Assistant Professor
Gene expression and metabolic changes during plant defense responses
to pests
Functional genomics of plant nucleases
Selected Publications
Raices, M., Ulloa, R.M., MacIntosh, G.C., Crespi, M. and Tellez-Inon,
M.T. (2003) StCDPK1 is expressed in potato stolon tips and is induced
by high sucrose concentration. J. Exp. Bot. 54, 2589-2591.
Raices, M., MacIntosh, G.C., Ulloa, R.M., Gargantini, P.R., Vozza, N.F.
and Tellez-Inon, M.T. (2003) Sucrose increases calcium-dependent protein
kinase and phosphatase activities in potato plants. Cell. Mol. Biol.
49, 959-964.
Ulloa, R.M., Raices, M., MacIntosh, G.C., Maldonado, S. and Tellez-Inon,
M.T. (2002) Jasmonic acid affects plant morphology and calcium-dependent
protein kinase expression and activity in Solanum tuberosum. Physiol.
Plant. 115, 417-427.
LeBrasseur, N.D., MacIntosh, G.C., Perez-Amador, M.A., Saitoh, M. and
Green, P.J. (2002) Local and systemic wound-induction of RNase and nuclease
activities in Arabidopsis: RNS1 as a marker for a JA-independent systemic
signaling pathway. Plant J. 29, 393-403.
MacIntosh, G.C., Wilkerson, C. and Green, P.J. (2001) Identification
and analysis of Arabidopsis expressed sequence tags characteristic of
non-coding RNAs. Plant Physiol. 127, 765-776.
MacIntosh, G.C., Bariola, P.A., Newbigin, E. and Green, P.J. (2001)
Characterization of Rny1, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae member of the
T2 RNase family of RNases: unexpected functions for ancient enzymes?
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 1018-1023.
Gutierrez, R.A., MacIntosh, G.C. and Green, P.J. (1999) Current perspectives
on mRNA stability in plants: multiple levels and mechanisms of control.
Trends Plant Sci. 4, 429-438.
Bariola, P.A., MacIntosh, G.C. and Green, P.J. (1999) Regulation of
S-like ribonuclease levels in Arabidopsis. Antisense inhibition of RNS1
or RNS2 elevates anthocyanin accumulation. Plant Physiol. 119,
331-342.
Ogueta, S.B., MacIntosh, G.C. and Tellez-Inon, M.T. (1998) Stage-specific
substrate phosphorylation by a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase
in Trypanosoma cruzi. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 45, 392-396.
MacIntosh, G.C., Ulloa, R.M., Raices, M. and Tellez-Inon, M.T. (1996)
Changes in Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase Activity during in Vitro
Tuberization in Potato. Plant Physiol. 112, 1541-1550.
