Publications

Brown M, Sciascia E, Ning K, Adam W, Veraksa A. (2024) Regulation of Drosophila brain development and organ growth by the Minibrain/Rala signaling network. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. PDF

Yang L, Zhu A, Aman JM, Denberg D, Kilwein MD, Marmion RA, Johnson ANT, Veraksa A, Singh M, Wühr M, Shvartsman SY. (2024) ERK synchronizes embryonic cleavages in Drosophila. Developmental Cell 59, final page numbers TBA. PDF

Portela M, Mukherjee S, Paul S, La Marca JE, Parsons LM, Veraksa A, Richardson HE. (2024) The Drosophila tumour suppressor Lgl and Vap33 activate the Hippo pathway through a dual mechanism. Journal of Cell Science 137, jcs261917. PDF

Zhao H, Moberg KH, Veraksa A. (2023) Hippo pathway and Bonus control developmental cell fate decisions in the Drosophila eye. Developmental Cell 58, 416-434. PDF

Rodríguez-Muñoz L, Lagares C, González-Crespo S, Castel P, Veraksa A, Jiménez G. (2022) Noncanonical function of Capicua as a growth termination signal in Drosophila oogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 119, e2123467119. PDF

Barek H, Zhao H, Heath K, Veraksa A, Sugumaran M. (2022) Drosophila yellow-h encodes dopaminechrome tautomerase: A new enzyme in the eumelanin biosynthetic pathway. Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research 35, 26-37. PDF

Paul S, Yang L, Mattingly H, Goyal Y, Shvartsman SY, Veraksa, A. (2020) Activation-induced substrate engagement in ERK signaling. Molecular Biology of the Cell 31, 235-243.
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Chai F, Xu W, Musoke T, Tarabelsi G, Assaad S, Freedman J, Peterson R, Piotrowska K, Byrnes J, Rogers S, Veraksa A. (2019) Structure-function analysis of β-arrestin Kurtz reveals a critical role of receptor interactions in downregulation of GPCR signaling in vivo. Developmental Biology 455, 409-419. PDF

Poon CLC, Liu W, Song Y,Gomez M, Kulaberoglu Y, Zhang X, Xu W, Veraksa A, Hergovich A, Ghabrial A, Harvey KF. (2018) A Hippo-like Signaling Pathway Controls Tracheal Morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Cell 47, 564-575. PDF

Portela M, Yang L, Paul S, Li X, Veraksa A, Parsons LM, Richardson HE. (2018) Lgl reduces endosomal vesicle acidification and Notch signaling by promoting the interaction between Vap33 and the V-ATPase complex. Science Signaling 11, eaar1976 PDF

Barek H, Veraksa A, Sugumaran M. (2018) Drosophila melanogaster has the enzymatic machinery to make the melanic component of neuromelanin. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research 31, 683-692. PDF

Yang, L., Veraksa, A. (2017). Single-Step Affinity Purification of ERK Signaling Complexes Using the Streptavidin-Binding Peptide (SBP) Tag. Methods in Molecular Biology 1487, 113-126. PDF Mass spectrometry dataset Excel file

Yang, L., Paul, S., DuBois-Coyne, S., Kyriakakis, P., Veraksa, A. (2017). Medium-scale preparation of Drosophila  embryo extracts for proteomic experiments. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 123, e55804. PDF

Yang, L., Paul, S., Trieu, K. Dent, L., Froldi, F., Fores, M., Webster, K., Siegfried, K.R., Kondon, S., Harvey, K., Cheng, L., Jimenez, G., Shvartsman, S.Y., and Veraksa, A. (2016) Minibrain and Wings apart control organ growth and tissue patterning through down-regulation of Capicua. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 10583-10588. PDF

Nie Y, Li Q, Amcheslavsky A, Duhart JC, Veraksa A, Stocker H, Raftery LA, Ip YT. (2015). Bunched and Madm Function Downstream of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex to Regulate the Growth of Intestinal Stem Cells in Drosophila. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. 11, 813-825. PDF

Zhang C, Robinson BS, Xu W, Yang L, Yao B, Zhao H, Byun PK, Jin P, Veraksa A, Moberg KH. (2015). The Ecdysone Receptor Coactivator Taiman Links Yorkie to Transcriptional Control of Germline Stem Cell Factors in Somatic Tissue. Developmental Cell 34, 168-180. PDF

Dent, G.L, Poon, C.L.C., Zhang, X, Degoutin, J.L., Tipping, M.,Veraksa, A. and Harvey, K. (2015). The GTPase Regulatory Proteins Pix and Git Control Tissue Growth via the Hippo Pathway. Current Biology 25, 124-130. PDF

Anjum, S.G., Xu, W., Nikkholgh, N.N., Basu, S., Nie, Y., Thomas, M., Satyamurti, M., Budnik, B.A., Ip, T., Veraksa, A. (2013). Regulation of Toll Signaling and Inflammation by Beta-Arrestin and the SUMO Protease Ulp1. Genetics 195, 1307-1317. PDF

Degoutin, J.L., Milton, C.C., Yu, E., Tipping, M., Bosveld, F., Yang, L., Bellaiche, Y., Veraksa, A. and Harvey, K. (2013). Riquiqui and Minibrain are regulators of the Hippo pathway downstream of Dachsous. Nature Cell Biology 15, 1176-1185. PDF

Veraksa, A. (2013) Regulation of developmental processes: insights from mass spectrometry−based proteomics. WIREs Developmental Biology 2, 723-734. PDF

Gilbert, M.M., Tipping, M., Veraksa, A. and Moberg, K. (2011) A screen for conditional growth suppressor genes identifies the Drosophila homolog of HD-PTP as a regulator of the oncoprotein Yorkie. Developmental Cell 20, 700-712. PDF

Tipping, M., Kim, Y., Kyriakakis, P., Tong, M., Shvartsman, S.Y. and Veraksa, A. (2010) β-arrestin Kurtz inhibits MAPK and Toll signaling in Drosophila development. EMBO Journal 29, 3222-3235. PDF

Veraksa, A. (2010) When peptides fly: advances in Drosophila proteomics. Journal of Proteomics 73, 2158-2170. PDF

Lake, R.J., Grimm, L.M., Veraksa, A., Banos, A. and Artavanis-Tsakonas, S. (2009) In vivo analysis of the Notch receptor S1 cleavage. PLoS ONE 4(8), e6728. PDF

Yelleswarapu, C.S., Tipping, M., Kothapalli, S.R., Veraksa, A. and Rao, D.V. (2009) Common path multimodal optical microscopy. Optics Letters 34, 1243-1245. PDF

Kyriakakis, P.P., Tipping, M., Abed, L., and Veraksa, A. (2008) Tandem affinity purification in Drosophila: the advantages of the GS-TAP system. Fly 2, 229-235. PDF

Omori, Y., Zhao, C., Saras, A., Kim, W., Mukhopadhyay, S., Kim, W., Furukawa, T., Sengupta, P., Veraksa, A. and Malicki, J. (2008) Elipsa is an early determinant of ciliogenesis that links the IFT particle to membrane-associated small GTPase Rab8. Nature Cell Biology 10, 437-444. PDF

Mukherjee, A.*, Veraksa, A.*, Bauer, A., Rosse, C., Camonis, J., Artavanis-Tsakonas, S. (2005) Regulation of Notch signalling by non-visual beta arrestin. Nature Cell Biology 7, 1191-1201. (*) Equal contribution. PDF

Veraksa, A., Bauer, A. and Artavanis-Tsakonas, S. (2005) Analyzing protein complexes in Drosophila with Tandem Affinity Purification-mass spectrometry. Developmental Dynamics 232, 827-834. PDF

Moberg, K.H., Mukherjee, A., Veraksa, A., Artavanis-Tsakonas, S., Hariharan, I.K. (2004) The Drosophila F-box protein Archipelago regulates dMyc protein levels in vivo. Current Biology 14, 965-974. PDF

Veraksa, A., Kennison, J., McGinnis, W. (2002) DEAF-1 function is essential for the early embryonic development of Drosophila. Genesis 33, 67-76. PDF

Veraksa, A., McGinnis, N., Li, X., Mohler, J., McGinnis, W. (2000) Cap ′n′ collar B cooperates with a small Maf subunit to specify pharyngeal development and suppress Deformed homeotic function in the Drosophila head. Development 127, 4023-4037. PDF

Veraksa, A., Del Campo, M., McGinnis, W. (2000) Developmental patterning genes and their conserved functions: From model organisms to humans (Review). Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 69, 85-100. PDF

Li, X., Veraksa, A., McGinnis, W. (1999) A sequence motif distinct from Hox binding sites controls the specificity of a Hox response element. Development 126, 5581-5589. PDF