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Overview

Anton A. Komar is affiliated with Cleveland State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an emphasis on molecular biology as a subfield. The scientist's work also spans medicine, particularly in infectious diseases, immunology, genetics, and cell biology.

The research topics covered by Anton A. Komar include:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA research and splicing
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • Viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • CRISPR and genetic engineering

Their recent publications demonstrate a sustained contribution to molecular biology and related research areas. Some notable papers are:

  • "A Retrospective on eIF2A-and Not the Alpha Subunit of eIF2," 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Sequence analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genome reveals features important for vaccine design," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "eIF2A-knockout mice reveal decreased life span and metabolic syndrome," 2021, The FASEB Journal
  • "Translation Rates and Protein Folding," 2023, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • "How the ribosome shapes cotranslational protein folding," 2023, Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Anton A. Komar has collaborated with several researchers on multiple occasions. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Chava Kimchi-Sarfaty (20 publications)
  • Michael DiCuccio (14 publications)
  • Nobuko Hamasaki-Katagiri (12 publications)
  • David D. Holcomb (11 publications)
  • Jacob Kames (10 publications)

The scientist's research has been published across various venues. Some recurrent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Blood Advances
  • F1000Research
  • Oncotarget
  • Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Best Publications

  • The Transformation Suppressor Pdcd4 Is a Novel Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4A Binding Protein That Inhibits Translation

    Hsin Sheng Yang;Aaron P. Jansen;Anton A. Komar;Xiaojing Zheng

  • Synonymous codon substitutions affect ribosome traffic and protein folding during in vitro translation

    Anton A Komar;Anton A Komar;Thierry Lesnik;Claude Reiss

  • Cellular IRES-mediated translation: the war of ITAFs in pathophysiological states.

    Anton A Komar;Maria Hatzoglou

  • Synonymous Codons Direct Cotranslational Folding toward Different Protein Conformations

    Florian Buhr;Sujata Jha;Michael Thommen;Joerg Mittelstaet

  • A pause for thought along the co-translational folding pathway.

    Anton A. Komar

  • Internal ribosome entry sites in cellular mRNAs: Mystery of their existence

    Anton A. Komar;Maria Hatzoglou

  • eIF4A: the godfather of the DEAD box helicases.

    George W Rogers;Anton A Komar;William C Merrick

  • Silent SNPs: impact on gene function and phenotype.

    Anton A Komar

  • The Zipper Model of Translational Control: A Small Upstream ORF Is the Switch that Controls Structural Remodeling of an mRNA Leader

    Ibrahim Yaman;James Fernandez;Haiyan Liu;Mark Caprara

  • SNPs, Silent But Not Invisible

    Anton A. Komar

  • Translation Initiation on Mammalian mRNAs with Structured 5′UTRs Requires DExH-Box Protein DHX29

    Vera P. Pisareva;Andrey V. Pisarev;Anton A. Komar;Christopher U.T. Hellen

  • Activities of Ligatin and MCT-1/DENR in eukaryotic translation initiation and ribosomal recycling

    Maxim A. Skabkin;Olga V. Skabkina;Vidya Dhote;Anton A. Komar

  • Curaxins: anticancer compounds that simultaneously suppress NF-κB and activate p53 by targeting FACT.

    Alexander V. Gasparian;Catherine A. Burkhart;Andrei A. Purmal;Leonid Brodsky

  • Cotranslational protein folding on the ribosome monitored in real time

    Wolf Holtkamp;Goran Kokic;Marcus Jäger;Joerg Mittelstaet

  • Whole-genome sequencing identifies a recurrent functional synonymous mutation in melanoma

    Jared J. Gartner;Stephen C. J. Parker;Todd D. Prickett;Kenneth Adam Dutton-Regester

  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

    Anton A. Komar

  • Cotranslational Folding of Globin

    Anton A. Komar;Aigar Kommer;Igor A. Krasheninnikov;Alexander S. Spirin

  • A Unique ISR Program Determines Cellular Responses to Chronic Stress

    Bo-Jhih Guan;Vincent van Hoef;Raul Jobava;Orna Elroy-Stein

  • The Yin and Yang of Codon Usage

    Anton A. Komar

  • Deletion of murine kininogen gene 1 (mKng1) causes loss of plasma kininogen and delays thrombosis

    Sergei Merkulov;Wan Ming Zhang;Anton A. Komar;Alvin H. Schmaier

Frequent Co-Authors

William C. Merrick
William C. Merrick Case Western Reserve University
Maria Hatzoglou
Maria Hatzoglou Case Western Reserve University
Tatyana V. Pestova
Tatyana V. Pestova SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Christopher U.T. Hellen
Christopher U.T. Hellen SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Randal J. Kaufman
Randal J. Kaufman Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Francis J. Castellino
Francis J. Castellino University of Notre Dame
Alexander S. Spirin
Alexander S. Spirin Russian Academy of Sciences
Ronald Melki
Ronald Melki Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marina V. Rodnina
Marina V. Rodnina Max Planck Society

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