Dedication: Professor Vladimir A. Efimov

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Berlin , Y. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. , Efimov , V. A. , Kolosov , M. N. and Korobko , V. G. 1973 . Arensulfonyl imidazolides, new reagents for polynucleotide synthesis . Tetrahedron Lett. , : 1353 – 1354 .
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• Berlin , Y. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. , Efimov , V. A. and Shingarova , L. N. 1975 . Synthesis of four fragments of the structural gene for valine tRNA from yeast . Nucleic Acids Res. Special Publ. No. 1 , : 105 – 108 .
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• Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Efimov , V. A. 1980 . Ovchinnikov, Yu.A. Chemical-enzymatic synthesis of biologically active DNA fragments . Nucleic Acids. Res. Special Publ. No. , 7 : 345 – 363 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Reverdatto , S. V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1982 . Arylsulfonylchlorides in the presence of N-methylimidazole as efficient condensing reagents in phosphotriester oligonucleotide synthesis . Tetrahedron Lett. , 23 : 961 – 964 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Reverdatto , S. V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1982 . New effective method for the synthesis of oligonucleotides via phosphotriester intermdiates . Nucleic Acids Res. , 10 : 6675 – 6694 .
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• Chertov , O. , Efimov , V. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. , Smirnov , Y. , Tsarev , S. , Sciba , N. , Marchenko , T. , Lipkin , V. and Sverdlov , E. 1982 . “ Structure-functional studies of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from E. coli ” . In Chemistry of Peptides and Proteins , Edited by: Voelter , W. Vol. 1 , 485 – 488 . Hawthorne .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Buryakova , A. A. , Reverdatto , S. V. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Ovchinnikov , Y. A. 1983 . Rapid synthesis of long-chain deoxyribooligonucleotides by the N-methylimidazolide phosphotriester method . Nucleic Acids Res. , 11 : 8369 – 8387 .
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• Ovchinnikov , Y. A. , Efimov , V. A. , Ivanova , I. N. , Reverdatto , S. V. , Skiba , N. P. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1984 . Synthesis of DNA coding for human proinsulin . Gene , 31 : 65 – 78 .
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• Sverdlov , E. D. , Tsarev , S. A. , Khodkova , E. M. , Monastyrskaya , G. S. , Efimov , V. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. , Solovyev , V. D. and Kuznetsov , V. P. 1984 . “ Cloning and expression of the human leukocyte interferon gene ” . In Chemistry of Peptides and Proteins Edited by: Voelter , W. , Bayer , E. , Ovchinnikov , Y. A. , Wunsch , E. and de Gruyter , W. Vol. 2 , 421 – 426 . Co, Berlin/New York
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• Efimov , V. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Ovchinnikov , Y. A. 1985 . Improved rapid phosphotriester synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides using oxygen-nucleophilic catalysts . Nucleic Acids Res. , 13 : 3651 – 3666 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Mirskikh , O. V. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Ovchinnikov , Y. A. 1985 . Convenient modification of the method for oligonucleotide-directed in vitro mutagenesis of cloned DNA . FEBS Lett. , 181 : 407 – 411 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Buryakova , A. A. , Dubey , I. Y. , Polushin , N. N. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Ovchinnikov , Y. A. 1986 . Application of new catalytic phosphate protecting groups for the highly efficient phosphotriester oligonucleotide synthesis . Nucleic Acids Res. , 14 : 6525 – 6540 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. , Mirskikh , O. V. , Reverdatto , S. V. , Buryakova , A. A. and Ovchinnikov , Y. A. 1986 . New approach to the construction of synthetic double-stranded DNA . Chemica Scripta , 26 : 31 – 35 .
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• Skiba , N. P. , Efimov , V. A. , Lipkin , V. M. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Ovchinnikov , Y. A. 1986 . Localization of binding sites on E.coli DNA-dependent RNA polymerase for photosensitive template analogues . Bioorg. Khimia (Rus.) , 12 : 1023 – 1029 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Ovchinnikov , Y. A. 1986 . “ Synthetic DNA fragments as useful tools in genetic and protein engineering ” . In Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews , Edited by: Russell , G. E. Vol. 4 , 79 – 116 . Intercept, Newcastle upon Tyne .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Reverdatto , S. V. 1987 . “ Nucleophilic catalysis in oligonucleotide synthesis ” . In Biophosphates and Their Analogues—Synthesis, Structure, Methabolism and Activity , 23 – 36 . Amsterdam : Elsevier .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Buryakova , A. A. 1987 . Modern phosphotriester synthesis of long oligonucleotides and their use in genetic engineering . Nucleic Acids Special Publ. No. 18 , : 217 – 220 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Buryakova , A. A. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1987 . Synthesis and modification of zein genes . Protein Eng. , 1 : 252
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• Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. , Aleksuk , I. V. and Efimov , V. A. 1987 . Application of fused proteins for the synthesis of some peptides in bacteria . Protein Eng. , 1 : 252
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• Efimov , V. A. , Andreeva , A. V. , Reverdatto , S. V. , Yung , R. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1988 . Nucleotide sequence of the barley chloroplast psbA gene for the QB protein of photosystem II . Nucleic Acids Res. , 16 : 5685
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• Efimov , V. A. , Mirskikh , O. V. , Buryakova , A. A. , Pashkova , I. N. , Polushin , N. N. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1989 . Construction of promoter-probe vectors on the basis of a modified β-galactosidase gene of E.coli . Bioorgan. Khimia (Rus.) , 15 : 90 – 103 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Buryakova , A. A. , Pashkova , I. N. , Polushin , N. N. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1989 . Construction of a family of artificial genes for human insulin . Bioorgan. Khimia (Rus.) , 15 : 1070 – 1077 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Aleksyuk , I. V. , Buryakova , A. A. , Pashkova , I. N. , Skiba , N. P. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1989 . Synthesis of human insulin in Escherichia coli cells . Bioorgan. Khimia (Rus.) , 15 : 1078 – 1090 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Buryakova , A. A. , Polushin , N. N. , Pashkova , I. N. , Dmitrakova , E. V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1989 . Synthesis and expression of an artificial gene for IgG-binding fragment of protein A from Staphylococcus aureus . Bioorgan. Khimia (Rus.) , 15 : 499 – 507 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Dubey , I. Y. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1990 . NMR study and improvement of H-phosphonate oligonucleotide synthesis . Nucleosides & Nucleotides , 9 : 473 – 477 .
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• Reverdatto , S. V. , Beilinson , V. A. , Fradkov , A. F. , Polushin , N. N. and Efimov , V. A. 1991 . Plasmid vectors for “unclonable” DNA construction . Nucleic Acids Symp. Special Publ. 24 , : 306 – 307 .
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• Foti , D. , Polushin , N. N. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. and Efimov , V. A. 1991 . Synthesis of an artificial gene for the albumin binding domain of streptococcal protein G . Nucleic Acids Symp. Special Publ. 24 , : 314
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• Beylinson , V. A. , Reverdatto , S. V. and Efimov , V. A. 1992 . Directed mutagenesis of genes for some plant proteins . Bioorgan. Khimia (Rus.) , 18 : 920 – 923 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Kalinkina , A. L. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1993 . Dipentafluorophenyl carbonate—a reagent for the synthesis of oligonucleotides and their conjugates . Nucleic Acids Res. , 21 : 5337 – 5344 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Fradkov , A. F. , Raskind , A. B. , Khristin , M. S. , Klimov , V. V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1994 . Expression of barley psbA gene in Escherichia coli yields a functional in vitro photosystem II protein D1 . FEBS Lett. , 348 : 153 – 157 .
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• Dorokhov , Y. L. , Ivanov , P. A. , Novikov , V. K. , Agranovsky , A. A. , Morozov , S. Y. , Efimov , V. A. , Casper , R. and Atabekov , J. G. 1994 . Complete nucleotide sequence and genome organization of tobamovirus infecting cruciferae plants . FEBS Lett , 350 : 5 – 8 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Kalinkina , A. L. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. , Schmaltz Hill , T. and Jayaraman , K. 1995 . New efficient sulfurizing reagents for the preparation of oligodeoxyribonucleotide phosphorothioate analogues . Nucleic Acids Res. , 23 : 4029 – 4033 .
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• van der Laan , A. C. , Stromberg , R. , van Boom , J. H. , Kuyl-Yeheskiely , E. , Efimov , V. A. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1996 . An approach towards the synthesis of oligomers containing a N-2-hydroxyethyl-aminomethyl phosphonate backbone: a novel PNA analogue . Tetrahedron Lett. , 37 : 7857 – 7860 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Kalinkina , A. L. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1996 . New activators for the phosporamidite oligonucleotide synthesis . Russian J. Bioorg. Chem. , 22 : 128 – 130 .
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• Filippov , D. , Meeuwenoord , N. , van der Marel , G. , Efimov , V. , Kuyl-Yeheskiely , E. and van Boom , J. 1996 . An approach to the solid phase synthesis of oligonucleotides containing N-acylphosphoramidate internucleoside linkages . SYNLETT , : 769 – 771 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Choob , M. V. , Kalinkina , A. L. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1997 . Synthesis of novel DNA analogues containing aminomethylphosphonate internucleoside linkages . Nucleosides & Nucleotides , 16 : 1475 – 1480 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Buryakova , A. A. , Kalinkina , A. L. , Choob , M. V. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. , Ojwang , J. O. and Rando , R. F. 1998 . Convenient approaches to the synthesis of oligonucleotide macrocycles containing non-nucleotide linkers . Nucleosides & Nucleotides , 17 : 379 – 396 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Buryakova , A. A. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1998 . Synthesis of DNA analogues with novel carboxamidomethyl phosphonamide and glycinamide internucleoside linkages . Biomed. Lett. , 8 : 1013 – 1018 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Choob , M. V. , Buryakova , A. A. , Kalinkina , A. L. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1998 . Synthesis and evaluation of some properties of chimeric oligomers containing PNA and phosphono-PNA residues . Nucleic Acids Res. , 26 : 566 – 575 .
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• Chakhmakhcheva , O. , Andrianov , M. , Buryakova , A. , Choob , M. and Efimov , V. 1999 . Synthesis and properties of some morpholino oligonucleotide analogues . Nucleosides & Nucleotides , 18 : 1423 – 1424 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Choob , M. V. , Buryakova , A. A. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1999 . Novel oligonucleotide analogues derived from serine and 4-hydroxyproline . Nucleosides & Nucleotides , 18 : 1425 – 1426 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Buryakova , A. A. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 1999 . Synthesis of polyacrylamides N-substituted with PNA-like oligonucleotide mimics for molecular diagnostic applications . Nucleic Acids Res. , 27 : 4416 – 4426 .
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• Efimov , V. A. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 2000 . “ Solid phase synthesis of PNA-like oligonucleotide mimics and their use for polyacrylamide-based molecular diagnostic assays ” . In Solid Phase Synthesis and Combinatorial Chemical Libraries , Edited by: Epton , R. 75 – 78 . Kingswinford, UK : Mayflower Worldwide .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. , Archdeacon , J. , Fernandez , J. M. , Fedorkin , O. N. , Dorokhov , Y. L. and Atabekov , J. G. 2001 . Detection of the 5′-cap structure of messenger RNAs with the use of cap-jumping approach . Nucleic Acids Res. , 29 : 4751 – 4759 .
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• Efimov , V. , Choob , M. , Buryakova , A. , Phelan , D. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. 2001 . PNA-related oligonucleotide mimics and their evaluation for nucleic acid hybridization studies and analysis . Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids , 20 : 419 – 428 .
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• Phelan , D. , Hondorp , K. , Choob , M. , Efimov , V. and Fernandez , J. 2001 . Messenger RNA isolation using novel PNA analogues . Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids , 20 : 1107 – 1111 .
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• Efimov , V. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. , Choob , M. and Archdeacon , D. 2002 . Using chimeric DNA/RNA molecular beacons for target-specific signal amplification . Collection Symp. Ser. , 5 : 308 – 311 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Klykov , V. N. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 2003 . Phosphono peptide nucleic acids with a constrained hydroxyproline-based backbone . Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids , 22 : 593 – 599 .
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• Wickstrom , E. , Choob , M. , Urtishak , K. , Tian , X. , Sternheim , N. , Talbot , S. , Archdeacon , J. , Efimov , V. and Farber , S. 2004 . Sequence specificity of alternating hydroxyprolyl/phosphono peptide nucleic acids against zebrafish embryo mRNAs . J. Drug Target. , 12 : 363 – 372 .
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• Efimov , V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. 2004 . Synthesis of DNA mimics representing HypNA-pPNA hetero-oligomers . Meth. Mol. Biol. , 288 : 147 – 163 .
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• Efimov , V. , Chakhmakhcheva , O. and Wickstrom , E. 2005 . Synthesis and application of negatively charged PNA analogues . Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids , 24 : 1853 – 1874 .
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• Efimov , V. , Birikh , K. , Staroverov , D. , Lukyanov , S. , Tereshina , M. , Zaraisky , A. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. 2006 . Hydroxyproline-based DNA mimics provide an efficient gene silencing in vitro and in vivo . Nucleic Acids Res , 34 : 2247 – 2257 .
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• Efimov , V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. 2006 . Hydroxyproline-based DNA mimics: a review on synthesis and properties . Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. , 71 : 929 – 955 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Klykov , V. N. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 2007 . Synthesis and properties of pyrrolidine-based negatively charged DNA mimics . Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids , 26 : 1595 – 1599 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Molchanova , N. S. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 2007 . Approach to the synthesis of natural and modified oligonucleotides by the phosphotriester method using O-nucleophilic intramolecular catalysis . Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids , 26 : 1087 – 1093 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Aralov , A. V. , Klykov , V. N. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 2009 . Synthesis of RNA by the rapid phosphotriester method using azido-based 2′-O-protecting groups . Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids , 28 : 846 – 865 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Aralov , A. V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 2010 . DNA mimics on the base of pyrrolidine and hydroxyproline . Russian J. Bioorg. Chem. , 36 : 663 – 683 .
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• Efimov , V. A. and Fedyunin , S. V. 2010 . Cross-linked nucleic acids: isolation, structure, and biological role . Biochemistry (Moscow) , 75 : 1425 – 1447 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Aralov , A. V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 2011 . Methoxymethyl and (p-nitrobenzyloxy)methyl groups in the synthesis of oligoribonucleotides by the phosphotriester method . Russian J. Bioorg. Chem. , 37 : 254 – 258 .
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• Efimov , V. A. , Fedyunin , S. V. and Chakhmakhcheva , O. G. 2011 . Application of BODIPY-trimethylmelamine conjugate for DNA cross-linking in vitro . Russian J. Bioorg. Chem. , 37 : 249 – 253 .
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