Publications
(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) 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
(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
(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) 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
(2016) Crystal Structure and Biochemical Characterization of a Mycobacterium smegmatis AAA-Type Nucleoside Triphosphatase Phosphohydrolase (Msm0858). J Bacteriol. 198, 1521-33
(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
(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
(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