Publications on Gene Birth of Long Non-coding RNAs, Repeat Sequences and Transposable Elements
Delihas N. (2020). Landscape of Long Noncoding RNA Genes, Pseudogenes, and Protein Genes in Segmental Duplications in the Critical Human Chromosomal Region 22q11.2. In: Jurga S., Barciszewski J. (eds) The Chemical Biology of Long Noncoding RNAs. RNA Technologies, Vol. 11. Springer, Cham. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44743-4_6
Delihas N. (2020). Genesis of Non-Coding RNA Genes in Human Chromosome 22-A Sequence Connection with Protein Genes Separated by Evolutionary Time. Noncoding RNA 6(3):E36. doi: 10.3390/ncrna6030036.
Delihas N. (2020). Formation of human long intergenic non-coding RNA genes, pseudogenes, and protein genes: Ancestral sequences are key players. PLoS One15(3):e0230236. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230236. eCollection 2020.
Delihas N (2018). A family of long intergenic non-coding RNA genes in human chromosomal region 22q11.2 carry a DNA translocation breakpoint/AT-rich sequence. PLoS One 13(4): e0195702. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195702
Hadjiargyrou M, Delihas N. (2013). The Intertwining of Transposable Elements and Non-Coding RNAs. Int J Mol Sci. 14:13307-13328.
Noted Publications on Regulatory RNAs
Delihas, N. (2015). Discovery and characterization of the first non-coding RNA that regulates gene expression, micF RNA: A historical perspective. World J Biol Chem. 2015 6(4): 272–280. doi: 10.4331/wjbc.v6.i4.272 PMCID: PMC4657122
Delihas, N. (2013) Editorial on the Special Issue: Regulation by Non-Coding RNAs. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 14: 21960-21964.
Delihas N. (2012) Regulating the regulator: MicF RNA controls expression of the global regulator Lrp. Mol Microbiol. 84: 401-404.
Delihas, N. (2009) Small Regulatory RNAs in Bacteria. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000970.pub2
Papamichail D, Delihas N. (2006) Outer membrane protein genes and their small non-coding RNA regulator genes in Photorhabdus luminescens. Biol Direct. 2006 May 22;1:12.
Delihas, N. (2003) Annotation and evolutionary relationships of a small regulatory RNA gene micF and its target ompF in Yersinia species. BMC Microbiol. 3(1):13.
Delihas, N. and Forst, S. (2001) micF-an antisense RNA gene involved in response of Escherichia coli to global stress factors. Journal of Molecular Biology 313:1-12.
Delihas, N. (1997) Antisense micF RNA and 5'-UTR of the target ompF mRNA- phylogenetic conservation of primary and secondary structures. Nucleic Acids Res. Symp. Series 36:33-35.
Delihas, N., Rokita, S.E., and Zheng, P. (1997) Natural antisense RNA/target RNA interactions: Possible models or antisense oligonucleotide drug design. Nature Biotechnology 15:751-753.
Delihas, N., Riley, L.W., Loo, W., Berkowitz, J. and Poltoratskaia, N. (1995) High sensitivity of Mycobacterium species to bactericidal activity by polylysine. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 132:233-237.
Schmidt,M. and Delihas, N. (1995) micF RNA is a substrate for Rnase E. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 133:209-213.
Delihas, N. (1995) Regulation of gene expression by trans-encoded antisense RNAs. Mol. Microbiol. 15:411-414.
Schmidt, M. Zheng, P., and Delihas, N. (1995) Secondary structures of Escherichia coli antisense micF RNA, the 5'-end of the target ompF mRNA, and the RNA/RNA Duplex. Biochemistry 34:3621-3631.
Esterling, L. and Delihas, N. (1994) The regulatory RNA gene micF is present in several species of Gram-negative bacteria and is phylogenetically conserved. Mol. Microbiol. 12(5):639-646.
Andersen, J. and Delihas, N. (1990) micF RNA binds to the 5'-end of ompF mRNA and to a protein from Escherichia coli. Biochemistry 29:9249-9256.
Coyer, J., Andersen, J., Forst, S.A., Inouye, M., and Delihas, N. (1990) micF RNA in ompB mutants of Escherichia coli: Different pathways regulate micF RNA levels in response to osmolarity and temperature. J. Bacteriol. 172:4143-4150.
Andersen, J., Forst, S.A., Zhao, K., Inouye, M., and Delihas, N. (1989) The function of micF RNA: micF RNA is a major factor in the thermal regulation of OmpF protein in Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 264:17961-17970.
Inouye, M. and Delihas, N. (1988) Small RNAs in the prokaryotes --- A growing list of diverse roles. Cell 53:5-7.
Andersen, J., Delihas, N., Ikenaka, K., Green, P.G., Pines, O., Ilercil, O., and Inouye, M. (1987) The isolation and characterization of RNA coded by the micF gene in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res. 15:2089-2101.
Publications on Repeat Sequences
Delihas, N. (2015) Complexity of a small non-protein coding sequence in chromosomal region 22q11.2: presence of specialized DNA secondary structures and RNA exon/intron motifs. BMC Genomics. 16: 785. doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-1958-6 PMCID: PMC4607176
Delihas N. (2011) Impact of small repeat sequences on bacterial genome evolution. Genome Biol Evol. 3: 959-973.
Delihas N. (2009) Stem Loop Sequences Specific to Transposable Element IS605 Are Found Linked to Lipoprotein Genes in Borrelia Plasmids. PLoS ONE 4(11): e7941. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007941
Delihas N. (2009) Intergenic regions of Borrelia plasmids contain phylogenetically conserved RNA secondary structure motifs. BMC Genomics 10:101 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-101.
Delihas, N. (2008) Small mobile sequences in bacteria display diverse structure/function motifs. Molecular Mircobiology 67: 475-481.
Delihas, N. (2007) Enterobacterial small mobile sequences carry open reading frames and are found intragenically-evolutionary implications for formation of new peptides. Gene Regulation and Systems Biology 1: 191-295.
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