Selected Publications

Cole, G.J. and Glaser, L. (1986). A heparin-binding domain from NCAM is involved in neural cell-substratum adhesion. J. Cell Biol. 102: 403-412. [PMID 2418031]

Cole, G.J., Loewy, A. and Glaser, L. (1986). Neuronal cell-cell adhesion depends upon interactions of NCAM with heparin-like molecules. Nature 320: 445-447. [PMID 3083264]

Cole, G.J. and Akeson, R. (1989). Identification of a heparin-binding domain of the neural cell adhesion molecule NCAM using synthetic peptides. Neuron 2: 1157-1165. [PMID 2624745]

Tsen, G., Halfter, W., Kröger, S., and Cole, G.J. (1995). Agrin is a heparan sulfate proteoglycan. J. Biol. Chem. 270: 3392-3399. [PMID 7852425]

Halfter, W., Dong, S., Schurer, B. and Cole, G.J. (1998). Collagen XVIII is a basement membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan. J. Biol. Chem. 273: 25404-25412. [PMID 9738008]

Kim, M.J., Cotman, S.L., Halfter, W. and Cole, G.J. (2003) The heparan sulfate proteoglycan agrin modulates neurite outgrowth mediated by FGF-2. J. Neurobiol. 55: 261-277. [PMID 12717697]

Kim, M.J., Liu, I.-H., Song, Y., Lee, J.A., Balice-Gordon, R.J., Halfter, W., Linney, E., and Cole, G.J. (2007). Agrin is required for posterior development and axon pathway formation in embryonic zebrafish. Glycobiology 17: 231-247. [PMID 17110391]

Lee, J.-A. and Cole, G.J. (2007). Generation of transgenic zebrafish expressing green fluorescent protein under control of zebrafish amyloid precursor polypeptide gene regulatory elements. Zebrafish 4: 277-286. [PMID 18284334]

Candiello, J., Balasubramani, M., Schreiber, E.M., Cole, G.J., Mayer, U., Halfter, W., and Lin, H. (2007). Biomechanical properties of native basement membranes. FEBS Lett. 274: 2897-2908. [PMID 17488283]

Wakamatsu, Y., Nakamura, N., Lee, J.-A., Cole, G.J., and Osumi, N. (2007) Transitin, a Nestin-like intermediate filament protein, mediates cortical localization and lateral transport of Numb in mitotic avian neuroepithelial cells. Development 134: 2425-2433. [PMID 17522158]

Lee, J.-A., Anholt, R.R. H. and Cole, G.J. (2008). Olfactomedin-2 mediates development of the anterior central nervous system and head structures in zebrafish. Mech. Dev. 125: 167-181. [PMID 18037275]

Liu, I.-H., Zhang, C., Kim, M.J. and Cole, G.J. (2008). Retina development in zebrafish requires the heparan sulfate proteoglycan agrin. Dev. Neurobiol. 68: 877-898. [PMID 18327763]

Hu, B., Zhang, C., Baawo, K., Qin, R., Cole, G.J., Lee, J.-A., and Chen, X. (2010). Zebrafish K5 promoter driven GFP expression as a transgenic system for oral research. Oral Oncology 46: 31-37. [PMID 19932050]

Candiello, J., Cole, G.J., and Halfter, W. (2010). Age-dependent changes in the structure, composition and biophysical properties of a human basement membrane. Matrix Biol 29: 402-410. [PMID 20362054]

Zhang, C., Turton, Q.M., MacKinnon, S., Sulik, K.K. and Cole, G.J. (2011). Agrin function associated with ocular development is a target of ethanol exposure in embryonic zebrafish. Birth Defects Res. (Part A) 91: 129-141 [PMID: 21308976].

Xiao, T., Robles, E., Staub, W., Gosse, N.J., Cole, G.J., and Baier, H. (2011). Assembly of lamina-specific neuronal connections by a Slit gradient anchored to type IV collagen. Cell 146: 164-176 [PMID 21729787]

Cole, G.J., Zhang, C., Ojiaku, P., Bell, V., Devkota, S., and Mukhopadhyay, S. (2012). Effects of ethanol exposure on nervous system development in zebrafish. In Jeon, K.W., International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology Vol. 299, pp 255-315. [PMID 22959306]

Zhang, C., Ojiaku, P. and Cole, G.J. (2013). Forebrain and hindbrain development in zebrafish is sensitive to ethanol exposure involving agrin, Fgf and Sonic hedgehog function. Birth Defects Res. (Part A) 97: 8-27. [PMID: 23184466]

Hu, B., Chen, H., Liu, X., Zhang, C., Cole, G.J., Lee, J.-A., and Chen, X. (2013). Transgenic overexpression of zCdx1b in zebrafish induces metaplastic changes of gene expression in zebrafish esophageal squamous epithelium. Zebrafish 10: 218-227. [PMID 23672288]

Zhang, C., Frazier, J.M., Chen, H., Liu, Y., Lee, J.AA., and Cole, G.J. (2014). Molecular and morphological changes in zebrafish following transient ethanol exposure during defined developmental stages. Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 44: 70-80. [PMID 24929233]

Bailey, JM, Oliveri, AN, Zhang, C, Frazier, JM, Mackinnon, S, Cole, GJ, and Levin, ED (2015). Long-term behavioral impairment following acute embryonic ethanol exposure in zebrafish Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 48, 1-8. [PMID 25599606]

Zhang, C, Anderson, A and Cole, GJ (2015). Analysis of crosstalk between retinoic acid and sonic hedgehog pathways following ethanol exposure in embryonic zebrafish. Birth Defects Res. (Part A) 103, 1046-1057. [PMID 26470995]

Burton DF, Zhang C, Boa-Amponsem O, Mackinnon S, and Cole GJ (2017). Long-term behavioral changes as a result of acute ethanol exposure in zebrafish: evidence for a role for sonic hedgehog but not retinoic acid signaling. Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 61, 66-73 [PMID 28223149].

Zhang, C, Boa-Amponsem, O, and Cole, GJ. (2017). Comparison of molecular marker expression in early zebrafish brain development following chronic ethanol or morpholino treatment. Exp. Brain Res. 235, 2413-2423. [PMID 28493069]

Boa-Amponsem, O, Zhang, C, Mukhopadhyay, S, Ardrey, I, and Cole, GJ. (2019). Ethanol and cannabinoids interact to alter behavior in a zebrafish fetal alcohol spectrum disorder model. Birth Defects Research, 1-14, https://doi.org/100.1002/bdr2w.1458 [PMID 30648819]

Boa-Amponsem O, Zhang C, Burton DF, Williams KP, and Cole GJ. (2020). Ethanol and cannabinoids regulate zebrafish GABAergic neuron development and behavior in a sonic hedgehog and fibroblast growth factor dependent mechanism. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. 44, 1366-1377.