Publications

Ow, M. C., Martinez, N. J., Olson, P. H., Silverman, S., Immaculada Barrasa, M., Conradt, B., Walhout, A. J. M., and Ambros, V. (2008). The FLYWCH transcription factors FLH-1, FLH-2 and FLH-3 repress embryonic expression of microRNA genes in C. elegans. Genes Dev In press.

Doonan, R., Hatzold, J., Raut, S., Conradt, B., and Alfonso, A. (2008). HlH-3 is a C. elegans Achaete/Scute protein required for differentiation of the hermaphrodite-specific motor neurons. Dev Dyn. In press.

Nilsson, L., Conradt, B., Ruaud, A.F., Chen, C.C., Hatzold, J., Bessereau, J.L., Grant, B.D., and Tuck, S. (2008). Caenorhabditis elegans num-1 negatively regulates endocytic recycling. Genetics 179:375-387.

Hatzold, J and Conradt, B. (2008). Control of apoptosis by asymmetric cell division. PLoS Biol. Apr 8;6(4):e84.

Schertel, C. and Conradt, B. (2007). C. elegans orthologues of components of the RB tumor suppressor complex have distinct pro-apoptotic functions. Development 134:3691-3701.

Conradt, B. (2006). Cell biology: Mitochondria shape up. Nature 443:646-647.

Grote, P. and Conradt, B. (2006). The PLZF-like protein TRA-4 co-operates with the Gli-like transcription factor TRA-1 to promote female development in C. elegans. Dev Cell 11:561-573.

Yu, X, Vought, VE, Conradt, B. and Maine, EM (2006). Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5B activity regulates larval growth rate and germline development in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genesis 44:412-418.

Rolland, S. and Conradt, B. (2006). The role of mitochondria in apoptosis induction in Caenorhabditis elegans: more than just innocent bystanders? Cell Death Differ 13:1281-1286.

Conradt, B. and Xue, D. Programmed cell death (October 6, 2005). WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.32.1, http://www.wormbook.org

Jagasia, R., Grote, P., Westermann, B. and Conradt, B. (2005) DRP-1-mediated mitochondrial fragmentation during EGL-1-induced cell death in C. elegans. Nature 433:754-760.

Schumacher, B., Schertel, C., Tuck, S., Mitani, S., Gartner, A. *, Conradt, B.* and Shaham, S*. (2005) C. elegans ced-13 can promote apoptosis and is induced in response to DNA damage. * Corresponding authors. Cell Death Differ 12:153-161.

Hoeppner, D. J., Spector, M.S., Ratcliff, T.M., Kinchen, J. M., Granat, S., Lin, S.-C., Bhusri, S. S., Conradt, B., Herman, M. A. and Hengartner, M. O. (2004) eor-1 and eor-2 are required for cell-specific apoptotic death in C. elegans. Dev Biol 274:125-138.

Jäger, S., Schwartz, H. T., Horvitz, H. R. and Conradt, B. (2004) The C. elegans F-box protein SEL-10 promotes female development and may act by targeting the proteins FEM-1 and FEM-3 for degradation by the proteasome. PNAS 101:12549-12554.

Thellmann, M., Hatzold, J. and Conradt, B. (2003) The snail-like CES-1 protein of C. elegans can block the expression of the BH3-only cell-death activator gene egl-1 by antagonizing the function of bHLH proteins. Development 130:4057-4071.

Conradt, B. (2002) With a little help from your friends: cells don’t die alone. Nat Cell Biol 4: E139-E143.

Conradt, B. (2001) Cell engulfment, no sooner ced than done. Dev. Cell 1:445-447.

Chen, F., Hersh, B.M., Conradt, B., Zhou, A., Riemer, D., Gruenbaum, Y. and Horvitz, H.R. (2000) CED-4 translocation to nuclear membranes during C. elegans programmed cell death. Science 287:1485-1489.

Conradt, B. and Horvitz, H.R. (1999) The TRA-1 sex determination protein of C. elegans regulates sexually dimorphic cell deaths by repressing the egl-1 cell death activator gene. Cell 98:317-327.

Conradt, B. and Horvitz, H.R. (1998) The C. elegans protein EGL-1 is required for programmed cell death and interacts with the Bcl-2-like protein CED-9. Cell 93:519-529.

Nicolson, T., Conradt, B. and Wickner, W. (1996) A truncated form of Pho80 cyclin of Saccharomyces cerevisiae induces expression of a small cytosolic factor which inhibits vacuole inheritance. J. Bact. 178:4047-4051.

Conradt, B., Haas, A. and Wickner, W. (1994) Determination of four chemically distinct sequential stages during vacuole inheritance in vitro. J. Cell. Biol. 126:99-110.

Haas, A., Conradt, B. and Wickner, W. (1994) G-protein ligands inhibit in vitro reactions of vacuole inheritance. J. Cell Biol. 126:87-97.

Conradt, B., Shaw, J., Vida, T., Emr, S. and Wickner, W. (1992) In vitro reactions of vacuole inheritance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J. Cell Biol. 119:1469-1479.