Highlights & Publications
- Shen R, Sarker AH, Chen Y, Liu M, Roy S, Arvai AS, Bacolla A, Ahmed Z, Katsonis P, Hammel M, Kuraoka I, Tsai MS, Irie C, Webb L, Lichtarge O, Tsai CL, Tsutakawa SE, Schlacher K, Tainer JA. “EEPD1 evolved a unique DNA clamping dimer protecting reversed replication forks.” Nucleic acids research 2026 Feb 24 ;54(5)link
- Banna HA, Das NK, Kalinina M, Lu G, Usman M, Koirala D. “Structures of the eIF4G-binding RNA domains among picornaviral IRES types are topologically conserved.” Nature communications 2026 Feb 14 link
- Sverzhinsky A, Xue H, Langelier MF, Muniz Corrêa MV, Del Mundo J, Classen S, Hammel M, Rothenberg E, Pascal JM. “PARP1-HPF1 structure and dynamics on nicked DNA suggest a mechanism for acute and localized ADP-ribosylation.” Nature communications 2026 Feb 16 link
- McBride AC, Yu F, Cheng EH, Mpouli A, Soe AC, Hammel M, Montelione GT, Oas TG, Tsutakawa SE, Donald BR. “Predicting Pose Distribution of Protein Domains Connected by Flexible Linkers Is an Unsolved Problem.” Proteins 2026 Jan ;94(1):362-380 link
- Garcia V, D’Souza A, Kozlyuk N, Perera YR, Damo SM, Chazin WJ. “Design and characterization of calprotectin tetramerization variants for probing the role of oligomerization in receptor activation.” Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 2026 Jan ;35(1):e70399 link