Publications & Acknowledgements
Our services have greatly benefitted the local research community leading to numerous publications.
The most recent are listed below with names of PETC staff members in bold.
Authors on:
Bobik TA, Morales EJ, Shin A, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Arbing M, Yeates TO, Rasche, M. 2014.
Structure
of
the
methanofuran/methanopterin
biosynthetic
enzyme
MJ1099
from
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. Acta Cryst. F70: 1472-1479.
Satagopan S, Chan S, Perry LJ, Tabita FR. 2014. Structure-function studies with the unique
hexameric
form
II
ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate
carboxylase/oxygenase
(Rubisco)
from Rhodopseudomonas palustris. J Biol Chem. 289: 21433-50.
Arbing MA, Chan S, Harris L, Kuo E, Zhou TT, Ahn CJ, Nguyen L, He Q, Lu J,Menchavez PT, Shin
A, Holton T, Sawaya MR, Cascio D, Eisenberg D. 2013. Heterologous xxpression of mycobacterial
Esx complexes in Escherichia coli for structural studies is facilitated by the use of maltose binding
protein fusions. PLoS One. 8: e81753.
Miallau L, Jain P, Arbing MA, Cascio D, Phan T, Ahn CJ, Chan S, Chernishof I, Maxson M, Chiang
J, Jacobs WR Jr, Eisenberg DS. 2013. Comparative proteomics identifies the cell-associated lethality
of M. tuberculosis RelBE-like toxin-antitoxin complexes. Structure. 21: 627-37.
Arbing MA, Chan S, Shin A, Phan T, Ahn CJ, Rohlin L, Gunsalus RP. 2012. Structure of the
surface layer of the methanogenic archaean Methanosarcina acetivorans. Proc Natl Acad Sci
USA. 109: 11812-7.
Urzica EI, Adler LN, Page MD, Linster CL, Arbing MA, Casero D, Pellegrini M, Merchant SS, Clarke
SG. 2012. Impact of oxidative stress on ascorbate biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas via regulation of
the VTC2 gene encoding a GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase. J Biol Chem. 287:14234-45.
Arbing MA, Kaufmann M, Phan T, Chan S, Cascio D, Eisenberg D. 2010. The crystal structure of
the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv3019c-Rv3020c ESX complex reveals a domain-swapped
heterotetramer. Protein Sci. 19: 1692-703.
Chan S, Giuroiu I, Chernishof I, Sawaya MR, Chiang J, Gunsalus RP, Arbing MA, Perry LJ. 2010.
Apo and ligand-bound structures of ModA from the archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans. Acta
Cryst. F66: 242-50.
Miallau L, Faller M, Chiang J, Arbing M, Guo F, Cascio D, Eisenberg D. 2009. Structure and
proposed activity of a member of the VapBC family of toxin-antitoxin systems. VapBC-5
from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Biol Chem. 284: 276-83.
Tabita FR, Hanson TE, Li H, Satagopan S, Singh J, Chan S. 2007. Function, structure, and evolution
of the RubisCO-like proteins and their RubisCO homologs. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 71: 576-99.
Choi B, Zocchi G, Canale S, Wu Y, Chan S, Perry LJ. 2005. Artificial allosteric control of maltose
binding protein. Phys Rev Lett. 94: 038103.
Acknowledged in:
Fristedt R, Williams-Carrier R, Merchant SS, Barkan A. 2014. A Thylakoid Membrane Protein
Harboring a DnaJ-type Zinc Finger Domain is Required for Photosystem I Accumulation in Plants. J
Biol Chem. In press.
Hsieh SI, Castruita M, Malasarn D, Urzica E, Erde J, Page MD, Yamasaki H, Casero D, Pellegrini M,
Merchant SS, Loo JA. 2013. The proteome of copper, iron, zinc, and manganese micronutrient
deficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Mol Cell Proteomics. 12: 65-86.
Min AB, Miallau L, Sawaya MR, Habel J, Cascio D, Eisenberg D. 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: 1754–1767.
Teng PK, Anderson NJ, Goldschmidt L, Sawaya MR, Sambashivan S, Eisenberg D. 2012.
Ribonuclease A suggests how proteins self-chaperone against amyloid fiber formation. Protein
Sci. 21: 26–37.
Besserer GM, Nicoll DA, Abramson J, Philipson KD. 2012. Characterization and purification of a
Na+/Ca2+ exchanger from an archaebacterium. J Biol Chem. 287: 8652-9.
Wang A, Zocchi G. 2011. Artificial modulation of the gating behavior of a K+ channel in a KvAP-DNA
chimera. PLoS One.6: e18598.
Chim N, Habel JE, Johnston JM, Krieger I, Miallau L, Sankaranarayanan R, Morse RP, Bruning J,
Swanson S, Kim H, Kim CY, Li H, Bulloch EM, Payne RJ, Manos-Turvey A, Hung LW, Baker EN, Lott
JS, James MN, Terwilliger TC, Eisenberg DS, Sacchettini JC, Goulding CW. 2011. The TB Structural
Genomics Consortium: a decade of progress. Tuberculosis (Edinb).91: 155-72.
Laganowsky A, Benesch JLP, Landau M, Ding L, Sawaya MR, Cascio D, Huang Q, Robinson CV,
Horwitz J, Eisenberg D. 2010. Crystal structures of truncated alphaA and alphaB crystallins reveal
structural mechanisms of polydispersity important for eye lens function. Protein Sci. 19: 1031–1043.
Li PP, Itoh N, Watanabe M, Shi Y, Liu P, Yang HJ, Kasamatsu H. 2009. Association of simian virus
40 vp1 with 70-kilodalton heat shock proteins and viral tumor antigens. J Virol. 83: 37-46.