Many thanks to colleagues who generously donated clones for the project:

Prediction of trans-membrane domains

Rainer Schwacke, Botanical Institute, Bonn University, Germany (http://aramemnon.botanik.uni-koeln.de/). In order to establish the list of genes to be cloned for this project, a knowledge of the topology of the proteins is important. Dr. Rainer Schwacke (University of Cologne, Germany) has developed bioinformatic tools for more accurate prediction of the number of transmembrane domains in proteins.

Clones and ‘Gold Standards’

Joe Ecker, Salk Institute, La Jolla Marc Vidal, Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston In an effort to clone a maximum of genes, 2300 clones from the SSP consortium (Joe Ecker, Salk Institute; Ron Davis, Stanford; A. Theologis, PGEC) were hand-picked and we will use PCR mutagenesis to eliminate the stop codons at the 3’-terminus of the coding region. Once these clones made, they will be made available through ABRC.

An incomplete list of donors is included below.

USA Researchers

Jeff Harper, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada Steven Clouse, Dept. of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University (139)

Dominique Bergmann, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University (3)

John M Ward, Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota (10)

Arthur Grossman, Dept. of Plant Biology, Carnegie institution (2)

Chris Somerville, Dept. Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution (2)

Shauna Somerville, Dept. Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution (1)

Zhi Yong Wang, Dept. Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution (5)

Kendal Hirshi, Baylor College of Medicine (12)

Heven Sze, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, U. Maryland (16)

Ruth Finkelstein, Molecular Cellular and developmental Biology, UCSB (Santa Barbara) (1)

Alan Jones, Biology, U. North Carolina (16)

Kentaro Inoue, Plant Sciences, UC Davis (2)

Jian-Kang Zhu, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside (2)

Zhen-Ming Pei, Biology, Duke University (1)

Laurie G Smith, Biological Sciences, UCSD (1)

Alice Harmon, Department of Botany, University of Florida (3)

Judy Callis, Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC-Davis (2)

Clint Chapple, Biochemistry, Purdue University (1)

Burkhard Schulz, Horticultural and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University (6)

Gary Stacey, Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Colombia (26)

Henrik Vibe Scheller, JBEI/LBNL

Jean-Michel Ané, Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1)

Others (European and Asian Researchers)

Nathalie Leonhardt, CNRS-CEA-Université Aix-Marseille II, France (3)

Sebastien Thomine, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France (24)

Christophe Maurel, CNRS Montpellier, France (5)

Klaus Harter, ZMBP-Pflanzenphysiologie, University of Tübingen, Germany (24)

Rudiger Simon, Genetik, Heinrich-Heine Universität Dusseldorf, Germany (1)

Catherine Curie, CNRS Montpellier, France (6)

Ralph Panstruga, MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Germany (10)

Yi-Fang Tsay, Institute of Molecular Biology, Taiwan (16)

Guillaume Pilot, IZMB, Universität Bonn, Germany (17)

Jiri Friml, ZMBP-Entwicklungsgenetik, University of Tübingen, Germany (11)

Irute Meskiene, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria (7)

Ingo Dreyer, Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Potsdam Universitält, Germany (3)

Michael Gebert, IZMB, Universität Bonn, Germany (7)

Markus Klein, Institut für Pflanzenbologie, Universität Zürich, Switzerland (23)

Andy Maule, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK (9)

Marianne Suter Grotmeyer, Institute of Plant Sciences, Bern University, Switzerland (14)

Torsten Mölhmann, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany (12)