Li, W, Atkinson, GC, Thakor, NS, Allas, Ü, Lu, C, Chan, K-Y, Tenson, T, Schulten, K, Wilson, KS, Hauryliuk, V, Frank, J  Mechanism of Tetracycline Resistance by Ribosomal Protection Protein Tet(O). 2012 Nature Communications, accepted

Mitkevich, VA, Shyp, V, Petrushanko, IYu, Soosaar, A, Atkinson, GC, Tenson, T, Makarov, AA, Hauryliuk, V. GTPases IF2 and EF-G bind GDP and the SRL RNA in a mutually exclusive manner.2012 Scientific Reports 2:843

Ajawatanawong, P, Atkinson, GC, Watson-Haigh, NS, MacKenzie, B, Baldauf, SL. SeqFIRE: a web application for automated extraction of indel regions and conserved blocks from protein multiple sequence alignments. 2012 Nucleic Acids Research 40:W1, W340-W347

Peil, L, Starosta, A, Virumäe, K, Atkinson, GC, Tenson, T, Remme, J, Wilson, DN. (2012). Lysine 34 of translation elongation factor EF-P is hydroxylated by YfcM. Nature Chemical Biology, 8, 695-697

*Atkinson, GC, Kamenski, P, Soosaar, A, Tenson, T, Hauryliuk, V. Evolutionary and genetic analyses of mitochondrial translation initiation factors identify the missing mitochondrial IF3 in S. cerevisiae. 2012 Nucleic Acids Research 40, 6122-6134.

Kaldalu, N, Kasari, V, Atkinson, GC, Tenson, T. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: The Unusual mqsRA Locus. (2012) In: Prokaryotic Toxin-Antitoxins

*Atkinson, GC, Hauryliuk, V. Evolution and Function of the RelA/SpoT Homologue (RSH) proteins. In: eLS 2012 [PDF]

*Atkinson, GC, Tenson, T, Hauryliuk, V (2011) The RelA/SpoT Homolog (RSH) Superfamily: Distribution and Functional Evolution of ppGpp Synthetases and Hydrolases across the Tree of Life. PLoS ONE 6:e23479

*Atkinson, GC, Hauryliuk, V,  Tenson, T (2011) An ancient family of SelB elongation factor-like proteins with a broad but disjunct distribution across archaea BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:22

*Atkinson, GC, Baldauf, SL (2011) Evolution of elongation factor G and origins of mitochondrial and chloroplast forms. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28, 1281-1292

Kononenko AV, Mitkevich VA, Atkinson GC, Tenson T, Dubovaya VI, Frolova LY, Makarov AA, Hauryliuk V (2010) GTP-dependent structural rearrangement of the eRF1:eRF3 complex and eRF3 sequence motifs essential for PABP binding. Nucleic Acids Research 38, 548-58

*Atkinson, GC and Baldauf, SL (2009) Evolution of the Translational GTPase Superfamily. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 26, 841 - 842.

*Atkinson, GC, Baldauf, SL and Hauryliuk, V (2008) Evolution of nonstop, no-go and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and their termination factor-derived components. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8, 290

*Atkinson, GC, Baldauf, SL (2006) Disentangling the trails of evolution. Microbiology Today 33:4, 170-191