Dr. David Gross' Publications

1. Gross, D.S. and Simpkins, H. 1981. Evidence for two-site binding in the terbium(III)-nucleic acid interaction. J. Biol. Chem. 256: 9593-9598.

2. Gross, D.S., Rice, S.W. and Simpkins, H. 1981. Influence of inorganic cations and histone proteins on the terbium(III)-nucleic acid interaction. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 656: 167-176.

3. Simpkins, H., Thompson, L.M., Waldeck, N., Gross, D.S. and Mooney, D. 1981. Conformational changes in rat liver chromatin after liver regeneration. Biochem. J. 193: 671-678.

4. Gross, D.S., Simpkins, H., Bubienko, E. and Borer, P.N. 1982. Proton magnetic resonance analysis of terbium ion-nucleic acid complexes: Further evidence for two-site binding to polynucleotides. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 219: 401-410.

5. Ball, D.J., Gross, D.S. and Garrard, W.T. 1983. 5-methylcytosine is localized in nucleosomes that contain histone H1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80: 5490-5494.

6. Gross, D.S., Huang, S.-Y. and Garrard, W.T. 1985. Chromatin structure of the potential Z-forming sequence (dT-dG)_n(dC-dA)_n: Evidence for an "alternating- B" conformation. J. Mol. Biol. 183: 251-265.

7. Gross, D.S. and Garrard, W.T. 1986. The ubiquitous potential Z-forming sequence of eukaryotes, (dT-dG)_n (dC-dA)_n, is not detectable in the genomes of eubacteria, archaebacteria, or mitochondria. Mol. Cell Biol. 6: 3010-3013.

8. Gross, D.S., Szent-Gyorgyi, C. and Garrard, W.T. 1986. Yeast as a model system to dissect the relationship between chromatin structure and gene expression. In Yeast Cell Biology, ed. J.B. Hicks (Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York), pp. 345-366.

9. Gross, D.S. and Garrard, W.T. 1987. Poising chromatin for transcription. Trends Biochem. Sci. 12: 293-297.

10. Garrard, W.T., Cockerill, P.N., Hunting, D.W., McDaniel-Gerwig, D., Szent- Gyorgyi, C., Xu, M., and Gross, D.S. 1988. Active and inactive chromatin. In Chromosome and Chromatin Structure, ed. K.W. Adolph (CRC Press, Inc.), Volume I, pp. 133-178.

11. Gross, D.S. and Garrard, W.T. 1988. Nuclease hypersensitive sites in chromatin. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 57: 159-197.

12. Gross, D.S., Hernandez, E.M., Collins, K.W., and Garrard, W.T. 1988. Vacuum blotting: A simple method for transferring DNA from sequencing gels to nylon membranes. Gene 74: 347-356.

13. McDaniel, D., Caplan, A.J., Lee, M.-S., Adams, C.C., Fishel, B.R., Gross, D.S., and Garrard, W.T. 1989. Basal level expression of the yeast HSP82 gene requires a heat shock regulatory element. Mol. Cell. Biol. 9: 4789-4798.

14. Gross, D.S., English, K.E., Collins, K.W., and Lee, S. 1990. Genomic footprinting of the yeast HSP82 promoter reveals marked distortion of the DNA helix and constitutive occupancy of heat shock and TATA elements. J. Mol. Biol. 216: 611-631.

15. Gross, D.S., Adams, C.C., English, K.E., Collins, K.W., and Lee, S. 1990. Promoter function and in situ protein/DNA interactions upstream of the yeast HSP90 heat shock genes. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek J. Microbiol. 58: 175-186.

16. Adams, C.C. and Gross, D.S. 1991. The yeast heat shock response is induced by conversion of cells to spheroplasts and by potent transcriptional inhibitors. J. Bacteriology 173: 7429-7435.

17. Lee, S. and Gross, D.S. 1993. Conditional silencing: The HMRE mating-type silencer exerts a rapidly reversible position effect on the yeast HSP82 heat shock gene. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13: 727-738.

18. Gross, D.S., Adams, C.C., Lee, S., and Stentz, B. 1993. A critical role for heat shock transcription factor in establishing a nucleosome-free region over the TATA-initiation site of the yeast HSP82 heat shock gene. EMBO J. 13: 3931- 3945.

19. Erkine, A.M., Adams, C.C., Gao, M., and Gross, D.S. 1995. Multiple protein- DNA interactions over the yeast HSC82 heat shock promoter. Nucleic Acids Res. 23: 1822-1829.

20. Erkine, A.M., Szent-Gyorgyi, C., Simmons, S.F., and Gross, D.S. 1995. The upstream sequences of the HSP82 and HSC82 genes of S. cerevisiae: Regulatory elements and nucleosome positioning motifs. Yeast 11: 573-580.

21. Gross, D.S. 1995. Heat shock factor potentiates the promoter chromatin structure of the yeast HSP90 genes. In Advances in Molecular and Cellular Biology: The Nucleosome, ed. A.P. Wolffe (Jai Press Inc.), pp. 151-182.

22. Erkine, A.M., Adams, C.C., Diken, T., and Gross, D.S. 1996. Heat shock factor gains access to the yeast HSC82 promoter independently of other sequence- specific factors and antagonizes nucleosomal repression of basal and induced transcription. Mol. Cell. Biol. 16: 7004-7017.

23. Lee, S. and Gross, D.S. 1996. Role of chromatin structure in HMRE-mediated transcriptional repression of the HSP82 heat shock gene. J. Microbiol. 34: 40- 48.

24. Duttweiler, H.M. and Gross, D.S. 1997. A single tube RNA prep for northern analysis from yeast and other cell types. Trends Genetics 13: 82.

25. Duttweiler, H.M. and Gross, D.S. 1998. Bacterial growth medium that significantly increases the yield of recombinant plasmid. BioTechniques 24: 438- 444.

26. Erkine, A.M., Magrogan, S.F., Sekinger, E. A. and Gross, D.S. 1999. Cooperative binding of heat shock factor to the yeast HSP82 promoter in vivo and in vitro. Mol. Cell. Biol. 19: 1627-1639.

27. Sekinger, E. A. and Gross, D.S. 1999. SIR repression of a yeast heat shock gene: UAS and TATA footprints persist within heterochromatin. EMBO J. 18: 7041-7055.

28. Raitt, D.C., Erkine, A.M., Johnson, A.L, Makino, K., Morgan, B., Gross, D.S., and Johnston, L.H. 2000. The Skn7p response regulator of Saccharomyces cerevisiae interacts with Hsf1p in vivo and is required for the induction of heat shock genes in response to oxidative stress. Mol. Biol. Cell 11: 2335-2347.

29. Venturi, C. B., Erkine, A.M., and Gross, D.S. 2000. Cell cycle-dependent binding of yeast heat shock factor to nucleosomes. Mol. Cell. Biol. 20: 6435-6448.

30. Singh, H., Sekinger, E.A., and Gross, D.S. 2000. Chromatin and Cancer: Causes and Consequences. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppl. 35: 61-68.

31. Sekinger, E. A., and Gross, D. S. 2001. Silenced chromatin is permissive to activator binding and PIC recruitment. Cell 105: 403-414. [Featured in News & Comment, Trends in Genetics 17: 381 (2001).]

32. Gross, D.S. 2001. Sir proteins as transcriptional silencers. Trends Biochem. Sci. 26: 685-686.

33. Erkine, A.M. and Gross, D.S. 2001. Chromatin remodeling triggered by native and synthetic activation domains. Submitted.

34. Venturi, C.B. and Gross, D.S. Yeast heat shock factor binds nucleosomes in a Gcn5-dependent, but Swi-Snf independent, fashion. In preparation.

35. Singh, H., Erkine, A.M., Alba, G., Gross, R.R., and Gross, D.S. Involvement of the Srb/Mediator and the 20 S catalytic subunit of the proteasome in regulating the heat shock response in S. cerevisiae. In preparation.

36. Erkine, A.M. and Gross, D.S. A rotationally phased dinucleosome reconstituted over the yeast HSP82 promoter. In preparation.