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Andy Berglund - Additional Publications

1) Lietzke, S.E., Barnes, C.L., Berglund, J.A., Kundrot, C.E. 1996. The structure of an RNA dodecamer shows how tandem U-U base pairs increase the range of stable RNA structures and the diversity of recognition sites. Structure 4, 917-930.

2) Berglund, J.A., Charpentier, B., Rosbash, M. 1997. A high affinity binding site for the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein. Nucleic Acids Research 25, 1042-1049.

3) Berglund, J.A., Chua, K., Abovich, N., Reed, R., Rosbash, M. 1997. The splicing factor BBP interacts specifically with the pre-mRNA branchpoint sequence UACUAAC. Cell 89, 789-787.

4) Berglund, J.A., Abovich, N., Rosbash, M. 1998. A cooperative interaction between U2AF65 and mBBP/SF1 facilitates branchpoint region recognition. Genes & Dev. 12, 858-867.

5) Berglund, J.A., Fleming, M.L., Rosbash, M. 1998. The KH domain of the branchpoint sequence binding protein determines specificity for the pre-Mrna branchpoint sequence. RNA 4, 998-1006.

6) Berglund, J.A., Rosbash, M., Schultz, S.C. 2001. Crystal structure of a model branchpoint – U2 snRNA duplex containing bulged adenosines RNA 7, 682-691.

7) Peled-Zehavi, H., Berglund, J.A., Rosbash, M. Frankel, A.D. 2001. Recognition of RNA branchpoint sequences by SF1/mBBP in a splicing factor complex MCB 21(15), 5232-41.

8) Galagan JE, Calvo SE, Borkovich KA, Selker EU, Read ND, Jaffe D, FitzHugh W, Ma LJ, Smirnov S, Purcell S, Rehman B, Elkins T, Engels R, Wang S, Nielsen CB, Butler J, Endrizzi M, Qui D, Ianakiev P, Bell-Pedersen D, Nelson MA, Werner-Washburne M, Selitrennikoff CP, Kinsey JA, Braun EL, Zelter A, Schulte U, Kothe GO, Jedd G, Mewes W, Staben C, Marcotte E, Greenberg D, Roy A, Foley K, Naylor J, Stange-Thomann N, Barrett R, Gnerre S, Kamal M, Kamvysselis M, Mauceli E, Bielke C, Rudd S, Frishman D, Krystofova S, Rasmussen C, Metzenberg RL, Perkins DD, Kroken S, Cogoni C, Macino G, Catcheside D, Li W, Pratt RJ, Osmani SA, DeSouza CP, Glass L, Orbach MJ, Berglund JA, Voelker R, Yarden O, Plamann M, Seiler S, Dunlap J, Radford A, Aramayo R, Natvig DO, Alex LA, Mannhaupt G, Ebbole DJ, Freitag M, Paulsen I, Sachs MS, Lander ES, Nusbaum C, Birren B. 2003. The Genome Sequence of the Filamentous Fungus Neurospora crassa Nature 422 859-868.

9) Berglund, J.A. (2003). Expanding the Structural Repertoire of G-Quadruplexes. Structure 11: 1315-1316.

10) Henscheid, K.L., Shin, D.S., Cary, C.S., Berglund, J.A. 2005. The splicing factor U2AF65 is functionally conserved in the thermotolerant deep-sea worm Alvinella pompejana. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1727: 197-207.

11) Mooers, B.H.M., Logue, J.S., Berglund, J.A. 2005. The structural basis of myotonic dystrophy from the crystal structure of CUG repeats. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(46):16626-31.

12) Cass, D., Berglund J.A. 2006. The SF3b155 N-terminal Domain is a scaffold important for splicing. Biochemistry 45 (33); 10092-10101.

13) Garrey S. M., Voelker R., Berglund, J.A. 2006. An extended RNA binding site for the yeast branchpoint binding protein and the role of its Zn knuckle domains in RNA binding. J Biol Chem. 281(37): 27443-53.

14) Voelker, R., Berglund, J.A. 2007. A Comprehensive Computational Characterization of Conserved Mammalian Intronic Sequences Reveals Conserved Motifs Associated with Constitutive and Alternative Splicing. Genome Research Jul;17(7):1023-33.

15) Warf, M.B., Berglund, J.A. 2007. MBNL binds similar RNA structures in the CUG repeats of myotonic dystrophy and its intronic pre-mRNA target in cardiac troponin T. RNA Dec;13(12):2238-51.

16) Garrey, S.M., Cass, D.M., Wandler, A. M., Berglund, J.A. 2007. Transposition of two amino acids changes a promiscuous RNA binding protein into a sequence specific RNA binding protein. RNA Nov 13; [Epub ahead of print].

17) Henscheid, K.L., Voelker, R., Berglund, J.A. 2007. Alternative modes of RNA binding by U2AF65 at the polypyrimidine tract. Biochemistry Web Release Date: 08-Dec-2007; (Article) DOI: 10.1021/bi701240t