Correlating chemical sensitivity and basal gene expression reveals mechanism of action

…, EV Price, S Gill, S Javaid, ME Coletti, VL Jones… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in cellular gene expression in response to small-molecule or genetic
perturbations have yielded signatures that can connect unknown mechanisms of action (MoA) to …

Harnessing connectivity in a large-scale small-molecule sensitivity dataset

…, JH Cheah, M Cokol, EV Price, ME Coletti, V Jones… - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
Identifying genetic alterations that prime a cancer cell to respond to a particular therapeutic
agent can facilitate the development of precision cancer medicines. Cancer cell-line (CCL) …

The evolution of root hairs and rhizoids

VAS Jones, L Dolan - Annals of botany, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background Almost all land plants develop tip-growing filamentous cells at the interface
between the plant and substrate (the soil). Root hairs form on the surface of roots of sporophytes …

[PDF][PDF] The mechanism forming the cell surface of tip-growing rooting cells is conserved among land plants

S Honkanen, VAS Jones, G Morieri, C Champion… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
To discover mechanisms that controlled the growth of the rooting system in the earliest land
plants, we identified genes that control the development of rhizoids in the liverwort …

A systematic review of the association between depression and health care utilization in children and adults with sickle cell disease

CR Jonassaint, VL Jones, S Leong… - British Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Patients with sickle cell disease ( SCD ) experience a disproportionately high use of health
care resources. Several studies have examined depression and other negative mood states …

[PDF][PDF] RSL class I genes controlled the development of epidermal structures in the common ancestor of land plants

H Proust, S Honkanen, VAS Jones, G Morieri… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
The colonization of the land by plants, sometime before 470 million years ago, was accompanied
by the evolution tissue systems [1–3]. Specialized structures with diverse functions—…

Pole position: how plant cells polarize along the axes

JJ Ramalho, VAS Jones, S Mutte, D Weijers - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Having a sense of direction is a fundamental cellular trait that can determine cell shape,
division orientation, or function, and ultimately the formation of a functional, multicellular body. …

Sterol transfer by atypical cholesterol-binding NPC2 proteins in coral-algal symbiosis

EA Hambleton, VAS Jones, I Maegele, D Kvaskoff… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.43923.001 Reef-building corals depend on intracellular dinoflagellate symbionts
that provide nutrients. Besides sugars, the transfer of sterols is essential for corals and …

[HTML][HTML] A conserved regulatory mechanism mediates the convergent evolution of plant shoot lateral organs

S Naramoto, VAS Jones, N Trozzi, M Sato… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Land plant shoot structures evolved a diversity of lateral organs as morphological adaptations
to the terrestrial environment, with lateral organs arising independently in different …

[HTML][HTML] Microinjection to deliver protein, mRNA, and DNA into zygotes of the cnidarian endosymbiosis model Aiptasia sp.

VAS Jones, M Bucher, EA Hambleton, A Guse - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Reef-building corals depend on an intracellular symbiosis with photosynthetic dinoflagellates
for their survival in nutrient-poor oceans. Symbionts are phagocytosed by coral larvae from …