Lab Publications

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Langer EM, Feng Y, Zhaoyuan H, Rauscher FJ 3rd, Kroll KL, Longmore GD. Ajuba LIM proteins are snail/slug corepressors required for neural crest development in Xenopus. Dev Cell. 2008 Mar;14(3):424-36. PMID: 18331720 [PubMed - in process]

Seo, S., Lim, J., Yellajoshyula, D., Chang, L., and Kroll, K.L. Neurogenin and NeuroD direct transcriptional targets and their regulatory enhancers. EMBO Journal, 2007 Dec 12;26(24):5093-108. Epub 2007 Nov 15. PMID: 18007592

Yellajoshyula, D., Patterson, E., and Kroll, K.L. Maternal cyclin B levels “Chk” the onset of DNA replication checkpoint control in Drosophila. Bioessays. 2007 Oct;29(10):949-52. PMID: 17876773

Lauberth, S.M., Bilyeu, A.C., Firulli, B.A., Kroll, K.L., Rauchman, M. A phosphomimetic mutation in the sall1 repression motif disrupts recruitment of the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase complex and repression of Gbx2. J Biol Chem. 2007 Nov 30;282(48):34858-68. Epub 2007 Sep 25. PMID: 17895244

Ishibashi S., Kroll K.L., and Amaya E. A method for generating transgenic frog embryos. Molecular Embryology: Methods and Protocols, Ed. Ivor Mason, Humana Press Inc., in press.

Ishibashi, Sl., Kroll, K.L., and Amaya, E. (2007) Generation of transgenic Xenopus laevis. CSH Protocols; September, 2007; doi:10.1101/pdb.prot4838-40; Generation of Transgenic Xenopus laevis: I-III (I) (II) (III). High-Speed preparation of egg extracts, Sperm nuclei preparation, Sperm nuclear transplantation.

Kristen L. Kroll. Geminin in embryonic development: coordinating transcription and the cell cycle during differentiation. [Frontiers in Bioscience 12, 1395-1409, January 1, 2007].

Seo, S. and Kroll, K.L. (2006) Geminin's double life: chromatin connections that regulate the transition from proliferation to differentiation. Cell Cycle, 5 (4), 374-9.

Jennifer J. Taylor, Ting Wang, Kristen L. Kroll. Tcf- and Vent-binding sites regulate neural-specific geminin expression in the gastrula embryo. Dev Biol. 2006 Jan 15;289(2):494-506.

Seongjin Seo, Kristen L. Kroll. Chromatin Connections that Regulate Transcription at the Transition from Proliferation to Differentiation. [Cell Cycle 5:4, 374-380, 16 February 2006]; ©2006 Landes Bioscience.

Aline Boos, Amy Lee, Dominic M. Thompson, Jr and Kristen L. Kroll. Subcellular translocation signals regulate Geminin activity during embryonic development. Biol. Cell (2006) 98, 363–375 (Printed in Great Britain) doi:10.1042/BC20060007

Seo, S., Herr, A., Lim, J., Richardson, G., Richardson, H., and Kroll, K.L. (2005) Geminin regulates neuronal differentiation by antagonizing Brg1 activity. Genes and Development 19 (14), 1723-34. (PDF)

Seo, S., Cook, G.A, and Kroll, K.L. (2005) The SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling protein Brg1 is required for neurogenesis and mediates transactivation of Ngn and NeuroD. Development, 132, pg. 105-115.roll1

Postigo, A.A., Depp, J.L., Taylor, J.J., and Kroll, K.L. Regulation of Smad signaling through a differential recruitment of coactivators and corepressors by ZEB proteins. EMBO J. 2003 22 (10): 2453-2462.

Bainter, J.J., Boos, A., and Kroll, K.L. (2001) Neural induction takes a transcriptional twist. Developmental Dynamics 222, pp. 315-327.

Enrique Amaya and Kristen L. Kroll. A method for generating transgenic frog embryos. Methods Mol Biol. 1999;97:393-414.

Kroll, K.L. and Amaya, E. (1999) Transgenesis in Xenopus Embryos, in Early Development of Xenopus laevis: A Laboratory Manual, eds. H. L. Sive, R. M. Grainger and R. M. Harland. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. (Word version)

Kroll, K.L. and Kirschner, M.W. (1999) Easy Passage: Germline Transgenesis in Xenopus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96 (25), 14189-90. (PDF version)

Kroll, K.L., Salic, A.N., Evans., L.M., and Kirschner, M.W. (1998) Geminin, a neuralizing molecule that demarcates the future neural plate at the onset of gastrulation. Development 125 (16), 3247-3258. (click here for PDF)

McGarry, T., Kroll, K.L. and Kirschner, M.W. (1998) Geminin Gene and Protein. United States Patent and Trademark Office, Application No. 09/096, 724.

Salic, A., Kroll, K., Evans, L. and Kirschner, M. (1997) Sizzled: a secreted Xwnt8 antagonist expressed in the ventral marginal zone of Xenopus embryos. Development 124 (23), 4739-4748.

Kroll, K. L. and Amaya, E. (1996) Transgenic Xenopus embryos from sperm nuclear transplantations reveal FGF signaling requirements during gastrulation. Development 122 (10), 3173-3183.

Lustig, K. D., Kroll, K. L. and Kirschner, M. W. (1996) Expression cloning of a Xenopus T-related gene (Xombi) involved in mesodermal patterning and blastopore lip formation. Development 122 (12), 4001-4012. (click here for a PDF)

Lustig, K. D., Kroll, K., Sun, E., Ramos, R., Elmendorf, H., and Kirschner, M. W. (1996) A Xenopus nodal-related gene that acts in synergy with noggin to induce complete secondary axis and notochord formation. Development 122 (10), 3275-3282. (PDF version)

Kroll, K. L. and Gerhart, J. C. (1994) Transgenic Xenopus laevis embryos from eggs transplanted with nuclei of transfected cultured cells. Science 266, 650-653. (PDF version)

Orenic, T. V., Slusarski, D. C., Kroll, K. L. and Holmgren, R. A. (1990) Cloning and characterization of the segment polarity gene cubitus interruptus Dominant of Drosophila. Genes and Development 4, 1053-1067.