Selected Publications (since 1995)

PATIL, S., TAKEZAWA, D. AND POOVAIAH, B.W. 1995. Chimeric plant calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase gene with a neural visinin-like calcium-binding domain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92: 4897-4901. (Communicated by Edwin Krebs, Nobel Laureate.)

TAKEZAWA, D., LIU, Z.H., AN, G. AND POOVAIAH, B.W. 1995. Calmodulin gene family in potato: developmental and touch-induced expression of the mRNA encoding a novel isoform. Plant. Mol. Biol. 27: 693-703.

POOVAIAH, B.W., TAKEZAWA, D., AN, G. and HAN, T.-J. 1996. Regulated expression of a calmodulin isoform alters growth and development in potato. J. Plant Physiol. 149: 553- 558.

TAKEZAWA, D., RAMACHANDIRAN, S., PARANJAPE, V. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 1996. Dual regulation of a chimeric plant serine/threonine kinase by calcium and calcium/calmodulin. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 8126-8132.

WANG, W., TAKEZAWA, D., NARASIMHULU, S.B., REDDY, A.S.N. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 1996. A novel kinesin-like protein with a calmodulin-binding domain. Plant Mol. Biol. 31: 87-100.

WANG, W., TAKEZAWA, D. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 1996. A potato cDNA encoding a homologue of mammalian multidrug resistant P-glycoprotein. Plant Mol. Biol. 31: 683-687.

TAKEZAWA, D., PATIL, S., BHATIA, A. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 1996. Calcium- dependent protein kinase genes in corn roots. J. Plant Physiol. 149: 329-335.

RAMACHANDIRAN, S., TAKEZAWA, D., WANG, W., and POOVAIAH, B.W. 1997. Functional domains of plant chimeric calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase: regulation by autoinhibitory and visinin-like domains. J. Biochem. 121: 984-990

POOVAIAH, B.W., WANG, W., TAKEZAWA, D., NARAYANAN, S. and AN, G. 1997. Calcium- mediated signaling in plants: calmodulin and calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase. J. Plant Biol. 40: 190-197.

LIU, Z., XIA, M. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 1998. Chimeric calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase in tobacco: differential regulation by calmodulin isoforms. Plant Mol. Biol. 38: 889-897

WANG, W. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 1999. Interaction of plant chimeric calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase with a homolog of eukaryotic elongation factor-1 alpha. J. Biol. Chem. 274:12001-12008.

POOVAIAH, B.W., XIA, M., LIU, Z., WANG, W., YANG, T., SATHYANARAYANAN, P.V. and FRANCESCHI, V.R. 1999. Developmental regulation of the gene for chimeric calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase in anthers. Planta 209: 161-171.

YANG, T. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 2000. Molecular and biochemical evidence for the involvement of calcium/calmodulin in auxin action. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 3137-3143.

SATHYANARAYANAN, P.V., CREMO, C.R. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 2000. Plant chimeric calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase: Role of the neural visinin-like domain in regulating autophosphorylation and calmodulin affinity. J. Biol. Chem. 39: 30417-30422.

YANG, T. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 2000. Arabidopsis chloroplast chaperonin 10 is a calmodulin-binding protein. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 275: 601-607.

YANG, T. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 2000. An early ethylene up-regulated gene encoding a calmodulin-binding protein involved in plant senescence and death. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 38467-38473.

SATHYANARAYANAN, P.V., SIEMS, W.R., JONES, J.P. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 2001. Calcium-stimulated Autophosphorylation Site of Plant Chimeric Calcium/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 32940-32947.

YANG, T. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 2002. Hydrogen peroxide homeostasis: Activation of plant catalase by calcium/calmodulin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99: 4097-4102.

SATHYANARAYANAN, P.V. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 2002. Autophosphorylation-dependent inactivation of plant chimeric calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase. Eur. J. Biochem. 269: 2457-2463.

YANG, T. and POOVAIAH, B.W 2002. A Calmodulin-binding CGCG box DNA-binding protein family involved in multiple signaling pathways in plants. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 45049-45058.

POOVAIAH, B.W., YANG, and VAN LOON, J.J.W.A. 2002. Calcium/calmodulin-mediated gravitropic response in plants. J. Gravitational Physiology. 9:211-214.

YANG, T. and POOVAIAH, B.W. 2003. Calcium/calmodulin-mediated signal network in plants. Trends in Plant Sci. 8:505-512.

YANG, T., CHAUDHURI, S., YANG, L., CHEN, Y., AND POOVAIAH, B. W. 2004. Calcium/calmodulin upregulates a cytoplasmic receptor-like kinase. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 42552-42559.

SATHYANARAYANAN P. V. AND POOVAIAH B. W. 2004. Decoding calcium signals into phosphorylation signals in plants. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 23: 1-11.

DU, L. AND POOVAIAH, B. W. 2004. A novel family of Ca2+/calmodulin-binding proteins involved in transcriptional regulation: Interaction with fsh/Ring3 class transcription activators. Plant Mol. Biol. 54: 549-569.

Du, L. and POOVAIAH, B. W. 2005. Calcium/calmodulin is critical for brassinosteroid biosynthesis and plant growth, Nature 437:741-745.

GLEASON, C., CHAUDHURI, S., YANG, T., MUNOZ-GUTIERREZ, A., POOVAIAH, B.W. and OLDROYD, G.E.D. 2006. Nodulation independent of rhizobia induced by a calcium-activated kinase lacking autoinhibition, Nature 441:1149-1152.