Rolando Rivera Pomar
rrivera[at]creg.org.ar

Lic. en Biología Or. Zoología (FCNyM,UNLP) y Dr. en Bioquímica (FCE-UNLP)

• Director, Centro Regional de Estudios Genómicos, AUGM - UNLP

• Responsable del Laboratorio de Genética y Genómica Funcional (CREG)

• Investigador Asociado Externo Sociedad Max Planck de Química Biofísica, Goettingen, Alemania

• Investigador Independiente, Carrera del Investigador Científico del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

Keywords: genómica, genética, biología del desarrollo, síntesis de proteínas, ARN

Publicaciones (selección)

 Abstract  
P. Vazquez Pianzola, G. Hernández, B. Suter , R. Rivera-Pomar (2006) Different modes of translation for hid, grim and sickle mRNAs in Drosophila. Cell Death. Diff. (en prensa)  
M.A. Andrei, D. Ingelfinger, R. Heintzmann, T. Achsel, R. Rivera-Pomar, & R. Lührmann (2005) A role for eIF4E and eIF4E-transporter in targeting mRNPs to mammalian processing bodies. RNA 11, 717-727.
G. Hernández, M. Altmann, J. M. Sierra, H. Urlaub, R. Diez del Corral, P. Schwartz, & R. Rivera-Pomar (2005) Functional analysis of seven genes encoding eight translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) isoforms in Drosophila. Mech. Development 122, 529-543
P. Vázquez Pianzola, H. Urlaub & R. Rivera-Pomar (2005) Proteomic analysis of reaper 5´UTR-interacting factors isolated by tobramycin affinity-selection reveals a role for La antigen in reaper mRNA translation. Proteomics 5, 1645-1655
G. Hernández, P. Vázquez Pianzola, J.M. Sierra, & R. V. Rivera Pomar (2004) A similar mechanism of translation for reaper and heat shock protein 70 mRNAs in Drosophila embryos. RNA 10, 1783-1797
H. B. Abdelkhalek, A. Beckers, K. Schuster-Gossler, M. Pavlova, H. Burkhardt, R. Reinhardt, L. Schalkwyk, M. Ceolin, R. Rivera-Pomar, & A. Gossler (2004) The mouse homeobox gene Not is required for caudal notochord development and affected by the truncate mutation Genes Dev. 18 1725-1736.
G. Hernández, P. Vázquez Pianzola, A. Zurbriggen, M. Altmann, J.M. Sierra, & R. Rivera-Pomar (2004) Two functionally redundant isoforms of Drosophila melanogaster eukaryotic initiation factor 4B are involved in cap-dependent translation and cell proliferation. Eur. J. Biochem. 271, 2923-2936
V. Subramaniam, T. M. Jovin, R. V. Rivera-Pomar (2001) Aromatic amino acids are critical for stability of the Bicoid homeodomain J. Biol. Chem. 276, 21506-21511
D. Niessing, W. Driever, F. Sprenger, H. Taubert, H. Jäckle, R. V. Rivera-Pomar (2000) Single amino acid residue within an arginine-rich motif specifies transcription versus translation function of the Bicoid homeodomain. Molecular Cell 5, 395-401
  
D. Niessing, N. Dotstani, H. Jäckle, R. V. Rivera-Pomar (1999). Sequence interval within the PEST domain of Bicoid is important for translational repression of caudal mRNA in the anterior region of the Drosophila embryo. EMBO J. 18, 1966-19731
D. Burz, R. V. Rivera-Pomar, H. Jäckle, S. Hanes (1998). Cooperative DNA-binding provides a mechanism for threshold-dependent gene activation in the Drosophila embryo. EMBO J. 17, 5998-6009
A. La Rosèe, T. Häder, H. Taubert, R. Rivera-Pomar, H. Jäckle (1997). Mechanism of Bicoid-dependent control of hairy stripe 7 expression in the posterior region of the Drosophila embryo. EMBO J. 16, 4403-4411
R. Rivera Pomar, D. Niessing, U. Schmidt-Ott, W. Gehring, H. Jäckle (1996). RNA-binding and translatiónal supressión by bicoid. Nature 379, 746-749
R. Rivera Pomar, X. Lu, N. Perrimon, H. Taubert, H. Jäckle (1995). Activation of posterior gap gene expressión in the Drosophila blastoderm. Nature 376, 253-256.