Kassandra E Zaila, Thomas G Doak, Hannah Ellerbrock, Che-Huang Tung, Mauricio L Martins, Daniel Kolbin, Meng-Chao Yao, Donna M Cassidy-Hanley, Theodore G Clark, Wei-Jen Chang. Diversity of endosymbiotic Rickettsia in the fish parasite Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. Front Microbiol. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00189, 2017-02.
Stephen McDaniel, Erica Zweifel, Peter Harris, Eric S. Cole, Meng-Chao Yao, and Douglas L. Chalker* . DRH1, a p68-related RNA helicase, is required for chromosome breakage in Tetrahymena. Biology Open. 5, 1790-1798, 2016-12.
Chao-Yin Cheng, Janet M. Young, Chih-Yi Gabriela Lin, Ju-Lan Chao, Harmit S. Malik and Meng-Chao Yao. The piggyBac transposon-derived genes TPB1 and TPB6 mediate essential transposon-like excision during the developmental rearrangement of key genes in Tetrahymena thermophila. GENES & DEVELOPMENT. 30, 2724-2736, 2016-12.
Chih-Yi Gabriela Lin, I-Ting Lin and Meng-Chao Yao. Programmed minichromosome elimination as a mechanism for somatic genome reduction in Tetrahymena thermophila. PLoS Genet. 12(11): e1006403, 2016-11.
Woo, T.-T., Chao, J-L, and Yao, M.-C. Dynamic distributions of long double-stranded RNA in Tetrahymena during nuclear development and genome rearrangements. J. Cell Sci.. 129, 1046-1058, 2016-01.
Liu, M.-l. and Yao M.-C. . The role of ATG8 and autophagy in programmed nuclear degradation in Tetrahymena. Eukaryotic Cell. 11(4), 494-506, 2012-02.
Lin, I.-T., Chao, J.-L. and Yao, M.-C. An essential role for the DNA breakage repair protein Ku80 in programmed DNA rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila. Mol. Biol. Cell 23,2213-25, 2012.
Chung, P.-H. and Yao. M.-C. Tetrahymena JMJD3 homolog regulates H3K27 methylation and nuclear differentiation. Eukaryotic Cell 11, 601-614, 2012.
Liu, M.-L. and Yao M.-C. The role of ATG8 and autophagy in programmed nuclear degradation in Tetrahymena. Eukaryotic Cell 11, 494-506, 2012.
Chalker, D. and Yao, M.-C. DNA elimination in Ciliates: Transposon Domestication and Genome Surveillance.Annual Review of Genetics 45, 227-246, 2011.
Elde N.C., Roach, K., Yao M.C., Malik H.S. Absence of positive selection on centromeric histones in Tetrahymena suggests unsuppressed centromere-drive in lineages lacking male meiosis. J. Mol. Evol. 72, 510-520, 2011.
Yao, M.-C. Modulating somatic DNA copy number through maternal RNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107, 21951-21952. 2010. (Commentary)
Cheng, C-Y., Vogt A., Mochizuki, K. and Yao, M.-C. A domesticated piggyBac transposase plays a key role in heterochromatin dynamics and DNA cleavage during programmed DNA deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila.Mol. Biol. Cell 21,1753-62. 2010. (highlighted in Hycite, cover of the issue).
Diede, S. J., Tanaka, H., Bergstrom, D.J., Yao, M.-C. and Tapscott, S. J. Genome-wide analysis of palindrome formation. Nature Genetics 42, 279. 2010 (Correspondence)
Tanaka, H, and Yao, M.-C. Mechanisms of gene amplification – an evolutionary conserved role of DNA inverted repeats. Nature Review Cancer, 9, 215-224. 2009.
Howard-Till, R. A. and Yao, M.-C, Tudor Nuclease genes and Programmed DNA rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila. Eukaryotic Cell. 9, 1795-1804. 2007.
Yao, M.-C., Yao, C.-H., Halasz, L.M., Fuller, P., Rexer, C.H., Wang, S.H., Jain, R., Coyne, R.S., and Chalker, D.L. (2007) Identification of novel chromatin-associated proteins involved in programmed genome rearrangements in Tetrahymena. J. Cell Sci. 120, 1978-89.
Tanaka, H., Cao, Y., Bergstrom, D.A., Kooperberg, C., Tapscott, S.J., and Yao, M.-C. (2007) Intra-strand Annealing leads to the Formation of Large DNA Palindrome and determine the Boundaries of Genomic Amplification in Human Cancer. Mol. Cell. Biol. 27, 1993-2002.
Howard-Till RA, Yao M.-C. (2006) Induction of gene silencing by hairpin RNA expression in Tetrahymena thermophila reveals a second small RNA pathway. Mol Cell Biol. 26, 8731-42.
Cervantes MD, Coyne RS, Xi X, Yao M.-C. (2006) The condensin complex is essential for amitotic segregation of bulk chromosomes, but not nucleoli, in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. Mol Cell Biol. 26, 4690-700.
Tanaka H, Bergstrom DA, Yao M.-C, Tapscott SJ. (2006) Large DNA palindromes as a common form of structural chromosome aberrations in human cancers. Hum Cell. 19, 17-23.
Cervantes MD, Xi X, Vermaak D, Yao M.-C, Malik HS. (2006) The CNA1 histone of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila is essential for chromosome segregation in the germline micronucleus. Mol Biol Cell. 17, 485-97.
Yao, M.-C. and Chao, J.-L. (2005) RNA-guided DNA deletion in Tetrahymena: An RNAi-based mechanism for programmed genome rearrangements. Annu. Rev. Genet. 8, 537-559.
Tanaka, H., Bergstrom, D. M., Yao, M.-C.* and Tapscott*, S.J. (2005) Widespread and nonrandom distribution of DNA palindromes in cancer cells provides a structural platform for subsequent gene amplification. Nat. Genet. 37, 320-327. (co-corresponding authors)
Chalker, D. L. Fuller, P, and Yao, M.-C.. Communication between parental and developing genomes during Tetrahymena nuclear differentiation is likely mediated by homologous RNAs. Genetics, 169, 149-160, 2005.
Yao, M.-C., Fuller, P., and Xi, X. (2003) Programmed DNA deletion as an RNA-guided system of genome defense. Science 300, 1581-1584
Tanaka, H., Tapscott, S.J., Trask, B., and Yao, M.-C. (2002) A conserved mechanism of palindrome formation and the initiation of gene amplification in mammalian cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 8772-8777. 2002.
Yao, M.-C., Duharcourt, S. and Chalker, D. (2002) Genome-wide rearrangements of DNA in ciliates. In: Mobile DNA II. N. Craig, R. Craigie, M. Gellert and A. Lambowitz, editors. ASM Press, Washington, D.C. pp 730-758. (review article)
Duharcourt, S. and Yao, M.-C. (2002) Role of histone deacetylation in developmentally programmed DNA rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila. Eukaryotic Cell (ASM press) 1, 293-303.
Chalker, D. L. and Yao, M.-C. (2001) Nongenic. bidirectional transcription precedes and may promote developmental DNA deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila. Genes and Development 15, 1287-1298.