James Van Etten, PhD
Publications and Research Interests: From 1964 to present: 190 research papers and 35 review articles. Of the research papers, 14 deal with the isolation and characterization of the unusual bacteriophage phi 6 and 121 papers deal with the isolation and characterization of chlorella viruses. The majority of the remaining papers are on the physiology and biochemistry of fungal development. All of my current research efforts are on viruses of eukaryotic algae. Selected Recent Publications: Gazzarrini, S., M. Kang, A. Abenavoli, G.Romani, C. Olivari, D. Gaslini, G. Ferrara, J.L. Van Etten, M. Kreim, S.M. Kast, G. Thiel and A. Moroni. (2009). Chlorella virus ATCV 1 encodes a function potassium channel of eighty-two amino acids. Biochem. J. 420, 295-303. Greiner, T., F. Frohns, M. Kang, J.L. Van Etten, A. Kaesmann, A. Moroni, B. Hertel and G. Thiel. (2009). Chlorella viruses prevent multiple infections by depolarizing the host membrane. J. Gen Virol. 90, 2033-2039. Cherrier, M.V., V.A. Kostyuchenko, C. Xiao, V.D. Bowman, A.J. Battisti, X. Yan, P.R. Chipman, T.S. Baker, J.L. Van Etten and M.G. Rossmann. (2009). An icosahedral algal virus has a complex unique vertex decorated by a spike. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (in press). Wilson, W.H., J.L. Van Etten and M.J. Allen. (2009). The Phycondnaviridae: the story of how tiny giants rule the world. In “Lesser Known Large dsDNA Viruses”. (J. Van Etten, ed.) Springer, Berlin. P. 1-42. Agarkova, I., D. Dunigan, J. Gurnon, T. Greiner, J. Barres, G. Thiel and J.L. Van Etten. (2008). Chlorovirus-mediated membrane depolarization of chlorella alters secondary active transport of solutes. J.Virol. 82, 12181-12190. Neupartl, M., C. Meyer, I. Woll, F. Frohns, M. Kang, J.L. Van Etten, D. Kramer, B. Hertel, A. Moroni and G. Thiel. (2008). Chlorella viruses evoke a rapid release of K+ from host cells during early phase of infection. Virology 372, 340-348. Balss, J., P. Papatheodorou, M. Mehmel, D. Baumeister, B. Hertel, N. Delaroque, F.C. Chatelain, D.L. Minor, J.L. Van Etten, J. Rassow, A. Moroni and G. Thiel. (2008). Transmembrane domain length of viral K+ channels is a signal for mitochondria targeting. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105,12313-12318. Mujtaba, S., K.L. Manzur, J.R. Gurnon, M. Kang, J.L. Van Etten and M-M. Zhou. (2008). Epigenetic transcription repression of cellular genes by a viral SET protein. Nature Cell Biol. 10,1114-1122. Fruscione, F., L. Sturla, G. Duncan, J.L. Van Etten, P. Valbuzzi, A. De Flora, E. Di Zanni and M. Tonetti. (2008). Differential role of NADP+ and NADPH in the activity and structure of GDP-D-mannose 4,6-dehydratase from two chlorella viruses. J. Biol. Chem. 283, 184-193. Van Etten, J.L. Viruses that infect protists. Chapter 19 in "Fields Virology, fifth edition". (D.M. Knipe and P.M. Howley, ed.) pp. 627-640, Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2007. Zhang, Y., Y. Xiang, J.L. Van Etten and M.G. Rossmann. Structure and function of a chlorella virus PBCV-1 encoded glycosyltransferase. Structure 15, 1-9, 2007. Zhang, Y., F. Maley, G.F. Maley, G. Duncan, D.D. Dunigan and J.L. Van Etten. Chloroviruses encode a bifunctional dCMP-dCTP deaminase that produces two key intermediates in dTTP formation. J. Virol. 81, 7662-7671, 2007. Fitzgerald, L.A., M.V. Graves, X. Li, T. Feldblyum, W.C. Nierman and J.L. Van Etten. Sequence and annotation of the 369-kb NY-2A and the 345-kb AR158 viruses that infect Chlorella NC64A. Virology 358, 472-484, 2007. Yamada, T., H. Onimatsu and J.L. Van Etten. Chlorella viruses. In: Adv. in Virus Res. (K. Maramorosch and A.J. Shatkin, eds). Elsevier Inc. 66, 293-336, 2006. Agarkova, I.V., D.D. Dunigan and J.L Van Etten. Virion-associated restriction endonucleases of chloroviruses. J. Virol. 80, 8114-8123. [highlighted article] 2006. |
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