Publications
 

Haines, N, Seabrooke, S, Stewart, BA (2007) Dystroglycan and Protein O-mannosyltransferases 1 and 2 are required to Maintain Cellular Integrity in Drosophila Larval Muscles. Accepted Mol Biol Cell Sept 11, 2007 [PDF]

Greenhalgh, C., Prent, N., Green, C., Cisek, R., Major, A., Stewart, B., Barzda, V. (2007) The influence of crystalline order on the second harmonic generation efficiency in the anisotropic bands of myocytes.  Applied Optics 46:1852-1859. [PDF]

Haines, N., Stewart, BA (2007) Functional roles for beta 1,4-N-acetlygalactosaminyltransferase in Drosophila larval neurons and muscles. Genetics, 175:671-679 [PDF]

Ing B, Shteiman-Kotler A, Castelli M, Henry P, Pak Y, Stewart B, Boulianne GL, Rotin D.  (2006) Regulation of Commissureless by the ubiquitin ligase DNedd4 is Required for Neuromuscular Synaptogenesis in Drosophila. Mol Cell Biol. 27:481-496. [PDF]

Peyre, J-B., Seabrooke, S., Randlett, O., Kisiel, M., Aigaki, T., Stewart, B.A. (2006) Interaction of Cytoskeleton Genes with Drosophila NSF2 Neuromuscular Junction Overgrowth. Genesis 44:595-600. [PDF]

Nunes, P., Haines, N., Kuppuswamy, V., Fleet, D.J., Stewart, B.A. (2006) Synaptic Vesicle Mobility and Presynaptic F-Actin are Disrupted in an NSF Allele of Drosophila. Mol Biol Cell. 17:4709-19 [PDF]

Laviolette, MJ, Nunes P, Peyre J-B, Aigaki T, Stewart BA (2005) A Genetic Screen for Suppressors of Drosophila NSF2 Neuromuscular Junction Overgrowth. Genetics 170:779-792 [PDF]

Stewart BA, Pearce J, Bajec MR, Khorana, R (2005) Disruption of Synaptic Development and Ultrastructure by NSF alleles of Drosophila. J Comp Neurol 488:101-111 [PDF]

Stewart BA, McLean JR (2004) Population density regulates Drosophila synaptic morphology in a Fasciclin-II dependent manner. J Neurobiol 61:392-399 [PDF]

Stewart BA, Mohtashami M, Rivlin P, Deitcher D, Trimble WS, Boulianne GL (2002) Dominant-negative NSF2 disrupts the structure and function of Drosophila neuromuscular synapses. J Neurobiol 51:261-271. [PDF]

VIlinsky I, Stewart BA, Drummond J, Robinson IM, Deitcher DL (2002) A Drosophila SNAP-25 null mutant reveals context-dependent redundancy with SNAP-24 in neurotransmission. Genetics 162: 259-271[PDF]

Bhattacharya S, Stewart BA, Niemeyer BA, Burgess RW, McCabe BD, Lin P, Boulianne GL, O'Kane CJ, Schwarz TL (2002) Members of the Synaptobrevin / VAMP family in Drosophila are functionally interchangeable in vivo for neurotransmitter release and cell viablity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99:13867-13872. [PDF]

Stewart BA (2002) Membrane Trafficking in Drosophila eye and wing development. Sem Cell Dev Biol. 13: 91-98.[PDF]

Stewart, BA, Mohtashami, M, Zhou, L, Trimble, WS, Boulianne, GL (2001). SNARE-dependent signaling at the Drosophila wing margin. Dev. Biol. 234: 13-23. [PDF]

Mohtashami, M, Stewart, BA, Boulianne, GL, Trimble, WS (2001). Analysis of mutant Drosophila N-ethylmaleimide sensitive fusion-1 protein in comatose reveals molecular correlates of the behavioural paralysis. J. Neurochemistry 77: 1407-1417. [PDF]

Rao, S., Stewart, BA, Rivlin, P., Vilinsky, I., Watson, B., Lang, C., Boulianne, G.L., Salpeter, M., Deitcher, D.L. (2001) Two distinct effects on neurotransmission in a temperature-sensitive SNAP-25 mutant. EMBO J 20:6761- 6771.[PDF]

Leventis, PA, Chow, BM, Stewart, BA, Iyengar, B, Campos, AR, Boulianne, GL (2001) Drosophila amphiphysin is a postsynaptic protein required for normal locomotion but not endocytosis. Traffic 2:839-850.[PDF]

Stewart, BA, Mohtashami, M, Trimble, WS, Boulianne, G.L.(2000). SNARE proteins contribute to calcium cooperativity of synaptic transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97:13955-13960. [PDF]

Deitcher DL, Ueda A, Stewart BA, Burgess RW, Kidokoro Y, Schwarz TL. (1998) Distinct requirements for evoked and spontaneous release of neurotransmitter are revealed by mutations in the Drosophila gene neuronal-synaptobrevin. J Neurosci. 18:2028-39 . [PDF]

Stewart BA, Schuster CM, Goodman CS, Atwood HL.(1996) Homeostasis of synaptic transmission in Drosophila with genetically altered nerve terminal morphology. J Neurosci. 16:3877-86. [PDF]

Stewart BA, Atwood HL, Renger JJ, Wang J, Wu CF. Improved stability of Drosophila larval neuromuscular preparations in haemolymph-like physiological solutions. J Comp Physiol [A]. 1994 175:179-91.