Publications
Varmark, H., et.al. (2009) DNA damage induced cell death is enhanced by progression through mitosis. Cell Cycle, in press.
Klattenhoff, C., et.al. (2009) The Drosophila HP1 homologue Rhino is required for transposon silencing and piRNA production by dual strand clusters. Cell, in press.
Li, C., Vagin, V. V., Lee,S., Xu, J., Ma, S., Xi, H., Seitz, H., Horwich, M.D., Syrzycka, M., Honda, B.A., Kittler, E.L.W., Zapp, M.L., Klattenhoff, C., Schultz, N., Theurkauf, W.E., Weng, Z., and Zamore, P.D. (2009) Collapse of germline piRNAs i the absence of Argonaute3 reveals somatic piRNAs in flies. Cell 137, 509-521.
Klattenhoff, C. and Theurkauf, W.E. (2008) Biogenesis and germline functions of piRNAs. Dev 135, 3-9.
Khurana, J.S. and Theurkauf, W.E. (2008) piRNA function in germline development. StemBook, ed. The Stem Cell Research Community, http://www.stembook.org
Takada, S., Kwak, S., Koppetsch, B.S. and Theurkauf, W.E (2007) grp (chk1) replication-checkpoint mutations and DNA damage trigger a Chk2-dependent block at the Drosophila midblastula transition. Dev 134, 1737-1744.
Klattenhoff, C., Bratu, D.P., McGinnis-Schultz, N., Koppetsch, B.S., Cook, H.A. and Theurkauf, W.E. (2007) Drosophila rasiRNA pathway mutations disrupt embryonic axis specification through activation of an ATR/Chk2 DNA damage response. Dev Cell 12, 45-55.
Forstemann, K., Tomari, Y., Du,T., Vagin, V.V., Denli, A.M., Bratu, D.P., Klattenhoff, C., Theurkauf, W.E. and Zamore, P.D. (2005) Normal microRNA maturation and germ-line stem cell maintenance requires Loquacious, a double-stranded RNA-binding domain protein. PLOS Bio. 3, 1187-1201.
Serbus, L.R., Cha, B.J., Theurkauf, W.E. and Saxton, W.M. (2005) Dynein and the actin cytoskeleton control kinesin-driven cytoplasmic streaming in Drosophila oocytes. Dev. 132, 3743-3752.
Cook, H.A., Koppetsch, B.S., Wu, J. and Theurkauf, W.E. (2004) The Drosophila SDE3 homolog armitage is required for oskar mRNA silencing and embryonic axis specification. Cell 116, 817-829.
Tomari, Y., Du, T., Haley, B., Schwarz, D.S., Bennett, R., Cook, H.A., Koppetsch, B.S., Theurkauf, W.E. and Zamore, P.D. (2004) RISC assembly defects in the Drosophila RNAi mutant armitage. Cell 116, 831-841.
Arn, E.A., Cha, b. J., Theurkauf, W. E. and Macdonald, P.M. (2003) Recognition of a bicoid mRNA localization signal by a protein complex containing Swallow, Nod and RNA binding proteins. Dev. Cell 4, 41-51.
Takada, S., Kelkar, A. and Theurkauf, W.E. (2003) Drosophila Checkpoint Kinase 2 couples centrosome function and spindle assembly to genomic integrity. Cell 113, 87-99.
Cha, B.J., Serbus, L.R., Koppetsch, B.S. and Theurkauf, W.E. (2002) Kinesin I-dependent cortical exclusion restricts pole plasm to the oocyte posterior. Nature Cell Bio. 4, 592-598.
Cha, B. J., Koppetsch, B.S., and Theurkauf, W.E. (2001) In vivo analysis of Drosophila bicoid mRNA localization reveals a novel microtubule-dependent axis specification pathway. Cell 106, 35-46.
Stevenson, V.A., Kramer, J., Kuhn, J. and Theurkauf, W.E. (2001) Centrosomes and the Scrambled protein coordinate microtubule-independent actin reorganization. Nat. Cell. Bio. 3, 68-76.
W.E. Theurkauf (2001) TACCing down the spindle poles. Nat. Cell Bio. 3, E159-E161.