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Demler, H.J., Case, H.B., Morales, Y., Johnson, S.J., Dickenson, N.E.* (2019). "Interfacial Amino Acids Support Spa47 Oligomerization and Shigella Type Three Secretion System Activation." Proteins (doi: 10.1002/prot.25754) PubMed

Moise, G., Morales, Y., Beaumont, V., Caradonna, T., Loria, J.P.*, Johnson, S.J.*, Hengge, A.C.* (2018). “A YopH PTP1B Chimera Shows the Importance of the WPD-Loop Sequence to the Activity, Structure, and Dynamics of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases.”
Biochemistry 57(36):5315-5326. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00663) PubMed
 
Morales, Y., Olsen, K.J., Bulcher, J.M., Johnson, S.J.* (2018). “Structure of Frequency-interacting RNA Helicase from Neurospora crassa reveals high flexibility in a domain critical for circadian rhythm and RNA surveillance.” PLoS ONE 13(5): e0196642. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196642) PubMed

Burgess J.L., Burgess R.A., Morales Y., Bouvang J.M., Johnson S.J., Dickenson N.E.* (2016). “Structural and Biochemical Characterization of Spa47 Provides Mechanistic Insight into Type III Secretion System ATPase Activation and Shigella Virulence Regulation.” Journal of Biological Chemistry 291(50):25837-25852. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.755256) PubMed

Moise, G., Gallup, N.M., Alexandrova, A.N., Hengge, A.C.*, and Johnson, S.J.* (2015). “Conservative Tryptophan Mutants of the Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase YopH Exhibit Impaired WPD-Loop Function and Crystallize with Divanadate Esters in Their Active Sites.” Biochemistry 54 (42): 6490-6500. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00496)  PubMed

Losh, J.S., King, A.K., Bakelar, J., Taylor, L., Loomis, J., Rosenzweig, J.A., Johnson, S.J., van Hoof, A.* (2015). “Interaction between the RNA-dependent ATPase and poly(A) polymerase subunits of the TRAMP complex is mediated by short peptides and important for snoRNA processing.” Nucleic Acids Research 43(3): 1848-1858. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv005)  PubMed

Taylor, L., Jackson, R.N., Rexhepaj, M., King, A.K., Lott, L.K., van Hoof, A., Johnson, S.J.* (2014). “The Mtr4 ratchet helix and arch domain both function to promote RNA unwinding.” Nucleic Acids Research 42(22):13861-72. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1208)  PubMed

Bakelar, J., Silwa, D. and Johnson, S.J.* (2013). “Crystal structures of S-HPCDH reveal determinants of stereospecificity for R- and S-hydroxypropyl-coenzyme M dehydrogenases.” Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 533 (1-2):62-68. (doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2013.02.017)  PubMed

Zeng, J., Lytle, A.K., Gage, D., Johnson, S.J. and Zhan, J.* (2013). “Specific chlorination of isoquinolines by a fungal flavin-dependent halogenase.” Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 23 (4):1001-1003. (doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.12.038)  PubMed

Johnson, S.J.* and Jackson, R.N. (2013). “Structures of Ski2-like RNA helicases: common themes and complex assemblies.” RNA Biology 10 (1):33-43. (doi: 10.4161/rna.22101)  PubMed

Kuznetsov, V.I., Hengge, A.C.* and Johnson, S.J.* (2012) “New aspects of the phosphatase VHZ revealed by a high-resolution structure with vanadate and substrate screening.” Biochemistry 51(49):9869-79. (doi: 10.1021/bi300908y)  PubMed

Schaeffer, D., Reis, F.P.,  Johnson, S.J., Arraiano, C.M. and van Hoof, A.* (2012). “The CR3 motif of Rrp44p is important for interaction with the core exosome and exosome function.” Nucleic Acids Research. 40 (18):9298-9307. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gks693)  PubMed

Brandão, T.A.S., Johnson, S.J.* and Hengge, A.C.* (2012).The molecular details of WPD-loop movement differ in the protein-tyrosine phosphatases YopH and PTP1B. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 525(1):53-59. (doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2012.06.002)  PubMed

Gui, L., Wooderchack, W., Porter, P., Daly, M., Johnson, S.J. and Hevel, J.M.* (2011). Investigation of the Molecular Origins of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase I (PRMT1) Product Specificity Reveals a Role for Two Conserved Methionine Residues. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(33):29118-29126. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.224097)  PubMed

Close, D., Johnson, S.J., Sadano, M., McDonald, S., Robinson, H. and Hill, C.P.* (2011). Crystal structures of the S. cerevisiae Spt6 core and C-terminal tandem SH2 domain. Journal of Molecular Biology. 408(4):697-713. (doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2011.03.002)
  PubMed 

 Hintze, B.J. and Johnson, S.J.* (2010). ResDe: A New Tool for Visual Definition of Distance Restraints for Crystallographic Refinement. The Journal of Applied Crystallography. 6, 1540-1542 (doi:10.1107/S0021889810038689)
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 Jackson, R.N., Klauer, A.A., Hintze, B.J., Robinson, H., van Hoof, A. and Johnson, S.J.* (2010). The crystal structure of Mtr4 reveals a novel arch domain required for rRNA processing. The EMBO Journal. 29, 2205-2216. (
doi:10.1038/emboj.2010.107) 
PubMed

Brandão, T.A.S., Hengge, A.C.* and Johnson, S.J.*  (2010) Insights into the reaction of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B. Crystal structures for transition-state analogs of both catalytic steps. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(21):15874-83. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M109.066951) 
PubMed

Brandão, T.A.S., Robinson, H., Johnson, S.J.* and Hengge, A.C.* (2009).  Impaired acid catalysis by mutation of a protein loop hinge residue in a YopH mutant revealed by crystal structures.  Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(2), 778-786. (doi:10.1021/ja807418b)
  PubMed

Johnson, S.J., Close, D., Robinson, H., Vallet-Gely, I., Dove, S.L, Hill, C.P.* (2008).  Crystal Structure and RNA binding of the Tex protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.  Journal of Molecular Biology. 377(5), 1460-1473. (doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2008.01.096)  
PubMed

Johnson, S.J., Beese, L.S.* (2004).  Structures of mismatch replication errors observed in a DNA polymerase.  Cell  116(6), 803-816. (doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(04)00252-1)  PubMed

Johnson, S.J., Taylor, J.S., Beese, L.S.* (2003).  Processive DNA synthesis observed in a polymerase crystal suggests a mechanism for the prevention of frameshift mutations.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100, 3895-3900. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0630532100)  PubMed


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