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Ling-Rong Kao
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Ling-Rong Kao

Instructor


e-mail:

Ling-Rong.Kao@UTSouthwestern.edu 


EDUCATION/TRAINING

Institution and Location
Degree
Years
Field

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

B.S.
1985

Biochemistry

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

M.S.
1987

Biochemistry

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Ph.D.
1994

Biochemistry

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001 - present Instructor, Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences and the Department of Pharmacology. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX.
1997 - 2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of Thomas C. Kaufman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

PUBLICATIONS

Kao LR, Megraw TL. RNAi in cultured Drosophila cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2004;247 :443-57.

Megraw TL, Kao LR, Kaufman TC. Zygotic development without functional mitotic centrosomes. Curr Biol. 2001 Jan 23;11 (2):116-20.

Megraw TL, Li K, Kao LR, Kaufman TC. The centrosomin protein is required for centrosome assembly and function during cleavage in Drosophila. Development. 1999 Jul;126 (13):2829-39.

Cho JH, Ha SJ, Kao LR, Megraw TL, Chae CB. A novel DNA-binding protein bound to the mitochondrial inner membrane restores the null mutation of mitochondrial histone Abf2p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol. 1998 Oct;18(10):5712-23.

Kao LR, Megraw TL, Chae CB. SHM1: a multicopy suppressor of a temperature-sensitive null mutation in the HMG1-like abf2 gene. Yeast. 1996 Sep 30;12(12):1239-50.

Kao LR, Peterson J, Ji R, Bender L, Bender A. Interactions between the ankyrin repeat-containing protein Akr1p and the pheromone-response pathway in yeast. Molecular Cellular Biology 1996 16: 168-178.

Megraw TL, Kao LR, Chae CB. The mitochondrial histone HM: an evolutionary link between bacterial HU and nuclear HMG1 proteins. Biochimie. 1994;76(10-11):909-16.

Kao LR, Megraw TL, Chae CB. Essential role of the HMG domain in the function of yeast mitochondrial histone HM: functional complementation of HM by the nuclear nonhistone protein NHP6A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1993 Jun 15;90(12):5598-602.

Cheryl A. Skinner, Donna Kelly, Ling-Rong Kao, Shihadeh N. Nayfeh, Brian Popko and Chi-Bom Chae (1992) Thyroid-specific and hormone-dependent expression of rat thyroglobulin promoter fused with bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene in transgenic mice. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 90 : 33-38.

Nam Tack Lee, Keita Kamikubo, Kyung-Ja Chai, Ling-Rong Kao, Alison Sinclair, Shihadeh N. Nayfeh and Chi-Bom Chae (1991) The deoxyribonucleic acid regions involved in hormonal regulation of thyroglobulin gene expression. Endocrinology 128 : 111-118