Irina El Khoury
Chemist
Dr. Irina El Khoury is a chemist with the Structural Biology team. She serves as a key researcher in several projects related to the synthesis, functional characterization, and structural biology of molecules in plant and environmental sciences using cell-free protein expression and cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as major technologies. She currently provides computational and educational support for the Pacific Northwest Cryo-EM Center (PNCC) in Portland, Oregon. PNCC is funded by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund and operated jointly by Oregon Health & Science University and PNNL.
Research Interests
- Cell-free protein expression
- Cryo-EM
- Structural biology
- Microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED)
Education
- PhD in Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University
- MS in Engineering., St Petersburg State Institute of Technology
- BS in Engineering, St Petersburg State Institute of Technology
Publications
2020
Bhattarai, A., Z. Cheng, A. G. Joly, I. V. Novikova, J. E. Evans, Z. D. Schultz, M. R. Jones, and P. Z. El-Khoury. 2020. “Tip-Enhanced Raman Nanospectroscopy of Smooth Spherical Gold Nanoparticles.” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (5): 1795-1801. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00217.
O'Callahan, B. T., K. D. Park, I. V. Novikova, T. Jian, C. L. Chen, E. A. Muller, P. Z. El-Khoury, M. B. Raschke, and A. S. Lea. 2020. “In Liquid Infrared Scattering Scanning near-Field Optical Microscopy for Chemical and Biological Nanoimaging.” Nano Letters 20 (6): 4497-4504. doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01291.
2019
Bhattarai, A., I. V. Novikova, and P. Z. El-Khoury. 2019. “Tip-Enhanced Raman Nanographs of Plasmonic Silver Nanoparticles.” Journal of Physical Chemistry C. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07811.
2018
Gallagher-Jones, M., C. Glynn, D. R. Boyer, M. W. Martynowycz, E. Hernandez, J. Miao, C. T. Zee, I. V. Novikova, L. Goldschmidt, H. T. McFarlane, G. F. Helguera, J. E. Evans, M. R. Sawaya, D. Cascio, D. S. Eisenberg, T. Gonen, and J. A. Rodriguez. 2018. “Sub-Ångström Cryo-EM Structure of a Prion Protofibril Reveals a Polar Clasp.” Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 25 (2): 131-134. doi.org/10.1038/s41594-017-0018-0.
Novikova, I. V., N. Sharma, T. Moser, R. Sontag, Y. Liu, M. J. Collazo, D. Cascio, T. Shokuhfar, H. Hellmann, M. Knoblauch, and J. E. Evans. 2018. “Protein Structural Biology Using Cell-Free Platform from Wheat Germ.” Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging 4 (1). doi.org/10.1186/s40679-018-0062-9.
O'Callahan, B. T., K. T. Crampton, I. V. Novikova, T. Jian, C. L. Chen, J. E. Evans, M. B. Raschke, P. Z. El-Khoury, and A. S. Lea. 2018. “Imaging Nanoscale Heterogeneity in Ultrathin Biomimetic and Biological Crystals.” Journal of Physical Chemistry C. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06681.
2017
Novikova, I. V., C. R. Smallwood, Y. Gong, D. Hu, L. Hendricks, J. E. Evans, A. Bhattarai, W. P. Hess, and P. Z. El-Khoury. 2017. “Multimodal Hyperspectral Optical Microscopy.” Chemical Physics 498-499: 25-32. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2017.08.011.
Zhang, B., Y. S. Mao, S. D. Diermeier, I. V. Novikova, E. P. Nawrocki, T. A. Jones, Z. Lazar, C. S. Tung, W. Luo, S. R. Eddy, K. Y. Sanbonmatsu, and D. L. Spector. 2017. “Identification and Characterization of a Class of MALAT1-like Genomic Loci.” Cell Reports 19 (8): 1723-1738. doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.05.006.
2016
El-Khoury, P. Z., P. Abellan, R. L. Chantry, Y. Gong, A. G. Joly, I. V. Novikova, J. E. Evans, E. Aprà, D. Hu, Q. M. Ramasse, and W. P. Hess. 2016. “The Information Content in Single-Molecule Raman Nanoscopy.” Advances in Physics: X 1 (1): 35-54. doi.org/10.1080/23746149.2016.1140010.
Hawkes, E. J., S. P. Hennelly, I. V. Novikova, J. A. Irwin, C. Dean, and K. Y. Sanbonmatsu. 2016. “COOLAIR Antisense RNAs Form Evolutionarily Conserved Elaborate Secondary Structures.” Cell Reports 16 (12): 3087-3096. doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2016.08.045.
Xue, Z., S. Hennelly, B. Doyle, A. A. Gulati, I. V. Novikova, K. Y. Sanbonmatsu, and L. A. Boyer. 2016. “A G-Rich Motif in the lncRNA Braveheart Interacts with a Zinc-Finger Transcription Factor to Specify the Cardiovascular Lineage.” Molecular Cell 64 (1): 37-50. doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2016.08.010.
2015
El-Khoury, P. Z., G. E. Johnson, I. V. Novikova, Y. Gong, A. G. Joly, J. E. Evans, M. Zamkov, J. Laskin, and W. P. Hess. 2015. “Enhanced Raman Scattering from Aromatic Dithiols Electrosprayed into Plasmonic Nanojunctions.” Faraday Discussions 184: 339-357. doi.org/10.1039/c5fd00036j.
2013
Hennelly, S. P., I. V. Novikova, and K. Y. Sanbonmatsu. 2013. “The Expression Platform and the Aptamer: Cooperativity between Mg2+ and Ligand in the SAM-I Riboswitch.” Nucleic Acids Research 41 (3): 1922-1935. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks978.
Novikova, I. V., A. Dharap, S. P. Hennelly, and K. Y. Sanbonmatsu. 2013. “3s: Shotgun Secondary Structure Determination of Long Non-Coding RNAs.” Methods 63 (2): 170-177. doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2013.07.030.
Novikova, I. V., S. P. Hennelly, and K. Y. Sanbonmatsu. 2013. “Tackling Structures of Long Noncoding RNAs.” International Journal of Molecular Sciences 14 (12): 23672-23684. doi.org/10.3390/ijms141223672.
Novikova, I. V., S. P. Hennelly, C. S. Tung, and K. Y. Sanbonmatsu. 2013. “Rise of the RNA Machines: Exploring the Structure of Long Non-Coding RNAs.” Journal of Molecular Biology 425 (19): 3731-3746. doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2013.02.030.
2012
Novikova, I. V., S. P. Hennelly, and K. Y. Sanbonmatsu. 2012. “Structural Architecture of the Human Long Non-Coding RNA, Steroid Receptor RNA Activator.” Nucleic Acids Research 40 (11): 5034-5051. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks071.
2011
Novikova, I. V., B. H. Hassan, M. G. Mirzoyan, and N. B. Leontis. 2011. “Engineering Cooperative tecto-RNA Complexes Having Programmable Stoichiometries.” Nucleic Acids Research 39 (7): 2903-2917. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkq1231.
2008
Afonin, K. A., E. O. Danilov, I. V. Novikova, and N. B. Leontis. 2008. “TokenRNA: A New Type of Sequence-Specific, Label-Free Fluorescent Biosensor for Folded RNA Molecules.” ChemBioChem 9 (12): 1902-1905. doi.org/10.1002/cbic.200800183.