Åsa Rasmuson-Lestander

Research qualifications: Docent

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Professor at Department of Molecular Biology Section: Research group Åsa Rasmuson-Lestander

6K och 6L, Sjukhusområdet Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Regulation of twin of eyeless during Drosophila development

Gene Expression Patterns, Vol. 20, (2) : 120-129

Skottheim Honn, John; Johansson, Linn; Rasmuson Lestander, Asa

Regulation of the Drosophila engrailed gene by Polycomb repressor complex 2

Mechanisms of Development, Amsterdam: Elsevier 2009, Vol. 126, (5-6) : 443-448

Chen, Sa; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

The Drosophila Pax6 paralogs have different functions in head development but can partially substitute for each other

Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Vol. 282, (3) : 217-231

Jacobsson, Linn; Kronhamn, Jesper; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

In vivo analysis of Drosophila SU(Z)12 function

Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Vol. 279, (2) : 159-170

Chen, Sa; Birve, Anna; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

The DrosDel deletion collection: A Drosophila genomewide chromosomal deficiency resource

Genetics, Austin, Tex.: Genetics Society of America 2007, Vol. 177, (1) : 615-629

Ryder, Edward; Ashburner, Michael; Bautista-Llacer, Rosa; et al.

Detection and quantification of Cladosporium in aerosols by real-time PCR

Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Vol. 8, (1) : 153-160

Zeng, Qing-Yin; Westermark, Sven-Olof; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa; et al.

The Drosophila ortholog of the endolysosomal membrane protein, endolyn, regulates cell proliferation.

J Cell Biochem, Vol. 99, (5) : 1380-96

Zhou, Guang-Qian; Zhang, Youyi; Ferguson, David J P; et al.

The DrosDel collection: a set of P-element insertions for generating custom chromosomal aberrations in Drosophila melanogaster.

Genetics, Vol. 167, (2) : 797-813

Ryder, Edward; Blows, Fiona; Ashburner, Michael; et al.

Extensive set of mitochondrial LSU rDNA-based oligonucleotide probes for the detection of common airborne fungi.

FEMS Microbiology Letters, Vol. 237, (1) : 79-87

Zeng, Qing-Yin; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa; Wang, Xiao-Ru

Detection and quantification of Wallemia sebi in aerosols by real-time PCR, conventional PCR, and cultivation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology 2004, Vol. 70, (12) : 7295-7302

Zeng, Qing-Yin; Westermark, Sven-Olof; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa; et al.

A 1 MDa ESC/E(Z) complex from Drosophila that contains Polycomblike and RPD3

Molecular and Cellular Biology, American Society for microbiology 2003, Vol. 23, (9) : 3352-3362

Tie, F.; Prasad-Sinha, J.; Birve, Anna; et al.

A 1-megadalton ESC/E(Z) complex from Drosophila that contains polycomblike and RPD3.

Mol Cell Biol, Vol. 23, (9) : 3352-62

Tie, Feng; Prasad-Sinha, Jayashree; Birve, Anna; et al.

Headless flies produced by mutations in the paralogous Pax6 genes eyeless and twin of eyeless.

Development, Vol. 129, (4) : 1015-1026

Kronhamn, Jesper; Frei, Erich; Daube, Michael; et al.

Su(z)12, a novel Drosophila Polycomb group gene that is conserved in vertebrates and plants.

Development, Vol. 128, (17) : 3371-9

Birve, Anna; Sengupta, A K; Beuchle, D; et al.

Painting of fourth, a chromosome-specific protein in Drosophila.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Vol. 98, (11) : 6273-8

Larsson, Jan; Chen, J D; Rasheva, Vanya; et al.

The Drosophila glucose transporter gene: cDNA sequence, phylogenetic comparisons, analysis of functional sites and secondary structures.

Hereditas, Vol. 130, (2) : 95-103

Andersson Escher, Stefan; Rasmuson-Lestander, Å

Genetic organization of the ci-M-pan region on chromosome IV in Drosophila melanogaster.

Genome, Vol. 42, (6) : 1144-1149

Kronhamn, Jesper; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

Somatic and germline clone analysis in mutants of the S-adenosylmethionine synthetase encoding gene in Drosophila melanogaster.

FEBS Lett, Vol. 427, (1) : 119-23

Larsson, Jan; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

Cloning, mapping and mutational analysis of the S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase gene in Drosophila melanogaster.

Mol Gen Genet, Vol. 256, (6) : 652-60

Larsson, Jan; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

Expression preference of the S-adenosylmethionine synthetase (SamS) gene in Drosophila melanogaster

Dev Rep Biol, Vol. 6 : 7-17

Zhang, Jingpu; Larsson, Jan; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

Mutations in the Drosophila melanogaster gene encoding S-adenosylmethionine synthetase [corrected] suppress position-effect variegation.

Genetics, Vol. 143, (2) : 887-96

Larsson, Jan; Zhang, Jingpu; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

Genetic and molecular analysis of a set of unstable white mutants in Drosophila melanogaster.

Genetica, Vol. 98, (2) : 179-92

Rasmuson-Lestander, Å; Ekström, K

The Drosophila Stock Centers and their implications for developmental biology.

Int J Dev Biol, Vol. 39, (5) : 765-8

Rasmuson-Lestander, Å

Molecular cloning of the S-adenosylmethionine synthetase gene in Drosophila melanogaster.

FEBS Lett, Vol. 342, (3) : 329-33

Larsson, Jan; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

Position-effect variegation and z1 mediated white repression in the In(1)wis system in Drosophila melanogaster.

Hereditas, Vol. 119, (3) : 209-18

Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa; Larsson, Jan; Rasmuson, Bertil

Somatic and germline mutagenesis assayed by the unstable zeste-white test in Drosophila melanogaster.

Mutagenesis, Vol. 7, (3) : 219-23

Rasmuson, Åsa; Larsson, Jan

In vivo analysis of Suppressor of zeste 12´s different isoforms

Chen, Sa; Larsson, Anna L.; Tegeling, Erik; et al.

Identification of regulatory regions within the intron sequence of the toy gene

Jacobsson, Linn; Rasmuson-Lestander, Åsa

Empty spiracles represses twin-of-eyeless in the Drosophila embryonic head

Jacobsson, Linn; Skottheim Honn, John; Ekström, Karin; et al.

The c-Myc toAurora B kinase axis is conserved down to Drosophila melanogaster

Larsson, Anna; Keller, U; Nilsson, J A; et al.

Investigation of the two isoforms of SU(Z)12 shows difference in expressionand interaction in vitro with the core components of PRC2

Larsson, Anna; Tegeling, Erik; Chen, Sa; et al.

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Research projects

5 December 2007 until 31 December 2010

Gene regulation in Drosophila