Recent Publications and Manuscripts
Anchoring of Ran Signal Transduction in Plants
Rodrigo-Peiris T, Xu XM, Zhao Q, Wang HJ, Meier I. (2011). RanGAP is required for post-meiotic mitosis in female gametophyte development in Arabidopsis thaliana. J Exp Bot. 2011 Jan 31. [Epub ahead of print]
Brkljacic J, Zhao Q, Meier I. (2009). WPP-domain proteins mimic the activity of the HSC70-1 chaperone in preventing mistargeting of RanGAP1-anchoring protein WIT1. Plant Physiol. 151(1):142-54.
Xu XM, Zhao Q, Rodrigo-Peiris T, Brkljacic J, He CS, Müller S, Meier I. (2008). RanGAP1 is a continuous marker of the Arabidopsis cell division plane. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105(47):18637-42.
Zhao Q, Brkljacic J, Meier I. (2008) Two distinct interacting classes of nuclear envelope-associated coiled-coil proteins are required for the tissue-specific nuclear envelope targeting of Arabidopsis RanGAP.
Plant Cell 20(6):1639-51.
Meier I, Xu XM, Brkljacic J, Zhao Q, Wang HJ. (2008). Going green: plants' alternative way to position the Ran gradient. J Microsc. 231(2):225-33. Review.
Xu XM, Meulia T, Meier I. (2007). Anchorage of plant RanGAP to the nuclear envelope involves novel nuclear-pore-associated proteins. Curr Biol. 17:1157-63.Jeong, S. Y., Rose, A., Joseph, J., Dasso, M., and Meier, I. (2005). Plant-specific mitotic targeting of RanGAP requires a functional WPP domain. Plant Journal 42, 270-282.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Rose, A., and Meier, I. (2001). A domain unique to plant RanGAP is responsible for its targeting to the plant nuclear rim. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98, 15377-15382. Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF] - Poster [PDF] as presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology, Washington D.C, 2001
Meier, I. (2000). A novel link between Ran signal transduction and nuclear envelope proteins in plants. Plant Physiol. 124, 1507-1510.
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Nuclear Envelope and Nuclear Import and Export
Muthuswamy S, Meier I. (2011) Genetic and environmental changes in SUMO homeostasis lead to nuclear mRNA retention in plants.
Planta 233:201-208.
Zhao Q. and Meier I (2011) Identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis FG-repeat nucleoporin Nup62. Plant Signaling and Behavior 6, 330 – 334.
Meier I, Zhou X, Brkljacić J, Rose A, Zhao Q, Xu XM. (2010). Targeting proteins to the plant nuclear envelope. Biochem Soc Trans. 38:733-40. Review.
Meier I., and Brkljacic J. (2010) The Arabidopsis Nuclear Pore and Nuclear Envelope. The Arabidopsis Book 8:e0139. doi:10.1199/tab.0139
Meier I, Brkljacic J. (2009). Adding pieces to the puzzling plant nuclear envelope. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 12:752-759. Review.
Meier I, Brkljacic J. (2009). The nuclear pore and plant development.
Curr Opin Plant Biol.12:87-95. Review.Xu XM, Meier I. (2008). The nuclear pore comes to the fore.
Trends Plant Sci. 13:20-27. Review.Xu XM, Rose A, Muthuswamy S, Jeong SY, Venkatakrishnan S, Zhao Q, Meier I. (2007). NUCLEAR PORE ANCHOR, the Arabidopsis homolog of Tpr/Mlp1/Mlp2/megator, is involved in mRNA export and SUMO homeostasis and affects diverse aspects of plant development. Plant Cell 19:1537-1548.
Xu XM, Rose A, Meier I. (2007). NUA Activities at the Plant Nuclear Pore. Plant Signal Behav. 2(6):553-5.
Meier I. (2007). Composition of the plant nuclear envelope: theme and variations. J Exp Bot. 58:27-34. Review.Meier, I. (2006). Composition of the plant nuclear envelope: theme and variations. J. Exp. Botany, Epub ahead of print.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Zhao, Q., Leung, S., Corbett, A.H., and Meier, I. (2006). Identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis ortholog of Nuclear Transport Factor 2, the nuclear import factor of Ran. Plant Physiology, 140, 869-878.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Patel, S., Brkljacic, J., Gindullis, F., Rose, A., and Meier, I. (2005). The plant nuclear envelope protein MAF1 has an additional location at the Golgi and binds to a novel Golgi-associated coiled-coil protein. Planta, 222, 1028-1040.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Meier, I. (2005). Nucleocytoplasmic trafficking in plant cells. Int. Rev Cytol. 244, 95-135.
Abstract [Medline]Patel, S., Rose, A., Meulia, T, Dixit, R., Cyr, R. J., and Meier, I. (2004). Arabidopsis WPP-domain proteins are developmentally associated with the nuclear envelope and promote cell division. Plant Cell 16, 3260-3273.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Rose, A., Patel, S., and Meier, I. (2004). Plant nuclear envelope proteins. In: The nuclear envelope. Eds. Evans, D. E., Hutchinson, C. J., and Byrant, J. A., Symposium of the Society for Experimental Biology 56: 69-88.
Abstract [Medline]Rose, A., Patel, S., and Meier, I. (2004). The plant nuclear envelope. Planta 218, 327-336.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Meier, I. (2001). The plant nuclear envelope. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 58, 1774-1780.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Meier, I. (2001). Subnuclear trafficking and the nuclear matrix. In: Nuclear import and export in plants and animals. Eds. Tzfira, T., and Citovsky, V., Landes Bioscience, Austin, Texas; Eurekah.com
Reprint [PDF]Gindullis, F., Peffer, N.J., and Meier, I. (1999). MAF1, a novel plant protein interacting with MAR-binding protein MFP1, is located at the nuclear envelope. Plant Cell 11,1755-1767.
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Plant Coiled-Coil Proteins
Rose, A., Schraegle, S. J., Stahlberg, E. A., and Meier, I. (2005). Coiled-coil protein composition of 22 proteomes - differences and common themes in subcellular infrastructure and traffic control. BMC Evolutionary Biology 5:66.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Rose, A., and Meier, I. (2004). Scaffolds, levers, rods, and springs: Diverse cellular functions of long coiled-coil proteins. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 61, 1996-2009.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Jeong, S. Y., Peffer, N., and Meier, I. (2004). Phosphorylation by protein kinase CKII modulates the DNA-binding activity of a chloroplast nucleoid-associated protein. Planta 219, 298-302.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Rose, A., Manikantan, S. ,Schraegle, S. J., Maloy, M. A., Stahlberg, E. A., and Meier, I. (2004). Genome-wide identification of Arabidopsis coiled-coil proteins and establishment of the ARABI-COIL database. Plant Physiology 134: 927-939.
Abstract - Reprint [PDF] - Poster [PDF] as presented at the 15th International Conference for Arabidopsis Research, Berlin 2004Jeong, S. Y., Rose, A., and Meier, I. (2003). MFP1 is a thylakoid-associated, nucleoid-binding protein with a coiled-coil structure. Nucleic Acids Research 31, 5175-5185.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Gindullis, F., Rose, A., Patel, S., and Meier, I. (2002). Four signature motifs define the first class of structurally related large coiled-coil proteins in plants. BMC Genomics 3:9.
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Plant Nuclear Matrix
Calikowski, T. T., and Meier, I. (2006). Isolation of nuclear proteins. Methods Mol. Biol. 323, 393-402.
Abstract [Medline]Samaniego, R., Jeong, S. Y., de la Torre, C., Meier, I., and Moreno Diaz de la Espina, S. (2006). CK2 phosphorylation weakens 90 kDa MFP1 association to the nuclear matrix in Allium cepa. J. Exp. Bot. 57, 113-124.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Samaniego, R., Jeong, S. Y., Meier, I., and Moreno Diaz de la Espina, S. (2005) Dual location of MAR-binding, filament-like protein 1 in Arabidopsis, tobacco, and tomato. Planta; E-pub ahead of print, DOI: 10.1007/s00425-005-0168-x.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Calikowski, T. T., Meulia, T., and Meier, I. (2003). A proteomic study of the Arabidopsis nuclear matrix. J. Cell. Biochem. 90, 361-378.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Rose, A., Gindullis, F., and Meier, I. (2003). A novel alpha-helical protein, specific to and highly conserved in plants, is associated with the nuclear matrix fraction. J. Exp. Bot. 54, 1133-1141.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Samaniego R., Yu W., Meier I., and Moreno Diaz de la Espina, S. (2001). Characterisation and high-resolution distribution of a matrix attachment region-binding protein (MFP1) in proliferating cells of onion. Planta 212, 535-546.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Harder, P. A., Silverstein, R. A., and Meier, I. (2000). Conservation of matrix attachment region-binding filament-like protein 1 among higher plants. Plant Physiol. 122, 225-242.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Gindullis, F., Peffer, N.J., and Meier, I. (1999). MAF1, a novel plant protein interacting with MAR-binding protein MFP1, is located at the nuclear envelope. Plant Cell 11,1755-1767.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF]Gindullis, F., and Meier, I. (1999). Matrix attachment region binding protein MFP1 is localized in discrete domains at the nuclear envelope. Plant Cell 11, 1117-1128.
Abstract [Medline] - Reprint [PDF] - comments [PDF]Meier, I., Phelan, T., Gruissem, W., Spiker, S., and Schneider, D. (1996). MFP1, a novel plant filament-like protein with affinity for matrix attachment region DNA. Plant Cell 8, 2105-2115.
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Other
Functional Organization of the Plant Nucleus. Plant Cell Monographs. Meier, Iris (Ed.); Springer, Heidelberg, 2009.
The Chlamydomonas genome reveals the evolution of key animal and plant functions.
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