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Juliano, C.E., Yajima, M., and Wessel, G.M. Nanos functions to maintain the fate of the small micromere lineage in the sea urchin embryo. Developmental Biology In Press, Accepted Manuscript. |
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Juliano, C.E., and Wessel, G.M. (2009). An evolutionary transition of vasa regulation in echinoderms. Evolution & Development 11, 560-573. |
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Wong, J.L., and Wessel, G.M. (2009). Extracellular matrix modifications at fertilization: regulation of dityrosine crosslinking by transamidation. Development 136, 1835-1847. |
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Wessel, G.M., and Wong, J.L. (2009). Cell surface changes in the egg at fertilization. Mol Reprod Dev 76, 942-953. |
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Wong, J., Wessel, G.M. (2008). Renovation of the egg extracellular matirx at fertilization. International Journal of Developmental Biology 52:545-550. |
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Davis LC, Morgan AJ, Ruas M, Wong JL, Graeff RM, Poustka AJ, Lee HC, Wessel GM, Parrington J, Galione A. (2008). Calcium signaling occurs via second messenger release from intraorgnaelle synthesis sites. Current Biology 18: 1612-1618. |
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Gustafson EA, Wessel GM (2008). Polycomb group gene expression in the sea urchin. Developmental Dynamics 237:1851-1861. |
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Voronina E, Lopez M, Juliano CE, Gustafson E, Song JL, Extavour C, George S, Oliveri P, McClay DR, Wessel GM. (2008). Vasa protein epxression is restricted to the small micromeres of the sea urchin, but is inducible in other lineages in early development. Developmental Biology 314: 276-286. |
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Wong, J., Wessel, G.M. (2008). FRAP analysis of secretory granule lipids and proteins in the sea urchin egg. Methods in Molecular Biology 440: 61-76. |
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Wong, J.L., and Wessel, G.M. (2008). Free-radical crosslinking of specific proteins alters the function of the egg extracellular matrix at fertilization. Development 135, 431-440. |
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Wong, J., Koppel, D., Cowan, A, Wessel, G.M. (2007). Membrane Hemifusion Is a Stable Intermediate of Exocytosis. Developmental Cell 12, 653-659. |
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Song, J.L., and Wessel, G.M. (2007). Genes involved in the RNA interference pathway are differentially expressed during sea urchin development. Dev Dyn 236, 3180-3190. |
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Parrington, J., Davis, L.C., Galione, A., and Wessel, G. (2007). Flipping the switch: how a sperm activates the egg at fertilization. Dev Dyn 236, 2027-2038. |
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Sodergren et.al. (2006). The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Science 314: 941-952. |
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Wong, J. and Wessel, G.M. (2006). Rendezvin: an essential gene encoding independent, differentially secreted egg proteins that organize the fertilization envelope proteome after self-association. Mol. Biol. Cell 17: 5241-5252. |
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Briggs , E. and G.M. Wessel (2006). In the beginning …. Animal fertilization and sea urchin development. Dev. Biol.300:15-26. |
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Song , J., Wong, J., and Wessel, G.M. (2006). Oogenesis: single cell development and differentiation. Dev. Biol.300: 385-405. |
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Voronina, E., and Wessel, G.M. (2006). Activator of G-protein signaling in asymmetric cell divisions of the sea urchin embryo. Dev Growth Differ 48, 549-557. |
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Juliano, C., Voronina, E., Stack, C., Aldrich, M., Cameron, A., and Wessel, G.M. (2006). Germ line determinants are not localized early in sea urchin development. Dev. Biol. 300: 406-415. |
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Roux, M.M. Townley, I.K., Raisch, M., Reade, A., Bradham, C., Humphreys, G., Gunaratne, H.J., Killian, C.E., Moy, G., Su, Y-H., Ettensohn, C.E., Wilt, F., Vacquier, V.D., Wessel, G.M., and Foltz, K.R. (2006). A functional genomic and proteomic perspective of sea urchin calcium signaling and egg activation. Dev. Biol. 300:416-433. |
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Beane , W.S., Voronina, E., Wessel, G.M. and McClay, D.R. (2006). Lineage-specific expansions provide genomic complexity among sea urchin GTPases. Dev. Biol. 300:165-179. |
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Leguia, M. and Wessel, G.M. (2006). The Histamine H1 Receptor Activates the Nitric Oxide Pathway at Fertilization. Mol. Reprod. Dev.73: 1550-1563. |
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Leguia, M., Conner, S., Berg, L., and Wessel, G.M. (2006). Synaptotagmin I is involved in the regulation of cortical granule exocytosis in the sea urchin. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 73:895-905. |
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Wong, J. and Wessel, G.M. (2006) Defending the Zygote: Search for the Ancestral Animal Block to Polyspermy Current Topics in Developmental Biology 72: 1-151. |
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Wong, J. and Wessel, G. M. (2005). Reactive Oxygen Species and Udx1 During Early Sea Urchin Development. Dev. Bio. 288: 317-333. |
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Song, J.L., and Wessel, G.M. (2005). How to make an egg: transcriptional regulation in oocytes. Differentiation 73, 1-17. |
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Voronina, E. and Wessel, G.M. (2004) bg subunits of heterotrimeric G-proteins contribute to Ca2+ release at fertilization in the sea urchin. Journal of Cell Science 117:5995-6005. |
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Wong, J. L., Créton,R. and Wessel, G.M. (2004) The Oxidative Burst at Fertilization is Dependent upon Activaion of the Dual Oxidase Udx1. Dev. Cell. 7:801-814. |
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Brooks, J. and Wessel, G.M. (2004) The major yolk protein of sea urchins is endocytosed by a dynamin-dependent mechanism. Biology of Reproduction 71:705-713. |
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Voronina, E. and Wessel, G.M. (2004) Regulatory contribution of heterotrimeric G-proteins to oocyte maturation in the sea urchin. Mechanisms of Development 121 : 247-259. |
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Covián-Nares et al (2004) A Rho-signaling pathway mediates cortical granule translocation in the sea urchin oocyte. Mechanisms of Development 121:225-235. |
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Haley, S., and Wessel, G.M. (2004) Regulated proteolysis by cortical granule serine protease1 at fertilization.Mol. Bio. of the Cell 15:2084-2092. |
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Haley, S., and Wessel, G.M. (2004) Proteolytic cleavage of the cell surface protein p160 is required for detachment of the fertilization envelope in the sea urchin. Develpmental Biology 272:191-202. |
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Wong, J., and Wessel, G.M. (2004) Major components of a sea urchin block to polyspermy are structurally and functionally conserved. Evolution and Development 6:3 134-153. |
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Leguia, M., and Wessel, G. (2004) Selective expression of sec1/munc18 member in sea urchin eggs and embryos.Gene Expression Patterns 4 :645-657. |
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Ettensohn, C.A., Wessel, G.M., and Wray, G.A. (2004). The invertebrate deuterostomes: an introduction to their phylogeny, reproduction, development, and genomics. Methods Cell Biol 74, 1-13. |
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Wessel, G.M., Voronina, E., and Brooks, J.M. (2004). Obtaining and handling echinoderm oocytes. Methods Cell Biol 74, 87-114. |
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Wessel, G.M., and Vacquier, V.D. (2004). Isolation of organelles and components from sea urchin eggs and embryos. Methods Cell Biol 74, 491-522. |
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Szule, J.A., Jarvis, S.E., Hibbert, J.E., Spafford, J.D., Braun, J.E.A., Zamponi,G.W., Wessel, G.M., and Coorssen, J.R. (2003) Calcium-triggered membrane fusion proceeds independently of specific presynaptic proteins.J. of Biological Chemistry. 278:No. 27, 24251-24254. |
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Voronina, E. and Wessel, G.M. (2003) The regulation of oocyte maturation. Current Topics in Developmental Biology 58: 53-110. |
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Voronina, E., Marzluff, W.F., and Wessel, G.M. (2003) Cyclin B synthesis is required for sea urchin oocyte maturation. Developmental Biology 256:258-275. |
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Brooks, J. and Wessel, G.M. (2003) Selective transport and packaging of the major yolk protein in the sea urchin. Developmental Biology 261:353-370. |
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Brooks, J.M.,
and Wessel, G.M. (2002) The major yolk protein in sea urchins is a transferrin-like,
iron binding protein. Dev. Bio. 245:1-12. |
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Wessel, G.M., Conner, S.D., and Berg, L. (2002) Cortical granule translocation is microfilament mediated and linked to meiotic maturation in the sea urchin. Development 129:4315-4325. |
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Moore et al (2002) Cyclin D and cdk4 are required for normal developmetn beyond the blastula stage in sea urchin embryos. Mol. and cell Bio. 22:No. 13, 4863-4875. |
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Voronina, E. and Wessel, G.M. (2001) Apoptosis in sea urchin oocytes, eggs and early embryos. Mol. Repro. and Dev. 60:553-561. |
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Wessel, G.M., Brooks, J.M., Green, E., Haley, S., Voronina, E., Wong, J., Zayfudim, V., & Conner, S. (2001) The Biology of Cortical Granules. International Review of Cytology |
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Conner, S., and Wessel, G. (2001) Syntaxin, VAMP, and Rab3 are selectively expressed during sea urchin embryogenisis.Mol. Repro. Dev. 58:22-29. |
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Wessel, G.M., Zaydfudim, V., Hsu, Y.J., Laidlaw, M., and Brooks, J.M.(2000) Direct molecular interaction of a conserved yolk granule protein in sea urchins Develop. Growth Differ. 42:507-517. |
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Gross, V.S., Wessel, G., Florman, H.M., and Ducibella, T. (2000). A monoclonal antibody that recognizes mammalian cortical granules and a 32-kilodalton protein in mouse eggs. Biol Reprod 63, 575-581. |
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Moreno, R.D., Ramalho-Santos, J., Chan, E.K., Wessel, G.M., and Schatten, G. (2000) The Golgi Apparatus Segregates from the Lysomal/Acrosomal Vesicle during Rhesus Spermiogenesis: Structural Alterations. Dev Bio 219:334-349. |
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Ramalho-Santos, J., Moreno, R.D., Sutovsky, P., Chan, A.W., Hewitson, L., Wessel, G.M., Simerly, C.R., and Schatten, G. (2000) SNAREs in Mammalian Sperm: Possible Implications for Fertilization. Dev Bio 223:54-69. |
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Gary M. Wessel, Sean Conner, Michael Laidlaw, Jacob Harrison, and Gary J. LaFleur, Jr. (2000) SFE1, a Constituent of the Fertilization Envelope in the Sea Urchin Is Made by Oocytes and Contains Low-Density Lipoprotein-Receptor-Like Repeats. Bio. of Reprod. 63:1706-1712. |
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Conner, S.D., and Wessel, G.M. (2000) A rab3 homolog in sea urchin functions in cell division. FASEB 14:1559-1566. |
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Ramalho-Santos, J., Sutovsky, P.,Simerly, C., Oko, R., Wessel, G.M., Hewitson, L.,& Schatten, G. (2000) ICSI choreography: fate of sperm structures after monospermic rhesus ICSI and first cell cycle implications. Human Reproduction 15:2610-2620. |
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Conner, S.D., and Wessel, G.M. (1999) Syntaxin Is Required for Cell Division. Mol. Biol. Cell 10:2735-2743. |
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Wessel, GM and Wikramanayake, A (1999) How to grow a gut: ontogeny endoderm in the sea urchin embryo. Bioessays 21:459-471. |
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Haley, S., and Wessel, G. (1999) The Cortical Granule Serine Protease CGSP1 of the Sea Urchin, Stongylocentrotus purpuratus Is Autocatalytic and Contains a Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-like Domain. Dev. Bio. 211:1-10. |
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Wessel, G.M., et al (1998) A molecular analysis of hyalin-a substrate for cell adhesion In the hyaline layer of the sea urchin embryo. Dev. Bio. 193:115-126. |
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LaFleur, G.J., Horiuchi, Y., and Wessel, G.M., (1998) Sea Urchin Ovoperoxidase: Oocyte-specific Member of a Heme-dependent Peroxidase Superfamily that Functions In the Block to Polyspermy. Mech. of Dev. 70:77-89. |
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Conner, S., and Wessel, G. (1998) rab3 mediates cortical granule exocytosis in the sea urchin egg. Dev. Bio. 203:334-344. |
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Edelmann, L., Zheng, L., Wang, Z.F., Marzluff, W., Wessel, G.M., and Childs, G. (1998). The TATA binding protein in the sea urchin embryo is maternally derived. Dev Biol 204, 293-304. |
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Conner, S., Leaf, D., and Wessel, G.M., (1997) Members of the SNARE hypothesis are associated with cortical granule exocytosis in the sea urchin egg. Mol. Repro. Dev. 48:1-13. |
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Schulz, J., Wessel, G., Vacquier, V. (1997) The exocytosis regulatory proteins syntaxin and VAMP are shed from sea urchin sperm during the acrosome reaction. Dev. Bio. 191:80-87. |
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Berg, LK and Wessel, GM (1997) Cortical granules of the sea urchin translocate early in oocyte maturation. Development 124:1845-1850. |
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Berg, L., Chen, S.W. and Wessel, G.M. (1996) An extracellular matrix molecule that is selectively expressed during development is important for gastrulation in the sea urchin embryo. Development 122:703-713. |
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Chen, S.W. and Wessel, G.M. (1996) Endoderm differentiation in vitro identifies a transitional period for endoderm ontogeny in the sea urchin embryo. Dev Biol 175:57-65. |
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Wessel, G.M. and Berg, L. (1995) A spatially restricted molecule of the extracellular matrix is contributed both maternally and zygotically in the sea urchin embryo. Devel Growth Diff 37:517-527. |
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Wessel, G., Clark, F., and Berg, L. (1995) A diversity of enzymes involved in the regulation of reversible tyrosine phosphorylation in sea urchin eggs and embryos. Comp Biochm Phys 110:493-502. |
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Holy, J., Wessel, G., Berg, L., Gregg, R., and Schatten, G. (1995) Molecular characterization and expression patterns of a B-type nuclear lamin during sea urchin embryogenesis. Devel Biol 168:464-478. |
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Wessel, G.M. (1995) A protein of the sea urchin cortical granules is targeted to the fertilization envelope and contains an LDL-receptor-like motif. Devel Biol 167:388-397. |
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Laidlaw, M. and Wessel, G.M. (1994) Cortical granule biogenesis is active throughout oogenesis in sea urchins. Development 120:1325-1333. |
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Wessel, G. and Chen, S. (1993) Transient, localized accumulation of a-spectrin during sea urchin morphogenesis. Devel Biol 155:161-171. |
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Wessel, G.M. (1993) Differentiation of the endodermal epithelium during gastrulation in the sea urchin embryo. In Molecular Basis of Morphogenesis (ed. M. Bernfield), Wiley-Liss, Inc., 255-266. |
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Wessel, G.M., Etkin, M., and Benson, S. (1991). Primary mesenchyme cells of the sea urchin embryo require an autonomously produced, nonfibrillar collagen for spiculogenesis. Dev Biol 148, 261-272. |
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Wessel, G.M., Zhang, W., and Klein, W.H. (1990). Myosin heavy chain accumulates in dissimilar cell types of the macromere lineage in the sea urchin embryo. Dev Biol 140, 447-454. |
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