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Vanessa Wheeler, Ph.D.

Selected Publications

Crickmore N, Wheeler VC Ellar DJ . Use of an operon fusion to induce expression and crystallisation of a Bacillus thuringiensis d-endotoxin encoded by a cryptic gene. Mol.Gen.Genet. 1994;242:365-8.

 
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Wheeler VC, Coutelle C. Nondegradative in vitro labeling of plasmid DNA. Anal. Biochem. 1995;225:374-6.

Wheeler VC, Prodromou C, Pearl LH, Williamson R, Coutelle C. Synthesis of a modified gene encoding human ornithine transcarbamylase for expression in mammalian mitochondrial and universal translation systems: a novel approach towards correction of a genetic defect. Gene 1996; 169:251-5.

Collombet JM, Wheeler VC, Vogel F, Coutelle C. Introduction of plasmid DNA into isolated mitochondria by electroporation. A novel approach towards gene correction for mitochondrial disorders. J. Biol. Chem.1997;272:5342-7.

Wheeler VC, Aitkin M, Coutelle C. Modification of the mouse mitochondrial genome by insertion of an exogenous gene. Gene1997;198:203-9.

Wheeler VC, Auerbach W, White JK, Srinidhi J, Auerbach A, Ryan A, Duyao MP, Vrbanac V, Weaver M, Gusella JF, Joyner AL, MacDonald ME. Length-dependent gametic CAG repeat instability in the Huntington’s disease knock-in mouse. Hum.Mol.Genet. 1999;8:115-22.

Wheeler VC, White JK, Gutekunst CA, Vrbanac V, Weaver M, Li XJ, Li SH, Yi H, Vonsattel JP, Gusella JF, Hersch S, Auerbach W, Joyner AL, MacDonald ME. Long glutamine tracts cause nuclear localization of a novel form of huntingtin in medium spiny striatal neurons in HdhQ92 and HdhQ111 knock-in mice. Hum Mol Genet.2000;9:503-513.

Trettel F, Rigamonti D, Hilditch-Maguire P, Wheeler VC, Sharp AH, Persichetti F, Cattaneo E, MacDonald ME.. Dominant phenotypes produced by the HD mutation in STHdh(Q111) striatal cells. Hum Mol Genet. 2000;9:2799-809.

MacDonald ME, Wheeler VC. Huntington’s Disease Pathogenesis: Insights from HD mouse models. Neuroscience News 2000;3:38-44

Auerbach W, Hurlbert MS, Hilditch-Maguire P, Wadghiri YZ, Wheeler VC, Cohen SI, Joyner AL, MacDonald ME, Turnbull DH. The HD mutation causes progressive lethal neurological disease in mice expressing reduced levels of huntingtin. Hum Mol Genet. 2001;10:2515-23.

Wheeler VC, Gutekunst CA, Vrbanac V, Lebel LA, Schilling G, Hersch S, Friedlander RM, Gusella JF, Vonsattel JP, Borchelt DR, MacDonald ME. Early phenotypes that presage late-onset neurodegenerative disease allow testing of modifiers in Hdh CAG knock-in mice. Hum Mol Genet. 2002;11:633-40.

Fossale E, Wheeler VC, Vrbanac V, Lebel LA, Teed A, Mysore JS, Gusella JF, MacDonald ME, Persichetti F. Identification of a presymptomatic molecular phenotype in Hdh CAG knock-in mice. Hum Mol.Genet 2002;15:2233-41.

Namura S, Hirt L, Wheeler VC, McGinnis KM, Hilditch-Maguire P, Moskowitz MA, MacDonald ME, Persichetti F. The HD mutation does not alter neuronal death in the striatum of Hdh(Q92) knock-in mice after mild focal ischemia. Neurobiol Dis.2002;11:147-54.

Wheeler VC, Lebel LA, Vrbanac V, Teed A, Te Riele H, MacDonald ME. Mismatch repair gene Msh2 modifies the timing of early disease in Hdh(Q111) striatum. Hum Mol Genet. 2003;12: 273-81.

Gines S, Seong IS, Fossale E, Ivanova E, Trettel F, Gusella JF, Wheeler VC, Persichetti F, MacDonald ME. Specific progressive cAMP reduction implicates energy deficit in presymptomatic Huntington's disease knock-in mice. Hum. Mol. Genet. 2003;12:497-508.

Snider BJ, Moss JL, Revilla FJ, Lee CS, Wheeler VC, Macdonald ME, Choi DW. Neocortical neurons cultured from mice with expanded CAG repeats in the huntingtin gene: unaltered vulnerability to excitotoxins and other insults. Neuroscience 2003;120:617-25.

Li JL, Hayden MR, Almqvist EW, Brinkman RR, Durr A, Dode C, Morrison PJ, Suchowersky O, Ross CA, Margolis RL, Rosenblatt A, Gomez-Tortosa E, Cabrero DM, Novelletto A, Frontali M, Nance M, Trent RJ, McCusker E, Jones R, Paulsen JS, Harrison M, Zanko A, Abramson RK, Russ AL, Knowlton B, Djousse L, Mysore JS, Tariot S, Gusella MF, Wheeler VC, Atwood LD, Cupples LA, Saint-Hilaire M, Cha JH, Hersch SM, Koroshetz WJ, Gusella JF, MacDonald ME and Myers RH . A Genome Scan for Modifiers of Age at Onset in Huntington Disease: The HD MAPS Study. Am J Hum Genet. 2003;73:682-7.

MacDonald ME, Gines S, Gusella JF, Wheeler VC. Huntington's disease. Neuromolecular Med 2003;4(1-2):7-20.