Publications
1. Chaban, A.#, Minakhin, L.#, Goldobina, E., Bae, B., Hao, Y., Borukhov, S., Putzeys, L., Boon, M., Kabinger, F., Lavigne, R., Makarova, K. S., Koonin, E. V., Nair, S. K.*, Tagami, S.*, Severinov, K.*, Sokolova, M. L.* (2024): Tail-tape-fused virion and non-virion RNA polymerases of a thermophilic virus. (Nature Communications), 15, 317
2. Fraser, A.#, Sokolova, M. L.#*, Drobysheva, A. V., Gordeeva, J. V., Borukhov, S., Jumper., J., Severinov, K. V*, Leiman, P. G.* (2022): Structural basis of template strand deoxyuridine promoter recognition by a viral RNA polymerase. (Nature Communications), 13, 3526
3. Kryshtafovych, A.*, Moult, J., Albrecht, R., Chang, G.A., Chao, K., Fraser, A., Greenfield, J., Hartmann, M.D., Herzberg, O., Josts, I., Leiman, P.G., Linden, S.B., Lupas, A.N., Nelson, D.C., Rees, S.D., Shang, X., Sokolova, M.L., Tidow, H., AlphaFold2 team. (2021): Computational models in the service of X-ray and cryo-electron microscopy structure determination. (Proteins), 89(12), 1633–1646
4. Drobysheva, A. V. #, Panafidina, S. A. #, Kolesnik, M. V., Klimuk, E. I., Minakhin, L., Yakunina, M. V., Borukhov, S., Nilsson, E., Holmfeldt, K., Yutin, N., Makarova, K. S., Koonin, E. V., Severinov, K. V*, Leiman, P. G.*, and Sokolova, M. L.* (2021): Structure and function of virion RNA polymerase of a crAss-like phage. (Nature), 589, 306–309
5. Sokolova, M. L.*, Misovetc, I., and Severinov, K. V. (2020): Multisubunit RNA Polymerases of Jumbo Bacteriophages. (Viruses), 12(10), 1064
6. Sokolova, M., Borukhov, S., Lavysh, D., Artamonova, T., Khodorkovskii, M., and Severinov, K.* (2017): A non-canonical multisubunit RNA polymerase encoded by the AR9 phage recognizes the template strand of its uracil-containing promoters.
(Nucleic Acids Research), 45(10), 5958-5967
7. Lavysh, D., Sokolova, M., Slashcheva, M., Förstner, K., and Severinov, K.* (2017): Transcription profiling of Bacillus subtilis cells infected with AR9, a giant phage encoding two multisubunit RNA polymerases. (mBio), 8(1), e02041-16
8. Lavysh, D., Sokolova, M., Minakhin, L., Yakunina, M., Artamonova, T., Kozyavkin, S., Makarova, K. S., Koonin, E. V., and Severinov, K.* (2016): The genome of AR9, a giant transducing Bacillus phage encoding two multisubunit RNA polymerases. (Virology), 495, 185-196