Biography and Research Interest

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Beltrame, M. and Bianchi, M.E. (1987) Sequence of the cDNA for one acidic ribosomal protein of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nucleic Acids Res., 15: 9089.

Bianchi, M.E., Beltrame, M., Paonessa, G. (1989) Specific Recognition of Cruciform DNA by Nuclear Protein HMG1. Science, 243: 1056-1059.

Beltrame, M. and Bianchi, M.E. (1990) A gene family for acidic ribosomal proteins in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: two essential and two nonessential genes. Mol. Cell. Biol., 10: 2341-2348.

Mosrin, C., Riva, M., Cassar, E., Beltrame, M., Sentenac, A., Thuriaux, P. (1990) The RPC31 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes an acidic subunit of RNA polymerase C (III) required for the in vivo synthesis of transfer RNAs. Mol. Cell. Biol., 10: 4737-4743.

Bianchi, M.E., Beltrame, M. and Falciola, L. (1992) The HMG box motif. in "Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology" (Eckstein, F. and Lilley, D.M.J. eds.), Berlin: Springer Verlag, 6: 112-128.

Beltrame, M. and Tollervey, D. (1992) Identification and functional analysis of two U3 binding sites on yeast pre-ribosomal RNA. EMBO J., 11: 1531-1542.

Pontiggia, A., Negri, A., Beltrame, M. and Bianchi, M.E. (1993) Protein HU binds specifically to kinked DNA. Mol. Microbiol., 7: 343-350.

Beltrame, M., Henry, Y. and Tollervey, D. (1994) Mutational analysis of an essential binding site for the U3 snoRNA in the 5' external transcribed spacer of yeast pre-rRNA. Nucleic Acids Res., 22: 5139-5147.

Beltrame, M. and Tollervey, D. (1995) Base pairing between U3 and the pre-ribosomal RNA is required for 18S rRNA synthesis. EMBO J., 14: 4350-4356.

Vaccari, T., Beltrame, M., Ferrari, S. and Bianchi, M.E. (1998) Hmg4, a new member of the Hmg1/2 gene family. Genomics, 49: 247-252.

Bianchi, M.E. and Beltrame, M. (1998) Flexing DNA: HMG-box proteins and their partners. Am. J. Hum. Genet., 63: 1573-1577.

Vaccari, T., Moroni, A., Rocchi, M., Gorza, L., Bianchi, M.E., Beltrame, M. and DiFrancesco, D. (1999) The human gene coding for HCN2, a pacemaker channel of the heart. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1446/3: 419-425.

Aidinis, V., Bonaldi, T., Beltrame, M., Santagata, S., Bianchi, M.E. and Spanopoulou, E. (1999) The RAG1 homeodomain recruits HMG1,2 to facilitate RSS binding and to enhance the intrinsic DNA bending activity of RAG1/2. Mol. Cell. Biol., 19: 6532-6542.

Bianchi, M.E. and Beltrame, M. (2000) Upwardly mobile proteins. The role of HMG proteins in chromatin structure, gene expression and neoplasia. EMBO Reports, 1: 109-119.

Moroni, A., Gorza, L., Beltrame, M., Gravante, B., Vaccari, T., Bianchi, M.E., Altomare, C., Longhi, R., Heurteaux, C., Vitadello, M., Malgaroli, A. and DiFrancesco, D. (2001) Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel 1 is a molecular determinant of the cardiac pacemaker current If. J. Biol. Chem., 276: 29233-29241.

Müller, S., Scaffidi, P., Degryse, B., Bonaldi, T., Ronfani, L., Agresti, A., Beltrame, M. and Bianchi, M.E. (2001) The double life of HMGB1 chromatin protein: architectural factor and extracellular signal. EMBO J., 20: 4337-4340.