2024.05.28.596151 PMID: 38854040

Perotti O, Esparza GV, Booth DS. (2024) A red algal polysaccharide influences the multicellular development of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. bioRxiv [Preprint] 2024.05.14.594265. doi: 10.1101/2024.05.14.594265 PMID: 38798503

Coyle MC, Tajima AM, Leon F, Choksi SP, Yang A, Espinoza S, Hughes TR, Reiter JF, Booth DS, King N. (2023) An RFX transcription factor regulates ciliogenesis in the closest living relatives of animals. Current Biology 33:3747-3758.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.022 PMID: 37552984

Booth DS and King N. (2020) Genome editing enables reverse genetics of multicellular development in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. eLife 9:e56193. doi: 10.7554/eLife.56193 PMID: 32496191

Fakorová D, Nisbet ER, Fernández Robledo JA,..., Booth DS,..., King N,…, Lukes J. (2020) Genetic tool development in marine protists: Emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology. Nature Methods 17:481-94. doi: 10.1038/s41592-020-0796-x PMID: 32251396

Wetzel L, Levin T, Hulett RE, Chan D, King G, Aldayafleh R, Booth DS, Sigg MA, King N. (2018) Predicted glycosyltransferases promote development and prevent promiscuous cell clumping in the choanoflagellate S. rosetta. eLife 7:e41482. doi: 10.7554/eLife.41482 PMID: 30556809

Booth DS, Szmidt-Middleton HL, and King N. (2018) Choanoflagellate transfection illuminates their cell biology and the ancestry of animal septins. Mol Biol of the Cell 29: 3026-38. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E18-08-0514 PMID: 30281390

Booth DS, Cheng Y, Frankel AD (2014) The export receptor Crm1 forms a dimer to promote nuclear export of HIV RNA. eLife 3:e0412. doi: 10.7554/eLife.04121 PMID: 25486595

D'Orso I, Jang GM, Pastuszak AW, Faust TB, Quezada E, Booth DS, Frankel AD. (2012) Transition step during assembly of HIV Tat:P-TEFb transcription complexes and transfer to TAR RNA. Mol Cell Biol 32:4780-93. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00206-12 PMID: 23007159

Wu S, Avila-Sakar A, Kim J, Booth DS, Greenberg CH, Rossi A, Liao M, Li X, Alian A, Griner SL, Juge N, Yu Y, Mergel CM, Chaparro-Riggers J, Strop P, Tampé R, Edwards RH, Stroud RM, Craik CS, Cheng Y. (2012) Fabs enable single particle cryoEM studies of small proteins. Structure 20:582-92. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2012.02.017 PMID: 22483106

Daugherty MD, Booth DS, Jayaraman B, Cheng Y, Frankel AD. (2010) HIV Rev response element (RRE) directs assembly of the Rev homo-oligomer into discrete asymmetric complexes. Proc Natl Acad Sci 107:12481-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1007022107 PMID: 20616058

Bradshaw N, Neher SB, Booth DS, Walter P. (2009) Signal sequences activate the catalytic switch of SRP RNA. Science 323:127- 30. doi: 10.1126/science.1165971 PMID: 19119234

Carter-O'Connell I, Booth D, Eason B, Grover N. (2008) Thermodynamic examination of trinucleotide bulged RNA in the context of HIV-1 TAR RNA. RNA 14:2550-6. doi: 10.1261/rna.1004108 PMID: 18952821

Reviews

Brunet T and Booth DS. (2023) Cell polarity in the protist-to-animal transition. Curr Top in Dev Biol 154: 1-36. doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2023.03.001

Booth DS and King N. (2022) The history of Salpingoeca rosetta as a model for reconstructing animal origins. Curr Top in Dev Biol 147: 73-91. doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2022.01.001

Booth DS and King N. (2016) Evolution: Gene regulation in transition. Nature 534: 482-3. doi: 10.1038/nature18447 PMID: 27309804

Fernandes JD, Booth DS, Frankel AD (2016) A structurally plastic ribonuceloprotein complex mediates post-transcriptional gene regulation in HIV-1. Wiley Interdis. Rev RNA 7:470-86. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1342 PMID: 26929078

Booth DS, Avila-Sakar A, Cheng Y. (2011) Visualizing proteins and macromolecular complexes by negative stain EM: from grid preparation to image acquisition. J Vis Exp e3227. PMID: 22215030