Publications
Martianov, I., Ramadass, A.S., Barros, A.S., Chow, N., A. Akoulitchev. Nature (2007) 445: 666- 670 Repression of the Human DHFR Gene by a Non-coding Interfering Transcript
W. O’Gorman, A. Akoulitchev. Science ( STKE) 2006(365):pe51 What is so special about Oskar wild?
O’Gorman, W., Thomas, B., Kwek, K.Y., Furger, A., and Alexandre Akoulitchev. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2005) 280(44):36920-5. Analysis of U1 snRNA Interaction with Cyclin H.
Teixeira., A., Tahiri, A., S.West., Thomas, B., A. Ramadass, I. Martianov, James, W., N.Proudfoot and Alexandre Akoulitchev. Nature (2004) 432(7016): 526-530. Auto-Catalytic Cleavage in the Human Beta-Globin Gene pre-mRNA Promotes Transcriptional Termination.
Thomas, B, and A. Akoulitchev (2006) Trends in Bioch. Sciences 31(3): 173-181. Mass Spectrometry of RNA
O’Gorman, W., Kwek., K.-Y., Thomas, B., and Alexandre Akoulitchev Biochem. Soc. Symp. (2005) Non-coding RNA in transcription initiation in Biochemical Society Symposium, Volume 73: Transcription, Edited by S Roberts, R Weinzierl and R White ISBN-10: 1 85578 163 8 , ISBN-13: 978 1 85578 163 4 , Hardback January 2006, 241 pages, Published by Portland Press Ltd
Kwek., K., Murphy, S., Furger, A., Thomas, B., O’Gorman, W., Kimura, H., Proudfoot, N., and Akoulitchev, A. Nature Structural Biology (2002), 9(11): 800-805. U1 snRNA associates with TFIIH and regulates transcriptional initiation
Liu J., Akoulitchev S., Weber A., Ge H., Chuikov S., Libutti D., Wang X., Conaway R., Conaway J., and Levens D (2001) Cell 104(3):353-63. Defective interplay of activators and repressors with TFIH in Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Akoulitchev S., Cguikov S., and Reinberg D. (2000) Nature 407, 102-106. TFIIH is negatively regulated by cdk8-containing mediator complexes
Akoulitchev S., and Reinberg D. (1998) Genes and Development 12, 3541-2550. The molecular mechanism of mitotic inhibition of TFIIH is mediated by phosphorylation of CDK7
Akoulitchev S., Makela T., Weinberg R. and Reinberg D. (1995) Nature 377, 557-560. Requirement for the TFIIH kinase activity in transcription by RNA polymerase II.