Publications
(2017) Two-metal versus one-metal mechanisms of lysine adenylylation by ATP-dependent and NAD(+)-dependent polynucleotide ligases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 114, 2592-2597
(2016) Transcription of lncRNA prt, clustered prt RNA sites for Mmi1 binding, and RNA polymerase II CTD phospho-sites govern the repression of pho1 gene expression under phosphate-replete conditions in fission yeast. RNA. 22, 1011-25
(2025) Structures of RNA phosphotransferase Tpt1 reveal distinct binding modes for an RNA 2'-PO splice junction versus a 5'-PO mononucleotide. RNA. 31, 916-922
(2022) Structures of RNA ligase RtcB in complexes with divalent cations and GTP. RNA. 10.1261/rna.079327.122
(2022) Structures of Fission Yeast Inositol Pyrophosphate Kinase Asp1 in Ligand-Free, Substrate-Bound, and Product-Bound States. mBio. 10.1128/mbio.03087-22
(2019) Structures of ATP-bound DNA ligase D in a closed domain conformation reveal a network of amino acid and metal contacts to the ATP phosphates. J Biol Chem. 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007445
(2013) Structure-function analysis of STING activation by c[G(2',5')pA(3',5')p] and targeting by antiviral DMXAA. Cell. 154, 748-62
(2019) Structure of tRNA splicing enzyme Tpt1 illuminates the mechanism of RNA 2'-PO recognition and ADP-ribosylation. Nat Commun. 10, 218
(2017) Structure of mycobacterial 3'-to-5' RNA:DNA helicase Lhr bound to a ssDNA tracking strand highlights distinctive features of a novel family of bacterial helicases. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gkx1163
(2019) Structure of fission yeast transcription factor Pho7 bound to promoter DNA and effect of Pho7 mutations on DNA binding and phosphate homeostasis. Mol Cell Biol. 10.1128/MCB.00132-19
(2010) Structure of a CRISPR-associated protein Cas2 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 66, 1552-6
(2021) Structure of 3'-PO/5'-OH RNA ligase RtcB in complex with a 5'-OH oligonucleotide. RNA. 10.1261/rna.078692.121
(2018) Structure and two-metal mechanism of fungal tRNA ligase. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gky1275
(2015) Structure and two-metal mechanism of a eukaryal nick-sealing RNA ligase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112, 13868-73
(2024) Structure and psoralen DNA crosslink repair activity of mycobacterial Nei2. mBio. 15, e0124824
(2011) Structural insights to how mammalian capping enzyme reads the CTD code. Mol Cell. 43, 299-310
(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
(2017) Structural basis for the GTP specificity of the RNA kinase domain of fungal tRNA ligase. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gkx1159
(2007) Structural basis for nick recognition by a minimal pluripotent DNA ligase. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 14, 770-8
(2006) RNA ligase structures reveal the basis for RNA specificity and conformational changes that drive ligation forward. Cell. 127, 71-84
(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
(2007) Last stop on the road to repair: structure of E. coli DNA ligase bound to nicked DNA-adenylate. Mol Cell. 26, 257-71
(2025) In vivo nucleotide excision repair by mycobacterial UvrD1 requires ATP hydrolysis but does not depend on cysteine disulfide-mediated dimerization and DNA unwinding. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gkaf269
(2014) How an mRNA capping enzyme reads distinct RNA polymerase II and Spt5 CTD phosphorylation codes. Genes Dev. 28, 1323-36