PUBLICATIONS

T. Frankovits, P.V. Cherian, Y. Yesharim, S. Dobler, O. Wurtzel

A quantitative model for in vivo stem cell decisions in planarians

bioRxiv (2024), https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.26.582030v1

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T. Gordon, N. Hendin, O. Wurtzel

Methods for cell isolation and analysis of the highly regenerative tunicate Polycarpa mytiligera

bioRxiv (2023), https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.21.549655v1

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M. Hoffman, O. Wurtzel

PLANAtools - an interactive gene expression repository for the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2023), https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2023.1149537

bioRxiv (2022), https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.21.508730v1

Visit: https://www.wurtzellab.sites.tau.ac.il/planatools

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Y. Dagan*, Y. Yesharim*, A.R. Bonneau, T. Frankovits, S. Schwartz, P.W. Reddien, O. Wurtzel

m6A is required for resolving progenitor identity during planarian stem cell differentiation

EMBO Journal (2022), https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2021109895

bioRxiv (2021), https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.27.453979v1

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N. Hendin, T. Gordon, N. Shenkar, O. Wurtzel

Molecular characterization of the immediate wound response of the solitary ascidian Polycarpa mytiligera

Developmental Dynamics (2022), https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.526

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T. Gordon, T. Zaquin, M.A. Kowarsky, Y. Voskoboynik, N. Hendin, O. Wurtzel, F. Caicci, L. Manni, A. Voskoboynik, N. Shenkar

Stemness activity underlying whole brain regeneration in a basal chordate

Cells (2022), https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11233727

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A.A. Raz, O. Wurtzel, P.W. Reddien

Planarian stem cells specify fate yet retain potency during the cell cycle

Cell Stem Cell (2021)

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M.L. Scimone*, O. Wurtzel*, Kathryn Malecek, C.T. Fincher, I.M. Oderberg, K.M. Kravarik, P.W. Reddien
foxF-1 Controls Specification of Non-body Wall Muscle and Phagocytic Cells in Planarians
Current Biology (2018)

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C.T. Fincher, O. Wurtzel, T. de Hoog, K.M. Kravarik, P.W. Reddien

Cell type transcriptome atlas for the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

Science 360.6391 (2018): eaaq1736. visit: https://digiworm.wi.mit.edu/

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O. Wurtzel*, I.M. Oderberg*, P.W. Reddien

Planarian Epidermal Stem Cells Respond to Positional Cues to Promote Cell Type Diversity.

Developmental Cell (2017), 40, 491-504

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O. Cohen, S. Doron, O. Wurtzel, D. Dar, S. Edelheit, I. Karunker, E. Mick, R.Sorek.

Comparative Transcriptomics across the Prokaryotic Tree of Life.

Nucleic acids research (2016): gkw394.

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O. Wurtzel, L.E. Cote, A. Poirier, R. Satija, A. Regev, P.W. Reddien.

A Generic and Cell-Type-Specific Wound Response Precedes Regeneration in Planarians.

Developmental Cell (2015), 35(5):632-45. visit: https://radiant.wi.mit.edu/

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L. Rockah-Shmuel, Á. Tóth-Petróczy, A. Sela, O. Wurtzel, Rotem Sorek, and Dan S. Tawfik.

Correlated Occurrence and Bypass of Frame-Shifting Insertion-Deletions (InDels) to Give Functional Proteins. 

PLoS Genetics 9, no. 10 (2013): e1003882.

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N. Sesto, O. Wurtzel, C. Archambaud, R. Sorek, P. Cossart.

The excludon: a new concept in bacterial regulation.

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 11(2), 75-82.

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N. Pencovich, S. Hantisteanu, O. Wurtzel, M Hallak, O. Fainaru.

A pro-angiogenic expression pattern dictates preferential recruitment of immature myeloid cells into angiogenic versus dormant tumors in mice.

Genes and immunity,14 (2013), 90-98.

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S. Edelheit, S. Schwartz, M. Mumbach, O. Wurtzel, R. Sorek.

Transcriptome-Wide Mapping of 5-methylcytidine RNA Modifications in Bacteria, Archaea, and Yeast Reveals m5C within Archaeal mRNAs. 

PLoS Genetics, 9(6), e1003602 (2013).

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T. Quax, S. Brouns, J Koehorst, F. Blombach, O. Wurtzel, W. Ran, K. Makarova, Y. Wolf, R. Sorek, E. Koonin, J. van der Oost.

Codon bias modulates differential production of proteins from genes within operons.

Cell reports, 4(5), 938-944 (2013).

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O. Wurtzel*, N. Sesto*, J.R. Mellin, S. Edelheit, I. Karunker, C. Archambaud, P. Cossart, R. Sorek.

Comparative transcriptomics of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Listeria species.

Molecular Systems Biology, 8:583 (2012).

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O. Wurtzel, D. Yoder-Himes, K. Han, A. Dandeker, P. Greenberg, R. Sorek, S. Lory.

The single-nucleotide resolution transcriptome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa grown in body temperature.

PLoS Pathogens, 8(9), e1002945 (2012).

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S. Michaeli, T. Donniger, S. Gupta, O. Wurtzel, M. Romano, D. Visnovezky, R. Sorek, R.Unger, E. Ullu.

RNA-seq analysis of small RNPs in Trypanosoma brucei reveals a rich repertoire of non-coding RNAs.

Nucleic Acids Research, (2012) 40 (3):1282-1298.

A. Kimelman, A. Levy, H. Sberro, S. Kidron, A. Leavitt, G. Amitai, D. Yoder-Himes, O.Wurtzel, Y. Zhu, EM Rubin, R. Sorek.

A vast collection of microbial genes that are toxic to bacteria.

Genome Research, 22(4):802-9 (2012).

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S. Avrani, O. Wurtzel, I. Sharon, R. Sorek, D. Lindell.

Genomic island variability facilitates Prochlorococcus-virus coexistence.

Nature, 474: 604–608 (2011).

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S. He*, O. Wurtzel*, K. Singh, J. Froula, S. Yilmaz, Z. Wang, F. Chen, EA Lindquist, R. Sorek, P. Hugenholtz. Validation of two commercial ribosomal RNA removal methods for microbial metatranscriptomics.

Nature Methods, 7:807-812 (2010).

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O. Wurtzel, M. Dori-Bachash, S. Pietrokovski, E. Jurkevitch, R. Sorek.

Mutation detection with next-generation resequencing through a mediator genome.

PLoS ONE, 5(12):e15628 (2010).

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A. Stern, L. Keren, O. Wurtzel, G. Amitai, R. Sorek.

Self-targeting by CRISPR: gene regulation or autoimmunity?

Trends in Genetics, 26(8):335-340 (2010).

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D.R. Yoder-Himes, P.S.G. Chain, Y. Zhu, O. Wurtzel, E.M. Rubin, J.M. Tiedje and R. Sorek.

Mapping the Burkholderia cenocepacia niche response via high-throughput sequencing.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106(10):3976-3981 (2009).

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