Biography and Research Interest

Zebrafish intestinal development, the generation of intestinal mutants, and cloning and characterization of the mutated genes.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Heath J.K., White S.J., Johnstone C.N., Catimel B., Simpson R.J., Moritz R.L., Hong J., Whitehead R.H., Groenen L.C., Scott A.M., Ritter G., Cohen L., Welt S., Old L.J., Nice E.C., and Burgess A.W. The human A33 antigen is a transmembrane glycoprotein and a novel member of the immunoglobulin superfamily. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94: 469-474 (1997)

Catimel B., Ritter G., Welt S., Old L.J., Cohen L., Nerrie M.A, White S.J., Heath J.K., Demediuk B., Domagala T., Lee F.T., Scott A.M., Tu G.F., Ji H., Moritz R.L., Burgess A.W., and Nice E.C. Purification and characterization of a novel restricted antigen expressed by normal and transformed human colonic epithelium. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271: 25664-25670 (1996)

Ji H., Moritz R.L., Reid G.E., Ritter G., Catimel B., Nice E., Heath J.K., White S.J., Welt S., Old L.J., Burgess A.W., and Simpson R.J. Electrophoretic analysis of the novel antigen for the gastrointestinal-specific monoclonal antibody A33. Electrophoresis. 18: 614-621 (1997)

Ritter G., Cohen L.S., Nice E.C., Catimel B., Burgess A.W., Moritz R.L., Ji H., Heath J.K., White S.J., Welt S., Old L.J., and Simpson R.J. Characterization of post translational modifications of human A33 antigen, a novel palmitoylated surface glycoprotein of human gastrointestinal epithelium. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 236: 682-686 (1997)

Chretien I., Marcuz A., Courtet M., Katevuo K., Vainio O., Heath J.K., White S.J., and DuPasquier L CTX, a Xenopus thymocyte receptor, defines a molecular family conserved throughout vertebrates. European Journal of Immunology. 28: 4094-4104 (1998)

Catimel B., Domagala T., Nerrie M., Weinstock J., White S., Abud H., Heath J., and Nice E. Recent applications of instrumental biosensors for protein and peptide structure-function studies. Protein Peptide Lett. 6: 319-340 (1999)

Johnstone C.N., Tebbutt N.C., Abud H.E., White S.J., Stenvers K.L., Hall N.E., Cody S.H., Whitehead R.H., Catimel B., Nice E.C., Burgess A.W., and Heath J.K. Characterization of mouse A33 antigen, a definitive marker for basolateral surfaces of intestinal epithelial cells. Am J Physiol. 279: G500-G510 (2000)

Tikoo A., Czekay S., Viars C., White S., Heath J.K., Arden K., and Maruta H. p190-A, a human tumor suppressor gene, maps to the chromosomal region 19q133 that is reportedly deleted in some gliomas. Gene. 257: 23-31 (2000)