Olga Anatolievna Dontsova

CHEMISTRY OF NATURAL COMPOUNDS DIVISION
LABORATORY OF PROTEIN CHEMISTRY

OCCUPATION: Senior scientific researcher.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS: Molecular biology, ribosomology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

O. Dontsova, A. Kopylov and R. Brimacombe.

The location of mRNA in the ribosomal 30S initiation complex, site-directed cross-linking of mRNA carrying several photoreactive labels simultaneously on either side of the AUG start codon. The EMBO J. 10, 2613 (1991).

O.A. Dontsova, S.S. Dokudovskaya, A.M. Kopylov, A.A. Bogdanov, J. Rinke-Appel, N. Junke and R. Brimacombe.

Three widely separated positions in the 16S rRNA lie in or close to the ribosomal decoding region; a site directed cross-linking study with mRNA analogues. The EMBO J. 11, 3105 (1993).

A.A. Bogdanov, O.A. Dontsova and R. Brimacombe.

Messenger RNA path through the procarotic ribosome. In: Translational apparatus. Structure, function, regulation, evolution, edited by K. Nierhaus, F. Franceschi, A. Subramanian, V. Erdmann and B. Wittmann-Liebold (Plenum Press, NY - London), p. 421.

O. Dontsova, V. Tishkov, S. Dokudovskaya, A. Bogdanov, T. Doring, J. Rinke-Appel, S. Thamm, B. Breuer and R. Brimacombe.

Stem-loop IV of 5S rRNA lies close to the peptidyl transferase center. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci USA 9, 4125 (1994).

Award from European Academy for young scientists, 1994, stipendium for outstanding Russian scientists from Russian government.