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“L. Archambault, J. Linscott, N. Swerdlow, K. Boyland, E. Riley, P. Schlax, Translational efficiency of rpoS mRNA from Borrelia burgdorferi: Effects of the length and sequence of the mRNA leader region, Biochem Biophys Res Commun., 433:73-78.
R. I. Koleva, C. A. Austin*,J. M. Kowaleski*, D.S. Neems*, L.Wang*, C.P.H. Vary and P.J.Schlax, 2006, “Interactions of Ribosomal Protein S1 with DsrA and rpoS mRNA” Biochem Biophys Res Commun., 348:662-668.
P.J. Schlax and D. J. Worhunsky* “Translational Repression Mechanisms in Prokaryotes”, 2003, Molecular Microbiology, 48: 1157-1169.
D. J. Worhunsky, K. Godek, S. Litsch, & P.J. Schlax “Interactions of the Non-Coding RNA DsrA and RpoS mRNA with the 30S Ribosomal Subunit”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, In Press, Published online ahead of print @ www.jbc.org manuscript M301684200 February 2003.
P.J. Schlax, K. A. Xavier, T.C. Gluick & D.E. Draper “Translational Repression of the E. coli a Operon mRNA: Importance of an mRNA Conformational Switch and a Ternary Entrapment Complex.”, 2001, J. Biol. Chem. 276:38494-501.
D. E. Draper , T. C. Gluick & P. J. Schlax “Pseudoknots, RNA Folding and Translational Regulation” for RNA Structure and Function ed. R.W. Simon & M. Grunberg-Manago, CSHL Press, 1998, pp. 415-436.
Contributor to initial stages of http://genchem.chem.wisc.edu/labdocs/index.html, described in Joe L. March, John W. Moore, and Jerrold J. Jacobsen (2000) “ChemPages Laboratory: Abstract of Special Issue 24 on CD-ROM”, Journal of Chemical Education, 77(3):423. and in March, Joe L.; Jacobsen, Jerry; Jetzer, Kelly; Kolstad, Eric; Moore, John W.; Pitz, Stephanie; Schlax, Paula; Scott, Jacquie; Shaw, David; et al. “Laboratory applications of a web site. ” Book of Abstracts, 211th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 24-28 (1996),
M. T. Record Jr.,W. S. Reznikoff, M. L. Craig, K. L. McQuade & P. J. Schlax, “Escherichia Coli RNA Polymerase (Es70), Promoters, and the Kinetics of the Steps of Transcription Initiation”Escherichia Coli and Salmonella Typhimurium: Cellular and Molecular Biology 2nd Edition Ed. F.C.Neidhhardt, 1996, pp.792-821.
P. J. Schlax, M. W. Capp and M. T. Record Jr. “Inhibition of Transcription Initiation by Lac repressor”, 1995, J. Mol. Biol. 245:331-350.
L. Rao, W. Ross, J. A. Appleman, T. Gaal, S. Leirmo, P. J. Schlax, M. T. Record Jr. and R. L. Gourse, “Factor Independent Activation of rrnB P1-An ‘Extended’ Promoter with an Upstream Element that Dramatically Increases Promoter Strength”, 1994, J. Mol. Biol., 235:1421-1435.
S. Law, G. Bellomy, P. J. Schlax, M. T. Record Jr., “In Vivo Thermodynamic Analysis of Repression with and without Looping in Lac constructs: Estimates of Free and Local lac Repressor Concentrations and of Physical Properties of the Interoperator Region of Supercoiled Plasmid DNA”, 1993, J. Mol. Biol., 230:161-230.
A. Lucia, X. Guo, P. J. Richey (Schlax), R. Derebail, “Simple Chemical Process Equations, Fixed Point Methods and Chaos” 1990, AIChE Journal, 36:641-654.