Ruth Levitz, PhD

Instructor
Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

ruth.levitz@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolTel Aviv University,Tel Aviv,Isreal (1987)
Graduate SchoolHebrew University - Israel (1975)
UndergraduateHebrew University - Israel (1973)

Research Interests

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Signal Transduction

Publications

Featured
HIV-1 integrase blocks bacterial infection by single-stranded DNA and RNA bacteriophages

Levitz, R., K. Drlica and E. Murphy , Mol. Gen. Genet , 1994; (243):417-425

Featured
Expression of functional ribozyme in bacteria

Levitz, R., J-Y Wang, M. Sioud, K. Drlica , Methods: A Companion to Methods in Enzymology; edited by J. Rossi , 1993; (5):29-35

Introduction to the AfCS Antibody Database: Tabulation of Our Experience with Commercially Available Antibodies.

Han H, Fulin B, Sorrells L, Levitz R, Sinkovits R, and Mumby S. , AfCS Research Reports , 2003; (1(7); doi: 10):1038

Cytotoxic hammerhead ribozymes.

Levitz, R., Jeng, S.-W., Chen, C.-R., Wang, J. W., and K. Drlica , Antisense & Nuc. Acid Drug Dev. , 1999; (9):117-123

Degradation of Hammerhead ribozymes by human ribonucleases.

Qiu. L, Moreira, A., Kaplan, G., Levitz, R., Wang, J.-Y., Xu, C., and K. Drlica , Mol. Gen. Genet , 1998; (258,):352-362