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Professor Kevin Docherty

Research Interests

Biology of the islets of Langerhans with particular interest in transcription factors that regulate islet gene expression and development.

Highlighted Publications

Burgess, S., Shen, C., Ferguson,LA., Docherty, K., Hunter N. and Goldmann, W. (2009) Identification of adjacent binding sites for the YY1 and E4BP4 transcription factors in the ovine PrP (prion) gene promoter. J. Biol. Chem. 284, 6716-6724

Bernardo AS., Cho, C.H-H., Mason, S., Docherty HM., Vallier, L., Pedersen, RA. and Docherty, K. (2009) Biphasic induction of PDX-1 in mouse and human embryonic stem cells can mimic development of b cells. Stem Cells 27, 341-351.

Karamitri, A., Shore, A., Docherty, K., Speakman, J. and Lomax, M.A. (2009) Combinatoral transcription factor regulation of the cyclic response element on the PGC-1? promoter in white 3T3-L1 and brown HIB-1B preadipocytes. J. Biol. Chem.  284, 20738-20752.

Docherty K. (2009) Pancreatic stellate cells can form new ? like cells. Biochem J. 421, e1-e4

Ferguson, LA., Docherty, HM., MacKenzie, AE. And Docherty K. (2009) An engineered zinc finger protein revelas a role for the insulin VNTR in the regulation of the insulin and adjacent IGF2 genes. FEBS Letts. 583, 3181-3186