Published Works

2007 - Present

1. Jackson C.A., and Yu M.C. (2014) Detection of protein arginine methylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods Mol Biol 1163:229-247. [PubMed]
2. Milliman E.J., Hu Z., and Yu M.C. (2012) Genomic insights of protein arginine methyltransferase Hmt1 binding reveals novel regulatory functions. BMC Genomics 2012 Dec 26;13(1):728. [PubMed]
3. Jackson, C.A., Yadav, N., Min, S., Li J, Milliman, E.J., Qu, J., Chen, Y-C., and Yu, M.C. (2012) Proteomic Analysis of Interactors for Yeast Protein Arginine Methyltransferase Hmt1 Reveals Novel Substrate and Insights into Additional Biological Roles Proteomics 2012 Nov;12(22):3304-14 [PubMed]
4. Milliman, E.J., Yadav, N., Chen, Y-C., Muddukrishna, B., Karunanithi, S., and Yu, M.C. (2012) Recruitment of Rpd3 to the Telomere Depends on the Protein Arginine Methyltransferase Hmt1 PLoS One 2012;7(8):e44656. Epub 2012 Aug 31 [PubMed]
5. Yu, M.C. (2011) The Role of Protein Arginine Methylation in mRNP Dynamics. Mol. Biol. Int. 2011:163827. Epub 2011 Apr 7 [PubMed]
6. Chen, Y-C., Milliman, E.J., Goulet, I., Cote, J., Jackson, C.A., Vollbracht, J.A., and Yu, M.C. (2010) Protein arginine methylation facilitates co-transcriptional recruitment of pre-mRNA splicing factors. Mol. Cell. Biol. 21, 5245-56 [PubMed]
7. Hoke, S.M., Mutiu, I.A., Genereaux, J., Kvas, S., Buck, M., Yu, M.C., Gloor, G.B., and Brandl, C.J. (2010) Mutational analysis of the C-terminal FATC domain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Tra1 Curr. Genet. 56, 447-65 [PubMed]

2001 - 2006

1. Moore, M.J., Schwartzfarb, E.M., Silver, P.A., and Yu, M.C. (2006) Differential recruitment of the splicing machinery during transcription predicts genome-wide patterns of mRNA splicing Mol. Cell. 24, 903-15 [PubMed]
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2. Yu, M.C., Lamming, D.W., Eskin, J., Sinclair, D.A., and Silver, P.A. (2006) The role of arginine methylation in the formation of silent chromatin Genes & Dev. 20, 3249-54 [PubMed]
3. Tsankov, A., Brown, C.R., Yu, M.C., Win, M., Silver, P.A., and Casolari, J.M. (2006) Communication between levels of transcriptional control improves robustness and adaptivity Mol Syst Biol. 2, 65 [PubMed]
4. Thomas, S., Yu, M.C., Sturm, N.R., and Campbell, D.A. (2006) A non-universal transcription factor? the Leishmania tarentolae TATA box-binding protein LtTBP associates with a subset of promoters Int. J. Parasitol. 36, 1217-26 [PubMed]
5. Yu, M.C., Bachand, F., McBride, A.E., Komili, S., Casolari, J.M., and Silver, P.A. (2004) Arginine methyltransferase affects interaction and recruitment of mRNA processing and export factors Genes & Dev. 18, 2024-35 [PubMed]
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• News & Views in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 11, 914-915 (2004) Arginine methylation signals mRNA export by Kiven E Lukong & Stéphane Richard [PubMed]
6. Hieronymus, H., Yu, M.C., and Silver, P.A. (2004) Genome-wide mRNA surveillance is coupled to mRNA export Genes & Dev 18, 2652-62 [PubMed]
7. Yu, M.C., Orlando, T.C., Sturm, N.R., Zhou, L., Saito, R.M., Floeter-Winter, L.M., and Campbell, D.A. (2002) Two distinct functional spliced leader RNA gene arrays in Leishmania tarentolae are found in several lizard Leishmania species Int. J. Parasitol. 32, 1411-22 [PubMed]

1995 - 2000

1. Campbell, D.A., Sturm, N.R., and Yu, M.C. (2000) Transcription of the kinetoplastid spliced leader RNA gene Parasitol. Today 16, 78-82 [PubMed]
2. Yu, M.C., Roberts, T.G., Sturm, N.R., and Campbell, D.A. (2000) In vitro transcription of mutated Leishmania tarentolae spliced leader RNA genes approximates in vivo patterns Mol. Bioch. Parasitol. 111, 391-9 [PubMed]
3. Sturm, N.R., Yu, M.C., and Campbell, D.A. (1999) Transcription termination and 3'-end processing of the spliced leader RNA in kinetoplastids Mol. Cell. Biol. 19,1595-1604 [PubMed]
4. Yu, M.C., Sturm, N.R., Saito, R.M., Roberts, T.G., and Campbell, D.A. (1998) Single nucleotide resolution of promoter activity and protein binding for the Leishmania tarentolae spliced leader RNA gene Mol. Bioch. Parasitol. 94, 265-81 [PubMed]
5. Roberts, T.G., Sturm, N.R., Yee, B., Yu, M.C., Hartshorne, T., Agabian, N., and Campbell, D.A. (1998) Three small nucleolar RNAs identified from the spliced leader-associated RNA locus in kinetoplastid protozoa Mol. Cell. Biol. 18, 4409-17 [PubMed]
6. Cheng, Q., Yu, M.C., Reeves, A.R., and Salyers, A.A. (1995) Identification and characterization of a Bacteroides gene, csuF, which encodes an outer membrane that is essential for growth on chondroitin sulfate J. Bacterol. 177, 3721-7 [PubMed]