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Amezquita J.*, Desbois M.*, Opperman K.J., Pak J., Christensen E.L., Nguyen N.T., Diaz-Garcia K., Borgen M.A. Grill B. Axon development is regulated at genetic and proteomic interfaces between the integrin adhesome and the RPM-1 ubiquitin ligase signaling hub. PLoS Genet. 20(12): e1011496. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011496
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Chang C.*, Banerjee S. L*, Park S.S.*, Zhang X.L., Cotnoir-White D., Opperman K.J., Desbois M., Grill B., Kania A. (2024) Ubiquitin ligase and signalling hub MYCBP2 is required for efficient EPHB2 tyrosine kinase receptor function eLife 12:RP89176. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89176.4
AlAbdi L *, Desbois M. *, Rusnac D.V., Sulaiman R.A., Rosenfeld J.A., Lalani S., Murdock D.R., Burrage L.C., Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Au P.Y.B., Towner S., Wilson W.G., Wong L., Brunet T, Strobl-Wildemann G., Burton J.E., Hoganson G., McWalter K., Begtrup A., Zarate Y.A., Christensen E.L., Opperman K.J., Giles A.C., Helaby R., Kania A., Zheng N., Grill B.#, Alkuraya F.S.# (2023) Loss of function variants in MYCBP2 cause neurobehavioral phenotypes and corpus callosum defects. Brain (IF 13.5). https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac364
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Desbois M.*, Pak J.*, Opperman K.J., Giles A.C., Grill B. (2023) Optimized methods for in vivo affinity purification proteomics and biochemistry using C. elegans. StarProtocol https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102262.
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Desbois M., Opperman K.J., Amezquita J., Gaglio G, Crawley O., Grill B. (2022) Ubiquitin Ligase activity inhibits Cdk5. PLoS Genet. 18(4): e1010152. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010152
Crawley O.*, Opperman K.J.*, Desbois M., Adrados I., Borgen M.A., Giles A.C., Duckett D.K., Grill B. (2019) Autophagy is Inhibited by Ubiquitin Ligase Activity in the Nervous System. Nat. Commun. 10:5017. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12804-3
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Giles A.C., Desbois M., Opperman K.J., Tavora R., Maroni M.J., Grill B. (2019). A complex containing the O-GlcNAc transferase OGT-1 and the ubiquitin ligase EEL-1 regulates GABA neuron function. J. Biol. Chem. 294(17):6843-6856
Desbois M., Crawley O., Evans P.R., Baker S.T., Masuho I., Yasuda R., Grill B. (2018) PAM forms an atypical SCF ubiquitin ligase complex that ubiquitinates and degrades NMNAT2. J. Biol. Chem. 293(36):13897–13909. doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA118.002176
Crawley O., Giles A.C.*, Desbois M.*, Kashyap S., Birnbaum R., Grill B. (2017) A MIG-15/JNK-1 MAP kinase cascade opposes RPM-1 signaling in synapse formation and learning. PLoS Genet. 13(12):e1007095. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007095.
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Desbois M., Cook S.J., Emmons S.W., Bülow H.E. (2015) Directional trans-synaptic labeling of specific neuronal connections in live animals. Genetics. 200(3):697-705. doi:10.1534/genetics.115.177006.
Salzberg Y., Diaz-Balzac C.A., Ramirez-Suarez N.J., Attreed M., Tecle E., Desbois M., Kaprielian Z., and Bülow H.E. (2013) Skin-derived cues control arborization of sensory dendrites in Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell, 155(2): 308–320, doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.058.
Attreed M., Desbois M., van Kuppevelt T.H., and Bülow H.E. (2012) Direct visualization of specifically modified extracellular glycans in living animals. Nat. Methods, 9(5):477-479, doi:10.1038/nmeth.1945.