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Publications of Ladislav Kovac


Publications of the lab members:

(for a full publication list of a lab member see the author’s web page)


Monographs and book chapters

  1. 1.Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2008) Mitochondrial telomeres: An evolutionary paradigm for the emergence of telomeric structures and their replication strategies. In: Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (eds) Origin and Evolution of Telomeres, Landes Bioscience, Austin, Texas. pp. 163-171. [ISBN: 978-1-58706-309-1]

  2. 2.Nosek, J., Tomaska, L. & Kucejova, B. (2003) The chromosome end replication: Lessons from mitochondrial genetics. In: Berger, J. (ed.) Advances in Cell Biology. Kopp Publishing, pp. 61-78. [ISBN 80-7232-205-2]

  3. 3.Tomaska, L., Sadovska, J., Nosek, J. & Griffith, J.D. (2003) Yeast telomeres: How to ignore essential double-strand DNA breaks? In: Berger, J. (ed.) Advances in Cell Biology. Kopp Publishing, pp. 39-59. [ISBN 80-7232-205-2]

  4. 4.Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2002) Mitochondrial telomeres: Alternative solutions to the end-replication problem. In: Krupp, G. & Parwaresch, R. (eds.) Telomeres, telomerases and cancer. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. pp. 396-417. {co-published as Telomeres and Telomerases: Cancer and Biology by Landes Bioscience, Austin, Texas} [ISBN 978-0-306-47437-9]


Monographs and book chapters (in Slovak)

  1. 1.Tomáška, L. (2000). Rozum a cit: Sme v zajatí chemických signálov? In: Beňušková, Ľ., Kvasnička, V., Pospíchal, J. (eds) Hľadanie spoločného jazyka v kognitívnych vedách. Vydavateľstvo IRIS, Bratislava, str. 145-158.


Review articles

  1. 1.Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (2010) Filling out the gaps is the hardest (yet rewarding) task: The genome-wide collection of the fission yeast deletion mutants is near completion. Cell Cycle 9(12): 2274.

  2. 2.Nosek, J., Holesova, Z., Kosa, P., Gacser, A. & Tomaska, L. (2009) Biology and genetics of the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. Current Genetics 55: 497-509.

  3. 3.Tomaska, L., Nosek, J., Kramara, J. & Griffith, J.D. (2009) Telomeric circles: universal players in telomere maintenance? Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16: 1010-1015.

  4. 4.Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (2009) Telomere heterogeneity: Taking advantage of stochastic events. FEBS Letters 583(7): 1067-1071.

  5. 5.Nosek, J., Kosa, P. & Tomaska, L. (2006) On the origin of telomeres: A glimpse at the pre-telomerase world. BioEssays 28: 182-190.

  6. 6.Nosek, J., Tomaska, L., Bolotin-Fukuhara, M. & Miyakawa, I. (2006) Mitochondrial chromosome structure: An insight from analysis of complete yeast genomes. FEMS Yeast Research 6: 356-370.

  7. 7.Tomaska, L., McEachern, M.J. & Nosek, J. (2004) Alternatives to telomerase: Keeping linear chromosomes via telomeric circles. FEBS Letters 567: 142-146.

  8. 8.Kovac, L., Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2003) An overlooked riddle of life’s origins: Nucleic acid unzipping. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57: S182-S189.

  9. 9.Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2003) Mitochondrial genome diversity: Evolution of the molecular architecture and replication strategy. Current Genetics 44: 73-84.

  10. 10.Tomaska, L. (2002). Yeast as a model for mitochondria-related human disorders. Conference report. FEMS Yeast Research. 2: VI-IX.

  11. 11.Foury, F. & Kucej, M. (2002) Yeast mitochondrial biogenesis: a model system for humans? Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 6: 106-111.

  12. 12.Tomaska, L., Nosek, J. & Kucejova, B. (2001) Mitochondrial single-stranded DNA-binding proteins: In search for new functions. Biological Chemistry 382: 179-186.

  13. 13.Tomaska, L. (2000). Mitochondrial protein phosphorylation: lessons from yeast. Gene 255: 59-64.

  14. 14.Nosek, J., Tomaska, L., Fukuhara, H., Suyama, Y. & Kovac, L. (1998) Linear mitochondrial genomes: 30 years down the line. Trends in Genetics 14: 184-188.


Articles in conference proceedings

  1. 1.Nosek, J., Valach, M., Visacka, K., Fricova, D., Kinsky, S. & Tomaska, L. (2008) Comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genomes in Candida spp. Proceedings of the Central European Summer Course (CESC) 2008 on Biology of pathogenic Candida species: Genetics, genomics, diagnostics. Szeged, Hungary, June 30-July 4, 2008. pp. 31-36.

  2. 2.Tomaska, L.., Gunisova, S. & Nosek, J. (2008) Nuclear telomeres in Candida spp. Proceedings of the Central European Summer Course (CESC) 2008 on Biology of pathogenic Candida species: Genetics, genomics, diagnostics. Szeged, Hungary, June 30-July 4, 2008. pp.13-19.

  3. 3.Galova, E., Gavurnikova, G., Mentelova, L., Mikusova, K., Nosek, J., Petrezselyova, S., Slaninova, M., Sviezena, B., Sevcovicova, A. & Tomaska, Ľ. (2007). Recruitment of talents for life sciences in Slovakia: Finally moving. NATO-UNESCO Advanced Research Workshop on Science Education: Talent Recruitment and Public Understanding. Balatonfüred, Hungary, October 20-22, 2006. In: Science Education: Models and Networking of Student Research Training under 21. Csermely, P., Korlevic, K., Sulyok, K. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, [ISSN: 1574-5597, ISBN 978-1-58603-721-5], pp. 225-229.

  4. 4.Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (2007) Architecture of DNA and origin of life. United Kingdom – Visegrad Four Frontiers of Science Symposium. February 21-23, 2007 Krakow, Poland. pp. 31-34.

  5. 5.Tomaska, L. (2005). Recruitment of talents for life sciences in Slovakia: State of the art. NATO-UNESCO Advanced Research Workshop No. 980515: Science Education: Talent Recruitment and Public Understanding. Eger, Hungary, October 1-3, 2004. In: Science Education: Best Practices of Research Training for Students under 21. Csermely, P., Korcsmaros, T., and Lederman, L. (eds.) IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, [ISSN: 1387-6708], pp. 226-231.

  6. 6.Nosek, J. & Fukuhara, H. (1994) Two types of telomeric structure of the linear mitochondrial DNAs in yeasts.   In: Osumi, M. & H. Yamaguchi (eds) Proceedings of the 11th Joint Symposium on Yeast: Frontline of Yeast Research – Impact on Life Science, Medicine and Bioindustry, Tokyo, Japan, May 31 – June 1, 1994. Society of Yeast Cell Research, Nihon Women's University, Tokyo. pp. 97-110.


Original research papers

  1. 1.Kinsky, S., Mihalikova, A., Kramara, J., Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2010) Lack of the catalytic subunit of telomerase leads to growth defects accompanied by structural changes at the chromosomal ends in Yarrowia lipolytica. Current Genetics (in press).

  2. 2.Fricova, D., Valach, M., Farkas, Z. Pfeiffer, I., Kucsera, J., Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (2010) The mitochondrial genome of the pathogenic yeast Candida subhashii: GC-rich linear DNA with a protein covalently attached to the 5' termini. Microbiology-SGM 156: 2153-2163.

  3. 3.Gunisova, S., Bartosova, Z., Kramara, J., Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2010) Formation of C-terminally truncated version of the Taz1 protein employs cleavage-box structure in mRNA. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 392: 391–396.

  4. 4.Miyakawa, I., Okamura, A., Kinsky, S., Visacka, K., Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (2009) Mitochondrial nucleoids from the yeast Candida parapsilosis: Expansion of the repertoire of proteins associated with mitochondrial DNA. Microbiology-SGM 155(5): 1558-1568.

  5. 5.Visacka, K., Gerhold, J.M., Petrovicova, J., Kinsky, S., Joers, P., Nosek, J., Sedman, J. & Tomaska, L.(2009) Novel subfamily of mitochondrial HMG-box containing proteins: Functional analysis of Gcf1p from Candida albicans. Microbiology-SGM 155(4): 1226-1240.

  6. 6.Gunisova, S., Elboher, E., Nosek, J., Gorkovoy, V., Brown, Y., Lucier, J.-F., Laterreur, N., Wellinger, R.J., Tzfati, Y. & Tomaska, L. (2009) Identification and comparative analysis of telomerase RNAs from Candida species reveal conservation of functional elements. RNA 15(4): 546-559.

  7. 7.Valach, M., Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (2008) Preparation of yeast mitochondrial DNA for direct sequence analysis. Current Genetics 54(2): 105-109.

  8. 8.Petrezselyova, S., Lalakova, J., Abelovska, L., Klobucnikova, V. & Tomaska, L. (2008) A collection of yeast mutants selectively resistant to ionophores acting on inner mitochondrial membrane. Mitochondrion 8: 117-129.

  9. 9.Steensma, H.Y., Tomaska, L., Reuven, P., Nosek, J. & Brandt, R. (2008) Disruption of genes encoding pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases leads to retarded growth on acetate and ethanol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 25(1): 9-19.

  10. 10.Tomaska, L. (2007) Teaching how to prepare a manuscript by means of re-writing published scientific papers. Genetics 175: 17-20.

  11. 11.Abelovska, L., Bujdos, M., Kubova, J., Petrezselyova, S., Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2007) Comparison of elements contents between minimal and complex yeast media. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 53: 533-535.

  12. 12.Kosa, P., Gavenciakova, B., & Nosek, J. (2007) Development of a set of plasmid vectors for genetic manipulations of the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. Gene 396(2): 338-345.

  13. 13.Kosa, P., Valach, M., Tomaska, L., Wolfe, K.H. & Nosek, J. (2006) Complete DNA sequences of the mitochondrial genomes of the pathogenic yeasts Candida orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis: Insight into the evolution of linear DNA genomes from mitochondrial telomere mutants. Nucleic Acids Research 34 (8): 2472-2481.

  14. 14.Nosek, J., Rycovska, A., Makhov, A.M., Griffith, J.D. & Tomaska, L. (2005) Amplification of telomeric arrays via rolling-circle mechanism. Journal of Biological Chemistry 280: 10840–10845.

  15. 15.Kucejova, B., Kucej, M., Petrezselyova, S., Abelovska, L. & Tomaska, L. (2005) A screen for nigericin-resistant yeast mutants revealed genes controlling mitochondrial volume and mitochondrial cation homeostasis. Genetics, 171: 517-526.

  16. 16.Mentel,,M., Piskur, J., Neuveglise, C., Rycovska, A., Cellengova, G. & Kolarov, J. (2005) Triplicate genes for mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers in the aerobic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica are regulated differentially in the absence of oxygen. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 273: 84-91.

  17. 17.Rycovska, A., Valach, M., Tomaska, L., Bolotin-Fukuhara, M. & Nosek, J. (2004) Linear versus circular mitochondrial genomes: Intraspecies variability of mitochondrial genome architecture in Candida parapsilosis. Microbiology-SGM 150: 1571-1580.

  18. 18.Nosek, J., Novotna, M., Hlavatovicova, Z., Ussery, D.W., Fajkus, J. & Tomaska, L. (2004) Complete DNA sequence of the linear mitochondrial genome of the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 272: 173-180.

  19. 19.Naumova, E.S., Naumov, G.I., Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2004) Differentiation of the yeasts Williopsis, Zygowilliopsis and Komagataea by karyotypic and PCR analyses. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 27: 192-197.

  20. 20.Zemanova, J., Nosek, J. & Tomaska, L. (2004) High efficiency transformation of the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. Current Genetics 45: 183-186.

  21. 21.Tomaska, L., Willcox, S., Slezakova, J., Nosek, J. & Griffith, J.D. (2004) Taz1 binding to a fission yeast model telomere: Formation of t-loops and higher order structures. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279: 50764–50772.

  22. 22.Kucej, M. & Foury, F. (2003) Iron toxicity protection by truncated Ras2 GTPase in yeast strain lacking frataxin. Biochemical Biophysical Research Communications 310: 986-991.

  23. 23.Kucejova, B. & Foury, F. (2003) Search for protein partners of mitochondrial single-stranded DNA-binding protein Rim1p using a yeast two-hybrid system. Folia Microbiologica 48: 183-188.

  24. 24.Nosek, J., Tomaska, L., Rycovska, A. & Fukuhara, H. (2002) Mitochondrial telomeres as molecular markers for identification of the opportunistic yeast pathogen Candida parapsilosis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 40: 1283-1289.

  25. 25.Kucej, M., Kosa, P., Adamikova, L. & Nosek, J. (2002) Isolation of genes coding for Ade2 and Ura3 homologues from the multinuclear yeast Dipodascus magnusii. Current Genetics 41: 20-24.

  26. 26.Tomaska, L., Makhov, A.M., Griffith, J.D. & Nosek, J. (2002) t-loops in yeast mitochondria. Mitochondrion 1: 455-459.

  27. 27.Nosek, J., Adamikova, L., Zemanova, J., Tomaska, L., Zufferey, R. & Mamoun, C.B. (2002) Genetic manipulation of the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. Current Genetics 42: 27-35.

  28. 28.Gonzalez-Lopez, C.I., Szabo, R., Blanchin-Roland, S. & Gaillardin, C. (2002). Genetic control of extracellular protease synthesis in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Genetics 160: 417-427.

  29. 29.Szabo, R. & Stofanikova, V. (2002) Presence of organic sources of nitrogen is critical for filament formation and pH-dependent morphogenesis in Yarrowia lipolytica. FEMS Microbiological Letters 206: 45-50.

  30. 30.Szabo, R. (2001). Cla4 protein kinase is essential for filament formation and invasive growth of Yarrowia lipolytica. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 265: 172-179.

  31. 31.Tomaska, L., Makhov, A.M., Nosek, J., Kucejova, B. & Griffith, J.D. (2001) Electron microscopic analysis supports a dual role for the mitochondrial telomere-binding protein of Candida parapsilosis. Journal of Molecular Biology 305: 61-69.

  32. 32.Tomaska, L., Nosek, J., Makhov, A.M., Pastorakova, A. & Griffith, J.D. (2000) Extragenomic double-stranded DNA circles in yeast with linear mitochondrial genomes: Potential involvement in telomere maintenance. Nucleic Acids Research 28: 4479-4487.

  33. 33.Rycovska, A., Szabo, R., Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (2000) The respiratory complex I in yeast: Isolation of a gene NUO51 coding for the nucleotide-binding subunit of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from obligately aerobic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Folia Microbiologica 45: 429-433.

  34. 34.Tomaska, L. (2000) Increasing student involvement in lectures by error-prone talks. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 28: 26-27.

  35. 35.Szabo, R. (1999) Dimorphism in Yarrowia lipolytica: filament formation is suppressed by nitrogen starvation and inhibition of respiration. Folia Microbiologica 44: 19-24.

  36. 36.Naumov, G.I., Kondratieva, V.I., Dudkina, N.G., Tomaska, L. & Naumova, E.S. (1999) Genetically isolated species of the yeast Arthroascus fermentans in Taiwan. Dokl. Biol. Sci. 367: 705-708.

  37. 37.Nosek, J., Tomaska, L., Pagacova, B. & Fukuhara, H. (1999) Mitochondrial telomere-binding protein from Candida parapsilosis suggests an evolutionary adaptation of a nonspecific single-stranded DNA-binding protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry 274: 8850-8857.

  38. 38.Blaisonneau, J., Nosek, J. & Fukuhara, H. (1999) Linear DNA plasmid pPK2 of Pichia kluyveri: Distinction between cytoplasmic and mitochondrial linear plasmids in yeasts. Yeast 15: 781-791.

  39. 39.Nebohacova, M., Mentel., M., Nosek, J. & Kolarov, J. (1999) Isolation and expression of the gene encoding mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier (AAC) from the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. Yeast 15: 1237-1242.

  40. 40.Adamikova, L., Griac, P., Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (1998) Development of a transformation system for the multinuclear yeast Dipodascus (Endomyces) magnusii. Yeast 14: 805-812.

  41. 41.Tomaska L. (1998) Phosphorylation of mitochondrial telomere binding protein of Candida parapsilosis by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Biochemical Biophysical Research Communications 242: 457-460.

  42. 42.Tomaska, L., Nosek, J. & Fukuhara, H. (1997) Identification of a putative mitochondrial telomere-binding protein of the yeast Candida parapsilosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry 272: 3049-3056.

  43. 43.Adamikova, L., Resnick, R.J. & Tomaska L. (1996) Enrichment of yeast protein tyrosine kinase activity by substrate affinity chromatography. Yeast 12: 833-838.

  44. 44.Nosek, J., Dinouel, N., Kovac, L. & Fukuhara, H. (1995) Linear mitochondrial DNAs from yeasts: Telomeres with large tandem repetitions. Molecular and General Genetics 247: 61-72.

  45. 45.Tomaska, L. & Nosek, J. (1995) Several polymers enhance the sensitivity of the Southwestern assay. Analytical Biochemistry 227: 387-389.

  46. 46.Filipp, D., Filipp, P., Nosek, J. & Hladka, M. (1995) Electrophoretic karyotype of Dipodascus (Endomyces) magnusii: Two main intraspecific chromosomal polymorphisms associated with the difference in total genome size. Current Genetics 29: 81-87.

  47. 47.Nosek, J. & Fukuhara, H. (1994) Mitochondrial transfer RNA genes of the yeast Candida parapsilosis. Gene 142: 307-308.

  48. 48.Drissi, R., Sor, F., Nosek, J. & Fukuhara, H. (1994) Genes of the linear mitochondrial DNA of Williopsis mrakii: Coding sequences for a maturase-like protein, a ribosomal protein VAR1 homologue, cytochrome oxidase subunit 2 and methionyl tRNA. Yeast 10: 391-398.

  49. 49.Nosek, J. & Fukuhara, H. (1994) NADH dehydrogenase subunit genes in the mitochondrial DNA of yeasts. Journal of Bacteriology 176: 5622-5630.

  50. 50.Resnick, R.J. & Tomaska L. (1994) Stimulation of yeast adenylyl cyclase activity by lysophospholipids and fatty acids. Implications for the regulation of Ras/effector function by lipids. Journal of Biological Chemistry 269: 32336-32341.

  51. 51.Tomaska, L. & Resnick, R.J. (1993) Involvement of a phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase in the suppression of platelet-derived growth factor receptor autophosphorylation in ras-transformed cells. Biochemical Journal 293: 215-221.

  52. 52.Tomaska, L. & Resnick, R.J. (1993) Suppression of platelet-derived growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase activity by unsaturated fatty acids. ournal of Biological Chemistry 268: 5317-5322.

  53. 53.Griac, P. & Nosek, J. (1993) Mitochondrial DNA of Endomyces (Dipodascus) magnusii. Current Genetics 23: 549-552.

  54. 54.Nosek, J., Filipp, D., Bederkova, K. & Griac, P. (1993) Isolation of a dsRNA virus from Dipodascus (Endomyces) magnusii. Current  Genetics 23: 219-222.



Textbooks and Learning Texts (in Slovak)

  1. 1.Gálová, E., Kiššová, I., Magdolen, P., Mečiarová, M., Nosek, J., Poláčková, V., Polčic, P., Sigmundová, I., Slaninová, M., Ševčovičová, A., Valent, I., Boháč, A., Tomáška, Ľ. (2008). Poďme experimentovať v biológii a chémii. Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava, 171 p. [ISBN 978-80-223-2583-7]

  2. 2.Nosek, J., Tomáška, Ľ., Vlček, D. (2001) Extrachromozomálne genetické elementy. Vysokoškolské skriptá. Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava, 160 pp. [ISBN 80-223-1545-1]