ZFIN Lab: Cifuentes Lab

ZFIN ID: ZDB-LAB-151113-1

Cifuentes Lab

PI/Director:	Cifuentes, Daniel
Contact Person:	Cifuentes, Daniel
Email:	dcb@bu.edu
URL:
Address:	Boston University School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry 71 East Concord Street, room K604 Boston MA 02188, US
Country:	United States
Phone:	617-638-4159
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Line Designation:	None assigned

GENOMIC FEATURES ORIGINATING FROM THIS LAB No data available

STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS

LAB MEMBERS

ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS OF LAB MEMBERS

Nelson, E.V., Ross, S.J., Olejnik, J., Hume, A.J., Deeney, D.J., King, E., Grimins, A.O., Lyons, S.M., Cifuentes, D., Mühlberger, E. (2023) The 3' untranslated regions of Ebola virus mRNAs contain AU-rich elements involved in post-transcriptional stabilization and decay. The Journal of infectious diseases. 228(Supplement_7):S488-S497

Kretov, D.A., Walawalkar, I.A., Mora-Martin, A., Shafik, A.M., Moxon, S., Cifuentes, D. (2020) Ago2-Dependent Processing Allows miR-451 to Evade the Global MicroRNA Turnover Elicited during Erythropoiesis. Molecular Cell. 78(2):317-328.e6

Vejnar, C.E., Abdelmessih, M., Takacs, C., Yartseva, V., Oikonomou, P., Christiano, R., Stoeckius, M., Lau, S., Lee, M., Beaudoin, J.D., Musaev, D., Darwich-Codore, H., Walther, T., Tavazoie, S., Cifuentes, D., Giraldez, A. (2019) Genome wide analysis of 3'-UTR sequence elements and proteins regulating mRNA stability during maternal-to-zygotic transition in zebrafish. Genome research. 29(7):1100-1114

Marivin, A., Morozova, V., Walawalkar, I., Leyme, A., Kretov, D.A., Cifuentes, D., Dominguez, I., Garcia-Marcos, M. (2019) GPCR-independent activation of G proteins promotes apical cell constriction in vivo. The Journal of cell biology. 218:1743-1763

Kumaradevan, S., Lee, S.Y., Richards, S., Lyle, C., Zhao, Q., Tapan, U., Jiangliu, Y., Ghumman, S., Walker, J., Belghasem, M., Arinze, N., Kuhnen, A., Weinberg, J., Francis, J., Hartshorn, K., Kolachalama, V.B., Cifuentes, D., Rahimi, N., Chitalia, V.C. (2018) c-Cbl Expression Correlates with Human Colorectal Cancer Survival and Its Wnt/β-Catenin Suppressor Function Is Regulated by Tyr371 Phosphorylation. The American journal of pathology. 188(8):1921-1933

Kretov, D.A., Shafik, A.M., Cifuentes, D. (2018) Assessing miR-451 Activity and Its Role in Erythropoiesis. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 1680:179-190

Hoffman, E.J., Turner, K.J., Fernandez, J.M., Cifuentes, D., Ghosh, M., Ijaz, S., Jain, R.A., Kubo, F., Bill, B.R., Baier, H., Granato, M., Barresi, M.J., Wilson, S.W., Rihel, J., State, M.W., Giraldez, A.J. (2016) Estrogens Suppress a Behavioral Phenotype in Zebrafish Mutants of the Autism Risk Gene, CNTNAP2. Neuron. 89(4):725-33

Yoda, M., Cifuentes, D., Izumi, N., Sakaguchi, Y., Suzuki, T., Giraldez, A.J., Tomari, Y. (2013) Poly(A)-specific ribonuclease mediates 3'-end trimming of Argonaute2-cleaved precursor microRNAs. Cell Reports. 5:715-26

Zhu, C., Smith, T., McNulty, J., Rayla, A.L., Lakshmanan, A., Siekmann, A.F., Buffardi, M., Meng, X., Shin, J., Padmanabhan, A., Cifuentes, D., Giraldez, A.J., Look, A.T., Epstein, J.A., Lawson, N.D., and Wolfe, S.A. (2011) Evaluation and application of modularly assembled zinc-finger nucleases in zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 138(20):4555-4564

Sander, J.D., Dahlborg, E.J., Goodwin, M.J., Cade, L., Zhang, F., Cifuentes, D., Curtin, S.J., Blackburn, J.S., Thibodeau-Beganny, S., Qi, Y., Pierick, C.J., Hoffman, E., Maeder, M.L., Khayter, C., Reyon, D., Dobbs, D., Langenau, D.M., Stupar, R.M., Giraldez, A.J., Voytas, D.F., Peterson, R.T., Yeh, J.R., Joung, J.K. (2011) Selection-free zinc-finger-nuclease engineering by context-dependent assembly (CoDA). Nature Methods. 8:67-9

Cifuentes, D., Xue, H., Taylor, D.W., Patnode, H., Mishima, Y., Cheloufim, S., Ma, E., Mane, S., Hannon, G.J., Lawson, N.D., Wolfe, S.A., and Giraldez, A.J. (2010) A novel miRNA processing pathway independent of Dicer requires Argonaute2 catalytic activity. Science (New York, N.Y.). 328(5986):1694-1698