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Webster, R.H. and Sil, A. (2008) Conserved factors Ryp2 and Ryp3 control cell morphology and infectious spore formation in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 105(38):14573-8
Hwang, L.H. , Mayfield, J.A., Rine, J., Sil A. (2008) Histoplasma requires SID1, a member of an iron-regulated siderophore gene cluster, for host colonization. PLoS Pathog. 4(4):e1000044
Nguyen, V.Q., Sil, A. (2008) Temperature-induced switch to the pathogenic yeast form of Histoplasma capsulatum requires Ryp1, a conserved transcriptional regulator. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 105(12):4880-5.
Gebhart, D., Bahrami, A., and Sil, A. (2006). Identification of a copper-inducible promoter in Histoplasma capsulatum. Eukaryotic Cell, 5(6): 935-944

Nittler, M. P., Hocking Murray, D., Foo, C., and Sil, A. (2005). Identification of Histoplasma capsulatum Transcripts Induced in Response to Reactive Nitrogen Intermediates . Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16: 4792-4813.

Hwang, L., Hocking Murray, D., Bahrami, A., Andersson, M., Rine, J., and Sil, A. (2003) Identifying Phase-Specific Genes in the Fungal Pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum Using a Genomic Shotgun Microarray. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 14: 2314-2326.
McBride, H.J.*, Sil, A.*, Measday, V., Yu, Y., Moffat. J., Maxon, M.E., Herskowitz, I., Andrews, B., and Stillman, D.J. (2001) The Protein Kinase Pho85 is Required for Asymmetric Localization of the Ash1 Protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Microbiology, 42(2): 345-53.
*These two authors contributed equally to this work.
Takizawa, P.A., Sil, A., Swedlow, J.R., Herskowitz, I., Vale, R.D. (1997) Actin-dependent localization of an RNA encoding a cell-fate determinant in yeast. Nature, 389(6646):90-93.
Sil, A. and Herskowitz, I. (1996) Identification of an Asymmetrically Localized Determinant Required for Lineage-Specific Transcription of the Yeast HO Gene. Cell, 84: 711-722.
Book chapters
Sil, A. (2005) Using genomics to study the life cycle of H. capsulatum. "Fungal Genomics" (Ed. Brown, A.J.P.) Mycota XIII, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp219-234.