SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

                 Ryals, P. E., Pak, Y. and Thompson, G. A., Jr.  (1991) Phosphatidylinositol-linked glycans and phosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins of Tetrahymena mimbres.  J. Biol. Chem.  266, 15048 - 15053.

                 Pak, Y., Ryals, P. E. and Thompson, G. A., Jr.  (1991) Phosphatidylinositol-glycan formation and utilization by the ciliate Tetrahymena mimbres.  J. Biol. Chem.  266, 15054 - 15059.

                 Yang, X. and Ryals, P. E.  (1994) Cytodifferentiation in Tetrahymena vorax is linked to glycosyl phosphatidylinositol-anchored protein assembly.  Biochem. J.  298, 697 - 703.

                 Ryals, P. E.  (1996) Protein prenylation in Tetrahymena.  Arch. Protistenkd.  147, 199 - 204.

                 Ryals, P. E. and Yang, X.  (1997) The effect of dichloroisoproterenol on macromolecular synthesis and differentiation in Tetrahymena vorax.  J. Eukaryotic Microbiol.  44, 43 - 45.

                 Fields, M. W., Ryals, P. E. and Anderson, K. L.  (1997) Polysaccharide inducible outer membrane proteins of Bacteroides xylanolyticus X5-1.  Anaerobe 3, 43 - 48.

                 Ryals, P. E., Nsofor, M. N., Watt, J. M. and Champlin, F. R.  (1998) Relationship between serotype A encapsulation and a 40-kDa lipoprotein in Pasteurella multocida.  Curr. Microbiol.  36, 274 - 277.

                 Ryals, P. E., Bae, S. and Patterson, C. E.  (1999) Evidence for early signaling events in stomatin-induced differentiation of Tetrahymena vorax.  J. Eukaryotic Microbiol.  46, 77 - 83.

                 Champlin, F. R., Shryock, T. R., Patterson, C. E., Austin, F. W. and Ryals, P. E.  (1999) Derivation of extracellular polysaccharide-deficient variants from a serotype A strain of Pasteurella multocida.  Curr. Microbiol.  38, 268 - 272.

               Ryals, P. E. and Kersting, M. C.  (1999) Sodium-dependent uptake of [³H]scyllo-inositol by Tetrahymena.  Incorporation into phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol-linked glycans, and polyphosphoinositols.  Arch. Biochem. Biophys.  366, 261 - 266.

             Ryals, P. E. and Williams, N. E.  (1999) Tetrahymena thermophila disA mutants exhibit aberrant levels of phosphatidylethanolamine.  Europ. J. Protistol.  35, 371 - 373.

              Smith-Somerville, H. E., Hardman, J. K., Timkovich, R., Ray, W. J., Rose, K. E., Ryals, P. E., Gibbons, S. H. and Buhse, H. E., Jr.  (2000).  A complex of iron and nucleic acid catabolites is a signal that triggers differentiation in a freshwater protozoan.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.  97, 7325 - 7330.

             Ryals, P.E., Smith-Somerville, H.E. and Buhse, H.E., Jr.  (2002).  Phenotype switching in polymorphic Tetrahymena.  A single cell Jekyll and Hyde.  Int. Rev. Cytol.  212, 209 -238.

            Champlin, F. R., Shryock, T. R., Patterson, C. E., Austin, F. W. and Ryals, P. E.  (2002)  Prevalence of a novel capsule-associated lipoprotein among Pasteurellaceae pathogenic in animals.  Curr. Microbiol.  44, 297 – 301.

             Kersting, M. C., Boyette, M., Massey, J., and Ryals, P. E.  (2003).  Identification of the inositol isomers present in Tetrahymena.  J. Eukaryotic Microbiol.  50, 164 - 168.

            Kersting, M. C. and Ryals, P. E.  (2004).  Sodium-dependent transport of [ ³H]chiro-inositol by Tetrahymena.  J. Eukaryotic Microbiol.  51, 307 - 311.

      Smith-Somerville, H. E., Ziemkiewicz, H. T. and Ryals, P. E.  (2005).  Protozoan Nutrition and Metabolism.  In:  Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.  John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.: Chichester.  http://www.els.net/  [doi:10.1038/npg.els.0001928]

      Burdette, A. J., Maki, A. B., Sanstead, J. K., Riggs, B. M. and Ryals, P. E.  (2006).  Phospholipids of the differentiating species of Tetrahymena.  J. Eukaryotic Microbiol.  53, 12 - 15.

       Nsofor, M. N., Ryals, P. E. and Champlin, F. R.  (2006).  Subcellular distribution of Plp-40, a lipoprotein in a serotype A strain of Pasteurella multocida.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1760, 1160 - 1166.

     Riggs, B. M., Lansley, T. A. and Ryals, P. E. (2006).  Phosphatidylinositol synthase of Tetrahymena.  Inositol isomers as substrates in phosphatidylinositol biosynthesis and headgroup exchange reactions.  J. Eukaryotic Microbiol.  Accepted for Publication.