Publications
(2012) Computational design of self-assembling protein nanomaterials with atomic level accuracy. Science. 336, 1171-4
(2012) The crystal structure of the Rv0301-Rv0300 VapBC-3 toxin-antitoxin complex from M. tuberculosis reveals a Mg²⁺ ion in the active site and a putative RNA-binding site.. Protein Sci. 21, 1754-67
(2012) Multiple forms of Spire-actin complexes and their functional consequences. J Biol Chem. 287, 10684-10692
(2012) Out-of-register β-sheets suggest a pathway to toxic amyloid aggregates.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109, 20913-8
(2012) Ribonuclease A suggests how proteins self-chaperone against amyloid fiber formation. Protein Sci. 21, 26-37
(2013) Heterologous expression of mycobacterial Esx complexes in Escherichia coli for structural studies is facilitated by the use of maltose binding protein fusions. PLoS One. 8, e81753
(2013) Structure and flexibility of nanoscale protein cages designed by symmetric self-assembly. J Am Chem Soc. 135, 7738-43
(2013) Uncovering the enzymes that catalyze the final steps in oxytetracycline biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc. 135, 7138-41
(2014) Aggregation-triggering segments of SOD1 fibril formation support a common pathway for familial and sporadic ALS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, 197-201
(2014) Alanine scanning mutagenesis identifies an asparagine-arginine-lysine triad essential to assembly of the shell of the Pdu microcompartment. J Mol Biol. 426, 2328-45
(2014) Factors that drive peptide assembly from native to amyloid structures: experimental and theoretical analysis of [leu-5]-enkephalin mutants. J Phys Chem B. 118, 7247-56
(2014) Formation of amyloid fibers by monomeric light chain variable domains. J Biol Chem. 289, 27513-25
(2014) Identification of a unique Fe-S cluster binding site in a glycyl-radical type microcompartment shell protein. J Mol Biol. 426, 3287-304
(2014) Novel mechanism of hemin capture by Hbp2, the hemoglobin-binding hemophore from Listeria monocytogenes. J Biol Chem. 289, 34886-99
(2014) Protein crystal structure obtained at 2.9 Å resolution from injecting bacterial cells into an X-ray free-electron laser beam.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, 12769-74
(2014) (Quasi-)racemic X-ray structures of glycosylated and non-glycosylated forms of the chemokine Ser-CCL1 prepared by total chemical synthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 53, 5194-8
(2014) The role of distant mutations and allosteric regulation on LovD active site dynamics. Nat Chem Biol. 10, 431-6
(2014) Structural and computational studies of the Staphylococcus aureus sortase B-substrate complex reveal a substrate-stabilized oxyanion hole. J Biol Chem. 289, 8891-902
(2014) Structure of the methanofuran/methanopterin-biosynthetic enzyme MJ1099 from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 70, 1472-9
(2014) The structured core domain of αB-crystallin can prevent amyloid fibrillation and associated toxicity.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, E1562-70
(2015) Biochemical and Structural Basis for Controlling Chemical Modularity in Fungal Polyketide Biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc. 137, 9885-93
(2015) Inhibition by small-molecule ligands of formation of amyloid fibrils of an immunoglobulin light chain variable domain. Elife. 4, e10935
(2015) Selective molecular transport through the protein shell of a bacterial microcompartment organelle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112, 2990-5