Biography and Research Interest

***No longer involved in zebrafish research.***

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Weiss, S.L., Evenson, J.K., Thompson, K.M. and Sunde, R.A. (1996) The selenium requirement for glutathione peroxidase mRNA level is half of the selenium requirement for glutathione peroxidase activity in female rats. J. Nutr. 126, 2260-2267

Weiss, S.L., Evenson, J.K., Thompson, K.M. and Sunde, R.A. (1997) Dietary selenium regulation of glutathione peroxidase mRNA and other selenium-dependent parameters in male rats. J. Nutr. Biochem. 8, 85-91

Weiss, S.L. and Sunde, R.A. (1997) Selenium regulation of glutathione peroxidase expression requires the 3' untranslated region in Chinese hamster ovary cells. J. Nutr. 127, 1304-1310

Weiss, S.L. and Sunde, R.A. (1997) Selenium regulation of glutathione peroxidase mRNA levels requires sequences in the mRNA 3' untranslated region in transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells. In Trace Elements in Man and Animals - 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Trace Elements in Man and Animals. Edited by P.W.F. Fischer, M.R. L'Abbe, K.A. Cockell and R.S. Gibson. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Canada. pp. 57-58

Sunde, R.A., Thompson, B.M., Palm, M.D., Weiss, S.L., Thompson, K.M. and Evenson, J.K. (1997) Selenium regulation of selenium-dependent glutathione peroxidases. Biomedical and Environmental Sciences 10,1-10

Weiss, S.L. and Sunde, R.A. (1998) Cis-acting elements are required for selenium regulation of glutathione peroxidase mRNA levels. RNA 4, 816-827

Wen, W., Weiss, S.L. and Sunde, R.A. (1998) UGA codon position affects the efficiency of selenocysteine incorporation into glutathione peroxidase-1. J. Biol. Chem. 273, 28533-28541

Sachdev, S.W. and Sunde, R.A. (2001) Selenium regulation of transcript abundance and translational efficiency of glutathione peroxidases 1 and 4 in rat liver. Biochem. J. 357, 851-858