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Overview

Terrance G. Cooper is affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Cell Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work covers several main topics, notably Fungal and yeast genetics research, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research, RNA Research and Splicing, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, and Health and Medical Research Impacts.

Frequent publication venues for their research include FEMS Yeast Research, The FASEB Journal, Yeast, Genetics, and G3 Genes Genomes Genetics.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "N- and C-terminal Gln3-Tor1 interaction sites: one acting negatively and the other positively to regulate nuclear Gln3 localization" (2021, Genetics)
  • "How to think about and do successful research What you probable did not learn when you first entered the laboratory" (2023, FEMS Yeast Research)
  • "Effects of abolishing Whi2 on the proteome and nitrogen catabolite repression-sensitive protein production" (2021, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics)
  • "From blood to stress-my life investigating cell differentiation" (2022, FEMS Yeast Research)
  • "TorC1 and nitrogen catabolite repression control of integrated GABA shunt and retrograde pathway gene expression" (2023, Yeast)

Among frequent co-authors are Jennifer J. Tate, Rajendra Rai, Claudio De Virgilio, Jana Maršíková, and Libuše Váchová, indicating active collaboration within the research community.

Best Publications

  • Expression of the DAL80 gene, whose product is homologous to the GATA factors and is a negative regulator of multiple nitrogen catabolic genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is sensitive to nitrogen catabolite repression.

    T S Cunningham;T G Cooper

  • Gat1p, a GATA Family Protein Whose Production Is Sensitive to Nitrogen Catabolite Repression, Participates in Transcriptional Activation of Nitrogen-Catabolic Genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    J A Coffman;R Rai;T Cunningham;V Svetlov

  • Regulatory circuit for responses of nitrogen catabolic gene expression to the GLN3 and DAL80 proteins and nitrogen catabolite repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    J R Daugherty;R Rai;H M el Berry;T G Cooper

  • Cross regulation of four GATA factors that control nitrogen catabolic gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    J A Coffman;R Rai;D M Loprete;T Cunningham

  • Differentially regulated malate synthase genes participate in carbon and nitrogen metabolism of S. cerevisiae.

    Andreas Hartig;Manuel M. Simon;Tillman Schuster;Jon R. Daugherty

  • A cis-acting element present in multiple genes serves as a repressor protein binding site for the yeast CAR1 gene.

    R M Luche;R Sumrada;T G Cooper

  • Transcriptional regulation of the DAL5 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Rajendra Rai;F. Genbauffe;Ho Zoo Lea;T. G. Cooper

  • Gln3p Nuclear Localization and Interaction with Ure2p inSaccharomyces cerevisiae

    Ajit A. Kulkarni;Ashraf T. Abul-Hamd;Rajendra Rai;Hassan El Berry

  • A yeast protein phosphatase related to the vaccinia virus VH1 phosphatase is induced by nitrogen starvation.

    Kunliang Guan;David J. Hakes;Yuan Wang;Heui-Dong Park

  • The yeast UME6 gene product is required for transcriptional repression mediated by the CAR1 URS1 repressor binding site

    Heui-Dong Park;Ralf M. Luche;Terrance G. Cooper

  • Ubiquitous upstream repression sequences control activation of the inducible arginase gene in yeast.

    Roberta A. Sumrada;Terrance G. Cooper

  • Identification of sequences responsible for transcriptional activation of the allantoate permease gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Rajendra Rai;F. S. Genbauffe;R. A. Sumrada;T. G. Cooper

  • The DAL81 gene product is required for induced expression of two differently regulated nitrogen catabolic genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    P A Bricmont;J R Daugherty;T G Cooper

  • The Saccharomyces cerevisiae DAL80 repressor protein binds to multiple copies of GATAA-containing sequences (URSGATA)

    T S Cunningham;T G Cooper

  • Genetic evidence for Gln3p-independent, nitrogen catabolite repression-sensitive gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Jonathan A. Coffman;Rajendra Rai;Terrance G. Cooper

  • Mks1p is required for negative regulation of Retrograde gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae but does not affect nitrogen catabolite repression-sensitive gene expression

    Jennifer J. Tate;Kathleen H. Cox;Rajendra Rai;Terrance G. Cooper

  • Ure2, a Prion Precursor with Homology to Glutathione S-Transferase, Protects Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cells from Heavy Metal Ion and Oxidant Toxicity

    Rajendra Rai;Jennifer J. Tate;Terrance G. Cooper

  • The UGA4 UASNTR site required for GLN3-dependent transcriptional activation also mediates DAL80-responsive regulation and DAL80 protein binding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    T S Cunningham;R A Dorrington;T G Cooper

  • Genome-wide transcriptional analysis in S. cerevisiae by mini-array membrane hybridization.

    Kathleen H. Cox;Anna B. Pinchak;Terrance G. Cooper

  • Nitrogen catabolite repression of DAL80 expression depends on the relative levels of Gat1p and Ure2p production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Thomas S. Cunningham;Roopa Andhare;Terrance G. Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Evelyne Dubois
Evelyne Dubois Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jack E. Dixon
Jack E. Dixon University of California, San Diego
David R. Nelson
David R. Nelson University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Kun-Liang Guan
Kun-Liang Guan Westlake University
George A. Marzluf
George A. Marzluf The Ohio State University
Gregory L. Blatch
Gregory L. Blatch University of Notre Dame Australia
Claudio De Virgilio
Claudio De Virgilio University of Fribourg
Konstantin Mischaikow
Konstantin Mischaikow Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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