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  • Heinz Arnheiter and Kapil Bharti (2008) Ribosomes and p53 - a new KIT for skin darkening, Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research . Full Text/Abstract
  • Bharti, K, Liu, W, Csermely, T, Bertuzzi, S, Arnheiter, H. (2008) Alternative promoter use in eye development: the complex role and regulation of the transcription factor MITF, Development 135, 1169-1178. Full Text/Abstract
  • Bismuth, K., Skuntz, S., Hallsson, J.H., Pak, P., Dutra, A.B., Steingrimsson, E., Arnheiter, H. (2008) An unstable targeted allele of the mouse Mitf gene with a high somatic and germ line reversion rate, Genetics 178, 259-272. Full Text/Abstract
  • Hallsson, JH, Haflidadottir, BS, Schepsky, A, Arnheiter, H, Steingrimsson, E (2007) Evolutionary sequence comparison of the Mitf gene reveals novel conserved domains, Pigment Cell Research 20, 185-200. Full Text/Abstract
  • Arnheiter, H. (2007) Mammalian paramutation: a tail's tale?, Pig Cell Res 20, 36-40. Full Text/Abstract
  • Chang L, Blain D, Bertuzzi S, Brooks BP (2006) Uveal coloboma: clinical and basic science update, Curr Opin Ophthalmol 17, 447-470.
  • Bharti, K., Nguyen, M.-T. T., Skuntz, S., Nakayama, A., Bertuzzi, S., and Arnheiter, H. (2006) The other pigment cell: Specification and development of the pigmented epithelium of the vertebrate eye, Pigment Cell Research 19, 380-394. Full Text/Abstract
  • Hou, L., Arnheiter, H. and Pavan, W.J. (2006) Interspecies difference in the regulation of melanocyte development by SOX10 and MITF, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 103, 9081-9085. Full Text/Abstract
  • Horsford, D.J., Nguyen, M.T.T., Sellar, G., De Repentigny, Y., Kothary, R., Arnheiter, H., and McInnes, R.R. (2005) Chx10 repression of Mitf is required for the maintenance of mammalian neuroretinal identity, Development 132, 177-187. Full Text/Abstract
  • Murakami, H. and Arnheiter, H. (2005) Sumoylation modulates transcriptional activity of MITF in a promoter-specific manner, Pig Cell Res 18, 265-277. Full Text/Abstract
  • Bharti, K. and Arnheiter, H (2005) When pigment cells turn into neurons, J. Investig. Dermatology 125, X-XI. Full Text/Abstract
  • Bismuth, K., Maric, D., and Arnheiter, H. (2005) MITF and cell proliferation: The role of alternative splice forms, Pigment Cell Res 18, 349-359. Full Text/Abstract
  • Arnheiter H, Hou L, Nguyen MTT, Bismuth K, Csermely T, Murakami H, Skuntz S, Liu W, and Bharti K. (2005) MITF - A Matter of Life and Death for the Developing Melanocytes., From Melanocytes to Malignant Melanoma. Humana Press . Full Text/Abstract
  • Hallsson JH, Haflidadottir BS, Stivers C, Odenwald W, Arnheiter H, Pignoni F, Steingrimsson E. (2004) The bHLH-Zip transcription factor Mitf is conserved in Drosophila and functions in eye development, Genetics 167, 233-241. Full Text/Abstract
  • Kasai K, Takahashi M, Osumi N, Sinnarajah S, Takeo T, Ikeda H, Kehrl JH, Itoh G, Arnheiter H. (2004) A role for the G12 family of heterotrimeric G proteins in Sonic hedgehog signaling, Genes Cells 9, 49-58. Full Text/Abstract
  • Alpan O, Bachelder E, Isil E., Arnheiter H, Matzinger P. (2004) Educated dendritic cells act as messengers from memory to naive T helper cells, Nature Imm 5, 615-622. Full Text/Abstract
  • Hou L, Pavan WJ, Shin MK, Arnheiter H. (2004) Cell-autonomous and cell non-autonomous signaling through Endothelin receptor B during melanocyte development, Development 131, 3239-3247. Full Text/Abstract
  • Mankoo BS, Skuntz S, Harrigan I, Grigorieva E, Candia A, Wright CVE, Arnheiter H, Pachnis V (2003) Synergistic action of Meox homeobox genes upstream of genetic pathways essential for the patterning and differentiation of somites, Development 130, 4655-4664. Full Text/Abstract
  • Steingrimsson E, Arnheiter H, Hallsson JH, Lamoreux ML, Copeland G, Jenkins NA (2003) Interallelic complementation at the mouse Mitf locus, Genetics 163, 267-276. Full Text/Abstract
  • Steingrimsson, E., Tessarollo, L., Pathak, B., Hou, L., Arnheiter, H. , Copeland, N.G. and Jenkins, N.A. (2002) Mitf and Tfe3, two members of the Mitf-Tfe family of bHLH-Zip transcription factors, have important but functionally redundant roles in osteoclast development, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 99, 4477-4482. Full Text/Abstract
  • Arnheiter H, Hou L, Nguyen MT, Nakayam A, Champagne B, Hallsson JH, Bismuth K (2002) The role of Microphthalmia in pigment cell development, In: Mechanisms of Suntanning, Ortonne, J.-P. , Balotti, R. eds., Martin Dunitz Ltd, Publ. London. , pp 49-63.
  • Potterf SB, Mollaaghababa R, Hou L, Southard-Smith EM, Hornyak TJ, Arnheiter H, Pavan WJ (2001) Analysis of SOX10 function in neural crest-derived melanocyte development: SOX10-dependent transcriptional control of dopachrome tautomerase, Dev Biol 237, 245-257. Full Text/Abstract
  • Nguyen M-T T and Arnheiter H (2000) Signaling and transcriptional regulation in early mammalian eye development: A link between FGF and MITF , Development 127, 3581-3591. Full Text/Abstract
  • Hou L., Panthier J.-J., Arnheiter, H. (2000) Signaling and transcription regulation in the neural crest-derived melanocyte lineage: Interactions between KIT and MITF, Development 127, 5379-5389. Full Text/Abstract
  • Potterf SB, Furumura M, Dunn KJ, Arnheiter H, Pavan WJ (2000) Transcription factor hierarchy in Waardenburg syndrome: Regulation of MITF expression by SOX10 and PAX3, Human Genet . Full Text/Abstract
  • Opdecamp K, Kos L, Arnheiter H, Pavan WJ. (1998) Endothelin signalling in the development of neural crest-derived melanocytes, Biochem Cell Biol. 76, 1093-1099.
  • Hodgkinson CA, Nakayama A, Li H, Swenson LB, Opdecamp K, Asher JH Jr, Arnheiter H, Glaser T. (1998) Mutation at the anophthalmic white locus in Syrian hamsters: haploinsufficiency in the Mitf gene mimics, Hum Mol Genet 7, 703-708. Full Text/Abstract
  • Nakayama A et al. (1998) Mutations in microphthalmia, the mouse homolog of the human deafness gene MITF, affect neuroepithelial and neural crest-derived melanocytes differently, Mech Dev 70, 155-166. Full Text/Abstract
  • Opdecamp K, Vanvooren P, Riviere M, Arnheiter H, Motta R, Szpirer J, Szpirer C. (1998) The rat microphthalmia-associated transcription factor gene (Mitf) maps at 4q34-q41 and is mutated in the mib rats, Mamm Genome 9, 617-621. Full Text/Abstract
  • Arnheiter H. (1998) Evolutionary biology. Eyes viewed from the skin, Nature 391, 632-633. Full Text/Abstract
  • Hampton LL, Ladenheim EE, Akeson M, Way JM, Weber HC, Sutliff VE, Jensen RT, Wine LJ, Arnheiter H, Battey JF. (1998) Loss of bombesin-induced feeding suppression in gastrin-releasing peptide receptor-deficient mice., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95, 3188-3192. Full Text/Abstract
  • Krylov D, Kasai K, Echlin DR, Taparowsky EJ, Arnheiter H, Vinson C. (1997) A general method to design dominant negatives to B-HLHZip proteins that abolish DNA binding., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94, 12274-9. Full Text/Abstract
  • Opdecamp K, Nakayama A, Nguyen MT, Hodgkinson CA, Pavan WJ, Arnheiter H. (1997) Melanocyte development in vivo and in neural crest cell cultures: crucial dependence on the Mitf basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper transcription factor, Development 124, 2377-2386. Full Text/Abstract
  • Hemesath TJ, Steingrimsson E, McGill G, Hansen MJ, Vaught J, Hodgkinson CA, Arnheiter H, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Fisher DE. (1994) microphthalmia, a critical factor in melanocyte development, defines a discrete transcription factor family., Genes Dev. 8, 2770-80.
  • Steingrimsson E, Moore KJ, Lamoreux ML, Ferre-D'Amare AR, Burley SK, Zimring DC, Skow LC, Hodgkinson CA, Arnheiter H, Copeland NG, et al. (1994) Molecular basis of mouse microphthalmia (mi) mutations helps explain their developmental and phenotypic consequences., Nat Genet 8, 256-63.
  • Tachibana M, Perez-Jurado LA, Nakayama A, Hodgkinson CA, Li X, Schneider M, Miki T, Fex J, Francke U, Arnheiter H. (1994) Cloning of MITF, the human homolog of the mouse microphthalmia gene and assignment to chromosome 3p14.1-p12.3., Hum Mol Genet 3, 553-557.
  • Hodgkinson CA, Moore KJ, Nakayama A, Steingrimsson E, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Arnheiter H. (1993) Mutations at the mouse microphthalmia locus are associated with defects in a gene encoding a novel basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper protein., Cell 74, 395-404.