John F. Atkins

Research interests

Publications

• Structural basis of ribosomal frameshifting during translation of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome

  Science · 2021 · 10.1126/science.abf3546

• Ribosomal frameshifting and transcriptional slippage: From genetic steganography and cryptography to adventitious use

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2016 · 10.1093/nar/gkw530

• Transcriptional slippage in the positive‐sense RNA virus family Potyviridae

  EMBO Reports · 2015 · 10.15252/embr.201540509

• Evidence of efficient stop codon readthrough in four mammalian genes

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2014 · 10.1093/nar/gku608

• Observation of dually decoded regions of the human genome using ribosome profiling data

  Genome Research · 2012 · 10.1101/gr.133249.111

• An Overlapping Protein-Coding Region in Influenza A Virus Segment 3 Modulates the Host Response

  Science · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1222213

• Efficient −2 frameshifting by mammalian ribosomes to synthesize an additional arterivirus protein

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 10.1073/pnas.1211145109

• Identification of evolutionarily conserved non-AUG-initiated N-terminal extensions in human coding sequences

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2011 · 10.1093/nar/gkr007

• Discovery of a small arterivirus gene that overlaps the GP5 coding sequence and is important for virus production

  Journal of General Virology · 2011 · 10.1099/vir.0.029264-0

• NS1′ of Flaviviruses in the Japanese Encephalitis Virus Serogroup Is a Product of Ribosomal Frameshifting and Plays a Role in Viral Neuroinvasiveness

  Journal of Virology · 2009 · 10.1128/jvi.01979-09

• An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800468105

• Programmed ribosomal frameshifting in decoding the SARS-CoV genome

  Virology · 2005 · 10.1016/j.virol.2004.11.038

• Deletion of Selenoprotein P Alters Distribution of Selenium in the Mouse

  Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2003 · 10.1074/jbc.m300755200

• Recoding: translational bifurcations in gene expression

  Gene · 2002 · 10.1016/s0378-1119(02)00423-7

• Sequence specificity of aminoglycoside-induced stop codon readthrough: Potential implications for treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

  Annals of Neurology · 2000 · 10.1002/1531-8249(200008)48:2<164::aid-ana5>3.0.co;2-b

• A dual-luciferase reporter system for studying recoding signals.

  PubMed · 1998

• RECODING: Dynamic Reprogramming of Translation

  Annual Review of Biochemistry · 1996 · 10.1146/annurev.bi.65.070196.003521

• Autoregulatory frameshifting in decoding mammalian ornithine decarboxylase antizyme

  Cell · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(95)90450-6

• The RNA world : the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA world

  · 1993

• The signal for a leaky UAG stop codon in several plant viruses includes the two downstream codons

  Journal of Molecular Biology · 1991 · 10.1016/0022-2836(91)90718-l

• Ribosome gymnastics—Degree of difficulty 9.5, style 10.0

  Cell · 1990 · 10.1016/0092-8674(90)90007-2

• Reading frame switch caused by base‐pair formation between the 3′ end of 16S rRNA and the mRNA during elongation of protein synthesis in Escherichia coli.

  The EMBO Journal · 1988 · 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1988.tb02969.x

• Slippery Runs, Shifty Stops, Backward Steps, and Forward Hops: -2, -1, +1, +2, +5, and +6 Ribosomal Frameshifting

  Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology · 1987 · 10.1101/sqb.1987.052.01.078

• Location and identification of the genes for adenovirus type 2 early polypeptides

  Cell · 1976 · 10.1016/0092-8674(76)90264-6

• Enhanced differential synthesis of proteins in a mammalian cell-free system by addition of polyamines.

  Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1975 · 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)41234-9

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