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Bicknell AA and Niwa M.
Regulating ER function through the Unfolded Protein Response.
Handbook of Signaling. 2009 (In Press)

Brunsing R, Omori SA, Weber F, Bicknell A, Friend L, Rickert R, Niwa M.
B- and T-cell development both involve activity of the unfolded protein response pathway.
Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2008 Jun 27;283(26):17954-61.
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Bicknell AA, Babour A, Federovitch CM, Niwa M.
A novel role in cytokinesis reveals a housekeeping function for the unfolded protein response.
Journal of Cell Biology. 2007 Jun 18;177(6):1017-27.
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DuRose JB, Tam AB, Niwa M.
Intrinsic capacities of molecular sensors of the unfolded protein response to sense alternate forms of endoplasmic reticulum stress.
Molecular Biology of the Cell. 2006 Jul;17(7):3095-107.
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Chawla A, Niwa M.
The unfolded protein response.
Current Biology. 2005 Nov 22;15(22):R907.
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Niwa M.
Unfolded Protein Response Pathway.
Topics in Current Genetics. 2005 10:35-63.

Niwa M., Patel C., DeRisi J., and Walter P.
Non-conventional HAC1 mRNA splicing provides a private communication pathway between the endoplasmic reticulum and the nucleus.
Genome Biology 2004 6:R3.1-3.10.

Dong B., Niwa M., Walter P., and Silverman R. H.
Basis for regulated RNA cleavage by functional analysis of RNaseL and Ire1p.
RNA. 2001 Mar;7(3):361-73.

Niwa M., and Walter P.
Pausing to decide.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. 2000 Nov 7;97(23):12396-7.

Nock S, Gonzalez TN, Sidrauski C, Niwa M, Walter P.
Purification and activity assays of the catalytic domains of the kinase/endoribonuclease Ire1p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Methods in Enzymology 2001;342:3-10.

Niwa M, Sidrauski C, Kaufman RJ, Walter P.
A role for presenilin-1 in nuclear accumulation of Ire1 fragments and induction of the mammalian unfolded protein response.
Cell. 1999 Dec 23;99(7):691-702.

Lowell CA, Niwa M, Soriano P, Varmus HE.
Deficiency of the Hck and Src tyrosine kinases results in extreme levels of extramedullary hematopoiesis.
Blood. 1996 Mar 1;87(5):1780-92.


Brown JD, Hann BC, Medzihradszky KF, Niwa M, Burlingame AL, Walter P.
Subunits of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae signal recognition particle required for its functional expression.
EMBO Journal. 1994 Sep 15;13(18):4390-400.

Niwa M, MacDonald CC, Berget SM.
Are vertebrate exons scanned during splice-site selection?
Nature. 1992 Nov 19;360(6401):277-80.

Niwa M, Berget SM.
Polyadenylation precedes splicing in vitro.
Gene Expression 1991 Apr;1(1):5-14.

Niwa M, Berget SM.
Mutation of the AAUAAA polyadenylation signal depresses in vitro splicing of proximal but not distal introns.
Genes & Development. 1991 Nov;5(11):2086-95.

Niwa M, Rose SD, Berget SM.
In vitro polyadenylation is stimulated by the presence of an upstream intron.
Genes & Development. 1990 Sep;4(9):1552-9.

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