Molecular Genetics, Function & Therapy Publications

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Selected Publications

1.     Neocleous V, Ioannou YS, Bartsota M, Costi C, Skordis N, Phylactou LA. Rare mutations in the CYP21A2 gene detected in congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Clin Biochem. 2009 Sep;42(13-14):1363-7. Epub 2009 Jun 6. 

2.     Youn-Bok Lee, Ioannis Bantounas, Do-Young Lee, Leonidas Phylactou, Maeve A. Caldwell, and James B. Uney. Twist-1 regulates the miR-199a/214 cluster during development Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan; 37(1) 123-128.

3.     Nikolaos P. Mastroyiannopoulos, Elina Chrysanthou, Tassos C. Kyriakides, James B. Uney, Mani S.Mahadevan  and Leonidas A. Phylactou. The effect of myotonic dystrophy transcript levels and location on muscle differentiation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 Dec; 377(2): 526-31.

4.     Eleni Hjiantoniou, Mustafa Anayasa, Paschalis Nicolaou, Ioannis Bantounas, Masahiro Saito, Sachiko Iseki, James B. Uney & Leonidas A. Phylactou. Twist induces reversal of myotube formation. Differentiation; 2008 Feb;76(2):182-92.

5.     High Frequency of 35delG GJB2 mutation and absence of del(GJB6-D13S1830) in Greek Cypriot patients with non-syndromic hearing loss. Vassos Neocleous, Andreas Aspris, Vasken Shahpenterian, Vassos Nicolaou, Charalambos Panagi, Ioannis Ioannou, Yiannis Kyamides, Violetta Anastasiadou and Leonidas A. Phylactou. Genet Test. 2006 Winter;10(4):285-9.

6.     Determination of the Carrier Frequency of the Common GJB2 (Connexin-26) 35delG Mutation in the Greek Cypriot Population. Vassos Neocleous, George Portides,  Violetta Anastasiadou, and Leonidas A. Phylactou. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2006 Aug;70(8):1473-7

7.     Mastroyiannopoulos N, Feldman M, Mahadevan MS, Uney JB and Phylactou LA. Woodchuck post-transcriptional regulatory element enhances nuclear export of myotonic dystrophy transcripts. EMBO Reports. 6(5), 458–463, 2005.  

8.     Phylactou LA. Repair of myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (dmpk) transcripts by trans-splicing ribozymes. In Methods in Molecular Biology Series (The Humana Press Inc. eds Sioud), 2004;252:373-84.

9.     Bantounas I, Phylactou LA, Uney JB. RNA Interference And The Use Of siRNA To Study Gene Function In Mammalian Systems. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. 2004, 33 (3), 545-557.

10.  Theoni K. Georgiou, Maria Vamvakaki, Costas S. Patrickios, Edna N. Yamasaki and Leonidas A Phylactou. Nanoscopic Cationic Methacrylate Star Homopolymers: Synthesis by Group Transfer Polymerization, Characterization and Evaluation as Transfection Reagents.  Biomacromolecules 2004, 5(6), 2221-2229.

11.  Eleni Hjiantoniou, Sachiko Iseki, James B Uney and Leonidas A Phylactou. DNazyme-mediated cleavage of Twist transcripts and increase in cellular apoptosis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 300(1) 178-181, 2003.