Quinn Lab ~ Selected Publications
Publications
Naomi Mitchell, Timothy Johanson, Nicola Cranna, Amanda Lee, Helena Richardson, Ross Hannan and Leonie Quinn. "Hfp inhibits Drosophila myc transcription and cell growth in a TFIIH/Hay-dependent manner". Development 2010 137, 2875-2884.
Georg Mayer, Chiharu Kato, Björn Quast, Rebecca Chisholm, Kerry Landman and Leonie Quinn. Growth patterns in Onychophora: lack of a localised posterior proliferation zone, BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:339.
Adrian Monk, Nicole Siddall, Talila Volk, Barbara Fraser, Leonie Quinn, Eileen McLaughlin and Gary Hime. How is required for stem cell maintenance in the Drosophila testis and for the onset of transit amplifying divisions, Cell Stem Cell 2010, 6(4):348-60.
Nicola Cranna and Leonie Quinn. Impact of steroid hormone signals on Drosophila cell cycle during development. BMC Cell Division 2009 4:3.
Naomi Mitchell, Nicola Cranna, Helena Richardson and Leonie Quinn. The Ecdysone-inducible zinc finger transcription factor, Crol regulates wg transcription and cell cycle progression in Drosophila. Development 2008 (featured on the front cover). 135(16):2707-16.
Leonie Quinn, Ross Dickins, Michelle Coombe, Gary Hime, David Bowtell and Helena Richardson. Drosophila Hfp negatively regulates dmyc and stg to inhibit cell proliferation. Development 2004 131(6):1411-23.
Leonie Quinn, Michelle Coombe, Kathryn Mills, Tasman Daish, Paul Colussi, Sharad Kumar and Helena Richardson. Buffy, a Drosophila Bcl-2 related protein, has anti-apoptotic and cell cycle inhibitory functions. EMBO J. 2003 22(14):3568-79.
Leonie Quinn, Anabel Herr, Tom McGarry and Helena Richardson. The Drosophila Geminin homolog is required for S phase-mitosis coordination during development. Genes and Development 2001 15 (20):2741-2754.
Leonie Quinn, Loretta Dorstyn, Kathryn Mills, Paul Colussi, P Chen, Michelle Coombe, John Abrams, Sharad Kumar and Helena Richardson. An essential role for the caspase dronc in developmentally programmed cell death in Drosophila. J Biol Chem.2000 275(51):40416-24.
Leonie Quinn, Paul Colussi, D Huang, Michelle Coombe, Stewart Read, Helena Richardson and Sharad Kumar. Debcl, a proapoptotic Bcl-2 homologue, is a component of the Drosophila melanogaster cell death machinery. J Cell Biol. 2000 148(4):703-14.
Reviews
Nicola Cranna, Naomi Mitchell, Ross Hannan and Leonie Quinn. Hfp, the Drosophila homolog of the mammalian c-myc transcriptional-repressor and tumour suppressor FIR, inhibits dmyc transcription and cell growth. Fly 2011 5:2, 1-5.
Jane Lin, Nicola Cranna and Leonie Quinn. "The MYC oncogene is all about growth". Show Case On Research - The Ribosome in Health and Disease. Australian Biochemist 2010 41(3), 8-11.
Nicole Siddall, Gary Hime, Jane Lin and Leonie Quinn. Myc - what we have learned from flies. Current Drug Targets 2009 10(7):590-601.
Book Chapters
2005 - Helena Richardson, Leonie Quinn, Nancy Amin, Anabel Herr, Julie Secombe, Tony Brumby, Kathryn Doyle and Patrick Humbert. Regulation of G1-S phase and the initiation of DNA replication. Encyclopaedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine (Wiley, VCH). Volume 12 pp 139-214.