Publications
(2019) Activity and structure of MPE, a manganese-dependent single-strand DNA endonuclease encoded in a nucleic acid repair gene cluster. J Biol Chem. 10.1074/jbc.RA119.008049
(2019) Atomic structures of the RNA end-healing 5'-OH kinase and 2',3'-cyclic phosphodiesterase domains of fungal tRNA ligase: conformational switches in the kinase upon binding of the GTP phosphate donor. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gkz1049
(2020) Caveat mutator: alanine substitutions for conserved amino acids in RNA ligase elicit unexpected rearrangements of the active site for lysine adenylylation. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gkaa238
(2016) Crystal Structure and Biochemical Characterization of a Mycobacterium smegmatis AAA-Type Nucleoside Triphosphatase Phosphohydrolase (Msm0858). J Bacteriol. 198, 1521-33
(2018) Crystal structure and mutational analysis of Mycobacterium smegmatis FenA highlight active site amino acids and three metal ions essential for flap endonuclease and 5' exonuclease activities. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gky238
(2014) Crystal structure, mutational analysis and RNA-dependent ATPase activity of the yeast DEAD-box pre-mRNA splicing factor Prp28. Nucleic Acids Res. 42, 12885-98
(2018) Distinctive structural basis for DNA recognition by the fission yeast Zn2Cys6 transcription factor Pho7 and its role in phosphate homeostasis. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gky827
(2015) DNA3'pp5'G de-capping activity of aprataxin: effect of cap nucleoside analogs and structural basis for guanosine recognition. Nucleic Acids Res. 43, 6075-83
(2022) Fission yeast Duf89 and Duf8901 are cobalt/nickel-dependent phosphatase-pyrophosphatases that act via a covalent aspartyl-phosphate intermediate. J Biol Chem. 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101851
(2015) Genetic and structural analysis of the essential fission yeast RNA polymerase II CTD phosphatase Fcp1. RNA. 21, 1135-46
(2021) Genetic screen for suppression of transcriptional interference identifies a gain-of-function mutation in Pol2 termination factor Seb1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 10.1073/pnas.2108105118
(2014) How an mRNA capping enzyme reads distinct RNA polymerase II and Spt5 CTD phosphorylation codes. Genes Dev. 28, 1323-36
(2007) Last stop on the road to repair: structure of E. coli DNA ligase bound to nicked DNA-adenylate. Mol Cell. 26, 257-71
(2020) Mycobacterial DNA polymerase I: activities and crystal structures of the POL domain as apoenzyme and in complex with a DNA primer-template and of the full-length FEN/EXO-POL enzyme. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gkaa075
(2006) RNA ligase structures reveal the basis for RNA specificity and conformational changes that drive ligation forward. Cell. 127, 71-84
(2007) Structural basis for nick recognition by a minimal pluripotent DNA ligase. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 14, 770-8
(2017) Structural basis for the GTP specificity of the RNA kinase domain of fungal tRNA ligase. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gkx1159
(2023) Structural basis for Tpt1-catalyzed 2'-PO transfer from RNA and NADP(H) to NAD. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120, e2312999120
(2011) Structural insights to how mammalian capping enzyme reads the CTD code. Mol Cell. 43, 299-310
(2015) Structure and two-metal mechanism of a eukaryal nick-sealing RNA ligase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112, 13868-73
(2018) Structure and two-metal mechanism of fungal tRNA ligase. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gky1275
(2021) Structure of 3'-PO/5'-OH RNA ligase RtcB in complex with a 5'-OH oligonucleotide. RNA. 10.1261/rna.078692.121
(2010) Structure of a CRISPR-associated protein Cas2 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 66, 1552-6