Team Tetrahymena: Publications
Undergraduate authors are bolded
2023 Cole, E.S., Maier, W., Joachimiak, E., Jiang, Y. Y., Lee, C., Collet, E., … & Gaertig, J. The Tetrahymena bcd1 mutant implicates endosome trafficking in ciliate, cortical pattern formation. Molecular biology of the cell, 34(8), ar82.
2022 Cole, E., & Gaertig, J. Anterior‐posterior pattern formation in ciliates. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, e12890. doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12890
2018 Cole, E.S., Oleksandr Dmytrenko, Carl J. Chmelik, Mark Li, Trenton A. Christensen, Elaine P. Macon, Hannah J. Nilsson, Ruth J. Blower, Thomas G. Reuter, John P. Beckman, Bailey C. Remmers, Claire L. Smith, Eileen O’Toole, Courtney Ozzello, Garry Morgan, Thomas Giddings. Restoration of cellular integrity following “ballistic” pronuclear exchange during Tetrahymena conjugation. Developmental Biology 444 (2018) 33–40. (Cover)
2016 Cole, E.S., Cell-Cell Interactions Leading to Establishment of a Mating Junction in Tetrahymena and Paramecium, two “contact-mediated” mating systems. In: Biocommunication of Ciliates. ed. Witzany and Nowacki. Springer Press.
2016 S.L. McDaniel, E. Zweifel, P.K. W. Harris, Meng-Chao Yao, E.S. Cole, D. L. Chalker. DRH1, a p68-related RNA helicase gene, is required for chromosome breakage in Tetrahymena. Biology Open 2016 5: 1790-1798; doi: 10.1242/bio.021576
2015 Cole, E.S., T.H. Giddings Jr., C. Ozzello, M. Winey, E. O’ Toole, J. Orias, E. Hamilton, S. Guerrier, A. Ballard, & T. Aronstein. Membrane dynamics at the nuclear exchange junction during mating in the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila, early events 1-4 hrs. Eukaryotic Cell. Vol.14. No. 2. 116-127. (Cover).
2014 Cole, E.S., D.Cassidy-Hanley, J.F. Pinello, H. Zeng, M. Hseuh, D. Kolbin, T.H. Giddings Jr., M. Winey, and T.G. Clark. A male-specific gamete fusogen expressed in a seven-sex ciliate. Current Biology. Curr Biol. 2014 Sep22;24(18):2168-73. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.064. Epub 2014 Aug 21.
2012 Cole, E.S., and T. Sugai. Developmental progression of Tetrahymena through the cell cycle and conjugation. In: Methods in Cell Biology. ed. Kathleen Collins.
2012 Cole, E.S. Conventional Light Microscopy. In: Current Protocols in Essential Laboratory Techniques. 2nd Ed. T. Downey, ed. Wiley Press.
2009 Erica Zweifel, Joshua Smith, Daniel Romero, Mark Winey, Alexander Stemm-Wolff, Thomas H. Giddings Jr., Jerry Honts, Jeff Dahlseid, Brent Schneider & Eric S. Cole. Nested Genes CDA-12 & CDA-13 Encode Proteins Associated with Membrane Trafficking in Tetrahymena thermophila. (Cover-June ’09 Euk. Cell).
2008 Tomomi Nakagawa, Kenta Fujiu, Eric S. Cole, and Osamu Numata. Involvement of Tetrahymena Ca2+-binding Protein of 25 kDa, TCBP-25, in
Pronuclear Exchange during Fertilization. Cell Structure & Function. Vol. 33
No. 1 pp.151-162
2008 Cole, E.S., Anderson, P.C., Fulton, R.B., Majerus, M.E., Rooney, M.G., Savage, J.M., Chalker, D., Honts, J., Welch, M.E., Wentland, A.L., & Beussman, D.J. Cloning Fenestrin from the Tetrahymena Nuclear Exchange Junction, a Proteomics Approach. (J. Eukaryotic Microbiol). (Cover-May ’08 Issue). Volume 55 Issue 4, Pages 245 – 256
2008 Karen E. Kirk, Christina Christ, Jennifer M. McGuire, Arun G. Paul, Mithaq
Vahedi, Kathleen R. Stuart, and Eric S. Cole, Abnormal Micronuclear Telomeres Lead to an Unusual Cell Cycle Checkpoint and Defects in Tetrahymena Oral Morphogenesis Eukaryot. Cell 2008 7: 1712-1723. (Cover– Oct. ’08 issue).
2006 Cole, E.S. The Tetrahymena Conjugation Junction in Cell-Cell Junctions. Ed. Frantisek Baluska, Landes Biosciences.
2004 Smith, J.J. Yakisich, J.S., Kapler, G.M. Cole, E.S. and Romero, D.P. A b-Tubulin Mutation that Confers Sensitivity to Paclitaxel Disrupts Macronuclear Division in Tetrahymena. Eukaryotic Cell, 3(5):1217-1226.
2004 Smith, J.J., Cole, E.S., and Romero, D.P. The Transcriptional Control of RAD51 Expression in the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. Nucleic Acids Research 32(14): 4313-4321.
2002 Cole, E.S., Stuart, K.R., Marsh, T.C., Aufderheide, K., and Ringlien, W. Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy for Tetrahymena thermophila. in Methods in Cell Biology. Vol. 70. pp 337-359.
2001 Cole, E.S., Virtue, M.A. and Stuart, K.R. Development in Electrofused
Conjugants of Tetrahymena thermophila. J. Eukaryotic Microbiol. 48(3): 266-279.
2001 Marsh, T.C., Cole, E.S. & Romero, D.P. The Transition from Conjugal
Development to the First Vegetative Cell Division is Dependent on RAD51
Expression in the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. Genetics. 154: 1587-1596.
2000 Marsh, T.C., Cole, E.S., Stuart, K.R., Campbell, C., & Romero, D.P. RAD51 is
Required for Propagation of the Germinal Nucleus in Tetrahymena thermophila. Genetics 154: 1587-1596.
2000 Gaertig, J. and Cole, E.S. The Role of Cortical Geometry in the Nuclear Development ofTetrahymena thermophila. J.Eukaryotic Microbiol. 47(6): 590–596.
1999 Virtue, M.A. and Cole, E.S. A cytogenetic analysis of development in mechanically disrupted pairs of Tetrahymena thermophila. J. Eukaryotic Microbiol. 46(6):597-631.
1999 Stuart, K.R. and Cole, E.S. Nuclear and Cytoskeletal Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques. Chapter 12, in Methods in Cell Biology. Vol 62: 291-311.
1999 Cole, E.S. and Stuart, K.R. Nuclear and cortical histology for brightfield microscopy. Chapter 13, in Methods in Cell Biology. Vol. 62: 313-322.
1999 Janetopoulos, C., Cole, E.S., Smothers, J.F., Allis, C.D., and Aufderheide, K.J. The conjusome: A novel structure in Tetrahymena found only during sexual reorganization. J. Cell Science 112: 1003-1011.
1998 Melia, S.M., Cole, E.S., and Turkewitz, A.P. Efficient Isolation of Regulated Secretory Mutants in Tetrahymena. J.Cell Science 111:131-140.
1997 Cole, E.S., Cassidy-Hanley, D., Hemish, J., Tuan,J., and Bruns, P.J. A Mutational Analysis of Conjugation in Tetrahymena thermophila. (I). Prezygotic Development. Dev. Biol. 189:215-232.
1997 Cole, E.S. and Soelter, T. A Mutational Analysis of Conjugation in Tetrahymena thermophila (II). Postzygotic Development. Dev. Biol. 189:233-245.
1997 Cassidy-Hanley, D., Bowen, J., Lee, J.H., Cole, E.S., VerPlank, L.A., Gaertig, J., Gorovsky, M.A., and Bruns, P.J. Germline and Somatic Transformation of Mating Tetrahymena thermophila by Particle Bombardment. Genetics.146: 135-147.
1992 Cole, E.S. and Bruns, P.J. Uniparental cytogamy: A novel, efficient method for bringing mutations of Tetrahymena into homozygous expression with precocious sexual maturity. Genetics. 132:1017-1031.
1991 Cole, E.S. Conjugal blocks in Tetrahymena pattern mutants and their cytoplasmic rescue. I. broadened cortical domains (bcd). Dev. Biology. 148:403-419.
1991 Cole, E.S., & ., Frankel, J. Conjugal blocks in Tetrahymena pattern mutants and their cytoplasmic rescue. II. Janus A. Dev. Biology. 148:420-428.
1991 Cole, E.S. & Stuart, K.R. Biochemical and cytological evidence for an over- abundance of mucocysts in the bcd pattern mutant of T. thermophila. J. Protozool. 38(6): 536-547.
1988 Cole, E.S., Frankel, J. and Jenkins, L.M. Interactions between janus and bcd cortical pattern mutants in Tetrahymena thermophila. Roux’s Archive for Developmental Biology. 197:476-489.
1987 Cole, E.S., Frankel, J. and Jenkins, L.M. bcd: a mutation affecting the width of organelle domains in the cortex of Tetrahymena thermophila. Roux’s Archive for Developmental Biology. 196:421-433.
