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Current OSU Appointment

Associate Professor, Microbiology Administration

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Alfonzo, J, D; Sahota, A; Deeley, M, C; Ranjekar, P; Taylor, M W. 1995. Cloning and characterization of the adenine phosphoribosyltransferase-encoding gene (APT1) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gene. Vol. 161, no. 1: 81-5.

Alfonzo, J, D; Thiemann, O; Simpson, L. 1997. The mechanism of U insertion/deletion RNA editing in kinetoplastid mitochondria. Nucleic acids research. Vol. 25, no. 19: 3751-9.

Alfonzo, J, D; Thiemann, O, H; Simpson, L. 1998. Purification and characterization of MAR1. A mitochondrial associated ribonuclease from Leishmania tarentolae. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 273, no. 45: 30003-11.

Simpson, L; Wang, S, H; Thiemann, O, H; Alfonzo, J, D; Maslov, D, A; Avila, H A. 1998. U-insertion/deletion Edited Sequence Database. Nucleic acids research. Vol. 26, no. 1: 170-6.

Thiemann, O, H; Alfonzo, J, D; Simpson, L. 1998. Cloning and characterization of Leishmania tarentolae adenine phosphoribosyltransferase. Molecular and biochemical parasitology. Vol. 95, no. 1: 141-6.

Thiemann, O. H.; Panepucci, E. H.; Caruso, C. S.; Beltramini, L. M.; Araujo, A. P. U.; Alfonzo, J. D.; Simpson, L.; Oliva, G. 1998. Cloning and characterization of Leishmania tarentolae adenine phosphoribosyltransferase gene. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Vol. 93, no. SUPPL. 2: 190.

Alfonzo, J, D; Blanc, V; Estevez, A, M; Rubio, M, A; Simpson, L. 1999. C to U editing of the anticodon of imported mitochondrial tRNA(Trp) allows decoding of the UGA stop codon in Leishmania tarentolae. The EMBO journal. Vol. 18, no. 24: 7056-62.

Alfonzo, J, D; Crother, T, R; Guetsova, M, L; Daignan-Fornier, B; Taylor, M W. 1999. APT1, but not APT2, codes for a functional adenine phosphoribosyltransferase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of bacteriology. Vol. 181, no. 1: 347-52.

Blanc, V; Alfonzo, J, D; Aphasizhev, R; Simpson, L. 1999. The mitochondrial RNA ligase from Leishmania tarentolae can join RNA molecules bridged by a complementary RNA. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 274, no. 34: 24289-96.

Estevez, A, M; Thiemann, O, H; Alfonzo, J, D; Simpson, L. 1999. T7 RNA polymerase-driven transcription in mitochondria of Leishmania tarentolae and Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular and biochemical parasitology. Vol. 103, no. 2: 251-9.

Thiemann, O. H.; Alfonzo, J. D.; Simpson, L.; Oliva, G. 1999. Cloning and characterization of Leishmania tarentolae hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase gene. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Vol. 94, no. SUPPL. 2: 150.

Kapushoc, S, T; Alfonzo, J, D; Rubio, M, A; Simpson, L. 2000. End processing precedes mitochondrial importation and editing of tRNAs in Leishmania tarentolae. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 275, no. 48: 37907-14.

Rubio, M, A; Liu, ; XYuzawa, H; Alfonzo, J, D; Simpson, L. 2000. Selective importation of RNA into isolated mitochondria from Leishmania tarentolae. RNA (New York, N.Y.). Vol. 6, no. 7: 988-1003.

Simpson, L; Thiemann, O, H; Savill, N, J; Alfonzo, J, D; Maslov, D A. 2000. Evolution of RNA editing in trypanosome mitochondria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 97, no. 13: 6986-93.

Carrillo, R; Thiemann, O, H; Alfonzo, J, D; Simpson, L. 2001. Uridine insertion/deletion RNA editing in Leishmania tarentolae mitochondria shows cell cycle dependence. Molecular and biochemical parasitology. Vol. 113, no. 1: 175-81.

Roy, Herve; Ling, Jiqiang; Alfonzo, Juan; Ibba, Michael. 2005. Loss of editing activity during the evolution of mitochondrial phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 280, no. 46: 38186-92.

Cassago, A.; Rodrigues, E. M.; Prieto, E. L.; Gaston, K. W.; Alfonzo, J. D.; Iribar, M. P.; Berry, M. J.; Cruz, A. K.; Thiemann, O. H. 2006. Identification of Leishmania selenoproteins and Secis element. Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology. Vol. 149, no. 2: 128-134.