Olga Anatolyevna Dontsova (born January 7, 1959) is a Russian biochemist and an academician at the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. Her research interests includes: structure and functions of

RNA Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. RNA and deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA) are nucleic acids. Along with lipids, proteins, and carbohydra ...

-containing cellular machines, functional properties and mechanisms of regulation of

Telomerase Telomerase, also called terminal transferase, is a ribonucleoprotein that adds a species-dependent telomere repeat sequence to the 3' end of telomeres. A telomere is a region of repetitive sequences at each end of the chromosomes of most euka ...

Ribonucleoprotein particle A ribonucleoprotein particle or RNP is vessicle complex formed between RNA and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). The term RNP foci can also be used to denote intracellular compartments involved in processing of RNA transcripts. RNA/RBP complexes R ...

(RNP) complexes and non-coding

Education and work

In 1991 she defended her Ph.D. from the Chemistry Department of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

and in 1997 her doctoral dissertation ''development of chemical methods for studying the structure and function of complex ribonucleoprotein systems'' was published. Since 1999 she is the professor of Bio-organic chemistry, Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds at Faculty of Chemistry,

. She is the member of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Board.

Selected bibliography

Articles

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Books

Patents

*Telomerase inhibiting composition (2017) *Method for the determination of modified RNA nucleotides (2014) *Telomerase inhibitors and a method for the preparation thereof (2011)

External links

Profile of Olga Anatolyevna Dontsova
on the official website of the

RAS Ras or RAS may refer to: Arts and media * RAS Records Real Authentic Sound, a reggae record label * Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol, a south Tyrolese public broadcasting service * Rás 1, an Icelandic radio station * Rás 2, an Icelandic radio stati ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dontsova, Olga Living people 1959 births Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Moscow State University Russian biochemists Russian women scientists Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences