Publications

1.             Shen, A., Hencel, K., Parker, M. T., Scott, R., Skukan, R., Adesina, A. S., Metheringham, C. L., Miska, E. A., Nam, Y., Haerty, W., Simpson, G. G. & Akay, A. U6 snRNA m6A modification is required for accurate and efficient splicing of C. elegans and human pre-mRNAs. Nucleic Acids Research gkae447 (2024). doi:10.1093/nar/gkae447

2.             Berkyurek, A. C., Furlan, G., Lampersberger, L., Beltran, T., Weick, E.-M., Nischwitz, E., Cunha Navarro, I., Braukmann, F., Akay, A., Price, J., Butter, F., Sarkies, P. & Miska, E. A. The RNA polymerase II subunit RPB-9 recruits the integrator complex to terminate Caenorhabditis elegans piRNA transcription. EMBO J. 40, e105565 (2021).

3.             Kranse, O., Beasley, H., Adams, S., Pires-daSilva, A., Bell, C., Lilley, C. J., Urwin, P. E., Bird, D., Miska, E., Smant, G., Gheysen, G., Jones, J., Viney, M., Abad, P., Maier, T. R., Baum, T. J., Siddique, S., Williamson, V., Akay, A. & Eves-van den Akker, S. Toward genetic modification of plant-parasitic nematodes: delivery of macromolecules to adults and expression of exogenous mRNA in second stage juveniles. G3 11,(2021).

4.             Navarro, I. C., Tuorto, F., Jordan, D., Legrand, C., Price, J., Braukmann, F., Hendrick, A. G., Akay, A., Kotter, A., Helm, M., Lyko, F. & Miska, E. A. Translational adaptation to heat stress is mediated by RNA 5-methylcytosine in Caenorhabditis elegans. EMBO J. 40, e105496 (2021).

5.             Suen, K. M., Braukmann, F., Butler, R., Bensaddek, D., Akay, A., Lin, C.-C., Milonaitytė, D., Doshi, N., Sapetschnig, A., Lamond, A., Ladbury, J. E. & Miska, E. A. DEPS-1 is required for piRNA-dependent silencing and PIWI condensate organisation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nat. Commun. 11, 4242 (2020).

6.             Akay, A., Jordan, D., Navarro, I. C., Wrzesinski, T., Ponting, C. P., Miska, E. A. & Haerty, W. Identification of functional long non-coding RNAs in C. elegans. BMC Biol. 17, 14 (2019).

7.             Sarabipour, S. Preprints are good for science and good for the public. Nature 560, 553 (2018).

8.             Sarabipour, S., Wissink, E. M., Burgess, S. J., Hensel, Z., Debat, H., Emmott, E., Akay, A., Akdemir, K. & Schwessinger, B. Maintaining confidence in the reporting of scientific outputs. (PeerJ Preprints, 2018). doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.27098v1

9.             Akay, A., Di Domenico, T., Suen, K. M., Nabih, A., Parada, G. E., Larance, M., Medhi, R., Berkyurek, A. C., Zhang, X., Wedeles, C. J., Rudolph, K. L. M., Engelhardt, J., Hemberg, M., Ma, P., Lamond, A. I., Claycomb, J. M. & Miska, E. A. The Helicase Aquarius/EMB-4 Is Required to Overcome Intronic Barriers to Allow Nuclear RNAi Pathways to Heritably Silence Transcription. Dev. Cell 42, 241-255.e6 (2017).

10.          van Delft, P., Akay, A., Huber, S. M., Bueschl, C., Rudolph, K. L. M., Di Domenico, T., Schuhmacher, R., Miska, E. A. & Balasubramanian, S. The Profile and Dynamics of RNA Modifications in Animals. Chembiochem 18, 979–984 (2017).

11.          Akay, A., Sarkies, P. & Miska, E. A. E. coli OxyS non-coding RNA does not trigger RNAi in C. elegans. Sci. Rep. 5, 9597 (2015).

12.          Akay, A., Craig, A., Lehrbach, N., Larance, M., Pourkarimi, E., Wright, J. E., Lamond, A., Miska, E. & Gartner, A. RNA-binding protein GLD-1/quaking genetically interacts with the mir-35 and the let-7 miRNA pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans. Open Biol. 3, 130151 (2013).

13.          Gartner, A. & Akay, A. Stress response: anything that doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Curr. Biol.(2013). at <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213011834>

14.          Feitsma, H., Akay, A. & Cuppen, E. Alkylation damage causes MMR-dependent chromosomal instability in vertebrate embryos. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, 4047–4056 (2008).