Publications

 

  • Choder, M. (1991). A general topoisomerase I-dependent transcriptional repression in the stationary-phase in yeast. Genes & Dev. 5,2315-2326. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Choder, M. (1993).  A growth limiting mechanism in the last growth phase of the yeast life cycle involves RPB4, a subunit of RNA polymerase II.  J. Bacteriol. 175, 6358-6363. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Choder, M. and Young, R. A. (1993).  A portion of RNA polymerase II molecules has a component essential for stress responses and stress survival. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13, 6984-6991. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Weisman, R. Choder, M., and Koltin Y. (1997).  Rapamycin specifically interferes with the developmental response of fission yeast to starvation.  J. Bacteriol. 179, 6325-6334. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Rosenheck, S., and Choder, M. (1998).  Rpb4, a subunit of RNA polymerase II, enables the enzyme to transcribe at temperature extremes in vitroJ. Bacteriol. 180,       6187-6192. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Shefer, A., Varon, M., and Choder, M. (1999).  Rpb7 can interact with RNA polymerase II and support transcription during some stresses independently of Rpb4.  Mol. Cell. Biol. 19, 2672-2680. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Meunier, J-R., and Choder, M. (1999).  Saccharomyces cerevisiae colony growth and ageing: biphasic growth accompanied by changes in gene expression and colony morphology.  Yeast, 15, 1159-1170. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Paz, I. Abramovitz, L., and Choder, M. (1999).  Starved Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells have the capacity to support internal initiation of translation.  J. Biol. Chem274,  21741-21745. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Paz, I., Meunier, J-R., and Choder, M. (1999).  Monitoring dynamics of gene expression in yeast during stationary phase.  Gene,  236, 33-42. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Jona, G.,  Choder, M., and Gileadi, O. (2000) Glucose starvation induces a drastic reduction in the rates of both transcription and degradation of mRNA in yeast.  Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1491, 37-48. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Varon, M., and Choder, M. (2000). Organization and cell-cell interaction in starved Saccharomyces cerevisiae colonies.  J. Bacteriol.182, 3877-3880.                  A photograph from this paper is presented as a cover picture.  1pdf_icon_small
  • Weisman, R., and Choder, M. (2001). The S. pombe TOR homologue, tor1+, is required for sexual development, entrance into stationary phase and responses to stress conditions.  J. Biol. Chem276, 7027-7032. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Weizman, R., Finkelstein, S. and Choder, M. (2001). Rapamycin blocks sexual development in fission yeast through inhibition of FKBP12 homolog. J. Biol. Chem276, 24736-24742 1pdf_icon_small
  • Paz, I. and Choder, M. (2001).  Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-dependent translation is not essential for survival of starved yeast cells.      J. Bacteriol183, 4477-4483. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Farago, M., Nahari, T., Hammel, C., Cole, C. N., and Choder, M. (2003).   Rpb4p, a Subunit of RNA Polymerase II, Mediates mRNA Export during Stress.  Mol. Biol. Cell 14, 2744-2755. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Lotan, R, Goler Bar-On, V., Harel-Sharvit, L., Duek, L., Melamed, D., and Choder, M.  (2005). The RNA polymerase II subunit Rpb4p mediates decay of a specific class of mRNAs. Genes & Dev. 19, 3004-3016. 1pdf_icon_small
  •  Topaz, O., Indelman, M., Chefetz, I., Geiger, D., Metzker, A., Altschuler, Y., Choder, M., Bercovich, D., Uitto, J., Bergman, R., Richard, G., and Sprecher, E. (2006). A Deleterious Mutation in SAMD9 causes Normophosphatemic Familial Tumoral Calcinosis. American Journal of Human Genetics 79, 759-764. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Selitrennik, M., Duek, L, Lotan, R., and Choder, M. (2006).  Nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling of Rpb4 and Rpb7 subunits of yeast RNA polymerase II by two pathways. Eukaryotic Cell  5, 2092-2103. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Dori, D. and Choder, M. (2007).  Conceptual modeling of biological systems: the mRNA lifecycle as a case in point. PLoS One2,e872. 1pdf_icon_small
  • Lotan, R., Goler Bar-On, V., Duek, L., Haimovitz, G., and Choder, M. (2007).  The Rpb7p subunit of yeast RNA polymerase II plays roles in the two major cytoplasmic mRNA decay mechanisms. J. Cell Biol. 178, 1133-1143. 1pdf_icon_small
  • See commentary by Leslie M.  J. Cell Biol. 178, 1095 (2007).
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  1. Mandel, H., Shemer, R., Zvi U. Borochowitz, Z. U., Okopnik, M., Knopf, C., Indelman, M., Drugan, A., Dov Tiosano, D., Gershoni, R.,Choder, M., and Sprecher, E.  (2008). Female sex reversal with dysgenesis of kidneys, adrenals and lungs (SERKAL syndrome): a novel autosomal recessive disorder caused by ahomozygous loss-of-function mutation in WNT4.  American Journal of Human Genetics 82, 39-47.
  2.  Nousbeck, J. Spiegel, R., Ishida-Yamamoto, A., Indelman, M., Shani-Adir, A., Adir, N.,  Lipkin, E.,  Bercovici, S.,  Geiger, D.,  van Steensel, M. A. Steijlen, P. M.,. Bergman, R., Bindereif, A., Choder, M., Shalev, S.  Sprecher, E.  (2008).  Alopecia, Neurological defects and Endocrinopathy (ANE) syndrome caused by decreased expression of RBM28, a nucleolar protein associated with ribosome biogenesis.  American Journal of Human Genetics 82, 1114-21.
  3. Goler-Baron, V., Seletrinnik, M., Barkai, O., Haimovitz, G., Lotan, R., and Choder, M.  (2008). Transcription in the nucleus and mRNA decay in the cytoplasm are coupled processes. Genes & Dev.22, 2022-2027. 1pdf_icon_small
  4. Wasserman TKatsenelson KDaniliuc SHasin TChoder, M., and Aronheim A. (2010). A novel c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK)-binding protein WDR62 is recruited to stress granules and mediates a nonclassical JNK activation. Mol. Biol. Cell21,117-30.
  5.  Harel-Sharvit, L., Eldad, N., Haimovich, G., Barkai, O., Duek, L. and Choder, M. (2010). RNA polymerase II subunits link transcription and mRNA decay to translation.   Cell 143, 552-563. 1pdf_icon_small
  1.   Choder, M. (2011). mRNA imprinting: additional level in the regulation of gene  expression. Cellular Logistics 1, 37-40. 1pdf_icon_small
  2.  Shalem, O., Groisman, B., Choder, M., Dahan O., and Pilpel, Y. (2011) Transcriptome Kinetics Is Governed by a Genome-Wide Coupling of mRNA Production and Degradation: A Role for RNA Pol II. PLoS Genet 7(9): e1002273. 1pdf_icon_small
  3.  Bregman, A., Avraham-Kelbert, M., Barkai, O., Duek, L., Guterman, A., and   Choder, M. Promoter elements regulate cytoplasmic mRNA decay. (2011).   Cell147, 1473-83. 1pdf_icon_small

 

 

 Reviews

  1. Choder, M. (2004).  Rpb4 and Rpb7: subunits of RNA polymerase II and  beyond. Trends Biochem Sci. (TiBS29, 674-681. 1pdf_icon_small
  2. Dahan, N. and Choder, M. (2013). The transcriptional machinery regulates mRNA translation and decay in the cytoplasm.  In BBA special issue entitled The biochemistry and structural biology of RNA polymerase II transcript elongation, Edited by Svejstrup, JQ. BBA 1829, 169-173.  1pdf_icon_small
  3. Haimovich, G., Choder, M. Singer R., and Trcek, T. The linkage between mRNA synthesis and decay. In BBA Special issue on “RNA decay mechanisms”. In press. 1pdf_icon_small
  4. Perez-Ortin, J.E., Alepuz, P., Chavez, S., and Choder, M. Regulation of eukaryotic gene expression by mRNA decay. Solicited by J. Mol. Biol. For a special issue on “Non-coding RNA in Systems”. In press. 1pdf_icon_small