Recent publications:

Scott, M.P. (2000) Development: The natural history of genes. Cell 100: 27-40.

Zeng, W., K.A. Wharton, Jr., J. Mack, K. Wang, M. Gadbaw, P.S. Klein, and M.P. Scott (2000) The Drosophila naked cuticle gene encodes a novel inducible feedback antagonist of Wingless/Wnt activity. Nature 403: 789-795.

R.H. Zurawel, C. Allen, R. Wechsler-Reya, M.P. Scott, and C. Raffel (2000) Evidence that haploinsufficiency of ptch leads to medulloblastoma in mice. Genes, Chromosomes, & Cancer 28: 77-81.

Chauvet, S., S. Merabet, D. Bilder, M.P. Scott, J. Pradel, and Y. Graba (2000) Distinct Hox protein sequences determine specificity in different tissues. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97: 4064-4069.

Taipale, J., M. Cooper, J. Chen, B. Wang, K. Young, R. Mann, L. Milenkovic, M.P. Scott, and P.A. Beachy (2000) Cyclopamine inhibition of Smoothened activity in the Hedgehog signaling pathway. Nature 406: 1005-1009.

Johnson, R.L., L. Milenkovic, and M.P. Scott (2000) In vivo function of the Patched protein: Requirement of the C-terminus for target gene inactivation but not Hedgehog sequestration. Molecular Cell 6: 467-478.

Furlong, E.M., D. Proffitt, and M.P. Scott (2001) Automated sorting of live transgenic embryos. Nature Biotechnology 19: 153-156.

Wechsler-Reya, R.J.and M.P. Scott (2001) The Developmental Biology of Brain Tumors. Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 24: 385-428.

Ko, D.C., M.D. Gordon, J.S. Jin, and M.P. Scott (2001) Dynamics of the NPC1 protein in the organelles of living cells. Molec. Biol. Cell 12: 601-614.

Rousset, R., J.A. Mack, K.A. Wharton, Jr., J.D. Axelrod, K.M. Cadigan, M.P. Fish, R. Nusse, and M.P. Scott (2001) Naked cuticle targets dishevelled to antagonize Wnt signal transduction. Genes Devel. 15: 658-671.

Papoulas, O., G. Daubresse, J. A. Armstrong, J. Jin, M. P. Scott, and J. W. Tamkun (2001) The HMG-domain protein BAP111 is important for the function of the BRM chromatin remodeling complex in vivo. Proc. Nat. Acad. U.S.A. 98: 5728-5733.

Wharton, Jr., K.A., G. Zimmermann, R. Rousset, E. Hick., C. J. Tabin, and M. P. Scott (2001) Vertebrate relatives of the Drosophila Naked cuticle protein bind Dishevelled and antagonize Wnt signaling. Dev. Biol. 234: 93-106.

Scott, M.P. (2001) Signalling and endocytosis: Wnt breaks down on back roads. Nature Cell Biol. 3: E185-186.

Furlong, E.E.M., E. Anderson and M. P. Scott (2001) Patterns of gene transcription during Drosophila mesoderm development. Science 293: 1629-33.

Corcoran, R. and M.P. Scott (2001) A mouse model for medulloblastoma and basal cell nevus syndrome. J. Neurooncology 53, In press.

Weiss, J.B., K. L. Suyama, and M. P. Scott (2001) Jelly belly: A Drosophila LDL receptor repeat-containing signal required for mesoderm migration and differentiation. Cell, in press.