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Research Profile - Michael Collard  
   
Department/Division:     Email Address:
Physiology mcollard@siumed.edu
Office Location:     Location of Laboratory:
Life Science III, Room 2081, Carbondale   Life Science III, Room 2018, 2040
Office Phone Number:     Laboratory Phone Number:
618-453-8430     618-453-1592
Willing to mentor medical students and / or residents? Yes
Research Interests: Cancer, epigenetics, mouse
knockouts, testis, gene expression,
signal transduction, tumor
suppressors, genomic imprinting,
fetal development
Techniques and Methodologies: rat and mouse animal models, cell
culture, recombinant protein
production, bacterial and eukaryotic
gene expression, site directed
mutagenesis, fluorescence
microscopy, microarray analysis,
bioinformatics, general molecular
biology

Equipment:

Cell culture equipment, confocal
microscopy
Current Collaborators:
Jodi Huggenvik, Ko Watabe, Tom
Tarter, Carl Faingold, Earl Parr, Stan
McKnight (University of Washington)
Current and Pending Awards:
Current:
2001-2006 Co-Principal Investigator: NUDR: A Potential Tumor Suppressor of Childhood Cancers, NIH grant R1CA89438A ( J.I. Huggenvik, P.I.)

2003-2005 Co-Principal Investigator: Tumor Suppressor Activities of NUDR and PTEN in Prostate. Activities to Promote Research Collaborations (NIH/NCI supplement) ( J.I. Huggenvik, P.I.)

SIU Cancer Institute Grant "The Role of DNA Repair Enzymes in Prostate Cancer". M.W. Collard, Principal Investigator

Pending:

Co-investigator: Genetics and Preservation of an Endangered Rat
Resource: NIH R01 proposal submitted 6-01-03 (total cost requested, Carl L. Faingold, P.I.)
Publications:    

Collard, M.W. , Griswold, M.D. (1987) Biosynthesis and molecular cloning of sulfated glycoprotein 2 secreted by rat Sertoli cells. Biochemistry 26:3297-3303.

Collard, M.W., Sylvester, S.R., Tsuruta, J.K., Griswold, M.D. (1988) Biosynthesis and molecular cloning of sulfated glycoprotein 1 secreted by rat Sertoli cells: Sequence similarity with the 70-Kilodalton precursor to sulfatide/GM1 activator. Biochemistry 27:4557-4564.

Cairns, B.R., Collard, M.W., Landfear, S.M. (1989) Developmentally regulated gene from Leishmania encodes a putative membrane transport protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:7682-7686.

Collard, M.W., Day, R., Akil, H., Uhler, M.D., Douglass, J.O. (1990) Sertoli cells are the primary site of prodynorphin gene expression in rat testis: Regulation of mRNA and secreted peptide levels by cAMP analogs in cultured cells. Molecular Endocrinology 4:1488-1496.

Day, R., Schafer, M.K.H., Collard, M.W., Watson, S.J., Akil, H. (1991) Atypical prodynorphin gene expression in corticosteroid producing cells of the rat adrenal gland. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:1320-1324

Huggenvik J.I., Michelson R.J., Collard M.W., Ziemba A.J., Gurley P., Mowen K.A. (1998) Characterization of a Deformed Epidermal Autoregulatory Factor-1 (DEAF-1)-Related (NUDR) Transcriptional Regulator Protein. Molecular Endocrinology 12:1619-1639

Michelson R.J., Collard M.W., Ziemba A.J., Persinger J., Bartholomew B., Huggenvik J.I. (1999) Nuclear DEAF-1-related (NUDR) protein contains a novel DNA binding domain and represses transcription of the heterogeneous nuclear ribonuclearprotein A2/B1 promoter. Journal of Biological Chemistry 274:30510-30519

Bottomley M.J., Collard M.W., Huggenvik J.I., Liu Z., Gibson T.J., Sattler M. (2001) The SAND domain structure defines a novel DNA-binding fold in transcriptional regulation. Nature Structural Biology Jul;8(7):626-633

Jensik P.J., Holbird D., Collard M.W., Cox T.C., (2001) Cloning and characterization of a functional P2X receptor from larval bullfrog skin American Journal of Physiology 281:C954-962

Jensik PJ, Huggenvik JI, Collard MW (2004) Identification of a nuclear export signal and protein interaction domains in deformed epidermal autoregulatory factor-1 (DEAF-1).
J Biol Chem. 2004 May 25 [Epub ahead of print] LINK

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