Kim, H-S., McKnite, A., Xie, Y. and Christian, J.L. (2018) Fibronectin type III and intracellular domains of Toll-like receptor 4 interactor with leucine-rich repeats (Tril) are required for developmental signaling. MBoC, 29:523-531.
Christian, J.L. and Heldin, C-H. (2017) The TGFß superfamily in Lisbon: navigating through development and disease. Development, 144:4476-4480
Huang, W-C, Ferris, E., Cheng, T., Hörndli, C., Gleason, K., Tamminga, C., Wagner, J., Boucher, K., Christian, J.L. and Gregg, C. (2017) Diverse Non-Genetic Allele Specific Expression Effects Shape Genetic Architecture at the Cellular Level in the Mammalian Brain, Neuron, 93(5):1094-1109
Green, Y.S., Kwon, S., and Christian, J.L. (2016) Expression pattern of bcar3, a downstream target of GATA2, and its binding partner, p130cas, during Xenopus development, Gene Exp. Patterns, 20:55-62
Mimoto, M.S., Kwon, S., Green, Y.S., Goldman, D., and Christian, J.L. (2015) GATA2 regulates Wnt signaling to promote primitive red blood cell fate, Dev. Biol., 407:1-11.
Neugebauer J.M., Kwon, S., Kim, H., Donley, N., Tilak, A., Sopory, S., and Christian, J.L. (2015) The prodomain of BMP4 is necessary and sufficient to generate BMP4/7 heterodimers with enhanced in vivo bioactivity, PNAS, 112(18):E2307-2316. PMCID:PMC4426409
Tilak, A., Nelsen, S., Kim, H., Donley, N. McKnite, A., Lee, H. and Christian, J. (2014) Simultaneous rather than ordered cleavage of the BMP4 prodomain leads to ligand loss in mice, Development, in press.
Louis Boell, Luisa F. Pallares, Claude Brodski,YiPing Chen, Jan L. Christian,Youssef A. Kousa, Pia Kuss, Sylvia Nelsen, Orna Novikov, Brian C. Schutte, Ying Wang, Diethard Tautz (2013) Exploring the effects of gene dosage on mandible shape in mice as a model for studying the genetic basis of natural variation. Development Genes and Evolution, 223:279-87
Mimoto, M. and Christian, J.L. (2012) Friend of GATA (FOG) Interacts with the Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase Complex (NuRD) to Support Primitive Erythropoiesis in Xenopus laevis. PLoS One. 7(1) :e29882
Christian, J.L. (2012) Morphogen gradients in development: from form to function. WIREs Dev Biol 1:3–15.
Kwon, S., and Christian, J.L. (2011) Sortilin associates with TGF-ß family proteins to enhance lysosome-mediated degradation, J. Biol. Chem., 286:21876-85. PMID 21521695
Mimoto, M. and Christian, J.L. (2011) Manipulation of gene function in Xenopus laevis, In Vertebrate Embryogenesis, F.J. Pelegri (ed) Methods in Molecular Biology, 770:55-75. PMID 21805261
Pratt, E.B. Wentzell, J.S., Maxson, J.E., Courter, L., Hazelett, D. and Christian, J.L. (2011) The cell giveth and the cell taketh away: An overview of Notch pathway activation by endocytic trafficking of ligands and receptors. Acta Histochemica 113: 248-255 PMID 20122714
Sopory, S., Kwon, S., Wehrli, M. and Christian, J.L. (2010). Regulation of Decapentaplegic activity by tissue-specific cleavage of an upstream site within the prodomain, Developmental Biology, 346:102-12
Nelsen, S.M. and Christian, J.L. (2009) Site-specific cleavage of Bone morphogenetic protein4 (BMP4) by furin, PC6 and PC7, J.Biol. Chem, 284:27157-66.
Goldman, D.C. Donley N. and Christian, J.L. (2009) Genetic interaction between Bmp2 and Bmp4 reveals shared functions during multiple aspects of mouse organogenesis, Mech Dev, 126, 117-27
Goldman, D.C., Bailey, A.S., Pfaffle, D.L., Masri, A., Christian, J.L., and Fleming, W.H. (2009) BMP4 Regulates Adult Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance in vivo, Blood, 114:4393-401