Publications
(2025) Crystal Structure, Modeling, and Identification of Key Residues Provide Insights into the Mechanism of the Key Toxoflavin Biosynthesis Protein ToxD. Biochemistry. 10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00421
(2020) Structural Basis of the Substrate Selectivity of Viperin. Biochemistry. 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00741
(2019) The Crystal Structure of Dph2 in Complex with Elongation Factor 2 Reveals the Structural Basis for the First Step of Diphthamide Biosynthesis. Biochemistry. 58, 4343-4351
(2019) NE-CAT: Crystallography Beamlines for Challenging Structural Biology Research. 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, July 20-24, 2019
(2018) Organometallic and radical intermediates reveal mechanism of diphthamide biosynthesis. Science. 359, 1247-1250
(2017) Biochemical Characterization and Structural Basis of Reactivity and Regioselectivity Differences between Burkholderia thailandensis and Burkholderia glumae 1,6-Didesmethyltoxoflavin N-Methyltransferase. Biochemistry. 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00476
(2017) Structural studies of viperin, an antiviral radical SAM enzyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 10.1073/pnas.1705402114
(2016) Biochemical and structural characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniae oxamate amidohydrolase in the uric acid degradation pathway. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 72, 808-16
(2016) Burkholderia glumae ToxA Is a Dual-Specificity Methyltransferase That Catalyzes the Last Two Steps of Toxoflavin Biosynthesis. Biochemistry. 55, 2748-59
(2016) Crystal Structures of the Iron-Sulfur Cluster-Dependent Quinolinate Synthase in Complex with Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate, Iminoaspartate Analogues, and Quinolinate. Biochemistry. 55, 4135-9
(2016) From Suicide Enzyme to Catalyst: The Iron-Dependent Sulfide Transfer in Methanococcus jannaschii Thiamin Thiazole Biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc. 138, 3639-42
(2016) Polyketide Ring Expansion Mediated by a Thioesterase, Chain Elongation and Cyclization Domain, in Azinomycin Biosynthesis: Characterization of AziB and AziG. Biochemistry. 55, 704-14
(2016) Structural Basis for Iron-Mediated Sulfur Transfer in Archael and Yeast Thiazole Synthases. Biochemistry. 55, 1826-38
(2015) Non-canonical active site architecture of the radical SAM thiamin pyrimidine synthase. Nat Commun. 6, 6480
(2014) Co-opting sulphur-carrier proteins from primary metabolic pathways for 2-thiosugar biosynthesis. Nature. 510, 427-31
(2014) Ethenoguanines undergo glycosylation by nucleoside 2'-deoxyribosyltransferases at non-natural sites. PLoS One. 9, e115082
(2013) Active-site models for complexes of quinolinate synthase with substrates and intermediates. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 69, 1685-96
(2013) Reversal of the substrate specificity of CMP N-glycosidase to dCMP. Biochemistry. 52, 4037-47
(2013) Structural and mechanistic studies of HpxO, a novel flavin adenine dinucleotide-dependent urate oxidase from Klebsiella pneumoniae. Biochemistry. 52, 477-87
(2013) Structure of a Clostridium botulinum C143S thiaminase I/thiamin complex reveals active site architecture . Biochemistry. 52, 7830-9
(2012) Pseudouridine monophosphate glycosidase: a new glycosidase mechanism. Biochemistry. 51, 9245-55
(2012) Structural basis of the substrate specificity of Bacillus cereus adenosine phosphorylase. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 68, 239-48
(2012) Thiamin pyrimidine biosynthesis in Candida albicans : a remarkable reaction between histidine and pyridoxal phosphate. J Am Chem Soc. 134, 9157-9
(2011) Binding and inhibition of human spermidine synthase by decarboxylated S-adenosylhomocysteine. Protein Sci. 20, 1836-44

