Publications

Selected peer-reviewed research papers:

  1. Vlassov, A. V., Johnston, B. H. and Kazakov, S.A. (2004) Ligation activity of fragmented ribozymes in frozen solution: implications for the RNA world. Nucl. Acids Res. 32, 2966-2974. PMID 15161960
  2. Vlassov, A.V., Koval, O.A., Johnston, B.H. and Kazakov, S.A. (2004) ROLL: a method of preparation of gene-specific oligonucleotide libraries. Oligonucleotides 14, 210-220. PMID 15625916
  3. A. A. Seyhan, A.V. Vlassov, H. Ilves, L. Egry, S.A. Kazakov, and B. H. Johnston. (2005) Complete, gene-specific siRNA libraries: production and expression in mammalian cells. RNA 11, 837-846 . PMID 15840823
  4. A. V. Vlassov, S. A. Kazakov, B. H. Johnston, and L. F. Landweber, The RNA World on Ice: A New Scenario for the Emergence of RNA Information, J. Mol. Evol., 61:264-73 (2005). PMID 16044244
  5. Wang, C. H. Contag, H. Ilves, B. H. Johnston, and R. L. Kaspar,  Small hairpin RNAs efficiently inhibit hepatitis C IRES-mediated gene expression in human tissue culture cells and a mouse model. Mol. Therapy, 12:562-8 (2005). PMID 15953767
  6. Vlassov, A.V., Johnston, B.H., and Kazakov, S.A. (2005) Hairpin ribozyme-catalyzed ligation in water-alcohol solutions.  Oligonucleotides 15, 303-309. PMID 16396624
  7. S. A. Kazakov, S. V. Balatskaya, and B. H. Johnston (2006)  Ligation of the hairpin ribozyme in cis induced by freezing and dehydration. RNA 12: 446-456. PMID 16495237
  8. A. A. Seyhan, A. V. Vlassov, and B. H. Johnston (2006) RNA interference from multimeric shRNAs generated by rolling circle transcription.  Oligonucleotides 16: 353-363. PMID 17155910
  9. H. Ilves, R. L. Kaspar, Q. Wang, A. A. Seyhan, A. V. Vlassov, C. H. Contag, D. Leake, and B. H. Johnston (2006) Inhibition of hepatitis C IRES-mediated gene expression by small hairpin RNAs in human hepatocytes and mice. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1082: 52-55. PMID 17145925
  10. A.V. Vlassov, B. Korba, K. Farrar, S. Mukerjee, A. A. Seyhan, H. Ilves, R. Kaspar, S. A. Kazakov, and B. H. Johnston (2007) shRNAs targeting hepatitis C: effects of sequence and structural features, and comparison with siRNA. Oligonucleotides 17:223-236. PMID 17638526
  11. Qian Wang, Heini Ilves,  Pauline Chu,  Christopher H. Contag, Devin Leake, Brian H. Johnston, and Roger L. Kaspar (2007)  Delivery and inhibition of reporter genes by small interfering and hairpin RNAs in a mouse skin model. J. Invest. Dermatol. 127(11):2577-84; (Epub May 24, 2007) PMID 17522708
  12. A. A. Seyhan, B. N. Alizadeh and B. H. Johnston (2007) RNA interference-mediated inhibition of Semliki Forest virus replication in mammalian cells.  Oligonucleotides 17(4): 473-84. PMID 18095875
  13. R. P. Hickerson, A. V. Vlassov, Q. Wang, D. Leake, H. Ilves,  C. H. Contag, B. H. Johnston, and R. L. Kaspar (2008) Stability study of unmodified siRNA and relevance to clinical use.  Oligonucleotides 18(4):345-54; (Epub Oct. 10, 2008) PMID 18844576
  14. Dallas, A., Balatskaya, S.V., Kuo, T-C., Vlassov, A.V., Kaspar, R.L., Kisich, K., Kazakov, S.A., Johnston, B.H. (2008) Hairpin ribozyme-antisense RNA derivatives act as molecular Lassos. Nucleic Acids Res. 36(21):6752-66; (Epub Oct. 25, 2008) PMID 18953032
  15. Ge Q., Dallas A., Ilves H., Shorenstein J., Behlke M.A., Johnston B.H. (2010) Effects of chemical modification on the potency, serum stability, and immunostimulatory properties of short shRNAs. RNA 16(1):118-30 (Epub Nov. 30, 2009) PMID 19948766
  16. Ge Q., Ilves H., Dallas A., Kumar P., Shorenstein J., Kazakov S.A., and Johnston B.H. (2010) Minimal-length short hairpin RNAs: The relationship of structure and RNAi activity. RNA 16(1):106-17 (Epub Dec. 1, 2009) PMID 19952116
  17. Kumar, P., Johnston, B.H., and Kazakov, S.A. (2011) miR-ID: a novel, circularization-based platform for detection of microRNAs. RNA 17(2):365-80 (Epub Dec. 17, 2010) PMID 21169480
  18. Feng Li, Daniela Pignatta, Claire Bendix, Jacob O. Brunkard, Megan M. Cohn, Jeffery Tung, Haoyu Sun, Pavan Kumar, and Barbara Baker (2012) MicroRNA regulation of plant innate immune receptors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109(5):1790-5 (Epub Jan. 18, 2012) PMID: 22307647
  19. Dallas, Anne; Ilves, Heini; Ge, Qing; Kumar, Pavan; Shorenstein, Joshua; Kazakov, Sergei A.; Cuellar, Trinna L.; McManus, Michael T.; Behlke, Mark A.;, Johnston, Brian H. (2012) Right- and Left-loop short shRNAs have distinct and unusual mechanisms of gene silencing. Nucleic Acids Res. 40: 9255–9271. (Epub July 18, 2012) PMID: 22810205
  20. Kolli S, Wong SP, Harbottle R, Johnston B, Thanou M, Miller AD. pH-Triggered Nanoparticle Mediated Delivery of siRNA to Liver Cells in Vitro and in Vivo. Bioconjug Chem. 2013 Mar 20;24(3):314-32. PMID: 23305315

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