Center for RNA Biology Publications

Publications by Kurt Fredrick since 2000

• Fernando Garza-Sánchez, Shinichiro Shoji, Kurt Fredrick, and Christopher S Hayes
  "RNase II is important for A-site mRNA cleavage during ribosome pausing."
  Mol. Microbiol. 73, 882-97 (2009).

• Shinichiro Shoji, Nimo M Abdi, Ralf Bundschuh, and Kurt Fredrick
  "Contribution of ribosomal residues to P-site tRNA binding."
  Nucleic Acids Res. 37, 4033-42 (2009).

• Jiqiang Ling, Byung Ran So, Srujana S Yadavalli, Hervé Roy, Shinichiro Shoji, Kurt Fredrick, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Michael Ibba
  "Resampling and editing of mischarged tRNA prior to translation elongation."
  Mol. Cell 33, 654-60 (2009).

• Daoming Qin and Kurt Fredrick
  "Control of translation initiation involves a factor-induced rearrangement of helix 44 of 16S ribosomal RNA."
  Mol. Microbiol. 71, 1239-49 (2009).

• Aishwarya Devaraj, Shinichiro Shoji, Eric D Holbrook, and Kurt Fredrick
  "A role for the 30S subunit E site in maintenance of the translational reading frame."
  RNA 15, 255-65 (2009).

• Kurt Fredrick and Michael Ibba
  "Protein synthesis Errors rectified in retrospect."
  Nature 457, 157-8 (2009).

• Maria A Borovinskaya, Shinichiro Shoji, Kurt Fredrick, and Jamie H D Cate
  "Structural basis for hygromycin B inhibition of protein biosynthesis."
  RNA 14, 1590-9 (2008).

• Sarah E Walker, Shinichiro Shoji, Dongli Pan, Barry S Cooperman, and Kurt Fredrick
  "Role of hybrid tRNA-binding states in ribosomal translocation."
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105, 9192-7 (2008).

• Sarah E Walker and Kurt Fredrick
  "Preparation and evaluation of acylated tRNAs."
  Methods 44, 81-6 (2008).

• Daoming Qin, Nimo M Abdi, and Kurt Fredrick
  "Characterization of 16S rRNA mutations that decrease the fidelity of translation initiation."
  RNA 13, 2348-55 (2007).

• Jiqiang Ling, Hervé Roy, Daoming Qin, Mary Anne T Rubio, Juan D Alfonzo, Kurt Fredrick, and Michael Ibba
  "Pathogenic mechanism of a human mitochondrial tRNAPhe mutation associated with myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers syndrome."
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 15299-304 (2007).

• Maria A Borovinskaya, Shinichiro Shoji, James M Holton, Kurt Fredrick, and Jamie H D Cate
  "A steric block in translation caused by the antibiotic spectinomycin."
  ACS Chem. Biol. 2, 545-52 (2007).

• Shinichiro Shoji, Sarah E Walker, and Kurt Fredrick
  "Reverse translocation of tRNA in the ribosome."
  Mol. Cell 24, 931-42 (2006).

• Uyen Tram, Kurt Fredrick, John H Werren, and William Sullivan
  "Paternal chromosome segregation during the first mitotic division determines Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility phenotype."
  J. Cell. Sci. 119, 3655-63 (2006).

• Sarah E Walker and Kurt Fredrick
  "Recognition and positioning of mRNA in the ribosome by tRNAs with expanded anticodons."
  J. Mol. Biol. 360, 599-609 (2006).

• Kevin G McGarry, Sarah E Walker, Huanyu Wang, and Kurt Fredrick
  "Destabilization of the P site codon-anticodon helix results from movement of tRNA into the P/E hybrid state within the ribosome."
  Mol. Cell 20, 613-22 (2005).

• Aymen Yassin, Kurt Fredrick, and Alexander S Mankin
  "Deleterious mutations in small subunit ribosomal RNA identify functional sites and potential targets for antibiotics."
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 16620-5 (2005).

• Nimo M Abdi and Kurt Fredrick
  "Contribution of 16S rRNA nucleotides forming the 30S subunit A and P sites to translation in Escherichia coli."
  RNA 11, 1624-32 (2005).

• Harry F Noller, Lee Hoang, and Kurt Fredrick
  "The 30S ribosomal P site: a function of 16S rRNA."
  FEBS Lett. 579, 855-8 (2005).

• Lee Hoang, Kurt Fredrick, and Harry F Noller
  "Creating ribosomes with an all-RNA 30S subunit P site."
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101, 12439-43 (2004).

• Kurt Fredrick and Harry F Noller
  "Catalysis of ribosomal translocation by sparsomycin."
  Science 300, 1159-62 (2003).

• Kurt Fredrick and Harry F Noller
  "Accurate translocation of mRNA by the ribosome requires a peptidyl group or its analog on the tRNA moving into the 30S P site."
  Mol. Cell 9, 1125-31 (2002).

• H F Noller, M M Yusupov, G Z Yusupova, A Baucom, K Lieberman, L Lancaster, A Dallas, K Fredrick, T N Earnest, and J H Cate
  "Structure of the ribosome at 5.5 A resolution and its interactions with functional ligands."
  Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol. 66, 57-66 (2001).

• K Fredrick, G M Dunny, and H F Noller
  "Tagging ribosomal protein S7 allows rapid identification of mutants defective in assembly and function of 30 S subunits."
  J. Mol. Biol. 298, 379-94 (2000).