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  1. Flagellar stator genes control a trophic shift from obligate to facultative predation and biofilm formation in a bacterial predator

    Article • mBio, August 2024, ASM Journals

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  2. Loss-of-function cancer-linked mutations in the EIF4G2 non-canonical translation initiation factor

    Article • Life Science Alliance, December 2023, Life Science Alliance, LLC

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  3. Loss-of-function cancer-associated mutations in the EIF4G2 non-canonical translation initiation factor

    Article • August 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  4. Structural and biochemical analysis of a novel atypically split intein reveals a conserved histidine specific to cysteine-less inteins

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  5. A cancer associated somatic mutation in LC3B attenuates its binding to E1-like ATG7 protein and subsequent lipidation

    Article • Autophagy, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Gal Nuta, Yuval Gilad, Shmuel Pietrokovski, Miriam Eisenstein

  6. Reduced selection and accumulation of deleterious mutations in genes exclusively expressed in men

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  7. An Atypical Naturally Split Intein Engineered for Highly Efficient Protein Labeling

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2014, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  8. In and out: an analysis of epibiotic vs periplasmic bacterial predators

    Article • The ISME Journal, October 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  9. Oriented Covalent Immobilization of Antibodies for Measurement of Intermolecular Binding Forces between Zipper-Like Contact Surfaces of Split Inteins

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, May 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  10. By their genes ye shall know them: genomic signatures of predatory bacteria

    Article • The ISME Journal, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  11. Identification of PlantRAD52Homologs and Characterization of theArabidopsis thaliana RAD52-Like Genes

    Article • The Plant Cell, December 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  12. Activity, specificity and structure of I-Bth0305I: a representative of a new homing endonuclease family

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  13. Distinct Molecular Regulation of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3α Isozyme Controlled by Its N-terminal Region

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 2011, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  14. Selective loss of glycogen synthase kinase-3α in birds reveals distinct roles for GSK-3 isozymes in tau phosphorylation

    Article • FEBS Letters, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr James R Woodgett, Shmuel Pietrokovski

  15. New Modularity of DAP-Kinases: Alternative Splicing of the DRP-1 Gene Produces a ZIPk-Like Isoform

    Article • PLOS One, March 2011, PLOS

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  16. Myosin drives autophagy in a pathway linking Atg1 to Atg9

    Article • The EMBO Journal, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  17. Atg8: an autophagy-related ubiquitin-like protein family

    Article • Genome Biology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  18. Omics Data Management and Annotation

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  19. Mutation Detection with Next-Generation Resequencing through a Mediator Genome

    Article • PLOS One, December 2010, PLOS

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  20. Substrate Competitive GSK-3 Inhibitors strategy and Implications

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, March 2010, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  21. Meig1 deficiency causes a severe defect in mouse spermatogenesis

    Article • Developmental Biology, February 2010, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  22. Splicing of the Mycobacteriophage Bethlehem DnaB Intein

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2010, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  23. Fractured genes: a novel genomic arrangement involving new split inteins and a new homing endonuclease family

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  24. Bacterial intein-like domains of predatory bacteria: a new domain type characterized in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

    Article • Functional & Integrative Genomics, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  25. New Insights into the Autoinhibition Mechanism of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  26. Proteome-Based Comparative Analyses of Growth Stages Reveal New Cell Cycle-Dependent Functions in the Predatory Bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2008, ASM Journals

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  27. ZIPK: A Unique Case of Murine-Specific Divergence of a Conserved Vertebrate Gene

    Article • PLoS Genetics, October 2007, PLOS

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  28. Rapid assessment of correlated amino acids from pair-to-pair (P2P) substitution matrices

    Article • Bioinformatics, May 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  29. Refining intra-protein contact prediction by graph analysis

    Article • BMC Bioinformatics, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  30. A pair‐to‐pair amino acids substitution matrix and its applications for protein structure prediction

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, January 2007, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  31. Trans Protein Splicing of Cyanobacterial Split Inteins in Endogenous and Exogenous Combinations

    Article • Biochemistry, January 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  32. Article • BMC Structural Biology, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  33. Hsp90 Recognizes a Common Surface on Client Kinases

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2006, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  34. Nuclear Import of Ho Endonuclease Utilizes Two Nuclear Localization Signals and Four Importins of the Ribosomal Import System

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2006, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  35. The autophagy-associated Atg8 gene family operates both under favourable growth conditions and under starvation stresses in Arabidopsis plants

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, September 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  36. Algal Viruses with Distinct Intraspecies Host Specificities Include Identical Intein Elements

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2005, ASM Journals

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  37. One-Block CYRCA: an automated procedure for identifying multiple-block alignments from single block queries

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, July 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  38. Mitochondrial Carrier Homolog 2 Is a Target of tBID in Cells Signaled To Die by Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, June 2005, ASM Journals

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  39. Enhanced statistics for local alignment of multiple alignments improves prediction of protein function and structure

    Article • Bioinformatics, May 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  40. ZIPk: a Unique Case of Murine-Specific Divergence of a Conserved Vertebrate Gene

    Article • PLoS Genetics, January 2005, PLOS

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  41. Network Analysis of Protein Structures Identifies Functional Residues

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, December 2004, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  42. New type of polyubiquitin-like genes with intein-like autoprocessing domains

    Article • Trends in Genetics, November 2004, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  43. Protein Splicing and Auto-cleavage of Bacterial Intein-like Domains Lacking a C′-flanking Nucleophilic Residue

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2004, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  44. Protein Splicing of Inteins with Atypical Glutamine and Aspartate C-terminal Residues

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2004, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  45. Distribution of split DnaE inteins in cyanobacteria

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, November 2003, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  46. New types of conserved sequence domains in DNA-binding regions of homing endonucleases

    Article • Trends in Biochemical Sciences, September 2003, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  47. Distribution and function of new bacterial intein‐like protein domains

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, December 2002, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  48. Using the Blocks Database to Recognize Functional Domains

    Article • Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, August 2002, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  49. USH3A transcripts encode clarin-1, a four-transmembrane-domain protein with a possible role in sensory synapses

    Article • European Journal of Human Genetics, June 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  50. Intein spread and extinction in evolution

    Article • Trends in Genetics, August 2001, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  51. Identification of new signaling components in the Drosophila genome sequence

    Article • Functional & Integrative Genomics, April 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  52. Consistency analysis of similarity between multiple alignments: prediction of protein function and fold structure from analysis of local sequence motifs

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, March 2001, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  53. Blocks-based methods for detecting protein homology

    Article • Electrophoresis, May 2000, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  54. Blocks-based methods for detecting protein homology

    Article • Electrophoresis, May 2000, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  55. Doublecortin mutations cluster in evolutionarily conserved functional domains

    Article • Human Molecular Genetics, March 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  56. Increased coverage of protein families with the Blocks Database servers

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  57. Isolation and Characterization of a Split B-type DNA Polymerase from the Archaeon Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicumΔH

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 1999, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  58. Fine-tuning an engineered intein

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, September 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  59. Blocks+: a non-redundant database of protein alignment blocks derived from multiple compilations.

    Article • Bioinformatics, June 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  60. Configuration of the catalytic GIY-YIG domain of intron endonuclease I-TevI: coincidence of computational and molecular findings

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  61. New features of the Blocks Database servers

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  62. Identification of a virus intein and a possible variation in the protein-splicing reaction

    Article • Current Biology, September 1998, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  63. Exploring protein homology with the Blocks server

    Article • Trends in Genetics, April 1998, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  64. Consensus-degenerate hybrid oligonucleotide primers for amplification of distantly related sequences

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, April 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  65. Breaking up is hard to do

    Article • Nature Structural Biology, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  66. Modular organization of inteins and C-terminal autocatalytic domains

    Article • Protein Science, January 1998, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  67. Superior performance in protein homology detection with the Blocks Database servers

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  68. Gene Families: The Taxonomy of Protein Paralogs and Chimeras

    Article • Science, October 1997, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  69. Building Gene Families

    Article • Science, October 1997, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  70. A helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif predicted for transposases of DNA transposons

    Article • MGG Molecular & General Genetics, May 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  71. Recent enhancements to the Blocks Database servers

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  72. Searching databases of conserved sequence regions by aligning protein multiple-alignments [published erratum appears in Nucleic Acids Res 1996 Nov 1;24(21):4372]

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, October 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  73. A new intein in cyanobacteria and its significance for the spread of inteins

    Article • Trends in Genetics, August 1996, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  74. The Blocks database--a system for protein classification

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  75. Automated construction and graphical presentation of protein blocks from unaligned sequences

    Article • Gene, October 1995, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  76. Conserved sequence features of inteins (protein introns) and their use in identifying new inteins and related proteins

    Article • Protein Science, December 1994, Wiley

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  77. Comparing nucleotide and protein sequences by linguistic methods

    Article • Journal of Biotechnology, June 1994, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  78. Imported sequences in the mitochondrial yeast genome identified by nucleotide linguistics

    Article • Gene, December 1992, Elsevier

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  79. Synergism of type I and type II Interferons in stimulating the activity of the same DNA enhancer

    Article • FEBS Letters, June 1990, Wiley

    Dr Daniel Vaiman, Shmuel Pietrokovski

  80. Linguistic Measure of Taxonomic and Functional Relatedness of Nucleotide Sequences

    Article • Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, June 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  81. Origin and Evolution of Inteins and Other Hint Domains

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Pietrokovski