/Publications
2023
Elias M, Gani S, Lerner Y, Yamin K, Tor C, Patel A, Matityahu A, Dessau M, Qvit N, Onn I. Developing a peptide to disrupt cohesin head domain interactions. iScience. 2023 Jul 28;26(9):107498. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107498. PMID: 37664609; PMCID: PMC10470313.
Izhaki-Tavor SL, Yechezkel IG, Alter J and Dessau M. RNA Encapsulation Mode and Evolutionary Insights From the Crystal Structure of Emaravirus Nucleoprotein. Microbiol Spectr. 2023. ACCEPTED!
2022
Domovitz T, Ayoub S, Werbner M, Alter J, Izhaki Tavor L, Yahalom-Ronen Y, Tikhonov E, Meirson T, Maman Y, Paran N, Israely T, Dessau M, Gal-Tanamy M. HCV Infection Increases the Expression of ACE2 Receptor, Leading to Enhanced Entry of Both HCV and SARS-CoV-2 into Hepatocytes and a Coinfection State. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Oct 31:e0115022.
doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01150-22. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36314945.
Li R, Mor M, Ma B, Clark AE, Alter J, Werbner M, Lee JC, Leibel SL, Carlin AF, Dessau M, Gal-Tanamy M, Croker BA, Xiang Y, Freund NT. Conformational flexibility in neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by naturally elicited anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Commun Biol. 2022 Aug 5;5(1):789. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03739-5. PMID: 35931732; PMCID: PMC9355996.
Rabinowitz KM, Navon M, Edelman-Klapper H, Zittan E, Bar-Gil Shitrit A, Goren I, Avni-Biron I, Ollech JE, Lichtenstein L, Banai-Eran H, Yanai H, Snir Y, Pauker MH, Friedenberg A, Levy-Barda A, Segal A, Broitman Y, Maoz E, Ovadia B, Aharoni Golan M, Shachar E, Ben-Horin S, Maharshak N, Mor M, Ben Zvi H, Eliakim R, Barkan R, Sharar-Fischler T, Goren S, Krugliak N, Pichinuk E, Mor M, Werbner M, Alter J, Abu-Taha H, Kaboub K, Dessau M, Gal-Tanamy M, Cohen D, Freund NT, Dotan I, On Behalf Of The Responses To Covid-Vaccine Israeli Ibd. Anti-TNFα Treatment Impairs Long-Term Immune Responses to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Jul 26;10(8):1186. doi: 10.3390/vaccines10081186. PMID: 35893835; PMCID: PMC9330864.
Hexner-Erlichman Z, Fichtman B, Zehavi Y, Khayat M, Jabaly-Habib H, Izhaki-Tavor LS, Dessau M, Elpeleg O, Spiegel R. A Novel Homozygous Missense Variant in the LRRC32 Gene Is Associated With a New Syndrome of Cleft Palate, Progressive Vitreoretinopathy, Growth Retardation, and Developmental Delay. Front Pediatr. 2022 May 17;10:859034. doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.859034. PMID: 35656379; PMCID: PMC9152136.
Ashur I, Alter J, Werbner M, Ogungbile A, Dessau M, Gal-Tanamy M, Vernick S. Rapid electrochemical immunodetection of SARS-CoV-2 using a pseudo-typed vesicular stomatitis virus model. Talanta. 2022 Mar 1;239:123147.
doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.123147. Epub 2021 Dec 13. PMID: 34920254; PMCID: PMC8667521.
Edelman-Klapper H, Zittan E, Bar-Gil Shitrit A, Rabinowitz KM, Goren I, Avni-Biron I, Ollech JE, Lichtenstein L, Banai-Eran H, Yanai H, Snir Y, Pauker MH, Friedenberg A, Levy-Barda A, Segal A, Broitman Y, Maoz E, Ovadia B, Golan MA, Shachar E, Ben-Horin S, Perets TT, Ben Zvi H, Eliakim R, Barkan R, Goren S, Navon M, Krugliak N, Werbner M, Alter J, Dessau M, Gal-Tanamy M, Freund NT, Cohen D, Dotan I; REsponses to COVid-19 vaccinE IsRaeli IBD group (RECOVER). Lower Serologic Response to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Treated With Anti-TNFα. Gastroenterology. 2022 Feb;162(2):454-467. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.10.029. Epub 2021 Oct 28. PMID: 34717923; PMCID: PMC8552587.
2021
Rosenberg-Friedman M, Kigel A, Bahar Y, Werbner M, Alter J, Yogev Y, Dror Y, Lubetzky R, Dessau M, Gal-Tanamy M, Many A, Wine Y. BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine elicited antibody response in blood and milk of breastfeeding women. Nat Commun. 2021 Oct 28;12(1):6222. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26507-1. PMID: 34711825; PMCID: PMC8553805.
Ashur I, Alter J, Werbner M, Ogungbile A, Dessau M, Gal-Tanamy M, Vernick S. Rapid electrochemical immunodetection of SARS-CoV-2 using a pseudo-typed vesicular stomatitis virus model. Talanta. 2022 Mar 1;239:123147. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.123147. Epub 2021 Dec 13. PMID: 34920254; PMCID: PMC8667521.
Manoj Kumar, Prasanth Padala, Jamal Fahoum, Fouad Hassouna, Tomer Tsaban, Guy Zoltsman, Sayanika Banerjee, Einav Cohen-Kfir, Moshe Dessau, Rina Rosenzweig, Michail Isupov, Ora Schueler-Furman, and Reuven Wiener (2021). Structural basis for UFM1 transfer from UBA5 to UFC1, Nature Commun., PMID: 34588452, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25994-6
Mor M, Werbner M, Alter J, Safra M, Chomsky E, Hada-Neeman S, Polonsky K, Nowell CJ, Clark AE, Roitburd-Berman A, Shalom N Ben, Navon M, Rafael D, Sharim H, Kiner E, Griffis E, Gershoni JM, Kobiler O, Leibel SL, Zimhony O, Carlin AF, Yaari G, Dessau M, Gal-Tanamy M, Hagin D, Croker BA, Freund NT. (2021) Multi-clonal SARS-CoV-2 neutralization by antibodies isolated from severe COVID-19 convalescent donors. PLoS Pathog 17(2): e1009165. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009165
Zehavi Y, Saada A, Jabaly-Habib H, Dessau M, Shaag A, Elpeleg O, Spiegel R. (2021) A novel de novo heterozygous pathogenic variant in the SDHA gene results in childhood onset bilateral optic atrophy and cognitive impairment. Metab Brain Dis. Jan 20. doi: 10.1007/s11011-021-00671-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33471299.
2020
Ines Zucker, Yaal Lester, Joel Alter, Michal Werbner, Yinon Yecheskel ,Meital Gal-Tanamy and Moshe Dessau. 2020. Use of Pseudoviruses for the Assessment of Corona-Virus Disinfection by Gaseous Ozone. Environ. Chem. Letters, doi: 10.1007/s10311-020-01160-0
Izhaki-Tavor and Moshe Dessau (2020). ATP-dependent RNA helicase domain of the ZC3H41 protein from Trypanosoma brucei: expression, purification and crystallization. Acta Cryst.F F76 https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X20015204
Sporny M, Guez-Haddad J, Khazma T, Yaron A, Dessau M, Shkolnisky Y, Mim C, Isupov MN, Zalk R, Hons M, Opatowsky Y. Structural basis for SARM1 inhibition and activation under energetic stress. Elife. 2020 Nov 13;9:e62021. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62021. PMID: 33185189.
Bahat Y, Alter J, Dessau M. Crystal structure of tomato spotted wilt virus Gn reveals a dimer complex formation and evolutionary link to animal-infecting viruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2020) :202004657. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004657117
2019
Chen, M. Dessau, D. Rotenberg, D. A. Rasmussen, A. E. Whitfield. Entry of bunyaviruses into plants and vectors. Advances in virus research, 2019 vol. 104, pp. 65–96. doi: 10.1016/bs.aivir.2019.07.001
2016
Willensky S, Bar-Rogovsky H, Bignon EA, Tischler ND, Modis Y and Moshe Dessau (2016) Crystal Structure of Glycoprotein C from a Hantavirus in the Post-fusion Conformation. PLoS Pathog 12(10): e1005948. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005948
2013 and earlier
Dessau, M., and Modis, Y. (2013). Crystal structure of glycoprotein C from Rift Valley fever virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1696-1701.
Dessau M., Goldhill D., McBride R.L., Turner P.E., and Modis Y. (2012). Selective pressure causes an RNA virus to trade reproductive fitness for increased structural and thermal stability of a viral enzyme. PLoS Genet 8, e1003102.
Kotiguda G.G., Weinberg D., Dessau M., Salvi C., Serino G., Chamovitz D.A., and Hirsch J.A. (2012). The Organization of a CSN5-containing Subcomplex of the COP9 Signalosome. J Biol Chem 287, 42031-42041.
Dessau MA, Modis Y. Protein crystallization for X-ray crystallography. J Vis Exp. 2011 Jan 16;(47):2285. doi: 10.3791/2285. PMID: 21304455; PMCID: PMC3182643.
Halimi Y., Dessau M., Pollak S., Ast T., Erez T., Livnat-Levanon N., Karniol B., Hirsch J.A., and Chamovitz D.A. (2011). COP9 signalosome subunit 7 from Arabidopsis interacts with and regulates the small subunit of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR2). Plant Mol Biol 77, 77-89.
Nayak V., Dessau M., Kucera K., Anthony K., Ledizet M., and Modis Y. (2009). Crystal structure of dengue virus type 1 envelope protein in the postfusion conformation and its implications for membrane fusion. J Virol 83, 4338-4344.
Dessau M., Halimi Y., Erez T., Chomsky-Hecht O., Chamovitz D.A., and Hirsch J.A. (2008). The Arabidopsis COP9 signalosome subunit 7 is a model PCI domain protein with subdomains involved in COP9 signalosome assembly. Plant Cell 20, 2815-2834.
Dessau M., Chamovitz D.A., and Hirsch J.A. (2006). Expression, purification and crystallization of a PCI domain from the COP9 signalosome subunit 7 (CSN7). Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 62, 1138-1140.