Publications

  1. Jalloh B, Lancaster CL, Rounds JC, Brown BE, Leung SW, Banerjee A, Morton DJ, Bienkowski RS, Fasken MB, Kremsky IJ, Tegowski M, Meyer K, Corbett A, Moberg K. The Drosophila Nab2 RNA binding protein inhibits m6A methylation and male-specific splicing of Sex lethal transcript in female neuronal tissue. Elife. 2023 Jul 17;12:e64904. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64904. PMID: 37458420; PMCID: PMC10351920.
  2. Marshall AG, Brady LJ, Palavicino-Maggio CB, Neikirk K, Vue Z, Beasley HK, Garza-Lopez E, Murray SA, Martinez D, Shuler HD, Spencer EC, Morton DJ, Hinton AJ. The importance of mentors and how to handle more than one mentor. Pathog Dis. 2022 Jun 22;80(1):ftac011. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftac011. PMID:
  3. Marshall AG, Vue Z, Palavicino-Maggio CB, Neikirk K, Beasley HK, Garza-Lopez E, Murray SA, Martinez D, Crabtree A, Conley ZC, Vang L, Davis JS, Powell-Roach KL, Campbell S, Brady LJ, Dal AB, Shao B, Alexander S, Vang N, Vue N, Vue M, Shuler HD, Spencer EC, Morton DJ, Hinton An effective workshop on “How to be an Effective Mentor for Underrepresented STEM Trainees”. Pathog Dis. 2022 Jul 6;80(1):ftac022. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftac022. PMID: 35709418; PMCID: PMC9258687.
  4. Lancaster CL, Higginson L, Chen B, Encarnacion-Rivera L, Morton DJ, Corbett AH. How to Select a Graduate School Program for a PhD in Biomedical Science. Curr Protoc. 2022 Jun;2(6):e450. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.450. PMID: 35735740; PMCID: PMC9245324.
  5. Marshall AG, Vue Z, Palavicino-Maggio CB, Neikirk K, Beasley HK, Garza-Lopez E, Murray SA, Martinez D, Crabtree A, Conley ZC, Vang L, Davis JS, Powell-Roach KL, Campbell S, Brady LJ, Dal AB, Shao B, Alexander S, Vang N, Vue N, Vue M, Shuler HD, Spencer EC, Morton DJ, Hinton The role of mentoring in promoting diversity equity and inclusion in STEM Education and Research. Pathog Dis. 2022 Jul 21;80(1):ftac019. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftac019. PMID: 35713493; PMCID: PMC9302695.
  6. Phillips MA, Arnold KR, Vue Z, Beasley HK, Garza-Lopez E, Marshall AG, Morton DJ, McReynolds MR, Barter TT, Hinton A Jr. Combining Metabolomics and Experimental Evolution Reveals Key Mechanisms Underlying Longevity Differences in Laboratory Evolved Drosophila melanogaster Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Jan 19;23(3):1067. doi: 10.3390/ijms23031067. PMID: 35162994; PMCID: PMC8835531.
  7. Marshall AG, Palavicino-Maggio CB, Neikirk K, Vue Z, Beasley HK, Garza-Lopez E, Murray SA, Martinez D, Crabtree A, Conley ZC, Vang L, Davis JS, Powell-Roach KL, Campbell S, Dal AB, Shao B, Alexander S, Vang N, Vue N, Vue M, Shuler HD, Spencer EC, Morton DJ, Hinton A. Using Champion-Oriented Mindset to Overcome the Challenges of Graduate School: Impact of Workshop for Graduate School Skills on Underrepresented Minority Pathog Dis. 2022 Jun 24:ftac024. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftac024. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35749569.
  8. Morton DJ, Jalloh B, Kim L, Kremsky I, Nair RJ, Nguyen KB, Rounds JC, Sterrett MC, Brown B, Le T, Karkare MC, McGaughey KD, Sheng S, Leung SW, Fasken MB, Moberg KH, Corbett AH. A Drosophila model of Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia reveals a critical role for the RNA exosome in neurons. PLoS Genet. 2020 Jul 9;16(7):e1008901. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008901. PMID: 32645003; PMCID: PMC7373318.

*Co-corresponding Authors.

  1. de Amorim, J., Fasken MB, Slavotinek, A., Corbett, AH, Morton, DJ. Modeling Pathogenic Variants in the RNA Exosome. RNA & Disease 2020 June 6; Vol 7 (2020). Review. doi: 10.14800/rd.1166
  2. Morton DJ, Kuiper EG, Jones SK, Leung SW, Corbett AH, Fasken MB. The RNA exosome and RNA exosome-linked disease. RNA. 2018;24(2):127-42. Epub 2017/11/03. doi: 10.1261/rna.064626.117. PubMed PMID: 29093021; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC5769741.
  3. Morton DJ, Patel D, Joshi J, Hunt A, Knowell AE, Chaudhary ID4 regulates transcriptional activity of wild type and mutant p53 via K373 acetylation. Oncotarget. 2017;8(2):2536-49. Epub 2016/12/03. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.13701. PubMed PMID: 27911860; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC5356822.
  4. Joshi JB, Patel D, Morton DJ, Sharma P, Zou J, Hewa Bostanthirige D, et Inactivation of ID4 promotes a CRPC phenotype with constitutive AR activation through FKBP52. Mol Oncol. 2017;11(4):337-57. Epub

2017/03/03. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.12028. PubMed PMID: 28252832; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC5378613.

  1. Komaragiri SK, Bostanthirige DH, Morton DJ, Patel D, Joshi J, Upadhyay S, et al. ID4 promotes AR expression and blocks tumorigenicity of PC3 prostate cancer cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2016;478(1):60-6. Epub 2016/07/28. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.07.092. PubMed PMID: 27462022; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC4991035.
  2. Korang-Yeboah M, Patel D, Morton DJ, Sharma P, Gorantla Y, Joshi J, et al. Intra-tumoral delivery of functional ID4 protein via PCL/maltodextrin nano-particle inhibits prostate cancer growth. Oncotarget. 2016;7(42):68072-85. Epub 2016/08/04. doi: 18632/oncotarget.10953. PubMed PMID: 27487149;

PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC5340093.

  1. Rohani L*, Morton DJ*, Wang XQ, Chaudhary J. Relative Stability of Wild-Type and Mutant p53 Core Domain: A Molecular Dynamic Study. J Comput Biol. 2016;23(2):80-9. Epub 2015/12/18. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2015.0163. PubMed PMID: 26675082. *Co-first authors
  2. Patel D, Morton DJ, Carey J, Havrda MC, Chaudhary Inhibitor of differentiation 4 (ID4): From development to cancer. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2015;1855(1):92-103. Epub 2014/12/17. doi: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2014.12.002. PubMed PMID: 25512197; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC4312723.
  3. Smith BN, Burton LJ, Henderson V, Randle DD, Morton DJ, Smith BA, et al. Snail promotes epithelial mesenchymal transition in breast cancer cells in part via activation of nuclear ERK2. PLoS One. 2014;9(8):e104987. Epub 2014/08/15. doi: 1371/journal.pone.0104987. PubMed PMID: 25122124;

PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC4133359.

  1. Knowell AE, Patel D, Morton DJ, Sharma P, Glymph S, Chaudhary J. Id4 dependent acetylation restores mutant-p53 transcriptional Mol Cancer. 2013;12:161. Epub 2013/12/18. doi: 10.1186/1476-4598-12-
  2. PubMed PMID: 24330748; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC3866570.
  3. Vo BT, Morton , Komaragiri S, Millena AC, Leath C, Khan SA. TGF-beta effects on prostate cancer cell migration and invasion are mediated by PGE2 through activation of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. Endocrinology. 2013;154(5):1768-79. Epub 2013/03/22. doi: 10.1210/en.2012-2074. PubMed PMID: 23515290; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC3628025

Book Chapter

Fasken MB, Morton DJ, Kuiper EG, Jones SK, Leung SW, Corbett AH. The RNA Exosome and Human Disease. Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2062:3-33. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9822-7_1. Erratum in: Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2062:C1-C4. PMID: 31768969.