Education
B.A., 1984, Hamilton College;
Ph.D., 1990, Northwestern University.
Courses Regularly Taught
MED 20400 and MED 30500 - Molecules to Cells I and II - Course Director
Research Interests
- Role of nuclear RNA-binding proteins and of RNA-protein complexes in metabolism and nucleocytoplasmic transport of RNA.
- RNA-binding proteins in mitochondrial gene expression.
- Myopathies and encephalomyopathies resulting from defects in mitochondrial gene expression.
Publications
- Piñol-Roma, S. 1999. Association of non-ribosomal nucleolar proteins in ribonucleoprotein complexes during interphase and mitosis. Mol. Biol. Cell 10:77-90.
- Penkov, D., R. Ni, C. Else, S. Piñol-Roma, F. Ramirez, and S. Tanaka. 2000. Cloning of a human gene closely related to the genes coding for the c-myc single-stranded binding proteins. Gene 243:27-36.
- Mili, S., H.J. Shu, Y. Zhao, and S. Piñol-Roma. 2001. Distinct RNP complexes of shuttling hnRNP proteins with pre-mRNA and mRNA: candidate intermediates in formation and export of mRNA. Mol. Cell. Biol. 21, 7307-7319.
- Marcu, A., B. Bassit, R. Perez, and S. Piñol-Roma. 2001. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein complexes from Xenopus laevis oocytes and somatic cells. Int. J. Devel. Biol. 45:743-752.
- Fritsch, R., D. Eselböck, K. Skriner, B. Jahn-Schmid, C. Scheinecker, B. Bohle, M. Tohidast-Akrad, S. Hayer, J. Neumüller, S. Piñol-Roma, J. S. Smolen, and G. Steiner. 2002. Characterization of autoreactive T cells to the autoantigens heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2 (RA33) and filaggrin in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. J. Immunol. 169:1068-1076.
- Mili, S., and S. Piñol-Roma. 2003. LRP130, a PPR motif protein with a non-canonical RNA-binding domain, binds in vivo to mitochondrial and nuclear RNA. Mol. Cell. Biol. 23:4972-4982.
- Hayer, S., M. Tohidast-Akrad, S. Haralambous, B. Jahn-Schmid, K. Skriner, S. Trembleau, H. Dumortier, S. Piñol-Roma, K. Redlich, G. Schett, S. Muller, G. Kollias, J. Smolen, and G Steiner. 2005. Aberrant expression of the autoantigen heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein-A2 (RA33) and spontaneous formation of rheumatoid arthritis-associated anti-RA33 autoantibodies in TNF-alpha transgenic mice. J Immunol. 15:8327-8336.
- Lykke-Andersen, S., S. Piñol-Roma, and J. Kjems. 2007. Alternative splicing of the ADAR1 transcript in a region that functions either as 5’-UTR or an ORF. RNA 13:1732-1744.
- Hoffmann, M.H., J. Tuncel, K. Skriner, M. Tohidast-Akrad, B. Türk, S. Piñol-Roma, G. Serre, G. Schett, R. Holmdahl, and G. Steiner. 2007. The rheumatoid arthritis-associated autoantigen hnRNP-A2 (RA33) is a major stimulator of autoimmunity in rats with pristane-induced arthritis. J. Immunol. 179:7568-7576.
Last Updated: 2/3/09
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