The McCall Lab

Publications

Chronological list of publications:

  1. Etchegaray, J.I.,* Timmons, A.,* Klein, A., Pritchett, T.L., Welch, E., Li, C., and McCall, K. Draper activates the JNK pathway to control synchronous engulfment of dying germline cells by epithelial cells. Submitted. (*co-first authors)

  2. Pritchett, T.L. and McCall, K. (2012). Role of the insulin/Tor signaling network in starvation-induced programmed cell death in Drosophila oogenesis. Cell Death and Differentiation, in press.

  3. Wonglapsuwan, M., Chotigeat, W., Timmons, A., and McCall, K. (2011). RpL10A regulates oogenesis progression in the banana prawn Fenneropenaeus merguiensis and Drosophila melanogaster. General and Comparative Endocrinology 173: 356-63.

  4. Tanner, E. A., and McCall, K. (2011). Mitochondrial regulation of cell death in the Drosophila ovary. Autophagy 7: 793-4.

  5. Tanner, E. A., Blute, T. A., Brachmann, C. B., and McCall, K. (2011). Bcl-2 proteins and autophagy regulate mitochondrial dynamics during programmed cell death in the Drosophila ovary. Development 138: 327-338.

  6. McCall, K. (2010). Genetic control of necrosis - another type of programmed cell death. Current Opinion Cell Biology 22: 882-8 .

  7. Bakhrat, A., Pritchett, T., Peretz, G., McCall, K., and Abdu, U. (2010). Drosophila Chk2 and p53 proteins induce stage-specific cell death independently during oogenesis. Apoptosis 15: 1425-1434.

  8. McCall, K., Peterson, J. S., and Pritchett, T. L. (2009). Detection of cell death in Drosophila. Methods in Molecular Biology 559: 343-56.

  9. Bass, B. P., Tanner, E. A., Martín, D. M. S., Blute, T., Kinser, R. D., Dolph, P. J., and McCall, K. (2009). Cell-autonomous requirement for DNaseII in nonapoptotic cell death. Cell Death and Differentiation 16: 1362-71.

  10. Pritchett, T. L., Tanner, E. A., and McCall, K. (2009). Cracking open cell death in the Drosophila ovary. Apoptosis 14: 969-79.

  11. Hou, Y.-C. C., Chittaranjan, S., Barbosa, S. G., McCall, K., and Gorski, S. M. (2008). Effector caspase Dcp-1 and IAP protein Bruce regulate starvation-induced autophagy during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis. Journal of Cell Biology 182: 1127-39.

  12. Peterson, J. S., Bass, B. P., Jue, D., Rodriguez, A., Abrams, J. M., and McCall, K. (2007). Noncanonical cell death pathways act during Drosophila oogenesis. Genesis 45: 396-404.

  13. Baum, J. S., Arama, E., Steller, H., and McCall, K. (2007). The Drosophila caspases Strica and Dronc function redundantly in programmed cell death during oogenesis. Cell Death and Differentiation 14: 1508-17.

  14. Bass, B. P., Cullen, K., and McCall, K. (2007). The axon guidance gene lola is required for programmed cell death in the Drosophila ovary. Developmental Biology 304: 771-85.

  15. Baum, J. S., St George, J. P., and McCall, K. (2005). Programmed cell death in the germline. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 16: 245-59.

  16. Cullen, K., and McCall, K. (2004). Role of programmed cell death in patterning the Drosophila antennal arista. Developmental Biology 275: 82-92.

  17. McCall, K. (2004). Eggs over easy: cell death in the Drosophila ovary. Developmental Biology 274: 3-14.

  18. McCall, K. and Peterson, J.S. (2004). Detection of apoptosis in Drosophila. Methods in Molecular Biology. Human Press Totowa, NJ., pp 191-205.

  19. McCall, K., Baum, J. S., Cullen, K., and Peterson, J. S. (2004). Visualizing apoptosis in Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. Human Press Totowa, NJ. pp 431-442.

  20. Laundrie, B., Peterson, J. S., Baum, J. S., Chang, J. C., Fileppo, D., Thompson, S. R., and McCall, K. (2003). Germline cell death is inhibited by P-element insertions disrupting the dcp-1/pita nested gene pair in Drosophila. Genetics 165:1881-1888.

  21. Peterson, J. S., Barkett, M., and McCall, K. (2003). Stage-specific regulation of caspase activity in Drosophila oogenesis. Developmental Biology 260: 113-123.

  22. Goyal, L., McCall, K., Agapite, J., Hartwieg, E., and Steller, H. (2000). Induction of apoptosis by Drosophila reaper, hid and grim through inhibition of IAP function. European Molecular Biology Journal 19: 589-597.

  23. Bergmann, A., Agapite, J., McCall, K., and Steller, H. (1998). The Drosophila gene hid is a direct molecular target of Ras-dependent survival signaling. Cell 95:331-341.

  24. McCall, K., and Steller, H. (1998). Requirement for DCP-1 caspase during Drosophila oogenesis. Science 279:230-234.

  25. McCall, K., and Steller, H. (1997). Facing death in the fly: genetic analysis of apoptosis in Drosophila. Trends in Genetics 13:222-226.

  26. Song, Z., McCall, K., and Steller, H. (1997). DCP-1, a Drosophila cell death protease essential for development. Science 275: 536-540.

  27. McCall, K., and Bender, W. (1996). Probes of chromatin accessibility in the Drosophila bithorax complex respond differently to Polycomb-mediated repression. European Molecular Biology Journal 15:569-80.

  28. McCall, K., O'Connor, M. B., and Bender, W. (1994). Enhancer traps in the Drosophila bithorax complex mark parasegmental domains. Genetics 138:387-99.

  29. Perrimon, N., Noll, E., McCall, K., and Brand, A. (1991). Generating lineage-specific markers to study Drosophila development. Developmental Genetics 12:238-52.

  30. Bier, E., Vaessin, H., Shepherd, S., Lee, K., McCall, K., Barbel, S., Ackerman, L., Carretto, R., Uemura, T., and Grell, E. (1989). Searching for pattern and mutation in the Drosophila genome with a P-lacZ vector. Genes & Development 3:1273-87.