In 2008, research expenditures for the RNA Center totaled over $8 million, resulting in 76 publications. Over the past three years, members of the Center for RNA Biology have published in the most prestigious scientific journals including the following 7 publications:
Angela M Yu, Paul M Gasper, Luyi Cheng, Lien B Lai, Simi Kaur, Venkat Gopalan, Alan A Chen, and Julius B Lucks
"Computationally reconstructing cotranscriptional RNA folding from experimental data reveals rearrangement of non-native folding intermediates."
Mol Cell 81, 870-883.e10 (2021).Jian Wu, Cuiji Zhou, James Li, Chun Li, Xiaorong Tao, Neocles B Leontis, Craig L Zirbel, David M Bisaro, and Biao Ding
"Corrigendum: Functional analysis reveals G/U pairs critical for replication and trafficking of an infectious non-coding viroid RNA."
Nucleic Acids Res 49, 596-598 (2021).Vikash Jha, Bappaditya Roy, Dushyant Jahagirdar, Zakkary A McNutt, Elan A Shatoff, Bethany L Boleratz, Dean E Watkins, Ralf Bundschuh, Kaustuv Basu, Joaquin Ortega, and Kurt Fredrick
"Structural basis of sequestration of the anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence in the Bacteroidetes ribosome."
Nucleic Acids Res 49, 547-567 (2021).Zhongxia Yi, Manu Sanjeev, and Guramrit Singh
"The Branched Nature of the Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay Pathway."
Trends Genet 37, 143-159 (2021).Lien B Lai, Hong-Duc Phan, Walter J Zahurancik, and Venkat Gopalan
"Alternative Protein Topology-Mediated Evolution of a Catalytic Ribonucleoprotein."
Trends Biochem Sci 45, 825-828 (2020).Michael Shaffer, Mikayla A Borton, Bridget B McGivern, Ahmed A Zayed, Sabina Leanti La Rosa, Lindsey M Solden, Pengfei Liu, Adrienne B Narrowe, Josué Rodríguez-Ramos, Benjamin Bolduc, M Consuelo Gazitúa, Rebecca A Daly, Garrett J Smith, Dean R Vik, Phil B Pope, Matthew B Sullivan, Simon Roux, and Kelly C Wrighton
"DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function."
Nucleic Acids Res 48, 8883-8900 (2020).Regina T Nostramo and Anita K Hopper
"A novel assay provides insight into tRNAPhe retrograde nuclear import and re-export in S. cerevisiae."
Nucleic Acids Res 48, 11577-11588 (2020).