Moses Lab Publications
A. Research Papers
1] Chia, W., Howes, G., Martin, M., Meng, Y.
B., Moses, K. and Tsubota, S. (1986). Molecular analysis of the yellow
locus of Drosophila. EMBO J. 5, 3597-3605.
2] Moses, K., Ellis, M. C. and Rubin,
G. M. (1989). The glass gene encodes a
zinc-finger protein required by Drosophila photoreceptor cells. Nature
340, 531-536.
3] Moses, K., Heberlein, U. and Ashburner,
M. (1990). The Adh gene promoters of Drosophila
melanogaster and Drosophila orena are functionally conserved and
share features of sequence structure and nuclease-protected sites. Mol. Cell.
Biol. 10, 539-548.
4] Moses, K. and Rubin, G. M.
(1991). glass encodes a site-specific DNA-binding protein that is regulated
in response to positional signals in the developing Drosophila eye. Genes
Dev. 5, 583-593.
5] Baker, N. E., Moses, K., Nakahara, D., Ellis, M. C., Carthew,
R. W. and Rubin, G. M. (1992). Mutations on the
second chromosome affecting the Drosophila eye. J. Neurogenet.
8, 85-100.
6] Ma, C., Zhou, Y., Beachy, P. A. and Moses, K. (1993). The segment polarity gene hedgehog is required
for progression of the morphogenetic furrow in the developing Drosophila
eye. Cell 75, 927-938.
7] Tio, M., Ma, C. and Moses, K. (1994). spitz, a Drosophila homolog of transforming
growth factor-a, is required in the founding photoreceptor cells of the compound
eye facets. Mech. Dev. 48, 13-23.
8] Porter, J. A., von Kessler, D. P., Ekker, S. C., Young, K. E.,
Lee, J. J., Moses, K. and Beachy, P. A. (1995). The product of Hedgehog autoproteolytic cleavage active
in local and long-range signaling. Nature 374, 363-366.
9] Ma, C. and Moses, K. (1995).
wingless and patched are negative regulators of the morphogenetic
furrow and can affect tissue polarity in the developing Drosophila compound
eye. Development 121, 2279-2289.
10] Ma, C., Liu, H., Zhou, Y. and Moses, K. (1996).
Identification and characterization of autosomal genes that interact with glass
in the developing Drosophila eye. Genetics 142, 1199-1213.
11] Liu, H., Ma, C. and Moses, K. (1996). Identification and functional characterization of conserved
promoter elements from glass: a retinal development gene of Drosophila.
Mech. Dev. 56, 73-82.
12] Tio, M. and Moses, K. (1997).
The Drosophila TGFa homolog Spitz acts in photoreceptor recruitment in
the developing retina. Development 124, 343-351.
13] Reifegerste, R., Ma, C. and Moses, K. (1997). A polarity field is established early in the development
of the Drosophila compound eye. Mech. Dev. 68, 69-79.
14] Kumar, J. P., Tio, M., Hsiung, F., Akopyan, S., Gabay, L., Seger,
R., Shilo, B.-Z. and Moses, K. (1998). Dissecting the roles of the Drosophila EGF receptor
in eye development and MAP kinase activation. Development 125,
3875-3885.
15] Brennan, C. A., Ashburner, M. and Moses, K. (1998). Ecdysone pathway is required for furrow progression in
the developing Drosophila eye. Development 125, 2653-2664.
16] Nagaraj, R., Pickup, A. T., Howes, R., Moses, K., Freeman,
M. and Banerjee, U. (1999). Role of the EGF receptor
pathway in growth and patterning of the Drosophila wing through the regulation
of vestigial. Development 126, 375-985.
17] Brennan, C. A., Li, T. R., Bender, M., Hsiung, F. and Moses,
K. (2001). Broad-complex, but not Ecdysone
receptor, is required for progression of the morphogenetic furrow in the Drosophila
eye. Development 128, 1-11.
18] Kumar, J. P. and Moses, K. (2001). EGF Receptor and Notch Signaling Act Upstream of Eyeless/Pax6
to Control Eye Specification. Cell 104, 687-697.
19] Kumar, J. P. and Moses, K. (2001). The EGF Receptor and Notch Signaling Pathways Control
the Initiation of the Morphogenetic Furrow During Drosophila Eye Development.
Development 128, 2689-2697.
20] Hsiung, F., Griffis, E. A., Pickup, A., Powers, M. A. and Moses,
K. (2001). Function of the Drosophila TGF-a
homolog Spitz is controlled by Star and interacts directly with Star. Mech.
Dev. 107, 13-23
21] Kumar,
J. P. and Moses, K. (2001). Expression of Evolutionarily Conserved
Eye Specification Genes during Drosophila Embryogenesis. Genes Dev.
Evol. 211, 406-414.
22] Kumar,
J. P., Wilkie, G. S., Tekotte, H., Moses, K. and Davis, I. (2001).
Perturbing nuclear transport in Drosophila eye imaginal discs causes
specific cell adhesion and axon guidance defects. Dev. Biol. 240. 315-325.
23] Kumar JP, Hsiung F, Powers M and Moses K (2003) Nuclear Translocation of Activated MAP Kinase is Developmentally Regulated in the developing Drosophila Eye. Development 130, 3703-3714.
24] Jin P, Zarnescu DC, Zhang F, Pearson CE, Lucchesi JC, Moses K and Warren ST (2003) RNA-Mediated Neurodegeneration Caused by the Fragile X Premutation rCGG Repeats in Drosophila. Neuron 39, 739-747.
25] Zarnescu D, Jin P, Nakamoto M, Dockendorff T, Feng
Y, Jongens T, Warren S and Moses K (2003) Fragile X and Lgl proteins form a
functional complex in fly and mouse neural development. Current Biology
(submitted).
Other Publications
1] Moses, K. and Ashburner, M. (1985). Period piece for Drosophila. Nature 315, 98.
2] Moses,
K. (1991). The role of transcription factors in the developing Drosophila
eye. Trends Genet. 7, 250-255.
3] Heberlein, U. and Moses, K. (1995). Mechanisms of Drosophila retinal morphogenesis:
the virtues of being progressive. Cell 81, 987-990.
4] Tio, M., Ma, C. and Moses, K. (1996). Extracellular regulators
and pattern formation in the developing Drosophila retina. Biochem.
Soc. Symp. 62, 61-75.
5] Kumar, J. and Moses, K. (1997). Transcription factors in eye development: a gorgeous mosaic?
Genes Dev. 11, 2023-2028.
6] Reifegerste, R. and Moses, K. (1999). Genetics of epithelial polarity and pattern in the Drosophila
retina. BioEssays 21, 275-285.
7] Moses, K. (2000). Drosophila
Eye: Progressive Neural Development. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
8] Brennan, C. A. and Moses, K. (2000). Determination of Drosophila photoreceptors: timing
is everything. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 57, 195-214.
9] Kumar, J. P. and Moses, K., Cell Fate Specification in the Drosophila Retina, in Vertebrate
Eye Development, Fini, E., Editor. 2000, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg,
New York. p. 93-114.
10] Kumar,
J. P. and Moses, K. (2001). Eye specification in Drosophila: perspectives
and implications. Semin. Cell. Dev. Biol. 12(6), 469-474.
11] Moses, K., Drosophila Eye Development.
Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, ed. Granderath, S. 2002, Heidelberg:
Springer-Verlag.
12] Kowalczyk AP and Moses K (2002) Photoreceptor Cells in Flies and Mammals: Crumby Homology? Dev Cell 2, 253-254.
13] Hsiung F and Moses K (2002) Retinal development in Drosophila: specifying the first neuron. Hum Mol Genet 11, 1207-1214.
14] Jones C and Moses K (2003) Cell cycle regulation and cell-type specification in the developing Drosophila compound eye. Semin. Cell. Dev. Biol. (In Press).
15] D'Costa
A and Moses K (2003) Looking up: regional patterning in the Fly eye. Dev.
Cell 5, 665-666.
Popular Science (not peer reviewed)
1] Moses, K. (1995). Where eyes begin - the morphogenetic furrow. Science Spectra 1(2), 20-25.
2] Moses, K. (1997). Patterns in Evolution: the New Molecular View (book
review). Science Spectra 1(10), 76-78.
3] K. Moses, (2000) Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest
for the Origins of Behavior (book review). Science Spectra 22
70-72
4] K. Moses (2001) "What all the buzz is about"
- review of "Fly: an experimental life" by Martin Brookes
(book review). Nature Biotech. (in press)K. Moses and M. Ashburner, (1985)
Nature 315 98,. Period piece for Drosophila.