Recent Publications:

Deborde S, Perret E, Gravotta D, Deora A, Salvarezza S, Schreiner R, Rodriguez-Boulan E. 2008. Clathrin is a key regulator of basolateral polarity. Nature. 452:719-23.

Lakkaraju A, Rodriguez-Boulan E. 2008.
Itinerant exosomes: emerging roles in cell and tissue polarity. Trends Cell Biol. 18:199-209.

Thorne RG, Lakkaraju A, Rodriguez-Boulan E, Nicholson C. 2008. In vivo diffusion of lactoferrin in brain extracellular space is regulated by interactions with heparan sulfate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105:8416-21.

Cancino J, Torrealba C, Soza A, Yuseff MI, Gravotta D, Henklein P, Rodriguez-Boulan E, Gonz‡lez A. 2007. Antibody to AP1B adaptor blocks biosynthetic and recycling routes of basolateral proteins at recycling endosomes. Mol Biol Cell. 18:4872-84.

Jaulin F, Xue X, Rodriguez-Boulan E, Kreitzer G.
Polarization-dependent selective transport to the apical membrane by KIF5B in MDCK cells.
Dev Cell. 2007 Oct;13(4):511-22.

Deora AA, Diaz F, Schreiner R, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
Efficient electroporation of DNA and protein into confluent and differentiated epithelial cells in culture.
Traffic. 2007 Oct;8(10):1304-12.

Lakkaraju A, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
Cell biology: caught in the traffic.
Nature. 2007 Jul 19;448(7151):266-7.

Lakkaraju A, Finnemann SC, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
The lipofuscin fluorophore A2E perturbs cholesterol metabolism in retinal pigment epithelial cells.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jun 26;104(26):11026-31.

Gravotta D, Deora A, Perret E, Oyanadel C, Soza A, Schreiner R, Gonzalez A, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
AP1B sorts basolateral proteins in recycling and biosynthetic routes of MDCK cells.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jan 30;104(5):1564-9.

2006

Yeh TY, Peretti D, Chuang JZ, Rodriguez-Boulan E, Sung CH.
Regulatory dissociation of Tctex-1 light chain from dynein complex is essential for the apical delivery of rhodopsin.
Traffic. 2006 Nov;7(11):1495-502.

Mora RC, Bonilha VL, Shin BC, Hu J, Cohen-Gould L, Bok D, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
Bipolar assembly of caveolae in retinal pigment epithelium.
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2006 Mar;290(3):C832-43.

Diaz F, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
Open sesame! Coxsackieviruses conspire to trespass the tight junctional gate.
Dev Cell. 2006 Feb;10(2):151-2.

Pelish HE, Peterson JR, Salvarezza SB, Rodriguez-Boulan E, Chen JL, Stamnes M, Macia E, Feng Y, Shair MD, Kirchhausen T.
Secramine inhibits Cdc42-dependent functions in cells and Cdc42 activation in vitro.
Nat Chem Biol. 2006 Jan;2(1):39-46.

2005

Deora AA, Philp N, Hu J, Bok D, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
Mechanisms regulating tissue-specific polarity of monocarboxylate transporters and their chaperone CD147 in kidney and retinal epithelia.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Nov 8;102(45):16245-50.

Perret E, Lakkaraju A, Deborde S, Schreiner R, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
Evolving endosomes: how many varieties and why?
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2005 Aug;17(4):423-34.

Rodriguez-Boulan E, MŸsch A.
Protein sorting in the Golgi complex: shifting paradigms.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2005 Jul 10;1744(3):455-64.

Rodriguez-Boulan E, Kreitzer G, MŸsch A.
Organization of vesicular trafficking in epithelia.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2005 Mar;6(3):233-47.

2004

Cohen D, Rodriguez-Boulan E, MŸsch A.
Par-1 promotes a hepatic mode of apical protein trafficking in MDCK cells.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Sep 21;101(38):13792-7.

Deora AA, Gravotta D, Kreitzer G, Hu J, Bok D, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
The basolateral targeting signal of CD147 (EMMPRIN) consists of a single leucine and is not recognized by retinal pigment epithelium.
Mol Biol Cell. 2004 Sep;15(9):4148-65.

Rodriguez-Boulan E, MŸsch A, Le Bivic A.
Epithelial trafficking: new routes to familiar places.
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2004 Aug;16(4):436-42.

Nelson WJ, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
Unravelling protein sorting.
Nat Cell Biol. 2004 Apr;6(4):282-4.

Cohen D, Brennwald PJ, Rodriguez-Boulan E, MŸsch A.
Mammalian PAR-1 determines epithelial lumen polarity by organizing the microtubule cytoskeleton.
J Cell Biol. 2004 Mar 1;164(5):717-27.