selected publications

• journal article

  • Skip residues modulate the structural properties of the myosin rod and guide thick filament assembly.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. E3806-E3815. 2015
  • Myosin filament assembly requires a cluster of four positive residues located in the rod domain.  FEBS Letters. 3008-3012. 2012
  • Effects of Pathogenic Proline Mutations on Myosin Assembly.  Journal of Molecular Biology. 807-818. 2012
  • Estimate of the abundance of cardiomyopathic mutations in the beta-myosin gene.  International Journal of Cardiology. 124-126. 2010
  • Uncoupling of Expression of an Intronic MicroRNA and Its Myosin Host Gene by Exon Skipping.  Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1937-1945. 2010
  • Bioinformatics assessment of β-myosin mutations reveals myosin's high sensitivity to mutations.  Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 141-149. 2008
  • Interplay between Exonic Splicing Enhancers, mRNA Processing, and mRNA Surveillance in the Dystrophic Mdx Mouse.  PLoS One. 2007
  • Cardiomyocyte preparation, culture, and gene transfer..  Methods in Molecular Biology. 321-330. 2007
  • Suppressor tRNAs: protocols and applications for cardiac gene transfer..  Methods in Molecular Biology. 115-127. 2003
  • Potential limitations of transcription terminators used as transgene insulators in adenoviral vectors.  Gene Therapy (Basingstoke). 227-231. 2002
  • Potential limitations of transcription terminators used as transgene insulators in adenoviral vectors..  Gene Therapy (Basingstoke). 227-231. 2002
  • Direct gene transfer into mouse heart.  Methods in Enzymology. 134-142. 2002
  • Enhanced detection of tRNA isoacceptors by combinatorial oligonucleotide hybridization.  RNA. 912-918. 2000
  • Suppression of nonsense mutations in cell culture and mice by multimerized suppressor tRNA genes.  Molecular and Cellular Biology. 3116-3124. 2000
  • Ochre suppressor transfer RNA restored dystrophin expression in MDX mice (vol 61, pg 205, 1997).  Life Sciences. PL83-PL83. 1999
  • Enhancer elements activate the weak 3' splice site of alpha-tropomyosin exon 2..  RNA. 1523-1536. 1998
  • Functional crosstalk between exon enhancers, polypyrimidine tracts and branchpoint sequences..  The EMBO Journal. 7174-7183. 1997
  • Ochre suppressor transfer RNA restored dystrophin expression in mdx mice (Retracted Article).  Life Sciences. PL205-PL209. 1997
  • Advances in cardiovascular gene transfer..  Cardiologia (Rome, Italy). 39-46. 1997