Selected Publications

Wang H-LV, Chekanova JA. Arabidopsis Putative Enhancers: Novel cis-elements with mammalian enhancer-like epigenomic signatures. Nature Communication. Under review 09/2017.

Chekanova JA. and Wang H-LV. Plant Long Non-Coding RNAs: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. Editor of the book, scheduled for publication in 2018.

Wang H-LV, Chekanova JA. Long Noncoding RNAs in Plants. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2017;1008: 133–154. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5203-3_5. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Wang H-LV, Chekanova JA. Small RNAs: essential regulators of gene expression and defenses against environmental stresses in plants. Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA. 2016;7: 356–381. doi:10.1002/wrna.1340. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Chekanova JA. Long non-coding RNAs and their functions in plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 2015;27: 207–216. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2015.08.003. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Wang H-LV, Dinwiddie BL, Lee H, Chekanova JA. Stress-induced endogenous siRNAs targeting regulatory intron sequences in Brachypodium. RNA. Cold Spring Harbor Lab; 2015;21: 145–163. doi:10.1261/rna.047662.114. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Shin J-H, Chekanova JA. Arabidopsis RRP6L1 and RRP6L2 Function in FLOWERING LOCUS C Silencing via Regulation of Antisense RNA Synthesis. PLoS Genetics 10: e1004612. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004612. [Pubmed] [PDF]

El-Mellouki T., Pirani K., Belostotsky D.A., Chekanova J.A. Posttranscriptional perinuclear retention of activated genes in S. cerevisiae: chromatin-independent effects of Sus1 and position-dependent effects of H2A.Z. RNA Revised, 2014

Shin J-H*, Wang H-LV*, Lee J, Dinwiddie BL, Belostotsky DA, Chekanova JA. The role of the Arabidopsis Exosome in siRNA-independent silencing of heterochromatic loci. Plos Genetics. 2013;9: e1003411. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003411.s007.  [Pubmed] [PDF]

Kelly SM, Leung SW, Apponi LH, Bramley AM, Tran EJ, Chekanova JA, et al. Recognition of polyadenosine RNA by the zinc finger domain of nuclear poly(A) RNA-binding protein 2 (Nab2) is required for correct mRNA 3′-end formation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; 2010;285: 26022–26032. doi:10.1074/jbc.M110.141127. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Marom L, Hen-Avivi S, Pinchasi D, Chekanova JA, Belostotsky DA, Elroy-Stein O. Diverse poly(A) binding proteins mediate internal translational initiation by a plant viral IRES. RNA biology. 2009;6: 446–454. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Belostotsky DA, Sieburth LE. Kill the messenger: mRNA decay and plant development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 2009;12: 96–102. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2008.09.003. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Chekanova JA, Abruzzi KC, Rosbash M, Belostotsky DA. Sus1, Sac3, and Thp1 mediate post-transcriptional tethering of active genes to the nuclear rim as well as to non-nascent mRNP. RNA. 2008;14: 66–77. doi:10.1261/rna.764108. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Chekanova JA, Gregory BD, Reverdatto SV, Chen H, Kumar R, Hooker T, et al. Genome-Wide High-Resolution Mapping of Exosome Substrates Reveals Hidden Features in the Arabidopsis Transcriptome. Cell. 2007;131: 1340–1353. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2007.10.056. [Pubmed] [PDF]

  • Selected by Faculty of 1000 [link]
  • Highlighted in Nature Genetics [link]
  • Subject of a dedicated mini-review “Lifting the veil on the transcriptome” by Callahan and Butler Genome Biology. 2008;9: 218. doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-4-218 [Pubmed] [PDF]

Abruzzi KC, Belostotsky DA, Chekanova JA, Dower K, Rosbash M. 3′‐end formation signals modulate the association of genes with the nuclear periphery as well as mRNP dot formation. The EMBO Journal. EMBO Press; 2006;25: 4253–4262. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7601305. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Chekanova JA, Belostotsky DA. MicroRNAs and messenger RNA turnover. Methods Mol Biol. New Jersey: Humana Press; 2006;342: 73–85. doi:10.1385/1-59745-123-1:73. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Reverdatto SV, Dutko JA, Chekanova JA, Hamilton DA, Belostotsky DA. mRNA deadenylation by PARN is essential for embryogenesis in higher plants. RNA. 2004;10: 1200–1214. doi:10.1261/rna.7540204. [Pubmed] [PDF]

  • Selected by Faculty of 1000 [link].
  • Profiled under “Top 10 headlines” by AgBiotechNet [link].

Chekanova JA, Belostotsky DA. Evidence that poly(A) binding protein has an evolutionarily conserved function in facilitating mRNA biogenesis and export. RNA. 2003;9: 1476–1490. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Chekanova JA, Dutko JA, Mian IS, Belostotsky DA. Arabidopsis thaliana exosome subunit AtRrp4p is a hydrolytic 3“–>5” exonuclease containing S1 and KH RNA-binding domains. Nucleic Acids Research. Oxford University Press; 2002;30: 695–700. doi:10.1093/nar/30.3.695. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Chekanova JA, Shaw RJ, Belostotsky DA. Analysis of an essential requirement for the poly(A) binding protein function using cross-species complementation.Current Biology. 2001;11: 1207–1214. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00371-2.  [Pubmed] [PDF]

  • Selected by Faculty of 1000 [link].

Chekanova JA, Shaw RJ, Wills MA, Belostotsky DA. Poly(A) tail-dependent exonuclease AtRrp41p from Arabidopsis thaliana rescues 5.8 S rRNA processing and mRNA decay defects of the yeast ski6 mutant and is found in an exosome-sized complex in plant and yeast cells. JBC. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; 2000;275: 33158–33166. doi:10.1074/jbc.M005493200. [Pubmed] [PDF]


Publications by Dmitry Belostotsky