Publications

 

 

1. Alona Kuzmina, Seraj Wattad, Stanislav Engel, Elli Rosenberg, Ran Taube (2022) Functional Analysis of Spike from SARS-CoV-2 Variants Reveals the Role of Distinct Mutations in Neutralization Potential and Viral Infectivity. Viruses. 13;14(4):803

2. Alona Kuzmina, Seraj Wattad, Yara Khalaila, A, etal.  (2021) SARS CoV-2 Delta variant exhibits enhanced infectivity and a minor decrease in neutralization sensitivity to convalescent or post-vaccination sera. iScience, 17;24(12):103467

3. K uzmina et al. (2021) SARS-CoV-2 spike variants exhibit differential infectivity and neutralization resistance to convalescent or post-vaccination sera. Cell Host Microbe.

4. Kransnopolsy et al. (2020) CRISPRi-mediated depletion of Spt4 and Spt5 reveals a role for DSIF in the control of HIV latency. BBA-Gene regulation.

5. Kransnopolsy et al. (2020) Genome-wide CRISPR knockout screen identifies ZNF304 as a silencer of HIV transcription that promotes viral latency. Plos Pathogens.

6. Kransnopolsy et al. (2019)  Fused in sarcoma silences HIV gene transcription and maintains viral latency through suppressing AFF4 gene activation. Retrovorology.  

7. Kuzmina et al. (2017) Super elongation complex promotes early HIV transcription and its function 

8. Kuzmina, A. et al. (2014) A single point mutation in cyclin T1 eliminates binding to Hexim1, Cdk9 and RNA but not to AFF4 and enforces repression of HIV transcription. Transcription 

9. Verstraete, N, Kuzmina, A. et al.  (2014) A Cyclin T1 point mutation that abolishes Positive Transcription Elongation Factor (P-TEFb) binding to Hexim1 and HIV Tat. Retrovorology