IDT Publications

Chen AK, Behlke MA, Tsourkas A.  2008  Efficient cytosolic delivery of molecular beacon conjugates and flow cytometric analysis of target RNA.   Nucleic Acids Res.  12:  69

Doré-Savard L, Roussy G, Dansereau MA, Collingwood MA, Lennox KA, Rose SD, Beaudet N, Behlke MA, Sarret P.  2008  Central delivery of Dicer-substrate siRNA: a direct application for pain research.  Mol Ther.   7:  1331-9

Owczarzy R, Tataurov AV, Wu Y, Manthey JA, McQuisten KA, Almabrazi HG, Pedersen KF, Lin Y, Garretson J, McEntaggart NO, Sailor CA, Dawson RB, Peek AS.  2008  IDT SciTools: a suite for analysis and design of nucleic acid oligomers.  Nucleic Acids Res.   36:  163-9

Tataurov AV, You Y, Owczarzy R.  2008  Predicting ultraviolet spectrum of single stranded and double stranded deoxyribonucleic acids.  Biophys Chem.   3:  66-70

Hildebrand MS, Newton SS, Gubbels SP, Sheffield AM, Kochhar A, de Silva MG, Dahl HH, Rose SD, Behlke MA, Smith RJ.  2008  Advances in molecular and cellular therapies for hearing loss.  Mol Ther.   2:  224-36

Gantier, M.P., Tong, S., Behlke, M.A., Xu, D., Phipps, S., Foster, P.S., and Williams, B.R.G.   2008  TLR7 Is Involved in Sequence-Specific Sensing of Single-Stranded RNAs in Human Macrophages.  J Immunol.   4:  2117-24

Owczarzy R, Moreira BG, You Y, Behlke MA, Walder JA.  2008  Predicting stability of DNA duplexes in solutions containing magnesium and monovalent cations.  Biochemistry.  19:  5336-53

Zamanian-Daryoush M, Marques JT, Gantier MP, Behlke MA, John M, Rayman P, Finke J, Williams BR..  2008  Determinants of cytokine induction by small interfering RNA in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.  J Interferon Cytokine Res.  4:  221-23

Devor EJ, Samollow PB.  2008  In vitro and in silico annotation of conserved and nonconserved microRNAs in the genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica.  J Hered.   1:  66-72

Brown DW, Gunning KB, Henry DM, Awdeh ZL, Brinker JP, Tzipori S, Herrmann JE  2008  A DNA oligonucleotide microarray for detecting human astrovirus serotypes.  J Virol Methods  147:  86-92

Chen AK, Behlke MA, Tsourkas A  2007  Avoiding false-positive signals with nuclease-vulnerable molecular beacons in single living cells.  Nucleic Acids Res.  35:  105

Melton PE, Briceno I, Gomez A, Devor EJ, Bernal JE, Crawford MH.  2007  Biological relationship between Central and South American Chibchan speaking populations: evidence from mtDNA.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology  133:  753-770

Peek AS, Behlke MA.  2007  Design of active small interfering RNAs.  Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics  9:  110-118

McQuisten KA, Peek AS.  2007  Identification of sequence motifs significantly associated with antisense activity.  BMC Bioinformatics  8:  184

Peek AS.  2007  Improving model predictions for RNA interference activities that use support vector machine regression by combining and filtering features.  BMC Bioinformatics  8:  182

Amarzguioui M, Lundberg P, Cantin E, Hagstrom J, Behlke MA, Rossi JJ.  2006  Rational design and in vitro and in vivo delivery of Dicer substrate siRNA.  Nature Protocols  1:  508-517

Robbins MA, Li M, Leung I, Li H, Boyer DV, Song Y, Behlke MA, Rossi JJ.  2006   Stable expression of shRNAs in human CD34(+) progenitor cells can avoid induction of interferon responses to siRNAs in vitro.  Nat Biotechnol.   5:  566-71

Marques JT, Devosse T, Wang D, Zamanian-Daryoush M, Serbinowski P, Hartmann R, Fujita T, Behlke MA, Williams BR.  2006   A structural basis for discriminating between self and nonself double-stranded RNAs in mammalian cells.  Nat Biotechnol.   5:  559-65.

You Y, Moreira BG, Behlke MA, Owczarzy R  2006   Design of LNA probes that improve mismatch discrimination.  Nucleic Acids Res.  8:  60.

Lennox KA, Sabel JL, Johnson MJ, Moreira BG, Fletcher CA, Rose SD, Behlke MA, Laikhter AL, Walder JA, Dagle JM.  2006  Characterization of Modified Antisense Oligonucleotides in Xenopus laevis Embryos.  Oligonucleotides  16:  26-42.

Devor EJ.  2006  Primate MicroRNAs miR-220 and miR-492 Lie within Processed Pseudogenes.  J Hered.  97:  186-90.

Zlojutro M, Rubicz R, Devor EJ, Spitsyn VA, Makarov SV, Wilson K, Crawford MH.  2006  Genetic structure of the Aleuts and Circumpolar populations based on mitochondrial DNA sequences: a synthesis.  Am J Phys Anthropol.  129:  446-64.

Behlke MA.  2006  Progress towards in Vivo Use of siRNAs.  Mol Ther.  13:  644-70.

Ramaswamy M, L Shi, SM Varga, S Barik, MA Behlke, and DC Look  2006  Respiratory syncytial virus nonstructural protein 2 specifically inhibits type I interferon signal transduction.  Virology  344:  328-339.

Owczarzy R.  2005  Melting temperatures of nucleic acids: Discrepancies in analysis.  Biophys Chem.  117:  207-215.

Eberhard S, Jain M, Im CS, Pollock S, Shrager J, Lin Y, Peek AS, Grossman AR  2005  Generation of an oligonucleotide array for analysis of gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.  Curr Genet.  :  1-19.

Rose, SD, Kim, DH, Amarzguioui, M, Heidel, JD, Collingwood, MA, Davis, ME, Rossi, JJ, and Behlke, MA  2005  Functional polarity is introduced by Dicer processing of short substrate RNAs.  Nucleic Acids Res.  33:  4140-56.

Soifer HS, A Zaragoza, M Peyvan, MA Behlke, and JJ Rossi  2005  A potential role for RNA interference in controlling the activity of the human LINE-1 retrotransposon.  Nucleic Acids Res.  33:  846-56.

Kim DH, MA Behlke, SD Rose, M-S Chang S Choi, and JJ Rossi  2005  Synthetic dsRNA dicer-substrates enhance RNAi potency and efficacy.  Nature Biotechnology  23:  222-226

Moreira BG, Y You, MA Behlke, and R Owczarzy  2005  Effects of fluorescent dyes, quenchers, and dangling ends on DNA duplex stability.  Biochem Biophys Res Comm   327:  473-484

Devor EJ, and K Moffat-Wilson  2004  An ancient RNase HI splice junction mutant preserved in a 19-million-year old genetic fossil in ape genomes.  Journal of Heredity  95:  257-261

Hail ME, B Elliott, and A Anderson  2004  High-throughput analysis of oligonucleotides using automated electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.  American Biotechnology Laboratory  22:  12-14

Montanelli L, JJJ van Durme, G Smits, M Bonomi, P Rodien, EJ Devor, K Moffat-Wilson, L Pardo, G Vassart, and S Costagliola  2004  Modulation of ligand selectivity associated with activation of the transmembrane region of the human follitropin receptor.  Molecular Endocrinology  18:  2061-2073

Owczarzy R, Y You, B Moreira, JA Manthey, L Huang, MA Behlke, and JA Walder  2004  Effects of sodium ions on DNA duplex oligomers: Improved predictions of melting temperatures.  Biochemistry  43:  3537-3554

Devor EJ, and K Moffat-Wilson  2003  Molecular and temporal characteristics of human retropseuodgenes.  Human Biology  75:  661-672

Owczarzy R, I Dunietz, MA Behlke, IM Klotz, and JA Walder  2003  Thermodynamic treatment of oligonucleotide duplex-simplex equilibria.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA  100:  14840-14845

Tsourkas A, MA Behlke, SD Rose, and G Bao  2003  Hybridization kinetics and thermodynamics of molecular beacons.  Nucleic Acids Research  31:  1319-1330

Tsourkis A, MA Behlke, Y Xu, and G Bao  2003  Spectroscopic features of dual fluorescence/luminescence energy-transfer molecular beacons.  Analytical Chemistry  75:  3697-3703

Tsourkas A, MA Behlke, and G Bao  2002  Structure-function relationships of shared stem and conventional molecular beacons.  Nucleic Acids Research  30:  4208-4215

Tsourkis A, MA Behlke, and G Bao  2002  Hybridization of 2’-O-methyl and 2’-deoxy molecular beacons to RNA and DNA targets.  Nucleic Acids Research  30:  5168-5174

Zhang L, Peek AS, Dunams D, Gaut BS  2002  Population genetics of duplicated disease-defense genes, hm1 and hm2, in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) and its wild ancestor (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis).  Genetics  162:  851-860

Devor EJ  2001  Use of molecular beacons to verify that the serine hydroxymethyltransferase pseudogene SHMT-ps1 is unique to the order Primates.  GenomeBiology  2:  0006.1-0006.5

Devor EJ  2001  Molecular archeology of an SP100 splice variant revisted: dating the retrotranscription and Alu insertion events.  GenomeBiology  2:  0040.1-0040.6

Park C, BR Keleman, TA Klink, R Sweeney, MA Behlke, SR Eubanks, and RT Raines  2001  Fast, facile, hypersensitive assays for ribonucleolytic activity.  Methods in Enzymology  341:  81-94

Rose SD, GH Swift, MJ Peyton, RE Hammer, and RJ MacDonald  2001  The role of PTF1-P48 in pancreatic acinar gene expression.  Journal of Biological Chemistry  276:  44018-44026

Behlke MA, SA Dames, WH McDonald, KL Gould, EJ Devor, and JA Walder  2000  Use of high specific activity StarFire oligonucleotide probes to visualize low-abundance pre-mRNA splicing intermediates in S. pombe.  Biotechniques  29:  892-897

Keleman BR, TA Klink, MA Behlke, SR Eubanks, PA Leland, and RT Raines  1999  Hypersensitive substrate for ribonucleases.  Nucleic Acids Research  27:  3696-3701

Conrad AH, MA Behlke, T Jaffredo, and GW Conrad  1998  Optimal lipofection reagent varies with the molecular modifications of the DNA.  Antisense & Nucleic Acid Drug Development  8:  427-434

Devor EJ, RM Dill-Devor, HJ Magee, and R Waziri  1998  Serine hydroxymethyltransferase pseudogene, SHMT-ps1: A unique marker of the order Primates.  Journal of Experimental Zoology  282:  150-156

Eder PS, RY Walder, and JA Walder  1993  Substrate specificity of human RNase H1 and its role in excision repair of ribose residues misincorporated in DNA.  Biochimie  75:  123-126

Walder RY, JR Hays, and JA Walder  1993  Use of PCR primers containing a 3’-terminal ribose residue to prevent cross-contamination of amplified sequences.  Nucleic Acids Research  21:  4339-4343

Dagle JM, ME Andracki, RJ DeVine, and JA Walder  1991  Physical properties of oligonucleotides containing phosphoramidite-modified internucleoside linkages.  Nucleic Acids Research  19:  1805-1810

Eder PS, and JA Walder  1991  Ribonuclease H from K562 human erythroleulemia cells. Purification, characterization, and substrate specificity.  Journal of Biological Chemistry  266:  6472-6479

Eder PS, RJ DeVine, JM Dagle, and JA Walder  1991  Substrate specificity and kinetics of degradation of antisense oligonucleotides by a 3’ exonuclease in plasma.  Antisense Research Developments  1:  141-151

Dagle JM, DL Weeks, and JA Walder  1991  Pathways of degradation and mechanism of action of antisense oligonucleotides in Xenopus laevis embryos.  Antisense Research Developments  1:  11-20

Dagle JM, JA Walder, and DL Weeks  1990  Targeted degradation of mRNA in Xenopus oocytes and embryos directed by modified oligonucleotides: studies of An2 and cyclin in embryogenesis.  Nucleic Acids Research  18:  4751-4757

Walder RY, and JA Walder  1988  Role of RNase H in hybrid-arrested translation by antisense oligonucleotides.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA  85:  5011-5015