Molecular Biology


Contact
E-mail: johan.elf@icm.uu.se


Address:
Xie Group
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
02138 Cambridge, MA


PhD Molecular Biotechnology

Thesis: Intracellular Flows and Fluctuation was awarded Bjurzons premium for outstanding thesis by the faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University


Molecular Biology


Software: MesoRD

MesoRD


Publications:

Sørensen MA*, Elf J*, Bouakaz E*, Tenson T, Sanyal S, Björk GR, and Ehrenberg M (2005) Over expression of a tRNA-Leu isoacceptor changes charging pattern of leucine tRNAs and reveals new codon reading J Mol Biol in press

Elf J and Ehrenberg M (2005) What makes ribosome mediated transcriptional attenuation sensitive? PLoS Computational Biology 1

Hattne J, Fange D, and Elf J (2005) Stochastic reaction-diffusion simulation with MesoRD Bioinformatics download pdf

Lindsley D, Bonthuis P, Gallant J, Tofoleanu T, Elf J and Ehrenberg M (2005)Ribosome By-passing At Serine Codons as a Test of the Model of Selective tRNA Charging EMBO reports 6 147-150 download pdf

Dittmar K, Sørensen M, Elf J, Ehrenberg M, Pan T, (2005) Microarrays reveal selective charging of tRNA isoacceptors during amino acid starvation. EMBO reports 6 151-157 download pdf

Elf, J and Ehrenberg, M (2004) Near-critical behavior of aminoacyl-tRNA pools in E. coli at rate limiting supply of amino acids Biophys. J 88 132-46 download pdf

Elf, J and Ehrenberg, M (2004) Spontaneous separation of bi-stable biochemical systems into spatial domains of opposite phases Systems Biology 2 download pdf Supplementary Material: Next Subvolume Method

Elf, J and Ehrenberg, M (2003) Fast evaluation of fluctuations in biochemical networks with the linear noise approximation Genome Research 13 2475-2484. download pdf

Elf, J, Nilsson, D, Tenson, T and Ehrenberg, M. (2003). Selective charging of tRNA isoacceptors explains patterns of codon usage Science 300 1718-1722 download pdf

Pedersen, K., Zavialov, A., Pavlov, M., Elf, J., Gerdes, K. and Ehrenberg, M. (2003). The bacterial toxin RelE displays codon specific cleavage of mRNAs in the ribosomal A-site. Cell 112 131-140 download pdf

Elf J., Paulsson J., Berg O. & Ehrenberg M.(2003) Near-critical phenomena in intracellular metabolite pools Biophysical Journal 84 154-170 download pdf

Elf, J., Berg, O.G. & Ehrenberg, M. (2001) Comparison of repressor and transcriptional attenuator systems for control of amino acid biosynthetic operons. J. Mol. Biol, 313, (5), 941-954 download pdf

Elf, J, Doncic, A & Ehrenberg, M (2003) Mesoscopic reaction-diffusion in intracellular signaling Proceedings for SPIE's "First International Symposium on fluctuations and noise" download pdf

Elf, J, Lötstedt, P, and Sjöberg, P (2003). Problems of high dimension in molecular biology. Proceedings of the 17th GAMM-Seminar 1-10 download pdf

Books and Reviews:

Paulsson J and Elf J (Spring 2006) Stochastic Modeling in Systems Modeling in Cellular Biology MIT press

Kruse K and Elf J (Spring 2006) Kinetics in Spatially Extended Systems in Systems Modeling in Cellular Biology MIT press

Elf, J, Paulsson, J, Berg, OG & Ehernberg, M (2005). Mesoscopic kinetics and its applications in protein synthesis. Topics in Current Genetics Springer-Verlag GmbH download pdf

Ehrenberg, M, Elf, J , Aurell, E,Sandberg, R and Tegnér, J (2003) Systems Biology is Taking Off Genome Research 13 2377-2380.

Ehrenberg, M, Elf, J , Aurell, E,Sandberg, R and Tegnér, J (2003) Systems Biology is Taking Off Genome Research 13 2377-2380.

Aurell, E, Elf, J and Jeppsson, J. (eds.) (2002) Systems Biology - The logic of life. Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Systems Biology

Teaching:
Molecular Systems Analysis