Staff Publications

Xu, K., Wu, Z., Renier, N., Antipenko, A., Tzvetkova-Robev, D., Xu, Y., Minchenko, M., Nardi-Dei, V., Rajashankar, K. R., Himanen, J., Tessier-Lavigne, M., and Nikolov, D. B. (2014) Neural migration. Structures of netrin-1 bound to two receptors provide insight into its axon guidance mechanism. Science. 344, 1275-9
Xu, S., Hermanson, D. J., Banerjee, S., Ghebreselasie, K., Clayton, G. M., R Garavito, M., and Marnett, L. J. (2014) Oxicams bind in a novel mode to the cyclooxygenase active site via a two-water-mediated H-bonding Network. J Biol Chem. 289, 6799-808
Xu, Y., Tao, Y., Cheung, L. S., Fan, C., Chen, L. - Q., Xu, S., Perry, K., Frommer, W. B., and Feng, L. (2014) Structures of bacterial homologues of SWEET transporters in two distinct conformations. Nature. 515, 448-52
Yang, G., Fu, Y., Malakhova, M., Kurinov, I., Zhu, F., Yao, K., Li, H., Chen, H., Li, W., Lim, D. Young, Sheng, Y., Bode, A. M., Dong, Z., and Dong, Z. (2014) Caffeic acid directly targets ERK1/2 to attenuate solar UV-induced skin carcinogenesis. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 7, 1056-66
Zeqiraj, E., Tang, X., Hunter, R. W., García-Rocha, M., Judd, A., Deak, M., von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, A., Kurinov, I., Guinovart, J. J., Tyers, M., Sakamoto, K., and Sicheri, F. (2014) Structural basis for the recruitment of glycogen synthase by glycogenin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, E2831-40
Su, C. - C., Radhakrishnan, A., Kumar, N., Long, F., Bolla, J. Reddy, Lei, H. - T., Delmar, J. A., Do, S. V., Chou, T. - H., Rajashankar, K. R., Zhang, Q., and Yu, E. W. (2014) Crystal structure of the Campylobacter jejuni CmeC outer membrane channel. Protein Sci. 23, 954-61
Strunk, R. J., Piemonte, K. M., Petersen, N. M., Koutsioulis, D., Bouriotis, V., Perry, K., and Cole, K. E. (2014) Structure determination of BA0150, a putative polysaccharide deacetylase from Bacillus anthracis. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 70, 156-9
Sciara, G., Clarke, O. B., Tomasek, D., Kloss, B., Tabuso, S., Byfield, R., Cohn, R., Banerjee, S., Rajashankar, K. R., Slavkovic, V., Graziano, J. H., Shapiro, L., and Mancia, F. (2014) Structural basis for catalysis in a CDP-alcohol phosphotransferase. Nat Commun. 5, 4068
Radhakrishnan, A., Kumar, N., Wright, C. C., Chou, T. - H., Tringides, M. L., Bolla, J. Reddy, Lei, H. - T., Rajashankar, K. R., Su, C. - C., Purdy, G. E., and Yu, E. W. (2014) Crystal structure of the transcriptional regulator Rv0678 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Biol Chem. 289, 16526-40
Ren, A., Košutić, M., Rajashankar, K. R., Frener, M., Santner, T., Westhof, E., Micura, R., and Patel, D. J. (2014) In-line alignment and Mg²⁺ coordination at the cleavage site of the env22 twister ribozyme.. Nat Commun. 5, 5534
Robart, A. R., Chan, R. T., Peters, J. K., Rajashankar, K. R., and Toor, N. (2014) Crystal structure of a eukaryotic group II intron lariat. Nature. 514, 193-7
Sanches, M., Duffy, N. M., Talukdar, M., Thevakumaran, N., Chiovitti, D., Canny, M. D., Lee, K., Kurinov, I., Uehling, D., Al-awar, R., Poda, G., Prakesch, M., Wilson, B., Tam, V., Schweitzer, C., Toro, A., Lucas, J. L., Vuga, D., Lehmann, L., Durocher, D., Zeng, Q., Patterson, J. B., and Sicheri, F. (2014) Structure and mechanism of action of the hydroxy-aryl-aldehyde class of IRE1 endoribonuclease inhibitors. Nat Commun. 5, 4202
Poor, C. B., Wegner, S. V., Li, H., Dlouhy, A. C., Schuermann, J. P., Sanishvili, R., Hinshaw, J. R., Riggs-Gelasco, P. J., Outten, C. E., and He, C. (2014) Molecular mechanism and structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae iron regulator Aft2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, 4043-8
Luo, Z., Rajashankar, K., and Dauter, Z. (2014) Weak data do not make a free lunch, only a cheap meal. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 70, 253-60
Montemayor, E. J., Katolik, A., Clark, N. E., Taylor, A. B., Schuermann, J. P., D Combs, J., Johnsson, R., Holloway, S. P., Stevens, S. W., Damha, M. J., and P Hart, J. (2014) Structural basis of lariat RNA recognition by the intron debranching enzyme Dbr1. Nucleic Acids Res. 42, 10845-55
Neau, D. B., Bender, G., Boeglin, W. E., Bartlett, S. G., Brash, A. R., and Newcomer, M. E. (2014) Crystal structure of a lipoxygenase in complex with substrate: the arachidonic acid-binding site of 8R-lipoxygenase. J Biol Chem. 289, 31905-13
Lei, H. - T., Chou, T. - H., Su, C. - C., Bolla, J. Reddy, Kumar, N., Radhakrishnan, A., Long, F., Delmar, J. A., Do, S. V., Rajashankar, K. R., Shafer, W. M., and Yu, E. W. (2014) Crystal structure of the open state of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrE outer membrane channel. PLoS One. 9, e97475
Lee, K., Lam, K. - H., Kruel, A. Magdalena, Perry, K., Rummel, A., and Jin, R. (2014) High-resolution crystal structure of HA33 of botulinum neurotoxin type B progenitor toxin complex. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 446, 568-73
Lee, K., Zhong, X., Gu, S., Kruel, A. Magdalena, Dorner, M. B., Perry, K., Rummel, A., Dong, M., and Jin, R. (2014) Molecular basis for disruption of E-cadherin adhesion by botulinum neurotoxin A complex. Science. 344, 1405-10
Kobe, M. J., Neau, D. B., Mitchell, C. E., Bartlett, S. G., and Newcomer, M. E. (2014) The structure of human 15-lipoxygenase-2 with a substrate mimic. J Biol Chem. 289, 8562-9
Kumar, N., Radhakrishnan, A., Wright, C. C., Chou, T. - H., Lei, H. - T., Bolla, J. Reddy, Tringides, M. L., Rajashankar, K. R., Su, C. - C., Purdy, G. E., and Yu, E. W. (2014) Crystal structure of the transcriptional regulator Rv1219c of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Protein Sci. 23, 423-32
Jain, R., Rajashankar, K. R., Buku, A., Johnson, R. E., Prakash, L., Prakash, S., and Aggarwal, A. K. (2014) Crystal structure of yeast DNA polymerase ε catalytic domain.. PLoS One. 9, e94835
Huang, H., Zeqiraj, E., Dong, B., Jha, B. Kant, Duffy, N. M., Orlicky, S., Thevakumaran, N., Talukdar, M., Pillon, M. C., Ceccarelli, D. F., Wan, L. C. K., Juang, Y. - C., Mao, D. Y. L., Gaughan, C., Brinton, M. A., Perelygin, A. A., Kourinov, I., Guarné, A., Silverman, R. H., and Sicheri, F. (2014) Dimeric structure of pseudokinase RNase L bound to 2-5A reveals a basis for interferon-induced antiviral activity. Mol Cell. 53, 221-34
Huo, Y., Nam, K. Hyun, Ding, F., Lee, H., Wu, L., Xiao, Y., M Farchione, D., Zhou, S., Rajashankar, K., Kurinov, I., Zhang, R., and Ke, A. (2014) Structures of CRISPR Cas3 offer mechanistic insights into Cascade-activated DNA unwinding and degradation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 21, 771-7
Demirci, H., Murphy, F. V., Murphy, E. L., Connetti, J. L., Dahlberg, A. E., Jogl, G., and Gregory, S. T. (2014) Structural analysis of base substitutions in Thermus thermophilus 16S rRNA conferring streptomycin resistance. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 58, 4308-17
Dow, B. A., Sukumar, N., Matos, J. O., Choi, M., Schulte, A., Tatulian, S. A., and Davidson, V. L. (2014) The sole tryptophan of amicyanin enhances its thermal stability but does not influence the electronic properties of the type 1 copper site. Arch Biochem Biophys. 550-551, 20-7
Bolla, J. Reddy, Su, C. - C., Do, S. V., Radhakrishnan, A., Kumar, N., Long, F., Chou, T. - H., Delmar, J. A., Lei, H. - T., Rajashankar, K. R., Shafer, W. M., and Yu, E. W. (2014) Crystal structure of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrD inner membrane multidrug efflux pump. PLoS One. 9, e97903
Brown, N. G., Watson, E. R., Weissmann, F., Jarvis, M. A., VanderLinden, R., Grace, C. R. R., Frye, J. J., Qiao, R., Dube, P., Petzold, G., Cho, S. Ei, Alsharif, O., Bao, J., Davidson, I. F., Zheng, J. J., Nourse, A., Kurinov, I., Peters, J. - M., Stark, H., and Schulman, B. A. (2014) Mechanism of polyubiquitination by human anaphase-promoting complex: RING repurposing for ubiquitin chain assembly. Mol Cell. 56, 246-260
Cavalier, M. C., Pierce, A. D., Wilder, P. T., Alasady, M. J., Hartman, K. G., Neau, D. B., Foley, T. L., Jadhav, A., Maloney, D. J., Simeonov, A., Toth, E. A., and Weber, D. J. (2014) Covalent small molecule inhibitors of Ca(2+)-bound S100B. Biochemistry. 53, 6628-40
Althoff, T., Hibbs, R. E., Banerjee, S., and Gouaux, E. (2014) X-ray structures of GluCl in apo states reveal a gating mechanism of Cys-loop receptors. Nature. 512, 333-7
Ayres, C. A., Schormann, N., Senkovich, O., Fry, A., Banerjee, S., Ulett, G. C., and Chattopadhyay, D. (2014) Structure of Streptococcus agalactiae glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase holoenzyme reveals a novel surface. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 70, 1333-9
Bhattacharya, S., Lou, X., Hwang, P., Rajashankar, K. R., Wang, X., Gustafsson, J. - Å., Fletterick, R. J., Jacobson, R. H., and Webb, P. (2014) Structural and functional insight into TAF1-TAF7, a subcomplex of transcription factor II D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, 9103-8
Xu, K., Xu, Y., Rajashankar, K. R., Robev, D., and Nikolov, D. B. (2013) Crystal structures of Lgr4 and its complex with R-spondin1. Structure. 21, 1683-9
Yu, X., Seegar, T. C. M., Dalton, A. C., Tzvetkova-Robev, D., Goldgur, Y., Rajashankar, K. R., Nikolov, D. B., and Barton, W. A. (2013) Structural basis for angiopoietin-1-mediated signaling initiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110, 7205-10
Wan, L. C. K., Mao, D. Y. L., Neculai, D., Strecker, J., Chiovitti, D., Kurinov, I., Poda, G., Thevakumaran, N., Yuan, F., Szilard, R. K., Lissina, E., Nislow, C., Caudy, A. A., Durocher, D., and Sicheri, F. (2013) Reconstitution and characterization of eukaryotic N6-threonylcarbamoylation of tRNA using a minimal enzyme system. Nucleic Acids Res. 41, 6332-46

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