Dr. Elizabeth Vierling
Regents' Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Life Sciences South Building, Room 352
P.O. Box 210106
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621-1601
Email: vierling@u.arizona.edu
 

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Background and Interests
 
Elizabeth Vierling received a B.S. in Botany from the University of Michigan in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Chicago in 1982. She did postdoctoral research in Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia. Here at the University of Arizona she teaches undergraduate Biochemistry for majors and Core Concepts in Plant Biology for graduate students. Her current research interests are understanding the biological roles of molecular chaperones in plant stress and development. The lab uses a wide range of biochemical, molecular and genetic approaches, including basic protein biochemistry, microarrays of gene expression, and forward and reverse genetics in Arabidopsis.

 
Selected Publications
 

Cheng, G., E. Basha, V.H. Wysocki, E. Vierling. Insights into small heat shock protein and substrate structure during chaperone action derived from hydrogen/deuterium exchnage and mass spectrometry. J. Biol. Chem., 283:26634-42 (2008) Featured as “Paper of the Week”. PMID: 18621732

Bologi, Z., O. Cheregi, K.C. Giese, K. Juhász, E. Vierling, I. Vass, L. Vigh, I. Horváth. A mutant small heat shock protein with increased thylakoid association provides an elevated resistance against UV-B damage in Synechocystis 6803. J. Biol. Chem. 283:22983-22991 (2008).

Painter, A.J., N. Jaya, E. Basha, E. Vierling, C.V. Robinson , J.L. Benesch. Real-Time Monitoring of Protein Complexes Reveals their Quaternary Organization and Dynamics. Chem Biol. 15:246-53. (2008)

Lee, U., C.Wie, B. O. Fernandez, M. Feelisch, E. Vierling. Modulation of nitrosative stress by S-nitrosoglutathione reductase is critical for thermotolerance and plant growth. Plant Cell 20: 786-802, (2008).

Offerdahl, E., T. Baldwin, L. Elfring, E. Vierling, M. Ziegler. Reading questions in large lecture courses. J. College Teaching, March/April:34-38 (2008).

Tonsor, S.J., C. Scott, I. Boumanza, T.R. Liss, J.L. Brodsky, E. Vierling. Heat shock protein 101 effects in Arabidopsis thaliana: Genetic variation, fitness and pleiotropy in controlled environments. Mol. Ecol., 17: 1614-1626 (2008).

Larkindale, J., E. Vierling. Core genome responses involved in acclimation to high temperature. Plant Physiol. 146: 748-761 (2008).

Siddique, M., S. Gernhard, P. von Koskull-Döring, E. Vierling, K-D. Scharf. The plant sHSP superfamily: Five new members in Arabidopsis thaliana with unexpected properties. Cell Stress & Chaperones 13:183-197 (2008).

Schramm, F., J. Larkindale, K. Kiehlmann, G. Arnab, G. Englich, G., E. Vierling, P. von Koskull-Döring. A cascade of transcription factor DREB2A and heat stress transcription factor HsfA3 regulates the heat stress response of Arabidopsis. Plant J. 53: 264-274 (2008).

McClellan, C.A., T.J. Turbeyville, E.M. K. Wijeratne, A. Kerschen, E. Vierling, C. Queitsch, L. Whitesell, A.A. Gunatilaka. A rhizosphere fungus enhances Arabidopsis thermotolerance through production of an Hsp90 inhibitor. Plant Physiol 145: 174-182 (2007). Highlighted in Science Stke
http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sigtrans;2007/403/tw333

Kotak, S., E. Vierling, H. Bäumlein, P. von Koskull-Döring. A novel transcriptional cascade regulating heat stress proteins during seed development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 19:182-195 (2007).

Kwon, Y., S-H. Kim, M-S. Jung, M-S. Kim, J-E. Oh, H-W. Ju, K-I. Kim, E. Vierling, H. Lee, S-W. Hong. Arabidopsis hot2 encodes an endochitinase-like protein that is essential for tolerance to heat, salt and drought stresses. Plant J. 49:184-193 (2007).

Lee, U., I. Rioflorido, S-W. Hong, J. Larkindale, E. R.Waters, E.Vierling. The Arabidopsis ClpB/Hsp100 family of proteins: Chaperones for stress and chloroplast development. Plant Journal 49:115-127 (2007).

Basha, E., K.L. Friedrich, E. Vierling. The N-terminal arm of small heat shock proteins is important for both chaperone activity and substrate specificity. J. Biol. Chem. 281: 39943-39952 (2006).

Giese, K.C., E. Basha, B.Y. Catague, E. Vierling. Evidence for an essential function of the N-terminus of a small heat shock protein in vivo, independent of in vitro chaperone activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102: 18896-18901 (2005).

Larkindale, J. J, D. Hall, M. R. Knight, E. Vierling. Heat stress phenotypes of Arabidopsis mutants implicate multiple signaling pathways in the acquisition of thermotolerance. Plant Physiol., 138:882-97 (2005).

Balogi,Z., Z. Török, G. Balogh, K. Jósvay, N. Shigapova, E. Vierling, L. Vígh, I Horváth. “Heat shock lipid” in cyanobacteria during heat/light-acclimation. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. Membrane Biochem. Biophys. 436:346-54 (2005).

Lee,U., C. Wie, M. Escobar, B. Williams, S.-W. Hong, E. Vierling. Genetic analysis reveals domain interactions of Arabidopsis Hsp100/ClpB and cooperation with the sHsp chaperone system. Plant Cell, 17:559-571 (2005).

Giese,K.C. and E. Vierling. Mutants in a small heat shock proteins that affect the oligomeric state: analysis and allele specific suppression. J.
Biol. Chem. 279: 32674 - 32683 (2004).

Lum, R., J. M. Tkach, E. Vierling, and J. R. Glover. Evidence for an unfolding/threading mechanism for protein disaggregation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hsp104. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 29139 - 29146 (2004).

Clerkx,E.J.M., M. E. El-Lithy, E. Vierling, G.J. Ruys, H.Blankestijn-DeVries, S.P.C. Groot, D. Vreugdenhil, M. Koornneef. Analysis of natural allelic variation of Arabidopsis seed quality traits between the accessions Landsberg erecta and Shakdara, using a new recombinant inbred line population. Plant Physiol. 135: 432-443 (2004).

Basha, E., G.J. Lee, B. Demeler, E. Vierling. Chaperone activity of cytosolic small heat shock proteins in wheat. Eur. J. Biochem. 271:1-11 (2004).

Basha, E., G. J. Lee, L. A. Breci, A.C. Hausrath, N. R. Buan, K C. Giese and E. Vierling. The identity of proteins associated with a small heat shock protein during heat stress in vivo indicates these chaperones protect a wide range of cellular functions. J. Biol. Chem., 279: 7566-7575 (2004).

Friedrich, K. L., K. C. Giese, N. R. Buan, and E. Vierling. Interactions between small heat shock protein subunits and substrate in small heat shock protein/substrate complexes. J. Biol. Chem. 279:1080-1089 (2004).

 



 

       
 
 


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