| Cyt1Ca from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis: production in Escherichia coli and comparison of its biological activities with those of other Cyt-like proteins R Manasherob, M Itsko, N Sela-Baranes, E Ben-Dov, C Berry, S Cohen, ... Microbiology 152 (9), 2651-2659, 2006 | 35 | 2006 |
| A microbiology-based assay for quantification of bacterial early stage biofilm formation on reverse-osmosis and nanofiltration membranes MY Lutskiy, S Avneri-Katz, N Zhu, M Itsko, Z Ronen, CJ Arnusch, ... Separation and Purification Technology 141, 214-220, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| dGTP Starvation in Escherichia coli Provides New Insights into the Thymineless-Death Phenomenon M Itsko, RM Schaaper PLoS genetics 10 (5), e1004310, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| Compaction of the Escherichia coli nucleoid caused by Cyt1Aa R Manasherob, A Zaritsky, Y Metzler, E Ben-Dov, M Itsko, I Fishov Microbiology 149 (12), 3553-3564, 2003 | 27 | 2003 |
| Full molecular typing of Neisseria meningitidis directly from clinical specimens for outbreak investigation M Itsko, AC Retchless, SJ Joseph, A Norris Turner, JA Bazan, AY Sadji, ... Journal of Clinical Microbiology 58 (12), 10.1128/jcm. 01780-20, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| Structure of Escherichia coli dGTP triphosphohydrolase: a hexameric enzyme with DNA effector molecules D Singh, D Gawel, M Itsko, A Hochkoeppler, JM Krahn, RE London, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 290 (16), 10418-10429, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| Insufficient levels of the nrdAB‐encoded ribonucleotide reductase underlie the severe growth defect of the Δhda E. coli strain VMP Babu, M Itsko, JC Baxter, RM Schaaper, MD Sutton Molecular microbiology 104 (3), 377-399, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Meningococcal disease in North America: updates from the global meningococcal initiative EJ Asturias, X Bai, JA Bettinger, R Borrow, DN Castillo, DA Caugant, ... Journal of Infection 85 (6), 611-622, 2022 | 14 | 2022 |
| Expression in Escherichia coli of the Native cyt1Aa from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis V Sazhenskiy, A Zaritsky, M Itsko Applied and environmental microbiology 76 (10), 3409-3411, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| The dgt gene of Escherichia coli facilitates thymine utilization in thymine‐requiring strains M Itsko, RM Schaaper Molecular microbiology 81 (5), 1221-1232, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Exposing cryptic antibacterial activity in Cyt1Ca from Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis by genetic manipulations M Itsko, A Zaritsky FEBS letters 581 (9), 1775-1782, 2007 | 9 | 2007 |
| Transcriptome analysis of Escherichia coli during dGTP starvation M Itsko, RM Schaaper Journal of Bacteriology 198 (11), 1631-1644, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| Enhancing meningococcal genomic surveillance in the meningitis belt using high-resolution culture-free whole-genome sequencing M Itsko, N Topaz, S Ousmane-Traoré, M Popoola, R Ouedraogo, ... The Journal of infectious diseases 226 (4), 729-737, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Partial Restoration of Antibacterial Activity of the Protein Encoded by a Cryptic Open Reading Frame (cyt1Ca) from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis by … M Itsko, R Manasherob, A Zaritsky Journal of bacteriology 187 (18), 6379-6385, 2005 | 6 | 2005 |
| Kinetics of repeat propagation in the microgene polymerization reaction M Itsko, A Rabinovitch, A Zaritsky Biophysical journal 96 (5), 1866-1874, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| Initiation of the microgene polymerization reaction with non-repetitive homo-duplexes M Itsko, A Zaritsky, A Rabinovitch, E Ben-Dov Biochemical and biophysical research communications 368 (3), 606-613, 2008 | 4 | 2008 |
| Metabolome dynamics during wheat domestication Y Ben-Abu, M Itsko Scientific Reports 12 (1), 8532, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Evaluation of urethrotropic-clade meningococcal infection by urine metagenomic shotgun sequencing AC Retchless, M Itsko, JA Bazan, AN Turner, F Hu, SJ Joseph, A Carter, ... Journal of Clinical Microbiology 60 (2), e01732-21, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Changes in" natural antibiotic" metabolite composition during tetraploid wheat domestication Y Ben-Abu, M Itsko Scientific Reports 11 (1), 20340, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Thermodynamics of Unstable DNA Structures from the Kinetics of the Microgene PCR M Itsko, A Zaritsky, A Rabinovitch The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112 (41), 13149-13156, 2008 | 3 | 2008 |
