
| Erik Boye | |
| Position: | Dept. head, Professor |
| Phone: | +47 22 78 19 81 |
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Curriculum vitae
Head of Department of Cell Biology
Leader, yeast cell biology group.
Professor at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo.
Education:
- 1973. Graduated in biophysics from the Norwegian Technical University.
- 1980. Ph.D. in radiation biology, University of Oslo
Employments
- 1973-1983: Physicist, Department of Medical Physics, The Norwegian Radium Hospital.
- 1983-1997: Senior scientist, Department of Biophysics, Institute for Cancer Research.
- 1997- : Head of Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research
- 2003- : Adjunct professor at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo
Current Research Interests
- Control of DNA replication in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
- DNA damage and repair.
- Checkpoint control mechanisms.
- Translation
- Noncoding RNA
Research prizes
- The Stiansen Biomedical Research prize (1998)
International Committees and Organizations
- Member of EMBO
- Member of EMBO Council 2001-2007
- Vice chair of EMBO Council 2004-2007
- Member of the editorial boards in EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports
- Membership & Publications Committee, EMBO (1996-1999)
- FEBS Council 2003-2007
- Panel chair European Research Council 2008-
National Committees and Organizations
- Member of the Norwegian Society for Science and Letters (since 2000)
- Secretary General of the Norwegian Biochemical Society (2003-2007)
- Scientific Advisory Committee for the Computational Biology Unit (Univ of Bergen) (2003-2008)
- Biomolex AS, Board member (2001-2003)
- Programme committee for "Cell and gene technology", NFR (1998-2002)
- Chairman of the board, Norsk Hydros Fund for Cancer Research (1999- )
- EMBIO (Univ of Oslo), Board member (2007-2009)
In-house activities
- Translational Research Board (Forskningsutvalget, 2002-2004).
- Steering group for construction of a new research building (2003-2009).
- Users’ group for new research building (2001-2003)
- Institutional web committee (2003-2007)
- Committee for reorganisation of the Institute (1999-2000)
- Member of Institute Council (1997-)
- Leader of Scientists Union (1981-82)
- Member of the editorial board of internal newspaper (1991-1998)
- Deputy member of the board of the Research Foundation (2000-2002)
- Board for IT and networking (1999-2002)
Teaching and Ph.D dissertations
- Sporadic lectures at Oslo and Tromsø Universities since 1980s.
- Teach at Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Univ of Oslo, since 2003.
- EMBO Practical Course on fission yeast biology, Copenhagen, 2002 and 2004.
- 16 Ph.D. dissertations, of which 7 were abroad.
Major scientific achievements
- The oxygen effect of ionising radiation is due to chemical reactions and not to enzymatic repair (Nature 1975)
- Produced the first DNA histograms of bacteria by flow cytometry (J. Bacteriol 1980).
- Initiation of DNA replication in E. coli initiates in synchrony at multiple origins (EMBO Journal 1986).
- The DnaA protein determines the initiation mass in E. coli (Cell 1989)
- DNA methylation is a major determinant of timing and synchrony of initiation of DNA replication in E. coli (Cell 1990)
- The mass at initiation in E. coli cells is not constant and varies with growth rate - in contradiction to the dogma (EMBO Journal 1994)
- SeqA is a negative regulator of DNA replication in E. coli (Cell 1994, Cell 1995, PNAS 1996)
- The mass at entry into S phase of S. pombe cells varies with growth rate (J.Cell Sci 1999)
- There is no classical G1/S checkpoint in S. pombe, but this transition is governed by a novel mechanism (PNAS 2003)
- The G1/S checkpoint is governed by the Gcn2 kinase (Genes Dev 2007)
Research grants
Received major grants from The Norwegian Cancer Society, The Norwegian Research Council (including "Miljøstøtte" and "Grunnleggende sykdomsmekanismer"), National Institutes of Health (U.S.A.) and minor grants from
The Odd Fellows Research Fund, Martin Flatners Legat, Siomon Fougner Hartmanns Familiefond and Familien Blix' fond.
Research visits/sabbaticals
- Gunnar Ahnström, Stockholm University (1975)
- Robert E. Krisch, Argonne National Laboratory (1976-77)
- Wolfgang Köhnlein, University of Münster (1982)
- Arthur Kornberg, Stanford University (1987)
- Paul Nurse, ICRF,London (1995)
- Jose Sogo (2002)
Meeting organisation
Main organiser of numerous national and international meetings, including an EMBO practical course (1986), two EMBO Conferences on DNA replication (1998 and 2008), EMBO Members Meeting (2002), the annual meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society (2004), a Nordic meeting on DNA replication (1990) and a Nordic network meeting on fission yeast biology (2001).
Selected central publications
Johansen I, Boye E. (1975 Jun 26)
Radiation-induced DNA strand breaks in E. coli measured within a fraction of a second.
Nature 255(5511):741-2
Steen HB, Boye E. (1981 Feb)
Escherichia coli growth studied by dual-parameter flow cytophotometry.
J Bacteriol 145(2):1091-4 PDF format
Skarstad K, Boye E, Steen HB. (1986 Jul)
Timing of initiation of chromosome replication in individual Escherichia coli cells.
EMBO J 5(7):1711-7
Løbner-Olesen A, Skarstad K, Hansen FG, von Meyenburg K, Boye E. (1989 Jun 2)
The DnaA protein determines the initiation mass of Escherichia coli K-12.
Cell 57(5):881-9
Boye E, Løbner-Olesen A. (1990 Sep 7)
The role of dam methyltransferase in the control of DNA replication in E. coli.
Cell 62(5):981-9
Wold S, Skarstad K, Steen HB, Stokke T, Boye E. (1994 May 1)
The initiation mass for DNA replication in Escherichia coli K-12 is dependent on growth rate.
EMBO J 13(9):2097-102
Lu M, Campbell JL, Boye E, Kleckner N. (1994 May 6)
SeqA: a negative modulator of replication initiation in E. coli.
Cell 77(3):413-26
Seror SJ, Casaregola S, Vannier F, Zouari N, Dahl M, Boye E. (1994 May 15)
Amutant cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase affecting timing of chromosomalreplication initiation in B. subtilis and conferring resistance to aprotein kinase C inhibitor.
EMBO J 13(10):2472-80
Slater S, Wold S, Lu M, Boye E, Skarstad K, Kleckner N. (1995 Sep 22)
E.coli SeqA protein binds oriC in two different methyl-modulatedreactions appropriate to its roles in DNA replication initiation andorigin sequestration.
Cell 82(6):927-36
Boye E, Stokke T, Kleckner N, Skarstad K. (1996 Oct 29)
Coordinating DNA replication initiation with cell growth: differential roles for DnaA and SeqA proteins.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93(22):12206-11 PDF format
Carlson CR, Grallert B, Stokke T, Boye E. (1999 Mar)
Regulation of the start of DNA replication in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
J Cell Sci 112 ( Pt 6):939-46 PDF format
Boye E, Løbner-Olesen A, Skarstad K. (2000 Dec)
Limiting DNA replication to once and only once.
EMBO Rep 1(6):479-83
Synnes M, Nilssen EA, Boye E, Grallert B. (2002 Sep 15)
A novel chk1-dependent G1/M checkpoint in fission yeast.
J Cell Sci 115(Pt 18):3609-18 PDF format
Boye E, Nordström K. (2003 Aug)
Coupling the cell cycle to cell growth.
EMBO Rep 4(8):757-60 PDF format
Nilssen EA, Synnes M, Kleckner N, Grallert B, Boye E. (2003 Sep 16)
Intra-G1 arrest in response to UV irradiation in fission yeast.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100(19):10758-63 PDF format
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A novel checkpoint mechanism regulating the G1/S transition
Genes Dev, 21 (6), 649-54 PDF format
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Publications 2011
Cell-cycle analysis of fission yeast cells by flow cytometry
PLoS One, 6 (2), e17175
PubMed 21386895
Publications 2009
In DNA replication, the early bird catches the worm
Cell, 136 (5), 812-4
PubMed 19269359
Checkpoint regulation of DNA replication
Methods Mol Biol, 521, 55-70
PubMed 19563101
Global transcriptional response after exposure of fission yeast cells to ultraviolet light
BMC Cell Biol, 10, 87
PubMed 20015352
The right half of the Escherichia coli replication origin is not essential for viability, but facilitates multi-forked replication
Mol Microbiol, 74 (2), 467-79
PubMed 19737351
Publications 2008
Rapid regulation of protein activity in fission yeast
BMC Cell Biol, 9, 23
PubMed 18457584
The multiple facets of the intra-S checkpoint
Cell Cycle, 7 (15), 2315-20
PubMed 18677104
The G1-S checkpoint in fission yeast is not a general DNA damage checkpoint
J Cell Sci, 121 (Pt 24), 4047-54
PubMed 19033384
Publications 2007
The Gcn2 kinase as a cell cycle regulator
Cell Cycle, 6 (22), 2768-72
PubMed 17986863
A novel checkpoint mechanism regulating the G1/S transition
Genes Dev, 21 (6), 649-54
PubMed 17369398
Publications 2006
DisA, a busy bee that monitors chromosome integrity
Cell, 125 (4), 641-3
PubMed 16713555
DNA damage induces Cdt1 proteolysis in fission yeast through a pathway dependent on Cdt2 and Ddb1
EMBO Rep, 7 (11), 1134-9
PubMed 17039252
Publications 2005
The Escherichia coli baby cell column: a novel cell synchronization method provides new insight into the bacterial cell cycle
Mol Microbiol, 57 (2), 380-91
PubMed 15978072
Publications 2004
Germinating fission yeast spores delay in G1 in response to UV irradiation
BMC Cell Biol, 5 (1), 40
PubMed 15498101
Publications 2003
Coupling the cell cycle to cell growth
EMBO Rep, 4 (8), 757-60
PubMed 12897798
Intra-G1 arrest in response to UV irradiation in fission yeast
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100 (19), 10758-63
PubMed 12960401
Circles in the sand
EMBO Rep, 4 (7), 661-5
PubMed 12835752
Publications 2002
A novel chk1-dependent G1/M checkpoint in fission yeast
J Cell Sci, 115 (Pt 18), 3609-18
PubMed 12186947
Publications 2001
Defective initiation in an Escherichia coli dnaA(Cs,Sx) mutant
Biochimie, 83 (1), 25-32
PubMed 11254971
[The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 121 (30), 3500
PubMed 11808003
Regulation of chromosomal replication by DnaA protein availability in Escherichia coli: effects of the datA region
Biochim Biophys Acta, 1521 (1-3), 73-80
PubMed 11690638
The sequence requirements for a functional Escherichia coli replication origin are different for the chromosome and a minichromosome
Mol Microbiol, 40 (2), 498-507
PubMed 11309131
Publications 2000
Limiting DNA replication to once and only once
EMBO Rep, 1 (6), 479-83
PubMed 11263490
A fission yeast general translation factor reveals links between protein synthesis and cell cycle controls
J Cell Sci, 113 ( Pt 8), 1447-58
PubMed 10725227
The Escherichia coli SeqA protein destabilizes mutant DnaA204 protein
Mol Microbiol, 37 (3), 629-38
PubMed 10931356
Publications 1999
Regulation of the start of DNA replication in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
J Cell Sci, 112 ( Pt 6), 939-46
PubMed 10036243
The gene for 2-phosphoglycolate phosphatase (gph) in Escherichia coli is located in the same operon as dam and at least five other diverse genes
Biochim Biophys Acta, 1472 (1-2), 376-84
PubMed 10572959
Publications 1998
Are minichromosomes valid model systems for DNA replication control? Lessons learned from Escherichia coli
Mol Microbiol, 29 (3), 671-5
PubMed 9723907
Flow cytometry of bacterial cells: comparison between different flow cytometers and different DNA stains
Cytometry, 31 (1), 29-36
PubMed 9450522
Impaired growth of an Escherichia coli rpe mutant lacking ribulose-5-phosphate epimerase activity
Biochim Biophys Acta, 1381 (3), 319-30
PubMed 9729441
Effects of purified SeqA protein on oriC-dependent DNA replication in vitro
EMBO J, 17 (14), 4158-65
PubMed 9670030
Publications 1997
The absence of effect of gid or mioC transcription on the initiation of chromosomal replication in Escherichia coli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 94 (23), 12497-502
PubMed 9356478
Measurement of nuclear DNA content in fission yeast by flow cytometry
Yeast, 13 (14), 1329-35
PubMed 9392077
Publications 1996
Coordinating DNA replication initiation with cell growth: differential roles for DnaA and SeqA proteins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 93 (22), 12206-11
PubMed 8901558
Publications 1995
The DnaA box R4 in the minimal oriC is dispensable for initiation of Escherichia coli chromosome replication
Nucleic Acids Res, 23 (16), 3119-25
PubMed 7667087
Characterization of three genes in the dam-containing operon of Escherichia coli
Mol Gen Genet, 247 (5), 546-54
PubMed 7603433
Analysis of DNA replication in vivo by flow cytometry
Methods Enzymol, 262, 604-13
PubMed 8594381
E. coli SeqA protein binds oriC in two different methyl-modulated reactions appropriate to its roles in DNA replication initiation and origin sequestration
Cell, 82 (6), 927-36
PubMed 7553853
Publications 1994
SeqA: a negative modulator of replication initiation in E. coli
Cell, 77 (3), 413-26
PubMed 8011018
Cell cycle control: prokaryotic solutions to eukaryotic problems?
J Theor Biol, 168 (2), 227-30
PubMed 8022199
A mutant cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase affecting timing of chromosomal replication initiation in B. subtilis and conferring resistance to a protein kinase C inhibitor
EMBO J, 13 (10), 2472-80
PubMed 8194536
The initiator protein DnaA: evolution, properties and function
Biochim Biophys Acta, 1217 (2), 111-30
PubMed 8110826
Staining and measurement of DNA in bacteria
Methods Cell Biol, 42 Pt B, 477-87
PubMed 7533253
The initiation mass for DNA replication in Escherichia coli K-12 is dependent on growth rate
EMBO J, 13 (9), 2097-102
PubMed 8187762
Publications 1993
Degradation of individual chromosomes in recA mutants of Escherichia coli
J Bacteriol, 175 (17), 5505-9
PubMed 8366035
The retinoblastoma gene product is bound in the nucleus in early G1 phase
Exp Cell Res, 204 (1), 147-55
PubMed 8416792
Publications 1992
Quantitation of Dam methyltransferase in Escherichia coli
J Bacteriol, 174 (5), 1682-5
PubMed 1537808
Different effects of mioC transcription on initiation of chromosomal and minichromosomal replication in Escherichia coli
Nucleic Acids Res, 20 (12), 3029-36
PubMed 1620598
Expression of the Escherichia coli dam gene
Mol Microbiol, 6 (13), 1841-51
PubMed 1630320
Identification of a weak promoter for the dam gene of Escherichia coli
Biochim Biophys Acta, 1131 (1), 47-52
PubMed 1581360
Publications 1991
Cell cycle parameters of Escherichia coli K-12
J Bacteriol, 173 (24), 7970-4
PubMed 1744054
The hemimethylated replication origin of Escherichia coli can be initiated in vitro
J Bacteriol, 173 (14), 4537-9
PubMed 2066345
A turnstile for initiation of DNA replication
Trends Cell Biol, 1 (5), 107-9
PubMed 14731540
Bacterial growth control studied by flow cytometry
Res Microbiol, 142 (2-3), 131-5
PubMed 1925010
Publications 1990
The role of dam methyltransferase in the control of DNA replication in E. coli
Cell, 62 (5), 981-9
PubMed 2203541
Flow cytometry: illuminating microbiology
New Biol, 2 (2), 119-25
PubMed 2083247
Rule governing the division pattern in Escherichia coli minB and wild-type filaments
J Bacteriol, 172 (6), 3500-2
PubMed 2188963
DNA measurements of bacteria
Methods Cell Biol, 33, 519-26
PubMed 2084483
Publications 1989
The DnaA protein determines the initiation mass of Escherichia coli K-12
Cell, 57 (5), 881-9
PubMed 2541928
Initiation of DNA replication in Escherichia coli after overproduction of the DnaA protein
Mol Gen Genet, 218 (1), 50-6
PubMed 2550764
Publications 1988
Timing of chromosomal replication in Escherichia coli
Biochim Biophys Acta, 951 (2-3), 359-64
PubMed 2850013
Perturbed chromosomal replication in recA mutants of Escherichia coli
J Bacteriol, 170 (6), 2549-54
PubMed 3286612
Coordination of chromosome replication initiation in Escherichia coli: effects of different dnaA alleles
J Bacteriol, 170 (2), 852-8
PubMed 2828328
Transcription of protooncogenes during stimulation of normal human B lymphocytes
Eur J Immunol, 18 (11), 1847-50
PubMed 3060364
Publications 1987
[Cancer and specific chromosome aberrations. Activation of cellular oncogens]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 107 (17-18), 1563-5, 1571
PubMed 3603528
Mode of initiation of constitutive stable DNA replication in RNase H-defective mutants of Escherichia coli K-12
J Bacteriol, 169 (6), 2650-8
PubMed 3034862
Publications 1986
Timing of initiation of chromosome replication in individual Escherichia coli cells
EMBO J, 5 (7), 1711-7
PubMed 3527695
Flow cytometry of bacteria: cell cycle kinetics and effects of antibiotics
Ann N Y Acad Sci, 468, 329-38
PubMed 2942091
Publications 1985
DISTRIBUTION OF RADIOACTIVITY AFTER INTRA-PERITONEAL ADMINISTRATION OF P-32 COLLOIDS - REPLY
Br. J. Radiol., 58 (685), 101
RecA protein acts at the initiation of stable DNA replication in rnh mutants of Escherichia coli K-12
J Bacteriol, 163 (2), 439-44
PubMed 2991187
[Are the Norwegian nuclear medicine laboratories good enough? A report from a nationwide quality control survey of nuclear medicine instruments performed by the Norwegian Society for Nuclear Medicine and the National Institute for Radiation Protection]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 105 (28), 1978-81
PubMed 4071490
Escherichia coli DNA distributions measured by flow cytometry and compared with theoretical computer simulations
J Bacteriol, 163 (2), 661-8
PubMed 3894332
Publications 1984
Characterization of intracellular DNA strand breaks induced by neocarzinostatin in Escherichia coli cells
Nucleic Acids Res, 12 (21), 8281-91
PubMed 6239141
Whole-body distribution of radioactivity after intraperitoneal administration of 32P colloids
Br J Radiol, 57 (677), 395-402
PubMed 6722434
Publications 1983
Flow cytometry of bacteria: a promising tool in experimental and clinical microbiology
J Gen Microbiol, 129 (4), 973-80
PubMed 6350534
Cell cycle parameters of slowly growing Escherichia coli B/r studied by flow cytometry
J Bacteriol, 154 (2), 656-62
PubMed 6341358
Publications 1982
Applications of flow cytometry on bacteria: cell cycle kinetics, drug effects, and quantitation of antibody binding
Cytometry, 2 (4), 249-57
PubMed 7035105
Publications 1981
Deoxyribonucleic acid replication in permeable and fully viable Escherichia coli cells
J Bacteriol, 145 (3), 1413-6
PubMed 7009586
PHOTODYNAMIC EFFECT ON DNA AND CELL-SURVIVAL OF HUMAN-CELLS SENSITIZED BY HEMATOPORPHYRIN
PHOTOBIOCH PHOTOBIOP, 2 (4-5), 301-307
Escherichia coli growth studied by dual-parameter flow cytophotometry
J Bacteriol, 145 (2), 1091-4
PubMed 7007339
Publications 1980
DNA repair and replication in cells of Escherichia coli made permeable with hypotonic buffers
Radiat Res, 84 (1), 35-45
PubMed 7005926
Formation and repair of DNA double-strand breaks in superinfecting phage lambda after ionizing irradiation of Escherichia coli host cells
Radiat Res, 81 (3), 427-40
PubMed 6444747
Induction and repair of double- and single-strand DNA breaks in bacteriophage lambda superinfecting Escherichia coli
Int J Radiat Biol Relat Stud Phys Chem Med, 37 (2), 119-33
PubMed 6445341
PHOTODYNAMIC EFFECT OF HEMATOPORPHYRIN ON DNA
Photochem. Photobiol., 31 (3), 223-228
Bacterial growth studied by flow cytometry
Cytometry, 1 (1), 32-6
PubMed 7023880
Publications 1978
DNA polymerase I-mediated repair of 365 nm-induced single-strand breaks in the DNA of Escherichia coli
Photochem Photobiol, 27 (3), 323-7
PubMed 366633
Publications 1976
The yield of radiation-induced DNA single-strand breaks in Escherichia coli and superinfecting phage lambda at different dose rates. Repair of strand breaks in different buffers
Radiat Res, 68 (3), 499-508
PubMed 794917
YIELD OF RADIATION-INDUCED DNA SINGLE-STRAND BREAKS IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI AND SUPERINFECTING PHAGE-LAMBDA AT DIFFERENT DOSE-RATES - REPAIR OF STRAND BREAKS IN DIFFERENT BUFFERS
Radiat. Res., 68 (3), 499-508
Toxic effects upon bacteria of phosphate-buffered saline exposed in a high-frequency argon discharge
Radiat Res, 65 (1), 98-100
PubMed 1108097
IRRADIATION AND DNA BREAKS - REPLY
Nature, 259 (5542), 426
Publications 1975
RADIATION-INDUCED DNA STRAND BREAKS IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI MEASURED WITHIN A FRACTION OF A SECOND
Nature, 255 (5511), 740-742
Radiation-induced DNA strand breaks in E. coli measured within a fraction of a second
Nature, 255 (5511), 741-2
PubMed 237238
Publications 1974
Time scale for rejoining of bacteriophage lambda deoxyribonucleic acid molecules in superinfected pol+ and polA1 strains of Escherichia coli after exposure to 4 MeV electrons
J Bacteriol, 119 (2), 522-6
PubMed 4605387




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