PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1.             Menezes MR*, Balzeau J* and Hagan JP. 3’ RNA Uridylation in Epitranscriptomics, Gene Regulation, and Disease, 2018, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 

2.             Yan-Ning Rui, Zhen Xu, Xiaoqian, Fang, Miriam R. Menezes, Julien Balzeau, Airu Niu, John P. Hagan, Dong H. Kim. The Intracranial Aneurysm Gene THSD1 Connects Endosome Dynamics to Nascent Focal Adhesion Assembly, 2017, Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry.

3.             Ji D, Stepchenkova E, Cui J, Menezes MR, Pavlov YI, Kool E, Measuring Deaminated Nucleotide Surveillance Enzyme ITPA Activity with an ATP-releasing Nucleotide Chimera, Nucleic Acids Research. 2017

4.             Z Xu, YN Rui, J Balzeau, MR Menezes, A Niu, JP Hagan, DH Kim. Highly efficient one-step scarless protein tagging by type IIS restriction endonuclease mediated precision cloning. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2017

5.             Balzeau J*, Menezes MR*, Cao S* and Hagan JP. The LIN28/let-7Pathway in Cancer. Front. Genet. 8:31.doi: 10.3389/fgene.2017.00031, 2017

6.             S. Ray, M. R. Menezes,A. Senejani and J.B. Sweasy. Cellular Roles of DNA polymerase Beta. Yale J Biol Med 86(4): 463-9 PMID: 24348210, 2013

7.             I.S Waisertreiger, V Liston, M. R.Menezes, K Hyun, K Lobachev, E Stepchenkova, T Tahirov, I Rogozin, Y.I. Pavlov. Modulation of mutagenesis in eukaryotesby DNA replication forkdynamics and quality of nucleotide pools. Environ Mol. Mutagen. 53(9): 699-724PMID: 23055184, 2013

8.             M. R Menezes*, I.S Waisertreiger*, H Lopez-Bertoni, X Luo, Y. I. Pavlov. Pivotal role of inosine triphosphate pyrophosphatase in maintaining genome stability and prevention of apoptosis in human cells. PLoS One. 7(2): e32313 PMID: 22384212, 2012

9.             M. R. Menezesand J.B. Sweasy. Mouse Models of DNA Polymerases. Environ Mol. Mutagen. PMID: 23001988, 2012

10.          S. Waisertreiger*, M. R. Menezes*and Y. I. Pavlov. Elevated levels of DNA strand breaks induced by base analog in the human cell line with the P32T ITPA variant. J.Nucleic Acids, pii: 872180 PMID: 20936128, 2010

11. E.I. Stepchenkova, E.R. Tarakhovskaya, K. Spitler, C Frahm, M. R. Menezes, PD Simone, CKolar, L.A. Marky, G.E Borgstahl, Y.I. Pavlov. Functional study of the P32T ITPA variant associated with drug sensitivity in humans. J Mol Biol2009

* - Equal Contribution,