Sharon Gorski Publications
Armstrong LJ and Gorski SM. Breast Cancer and Autophagy. Chapter II in Breast Cancer: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment, Nova Publishers, 2010.
Chittaranjan S, McConechy M, Hou YC, Freeman JD, DeVorkin L and Gorski SM. Steroid hormone control of cell death and cell survival: molecular insights using RNAi. Plos Genetics. 2009, 5(2) e/000379.
Hannigan AM, Gorski SM. Macroautophagy: The key ingredient to a healthy diet? Autophagy. 2009 Feb 3;5(2): 140-51.
Hou YC, Hannigan AM, Gorski SM. An executioner caspase regulates autophagy. Autophagy. 2009, May;5(4):530-3.
Hou YC, Chittaranjan S, Gonzalez S, McCall K and Gorski SM. Effector caspase Dcp-1 and IAP protein Bruce regulate starvation-induced autophagy during Drosophila oogenesis. The Journal of Cell Biology. 2008, Sept. 22;182(6):1127-39.
Qadir M, Kwok B, Dragowska WH, To KH, Le D, Bally MB, and Gorski SM. Macroautophagy inhibition sensitizes tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cells and enhances mitochondrial depolarization. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2008 Dec;112(3):389-403. Also, featured in BCN News (http://www.breastcancer.net/2.php), March 13, 2009.
Klionsky DJ, Abeliovich H, Agostinis P, Agrawal D…..Gorski SM et al… Guidelines for Monitoring Autophagy in Higher Eukaryotes. Autophagy 2008 Feb;4(2): 151-175. (multi-author/institution review)
Copeland JM, Bosdet I, Guo M, Freeman JD, Guo M, Gorski SM* and Hay BA. Echninus, required for interommatidial cell sorting and cell death in the Drosophila pupal retina, encodes a protein with homology to ubiquitin-specific proteases. BMC Developmental Biology. 2007 Jul 5;7(1):82- . *Co-corresponding author
Akdemir F, Farkas R, Chen P, Juhasz G, Medvedova L, Sass M, Wang L, Wang X, Chittaranjan S, Gorski SM, Rodriguez A, Abrams JM. Autophagy occurs upstream of or parallel to the apoptosome during histolytic cell death. Development. 2006 Apr;133(8): 1457-1465.
Riddle DL and Gorski SM. Shaping and stretching life by autophagy. Preview, Developmental Cell. 2003 Sep;5(3):364-365.
Sun Y, Kanekar SL, Vetter ML, Gorski SM, Jan YN, Glaser T, and Brown NL. Conserved and divergent functions of Drosophila atonal, amphibian, and mammalian Ath5 genes. Evolution and Development. 2003 Sep-Oct;(5):532-541.
Gorski SM, Chittaranjan S, Pleasance ED, Freeman JD, Anderson CL, Varhol RJ, Coughlin SM, Zuyderduyn SD, Jones SJM, and Marra MA. A SAGE Approach to Discovery of Genes Involved in Autophagic Cell Death. Current Biology. 2003 Feb 18;13(4):358-363.
Gorski SM and Marra M. Programmed cell death takes flight: Genetic and genomic approaches to gene discovery in Drosophila. Physiological Genomics. 2002;9(2):59-69.
Mirkovic I, Charish K, Gorski SM, McKnight K and Verheyen EM. Drosophila nemo is an essential gene involved in the regulation of programmed cell death. Mechanisms of Development. 2002 Nov;119(1):9-20.
Gorski SM, Brachmann CB, Tanenbaum SB, and Cagan RL. Delta and Notch promote correct localization of IrreC-rst. Cell Death and Differentiation. 2000 Oct;7(10):1011-1013.
Tanenbaum SB*, Gorski SM*, Rusconi JC, and RL Cagan. A screen for dominant modifiers of the irreC-rst cell death phenotype in the developing Drosophila retina. Genetics. 2000 Sep;156(1):205-217. *Both authors contributed equally to this work.
Nowotny P*, Gorski SM*, Han SW, Philips K, Ray WJ, Nowotny V, Jones C, Clark RF, Cagan RL and Goate AM. Post-translational Modification and Plasma Membrane Localization of the Drosophila melanogaster Presenilin. Mol Cell Neuro. 2000 Jan;15(1):88-98. *Both authors contributed equally to this work.
Fitzpatrick KA, Gorski SM, Ursuliak Z and Price JV. Expression of protein tyrosine phosphatase genes during oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Mechanisms of Development. 1995 Oct;53(2):171-183.
Gorski SM, Adams KJ, Birch PH, Chodirker BN, Greenberg CR and Goodfellow PJ. Linkage analysis of X-linked cleft palate and ankyloglossia in Manitoba Mennonite and British Columbia Native kindreds. Human Genetics. 1994 Aug;94(2):141-148.
Smith MJ, Arndt A, Gorski SM and Fajber E. The phylogeny of echinoderm classes based on mitochondrial gene arrangements. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 1993 Jun;36(6):545-554.
Gorski SM, Adams KJ, Birch PH, Friedman JM and Goodfellow PJ. The gene responsible for X-linked cleft palate (CPX) in a British Columbia Native kindred is localized between PGK1 and DXYS1. Am J Human Genetics. 1992 May;50(5):1129-1136.
Smith MJ, Banfield DK, Doteval K, Gorski SM and Kowbel DJ. Nucleotide sequence of nine protein-coding genes and 22 tRNAs in the mitochondrial DNA of the sea star Pisaster ochraceus. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 1990;31:195-204.
Smith MJ, Banfield DK, Doteval K, Gorski SM and Kowbel DJ. 1989. Gene arrangement in sea star mitochondrial DNA demonstrates a major inversion event during echinoderm evolution. Gene. 1989;76:181-185.