Publications

1: RNA thermometers are widespread upstream of ABC transporter genes in bacteria.

J Biol Chem. 2024 Aug;300(8):107547. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107547. Epub 2024 Jul 9. PMID: 38992441; PMCID: PMC11342760.
Tong AY, Tong EL, Hannani MA, Shaffer SN, Santiago D, Ferré-D'Amaré AR,
Passalacqua LFM, Abdelsayed MM. 

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2: Robo-Therm, a pipeline to RNA thermometer discovery and validation.

RNA. 2024 Jun17;30(7):760-769. doi: 10.1261/rna.079980.124. PMID: 38565243; PMCID:
PMC11182007.
Sharts DM, Almanza MT, Banks AV, Castellanos AM, Hernandez CGO, Lopez ML,
Rodriguez D, Tong AY, Segeberg MR, Passalacqua LFM, Abdelsayed MM. 

 

3: Characterization of a FourU RNA Thermometer in the 5' Untranslated Region of
Autolysin Gene blyA in the Bacillus subtilis 168 Prophage SPβ.
Biochemistry. 2023 Oct 17;62(20):2902-2907. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00368.
Epub 2023 Sep 12. PMID: 37699513; PMCID: PMC10586365.
Tong AY, Caudill EE, Jones AR, F M Passalacqua L, Abdelsayed MM.

4: Regulation of mRNA translation by a photoriboswitch. Elife. 2020 Feb 13;9:e51737. doi: 10.7554/eLife.51737. PMID:32053109; PMCID: PMC7051177.

Rotstan KA, Abdelsayed MM, Passalacqua LF, Chizzolini F, Sudarshan K,
Chamberlin AR, Míšek J, Luptak A.

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5: MultiplexAptamer Discovery through Apta-Seq and Its Application to ATP Aptamers Derivedfrom Human-Genomic SELEX. ACS Chem Biol. 2017 Aug 18;12(8):2149-2156. doi:10.1021/acschembio.7b00001. Epub 2017 Jul 11. PMID: 28661647; PMCID: PMC5775184.

Abdelsayed MM, Ho BT, Vu MMK, Polanco J, Spitale RC, Lupták A.