Department of Plant Biology, 166 Plant Biology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1312,Phone (517) 355-4683, Fax(517)353-1926
Katherine Osteryoung; Associate Professor of Plant Biology
Osteryoung, K.W. and Nunnari, J. 2003. The division of endosymbiotic organelles. Science 302: 1698-1704.
Vitha, S., Froehlich, J.E., O. Koksharova, K.A. Pyke, H. van Erp and K.W. Osteryoung. 2003. ARC6 is a J-domain plastid division protein and evolutionary descendant of the cyanobacterial cell division protein Ftn2. Plant Cell 15: 1918-1933
Stokes, K.D., and K.W. Osteryoung, 2003. Early evolutionary divergence of the FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 plastid division gene families in photosynthetic eukaryotes. Gene 320: 97-108.
Z. Hong, S.Y. Bednarek, E. Blumwald, I. Hwang, G. Jurgens, D. Menzel, K.W. Osteryoung, N.V. Raikhel, K. Shinozaki, N. Tsutsumi, D.P.S. Verma. 2003. A unified nomenclature for Arabidopsis dynamin-related large GTPases based on homology and possible functions.. Plant Mol. Biol. 53: 261-265.
C.G. Wilkerson, W.K. Ray, R.S. McAndrew, K.W. Osteryoung, D.A. Gage and B.S. Phinney. 2003. Proteomic study of the Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplastic envelope membrane utilizing alternatives to traditional two-dimensional electrophoresis. J. Proteome Res., 2: 42-425.
Gao, H., D. Kadirjan-Kalbach, J.E. Froehlich and K.W. Osteryoung. 2003. ARC5, a cytosolic dynamin-like protein from plants, is part of the chloroplast division machinery. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100: 4328-4333
Osteryoung, K.W. 2002. Chloroplast division: a work of ARTEMIS. Curr. Biol. 13: R844-R845
Osteryoung, K.W. 2001.Organelle fission in eukaryotes . Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 4: 639-646.
Osteryoung, K.W. and R.S. McAndrew. 2001. The plastid division machine. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 52: 315-333.
Vitha, S., R.S. McAndrew and K.W. Osteryoung. 2001. FtsZ ring formation at the chloroplast division site in plants. J. Cell Biol. 153: 111-119.
McAndrew, R.S., J.E. Froehlich, S. Vitha, K.D. Stokes and K.W. Osteryoung. 2001. Colocalization of plastid division proteins to the chloroplast stromal compartment establishes a new functional relationship between FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 in higher plants. Plant Physiol. 127: 1656-1666.
Stokes K.D., R.S. McAndrew, R. Figueroa , S. Vitha and K.W. Osteryoung. Chloroplast division and morphology are differentially affected by overexpression of FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 genes in Arabidopsis. 2000. Plant Physiol., 124: 1668-1677.
Osteryoung, K.W. 2000. Organelle fission: Crossing the evolutionary divide. Plant Physiol. 123: 1213-1216.
Colletti K.S., E.A. Tattersall, K.A. Pyke, J.E. Froelich, K.D. Stokes, K.W. Osteryoung. 2000. A homologue of the bacterial cell division site-determining factor MinD mediates placement of the chloroplast division apparatus. Curr. Biol. 10: 507-516.
Osteryoung, K.W., K.D. Stokes, S.M. Rutherford, A.L. Percival and W.Y. Lee. 1998. Chloroplast division in higher plants requires members of two functionally divergent FtsZ gene families. Plant Cell 10: 1991-2004.
Osteryoung, K.W. and K. A. Pyke. 1998. Plastid division: evidence for a prokaryotically derived mechanism. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 1: 475-479.
Osteryoung, K.W. and E. Vierling. 1995. Conserved cell and organelle division. Nature 376: 473-474.
