Boris Kantor, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD, Cellular Biochemistry and Human

Genetics, The Hebrew University,

Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem

kantor_b@hotmail.com

Research Interests: Research and production of

lentiviral vectors

Publications:

• Kantor B, Makedonski K, Finberg Y,Shemer R, Razin A. 2004. Control elements within the PWS/AS imprinting box and their function in the imprinting process. Human Mol. Genetics, 13(7):751-62.
  
  
  
• Kantor B, Makedonski K, Shemer R, Razin A. 2003. Expression and localization of components of the histone deacethylases multiprotein repressory complexes in the mouse preimplantation embryo. Gene Expression Patterns, 3(6):697-702.
  
  
  
• Finberg Y, Kantor B, Hershko A, Razin A. 2003. Characterization of the human Snrpn minimal promoter and cis elements within it. Gene, 304:201-206.
  
  
  
• Temkin V, Kantor B, Malamud V, Hartman M, Levi-Schaffer F. 2002. Tryptase activates the mitogen-activated protein kinase/activator protein-1 pathway in human peripheral blood eosinophils, causing cytokine production and release. Journal of Immunology, 169(5):2662-69.
  
  
  
• Hershko A, Finberg Y, Kantor B, Shemer R, Razin A. 2001. The mouse Snrpn minimal promoter and its human orthologue: activity and imprinting. Genes to Cells, 6(11):967-75.
  
  
  
• Kantor B, and Razin A. 2001. DNA Methylation, Histone Deacethylase Repressory Complexes and Development. Gene Func. Dis, 2:69-75.