Department of Biological Sciences
 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

Russell AG, Charette JM, Spencer DF, and Gray MW. 2006. An early evolutionary origin for the minor spliceosome. Nature, 443: 863-866.

Russell AG, Schnare MN and Gray MW. 2006. A large collection of compact box C/D snoRNAs and their isoforms in Euglena gracilis: Structural, functional and evolutionary insights. Journal of Molecular Biology, 357: 1548-1565.

Russell AG, Shutt TE, Watkins RF and Gray MW. 2005. An ancient spliceosomal intron in the ribosomal protein L7a gene (Rpl7a) of Giardia lamblia. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 5: 45.

Russell AG, Watanabe Y-i, Charette JM and Gray MW. 2005. Unusual features of fibrillarin cDNA and gene structure in Euglena gracilis: evolutionary conservation of core proteins and structural predictions for methylation-guide box C/D snoRNPs throughout the domain Eucarya. Nucleic Acids Research, 33: 2781-2791.

Russell AG, Schnare MN and Gray MW. 2004. Pseudouridine-guide RNAs and other Cbf5p-associated RNAs in Euglena gracilis. RNA, 10: 1034-1046.

Omer AD, Lowe TM, Russell AG, Ebhardt H, Eddy SR and Dennis PP. 2000. Homologs of small nucleolar RNAs in Archaea. Science, 288: 517-522.

Russell AG, Ebhardt H and Dennis PP. 1999. Substrate requirements for a novel archaeal endonuclease that cleaves within the 5' external transcribed spacer of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius precursor rRNA. Genetics, 152: 1373-1385.

Dennis PP, Russell AG and Moniz de Sa M. 1997. Formation of the 5' end pseudoknot in small subunit ribosomal RNA: involvement of U3-like sequences. RNA, 3:337-343.

Potter S, Durovic P, Russell A, Wang X, De Jong-Wong D and Dennis PP. 1995. Pre ribosomal RNA processing in Archaea: characterization of the RNP endonuclease mediated processing of precursor 16S rRNA in the thermoacidophile Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 73: 813-823.

Giardia lamblia
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