Publications
Carballar-Lejarazú R, Rodríguez MH, de la Cruz Hernández-Hernández F, Ramos-Castañeda J, Possani LD, Zurita-Ortega M, Reynaud-Garza E, Hernández-Rivas R., Loukeris T, Lycett G, Lanz-Mendoza H. Recombinant scorpine: a multifunctional antimicrobial peptide with activity against different pathogens Cell Mol Life Sci. (2008) Oct;65(19):3081-92. Gareth J. Lycett, McLaughlin LA, Hillary Ranson, Janet Hemingway, Fotis C. Kafatos, Thanasis G. Loukeris and Mark J. Paine. Anopheles gambiae P450 reductase is highly expressed in oenocytes and in vivo knockdown increases permethrin susceptibility Insect Mol. Biol. (2006) Jun; 15(3):321-27 Alberto Danielli, Carolina Barillas-Mury, Sanjeev Kumar, Fotis C. Kafatos and Thanasis G. Loukeris. Overexpression and altered nucleocytoplasmic distribution of Anopheles ovalbumin-like SRPN10 serpins in Plasmodium-infected midgut cells. Cell Microbiol. (2005) Feb;7(2):181-90. Gareth J. Lycett, Fotis C. Kafatos and Thanasis G. Loukeris. Conditional expression in the malaria mosquito A.stephensi with Tet-On and Tet-Off systems. Genetics (2004) Aug;167(4):1781-90. Alberto Danielli, Fotis C. Kafatos and Thanasis G. Loukeris. Cloning and characterisation of four Anopheles gambiae serpin isoforms, differentially induced in the midgut by Plasmodium berghei invasion. Journal of Biol Chem (2003), vol 278(6), pp 4184-4193. Zhang H, Shinmyo Y, Hirose A, Mito T, Inoue Y, Ohuchi H, Loukeris TG, Eggleston P, Noji S. Extrachromosomal transposition of the transposable element Minos in embryos of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. Dev Growth Differ (2002), vol 44(5), pp 409-417. Christophides GK, Zdobnov E, Barillas-Mury C, Birney E, Blandin S, Blass C, Brey PT, Collins FH, Danielli A, Dimopoulos G, Hetru C, Hoa NT, Hoffmann JA, Kanzok SM, Letunic I, Levashina EA, Loukeris TG, Lycett G, Meister S, Michel K, Moita LF, Muller HM, Osta MA, Paskewitz SM, Reichhart JM, Rzhetsky A, Troxler L, Vernick KD, Vlachou D, Volz J, von Mering C, Xu J, Zheng L, Bork P, Kafatos FC. Immunity-related genes and gene families in Anopheles gambiae. Science (2002) vol 298(5591), pp 159-65. Kapetanaki MG, Loukeris TG, Livadaras I, Savakis C. High frequencies of Minos transposon mobilization are obtained in insects by using in vitro synthesized mRNA as a source of transposase. Nucleic Acids Res. (2002) vol 30(15), pp 3333-40. Flaminia Catteruccia, Tony Nolan, Thanasis G. Loukeris, Claudia Blass, Charalambos Savakis, Fotis Kafatos and Andrea Crisanti. Stable germline transformation of the malaria mosquito Anopheles Stephens. Nature (2000), vol 405, pp 959-962. Flaminia Catteruccia, Tony Nolan, Claudia Blass, Hans-Michael Muller, Andrea Crisanti, Fotis C. Kafatos and Thanasis G. Loukeris. Toward Anopheles transformation: Minos element mobility in anopheline cells and embryos. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2000), vol. 97, pp 2157-2162. Alberto Danielli, Thanasis G. Loukeris, Marie Lagueux, Hans-Michael Muller, Adam Richman and Fotis C. Kafatos. A modular chitin-binding protease associated with hemocytes and hemolymph in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2000), vol. 97, pp 7136-7141. Apostolos G Klinakis, Thanasis G Loukeris, Anastasios Pavlopoulos and Charalambos Savakis. Mobility assays confirm the broad host-range activity of the Minos transposable element and validate new transformation tools. Insect Molecular Biology (2000), vol 9(3), pp 269-275. Bruno Arca, Sophia Zabalou, Thanasis G. Loukeris and Charalambos Savakis. Mobilization of a Minos transposon in Drosophila melanogaster chromosomes and chromatid repair by heteroduplex formation. Genetics (1997), vol 145, pp 267-279. Thanasis G. Loukeris, Ioannis Livadaras, Bruno Arca, Sophia Zabalou and Charalambos Savakis. Gene transfer into the Medfly, Ceratitis capitata, with a Drosophila hydei transposable element. Science (1995), vol 270, pp 2002-2005. Thanasis G. Loukeris, Bruno Arca, Ioannis Livadaras, Georgia Dialektaki and Charalambos Savakis. Introduction of the transposable element Minos into the germ line of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1995), vol. 92, pp 9485-9489. Gerald Franz, Thanasis G. Loukeris, Georgia Dialektaki, Christopher R. L. Thompson and Charalambos Savakis. Mobile Minos elements from Drosophila hydei encode a two-exon transposase with similarity to the paired DNA-binding domain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1994), vol. 91, pp 4746-4750. PATENTS Charalambos Savakis, Gerald H. Franz, Athanasios Loukeris and Apostolos G. Klinakis. November 24, 1998. “Eukaryotic Transposable Element” U.S. Patent No5,840,865 Charalambos Savakis, Gerald H. Franz, Athanasios Loukeris and Apostolos G. Klinakis. May 1, 2001. “Eukaryotic Transposable Element” U.S. Patent No 6,225,121 PhD thesis |
