Selected Publications:

Cooke, N., Ho, Y., Shewchuk, B., Kimura, A., Elefant, F., Cajiao, I., and Liebhaber,
S. 2004. Distinct epigenetic pathways activate the human growth hormone genes in
pituitary and placenta. In 12 th International Congress of Endocrinology. ed Medimond
International Proceedings. pg. 79-85.

Ho, Y., Elefant, F., Cooke, N.E., and Liebhaber, S.A. A role for intergenic transcription
in long-range gene activation (Submitted to Mol. Cell, Feb. 2006).

Xhu, X, Singh, N., Donnelly, C., Ramakrishnan, V., Boimel, P., and Elefant, F. The
cloning of Drosophila histone acetyltransferases TIP60 and ELP3: Two essential
human HAT homologs that differentially regulated during development (manuscript
in preparation).

Liebhaber, SA, Shewchuk, BM, Elefant F., Cooke, NE. 2003. Roles of LCR
determinants in long range-gene activation. Blood, Cells, Molecules, and Diseases 31:
152.

Ho, Y., Elefant, F., Cooke, N.E., and Liebhaber, S.A. 2002. A defined locus control
region determinant links chromatin domain acetylation with long-range gene activation.
Mol. Cell. 9: 291-302.

Elefant, F., Su, Y., Liebhaber, S.A., and Cooke, N.E. 2000(b). Patterns of histone
acetylation suggest dual pathways for gene activation by a bifunctional locus control
region. EMBO J. 19: 6814-6822.

Elefant, F., Cooke, N.E., Liebhaber, S.A. 2000(a). Targeted recruitment of histone
acetyltransferase activity to a locus control region. JBC 275: 13827-13834.

Elefant, F. and Palter, K.B. 1999. Tissue-specific expression of dominant negative
mutant Drosophila HSC70 causes developmental defects and lethality. Mol. Biol.
Cell 10: 2101-2117.

Elefant, F. and Palter, K.B. 1998. The effects of producing dominant negative acting
heat shock cognate 70 proteins in specific tissues of Drosophila. Temple University,
Ph.D. thesis.

Mehta, A.S., Rubin, D,M., Elefant, F., Palter, K.B. 1997. Drosophila melanogaster
HSC4 proteins. In Guidbook to Molecular Chaperones and Protein Folding Catalysts,
ed. M.J. Gething. Oxford University Press. pg. 42-45.

Manseau, L., Baradaran, A., Brower, D., Budhu, A., Elefant, F., Phan, H., Philip,A.,
Yang, M., Glover, D., Kaiser, K., Palter, K.B., Selleck, S. 1997. GAL4 enhancer traps
expressed in the embryo, larval brain, imaginal discs, and ovary of Drosophila.
Developmental Dynamics 209: 310-322.