Colin Andrew Smith
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Articles for which I have a license to post and am corresponding author:
Dust Rains Deliver Diverse Assemblages of Microorganisms to the Eastern Mediterranean
HK022 Nun Requires Arginine-Rich Motif Residues Distinct from lambda N
Bacteriophage P22 Antitermination boxB Sequence Requirements Are Complex
The RNA-Binding Domain of Bacteriophage P22N Protein Is Highly Mutable
Links to publishers’ sites for articles for which I do not have a license and am first or last author (and free authors’ accepted manuscripts when available):
Altered‐specificity mutants of the HIV Rev arginine‐rich motif‐RRE IIB interaction
authors’ accepted manuscript
Diverse mutants of HIV RRE IIB recognize wild‐type Rev ARM or Rev ARM R35G‐N40V
authors’ accepted manuscript
Randomized codon mutagenesis reveals that the HIV Rev arginine‐rich motif is robust to substitutions and that double substitution of two critical residues alters specificity
authors’ accepted manuscript
Fly diversity revealed by PCR‐RFLP of mitochondrial DNA (open access)
An RNA-Binding Chameleon (open access)
Induced folding in RNA-protein recognition: more than a simple molecular handshake (open access)
Altering the context of an RNA bulge switches the binding specificities of two viral Tat proteins
Using peptides as models of RNA-protein interactions
The Ability of a Variety of Polymerases to Synthesize Past Site-specific cis-syn, trans-syn-II,(6–4), and Dewar Photoproducts of Thymidylyl-(3′→ 5′)-thymidine (open access)
Mutation Spectra of M13 Vectors Containing Site-Specific Cis-Syn, Trans-Syn-I,(6− 4), and Dewar Pyrimidone Photoproducts of Thymidylyl-(3 ‘→ 5 ‘)-Thymidine in Escherichia coli under SOS Conditions
Preparation and characterization of a set of deoxyoligonucleotide 49-mers containing site-specific cis-syn, trans-syn-I,(6-4), and Dewar photoproducts of thymidylyl (3′–> 5′)-thymidine (open access)
Links to articles for which I am a contributing author:
Comparative Analysis of Binding of Human Damaged DNA-binding Protein (XPE) and Escherichia coli Damage Recognition Protein (UvrA) to the Major Ultraviolet Photoproducts: T[c,s]T, T[t,s]T, T[6-4]T, and T[Dewar]T (open access)
Characterization of (6-4) photoproduct DNA photolyase (open access)
Effect of sequence, adduct type, and opposing lesions on the binding and repair of ultraviolet photodamage by DNA photolyase and (A) BC excinuclease (open access)
A new ATP-independent DNA endonuclease from Schizosaccharomyces pombe that recognizes cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and 6–4 photoproducts
The production and characterization of murine monoclonal antibodies to a DNA receptor on human leukocytes
DNA photolyase repairs the trans-syn cyclobutane thymine dimer
Red Sea fishes in the Mediterranean Sea: a preliminary investigation of a biological invasion using DNA barcoding
DNA immunisation with minimalistic expression constructs
Microbial transformation of nandrolone with Cunninghamella echinulata and Cunninghamella blakesleeana and evaluation of leishmaniacidal activity of transformed products
Ultraviolet Irradiation Produces Novel Endonuclease Ill‐Sensitive Cytosine Photoproducts at Dipyrimidine Sites (open access)
Microbial transformation of anti-cancer steroid exemestane and cytotoxicity of its metabolites against cancer cell lines (open access)
Microbial transformation of oxandrolone with Macrophomina phaseolina and Cunninghamella blakesleeana
Screening RNA-binding libraries by transcriptional antitermination in bacteria
Radiosensitization of EMT6 mammary carcinoma cells by 2-benzoyl-3-phenyl-6, 7-dichloroquinoxaline 1, 4-dioxide
The radiosensitizer 2-benzoyl-3-phenyl-6, 7-dichloroquinoxaline 1, 4-dioxide induces DNA damage in EMT-6 mammary carcinoma cells (open access)
Biotransformation of drospirenone, a contraceptive drug, with Cunninghamella elegans
Microbial Transformation of danazol with Cunninghamella blakesleeana and anti-cancer activity of transformed products
Host races in Chaetostomella cylindrica (Diptera: Tephritidae): genetic and behavioural evidence
Terellia fuscicornis (Diptera: Tephritidae): biological and morphological adaptation on artichoke and milk thistle
Microbial transformation of contraceptive drug etonogestrel into new metabolites with Cunninghamella blakesleeana and Cunninghamella echinulata
Fungal transformation and T-cell proliferation inhibitory activity of melengestrol acetate and its metabolite
Pleurotus ostreatus and Ruscus aculeatus Extracts Cause Non-Apoptotic Jurkat Cell Death (open access)
Form follows function: the design of minimalistic immunogenically defined gene expression (MIDGE®) constructs
Genetic and morphometric variations in the Lebanese populations of the flower-head-infesting fruit fly, Terellia serratulae (Diptera: Tephritidae)
The Proto-Oncoprotein c-Cbl Protects Cells against Oxidative Stress by Down-Regulating Apoptosis and is Highly Expressed in Several Cancers (open access)