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
(2022) Structures of Fission Yeast Inositol Pyrophosphate Kinase Asp1 in Ligand-Free, Substrate-Bound, and Product-Bound States. mBio. 10.1128/mbio.03087-22
(2022) Structures of RNA ligase RtcB in complexes with divalent cations and GTP. RNA. 10.1261/rna.079327.122
(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
(2021) Structure of 3'-PO/5'-OH RNA ligase RtcB in complex with a 5'-OH oligonucleotide. RNA. 10.1261/rna.078692.121
(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
(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
(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
(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
(2019) Structure of tRNA splicing enzyme Tpt1 illuminates the mechanism of RNA 2'-PO recognition and ADP-ribosylation. Nat Commun. 10, 218
(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
(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
(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
(2018) Structure and two-metal mechanism of fungal tRNA ligase. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gky1275
(2017) Structural basis for the GTP specificity of the RNA kinase domain of fungal tRNA ligase. Nucleic Acids Res. 10.1093/nar/gkx1159
(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
(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
(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
(2015) Genetic and structural analysis of the essential fission yeast RNA polymerase II CTD phosphatase Fcp1. RNA. 21, 1135-46
(2015) Structure and two-metal mechanism of a eukaryal nick-sealing RNA ligase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112, 13868-73
(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