Elizabeth Conibear, PhD
 | Associate Professor Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia Scientist, Child and Family Research Institute Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics Tel: +1 (604) 875-3898 Fax: +1 (604) 875-3840 Email:  |
Selected Publications:
Montpetit B, Conibear E . Identification of the novel TRAPP associated protein Tca17. Traffic (2009)
Brumm J, Conibear E , Wasserman WW, Bryan J. Discovery and expansion of gene modules by seeking isolated groups in a random graph process. PLoS ONE 3(10):e3358. (2008)
Meisler MH, Russ C, Montgomery KT, Greenway M, Ennis S, Hardiman O, Figlewicz DA, Quenneville NR, Conibear E , Brown RH. Evaluation of the Golgi trafficking protein VPS54 (wobbler) as a candidate for ALS. 9(3):141-8. (2008)
Weissman Z, Shemer R, Conibear E , Kornitzer D. An endocytic mechanism for haemoglobin-iron acquisition in Candida albicans. Mol. Microbiol. 69(1):201-17. (2008)
Schluter C, Lam KK, Brumm J, Wu BW, Saunders M, Stevens TH, Bryan J, Conibear E . Global analysis of yeast endosomal transport identifies the vps55/68 sorting complex. Mol. Biol. Cell 19(4):1282-94. (2008)
Kostelansky MS, Schluter C, Tam YY, Lee S, Ghirlando R, Beach B, Conibear E , Hurley JH. Molecular architecture and functional model of the complete yeast ESCRT-I heterotetramer. Cell 129(3):485-98. (2007)
Lam KK, Davey M, Sun B, Roth AF, Davis NG, Conibear E . Palmitoylation by the DHHC protein Pfa4 regulates the ER exit of Chs3. J. Cell Biol. 174(1):19-25. (2006)
Quenneville NR, Conibear E . Toward the systems biology of vesicle transport. Traffic 7(7):761-8. (2006)
Quenneville NR, Chao TY, McCaffery JM, Conibear E . Domains within the GARP subunit Vps54 confer separate functions in complex assembly and early endosome recognition. Mol. Biol. Cell 17(4):1859-70. (2006)
Conibear E . An E-MAP of the ER. Cell 123(3):366-8. (2005)
Kweon Y, Rothe A, Conibear E , Stevens TH. Ykt6p is a multifunctional yeast R-SNARE that is required for multiple membrane transport pathways to the vacuole. Mol. Biol. Cell 14(5):1868-81. (2003)
Conibear E , Cleck JN, Stevens TH. Vps51p mediates the association of the GARP (Vps52/53/54) complex with the late Golgi t-SNARE Tlg1p. Mol. Biol. Cell 14(4):1610-23. (2003)
Conibear E . An ESCRT into the endosome. Mol. Cell 10(2):215-6. (2002)
Conibear E , Stevens TH. Studying yeast vacuoles. Meth. Enzymol. 351:408-32. (2002)
Panek HR, Conibear E , Bryan JD, Colvin RT, Goshorn CD, Robinson LC. Identification of Rgp1p, a novel Golgi recycling factor, as a protein required for efficient localization of yeast casein kinase 1 to the plasma membrane. J. Cell. Sci. 113 Pt 24:4545-55. (2000)
Conibear E , Stevens TH. Vps52p, Vps53p, and Vps54p form a novel multisubunit complex required for protein sorting at the yeast late Golgi. Mol. Biol. Cell 11(1):305-23. (2000)
Conibear E , Stevens TH. Multiple sorting pathways between the late Golgi and the vacuole in yeast. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1404(1-2):211-30. (1998)
Nothwehr SF, Conibear E , Stevens TH. Golgi and vacuolar membrane proteins reach the vacuole in vps1 mutant yeast cells via the plasma membrane. J. Cell Biol. 129(1):35-46. (1995)
Conibear E , Stevens TH. Vacuolar biogenesis in yeast: sorting out the sorting proteins. Cell 83(4):513-6. (1995)
Conibear E , Pearse BM. A chimera of the cytoplasmic tail of the mannose 6-phosphate/IGF-II receptor and lysozyme localizes to the TGN rather than prelysosomes where the bulk of the endogenous receptor is found. J. Cell. Sci. 107 ( Pt 4):923-32. (1994)
Glickman JN, Conibear E , Pearse BM. Specificity of binding of clathrin adaptors to signals on the mannose-6-phosphate/insulin-like growth factor II receptor. EMBO J. 8(4):1041-7. (1989)