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    Mavrothalassitis, G. J. and Georgatsos, J. G.: Purification and properties of three cytosolic ribonucleases of mouse liver. Eur. J. Biochem. 142: 481-486, 1984.

    Mavrothalassitis, G. J., Thanos, D. and Papamatheakis, J.: Molecular analysis of the class II gene Ea. Immunogenetics 27: 426-430, 1988.

    Thanos, D., Mavrothalassitis, G. J. and Papamatheakis, J.: Multiple regulatory regions on the 5' side of the Ea gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85: 3073-3079, 1988.

    Thanos, D., Mavrothalassitis, G. J., Gregoriou, M., Bygrave, A. and Papamatheakis, J: Multiple control reagions regulate the constitutive expression of Eα gene. Molecular basis of immune responce. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 546:255-257,1988.

    Mavrothalassitis, G. J., Tzimagiorgis, G., Mitsialis, A., Zanis, B., Plaitakis, A., Papamatheakis, J. and Moschonas, N.: Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones encoding human liver glutemate dehydrogenase: Evidence for a small gene family. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85: 3494-3498, 1988.

    Mavrothalassitis, G. J., Watson, D. K. and Papas, T. S.: Molecular and functional characterization of the promoter of ETS2, the human c-ets-2 gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87: 1047-1051, 1990.

    Mavrothalassitis, G. J., Watson, D. K., Ascione, R. and Papas, T. S.: The promoter of the human ets-2 oncogene: Structural and functional characterization. In Papas, T.S. (Ed.): Oncogenesis. Houston, Gulf Publishing Co., 1990, pp. 233-247.

    Papas, T. S., Watson, D. K., Sacchi, N., Fujiwara, S., Seth, A. K., Fisher, R. J., Bhat, N. K., Mavrothalassitis, G., Koizumi, S., Jorcyk, C. L., Schweinfest, C. W., Kottaridis, S. D. and Ascione, R.: The ETS family of genes in leukemia and Down syndrome. Am. J. Med. Genet., Suppl. 7: 251-261, 1990.

    Papas, T. S., Blair, D. G., Watson, D. K., Yuan, C.-C., Ruscetti, S. K., Fujiwara, S., Seth, A. K., Fisher, R. J., Bhat, N. K., Mavrothalassitis, G., Koizumi, S., Jorcyk, C. L., Schweinfest, C. W. and Ascione, R.: The ETS family of genes: Structural analysis, gene products, and involvement in neoplasia and other pathologies. In Patterson, D. and Epstein, C.J. (Eds.): Molecular Genetics of Chromosome 21 and Down Syndrome. New York, Wiley-Liss, 1990, pp. 137-168.

    Mavrothalassitis, G., Watson, D. K. and Papas, T. S.: The human ETS-2 gene promoter: Molecular dissection and nuclease hypersensitivity. Oncogene 5: 1337-1342, 1990.

    Papas, T. S., Blair, D. G., Watson, D. K., Yuan, C-C., Ruscetti, S. K., Fujiwara, S., Seth, A. K., Fisher, R. J., Bhat, N. K., Mavrothalassitis, G., Koizumi, S., Jorcyk, C. L., Schweinfest, C. W. and Ascione, R.: The ETS family of genes: Structural analysis, gene products, and involvement in neoplasia and other pathologies. Prog. Clin. Biol. Res. 360: 137-168, 1990.

    Watson, D. K., Mavrothalassitis, G. J., Jorcyk, C. L., Smyth, F. E. and Papas, T. S.: Molecular organization and differential polyadenylation sites of human ETS2 gene. Oncogene 5: 1521-1527, 1990.

    Mavrothalassitis, G., Beal, G. and Papas, T. S.: Defining target sequence(s) of a DNA binding protein by random selection and PCR: Determination of the GCN4 binding sequence repertoire. DNA and Cell Biology 9: 783-788, 1990.

    Papas, T. S., Mavrothalassitis, G., Seth, A., Watson, D. K., Lautenberger, J. A., Fisher, R. J., Bhat, N. K. and Ascione, R.: The ets gene family as a paradigm for the study of cellular transcriptional processes. In Verna, R. and Nishizuka, Y. (Eds.): Biotechnology of Cell Regulation, Serono Symposia Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine, Vol. 4. New York: Raven Press, 1991, pp. 211-226.

    Seth, A., Ascione, R., Fisher, R. J., Mavrothalassitis, G. J., Bhat, N. K. and Papas, T. S.: The ets gene family. Cell Growth Differ. 3: 327-334, 1992.

    Mavrothalassitis, G. J. and Papas, T. S.: Positive and negative factors regulate the transcription of the ETS2 gene via an oncogene responsive-like unit within the ETS2 promoter region. Cell Growth Differ. 2: 215-224, 1991.

    Jorcyk, C. L., Watson, D. K., Mavrothalassitis, G. J. and Papas, T. S.: The human ETS1 gene: Genomic structure, promoter characterization and alternative splicing. Oncogene 6: 523-534, 1991.

    Fisher, R. J., Mavrothalassitis, G., Kondoh, A. and Papas, T. S.: High affinity DNA:protein interactions of the cellular ETS1 protein: The determination of the ETS binding motif. Oncogene 6: 2249-2254, 1991.

    Fisher, R. J., Koizumi, S., Kondoh, A., Mariano, J., Mavrothalassitis, G., Bhat, N. K. and Papas, T. S.: Human ETS1 oncoprotein: Purification, isoforms, -SH modification and DNA sequence-specific binding. J. Biol. Chem. 267: 17957-17965, 1992.

    Murakami, K., Mavrothalassitis, G., Bhat, N. K., Fisher, R. J. and Papas, T. S.: Human ERG-2 protein is a phosphorylated DNA binding protein - 1 distinct member of the ets-protein family. Oncogene 8: 1559-1566, 1993.

    Mavrothalassitis, G., Fisher, R. J., Smyth, F., Watson, D. K. and Papas, T. S.: Structural inferences of the ETS1 DNA-binding domain determined by mutational analysis. Oncogene 9: 425-435, 1994.

    Fleischman, L. F., Holtzclae, L., Russell, J. T., Mavrothalassitis, G. J. and Fisher, R. J.: ETS-1 in astrocytes: Expression and transmitter-evoked phosphorylation. Mol. Cell. Biol. 15: 925-931, 1995.

    Sgouras, D. N., Athanasiou, M. A., Beal, G. J., Fisher, R. J., Blair, D. G. and Mavrothalassitis, G. J.: ERF: An ETS domain protein with strong transcriptional repressor activity, can suppress ets-associated tumorigenesis and regulated by phosphorylation during cell cycle and mitogenic stimulation. EMBO J. 14: 4781-4793, 1995.

    Athanasiou, M., Mavrothalassitis, G., Yuan, C. C. and Blair, D. G.: The gag-myb-ets fusion oncogene alters the apoptotic response and growth factor dependence of interleukin-3 dependent murine cells. Oncogene 12:337-344, 1996.

    Paliogianni, F., Hama, N., Mavrothalassitis, G. J., Thyphronitis, G. and Boumpas, D. T.: Signal requirements for interleukin 4 promoter activation in human T cells. Cell. Immunol. 168: 33-38,1996.

    Athanasiou, M., Clausen, P.A., Mavrothalassitis, G.J., Zhang, X., Watson, D.K., and Blair, D.G.: Increased expression of the ets-related transcription factor Fli1/ERGB correlates with and can induce the megakaryocytic phenotype. Cell Growth Diff. 7:1525-1534, 1996.

    Liu, D., Pavlopoulos, E., Modi, W., Moschonas, N. and Mavrothalassitis, G.J.: ERF: genomic organization, chromosomal localization and promoter analysis of the human and the mouse genes. Oncogene 14:1445-1451, 1997

    Clausen P.A., Athanasiou, M.A., Zhang-qun, C., Dunn, K.J., Lautenberger, J.L., Mavrothalassitis, G.J. and Blair, D.G.: ETS1 induces incresed expression of erythroid markers in the pluripotent eruthroleukemic cell lines K562 and HEL. Leukemia 11:1224-1233, 1997

    Lionel Le Gallic, Dionyssios Sgouras, Gregory Beal Jr and George Mavrothalassitis. The transcriptional repressor ERF, is a ras/MAPK target that regulates cellular proliferation. Mol. Cell. Biol. 19: 4121-4133, 1999

    Meropi Athanasiou, George Mavrothalassitis, Lin Sun-Hoffman, and Donald G. Blair. FLI-1 is a Suppressor of Erythroid Differentiation in Human Hematopoietic Cells Leukemia 14: 439-445, 2000

    Meropi Athanasiou, Lionel LeGallic, Dennis K. Watson, Donald G. Blair, and George Mavrothalassitis. Suppression of the Ewing’s Sarcoma phenotype by FLI1/ERF repressor hybrids. Cancer Gene Ther. 7: 1188-1195, 2000

    George Mavrothalassitis and Jacques Ghydael. Proteins of the ETS family with transcriptional repressor activity. Oncogene 19: 6524-6532, 2000

    Watson, D.K., Li, R., Sementchenko, V.I., Mavrothalassitis, G. and Seth, A.: ETS Family of Transcription Factors. In: Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2nd edition. Betino JR (Ed), Academic Press 189-196, 2002

    Athanasiou M, Blair DG, Mavrothalassitis G. ERF, an ETS-related transcriptional repressor, can induce erythroid differentiation. Anticancer Res 23: 2143-2153, 2003

    Le Gallic L; Virgilio L; Cohen P; Biteau B; Mavrothalassitis G ERF nuclear shuttling, a continuous monitor of Erk activity that links it to cell cycle progression Mol. Cell. Biol. 24: 1206-1218, 2004

    Veiopoulou C, Kogopoulou O, Tzakos E, Mavrothalassitis G, Mitsias D, Karafoulidou A, Paliogianni F, Moutsopoulos HM, Thyphronitis GIL-2 and IL-10 production by human CD4+T cells is differentially regulated by p38: Mode of stimulation-dependent regulation of IL-2 Neuroimmunomodulation 11: 199-208, 2004

    Kogkopoulou O, Tzakos E, Mavrothalassitis G, Baldari CT, Paliogianni F, Young HA, Thyphronitis G. Conditional up-regulation of IL-2 production by p38 MAPK inactivation is mediated by increased Erk1/2 activity. J Leukoc Biol. 79:1052-60, 2006

    Polychronopoulos S, Verykokakis M, Yazicioglu MN, Sakarellos-Daitsiotis M, Cobb MH, Mavrothalassitis G. The transcriptional ETS2 repressor factor associates with active and inactive Erks through distinct FXF motifs. J Biol Chem. 281:25601-11, 2006

    Papadaki, C., Alexiou, M., Cecena, G., Verykokakis, M., Bilitou, A., Cross, J. C., Oshima, R. G., and Mavrothalassitis, G. Transcriptional repressor erf determines extraembryonic ectoderm differentiation Mol Cell Biol 27:5201-5213, 2007

    Verykokakis Μ, Papadaki C, Vorgia E, Le Gallic L and Mavrothalassitis G. The Ras-dependent Erf control of cell proliferation and differentiation is mediated by c-Myc repression J Biol Chem. 282:30285-94, 2007

    Wen F, Tynan JA, Cecena C, Williams R, Munera J, Mavrothalassitis G and Oshima RG. Ets2 is required for trophoblast stem cell self renewal. Dev. Biol. 312:284-99, 2007

    K. Liopeta, S. Boubali, L. Virgilio, G. Thyphronitis, G. Mavrothalassitis, G. Dimitracopoulos and F. Paliogianni. cAMP regulates IL-10 Production by normal human T lymphocytes at multiple levels: a potential role for MEF2. Mol Immunol,46:345-54, 2009

    Tarcic, G., Avraham, R., Pines, G., Amit, I., Shay, T., Lu, Y., Zwang, Y., Katz, M., Ben-Chetrit, N., Jacob-Hirsch, J., Virgilio, L., Rechavi, G., Mavrothalassitis, G., Mills, G.B., Domany, E., and Yarden, Y. EGR1 and the ERK-ERF axis drive mammary cell migration in response to EGF. FASEB J. 26:1582-92, 2012

    Boubali S, Liopeta K, Virgilio L, Thyphronitis G, Mavrothalassitis G, Dimitracopoulos G, Paliogianni F. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II regulates IL-10 production by human T lymphocytes: a distinct target in the calcium dependent pathway. Mol Immunol. 52:51-60, 2012

    Allegra M, Zaragkoulias A, Vorgia E, Ioannou M, Litos G, Beug H, Mavrothalassitis G. Semaphorin-7a reverses the ERF-induced inhibition of EMT in Ras-dependent mouse mammary epithelial cells. Mol Biol Cell, 23:3873-81, 2012

    Twigg SR, Vorgia E, McGowan SJ, Peraki I, Fenwick AL, Sharma VP, Allegra M, Zaragkoulias A, Akha ES, Knight SJ, Lord H, Lester T, Izatt L, Lampe AK, Mohammed SN, Stewart FJ, Verloes A, Wilson LC, Healy C, Sharpe PT, Hammond P, Hughes J, Taylor S, Johnson D, Wall SA, Mavrothalassitis G, Wilkie AO. Reduced dosage of ERF causes complex craniosynostosis in humans and mice and links ERK1/2 signaling to regulation of osteogenesis. Nat Genet. 45:308-13, 2013 

    Vorgia E, Zaragkoulias A, Peraki I, Mavrothalassitis G. Suppression of Fgf2 by ETS2 repressor factor (ERF) is required for chorionic trophoblast differentiation. Mol Reprod Dev. 84(4):286-295, 2017