Publications on Miniature Transposable Elements:

• Delihas N. (2009) Intergenic regions of Borrelia plasmids contain phylogenetically conserved RNA secondary structure motifs. BMC Genomics 10:101 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-101.
• Delihas, N. (2008). Small mobile sequences in bacteria display diverse structure/function motifs. Molecular Mircobiology 67: 475-481.
• Delihas, N. (2007). Enterobacterial small mobile sequences carry open reading frames and are found intragenically-evolutionary implications for formation of new peptides. Gene Regulation and Systems Biology 1: 191-295.

Noted Publications on Regulatory RNAs:

• Andersen, J., Delihas, N., Ikenaka, K., Green, P.G., Pines, O., Ilercil, O., and Inouye, M. (1987) The isolation and characterization of RNA coded by the micF gene in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res. 15:2089-2101.
• Inouye, M. and Delihas, N. (1988) Small RNAs in the prokaryotes --- A growing list of diverse roles. Cell 53:5-7.
• Andersen, J., Forst, S.A., Zhao, K., Inouye, M., and Delihas, N. (1989) The function of micF RNA: micF RNA is a major factor in the thermal regulation of OmpF protein in Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 264:17961-17970.
• Coyer, J., Andersen, J., Forst, S.A., Inouye, M., and Delihas, N. (1990) micF RNA in ompB mutants of Escherichia coli: Different pathways regulate micF RNA levels in response to osmolarity and temperature. J. Bacteriol. 172:4143-4150.
• Andersen, J. and Delihas, N. (1990) micF RNA binds to the 5'-end of ompF mRNA and to a protein from Escherichia coli. Biochemistry 29:9249-9256.
• Esterling, L. and Delihas, N. (1994) The regulatory RNA gene micF is present in several species of Gram-negative bacteria and is phylogenetically conserved. Mol. Microbiol. 12(5):639-646.
• Schmidt, M. Zheng, P., and Delihas, N.(1995) Secondary structures of Escherichia coli antisense micF RNA, the 5'-end of the target ompF mRNA, and the RNA/RNA Duplex. Biochemistry 34:3621-3631.
• Delihas, N. (1995) Regulation of gene expression by trans-encoded antisense RNAs. Mol. Microbiol. 15:411-414.
• Schmidt,M. and Delihas, N. (1995) micF RNA is a substrate for Rnase E. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 133:209-213.
• Delihas, N., Riley, L.W., Loo, W., Berkowitz, J. and Poltoratskaia, N. (1995) High sensitivity of Mycobacterium species to bactericidal activity by polylysine. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 132:233-237.
• Delihas, N., Rokita, S.E., and Zheng, P. (1997) Natural antisense RNA/target RNA interactions: Possible models or antisense oligonucleotide drug design. Nature Biotechnology 15:751-753.
• Delihas, N. (1997) Antisense micF RNA and 5'-UTR of the target ompF mRNA- phylogenetic conservation of primary and secondary structures. Nucleic Acids Res. Symp. Series 36:33-35.
• Bourdeau, V., Paquin, B., Cedergren, R., and Delihas, N. (2001) Cleavage of mitochondria-like tRNAs expressed in Escherichia coli. FEBS Letters 497:90-94.
• Delihas, N. (2001) Targeting the expression of anti-apoptotic proteins by antisense oligonucleotides. Current Drug Targets 2:167-180.
• Delihas, N. and Forst, S. (2001) micF-an antisense RNA gene involved in response of Escherichia coli to global stress factors. Journal of Molecular Biology 313:1-12.
• Delihas, N. (2003) Annotation and evolutionary relationships of a small regulatory RNA gene micF and its target ompF in Yersinia species. BMC Microbiol. 3(1):13.
• Papamichail D, Delihas N. (2006) Outer membrane protein genes and their small non-coding RNA regulator genes in Photorhabdus luminescens. Biol Direct. 2006 May 22;1:12.
• Delihas, N. ( 2009) Small Regulatory RNAs in Bacteria. In:
  Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000970.pub2