Publications
(2014) Alanine scanning mutagenesis identifies an asparagine-arginine-lysine triad essential to assembly of the shell of the Pdu microcompartment. J Mol Biol. 426, 2328-45
(2014) Factors that drive peptide assembly from native to amyloid structures: experimental and theoretical analysis of [leu-5]-enkephalin mutants. J Phys Chem B. 118, 7247-56
(2014) Formation of amyloid fibers by monomeric light chain variable domains. J Biol Chem. 289, 27513-25
(2014) Identification of a unique Fe-S cluster binding site in a glycyl-radical type microcompartment shell protein. J Mol Biol. 426, 3287-304
(2014) Novel mechanism of hemin capture by Hbp2, the hemoglobin-binding hemophore from Listeria monocytogenes. J Biol Chem. 289, 34886-99
(2014) Protein crystal structure obtained at 2.9 Å resolution from injecting bacterial cells into an X-ray free-electron laser beam.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, 12769-74
(2014) (Quasi-)racemic X-ray structures of glycosylated and non-glycosylated forms of the chemokine Ser-CCL1 prepared by total chemical synthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 53, 5194-8
(2014) The role of distant mutations and allosteric regulation on LovD active site dynamics. Nat Chem Biol. 10, 431-6
(2014) Structural and computational studies of the Staphylococcus aureus sortase B-substrate complex reveal a substrate-stabilized oxyanion hole. J Biol Chem. 289, 8891-902
(2014) Structure of the methanofuran/methanopterin-biosynthetic enzyme MJ1099 from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 70, 1472-9
(2014) The structured core domain of αB-crystallin can prevent amyloid fibrillation and associated toxicity.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, E1562-70
(2013) Heterologous expression of mycobacterial Esx complexes in Escherichia coli for structural studies is facilitated by the use of maltose binding protein fusions. PLoS One. 8, e81753
(2013) Structure and flexibility of nanoscale protein cages designed by symmetric self-assembly. J Am Chem Soc. 135, 7738-43
(2013) Uncovering the enzymes that catalyze the final steps in oxytetracycline biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc. 135, 7138-41
(2012) Computational design of self-assembling protein nanomaterials with atomic level accuracy. Science. 336, 1171-4
(2012) The crystal structure of the Rv0301-Rv0300 VapBC-3 toxin-antitoxin complex from M. tuberculosis reveals a Mg²⁺ ion in the active site and a putative RNA-binding site.. Protein Sci. 21, 1754-67
(2012) Out-of-register β-sheets suggest a pathway to toxic amyloid aggregates.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109, 20913-8
(2012) Ribonuclease A suggests how proteins self-chaperone against amyloid fiber formation. Protein Sci. 21, 26-37
(2011) An approach to crystallizing proteins by metal-mediated synthetic symmetrization. Protein Sci. 20, 1876-90
(2011) Characteristics of amyloid-related oligomers revealed by crystal structures of macrocyclic β-sheet mimics.. J Am Chem Soc. 133, 6736-44
(2011) Crystal structure of lactose permease in complex with an affinity inactivator yields unique insight into sugar recognition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108, 9361-6
(2011) Crystal structure of the central coiled-coil domain from human liprin-β2.. Biochemistry. 50, 3807-15