Dr Kinga Duszyc
Research Officer & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
+61 7 334 62337
Journal Articles
Chau, Tevin C. Y., Keyser, Mikaela S., Da Silva, Jason A., Morris, Elysse K., Yordanov, Teodor E., Duscyz, Kinga P., Paterson, Scott, Yap, Alpha S., Hogan, Benjamin M. and Lagendijk, Anne Karine (2022). Dynamically regulated focal adhesions coordinate endothelial cell remodelling in developing vasculature. Development. doi: 10.1242/dev.200454
Bonfim-Melo, Alexis, Duszyc, Kinga, Gomez, Guillermo A. and Yap, Alpha S. (2022). Regulating life after death: how mechanical communication mediates the epithelial response to apoptosis. The European Physical Journal E, 45 (1) 9, 9. doi: 10.1140/epje/s10189-022-00163-9
Duszyc, Kinga, Noordstra, Ivar, Yap, Alpha S and Gomez, Guillermo A (2021). Live imaging of apoptotic extrusion and quantification of apical extrusion in epithelial cells. Bio-protocol, 11 (22) e4232, e4232. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4232
Gupta, Shafali, Duszyc, Kinga, Verma, Suzie, Budnar, Srikanth, Liang, Xuan, Gomez, Guillermo A., Marcq, Philippe, Noordstra, Ivar and Yap, Alpha S. (2021). Enhanced RhoA signaling stabilizes E-cadherin in migrating epithelial monolayers. Journal of Cell Science, 134 (17) jcs258767, 1-13. doi: 10.1242/jcs.258767
Duszyc, Kinga, Gomez, Guillermo A., Lagendijk, Anne K., Yau, Mei-Kwan, Nanavati, Bageshri Naimish, Gliddon, Briony L., Hall, Thomas E., Verma, Suzie, Hogan, Benjamin M., Pitson, Stuart M., Fairlie, David P., Parton, Robert G. and Yap, Alpha S. (2021). Mechanotransduction activates RhoA in the neighbors of apoptotic epithelial cells to engage apical extrusion. Current Biology, 31 (6), 1326-1336.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.003
Wee, Kenneth, Hediyeh-Zadeh, Soroor, Duszyc, Kinga, Verma, Suzie, Nanavati, Bageshri N., Khare, Satyajeet, Varma, Amrita, Daly, Roger J., Yap, Alpha S., Davis, Melissa J. and Budnar, Srikanth (2020). Snail induces epithelial cell extrusion by regulating RhoA contractile signalling and cell–matrix adhesion. Journal of Cell Science, 133 (13) jcs235622, jcs235622. doi: 10.1242/jcs.235622
Acharya, Bipul R., Nestor-Bergmann, Alexander, Liang, Xuan, Gupta, Shafali, Duszyc, Kinga, Gauquelin, Estelle, Gomez, Guillermo A., Budnar, Srikanth, Marcq, Philippe, Jensen, Oliver E., Bryant, Zev and Yap, Alpha S. (2018). A mechanosensitive RhoA pathway that protects epithelia against acute tensile stress. Developmental Cell, 47 (4), 439-452. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.09.016
Yap, Alpha S., Duszyc, Kinga and Viasnoff, Virgile (2018). Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction at cell-cell junctions. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 10 (8) a028761, a028761. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a028761
Duszyc, Kinga, Gomez, Guillermo A., Schroder, Kate, Sweet, Matthew J. and Yap, Alpha S. (2017). In life there is death: How epithelial tissue barriers are preserved despite the challenge of apoptosis. Tissue Barriers, 5 (4) e1345353, e1345353. doi: 10.1080/21688370.2017.1345353
Priya, Rashmi, Liang, Xuan, Teo, Jessica L., Duszyc, Kinga, Yap, Alpha S. and Gomez, Guillermo A. (2017). ROCK1 but not ROCK2 contributes to RhoA signaling and NMIIA-mediated contractility at the epithelial zonula adherens. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 28 (1), 12-20. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E16-04-0262
Thesis
Duszyc, Kinga Patrycja (2019). Elimination of apoptotic epithelial cells:Â Regulation of apoptotic extrusion and immune responses to epithelial apoptosis. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.709