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2009, 'Essential role of one-carbon metabolism and Gcn4p and Bas1p transcriptional regulators during adaptation to anaerobic growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284, pp. 11205 - 11215
,2009, 'Gene-expression profiling of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in sepsis', Critical Care Medicine, 37, pp. 2324
,2009, 'Genetic basis of arsenite and cadmium tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae', BMC Genomics, 10
,2009, 'Population structure of Helicobacter pylori among ethnic groups in Malaysia: Recent acquisition of the bacterium by the Malay population', BMC Microbiology, 9, pp. 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-9-126
,2009, 'Response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to stress-free acidification', Journal of Microbiology, 47, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12275-008-0167-2
,2009, 'Zinc starvation induces a stress response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that is mediated by the Msn2p and Msn4p transcriptional activators.', FEMS Yeast Research, 9, pp. 1187 - 1195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1567-1364.2009.00557.x
,2008, 'Adaptation to hydrogen peroxide in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The role of NADPH-generating systems and the SKN7 transcription factor', Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 44, pp. 1131 - 1145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2007.12.008
,2008, 'Caspase-dependent and -independent lipotoxic cell-death pathways in fission yeast', Journal of Cell Science, 121, pp. 2671 - 2684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.028977
,2008, 'Gene-expression profiling of Gram-positive and Gram-negative sepsis in critically ill patients', Critical Care Medicine, 36, pp. 1125 - 1128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0b0013e3181692c0b
,2008, 'Insight into the selectivity of arsenic trioxide for acute promyelocytic leukemia cells by characterizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae deletion strains that are sensitive or resistant to the metalloid', International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 40, pp. 1016 - 1029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocel.2007.11.002
,2008, 'Mitochondrial Iba57p is required for Fe/S cluster formation on aconitase and activation of radical SAM enzymes', Molecular and Cellular Biology, 28, pp. 1851 - 1861, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MCB.01963-07
,2008, 'Oxidant-induced cell-cycle delay in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: the involvement of the SWI6 transcription factor', FEMS Yeast Research, 8, pp. 386 - 399, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00349.x
,2008, 'Plasma membrane electron transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae depends on the presence of mitochondrial respiratory subunits', FEMS Yeast Research, 8, pp. 897 - 905
,2008, 'Reactive oxygen species and yeast apoptosis', Biochimica et Biophysica ACTA - Molecular Cell Research, 1783, pp. 1354 - 1368
,2008, 'Site-directed, Ligase-Independent Mutagenesis (SLIM) for highly efficient mutagenesis of plasmids greater than 8kb', Journal of Microbiological Methods, 73, pp. 195 - 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2008.02.013
,2008, 'The adaptive response of anaerobically grown Saccharomyces cerevisiae to hydrogen peroxide is mediated by the Yap1 and Skn7 transcription factors', FEMS Yeast Research, 8, pp. 1214 - 1222
,2007, 'Functional genomics in yeast', Microbiology Australia, 28, pp. 51 - 54
,2007, 'The effect of resveratrol on a cell model of human aging.', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1114, pp. 407 - 418
,2007, 'The use of gene-expression profiling to identify candidate genes in human sepsis', American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 176, pp. 676 - 684
,2006, 'Effects of Antioxidants on yeast cell replicative ageing', Free Radical Research, 40, pp. S82 - S82
,2006, 'Old yellow enzymes protect against acrolein toxicity in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72, pp. 4885 - 4892
,2006, 'Resveratrol induces expression of genes beneficial to health of mortal human fibroblasts in culture.', Journal of Hypertension, 24, pp. 396
,2006, 'Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain expressing a plant fatty acid desaturase produces polyunsaturated fatty acids and is susceptible to oxidative stress induced by lipid peroxidation', Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 40, pp. 897 - 906
,2006, 'The role of sumoylation in oxidative and other stress responses in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisae', Free Radical Research, 40, pp. S158 - S158
,2005, 'Complex cellular responses to reactive oxygen species', Trends in Cell Biology, 15, pp. 319 - 326
,2005, 'Genetic and environmental factors influencing glutathione homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae', Molecular Biology of the Cell, 16, pp. 218 - 230
,2005, 'Involvement of oxidative stress response genes in redox homeostasis, the level of reactive oxygen species, and ageing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae', FEMS Yeast Research, 5, pp. 1215 - 1228
,2005, 'Mechanism of selectivity of an angiogenesis inhibitor from screening a genome-wide set of Saccharomyces cerevisiae deletion strains', Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 97, pp. 1539 - 1547
,2005, 'Rom2p, the Rho1 GTP/GDP exchange factor of Saccharomyces cerevisiae,can mediate stress responses via the Ras-cAMP pathway', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280, pp. 2529 - 2535
,2005, 'The high-affinity cAMP phosphodiesterase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the major determinant of cAMP levels in stationary phase: involvement of different branches of the Ras-cyclic AMP pathway in stress responses', Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 327, pp. 311 - 319, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WBK-4F1GN4P-9/2/6821613e5fe421bce6c6aa58fa8c4113
,2004, 'Cells have distinct mechanisms to maintain protection against different reactive oxygen species: oxidative-stress-response genes', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, pp. 6564 - 6569
,2004, 'Control of specific gene expression in mammalian cells by co-expressionof long complementary RNAs', FEBS Letters, 573, pp. 127 - 134
,2004, 'Genome-wide transcriptional responses to a lipid hydroperoxide:Adaptation occurs without induction of oxidant defenses', Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 37, pp. 23 - 35
,2004, 'Identification of a novel one-carbon metabolism regulon in Saccharomyces cerevisiae', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279, pp. 7072 - 7081
,2004, 'The role of respiration, reactive oxygen species and oxidative stressin mother cell-specific ageing of yeast strains defective in the RASsignalling pathway', FEMS Yeast Research, 5, pp. 157 - 167
,2003, 'Lipid Hydroperoxides Activate the Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Mpk1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae', Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 41849 - 41855, http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M307760200
,2003, 'Application of genome-wide expression analysis to identify molecular markers useful in monitoring industrial fermentations', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69, pp. 7535 - 7540
,2003, 'Coupling of the transcriptional regulation of glutathione biosynthesis to the availability of glutathione and methionine via the Met4 and Yap1 transcription factors', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 49920 - 49928
,2003, 'Expressing functional siRNAs in mammalian cells using convergent transcription', BMC Biotechnology, 3, pp. 1 - 9
,2003, 'Homomeric ring assemblies of eukaryotic Sm proteins have affinity for both RNA and DNA: crystal structure of an oligomeric complex of yeast SmF', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 17291 - 17298
,2003, 'Oxidative damage to proteins in yeast cells exposed to adaptive levels of H2O2', Redox Report, 8, pp. 371 - 377
,2003, 'Yeast genome-wide expression analysis identifies a strong ergosterol and oxidative stress response during the initial stages of an industrial lager fermentation', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69, pp. 4777 - 4787
,2002, 'Characterisation of the putative maltose transporters encoded by YDL247w and YJR160c', Yeast, 19, pp. 1015 - 1027
,2002, 'Glutathione regulates the expression of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase via the Met4 transcription factor', Molecular Microbiology, 2, pp. 545 - 556
,2002, 'Molecular Analysis of Maltotriose Transport and Utilisation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68, pp. 5326 - 5335
,2002, 'Phenotypic analysis of gene deletant strains for sensitivity to oxidative stress', Yeast, 19, pp. 203 - 214
,2002, 'Regulation of Protein S-Thiolation by Glutaredoxin 5 in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae', Biological Chemistry, 277, pp. 16853 - 16859
,2002, 'Regulation of the yeast glycine cleavage genes is responsive to the availability of multiple nutrients', FEMS Yeast Research, 2, pp. 59 - 71
,2002, 'Site-directed mutagenesis of platelet glycoprotein Ib-alpha demonstrating residues involved in the sulfation of tyrosines 276, 278 and 279', Blood, 99, pp. 4422 - 4427
,2002, 'Systematic analysis of sporulation phenotypes in 624 non-lethal homozygous deletion strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae', Yeast, 19, pp. 403 - 422
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