Center for RNA Biology Publications

Publications by Joseph Krzycki since 2000

• Wen-Tai Li, Anirban Mahapatra, David G Longstaff, Jonathan Bechtel, Gang Zhao, Patrick T Kang, Michael K Chan, and Joseph A Krzycki
  "Specificity of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase for pyrrolysine and pyrrolysine analogs."
  J. Mol. Biol. 385, 1156-64 (2009).

• Tsuneo Ferguson, Jitesh A Soares, Tanja Lienard, Gerhard Gottschalk, and Joseph A Krzycki
  "RamA, a Protein Required for Reductive Activation of Corrinoid-dependent Methylamine Methyltransferase Reactions in Methanogenic Archaea."
  J. Biol. Chem. 284, 2285-95 (2009).

• Marianne M Lee, Ruisheng Jiang, Rinku Jain, Ross C Larue, Joseph Krzycki, and Michael K Chan
  "Structure of Desulfitobacterium hafniense PylSc, a pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase."
  Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 374, 470-4 (2008).

• Weimin Gong, Bing Hao, Zhiyi Wei, Donald J Ferguson, Thomas Tallant, Joseph A Krzycki, and Michael K Chan
  "Structure of the alpha2epsilon2 Ni-dependent CO dehydrogenase component of the Methanosarcina barkeri acetyl-CoA decarbonylase/synthase complex."
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105, 9558-63 (2008).

• Anirban Mahapatra, Gayathri Srinivasan, Kerstin B Richter, Andrew Meyer, Tanja Lienard, Jun Kai Zhang, Gang Zhao, Patrick T Kang, Michael Chan, Gerhard Gottschalk, William W Metcalf, and Joseph A Krzycki
  "Class I and class II lysyl-tRNA synthetase mutants and the genetic encoding of pyrrolysine in Methanosarcina spp."
  Mol. Microbiol. 64, 1306-18 (2007).

• David G Longstaff, Ross C Larue, Joseph E Faust, Anirban Mahapatra, Liwen Zhang, Kari B Green-Church, and Joseph A Krzycki
  "A natural genetic code expansion cassette enables transmissible biosynthesis and genetic encoding of pyrrolysine."
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 1021-6 (2007).

• David Gordon Longstaff, Sherry Kathleen Blight, Liwen Zhang, Kari B Green-Church, and Joseph Adrian Krzycki
  "In vivo contextual requirements for UAG translation as pyrrolysine."
  Mol. Microbiol. 63, 229-41 (2007).

• Anirban Mahapatra, Asmita Patel, Jitesh A Soares, Ross C Larue, Jun Kai Zhang, William W Metcalf, and Joseph A Krzycki
  "Characterization of a Methanosarcina acetivorans mutant unable to translate UAG as pyrrolysine."
  Mol. Microbiol. 59, 56-66 (2006).

• Joseph A Krzycki
  "The direct genetic encoding of pyrrolysine."
  Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 8, 706-12 (2005).

• Jitesh A Soares, Liwen Zhang, Rhonda L Pitsch, Nanette M Kleinholz, R Benjamin Jones, Jeremy J Wolff, Jon Amster, Kari B Green-Church, and Joseph A Krzycki
  "The residue mass of L-pyrrolysine in three distinct methylamine methyltransferases."
  J. Biol. Chem. 280, 36962-9 (2005).

• Joseph A Krzycki
  "Function of genetically encoded pyrrolysine in corrinoid-dependent methylamine methyltransferases."
  Current opinion in chemical biology 8, 484-91 (2004).

• Sherry K Blight, Ross C Larue, Anirban Mahapatra, David G Longstaff, Edward Chang, Gang Zhao, Patrick T Kang, Kari B Green-Church, Michael K Chan, and Joseph A Krzycki
  "Direct charging of tRNACUA with pyrrolysine in vitro and in vivo."
  Nature 431, 333-5 (2004).

• Bing Hao, Gang Zhao, Patrick T Kang, Jitesh A Soares, Tsuneo K Ferguson, Judith Gallucci, Joseph A Krzycki, and Michael K Chan
  "Reactivity and chemical synthesis of L-pyrrolysine- the 22nd genetically encoded amino acid."
  Chem. Biol. 11, 1317-24 (2004).

• Gayathri Srinivasan, Carey M James, and Joseph A Krzycki
  "Pyrrolysine encoded by UAG in Archaea charging of a UAG-decoding specialized tRNA."
  Science 296, 1459-62 (2002).

• Bing Hao, Weimin Gong, Tsuneo K Ferguson, Carey M James, Joseph A Krzycki, and Michael K Chan
  "A new UAG-encoded residue in the structure of a methanogen methyltransferase."
  Science 296, 1462-6 (2002).

• James E Galagan, Chad Nusbaum, Alice Roy, Matthew G Endrizzi, Pendexter Macdonald, Will FitzHugh, Sarah Calvo, Reinhard Engels, Serge Smirnov, Deven Atnoor, Adam Brown, Nicole Allen, Jerome Naylor, Nicole Stange-Thomann, Kurt DeArellano, Robin Johnson, Lauren Linton, Paul McEwan, Kevin McKernan, Jessica Talamas, Andrea Tirrell, Wenjuan Ye, Andrew Zimmer, Robert D Barber, Isaac Cann, David E Graham, David A Grahame, Adam M Guss, Reiner Hedderich, Cheryl Ingram-Smith, H Craig Kuettner, Joseph A Krzycki, John A Leigh, Weixi Li, Jinfeng Liu, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, John N Reeve, Kerry Smith, Timothy A Springer, Lowell A Umayam, Owen White, Robert H White, Everly Conway de Macario, James G Ferry, Ken F Jarrell, Hua Jing, Alberto J L Macario, Ian Paulsen, Matthew Pritchett, Kevin R Sowers, Ronald V Swanson, Steven H Zinder, Eric Lander, William W Metcalf, and Bruce Birren
  "The genome of M. acetivorans reveals extensive metabolic and physiological diversity."
  Genome Res. 12, 532-42 (2002).

• C M James, T K Ferguson, J F Leykam, and J A Krzycki
  "The amber codon in the gene encoding the monomethylamine methyltransferase isolated from Methanosarcina barkeri is translated as a sense codon."
  J. Biol. Chem. 276, 34252-8 (2001).

• T C Tallant, L Paul, and J A Krzycki
  "The MtsA subunit of the methylthiolcoenzyme M methyltransferase of Methanosarcina barkeri catalyses both half-reactions of corrinoid-dependent dimethylsulfide coenzyme M methyl transfer."
  J. Biol. Chem. 276, 4485-93 (2001).

• D J Ferguson, N Gorlatova, D A Grahame, and J A Krzycki
  "Reconstitution of dimethylaminecoenzyme M methyl transfer with a discrete corrinoid protein and two methyltransferases purified from Methanosarcina barkeri."
  J. Biol. Chem. 275, 29053-60 (2000).

• L Paul, D J Ferguson, and J A Krzycki
  "The trimethylamine methyltransferase gene and multiple dimethylamine methyltransferase genes of Methanosarcina barkeri contain in-frame and read-through amber codons."
  J. Bacteriol. 182, 2520-9 (2000).