Danton H. O’Day
Professor Emeritus
Campus
UTM
CSB Appointment
Emeritus, Full
Research Areas
Cell Biology, Developmental Biology
Education
Ph.D., University of Delaware 1972
Primary Undergraduate Department
Biology, UTM
Graduate Programs
Cell & Systems Biology
Developmental Biology
Research Description
My lab focuses on the role of calmodulin binding proteins in cellular function.
Contact Information
Office Phone: 905-828-3896
Office: DV2003
Lab: DV2016
Lab Phone: 905-828-3897
Email
Mailing Address
Department of Biology
University of Toronto
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
Canada
Publications
2014
Nucleocytoplasmic protein translocation during mitosis in the social amoebozoan Dictyostelium discoideum
O'Day DH, Budniak A
2014, Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 24618050
A Lack of Correlation between the Incidence of Lyme Disease and Deaths due to Alzheimer’s Disease
O'Day DH, Catalano A
2014, Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 42, 115-118, 24840565
2013
Rad53 homologue forkhead-associated kinase A (FhkA) and Ca2+-binding protein 4a (CBP4a) are nucleolar proteins that differentially redistribute during mitosis in Dictyostelium
Catalano A, O'Day DH
2013, Cell division, 8, 4, 23587254
Matricellular signal transduction involving calmodulin in the social amoebozoan dictyostelium
O'Day DH, Huber RJ
2013, Genes, 4, 33-45, 24705101
2012
A matricellular protein and EGF-like repeat signalling in the social amoebozoan Dictyostelium discoideum
Huber RJ, O'Day DH
2012, Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 22782112
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 is a calmodulin-binding protein that associates with puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase in the nucleus of Dictyostelium
Huber RJ, Catalano A, O'Day DH
2013, Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1833, 11-20, 23063531
Extracellular calmodulin regulates growth and cAMP-mediated chemotaxis in Dictyostelium discoideum
O'Day DH, Huber RJ, Suarez A
2012, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 425, 750-4, 22884799
Nucleoplasmic/nucleolar translocation and identification of a nuclear localization signal (NLS) in Dictyostelium BAF60a/SMARCD1 homologue Snf12
Catalano A, O'Day DH
2012, Histochemistry and cell biology, 138, 515-30, 22623154
Ca2+ signaling regulates ecmB expression, cell differentiation and slug regeneration in Dictyostelium
Poloz Y, O'Day DH
2012, Differentiation; research in biological diversity, 84, 163-75, 22595345
EGF-like peptide-enhanced cell movement in Dictyostelium is mediated by protein kinases and the activity of several cytoskeletal proteins
Huber RJ, O'Day DH
2012, Cellular signalling, 24, 1770-80, 22588127
Colchicine affects cell motility, pattern formation and stalk cell differentiation in Dictyostelium by altering calcium signaling
Poloz Y, O'Day DH
2012, Differentiation; research in biological diversity, 83, 185-99, 22381626
The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor roscovitine inhibits kinase activity, cell proliferation, multicellular development, and Cdk5 nuclear translocation in Dictyostelium discoideum
Huber RJ, O'Day DH
2012, Journal of cellular biochemistry, 113, 868-76, 22234985
CyrA, a matricellular protein that modulates cell motility in Dictyostelium discoideum
Huber RJ, Suarez A, O'Day DH
2012, Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology, 31, 271-80, 22391412
Bestatin inhibits cell growth, cell division, and spore cell differentiation in Dictyostelium discoideum
Poloz Y, Catalano A, O'Day DH
2012, Eukaryotic cell, 11, 545-57, 22345351
EGF-like peptide of Dictyostelium discoideum is not a chemoattractant but it does restore folate-mediated chemotaxis in the presence of signal transduction inhibitors
Nikolaeva I, Huber RJ, O'Day DH
2012, Peptides, 34, 145-9, 22234048
2011
Dictyostelium puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase A is a nucleoplasmic nucleomorphin-binding protein that relocates to the cytoplasm during mitosis
Catalano A, Poloz Y, O'Day DH
2011, Histochemistry and cell biology, 136, 677-88, 22038042
Signalling and sex in the social amoebozoans
O'Day DH, Keszei A
2012, Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 87, 313-29, 21929567
Microcysts: the third developmental pathway of social amoebozoans
Budniak AA, O'Day DH
2012, Protist, 163, 2-14, 21798803
Nucleocytoplasmic transfer of cyclin dependent kinase 5 and its binding to puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase in Dictyostelium discoideum
Huber RJ, O'Day DH
2011, Histochemistry and cell biology, 136, 177-89, 21766205
An extracellular matrix, calmodulin-binding protein from Dictyostelium with EGF-like repeats that enhance cell motility
Suarez A, Huber RJ, Myre MA, O'Day DH
2011, Cellular signalling, 23, 1197-206, 21402150
Nucleolar localization and identification of nuclear/nucleolar localization signals of the calmodulin-binding protein nucleomorphin during growth and mitosis in Dictyostelium
Catalano A, O'Day DH
2011, Histochemistry and cell biology, 135, 239-49, 21327858
Tyrosine phosphorylation of actin during microcyst formation and germination in Polysphondylium pallidum
Budniak A, O'Day DH
2011, Protist, 162, 490-502, 21316301
2010
EGF-like peptide-enhanced cell motility in Dictyostelium functions independently of the cAMP-mediated pathway and requires active Ca2+/calmodulin signaling
Huber R, O'Day DH
2011, Cellular signalling, 23, 731-8, 21195758
Synthesis and biological activity of peptides equivalent to the IP22 repeat motif found in proteins from Dictyostelium and Mimivirus
Catalano A, Luo W, Wang Y, O'Day DH
2010, Peptides, 31, 1799-805, 20624437
2009
Determining time of death: temperature-dependent postmortem changes in calcineurin A, MARCKS, CaMKII, and protein phosphatase 2A in mouse
Poloz YO, O'Day DH
2009, International journal of legal medicine, 123, 305-14, 19326139
2008
An EGF-like peptide sequence from Dictyostelium enhances cell motility and chemotaxis
Huber R, O'Day DH
2009, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 379, 470-5, 19121290
Differentiation inducing factor-1 (DIF-1) induces gene and protein expression of the Dictyostelium nuclear calmodulin-binding protein nucleomorphin
O'Day DH, Poloz Y, Myre MA
2009, Cellular signalling, 21, 317-23, 19000924
2007
Calmodulin-binding proteins in the model organism Dictyostelium: a complete & critical review
Catalano A, O'Day DH
2008, Cellular signalling, 20, 277-91, 17897809
The value of animations in biology teaching: a study of long-term memory retention
O'Day DH
2007, CBE life sciences education, 6, 217-23, 17785404
2006
Isolation, characterization, and bioinformatic analysis of calmodulin-binding protein cmbB reveals a novel tandem IP22 repeat common to many Dictyostelium and Mimivirus proteins
O'Day DH, Suhre K, Myre MA, Chatterjee-Chakraborty M, Chavez SE
2006, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 346, 879-88, 16777069
Animated cell biology: a quick and easy method for making effective, high-quality teaching animations
O'Day DH
2006, CBE life sciences education, 5, 255-63, 17012217
2005
An N-terminal nuclear localization sequence but not the calmodulin-binding domain mediates nuclear localization of nucleomorphin, a protein that regulates nuclear number in Dictyostelium
Myre MA, O'Day DH
2005, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 332, 157-66, 15896312
Isolation and characterization of Dictyostelium thymidine kinase 1 as a calmodulin-binding protein
O'Day DH, Chatterjee-Chakraborty M, Wagler S, Myre MA
2005, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 331, 1494-502, 15883042
2004
Dictyostelium nucleomorphin is a member of the BRCT-domain family of cell cycle checkpoint proteins
Myre MA, O'Day DH
2004, Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1675, 192-7, 15535983
Calmodulin binds to and inhibits the activity of phosphoglycerate kinase
Myre MA, O'Day DH
2004, Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1693, 177-83, 15363631
Dictyostelium calcium-binding protein 4a interacts with nucleomorphin, a BRCT-domain protein that regulates nuclear number
Myre MA, O'Day DH
2004, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 322, 665-71, 15325281
Calmodulin-binding domains in Alzheimer’s disease proteins: extending the calcium hypothesis
O'Day DH, Myre MA
2004, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 320, 1051-4, 15249195
2003
Protein kinase Calpha negatively regulates cell spreading and motility in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells downstream of epidermal growth factor receptor
Gauthier ML, Torretto C, Ly J, Francescutti V, O'Day DH
2003, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 307, 839-46, 12878187
CaMBOT: profiling and characterizing calmodulin-binding proteins
O'Day DH
2003, Cellular signalling, 15, 347-54, 12618209
Post-mortem changes in calmodulin binding proteins in muscle and lung
Kang S, Kassam N, Gauthier ML, O'Day DH
2003, Forensic science international, 131, 140-7, 12590053