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Ribosomal RNA methylation by GidB modulates discrimination of mischarged tRNA

Bi Z*, Chen YX*, Young ID*, Dandan MT*, Joshi H, Su HW, Chen Y, Hong J, Fraser JS, Javid B

eLife, 2026
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Structural Plasticity and Ligand Promiscuity of CYP3A4 Revealed by Cryo-EM

Orta AK, Schäfer JH, Correy GJ, Norman JO, Pampel J, Huddleston KK, MacDermott-Opeskin H, Miller EB, Reggiano G, Rodrigues JPGLM, Lander GC, Walters WP, Fraser JS

Biorxiv, 2026
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Autism mutations rewire protein interaction networks to drive neurodevelopmental pathology

Wang B*, Vartak R*, Hennick KM*, Zaltsman Y*, Naing ZZC, Polacco BJ, Bashir A, Eckhardt M, Bouhaddou M, Xu J, Sun N, Lasser MC, Zhou Y, McKetney J, Guiley KZ, Gniewek P, Chan U, Amirani N, Griffiths O, Chadha N, Tognatta R, Cakir M, Gordon M, Khare P, Drake S, Drury V, Burke DF, Gonzalez S, Alkhairy S, Thomas R, Lam S, Morris M, Bader E, Dos Santos M, Komarova AV, Bennett M, Ennis C, Castillo O, Lim Y, Martin R, Seyler M, Baum T, Krasnoff R, Wang G, Middya S, Wang S, Pham P, Arbelaez J, Pratt D, Bali S, Chag S, Kaye JA, Mahmood N, Spraggon L, Rolland T, Hervey-Jumper S, Fraser JS, Bourgeron T, Finkbeiner S, Demeret C, Swaney DL, Bandyopadhyay S, Ideker T, Beltrao P, Willsey HR, Hüttenhain R, Obernier K, Nowakowski TJ, State MW, Willsey AJ, Krogan NJ

Science, 2026
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Humanizing acidic mammalian chitinase variants establish lung immune conditioning and control environmentally driven inflammation and fibrosis

Wang Y, Jung H, Kim DH, Liu E, Watza D, Risma SI, Florczak KL, Kim LM, Bou Reslan Z, Gupta A, Soni R, Díaz RE, Locksley RM, Fraser JS, Lee JS, Van Dyken SJ

Cell Reports, 2026
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Programming protein shape as an explicit design layer via CAD blueprint-guided diffusion

Qi Y, Zhang G, Yserentant K, Lee S, Lyubimov A, Ibrahim K, Cimicata G, Fraser JS, Huang B, Kortemme T

Biorxiv, 2026
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Structural adaptations for enhanced translation kinetics in evolved ribosomes

Raskar T*, Costello A*, Badran AH, Fraser JS

Nucleic Acids Research, 2026
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Sampleworks: A modular platform for experimentally guided biomolecular ensemble generation

Chrispens K, Collins M, Fraser JS, Mai D, van den Bedem H, Wankowicz SA

The Stacks, 2026
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Evaluating beta-tubulin variants as predictors of benzimidazole resistance across Caenorhabditis nematodes

Shaver AO*, McKeown R*, Reyes Otero JM, Collins JB, Hogan DW, Fraser JS, Dreyer S, Ragsdale EJ, Andersen EC

PLoS Pathogens, 2026
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Mapping the avoid-ome: a systematic open-science approach to predictive ADMET

Fraser JS, Edgar S, Handly LN, Kosuri S, Chodera JD, Murcko M, Walters WP

Nature Communications, 2026
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Coronavirus protein interaction mapping in bat and human cells reveals network rewiring governing immune evasion and zoonotic potential

Batra J, Rutkowska M, Zhou Y, Ye C, Adavikolanu R, Young JM, Anand D, Verma S, Parthasarathy H, Gordon M, Malpotra S, Cupic A, Kehrer T, Dos Santos M, Benjamin R, Moen JM, Winters DM, Caval V, Rojc A, Mena I, Aslam S, Martinez-Romero C, Conde Viñas I, Khalil Z, Farrugia K, Villalón-Letelier F, Banerjee A, Tussia-Cohen D, Diallo A, Maji S, Muralidharan M, Foussard H, Chen IP, Fuchs R, San Felipe CJ, Zuliani-Alvarez L, Choudhury P, Obernier K, Gracias S, Suryawanshi RK, Bonaventure B, Ibáñez C, Johnson JR, Juste J, Pache L, Stroud RM, Verba KA, Fraser JS, van Bakel H, Taha TY, Ott M, Hagai T, Jouvenet N, Demeret C, Polacco BJ, Swaney DL, Echeverria I, Bouhaddou M, Eckhardt M, Malik HS, Martinez-Sobrido L, Miorin L, García-Sastre A, Krogan NJ

Cell Host and Microbe, 2026
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Toward a Random Background for Ligand Optimization

Xu X*, Mailhot O*, Correy GJ*, Huang XP*, Braz J, Shi D, Srinivasan K, Zielinski K, Holota Y, Kuziv Y, Tsoutsouvas C, Levinzon N, Doruk YU, Rachman M, Diolaiti M, Stevens M, Liu F, Holland K, Hubner H, Wang J, Wu Y, Ashworth A, Makriyannis A, Zhang Y, Moroz Y, Gmeiner P, Abel R, Manglik A, Basbaum AI, Roth BL, Fraser JS, Shoichet BK

Biorxiv, 2026
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Structure-based design and synthesis of group A streptogramins that bind to the nascent peptide exit tunnel of the ribosome

Lee IJ*, Li Q*, Raskar T, Pellegrino J, Ecker AK, Howard SY, Fraser JS, Seiple IB

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2026
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Emergence of binding and catalysis from a designed generalist binding protein

Chen Y*, Bhattacharya S*, Bergmann L*, Correy GJ*, Tan SK, Hou K, Biel JT, Lu L, Bakanas I, Gestwicki JE, Volkov AN, Korendovych IV, Polizzi NF, Fraser JS, DeGrado WF

Nature Chemistry, 2026
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Inhibiting the interaction between the mitochondrial receptor Tom70 and SARS CoV 2 Orf9b with small molecules

San Felipe CJ, Verba KA, Krogan NJ, Grabe M, Fraser JS

Biorxiv, 2026
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A Computational Community Blind Challenge on Pan-Coronavirus Drug Discovery Data

MacDermott-Opeskin H, Scheen J, Wognum C, Horton JT, West D, Payne AM, Castellanos MA, Colby S, Griffen E, Cousins D, Stacey J, Reid L, Aschenbrenner JC, Fearon D, Balcomb B, Marples P, Tomlinson CWE, Lithgo R, Godoy AS, Winokan M, Barr H, Lahav N, Lavi M, Duberstein S, Cohen G, Fate G, Lefker B, Robinson R, Szommer T, Lynch N, Minh DDL, La VNT, Kang L, Huddleston K, Renslow R, Tollefson M, Walters WP, Xu C, Hsu J, St-Laurent J, Etsmoberg H, Zhu L, Quirke A, Abdul Haleem MI, Alibay I, Baid G, Birnbaum B, Bishop KP, Bohorquez H, Bose A, Brown CJ, Burns J, Cai L, Cedeno R, de Cesco S, Chupakhin V, Clark F, Cole DJ, Corbi-Verge C, Danial M, Davi A, Dehaen W, Doering NP, Dougha A, Dréanic MP, Eakin B, Ehrlich A, Elijosius R, Fülöp J, Gitter A, Goossens K, Gu Y, Head-Gordon T, Hoffer L, Hofmans J, Jiang E, Kaminow B, Khosravi S, Khoualdi AF, Lenselink EB, Liu Z, Liu Y, Liu S, Ma Y, Maher P, Mayer I, Mendez-Lucio O, Mey ASJS, Michel J, Montanari F, Niu T, Ogino R, Palaniappan A, Pan X, Patnaik A, Pham LH, Pinto L, Purnomo J, Rich A, Schaaf L, Schran C, Singh RK, Srilakshmi M, Srivastava SP, Sun K, Sun Z, Talagayev V, Thirukonda Subramanian Balakrishnan B, Titus I, Tkatchenko A, Treyde W, Tricarico G, Tripp A, Vithayapalert N, Wang Y, Wasi AT, Wedig S, Wolber G, Xu B, Zhou W, von Delft F, Lee A, Kirkegaard K, Sjö P, Fraser JS, Chodera JD

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2026
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Structural modification of oxazolidinone antibiotics alters nascent peptide stalling preference and peptide trajectory through the ribosome

Kleinman JI, Raskar T, Klepacki D, Szal T, Vazquez-Laslop N, Mankin AS, Fraser JS, Galonic Fujimori D

Biorxiv, 2026
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Blind Challenges Let Us See the Path Forward for Predictive Models

Chodera JD, Walters WP, Kosuri S, Fraser JS

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2026
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CACHE Challenge #3: Targeting the Nsp3 Macrodomain of SARS-CoV-2

Herasymenko O, Silva M, Correy GJ, Abu-Saleh AAA, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith C, Ashworth A, Ban F, Beck H, Bishop KP, Bohórquez HJ, Bolotokova A, Breznik M, Chau I, Chen Y, Cherkasov A, Dehaen W, Della Corte D, Denzinger K, Doering NP, Edfeldt K, Edwards A, Fayne D, Gentile F, Gibson E, Gokdemir O, Gunnarsson A, Günther J, Irwin JJ, Halborg Jensen J, Harding RJ, Hillisch A, Hoffer L, Hogner A, Hutchinson A, Kandwal S, Karlova A, Koirala K, Kotelnikov S, Kozakov D, Lee J, Lee S, Lessel U, Liu S, Liu X, Loppnau P, Meiler J, Moretti R, Moroz YS, Muvva C, Oprea TI, Paige B, Pandit A, Park K, Poda G, Protopopov MV, Pütter V, Ravichandran R, Rognan D, Rosta E, Sabnis Y, Scott T, Seitova A, Sharma P, Sindt F, Song M, Steinmann C, Stevens R, Talagayev V, Tararina VV, Tarkhanova O, Tingey D, Trant JF, Treleaven D, Tropsha A, Walters P, Wells J, Westermaier Y, Wolber G, Wortmann L, Zheng S, Fraser JS, Schapira M

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2026
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Large scale prospective evaluation of co-folding across 557 Mac1-ligand complexes and three virtual screens

Kim J*, Correy GJ*, Hall BW*, Rachman MM, Mailhot O, Togo T, Gonciarz RL, Jaishankar P, Neitz RJ, Hantz ER, Doruk YU, Stevens MGV, Diolaiti ME, Reid R, Gopalkrishnan S, Krogan NJ, Renslo AR, Ashworth A, Shoichet BK, Fraser JS

Biorxiv, 2025
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  • BioRxiv Preprint: 696505
  • GitHub Repository: jongbin99/Cofolding (Scripts and pipelines for the co-folding benchmarks and analysis)

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Discovery of AVI-6451, a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 ADP-Ribosylhydrolase Mac1 with Oral Efficacy in vivo

Jaishankar P*, Correy GJ*, Matsui Y*, Togo T*, Rachman MM, Stevens MGV, Hantz ER, Zheng J, Diolaiti ME, Montano M, Taha TY, Rosecrans J, Pampel J, Krogan NJ, Shoichet BK, Ashworth A, Ott M, Fraser JS, Renslo AR

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2025
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Autoregulation of the MET receptor tyrosine kinase by its intracellular juxtamembrane domain

Linossi EM, Espinoza CA, Estevam GO, Fraser JS, Jura N

Biochemical Journal, 2025
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Crystallographic Ensembles Reveal the Structural Basis of Binding Entropy in SARS-CoV-2 Macrodomain

Seo L, Farran I, Aslam A, Li X, Jaishankar P, Ashworth A, Fraser JS, Renslo AR, Wankowicz SA

Biorxiv, 2025
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The Mac1 ADP-ribosylhydrolase is a Therapeutic Target for SARS-CoV-2

Suryawanshi RK*, Jaishankar P*, Correy GJ*, Rachman MM*, O’Leary PC*, Taha TY*, Matsui Y*, Zapatero-Belinchón FJ, McCavitt-Malvido M, Doruk YU, Stevens MGV, Diolaiti ME, Jogalekar MP, Chen H, Richards AL, Kongpracha P, Bali S, Montano M, Rosecrans J, Matthay M, Togo T, Gonciarz RL, Gopalkrishnan S, Neitz RJ, Krogan NJ, Swaney DL, Shoichet BK, Ott M, Renslo AR, Ashworth A, Fraser JS

eLife, 2025
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Macrodomain ADP-ribose binding but not ADP-ribosylhydrolase activity is critical for chikungunya virus infection of Aedes mosquitoes

Bardossy ES*, Bergmann L*, Henrion-Lacritick A, Nigg J, Correy GJ, Ashworth A, Fraser JS, Saleh MC

Biorxiv, 2025
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Bayesian multi-state multi-condition modeling of a protein structure based on X-ray crystallography data

Hancock M, Holton JM, Fraser JS, Adams PD, Sali A

Biorxiv, 2025
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Distal mutations enhance catalysis in designed enzymes by facilitating substrate binding and product release

Zarifi N, Asthana P, Doustmohammadi H, Klaus C, Sanchez J, Hunt SE, Rakotoharisoa RV, Osuna S, Fraser JS, Chica RA

Nature Communications, 2025
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Hybrid antibiotics targeting the bacterial ribosome

Yeon SK, Pellegrino J, Raskar T, Tran MLN, Dandan M, Guérin F, Einsiedler M, Cattoir V, Fraser JS, Seiple IB

ACS Central Science, 2025
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Rosace-AA: Enhancing Interpretation of Deep Mutational Scanning Data with Amino Acid Substitution and Position-Specific Insights

Rao J, Wang M, Howard MK, Macdonald CB, Fraser JS, Coyote-Maestas W, Pimentel H

Bioinformatics Advances, 2025
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Coupled equilibria of dimerization and lipid binding modulate SARS Cov 2 Orf9b interactions and interferon response

San Felipe CJ, Batra J, Muralidharan M, Malpotra S, Anand D, Bauer R, Verba KA, Swaney DL, Krogan NJ, Grabe M, Fraser JS

eLife, 2025
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Initial leads to combat streptogramin resistance generated from X-ray fragment screening against VatD

Asthana P, Lee S, MacDonald CM, Seiple IB, Fraser JS

Structure, 2025
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Structure-based discovery of inhibitors of Mac1 domain of nonstructural protein-3 of SARS-CoV-2 by machine learning-augmented screening of chemical space

Ban F*, Ravichandran R*, Correy GJ, Herasymenko O, Silva M, Ackloo S, Bolotokova A, Chau I, Gibson E, Harding R, Hutchinson A, Loppnau P, Fraser JS, Schapira M, Cherkasov A, Gentile F

Biorxiv, 2025
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AcrIF11 is a potent CRISPR-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase encoded by phage and plasmid

Chen DF*, Roe LT*, Li Y, Borges AL, Zhang JY, Babbar P, Maji S, Stevens MGV, Correy GJ, Diolaiti ME, Smith DH, Ashworth A, Stroud RM, Kelly MJS, Bondy-Denomy J, Fraser JS

mBio, 2025
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Platform for the synthesis and evaluation of verrucarol-based ribosome inhibitors

Tran MLN, Raskar TB, Toth ED, Zhang J, Ecker AK, Yeon SK, Tackie-Yarboi E, DeGrado WF, Fraser JS, Seiple IB

ChemRxiv, 2025
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Product-stabilized filamentation by human glutamine synthetase allosterically tunes metabolic activity

Greene ER, Muniz R, Yamamura H, Bajaj P, Lee DJ, Thompson EM, Arada A, Lee GM, Bonomi M, Kollman JM, Fraser JS

Biorxiv, 2025
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Expanding Automated Multiconformer Ligand Modeling to Macrocycles and Fragments

Flowers J, Echols N, Correy G, Jaishankar P, Togo T, Renslo AR, van den Bedem H, Fraser JS, Wankowicz SA

eLife, 2025
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Extensive exploration of structure activity relationships for the SARS-CoV-2 macrodomain from shape-based fragment merging and active learning

Correy GJ*, Rachman MM*, Togo T, Gahbauer S, Doruk YU, Stevens MGV, Jaishankar P, Kelley B, Goldman B, Schmidt M, Kramer T, Ashworth A, Riley P, Shoichet BK, Renslo AR, Walters WP, Fraser JS

Science Advances, 2025
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Where to House Big Data on Small Fragments?

Erlanson DA, Burley SK, Fearon D, Fraser JS, Kreitler D, Nonato MC, Sakai N, Wollenhaupt J, Weiss MS

Nature Communications, 2025
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Advances in uncovering the mechanisms of macromolecular conformational entropy

Wankowicz SA, Fraser JS

Nature Chemical Biology, 2025
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MET variants with activating N-lobe mutations identified in hereditary papillary renal cell carcinomas still require ligand stimulation

Guerin C, Vinchent A, Fernandes M, Damour I, Laratte A, Tellier R, Estevam GO, Meneboo JP, Villenet C, Descarpentries C, Fraser JS, Figeac M, Cortot AB, Rouleau E, Tulasne D

Molecular Oncology, 2025
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Mapping kinase domain resistance mechanisms for the MET receptor tyrosine kinase via deep mutational scanning

Estevam GO, Linossi EM, Rao J, Macdonald CM, Ravikumar A, Chrispens KM, Capra JA, Coyote-Maestas W, Pimentel H, Collisson EA, Jura N, Fraser JS

eLife, 2025
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Context-specific inhibition of mitochondrial ribosomes by phenicol and oxazolidinone antibiotics

Bibel B, Raskar T, Couvillion M, Lee M, Kleinman JI, Takeuchi-Tomita N, Churchman LS, Fraser JS, Galonic Fujimori D

Nucleic Acids Research, 2025
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The impact of Library Size and Scale of Testing on Virtual Screening

Lui F, Mailhot O, Glenn IS, Vigneron SF, Bassim V, Xu X, Valencia KF, Smith MS, Radchenko DS, Fraser JS, Moroz YS, Irwin JJ, Shoichet BK

Nature Chemical Biology, 2025
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An ILC2-chitinase circuit restores lung homeostasis after epithelial injury

Jung H, Kim DH, Díaz RE, White JM, Rucknagel S, Mosby L, Wang Y, Reddy S, Winkler ES, Hassan AO, Ying B, Diamond MS, Locksley RM, Fraser JS, Van Dyken SJ

Science Immunology, 2024
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A renewed call for open artificial intelligence in biomedicine

Gitter A, Fraser JS, Gonen T, Patro R, Wayment-Steele HK, Williams A, Haibe-Kains B, Dunbrack RL, Cook C, Kundaje A, Hoffman MM, Carpenter AE, Wankowicz SA, Lindorff-Larsen K

Preprint, 2024
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Conserved regulatory motifs in the juxtamembrane domain and kinase N-lobe revealed through deep mutational scanning of the MET receptor tyrosine kinase domain

Estevam GO, Linossi EM, Macdonald CM, Espinoza CA, Michaud JM, Coyote-Maestas W, Collisson EA, Jura N, Fraser JS

eLife, 2024
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Deep mutational scanning of EccD3 reveals the molecular basis of its essentiality in the mycobacterium ESX secretion system

Trinidad DD, Macdonald CB, Rosenberg OS, Fraser JS, Coyote-Maestas W

Biorxiv, 2024
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Comprehensive Encoding of Conformational and Compositional Protein Structural Ensembles through mmCIF Data Structure

Wankowicz SA, Fraser JS

IUCrJ, 2024
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Automated Multiconformer Model Building for X-ray Crystallography and Cryo-EM

Wankowicz SA, Ravikumar A, Sharma S, Riley B, Raju A, Flowers J, Hogan DW, van den Bedem H, Keedy DA, Fraser JS

eLife, 2024
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Structural characterization of ligand binding and pH-specific enzymatic activity of mouse Acidic Mammalian Chitinase

Díaz RE, Ecker AK, Correy GJ, Asthana P, Young ID, Faust B, Thompson MC, Seiple IB, Van Dyken SJ, Locksley RM, Fraser JS.

eLife, 2024
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  • PMID: 38884443
  • PMCID: PMC11182645
  • BioRxiv Preprint: 542675
  • Full Text
  • Deposited Structures: 8FG5, 8FG7, 8GCA, 8FRC, 8FR9, 8FRB, 8FRD, 8FRG, 8FRA
  • Zenodo Records: 8250616 (Kinetic properties of mAMCase catalytic domain at various pH.), 7967930 (Characterization of mAMCase sugar-binding subsites.), 7905828 (Asp138 orientation correlates with ligand subsite occupancy.), 7905863 (pKa of GH18 chitinases in the inactive and active conformation.), 7758821 (10 ns Molecular Dynamics simulations of mAMCase at pH 2.0 and 6.5 in complex with GlcNAc6.), 7967958 (Proposed catalytic mechanism of mAMCase.), 7905944 (Crystallization conditions of apo and holo mAMCase.), 7967978 (Overview of key residues for mAMCase activity.), 7967954 (Protein-ligand interactions between mAMCase and chitin.), 7758815 (Ringer analysis of catalytic triad confirms alternative Asp138 conformations.)
  • Addgene Plasmids: 200229 (mAMCase Catalytic Domain in a pcDNA3.1 vector), 200228 (mAMCase Catalytic Domain in a pTwist CMV vector)

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Rosace: a robust deep mutational scanning analysis framework employing position and mean-variance shrinkage

Rao J, Xin R, Macdonald CB, Howard M, Estevam GO, Yee SW, Wang M, Fraser JS, Coyote-Maestas W, Pimentel H

Genome Biology, 2024
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AlphaFold3 Transparency and Reproducibility

Wankowicz SA, Beltrao P, Cravatt B, Dunbrack R, Gitter A, Lindorff-Larsen K, Ovchinnikov S, Polizzi N, Shoichet B, Fraser JS

Preprint, 2024
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Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science

Avissar-Whiting M, Belliard F, Bertozzi SM, Brand A, Brown K, Clément-Stoneham G, Dawson S, Dey G, Ecer D, Edmunds SC, Farley A, Fischer TD, Franko M, Fraser JS, Funk K, Ganier C, Harrison M, Hatch A, Hazlett H, Hindle S, Hook DW, Hurst P, Kamoun S, Kiley R, Lacy MM, LaFlamme M, Lawrence R, Lemberger T, Leptin M, Lumb E, MacCallum CJ, Marcum CS, Marinello G, Mendonça A, Monaco S, Neves K, Pattinson D, Polka JK, Puebla I, Rittman M, Royle SJ, Saderi D, Sever R, Shearer K, Spiro JE, Stern B, Taraborelli D, Vale R, Vasquez CG, Waltman L, Watt FM, Weinberg ZY, Williams M.

PLOS Biology, 2024
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Structure is beauty, but not always truth

Fraser JS, Murcko MA

Cell, 2024
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Discovery and clinical proof-of-concept of RLY-2608, a first-in-class mutant-selective allosteric PI3Ka inhibitor that decouples anti-tumor activity from hyperinsulinemia

Varkaris A, Pazolli E, Gunaydin H, Wang Q, Pierce L, Boezio AA, Bulku A, DiPietro L, Fridrich C, Frost A, Giordanetto F, Hamilton EP, Harris K, Holliday M, Hunter TL, Iskandar A, Ji Y, Larivée A, LaRochelle JR, Lescarbeau A, Llambi F, Lormil B, Mader MM, Mar BG, Martin I, McLean TH, Michelsen K, Pechersky Y, Puente-Poushnejad E, Raynor K, Rogala D, Samadani R, Schram AM, Shortsleeves K, Swaminathan S, Tajmir S, Tan G, Tang Y, Valverde R, Wehrenberg B, Wilbur J, Williams BR, Zeng H, Zhang H, Walters WP, Wolf BB, Shaw DE, Bergstrom DA, Watters J, Fraser JS, Fortin PD, Kipp DR.

Cancer Discovery, 2023
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Mapping Protein Dynamics at High-Resolution with Temperature-Jump X-ray Crystallography

Wolff AM, Nango E, Young ID, Brewster AS, Kubo M, Nomura T, Sugahara M, Owada S, Barad BA, Ito K, Bhowmick A, Carbajo S, Hino T, Holton JM, Im D, O’Riordan LJ, Tanaka T, Tanaka R, Sierra RG, Yumoto F, Tono K, Iwata S, Sauter NK, Fraser JS, Thompson MC

Nature Chemistry, 2023
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A type 2 immune circuit in the stomach controls mammalian adaptation to dietary chitin

Kim D, Wang Y, Jung H, Field RL, Zhang X, Liu T, Ma C, Fraser JS, Brestoff JR, Van Dyken SJ

Science, 2023
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A single inactivating amino acid change in the SARS-CoV-2 NSP3 Mac1 domain attenuates viral replication and pathogenesis in vivo

Taha TY*, Suryawanshi RK*, Chen IP*, Correy GJ*, O’Leary PC, Jogalekar MP, McCavitt-Malvido M, Diolaiti M, Kimmerly GR, Tsou CL, Martinez-Sobrido L, Krogan NJ, Ashworth A, Fraser JS, Ott M

PLoS Pathogens, 2023
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Chemoenzymatic syntheses of fluorine-18-labeled disaccharides from [18F]FDG yield potent sensors of living bacteria in vivo

Sorlin A, Alvarez ML, Rabbitt S, Alanizi A, Shuere B, Bobba KN, Blecha J, Sakhamuri S, Evans M, Bayles KJ, Flavell R, Rosenberg O, Sriram R, Desmet T, Nidetzky B, Engel J, Ohliger M, Fraser JS, Wilson DM

JACS, 2023
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Refinement of Multiconformer Ensemble Models from Multi-temperature X-ray Diffraction Data

Du S, Wankowicz SA, Yabukarski F, Doukov T, Herschlag D, Fraser JS

Methods in Enzymology, 2023
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Molecular evidence of widespread benzimidazole drug resistance in Ancylostoma caninum from domestic dogs throughout the USA and discovery of a novel isotype-1 β-tubulin benzimidazole resistance mutation

Venkatesan A, Jimenez Castro PD, Morosetti A, Horvath H, Chen R, Redman E, Dunn K, Collins JB, Fraser JS, Andersen EC, Kaplan RM, Gilleard JS

PLoS Pathogens, 2023
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Deep insertion, deletion, and missense mutation libraries for exploring protein variation in evolution, disease, and biology

Macdonald CB, Nedrud D, Rockefeller Grimes P, Trinidad D, Fraser JS, Coyote-Maestas W

Genome Biology, 2023
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Bacteriophages inhibit and evade cGAS-like immune function in bacteria

Huiting E*, Cao X*, Ren J, Athukoralage JS, Luo Z, Silas S, An N, Carion H, Zhou Y, Fraser JS, Feng Y, Bondy-Denomy J

Cell, 2023
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Deep neural language modeling enables functional protein generation across families

Madani A, Krause B*, Greene ER*, Subramanian S, Mohr BP, Holton JM, Olmos Jr. JL, Xiong C, Sun ZZ, Socher R, Fraser JS, Naik N

Nature Biotechnology, 2023
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Iterative computational design and crystallographic screening identifies potent inhibitors targeting the Nsp3 Macrodomain of SARS-CoV-2

Gahbauer S*, Correy GJ*, Schuller M, Ferla MP, Doruk YU, Rachman M, Wu T, Diolaiti M, Wang S, Neitz RJ, Fearon D, Radchenko DS, Moroz YS, Irwin JJ, Renslo AR, Taylor JC, Gestwicki JE, von Delft F, Ashworth A, Ahel I, Shoichet BK, Fraser JS

PNAS, 2023
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Molecular-Dynamics simulation methods for macromolecular crystallography

Wych DC, Aoto PC, Vu L, Wolff AM, Mobley DL, Fraser JS, Taylor SS, Wall ME

Acta Crystallographica D, 2023
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Fragment-based hit discovery via unsupervised learning of fragment-protein complexes

McCorkindale W, Ahel I, Barr H, Correy GJ, Fraser JS, London N, Schuller M, Shurrush K, Lee AA

Biorxiv, 2022
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Ensemble-function relationships to dissect mechanisms of enzyme catalysis

Yabukarski F, Doukov T, Pinney MM, Biel JT, Fraser JS, Herschlag D

Science Advances, 2022
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Type 2 innate immunity regulates hair follicle homeostasis to control Demodex pathosymbionts

Ricardo-Gonzalez RR, Kotas ME, Tenvooren I, Marquez DM, Fassett MS, Lee J, Daniel SG, Bittinger K, Díaz RE, Fraser JS, Ansel KM, Spitzer MH, Liang HE, Locksley RM

Immunity, 2022
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Of problems and opportunities-How to treat and how to not treat crystallographic fragment screening data

Weiss MS, Wollenhaupt J, Correy GJ, Fraser JS, Heine A, Klebe G, Krojer T, Thunissen M, Pearce NM

Protein Science, 2022
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The mechanisms of catalysis and ligand binding for the SARS-CoV-2 NSP3 macrodomain from neutron and X-ray diffraction at room temperature

Correy GJ, Kneller DW, Phillips G, Pant S, Russi S, Cohen AE, Meigs G, Holton JM, Gahbauer S, Thompson MC, Ashworth A, Coates L, Kovalevsky A, Meilleur F, Fraser JS

Science Advances, 2022
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Ligand binding remodels protein side chain conformational heterogeneity

Wankowicz SA, de Oliveira SHP, Hogan DW, van den Bedem H, Fraser JS

eLife, 2022
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Accurate positioning of functional residues with robotics-inspired computational protein design

Krivacic C*, Kundert K*, Pan X*, Pache RA*, Liu L, Conchúir SO, Jeliazkov JR, Gray JJ, Thompson MC, Fraser JS, Kortemme T

PNAS, 2022
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Structural basis for context-specific inhibition of translation by oxazolidinone antibiotics

Tsai K*, Stojković V*, Lee DJ*, Young ID, Szal T, Vazquez-Laslop N, Mankin AS, Fraser JS, Fujimori DG

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 2022
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Integration of software tools for integrative modeling of biomolecular systems

Hancock M, Peulen TO, Webb B, Poon B, Fraser JS, Adams P, Sali A

Journal of Structural Biology, 2022
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A counter-enzyme complex regulates glutamate metabolism in Bacillus subtilis

Jayaraman V, Lee DJ, Elad N, Vimer S, Sharon M, Fraser JS, Tawfik DS

Nature Chemical Biology, 2022
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Directed evolution of the rRNA methylating enzyme Cfr reveals molecular basis of antibiotic resistance

Tsai K, Stojković V, Noda-Garcia L, Young ID, Myasnikov AG, Kleinman J, Palla A, Floor SN, Frost A, Fraser JS, Tawfik DS, Fujimori DG

eLife, 2022
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CryoEM and AI reveal a structure of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp2, a multifunctional protein involved in key host processes

Gupta M*, Azumaya CM*, Moritz M*, Pourmal S*, Diallo A*, Merz GE*, Jang G*, Bouhaddou M*, Fossati*, Brilot AF, Diwanji D, Hernandez E, Herrera N, Kratochvil HT, Lam VL, Li F, Li Y, Nguyen HC, Nowotny C, Owens TW, Peters JK, Rizo AN, Schulze-Gahmen U, Smith AM, Young ID, Yu Z, Asarnow D, Billesbølle C, Campbell MG, Chen J, Chen KH, Chio US, Dickinson MS, Doan L, Jin M,, Kim K, Li J, Li YL, Linossi E, Liu Y, Lo M, Lopez J, Lopez KE, Mancino A, Moss III FR, Paul MD, Pawar KI, Pelin A, Pospiech Jr. TH, Puchase C, Remesh SG, Safari M, Schaefer K, Sun M, Tabios MC, Thwin AC, Titus EW, Trenker R, Tse E, Tsui TKM, Wang F, Zhang K, Zhang Y, Zhao J, Zhou F, Zhou Y, Zuliani-Alvarez L, QCRG Structural Biology Consortium, Agard DA, Cheng Y, Fraser JS, Jura N, Kortemme T, Manglik A, Southworth DR, Stroud RM, Swaney DL, Krogan NJ, Frost A, Rosenberg OS, Verba KA

Biorxiv, 2021
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State of the structure address on MET receptor activation by HGF

Linossi EM, Estevam GO, Oshima M, Fraser JS, Collisson EA, Jura N

Biochemical Society Transactions, 2021
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Fragment binding to the Nsp3 macrodomain of SARS-CoV-2 identified through crystallographic screening and computational docking

Schuller M*, Correy GJ*, Gahbauer S*, Fearon D*, Wu T, Díaz RE, Young ID, Carvalho Martins L, Smith DS, Schulze-Gahmen U, Owens TW, Deshpande I, Merz GE, Thwin AC, Biel JT, Peters JK, Mortiz M, Herrera N, Kratochvil HT, QCRG Structural Biology Consortium, Aimon A, Bennett MJ, Brandao Neto J, Cohen EA, Dias A, Douangamath A, Dunnett L, Fedorov O, Ferla PM, Fuchs M, Gorrie-Stone JT, Holton MJ, Johnson GM, Krojer T, Meigs G, Powell JA, Rack J, Rangel LV, Russi S, Skyner ER, Smith AC, Soares SA, Wierman LJ, Zhu K, O’Brien P, Jura N, Ashworth A, Irwin J, Thompson MC, Gestwicki JE, von Delft F, Shoichet BK, Fraser JS, Ahel I

Science Advances, 2021
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Cryo-EM model validation recommendations based on outcomes of the 2019 EMDataResource challenge

Lawson CL, Kryshtafovych A, Adams PD, Afonine PV, Baker ML, Barad BA, Bond P, Burnley T, Cao R, Cheng J, Chojnowski G, Cowtan K, Dill KA, DiMaio F, Farrell DP, Fraser JS, Jr. Herzik MA, Hoh SW, Hou J, Hung L, Igaev M, Joseph AP, Kihara D, Kumar D, Mittal S, Monastyrskyy B, Olek M, Palmer CM, Patwardhan A, Perez A, Pfab J, Pintilie GD, Richardson JS, Rosenthal PB, Sarkar D, Schäfer LU, Schmid MF, Schröder GF, Shekhar M, Si D, Singharoy A, Terashi G, Terwilliger TC, Vaiana A, Wang L, Wang Z, Wankowicz SA, Williams CJ, Winn M, Wu T, Yu X, Zhang K, Berman HM, Chiu W

Nature Methods, 2021
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qFit 3: Protein and ligand multiconformer modeling for X-ray crystallographic and single-particle cryo-EM density maps

Riley BT, Wankowicz SA, de Oliveira SHP, van Zundert GCP, Hogan DW, Fraser JS, Keedy DA, van den Bedem H

Protein Science, 2021
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Assessment of enzyme active site positioning and tests of catalytic mechanisms through X-ray–derived conformational ensembles

Yabukarski F, Biel JT, Pinney MM, Doukov T, Powers AS, Fraser JS, Herschlag D

PNAS, 2020
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Genetic interaction mapping informs integrative structure determination of protein complexes

Braberg H*, Echeverria I*, Bohn S*, Cimermancic P*, Shiver A, Alexander R, Xu J, Shales M, Dronamraju R, Jiang S, Dwivedi G, Bogdanoff D, Chaung KK, Hüttenhain R, Wang S, Mavor D, Pellarin R, Schneidman D, Bader JS, Fraser JS, Morris J, Haber JE, Strahl BD, Gross CA, Dai J, Boeke JD, Sali A, Krogan NJ

Science, 2020
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Discovery of allosteric binding sites by crystallographic fragment screening

Krojer T, Fraser JS, von Delft F

Current Opinions in Structural Biology, 2020
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Comparative host-coronavirus protein interaction networks reveal pan-viral disease mechanisms

Gordon DE*, Hiatt J*, Bouhaddou M*, Rezelj VV*, Ulferts S*, Braberg H*, Jureka AS*, Obernier K*, Guo JZ*, Batra J*, Kaake RM*, Weckstein AR*, Owens TW*, Gupta M*, Pourmal S*, Titus EW*, Cakir M*, Soucheray M, McGregor M, Cakir Z, Jang G, O’Meara MJ, Tummino TA, Zhang Z, Foussard H, Rojc A, Zhou Y, Kuchenov D, Hüttenhain R, Xu J, Eckhardt M, Swaney DL, Fabius JM, Ummadi M, Tutuncuoglu B, Rathore U, Modak M, Haas P, Haas KM, Naing ZZC, Pulido EH, Shi Y, Barrio-Hernandez I, Memon D, Petsalaki E, Dunham A, Marrero MC, Burke D, Koh C, Vallet T, Silvas JA, Azumaya CM, Billesbølle C, Brilot AF, Campbell MG, Diallo A, Dickinson MS, Diwanji D, Herrera N, Hoppe N, Kratochvil HT, Liu Y, Merz GE, Moritz M, Nguyen HC, Nowotny C, Puchades C, Rizo AN, Schulze-Gahmen U, Smith AM, Sun M, Young ID, Zhao J, Asarnow D, Biel J, Bowen A, Braxton JR, Chen J, Chio CM, Chio US, Deshpande I, Doan L, Faust B, Flores S, Jin M, Kim K, Lam VL, Li F, Li J, Li YL, Li Y, Liu X, Lo M, Lopez KE, Melo AA, Moss FR 3rd, Nguyen P, Paulino J, Pawar KI, Peters JK, Pospiech TH Jr, Safari M, Sangwan S, Schaefer K, Thomas PV, Thwin AC, Trenker R, Tse E, Tsui TKM, Wang F, Whitis N, Yu Z, Zhang K, Zhang Y, Zhou F, Saltzberg D, QCRG Structural Biology Consortium, Hodder AJ, Shun-Shion AS, Williams DM, White KM, Rosales R, Kehrer T, Miorin L, Moreno E, Patel AH, Rihn S, Khalid MM, Vallejo-Gracia A, Fozouni P, Simoneau CR, Roth TL, Wu D, Karim MA, Ghoussaini M, Dunham I, Berardi F, Weigang S, Chazal M, Park J, Logue J, McGrath M, Weston S, Haupt R, Hastie CJ, Elliott M, Brown F, Burness KA, Reid E, Dorward M, Johnson C, Wilkinson SG, Geyer A, Giesel DM, Baillie C, Raggett S, Leech H, Toth R, Goodman N, Keough KC, Lind AL; Zoonomia Consortium, Klesh RJ, Hemphill KR, Carlson-Stevermer J, Oki J, Holden K, Maures T, Pollard KS, Sali A, Agard DA, Cheng Y, Fraser JS, Frost A, Jura N, Kortemme T, Manglik A, Southworth DR, Stroud RM, Alessi DR, Davies P, Frieman MB, Ideker T, Abate C, Jouvenet N, Kochs G, Shoichet B, Ott M, Palmarini M, Shokat KM, García-Sastre A, Rassen JA, Grosse R, Rosenberg OS, Verba KA, Basler CF, Vignuzzi M, Peden AA, Beltrao P, Krogan NJ

Science, 2020
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Synthetic group A streptogramin antibiotics that overcome Vat resistance

Li Q*, Pellegrino J*, Lee DJ, Tran AA, Chaires HC, Wang R, Park JE, Ji K, Chow D, Zhang N, Brilot AF, Biel JT, van Zundert G, Borrelli K, Shinabarger D, Wolfe C, Murray B, Jacobson MP, Mühle E, Chesneau O, Fraser JS, Seiple IB

Nature, 2020
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Ensemble-based enzyme design can recapitulate the effects of laboratory directed evolution in silico

Broom A*, Rakotoharisoa RV*, Thompson MC, Zarifi N, Nguyen E, Mukhametzhanov N, Liu L, Fraser JS, Chica RA

Nature Communications, 2020
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Expanding the space of protein geometries by computational design of ​de novo fold families

Pan X, Thompson MC, Zhang Y, Liu L, Fraser JS, Kelly MJS, Kortemme T

Science, 2020
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A SARS-CoV-2-Human Protein-Protein Interaction Map Reveals Drug Targets and Potential Drug-Repurposing

Gordon DE*, Jang GM*, Bouhaddou M*, Xu J*, Obernier K*, White KM*, O’Meara MJ*, Rezelj VV*, Guo JZ, Swaney DL, Tummino TA, Huttenhain R, Kaake RM, Richards AL, Tutuncuoglu B, Foussard H, Batra J, Haas K, Modak M, Kim M, Haas P, Polacco BJ, Braberg H, Fabius JM, Eckhardt M, Soucheray M, Bennett MJ, Cakir M, McGregor MJ, Li Q, Meyer B, Roesch F, Vallet T, Mac Kain A, Miorin L, Moreno E, Naing ZZC, Zhou Y, Peng S, Shi Y, Zhang Z, Shen W, Kirby IT, Melnyk JE, Chorba JS, Lou K, Dai SA, Barrio-Hernandez I, Memon D, Hernandez-Armenta C, Lyu J, Mathy CJP, Perica T, Pilla KB, Ganesan SJ, Saltzberg DJ, Rakesh R, Liu X, Rosenthal SB, Calviello L, Venkataramanan S, Liboy-Lugo J, Lin Y, Huang XP, Liu Y, Wankowicz SA, Bohn M, Safari M, Ugur FS, Koh C, Savar NS, Tran QD, Shengjuler D, Fletcher SJ, O’Neal MC, Cai Y, Chang JCJ, Broadhurst DJ, Klippsten S, Sharp PP, Wenzell NA, Kuzuoglu D, Wang HY, Trenker R, Young JM, Cavero DA, Hiatt J, Roth TL, Rathore U, Subramanian A, Noack J, Hubert M, Stroud RM, Frankel AD, Rosenberg OS, Verba KA, Agard D, Ott M, Emerman M, Jura N, von Zastrow M, Verdin E, Ashworth A, Schwartz O, d’Enfert C, Mukherjee S, Jacobson M, Malik HS, Fujimori DG, Ideker T, Craik CS, Floor S, Fraser JS, Gross JD, Sali A, Roth BL, Ruggero D, Taunton J, Kortemme T, Beltrao P, Vignuzzi M, García-Sastre A, Shokat KM, Shoichet BK, Krogan NJ

Nature, 2020
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Assessment of the nucleotide modifications in the high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of the Escherichia coli 50S subunit

Stojković V, Myasnikov AG, Young ID, Frost A, Fraser JS, Fujimori DG

Nucleic Acids Research, 2020
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Comparing serial X-ray crystallography and microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) as methods for routine structure determination from small macromolecular crystals

Wolff AM, Young ID, Sierra RG, Brewster AS, Martynowycz MW, Nango E, Sugahara M, Nakane T, Ito K, Aquila A, Bhowmick A, Biel JT, Carbajo S, Cohen AE, Cortez S, Gonzalez A, Hino T, Im D, Koralek JD, Kubo M, Lazarou TS, Nomura T, Owada S, Samelson A, Tanaka R, Tanaka T, Thompson EM, van den Bedem H, Woldeyes RA, Yumoto F, Zhao W, Tono K, Boutet S, Iwata S, Gonen T, Sauter NK, Fraser JS, Thompson MC

IUCrJ, 2020
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What will computational modelling approaches have to say in the era of atomistic cryo-EM data?

Fraser JS, Lindorff-Larsen K, Bonomi M

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2020
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Co-occurring alterations in the RAS-MAPK pathway limit response to MET inhibitor treatment in MET exon 14 skipping mutation-positive lung cancer

Rotow JK, Gui P, Wu W, Raymond VM, Lanman RB, Kaye FJ, Peled N, Fece de la Cruz F, Nadres B, Corcoran RB, Yeh I, Bastian BC, Starostik P, Newsom K, Olivas V, Wolff AM, Fraser JS, Collisson EA, McCoach CE, Camidge DR, Pacheco J, Bazhenova L, Li T, Bivona TG, Blakely CM

Clinical Cancer Research, 2020
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Differences in the chitinolytic activity of mammalian chitinases on soluble and insoluble substrates

Barad BA, Liu L, Diaz RE, Basillo R, Van Dyken SJ, Locksley RM, Fraser JS

Protein Science, 2020
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Ensemble refinement produces consistent R-free values but smaller ensemble sizes than previously reported

Wankowicz SA, Fraser JS

Computational Crystallography Newsletter, 2020
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Liquid-like and rigid-body motions in molecular dynamics simulations of a crystalline protein

Wych DC, Fraser JS, Mobley DL, Wall ME

Structural Dynamics, 2019
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Mix-and-inject XFEL crystallography reveals gated conformational dynamics during enzyme catalysis

Dasgupta M, Budday D, Oliveira SHP, Madzelan P, Marchany-Rivera D, Seravalli J, Hayes B, Sierra RG, Boutet S, Hunter MS, Alonso-Mori R, Batyuk A, Wierman J, Lyubimov A, Brewster AS, Sauter NK, Applegate GA, Tiwari VK, Berkowitz DB, Thompson MC, Cohen AE, Fraser JS, Wall ME, van den Bedem H, Wilson MA

PNAS, 2019
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Computational design of a modular protein sense/response system

Glasgow AA*, Huang Y*, Mandell DJ*, Thompson M, Ritterson R, Loshbaugh AL, Pellegrino J, Krivacic C, Pache RA, Barlow KA, Ollikainen N, Jeon D, Kelly MJS, Fraser JS, Kortemme T

Science, 2019
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Temperature-Jump Solution X-ray Scattering Reveals Distinct Motions in a Dynamic Enzyme

Thompson MC, Barad BA, Wolff AM, Cho HS, Schotte F, Schwarz DMC, Anfinrud P, Fraser JS

Nature Chemistry, 2019
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Synthetic essentiality of metabolic regulator PDHK1 in PTEN-deficient cells and cancers

Chatterjee N*, Pazarentzos E*, Mayekar MK, Gui P, Allegakoen DV, Hrustanovic G, Olivas V, Lin L, Verschueren E, Johnson JR, Hofree M, Yan JJ, Newton BW, Dollen JV, Earnshaw CH, Flanagan J, Chan E, Asthana S, Ideker T, Wu W, Suzuki J, Barad BA, Kirichok Y, Fraser JS, Weiss WA, Krogan NJ, Tulpule A, Sabnis AJ, Bivona TG

Cell Reports, 2019
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Effects of α-tubulin acetylation on microtubule structure and stability

Eshun-Wilson L, Zhang R, Portran D, Toso D, Lohr T, Vendruscolo M, Bonomi M, Fraser JS, Nogales E

PNAS, 2019
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A multi-model approach to assessing local and global cryo-EM map quality

Herzik Jr. MA, Fraser JS, Lander GC

Structure, 2019
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Biophysical characterization of a disabled double mutant of Soybean Lipoxygenase: the undoing of precise substrate positioning relative to metal cofactor and an identified dynamical network

Hu S, Offenbacher AR, Thompson EM, Gee CL, Wilcoxen J, Carr CAM, Prigozhin DM, Yang V, Alber T, Britt RD, Fraser JS, Klinman JP

JACS, 2019
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qFit-ligand reveals widespread conformational heterogeneity of drug-like molecules in X-ray electron density maps

van Zundert GCP*, Hudson BM*, Oliveira SHP, Keedy DA, Fonseca R, Heliou A, Suresh P, Borrelli K, Day T, Fraser JS, van den Bedem H

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2018
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Model selection for biological crystallography

Babcock NS, Keedy DA, Fraser JS, Sivak DA

Biorxiv, 2018
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Extending chemical perturbations of the ubiquitin fitness landscape in a classroom setting reveals new constraints on sequence tolerance

Mavor D, Barlow KA, Asarnow D, Birman Y, Britain D, Chen W, Green EM, Kenner LR, Mensa B, Morinishi LS, Nelson CA, Poss EM, Suresh P, Tian R, Arhar T, Ary BE, Bauer DP, Bergman ID, Brunetti RM, Chio CM, Dai SA, Dickinson MS, Elledge SK, Helsell CV M, Hendel NL, Kang E, Kern N, Khoroshkin MS, Kirkemo LL, Lewis GR, Lou K, Marin WM, Maxwell AM, McTigue PF, Myers-Turnbull D, Nagy TL, Natale AM, Oltion K, Pourmal S, Reder GK, Rettko NJ, Rohweder PJ, Schwarz DMC, Tan SK, Thomas PV, Tibble RW, Town JP, Tsai MK, Ugur FS, Wassarman DR, Wolff AM, Wu TS, Bogdanoff D, Li J, Thorn KS, O’Conchúir S, Swaney DL, Chow ED, Madhani HD, Redding S, Bolon DN, Kortemme T, DeRisi JL, Kampmann M, Fraser JS

Biology Open, 2018
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An expanded allosteric network in PTP1B by multitemperature crystallography, fragment screening, and covalent tethering

Keedy DA*, Hill ZB*, Biel JT, Kang E, Rettenmaier TJ, Brandao-Neto J, Pearce NM, von Delft F, Wells JA, Fraser JS

eLife, 2018
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Bringing diffuse X-ray scattering into focus

Wall ME, Wolff AM, Fraser JS

Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2018
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Rescue of conformational dynamics in enzyme catalysis by directed evolution

Otten R*, Liu L*, Kenner LR, Clarkson MW, Mavor D, Tawfik DS, Kern D, Fraser JS

Nature Communications, 2018
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XFEL structures of the influenza M2 proton channel: Room temperature water networks and insights into proton conduction

Thomaston JL, Woldeyes RA, Nakane T, Yamashita A, Tanaka T, Koiwai K, Brewster AS, Barad BA, Chen Y, Lemmin T, Uervirojnangkoorn M, Arima T, Kobayashi J, Masuda T, Suzuki M, Sugahara M, Sauter NK, Tanaka R, Nureki O, Tono K, Joti Y, Nango E, Iwata S, Yumoto F, Fraser JS, DeGrado WF

PNAS, 2017
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Allosteric inhibitors, crystallography and comparative analysis reveal network of coordinated movement across human herpesvirus proteases

Acker TM, Gable JE, Bohn MF, Jaishankar P, Thompson MC, Fraser JS, Renslo AR, Craik CS

JACS, 2017
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Hydrogen–Deuterium exchange of Lipoxygenase uncovers a relationship between distal, solvent exposed protein motions and the thermal activation barrier for catalytic proton-coupled electron tunneling

Offenbacher AR , Hu S, Poss EM, Carr CAM , Scouras AD, Prigozhin DM, Iavarone AT, Palla A, Alber T, Fraser JS, Klinman JP

ACS Central Science, 2017
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Flexibility and design: conformational heterogeneity along the evolutionary trajectory of a redesigned ubiquitin

Biel JT, Thompson MC, Cunningham CN, Corn JE, Fraser JS

Structure, 2017
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Cytidine deaminase efficiency of the lentiviral viral restriction factor APOBEC3C correlates with dimerization

Adolph MB, Ara A, Feng Y, Wittkopp CJ, Emerman M, Fraser JS, Chelico L

Nucleic Acids Research, 2017
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Conformational variation of proteins at room temperature is not dominated by radiation damage

Russi S, González A, Kenner LR, Keedy DA, Fraser JS, van den Bedem H

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2017
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Automated structure refinement of macromolecular assemblies from cryo-EM maps using Rosetta

Wang RYR, Song Y, Barad BA, Cheng Y, Fraser JS, DiMaio F

eLife, 2016
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Preprints for the life sciences

Berg JM, Bhalla N, Bourne PE, Chalfie M, Drubin DG, Fraser JS, Greider CW, Hendricks M, Jones C, Kiley R, King S, Kirschner MW, Krumholz HM, Lehmann R, Leptin M, Pulverer B, Rosenzweig B, Spiro JE, Stebbins M, Strasser C, Swaminathan S, Turner P, Vale RD, VijayRaghavan K, Wolberger C

Science, 2016
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Determination of Ubiquitin fitness landscapes under different chemical stresses in a classroom setting

Mavor D, Barlow KA, Thompson S, Barad BA, Bonny AR, Cario CL, Gaskins G, Liu Z, Deming L, Axen SD, Caceres E, Chen W, Cuesta A, Gate R, Green EM, Hulce KR, Ji W, Kenner LR, Mensa B, Morinishi LS, Moss SM, Mravic M, Muir RK, Niekamp S, Nnadi CI, Palovcak E, Poss EM, Ross TD, Salcedo E, See S, Subramaniam M, Wong AW, Li J, Thorn KS, Conchúir SÓ, Roscoe BP, Chow ED, DeRisi JL, Kortemme T, Bolon DN, Fraser JS

eLife, 2016
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Measuring and modeling diffuse scattering in protein X-ray crystallography

Van Benschoten AH, Liu L, Gonzalez A, Brewster AS, Sauter NK, Fraser JS, Wall ME

PNAS, 2016
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Data publication with the structural biology data grid supports live analysis

Meyer PA, Socias S, Key J, Ransey E, Tjon EC, Buschiazzo A, Lei M, Botka C, Withrow J, Neau D, Rajashankar K, Anderson KS, Baxter RH, Blacklow SC, Boggon TJ, Bonvin AMJJ, Borek D, Brett TJ, Caflisch A, Chang C, Chazin WJ, Corbett KD, Cosgrove MS, Crosson S, Dhe-Paganon S, Cera ED, Drennan CL, Eck MJ, Eichman BF, Fan QR, Ferré-D’Amaré AR, Fromme JC, Garcia KC, Gaudet R, Gong P, Harrison SC, Heldwein EE, Jia Z, Keenan RJ, Kruse AC, Kvansakul M, McLellan JS, Modis Y, Nam Y, Otwinowski Z, Pai EF, Pereira PJB, Petosa C, Raman CS, Rapoport TA, Roll-Mecak A, Rosen MK, Rudenko G, Schlessinger J, Schwartz TU, Shamoo Y, Sondermann H, Tao YJ, Tolia NH, Tsodikov OV, Westover KD, Wu H, Foster I, Fraser JS, Maia FRNC, Gonen T, Kirchhausen T, Diederichs K, Crosas M, Sliz P

Nature Communications, 2016
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CryptoSite: Expanding the druggable proteome by characterization and prediction of cryptic binding sites

Cimermancic P, Weinkam P, Rettenmaier TJ, Bichmann L, Keedy DA, Woldeyes RA, Schneidmann D, Demerdash ONA, Mitchell JC, Wells JA, Fraser JS, Sali A

Journal of Molecular Biology, 2016
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High-density grids for efficient data collection from multiple crystals

Baxter EL, Aguila L, Alonso-Mori R, Barnes CO, BonaguraCA, Brehmer W, Brunger AT, Calero G, Caradoc-Davies TT, Chatterjee R, Degrado WF, Fraser JS, Ibrahim M, Kern J, Kobilka BK, Kruse AC, Larsson KM, Lemke HT, Lyubimov AY, Manglik A, McPhillips SE, Norgren E, Pang SS, Soltis SM, Song J, Thomaston J, Tsai Y, Weis WI, Woldeyes RA, Yachandra V, Yano J, Zouni A, Cohen AE

Acta Crystallographica D, 2016
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High resolution structures of the M2 proton channel from influenza A virus reveal dynamic pathways for proton stabilization and transduction

Thomaston JL, Alfonso-Prieto M, Woldeyes RA, Fraser JS, Klein ML, Fiorin G, DeGrado WF

PNAS, 2015
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Exposing hidden alternative backbone conformations in X-ray crystallography using qFit

Keedy DA, Fraser JS, van den Bedem H

PLOS Computational Biology, 2015
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Mapping the conformational landscape of a dynamic enzyme by multitemperature and XFEL crystallography

Keedy DA*, Kenner LR*, Warkentin M*, Woldeyes RA*, Hopkins JB, Thompson MC, Brewster AS, Van Benschoten AH, Baxter EL, Uervirojnangkoorn M, McPhillips SE, Song J, Alonso-Mori R, Holton JM, Weis WI, Brunger AT, Soltis SM, Lemke H, Gonzalez A, Sauter NK, Cohen AE, van den Bedem H, Thorne RE, Fraser JS

eLife, 2015
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EMRinger: Side-chain-directed model and map validation for 3D electron cryomicroscopy

Barad BA, Echols N, Wang RYR, Cheng Y, DiMaio F, Adams PD, Fraser JS

Nature Methods, 2015
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Predicting X-ray diffuse scattering from translation libration screw structural ensembles

Van Benschoten AH, Afonine PV, Terwilliger TC, Wall ME, Jackson CJ, Sauter NK, Adams PD, Urzhumtsev A, Fraser JS

Acta Crystallographica D, 2015
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From deep TLS validation to ensembles of atomic models built from elemental motions

Urzhumtsev A, Afonine PV, Van Benschoten AH, Fraser JS, Adams PD

Acta Crystallographica D, 2015
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One crystal, two temperatures – cryocooling penalties alter ligand binding to transient protein sites

Fischer M, Shoichet BK, Fraser JS

ChemBioChem, 2015
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Negative epistasis and evolvability in TEM-1 β-lactamase – The thin line between an enzyme’s conformational freedom and disorder

Dellus-Gur E, Elias M, Caselli E, Prati F, Salverda ML, de Visser JA, Fraser JS, Tawfik DS

Journal of Molecular Biology, 2015
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Lineage-specific viral hijacking of non-canonical E3 Ubiquitin Ligase cofactors in the evolution of Vif anti-APOBEC3 activity

Kane JR, Stanley DJ, Hultquist JF, Johnson JR, Mietrach N, Binning JM, Jonsson SR, Barelier S, Newton BW, Johnson TL, Franks-Skiba KE, Li M, Brown WL, Gunnarsson HI, Adalbjornsdottir A, Fraser JS, Harris RS, Andresdottir V, Gross JD, Krogan NJ

Cell Reports, 2015
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Integrative, dynamic structural biology at atomic resolution — it’s about time

van den Bedem H, Fraser JS

Nature Methods, 2015
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Keep on moving: discovering and perturbing the conformational dynamics of enzymes

Bhabha G, Biel JT, Fraser JS

Accounts of Chemical Research, 2015
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Conformational dynamics of a crystalline protein from microsecond-scale molecular dynamics simulations and diffuse X-Ray scattering

Wall ME, VanBenschoten AH, Sauter NK, Adams PD, Fraser JS, Terwilliger TC

PNAS, 2014
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Discovery and characterization of two tryptamine-producing decarboxylases from the gut microbiota

Williams BB, VanBenschoten AH, Cimermancic P, Donia MS, Zimmermann M, Taketani M, Ishihara A, Kashyap PC, Fraser JS, Fischbach MA

Cell Host and Microbe, 2014
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E pluribus unum, no more: from one crystal, many conformations

Woldeyes RA, Sivak DA, Fraser JS

Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2014
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Crystal cryocooling distorts conformational heterogeneity in a model Michaelis complex of DHFR

Keedy DA, van den Bedem H, Sivak DA, Petsko GA, Ringe D, Wilson MA, Fraser JS

Structure, 2014
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Incorporation of protein flexibility and conformational energy penalties in docking screens to improve ligand discovery

Fischer M*, Coleman RG*, Fraser JS, Shoichet BK

Nature Chemistry, 2014
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Diffuse X-ray scattering to model protein motions

Wall ME, Adams PD, Fraser JS, Sauter NK

Structure, 2014
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Integrated description of protein dynamics from room-temperature X-ray crystallography and NMR

Fenwick RB, van den Bedem H, Fraser JS, Wright PE

PNAS, 2014
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Protein structural ensembles are revealed by redefining X-ray electron density noise

Lang PT, Holton JM, Fraser JS, Alber T

PNAS, 2014
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From structure to systems: high-resolution, quantitative genetic analysis of RNA polymerase II

Braberg H, Jin H, Moehle E, Chan YA, Wang S, Shales M, Benschop JJ, Morris JH, Fraser JS, Qiu C, Hu F, Tang LK, Holstege FCP, Hieter P, Guthrie C, Kaplan CD, Krogan NJ

Cell, 2013
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Automated identification of functional dynamic contact networks from X-ray crystallography

van den Bedem H, Bhabha G, Yang K, Wright PE, Fraser JS

Nature Methods, 2013
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Flexible backbone sampling methods to model and design protein alternative conformations

Ollikainen N, Smith CA, Fraser JS, Kortemme T

Methods in Enzymology, 2013
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From systems to structure: bridging networks and mechanism

Fraser JS, Gross JD, Krogan NJ

Nature Methods, 2013
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CheShift-2 resolves a local inconsistency between two X-ray crystal structures

Vila JA, Sue SC, Fraser JS, Scheraga HA, Dyson HJ

Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 2012
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Systematic functional prioritization of protein posttranslational modifications

Beltrao P, Albanèse V, Kenner LR, Swaney DL, Burlingame A, Villén J, Lim WA, Fraser JS, Frydman J, Krogan NJ

Cell, 2012
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Control of protein signaling using a computationally designed GTPase/GEF orthogonal pair

Kapp GT*, Liu S*, Stein A, Wong DT, Reményi A, Yeh BJ, Fraser JS, Taunton J, Lim WA, Kortemme T

PNAS, 2012
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Accessing protein conformational ensembles by room-temperature X-ray crystallography

Fraser JS, van den Bedem H, Samelson AJ, Lang PT, Holton JM, Echols N, Alber T

PNAS, 2011
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Mining electron density for functionally relevant protein polysterism in crystal structures

Fraser JS, Jackson CJ

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2010
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The tumor-associated EpCAM regulates morphogenetic movements through intracellular signaling

Maghzal N*, Vogt E*, Reintsch W, Fraser JS, Fagotto F

Journal of Cell Biology, 2010
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Automated electron-density sampling reveals widespread conformational polymorphism in proteins

Lang PT*, Ng HL*, Fraser JS, Corn JE, Echols N, Sales M, Holton JM, Alber T

Protein Science, 2010
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Hidden alternative structures of proline isomerase essential for catalysis

Fraser JS, Clarkson MW, Degnan SC, Erion R, Kern D, Alber T

Nature, 2009
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Immunoglobulin-Like domains on bacteriophage: weapons of modest damage?

Fraser JS, Maxwell KL, Davidson AR

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2007
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An atypical receiver domain controls the dynamic polar localization of the Myxococcus xanthus social motility protein FrzS

Fraser JS*, Merlie Jr. JP*, Echols N*, Weisfield SR, Mignot T, Wemmer DE, Zusman D, Alber T

Molecular Microbiology, 2007
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Ig-like domains on bacteriophages: a tale of promiscuity and deceit

Fraser JS, Yu Z, Maxwell KL, Davidson AR

Journal of Molecular Biology, 2006
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