Quinn Lab ~ Publications

Leonie M. Quinn, Ross A. Dickins, Michelle Coombe, Gary R. Hime, David D.L. 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.

Quinn, L.M., Herr, A., McGarry, T. and Richardson, H. The Drosophila Geminin homolog is required for S phase-mitosis coordination during development. Genes and Dev 2001, 15 (20):2741-2754.

Doumanis, J., Quinn, L., Richardson, H. and Kumar, S. STRICA, a novel Drosophila melanogaster caspase with an unusual serine/threonine-rich prodomain, interacts with DIAP1 and DIAP2. Cell Death and Differentiation 2001, 8:387-394.

Harvey NL, Daish T, Mills K, Dorstyn L, Quinn LM, Read SH, Richardson H, Kumar S. Characterization of the Drosophila caspase, DAMM. J Biol Chem. 2001 May 3 276: 25342-25350.

Quinn LM, Dorstyn L, Mills K, Colussi PA, Chen P, Coombe M, Abrams J, Kumar S, Richardson H. An essential role for the caspase dronc in developmentally programmed cell death in Drosophila. J Biol Chem. 2000 Dec 22;275(51):40416-24.

Quinn LM, Colussi PA, (co-first authors), Huang DC, Coombe M, Read SH, Richardson H, Kumar S. Debcl, a proapoptotic Bcl-2 homologue, is a component of the Drosophila melanogaster cell death machinery. J Cell Biol. 2000 Feb 21;148(4):703-14.

Dorstyn L, Read SH, Quinn LM, Richardson H, Kumar S. DECAY, a novel Drosophila caspase related to mammalian caspase-3 and caspase-7. J Biol Chem. 1999 Oct 22;274(43):30778-83.

Dorstyn L, Colussi PA, Quinn LM, Richardson H, Kumar S. DRONC, an ecdysone-inducible Drosophila caspase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1999 Apr 13;96(8):4307-12.

b) Reviews

Leonie M. Quinn and Helena Richardson. A role for the prosurvival Bcl-2 protein in cell cycle regulation. Cell Cycle. 2004 Jan-Feb;3(1):7-9.

Humbert PO, Brumby AM, Quinn LM, Richardson HE. New tricks for old dogs: unexpected roles for cell cycle regulators revealed using animal models. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2004 Dec;16(6):614-22.

c) Book Chapters

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. Enc MCB Rev, 2005.