Section: Publications

Postdoctoral Position Available

Victor Boyartchuk, Ph.D.

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
   Program in Gene Function and Expression

Other Affiliation(s):
   Center for AIDS Research
   Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
   Program in Immunology and Virology

Representative Publications

Garifulin, O., Qi, Z., Shen H., Patnala, S., Green, M.R. and Boyartchuk, V. (2007) Irf3 polymorphism alters induction of interferon beta in response to Listeria monocytogenes infection. PLoS Genet., 3: e152.

Chen, Y-W., Klimstra, D.S., Mongeau, M.E., Tatem, J.L., Boyartchuk, V. and Lewis, B.C. (2007) Loss of p53 and Ink4a/Arf cooperate in a cell autonomous fashion to induce metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Cancer Res. 67: 7589-7596.

Wang, F., Paradkar, P.N., Custodio, A.O., McVey Ward, D., Fleming, M.D., Campagna, D., Roberts, K.A., Boyartchuk, V., Dietrich, W.F., Kaplan, J. and Andrews, N.C. (2007) Genetic variation in Mon1a affects protein trafficking and modifies macrophage iron loading in mice. Nat. Genetics 39: 1025-1032.

Boyartchuk, V., Rojas, M., Yan, B.S., Jobe, O., Hurt, N., Dorfman, D.M., Higgins, D.E., Dietrich, W.F. and Kramnik, I. (2004) The host resistance locus sst1 controls innate immunity to Listeria monocytogenes infection in immunodeficient mice. J. Immunol. 173: 5112-5120.

Shaw, M.H., Boyartchuk, V., Wong, S., Karaghiosoff, M., Ragimbeau, J., Pellegrini, S., Muller, M., Dietrich, W.F. and Yap, G.S. (2003) A natural mutation in the Tyk2 pseudokinase domain underlies altered susceptibility of B10.Q/J mice to infection and autoimmunity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 11594-11599.

Laprade, L., Boyartchuk, V.L., Dietrich, W.F. and Winston, F. (2002) Spt3 plays opposite roles in filamentous growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans and is required for C. albicans virulence. Genetics 161: 509-519.

Boyartchuk, V.L. and Dietrich, W. F. (2002) Genetic dissection of host immune response. Genes and Immunity 3: 119-122.

Kramnik, I. and Boyartchuk, V. (2002) Immunity to intracellular pathogens as a complex genetic trait. Current Opinion in Microbiology 5: 111-117.

Watters, J.W., Dewar, K., Lehoczky, J., Boyartchuk, V. and Dietrich, W.F. (2001) Kif1C, a kinesin-like motor protein, mediates mouse macrophage resistance to anthrax lethal factor. Current Biology 11: 1503-1511.

Boyartchuk, V.L., Broman, K.W., Mosher, R.E., D'Orazio, S.E., Starnbach, M.N., and Dietrich, W.F. (2001) Multigenic control of Listeria monocytogenes susceptibility in mice. Nature Genetics 27: 259-260.

Trueblood, C.E., Boyartchuk, V.L., Picologlou, E.A., Rozema, D., Poulter, C.D., and Rine, J. (2000) The CaaX proteases, Afc1p and Rce1p, have overlapping but distinct substrate specificities. Molecular and Cell Biology 20: 4381-4392.

Boyartchuk, V.L and Rine, J. (1998) Roles of prenyl protein proteases in maturation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae a-factor. Genetics 150: 95-101.

Office: 523/LRB
Phone: 508-856-4353
E-mail: Victor.Boyartchuk@umassmed.edu
Keywords: Genetic Systems, Animal Models of Disease, Infectious Disease

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