A. F. Stewart

Publication List Details

Period

1989 - 9999

Number

64

Co-Authors

The European dimension for the mouse genome mutagenesis program (2008)

Auwerx, J., Avner, P., Baldock, R., Ballabio, A., Balling, R., Barbacid, M., ...

The European Mouse Mutagenesis Consortium is the European initiative contributing to the international effort on functional annotation of the mouse genome. Its objectives are to establish and...

Stepwise manipulation of DNA specificity in Flp recombinase: Progressively adapting Flp to individual and combinatorial mutations in its target site (2003)

Voziyanov, Y., Koneiczka, J. H., Stewart, A. F., Jayaram, M.

The Flp protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the site-specific tyrosine family recombinases that are used widely in genomic engineering. As a first step towards mediating directed DNA...

A dual reporter screening system identifies the amino acid at position 82 in Flp site-specific recombinase as a determinant for target specificity (2002)

Voziyanov, Y., Stewart, A. F., Jayaram, M.

We have developed a dual reporter screen in Escherichia coli for identifying variants of the Flp site-specific recombinase that have acquired reactivity at an altered target site (mFRT). In one...

A predictable ligand regulated expression strategy for stably integrated transgenes in mammalian cells in culture (2002)

Anastassiadis, K., Kim, J., Daigle, N., Prengel, R., Schöler, H. R., Stewart, A. F.

Several strategies for regulated stable transgene expression in mammalian cells have been described. These strategies have different strengths and weaknesses, however they all share a common problem,...

Deciphering protein complexes and protein interaction networks by tandem affinity purification and mass spectrometry - Analytical perspective (2002)

Shevchenko, A., Schaft, D., Roguev, A., Stewart, A. F.

We employed a combination of tandem affinity purification and mass spectrometry for deciphering protein complexes and the protein interaction network in budding yeast. 53 genes were epitope-tagged,...

Chromatin Structures of the Rat Tyrosine Aminotransferase Gene Relate to the Function of Its cis-Acting Elements (1990)

Nitsch, Doris, Stewart, A. F., Boshart, Michael, Mestril, Ruben, Weih, Falk, Schütz, Günther

The relationship between DNase I-hypersensitive sites (HSs) and transcriptional enhancers of the rat tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT) gene was examined by comparing HSs in and around the TAT gene with...

Ligand-regulated site-specific recombination.

Logie, C, Stewart, A F

Site-specific recombination offers a potential way to alter a living genome by design in a precise and stable manner. This potential requires strategies which can be used to regulate the...

At least three promoters direct expression of the mouse glucocorticoid receptor gene.

Strähle, U, Schmidt, A, Kelsey, G, Stewart, A F, Cole, T J, Schmid, W, ...

We have characterized the gene for the mouse glucocorticoid receptor. The gene spans approximately 110 kilobases, and glucocorticoid receptor transcripts are assembled from nine exons. Expression of...

A simple assay to determine the functionality of Cre or FLP recombination targets in genomic manipulation constructs.

Buchholz, F, Angrand, P O, Stewart, A F

We report the construction of two Escherichia coli strains (294-Cre and 294-FLP) which express either Cre- or FLP-recombinase. Plasmids containing authentic recognition targets for either recombinase...

Different thermostabilities of FLP and Cre recombinases: implications for applied site-specific recombination.

Buchholz, F, Ringrose, L, Angrand, P O, Rossi, F, Stewart, A F

Genomic manipulations using site-specific recombinases rely on their applied characteristics in living systems. To understand their applied properties so that they can be optimally deployed, we...

Temporally and spatially regulated somatic mutagenesis in mice.

Schwenk, F, Kuhn, R, Angrand, P O, Rajewsky, K, Stewart, A F

In mice transgenesis through oocyte injection or DNA recombination in embryonal stem (ES) cells allows mutations to be introduced into the germline. However, the earliest phenotype of the introduced...

Inducible expression based on regulated recombination: a single vector strategy for stable expression in cultured cells.

Angrand, P O, Woodroofe, C P, Buchholz, F, Stewart, A F

When fused to the ligand binding domain (LBD) of steroid hormone nuclear receptors, site-specific recombinases (SSRs) acquire a ligand-dependent activity. Here, we describe the use of SSR-LBD fusion...

Rapid modification of bacterial artificial chromosomes by ET-recombination.

Muyrers, J P, Zhang, Y, Testa, G, Stewart, A F

We present a method to modify bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) resident in their host strain. The method is based on homologous recombination by ET-cloning. We have successfully modified BACs...

The chicken HPRT gene: a counter selectable marker for the DT40 cell line.

Fukagawa, T, Hayward, N, Yang, J, Azzalin, C, Griffin, D, Stewart, A F, ...

We describe the cloning, characterisation and chromosomal mapping of the chicken hprt gene together with the construction of two counter selectable hprt-/- DT40 derived cell lines. One of these cell...

Simplified generation of targeting constructs using ET recombination.

Angrand, P O, Daigle, N, Schöler, H R, Stewart, A F

ET recombination is a way to engineer DNA in Escherichia coli using homologous recombination. Here we develop the potential of ET recombination in two ways relevant to complex engineering exercises...

Identification of a cDNA encoding a parathyroid hormone-like peptide from a human tumor associated with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy.

Mangin, M, Webb, A C, Dreyer, B E, Posillico, J T, Ikeda, K, Weir, E C, ...

Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy is a common paraneoplastic syndrome that appears to be mediated in many instances by a parathyroid hormone-like peptide. Poly(A)+ RNA from a human renal carcinoma...

Expression of parathyroid hormone-related protein in the rat glomerulus and tubule during recovery from renal ischemia.

Soifer, N E, Van Why, S K, Ganz, M B, Kashgarian, M, Siegel, N J, Stewart, A F

Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is widely expressed in normal adult and fetal tissues, where it acts in an autocrine/paracrine fashion, stimulates growth and differentiation, and shares...

Native and a synthetic analogue of the malignancy-associated parathyroid hormone-like protein have in vitro transforming growth factor-like properties.

Insogna, K L, Stewart, A F, Morris, C A, Hough, L M, Milstone, L M, Centrella, M

A human parathyroid-like protein (PLP) has recently been isolated and cloned from human tumors associated with the paraneoplastic syndrome, humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. PLP shares...

The chromo shadow domain, a second chromo domain in heterochromatin-binding protein 1, HP1.

Aasland, R, Stewart, A F

The chromo domain was originally identified as a protein sequence motif common to the Drosophila chromatin proteins, Polycomb (Pc) and heterochromatin protein 1 [HP1; Paro and Hogness (1991) Proc....

Nucleotide sequences of bovine alpha S1- and kappa-casein cDNAs.

Stewart, A F, Willis, I M, Mackinlay, A G

The nucleotide sequences corresponding to bovine alpha S1- and kappa-casein mRNAs are presented. An unusual alpha S1-casein cDNA has been characterised whose 5' end commences upstream from its...

Synthetic human parathyroid hormone-like protein stimulates bone resorption and causes hypercalcemia in rats.

Stewart, A F, Mangin, M, Wu, T, Goumas, D, Insogna, K L, Burtis, W J, ...

Parathyroid hormone-like adenylate cyclase-stimulating proteins (hACSPs) have been implicated as one of the calcemic, bone-resorbing agents in patients with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. We...

Evolution of the casein multigene family: conserved sequences in the 5' flanking and exon regions.

Yu-Lee, L Y, Richter-Mann, L, Couch, C H, Stewart, A F, Mackinlay, A G, Rosen, J M

The rat alpha- and bovine alpha s1-casein genes have been isolated and their 5' sequences determined. The rat alpha-, beta-, gamma- and bovine alpha s1-casein genes contain similar 5' exon...

Chromatin structures of the rat tyrosine aminotransferase gene relate to the function of its cis-acting elements.

Nitsch, D, Stewart, A F, Boshart, M, Mestril, R, Weih, F, Schütz, G

The relationship between DNase I-hypersensitive sites (HSs) and transcriptional enhancers of the rat tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT) gene was examined by comparing HSs in and around the TAT gene with...

Factors associated with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy stimulate adenylate cyclase in osteoblastic cells.

Rodan, S B, Insogna, K L, Vignery, A M, Stewart, A F, Broadus, A E, D'Souza, S M, ...

The culture media of three cell lines, a human prostate carcinoma (PC3), a rat Leydig cell tumor (Rice-500), and a rat carcinosarcoma (WRC-256), that were derived from tumors associated with humoral...

Identification of adenylate cyclase-stimulating activity and cytochemical glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-stimulating activity in extracts of tumors from patients with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy.

Stewart, A F, Insogna, K L, Goltzman, D, Broadus, A E

Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM) most commonly results from secretion by tumors of an unidentified circulating calcemic factor that appears in clinical studies to stimulate both a...

Identification of transcripts encoding a parathyroid hormone-like peptide in messenger RNAs from a variety of human and animal tumors associated with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy.

Ikeda, K, Mangin, M, Dreyer, B E, Webb, A C, Posillico, J T, Stewart, A F, ...

The syndrome of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM) appears to be mediated in many instances by a parathyroid hormone-like peptide, which has recently been purified, sequenced, and cloned....

Glucocorticoids are required for establishment and maintenance of an alteration in chromatin structure: induction leads to a reversible disruption of nucleosomes over an enhancer.

Reik, A, Schütz, G, Stewart, A F

Induction of the rat tyrosine aminotransferase gene (TAT) with glucocorticoid hormones leads to formation of a nuclease hypersensitive site at the hormone-dependent enhancer located 2.5 kb upstream...

Different positioning of the ligand-binding domain helix 12 and the F domain of the estrogen receptor accounts for functional differences between agonists and antagonists.

Nichols, M, Rientjes, J M, Stewart, A F

The estrogen receptor is capable of binding a diverse set of ligands that are broadly categorized as agonists or antagonists, depending on their abilities to induce or interfere with transcriptional...

Quantitative comparison of DNA looping in vitro and in vivo: chromatin increases effective DNA flexibility at short distances.

Ringrose, L, Chabanis, S, Angrand, P O, Woodroofe, C, Stewart, A F

The probability that two sites on a linear DNA molecule will contact each other by looping depends on DNA flexibility. Although the flexibility of naked DNA in vitro is well characterized, looping in...

Ligand-regulated site-specific recombination.

Logie, C, Stewart, A F

Site-specific recombination offers a potential way to alter a living genome by design in a precise and stable manner. This potential requires strategies which can be used to regulate the...

At least three promoters direct expression of the mouse glucocorticoid receptor gene.

Strähle, U, Schmidt, A, Kelsey, G, Stewart, A F, Cole, T J, Schmid, W, ...

We have characterized the gene for the mouse glucocorticoid receptor. The gene spans approximately 110 kilobases, and glucocorticoid receptor transcripts are assembled from nine exons. Expression of...

A simple assay to determine the functionality of Cre or FLP recombination targets in genomic manipulation constructs.

Buchholz, F, Angrand, P O, Stewart, A F

We report the construction of two Escherichia coli strains (294-Cre and 294-FLP) which express either Cre- or FLP-recombinase. Plasmids containing authentic recognition targets for either recombinase...

Different thermostabilities of FLP and Cre recombinases: implications for applied site-specific recombination.

Buchholz, F, Ringrose, L, Angrand, P O, Rossi, F, Stewart, A F

Genomic manipulations using site-specific recombinases rely on their applied characteristics in living systems. To understand their applied properties so that they can be optimally deployed, we...

Temporally and spatially regulated somatic mutagenesis in mice.

Schwenk, F, Kuhn, R, Angrand, P O, Rajewsky, K, Stewart, A F

In mice transgenesis through oocyte injection or DNA recombination in embryonal stem (ES) cells allows mutations to be introduced into the germline. However, the earliest phenotype of the introduced...

Inducible expression based on regulated recombination: a single vector strategy for stable expression in cultured cells.

Angrand, P O, Woodroofe, C P, Buchholz, F, Stewart, A F

When fused to the ligand binding domain (LBD) of steroid hormone nuclear receptors, site-specific recombinases (SSRs) acquire a ligand-dependent activity. Here, we describe the use of SSR-LBD fusion...

Rapid modification of bacterial artificial chromosomes by ET-recombination.

Muyrers, J P, Zhang, Y, Testa, G, Stewart, A F

We present a method to modify bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) resident in their host strain. The method is based on homologous recombination by ET-cloning. We have successfully modified BACs...

The chicken HPRT gene: a counter selectable marker for the DT40 cell line.

Fukagawa, T, Hayward, N, Yang, J, Azzalin, C, Griffin, D, Stewart, A F, ...

We describe the cloning, characterisation and chromosomal mapping of the chicken hprt gene together with the construction of two counter selectable hprt-/- DT40 derived cell lines. One of these cell...

Simplified generation of targeting constructs using ET recombination.

Angrand, P O, Daigle, N, Schöler, H R, Stewart, A F

ET recombination is a way to engineer DNA in Escherichia coli using homologous recombination. Here we develop the potential of ET recombination in two ways relevant to complex engineering exercises...

Identification of a cDNA encoding a parathyroid hormone-like peptide from a human tumor associated with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy.

Mangin, M, Webb, A C, Dreyer, B E, Posillico, J T, Ikeda, K, Weir, E C, ...

Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy is a common paraneoplastic syndrome that appears to be mediated in many instances by a parathyroid hormone-like peptide. Poly(A)+ RNA from a human renal carcinoma...

Expression of parathyroid hormone-related protein in the rat glomerulus and tubule during recovery from renal ischemia.

Soifer, N E, Van Why, S K, Ganz, M B, Kashgarian, M, Siegel, N J, Stewart, A F

Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is widely expressed in normal adult and fetal tissues, where it acts in an autocrine/paracrine fashion, stimulates growth and differentiation, and shares...

Native and a synthetic analogue of the malignancy-associated parathyroid hormone-like protein have in vitro transforming growth factor-like properties.

Insogna, K L, Stewart, A F, Morris, C A, Hough, L M, Milstone, L M, Centrella, M

A human parathyroid-like protein (PLP) has recently been isolated and cloned from human tumors associated with the paraneoplastic syndrome, humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. PLP shares...

The chromo shadow domain, a second chromo domain in heterochromatin-binding protein 1, HP1.

Aasland, R, Stewart, A F

The chromo domain was originally identified as a protein sequence motif common to the Drosophila chromatin proteins, Polycomb (Pc) and heterochromatin protein 1 [HP1; Paro and Hogness (1991) Proc....

Nucleotide sequences of bovine alpha S1- and kappa-casein cDNAs.

Stewart, A F, Willis, I M, Mackinlay, A G

The nucleotide sequences corresponding to bovine alpha S1- and kappa-casein mRNAs are presented. An unusual alpha S1-casein cDNA has been characterised whose 5' end commences upstream from its...

Synthetic human parathyroid hormone-like protein stimulates bone resorption and causes hypercalcemia in rats.

Stewart, A F, Mangin, M, Wu, T, Goumas, D, Insogna, K L, Burtis, W J, ...

Parathyroid hormone-like adenylate cyclase-stimulating proteins (hACSPs) have been implicated as one of the calcemic, bone-resorbing agents in patients with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. We...

Evolution of the casein multigene family: conserved sequences in the 5' flanking and exon regions.

Yu-Lee, L Y, Richter-Mann, L, Couch, C H, Stewart, A F, Mackinlay, A G, Rosen, J M

The rat alpha- and bovine alpha s1-casein genes have been isolated and their 5' sequences determined. The rat alpha-, beta-, gamma- and bovine alpha s1-casein genes contain similar 5' exon...

Chromatin structures of the rat tyrosine aminotransferase gene relate to the function of its cis-acting elements.

Nitsch, D, Stewart, A F, Boshart, M, Mestril, R, Weih, F, Schütz, G

The relationship between DNase I-hypersensitive sites (HSs) and transcriptional enhancers of the rat tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT) gene was examined by comparing HSs in and around the TAT gene with...

Factors associated with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy stimulate adenylate cyclase in osteoblastic cells.

Rodan, S B, Insogna, K L, Vignery, A M, Stewart, A F, Broadus, A E, D'Souza, S M, ...

The culture media of three cell lines, a human prostate carcinoma (PC3), a rat Leydig cell tumor (Rice-500), and a rat carcinosarcoma (WRC-256), that were derived from tumors associated with humoral...

Identification of adenylate cyclase-stimulating activity and cytochemical glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-stimulating activity in extracts of tumors from patients with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy.

Stewart, A F, Insogna, K L, Goltzman, D, Broadus, A E

Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM) most commonly results from secretion by tumors of an unidentified circulating calcemic factor that appears in clinical studies to stimulate both a...

Identification of transcripts encoding a parathyroid hormone-like peptide in messenger RNAs from a variety of human and animal tumors associated with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy.

Ikeda, K, Mangin, M, Dreyer, B E, Webb, A C, Posillico, J T, Stewart, A F, ...

The syndrome of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM) appears to be mediated in many instances by a parathyroid hormone-like peptide, which has recently been purified, sequenced, and cloned....

Glucocorticoids are required for establishment and maintenance of an alteration in chromatin structure: induction leads to a reversible disruption of nucleosomes over an enhancer.

Reik, A, Schütz, G, Stewart, A F

Induction of the rat tyrosine aminotransferase gene (TAT) with glucocorticoid hormones leads to formation of a nuclease hypersensitive site at the hormone-dependent enhancer located 2.5 kb upstream...

Different positioning of the ligand-binding domain helix 12 and the F domain of the estrogen receptor accounts for functional differences between agonists and antagonists.

Nichols, M, Rientjes, J M, Stewart, A F

The estrogen receptor is capable of binding a diverse set of ligands that are broadly categorized as agonists or antagonists, depending on their abilities to induce or interfere with transcriptional...

Quantitative comparison of DNA looping in vitro and in vivo: chromatin increases effective DNA flexibility at short distances.

Ringrose, L, Chabanis, S, Angrand, P O, Woodroofe, C, Stewart, A F

The probability that two sites on a linear DNA molecule will contact each other by looping depends on DNA flexibility. Although the flexibility of naked DNA in vitro is well characterized, looping in...