1. Inna V. Kalaidzidis, Ilya N. Belevich, and Andrey D. Kaulen. Photovoltage evidence that Glu-204 is the intermediate proton donor rather than the terminal proton release group in bacteriorhodopsin. // FEBS Letters, (1998), 434, p. 197-200. [abstract] [link]

2. Inna V. Kalaidzidis, Ilya N. Belevich, Yannis L. Kalaidzidis, and Andrey D. Kaulen. Membrane potential stabilizes the O intermediate in liposomes containing bacteriorhodopsin. // FEBS Letters, (1999) 459, p.143-147. [abstract] [link]

3. Dmitry Bloch, Ilya Belevich, Audrius Jasaitis, Camilla Ribacka, Anne Puustinen, Michael I. Verkhovsky, and Mårten Wikström. The catalytic cycle of cytochrome c oxidase is not the sum of its two halves. // Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, (2004) Vol.101, No.2, p. 529-533. [abstract] [link]

4. Ilya Belevich, Vitaliy B. Borisov, Jie Zhang, Ke Yang, Alexander A. Konstantinov, Robert B. Gennis, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Time-resolved electrometric and optical studies on cytochrome bd suggest a mechanism of electron-proton coupling in the di-heme active site. // Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, (2005) Vol.102, p.3657-3662. [abstract] [link]

5. Ilya Belevich, Vitaliy B. Borisov, Alexander A. Konstantinov, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Oxygenated complex of cytochrome bd from Escherichia coli: Stability and photolability. // FEBS Letters, (2005) 579, p. 4567-4570. [abstract] [link]

6. Camilla Ribacka, Michael I. Verkhovsky, Ilya Belevich, Dmitry A. Bloch, Anne Puustinen, and Mårten Wikström. An elementary reaction step of the proton pump is revealed by mutation of tryptophan 164 to phenylalanine in cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans. // Biochemistry, (2005) Vol. 44, p. 16502-16512. [abstract] [link]

7. Ilya Belevich, Anne Tuukkanen, Mårten Wikström, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Proton coupled electron equilibrium in soluble and membrane bound cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans // Biochemistry, (2006) Vol. 45, p. 4000-4006. [abstract] [link]

8. Ilya Belevich, Michael I. Verkhovsky, and Mårten Wikström. Proton-coupled electron transfer drives the proton pump of cytochrome c oxidase. // Nature, (2006) Vol. 440, p. 829-832. [abstract] [link]

9. Michael I. Verkhovsky, Ilya Belevich, Dmitry A. Bloch, and Mårten Wikström. Elementary steps of proton translocation in the catalytic cycle of cytochrome oxidase. // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, (2006) Vol. 1757, p. 401-407. [abstract] [link]

10. Ilya Belevich, Dmitry A. Bloch, Nikolai Belevich, Mårten Wikström, and Michael I.Verkhovsky. Exploring the proton pump mechanism of cytochrome c oxidase in real time. // Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, (2007) Vol. 104, No. 8, p. 2685-2690. [abstract] [link]

11. Ilya Belevich, Vitaliy B. Borisov, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Discovery of the true peroxy intermediate in the catalytic cycle of terminal oxidases by the real-time measurement. // J. Biol. Chem., (2007) Vol. 282, No. 39, p. 28514-28519. [abstract] [link]

12. Ilya Belevich, Vitaliy B. Borisov, Dmitry A. Bloch, Alexander A. Konstantinov, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Cytochrome bd from Azotobacter vinelandii: evidence for high-affinity oxygen binding. // Biochemistry, (2007), Vol. 46, p. 11177-11184. [abstract] [link]

13. Sergey A. Siletsky, Ilya Belevich, Audrius Jasaitis, Alexander A. Konstantinov, Mårten Wikström, Tewfik Soulimane, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Time-resolved single-turnover of ba₃ oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, (2007), Vol. 1767, p. 1383-1392. [abstract] [link]

14. Ilya Belevich, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Molecular mechanism of proton translocation by cytochrome c oxidase. // Antioxid. Redox. Sign., (2008), Vol. 10, p. 1-29. [abstract] [link]

15. Vitaliy B. Borisov, Ilya Belevich, Dmitry A. Bloch, Tatsushi Mogi, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Glutamate 107 in subunit I of cytochrome bd from Escherichia coli is part of a transmembrane intraprotein pathway conducting protons from cytoplasm to the heme b₅₉₅/heme d active site. // Biochemistry, (2008) 47, 7907-7914. [abstract] [link]

16. Elena A. Gorbikova, Ilya Belevich, Mårten Wikström, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. The proton donor for O-O bond scission by cytochrome c oxidase. // Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2008) 105, 10733-10737. [abstract] [link].

17. Sergey A. Siletsky, Ilya Belevich, Mårten Wikström, Tewfik Soulimane, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Time-resolved O_H->E_H transition of the aberrant ba₃ oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. // Biochim Biophys Acta (2009) 1787, 201-205. [abstract] [link].

18. Ilya Belevich, Elena Gorbikova, Nikolai P. Belevich, Virve Rauhamäki, Mårten Wikström, and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Initiation of the proton pump of cytochrome c oxidase. // Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2010) 107, 18469-18474. [abstract] [link].

19. Sergey A. Siletsky, Ilya Belevich, Nikolai P. Belevich, Tewfik Soulimane and Michael I. Verkhovsky. Time-resolved single-turnover of caa(3) oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. Fifth electron of the fully reduced enzyme converts O(H) into E(H) state. // Biochim Biophys Acta (2011) 1807(9):1162-9. [abstract] [link].

20. Marko Rintanen, Ilya Belevich, Michael I. Verkhovsky. Electrogenic events upon photolysis of CO from fully reduced cytochrome c oxidase. // Biochim Biophys Acta (2012) 1817(2):269-275. [abstract] [link].

21. Maija Puhka, Merja Joensuu, Helena Vihinen, Ilya Belevich, and Eija Jokitalo. Progressive sheet-to-tubule transformation is a general mechanism for endoplasmic reticulum partitioning in dividing mammalian cells. // Mol. Biol. Cell (2012) vol. 23 no. 13 2424-2432. [abstract] [link].

22. Sergey A. Siletsky, Ilya Belevich, Tewfik Soulimane, Michael I. Verkhovsky and Mårten Wikström. The fifth electron in the fully reduced caa(3) from Thermus thermophilus is competent in proton pumping. // Biochim Biophys Acta (2012) 1827(1):1-9. [abstract] [link].

23. Tommi Anttonen, Anna Kirjavainen, Ilya Belevich, Maarja Laos, William D. Richardson, Eija Jokitalo, Cord Brakebusch and Ulla Pirvola. Cdc42-dependent structural development of auditory supporting cells is required for wound healing at adulthood. // Scientific Reports (2012) 2:978 doi: 10.1038/srep00978. Epub 2012 Dec 17. [abstract] [link].

24. Helena Vihinen, Ilya Belevich and Eija Jokitalo. Three dimensional electron microscopy of cellular organelles by serial block face SEM and ET. // Microscopy and Analysis (2013), 27(2), 7-10 (EU), March 2013. [abstract] [link] [pdf]

25. Merja Joensuu, Ilya Belevich, Olli Rämö, Ilya Nevzorov, Helena Vihinen, Maija Puhka, Tomasz M. Witkos, Martin Lowe, Maria K. Vartiainen, and Eija Jokitalo. ER sheet persistence is coupled to myosin 1c-regulated dynamic actin filament arrays. // Mol. Biol. Cell (2014), 25(7), 1111-1126, April 2014. [abstract] [link].

26. Jan Dettmer, Robertas Ursache, Ana Campilho, Shunsuke Miyashima, Ilya Belevich, Seana O'Regan, Daniel Leroy Mullendore, Shri Ram Yadav, Christa Lanz, Luca Beverina, Antonio Papagni, Korbinian Schneeberger, Detlef Weigel, York-Dieter Stierhof, Thomas Moritz, Michael Knoblauch, Eija Jokitalo and Ykä Helariutta. CHOLINE TRANSPORTER-LIKE1 is required for sieve plate development to mediate long-distance cell-to-cell communication. // Nat. Commun. (2014), 5(4276), Jul 10, doi: 10.1038/ncomms5276. [abstract] [link].

27. Tommi Anttonen, Ilya Belevich, Anna Kirjavainen, Maarja Laos, Cord Brakebusch, Eija Jokitalo, Ulla Pirvola. How to Bury the Dead: Elimination of Apoptotic Hair Cells from the Hearing Organ of the Mouse. // J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. (2014) Dec;15(6):975-92. doi: 10.1007/s10162-014-0480-x. Epub 2014 Jul 30. [abstract] [link].

28. Markus Majaneva, Iina Remonen, Janne-Markus Rintala, Ilya Belevich, Anke Kremp, Outi Setälä, Eija Jokitalo, Jaanika Blomster. Rhinomonas nottbecki n. sp. (Cryptomonadales) and Molecular Phylogeny of the Family Pyrenomonadaceae. // J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. (2014) Sep-Oct;61(5):480-92. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12128. Epub 2014 Jul 7. [abstract] [link].

29. Kaori Miyashima Furuta, Shri Ram Yadav, Satu Lehesranta, Ilya Belevich, Shunsuke Miyashima, Jung-ok Heo, Anne Vaten, Ove Lindgren, Bert De Rybel, Gert Van Isterdael, Panu Somervuo, Raffael Lichtenberger, Raquel Rocha, Siripong Thitamadee, Sari Tähtiharju, Petri Auvinen, Tom Beeckman, Eija Jokitalo, Ykä Helariutta. Arabidopsis NAC45/86 direct sieve element morphogenesis culminating in enucleation. // Science (2014) Vol. 345 no. 6199 pp. 933-937, 22 August 2014, DOI: 10.1126/science.1253736. [abstract] [link].

30. Ilya Belevich, Merja Joensuu, Darshan Kumar, Helena Vihinen, Eija Jokitalo Microscopy Image Browser: A Platform for Segmentation and Analysis of Multidimensional Datasets. // PLOS Biology (2016) 14(1):e1002340, 4 January 2016, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002340. [abstract] [link].

31. Olli Rämö, Darshan Kumar, Erika Gucciardo, Merja Joensuu, Maiju Saarekas, Helena Vihinen, Ilya Belevich, Olli-Pekka Smolander, Kui Qian, Petri Auvinen, Eija Jokitalo. NOGO-A/RTN4A and NOGO-B/RTN4B are simultaneously expressed in epithelial, fibroblast and neuronal cells and maintain ER morphology. // Scientific Reports (2016) 6:35969. doi: 10.1038/srep35969. [abstract] [link].

32. Veijo T. Salo, Ilya Belevich, Shiqian Li, Leena Karhinen, Helena Vihinen, Corinne Vigouroux, Jocelyne Magre, Christoph Thiele, Maarit Hölttä-Vuori, Eija Jokitalo, Elina Ikonen Seipin regulates ER–lipid droplet contacts and cargo delivery. // EMBO J (2016) 35(24):2699-2716. doi: 10.15252/embj.201695170. [abstract] [link].

33. Eva-Sophie Wallner, Vadir Lopez-Salmeron, Ilya Belevich, Gernot Poschet, Ilona Jung, Karin Grünwald, Iris Sevilem, Eija Jokitalo, Rüdiger Hell, Yrjö Helariutta, Javier Agusti, Ivan Lebovka, and Thomas Greb Strigolactone- and Karrikin-Independent SMXL Proteins Are Central Regulators of Phloem Formation. // Curr Biol. 2017 Apr 24;27(8):1241-1247. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.014. Epub 2017 Apr 6. [abstract] [link].

34. Sergey A. Siletsky, Ilya Belevich, Nikolai P. Belevich, Tewfik Soulimane, Mårten Wikström Time-resolved generation of membrane potential by ba3 cytochrome c oxidase from Thermus thermophilus coupled to single electron injection into the O and OH states. // Biochim Biophys Acta 2017 Nov;1858(11):915-926. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2017.08.007. Epub 2017 Aug 12. [abstract] [link].

35. Tommi Anttonen, Ilya Belevich, Maarja Laos, Anni Herranen, Eija Jokitalo, Cord Brakebusch, and Ulla Pirvola Cytoskeletal Stability in the Auditory Organ In Vivo: RhoA Is Dispensable for Wound Healing but Essential for Hair Cell Development // eNeuro 2017 Sep 18;4(5). pii: ENEURO.0149-17.2017. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0149-17.2017. eCollection 2017 Sep-Oct. [abstract] [link].

36. Satu Lehti,Su D. Nguyen, Ilya Belevich, Helena Vihinen, Hanna M. Heikkilä, Rabah Soliymani, Reijo Käkelä, Jani Saksi, Matti Jauhiainen, Gregory A. Grabowski, Outi Kummu, Sohvi Hörkkö, Marc Baumann, Perttu J. Lindsberg, Eija Jokitalo, Petri T. Kovanen, Katariina Öörni Extracellular Lipids Accumulate in Human Carotid Arteries as Distinct Three-Dimensional Structures and Have Proinflammatory Properties // Am J Pathol. 2018 Feb;188(2):525-538. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2017.09.019. Epub 2017 Nov 14. [abstract] [link].

37. Raimo A. Salo, Ilya Belevich, Eppu Manninen, Eija Jokitalo, Olli Gröhn, Alejandra Sierra Quantification of anisotropy and orientation in 3D electron microscopy and diffusion tensor imaging in injured rat brain // Neuroimage. 2018 Feb 2;172:404-414. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.01.087. [abstract] [link].

38. Danilova T, Belevich I, Li H, Palm E, Jokitalo E, Otonkoski T, Lindahl M. MANF Is Required for the Postnatal Expansion and Maintenance of Pancreatic β-Cell Mass in Mice. // Diabetes 2019 Jan;68(1):66-80. doi: 10.2337/db17-1149. Epub 2018 Oct 10. [abstract] [link].