Selected Publications

For full list, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/meera.sundaram.1/bibliography/public/

Sundaram MV and Pujol N (2024). The Caenorhabditis elegans cuticle and precuticle: a model for studying dynamic apical extracellular matrices in vivo. Genetics iyae072, online ahead of print.

Serra ND, Darwin CD, Sundaram MV (2024). C. elegans Hedgehog-related proteins are tissue- and substructure-specific components of the cuticle and pre-cuticle. Genetics iyae081, online ahead of print.

Birnbaum SK, Cohen JD, Belfi A, Murray JI, Adams JRG, Chisholm AD, Sundaram MV (2023). The proprotein convertase BLI-4 promotes collagen secretion prior to assembly of the Caenorhabditis elegans cuticle. PLoS Genet. 19(9):e1010944.

Katz SS*, Barker TJ*, Maul-Newby HM, Sparacio AP, Nguyen KCQ, Maybrun CL, Belfi A, Cohen JD, Hall DH, Sundaram MV^, Frand AR^ (2022). A transient apical extracellular matrix relays cytoskeletal patterns to shape permanent acellular ridges on the surface of adult C. elegans. PLoS Genet. 18(8):e1010348. *equal contributions, ^co-corresponding

Cohen JD*, Cadena Del Castillo CE*, Serra ND*, Kaech A, Spang A, Sundaram MV (2021). The Caenorhabditis elegans Patched domain protein PTR-4 is required for proper organization of the precuticular apical extracellular matrix. Genetics. 219(3):iyab132. *equal contributions

Cohen JD, Bermudez JG, Good MC, Sundaram MV. (2020) A C. elegans Zona Pellucida domain protein functions via its ZPc domain. PLoS Genet. 16(11):e1009188.

Cohen JD, Sundaram MV (2020). C. elegans Apical Extracellular Matrices Shape Epithelia. J Dev Biol. 8(4):E23.

Cohen JD, Sparacio AP, Belfi AC, Forman-Rubinsky R, Hall DH, Maul-Newby H, Frand AR, Sundaram MV (2020). A multi-layered and dynamic apical extracellular matrix shapes the vulva lumen in Caenorhabditis elegans. Elife. 9: e57874.

Soulavie, F., Hall, D.H., Sundaram, M.V. (2018): The AFF-1 exoplasmic fusogen is required for endocytic scission and seamless tube elongation. Nature Communications 9(1): 1741,.

Forman-Rubinsky, R., Cohen, J.D. and Sundaram, M.V (2017). : Lipocalins are required for apical extracellular matrix organization and remodeling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 207: 625-642.

Sundaram, M.V. and Cohen, J.D (2017).: Time to make the doughnuts: Building and shaping seamless tubes. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 67: 123-131.

Soulavie, F. and Sundaram, M.V (2016).: Auto-fusion and the shaping of neurons and tubes. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 60: 136-145.

Gill, H.K.*, Cohen, J.D.*, Ayala-Figueroa, J., Forman-Rubinsky, R., Poggioli, C., Bickard, K., Parry, J.M., Pu P., Hall, D.H. and Sundaram, M.V (2016).: Integrity of narrow epithelial tubes in the C. elegans excretory system requires a transient luminal matrix PLoS Genetics 12(8): e1006205.

Sundaram, M.V. and Buechner, M (2016).: The Caenorhabditis elegans excretory system: a model for tubulogenesis, cell fate specification and plasticity. Genetics 203: 35-63.

Parry, J.M. and Sundaram, M.V. (2014): A non-cell-autonomous role for Ras signaling in C. elegans neuroblast delamination Development 2014 141: 4279-4284.

Mancuso, V.P., Parry, J. M., Storer, L., Poggioli, C., Nguyen, K. C. Q., Hall, D.H. and Sundaram, M.V. (2012): Extracellular leucine-rich repeat proteins are required to organize the apical extracellular matrix and maintain epithelial junction integrity in C. elegans. Development 139: 979-990.

Abdus-Saboor, I., Mancuso, V.P., Murray, J.I., Palozola, K., Norris, C., Hall, D.H., Howell, K., Huang, K. and Sundaram, M.V. (2011): Notch and Ras promote sequential steps of excretory tube development in C. elegans. Development 138: 3545-3555.