Robert A. Akins - Publications

Affiliations: 
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States 
Area:
Microbiology Biology, Molecular Biology, Pathology

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2013 Lambert JA, Kalra A, Dodge CT, John S, Sobel JD, Akins RA. Novel PCR-based methods enhance characterization of vaginal microbiota in a bacterial vaginosis patient before and after treatment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79: 4181-5. PMID 23624483 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.01160-13  0.32
2010 Mandviwala T, Shinde R, Kalra A, Sobel JD, Akins RA. High-throughput identification and quantification of Candida species using high resolution derivative melt analysis of panfungal amplicons. The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics : Jmd. 12: 91-101. PMID 20007848 DOI: 10.2353/Jmoldx.2010.090085  0.341
2007 Kalra A, Palcu CT, Sobel JD, Akins RA. Bacterial vaginosis: Culture- and PCR-based characterizations of a complex polymicrobial disease's pathobiology Current Infectious Disease Reports. 9: 485-500. DOI: 10.1007/S11908-007-0074-4  0.307
2005 Akins RA. An update on antifungal targets and mechanisms of resistance in Candida albicans. Medical Mycology. 43: 285-318. PMID 16110776 DOI: 10.1080/13693780500138971  0.316
2004 Du W, Coaker M, Sobel JD, Akins RA. Shuttle vectors for Candida albicans: control of plasmid copy number and elevated expression of cloned genes. Current Genetics. 45: 390-8. PMID 15034753 DOI: 10.1007/S00294-004-0499-3  0.32
2000 Hidalgo JA, Alangaden GJ, Eliott D, Akins RA, Puklin J, Abrams G, Vazquez JA. Fungal endophthalmitis diagnosis by detection of Candida albicans DNA in intraocular fluid by use of a species-specific polymerase chain reaction assay Journal of Infectious Diseases. 181: 1198-1201. PMID 10720555 DOI: 10.1086/315333  0.305
1999 Yoon SA, Vazquez JA, Steffan PE, Sobel JD, Akins RA. High-frequency, in vitro reversible switching of Candida lusitaniae clinical isolates from amphotericin B susceptibility to resistance Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 43: 836-845. PMID 10103188 DOI: 10.1128/Aac.43.4.836  0.313
1998 Vazquez JA, Arganoza MT, Boikov D, Yoon S, Sobel JD, Akins RA. Stable phenotypic resistance of Candida species to amphotericin B conferred by preexposure to subinhibitory levels of azoles Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 36: 2690-2695. PMID 9705415 DOI: 10.1128/Jcm.36.9.2690-2695.1998  0.318
1997 Steffan P, Vazquez JA, Boikov D, Xu C, Sobel JD, Akins RA. Identification of Candida species by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting of colony lysates Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 35: 2031-2039. PMID 9230376 DOI: 10.1128/Jcm.35.8.2031-2039.1997  0.341
1995 Arganoza MT, Akins RA. Recombinant mitochondrial plasmids in Neurospora composed of Varkud and a new multimeric mitochondrial plasmid Current Genetics. 29: 34-43. PMID 8595656 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00313191  0.372
1995 Min J, Aroanoza T, Ohrnberger J, Xu C, Akins RA. Alternative Methods of Preparing Whole-Cell DNA from Fungi for Dot-Blot, Restriction Analysis, and Colony Filter Hybridization Analytical Biochemistry. 225: 94-100. PMID 7778791 DOI: 10.1006/Abio.1995.1113  0.311
1994 Arganoza MT, Min J, Hu Z, Akins RA. Distribution of seven homology groups of mitochondrial plasmids in Neurospora: evidence for widespread mobility between species in nature Current Genetics. 26: 62-73. PMID 7954898 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00326306  0.361
1992 Nargang FE, Pande S, Kennell JC, Akins RA, Lambowitz AM. Evidence that a 1.6 kilobase region of Neurospora mtDNA was derived by insertion of part of the LaBelle mitochondrial plasmid. Nucleic Acids Research. 20: 1101-8. PMID 1312706 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/20.5.1101  0.387
1990 Akins RA, Lambowitz AM. Analysis of large deletions in the Mauriceville and Varkud mitochondrial plasmids of Neurospora Current Genetics. 18: 365-369. PMID 2253274 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00318218  0.364
1990 Cherniack AD, Garriga G, Kittle JD, Akins RA, Lambowitz AM. Function of Neurospora mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase in RNA splicing requires an idiosyncratic domain not found in other synthetases. Cell. 62: 745-55. PMID 2143700 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(90)90119-Y  0.33
1989 Majumder AL, Akins RA, Wilkinson JG, Kelley RL, Snook AJ, Lambowitz AM. Involvement of tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase in splicing of group I introns in Neurospora crassa mitochondria: biochemical and immunochemical analyses of splicing activity. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 9: 2089-104. PMID 2526294 DOI: 10.1128/Mcb.9.5.2089  0.326
1989 Akins RA, Kelley RL, Lambowitz AM. Characterization of mutant mitochondrial plasmids of Neurospora spp. that have incorporated tRNAs by reverse transcription Molecular and Cellular Biology. 9: 678-691. PMID 2469004 DOI: 10.1128/Mcb.9.2.678  0.38
1988 Akins RA, Grant DM, Stohl LL, Bottorff DA, Nargang FE, Lambowitz AM. Nucleotide sequence of the Varkud mitochondrial plasmid of Neurospora and synthesis of a hybrid transcript with a 5' leader derived from mitochondrial RNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 204: 1-25. PMID 3216387 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(88)90594-3  0.369
1987 Akins RA, Lambowitz AM. A protein required for splicing group I introns in Neurospora mitochondria is mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase or a derivative thereof Cell. 50: 331-345. PMID 3607872 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(87)90488-0  0.361
1987 Paietta JV, Akins RA, Lambowitz AM, Marzluf GA. Molecular cloning and characterization of the cys-3 regulatory gene of Neurospora crassa Molecular and Cellular Biology. 7: 2506-2511. PMID 2886908 DOI: 10.1128/Mcb.7.7.2506  0.316
1986 Lambowitz AM, Akins RA, Kelley RL, Pande S, Nargang FE. Mitochondrial plasmids of Neurospora and other filamentous fungi Basic Life Sciences. 40: 83-92. PMID 3032148 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5251-8_7  0.348
1986 Akins RA, Kelley RL, Lambowitz AM. Mitochondrial plasmids of neurospora: Integration into mitochondrial DNA and evidence for reverse transcription in mitochondria Cell. 47: 505-516. PMID 3022934 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(86)90615-X  0.382
1984 Stohl LL, Akins RA, Lambowitz AM. Characterization of deletion derivatives of an autonomously replicating Neurospora plasmid Nucleic Acids Research. 12: 6169-6178. PMID 6236427 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/12.15.6169  0.345
1984 Akins RA, Lambowitz AM. The [poky] mutant of Neurospora contains a 4-base-pair deletion at the 5' end of the mitochondrial small rRNA Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 81: 3791-3795. PMID 6233613 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.81.12.3791  0.349
1980 Akins RA, Byers TJ. Differentiation promoting factors induced in Acanthamoeba by inhibitors of mitochondrial macromolecule synthesis Developmental Biology. 78: 126-140. PMID 7399137 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(80)90323-1  0.307
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