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Professor William J. Lucas

Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology
1231 Life Sciences Addition
University of California, Davis,
California 95616-8537 USA
Tel: +1-530-752-1093; Fax: +1-530-752-5410
E-mail: wjlucas@ucdavis.edu
http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/labs/lucas/PI.htm
Area of expertise: Intercellular communication; long and short distance signal transduction; flower induction; plasmadesmata; moment protein
Editorial board member until: Aug. 31, 2011
   
Selected Publications:  
   
The following is a representative listing of publications from Professor Lucas' laboratory. To download a complete listing of publications (in pdf form) click here.
 
  • Taoka K, Ham BK, Xoconostle-C¨¢zares B, Rojas MR, Lucas WJ (2007) Reciprocal phosphorylation and glycosylation recognition motifs control NCAPPl interaction with pumpkin phloem proteins and their cell-to-cell movement. Plant Cell 19, 1866-1884.
  • Lin MK, Belanger H, Lee YJ, Varkonyi-Gasic E, Taoka K, Miura E, Xoconostle-C¨¢zares B, Gendler K, Jorgensen RA, Phinney B, Lough TJ, Lucas WJ (2007) FLOWERING LOCUS T protein may act as the long-distance florigenic signal in the cucurbits. Plant Cell 19, 1488-1506.
  • Ruiz-Medrano R, Moya JH, Xoconostle-C¨¢zares B, Lucas WJ (2007) Influence of cucumber mosaic virus infection on the mRNA population present in the phloem translocation stream of pumpkin plants. Funct. Plant Biol. 34, 292-301.
  • Seo YS, Rojas MR, Lee JY, Lee SW, Jeon JS, Ronald P, Lucas WJ, Gilbertson RL (2006) A viral resistance gene from common bean functions across plant families and is up-regulated in a non-virus-specific manner. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 11856-11861.
  • Lough TJ, Lee RH, Emerson SJ, Forster RL, Lucas WJ (2006) Functional analysis of the 5' untranslated region of potexvirus RNA reveals a role in viral replication and cell-to-cell movement. Virology 351, 455-465.
  • Lough TJ, Lucas WJ (2006) Integrative plant biology: role of phloem long-distance macromolecular trafficking. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 57, 203-232.
  • Lucas WJ (2005) Plant viral movement proteins: agents for cell-to-cell trafficking of viral genomes. Virology 344, 169-184.
  • Lee JY, Taoka K, Yoo BC, Ben-Nissan G, Kim DJ, Lucas WJ (2005) Plasmodesmal-associated protein kinase in tobacco and Arabidopsis recognizes a subset of non-cell-autonomous proteins. Plant Cell 17, 2817-2831.
  • Rojas MR, Hagen C, Lucas WJ, Gilbertson RL (2005) Exploiting chinks in the plant's armor: evolution and emergence of geminiviruses. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 43, 361-394.
  • Haywood V, Yu TS, Huang NC, Lucas WJ (2005) Phloem long-distance trafficking of GIBBERELLIC ACID-INSENSITIVE RNA regulates leaf development. Plant J. 42, 49-68.
  • Lucas WJ, Lee JY (2005) Plasmodesmata as a supracellular control network in plants. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 5, 712-726.
  • Yoo BC, Kragler F, Varkonyi-Gasic E, Haywood V, Archer-Evans S, Lee YM, Lough TJ, Lucas WJ (2004) A systemic small RNA signaling system in plants. Plant Cell 16, 1979-2000.
  • Lee JY, Yoo BC, Rojas MR, Gomez-Ospina N, Staehelin LA, Lucas WJ (2003) Selective trafficking of non-cell-autonomous proteins mediated by NtNCAPP1. Science 299, 392-396.
  • Aoki K, Kragler F, Xoconostle-Cazares B, Lucas WJ (2002) A subclass of plant heat shock cognate 70 chaperones carries a motif that facilitates trafficking through plasmodesmata. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 16342-16347.
  • Haywood V, Kragler F, Lucas WJ (2002) Plasmodesmata: pathways for protein and ribonucleoprotein signaling. Plant Cell 14, S303-S325.
  • Foster TM, Lough TJ, Emerson SJ, Lee RH, Bowman JL, Forster RL, Lucas WJ (2002) A surveillance system regulates selective entry of RNA into the shoot apex. Plant Cell 14, 1497-1508.
  • Lucas WJ, Yoo BC, Kragler F (2001) RNA as a long-distance information macromolecule in plants. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2, 849-857.
  • Kragler F, Monzer J, Xoconostle-C¨¢zares B, Lucas WJ (2000) Peptide antagonists of the plasmodesmal macromolecular trafficking pathway. EMBO J. 19, 2856-2868.
  • Ruiz-Medrano R, Xoconostle-C¨¢zares B, Lucas WJ (1999) Phloem long-distance transport of CmNACP mRNA: implications for supracellular regulation in plants. Development 126, 4405-4419.
  • Xoconostle-C¨¢zares B, Xiang Y, Ruiz-Medrano R, Wang HL, Monzer J, Yoo BC, McFarland KC, Franceschi VR, Lucas WJ (1999) Plant paralog to viral movement protein that potentiates transport of mRNA into the phloem. Science 283, 94-98.
  • Rojas MR, Noueiry AO, Lucas WJ, Gilbertson RL (1998) Bean dwarf mosaic geminivirus movement proteins recognize DNA in a form- and size-specific manner. Cell 95, 105-113.
  • Kragler F, Monzer J, Shash K, Xoconostle-C¨¢zares B, Lucas WJ (1998) Cell-to-cell transport of proteins: requirement for unfolding and characterization of binding to a putative plasmodesmal receptor. Plant J. 15, 367-381.
  • Jorgensen RA, Atkinson RG, Forster RL, Lucas WJ (1998) An RNA-based information superhighway in plants. Science 279, 1486-1487.
  • Noueiry AO, Lucas WJ, Gilbertson RL (1994) Two proteins of a plant DNA virus coordinate nuclear and plasmodesmal transport. Cell 76, 925-932.
  • Wolf S, Deom CM, Beachy RN, Lucas WJ (1989) Movement protein of tobacco mosaic virus modifies plasmodesmatal size exclusion limit. Science 246, 377-379.