Aubrey R. Morrison, MBBS

Professor of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine

Renal Division
Box 8126
St. Louis, MO 63110

(314) 454-8495 tel
(314) 454-8430 fax
amorriso@im.wustl.edu

RESEARCH INTEREST

Regulation of COX-2 by RNA-binding proteins in colon cancer cell lines and a determination of the factors responsible for the constitutive expression of the COX-2 protein in tumors.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Qing Yu, Steven Cok, Chenbo Zeng and Aubrey R. Morrison Translational repression of human matrix metalloproteinase-13 bt an alternatively spliced form of T-cell restricted intracellular antigen related protein(TIAR). J. Biol. Chem. 278:1579-1584 (2003).
Steven J. Cok, Stephen J. Acton and Aubrey R. Morrison. The proximal region of the 3'-Untranslated region of cyclooxygenase-2 is regulated by a multimeric protein complex containing HuR, TIA-1, TIAR and hnRNP U. J. Biol. Chem. 278:36157-36162 (2003).
Lui. P.T., Chenbo Zeng, Stephen Acton, Steven Cok and Aubrey R Morrison. Effects of p38MAPK isoforms on renal mesangial cell inducible nitric oxide synthase. Am. J. of Physiol: Cell 286: C145-C152 (2004).
Steven J. Cok, Stephen J. Acton, Alison E. Sexton and Aubrey R. Morrison. Identification of RNA-binding proteins in RAW 264.7 cells that recognize an LPS responsive element in the 3Õ-UTR of the murine Cox-2 mRNA, J. Biol. Chem 279:8196-8205(2004).