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Douglas Turner
Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States of America

Faculty Member: Structural Biology > Structure: RNA [ since 11 July 2001 ]
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Biography

A.B. ''67, Harvard College; Ph.D. ''72, Columbia University; postdoc ''73-''74, University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Chemistry and of Pediatrics, University of Rochester

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Evaluations

Predicting structures and stabilities for H-type pseudoknots with interhelix loops.
Cao S, Chen SJ
RNA 2009 Apr 15(4):696-706 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Aaron Burton and Niles Lehman / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 24 Jun 2009

Accurate SHAPE-directed RNA structure determination.
Deigan KE, Li TW, Mathews DH, Weeks KM
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 Jan 6 106(1):97-102 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 29 Jan 2009

High-throughput SHAPE analysis reveals structures in HIV-1 genomic RNA strongly conserved across distinct biological states.
Wilkinson KA, Gorelick RJ, …, Giddings MC, Weeks KM
PLoS Biol 2008 Apr 29 6(4):e96 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Anne-Catherine Dock-Bregeon / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 27 Oct 2008

Crystal structure of a self-spliced group II intron.
Toor N, Keating KS, Taylor SD, Pyle AM
Science 2008 Apr 4 320(5872):77-82 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert Batey / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 14 Jul 2008

The MC-Fold and MC-Sym pipeline infers RNA structure from sequence data.
Parisien M, Major F
Nature 2008 Mar 6 452(7183):51-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner / Gabriele Varani / Pascale Legault
Evaluated 19 Mar 2008

Global analysis of mRNA localization reveals a prominent role in organizing cellular architecture and function.
Lécuyer E, Yoshida H, …, Tomancak P, Krause HM
Cell 2007 Oct 5 131(1):174-87 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Talila Volk / Ken Irvine / Michael Sendtner / Elizabeth Gavis / Roy Long / Paul Lasko / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 10 Mar 2008

RNA backbone: consensus all-angle conformers and modular string nomenclature (an RNA Ontology Consortium contribution).
Richardson JS, Schneider B, …, Berman HM, RNA Ontology Consortium
RNA 2008 Mar 14(3):465-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 6 Mar 2008

A conformationally restricted guanosine analog reveals the catalytic relevance of three structures of an RNA enzyme.
Yajima R, Proctor DJ, …, Kierzek E, Bevilacqua PC
Chem Biol 2007 Jan 14(1):23-30 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 7 Dec 2007

Automated de novo prediction of native-like RNA tertiary structures.
Das R, Baker D
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 Sep 11 104(37):14664-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Tamar Schlick / Tobin Sosnick / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 7 Dec 2007

A fast-acting reagent for accurate analysis of RNA secondary and tertiary structure by SHAPE chemistry.
Mortimer SA, Weeks KM
J Am Chem Soc 2007 Apr 11 129(14):4144-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert Batey / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 23 Apr 2007

The structural basis of ribozyme-catalyzed RNA assembly.
Robertson MP, Scott WG
Science 2007 Mar 16 315(5818):1549-53 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert Batey / Thorsten Dieckmann / Burckhard Seelig / Michael Yarus / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 12 Apr 2007

Structural basis for ribosome recruitment and manipulation by a viral IRES RNA.
Pfingsten JS, Costantino DA, Kieft JS
Science 2006 Dec 1 314(5804):1450-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert Batey / Douglas Turner / Daniel Gallie
Evaluated 5 Jan 2007

Detection of non-coding RNAs on the basis of predicted secondary structure formation free energy change.
Uzilov AV, Keegan JM, Mathews DH
BMC Bioinformatics 2006-01-01 7:173 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 31 Oct 2006

Structural evidence for a two-metal-ion mechanism of group I intron splicing.
Stahley MR, Strobel SA
Science 2005 Sep 2 309(5740):1587-90 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Janet Morrow / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 24 Jan 2006

Mapping of conserved RNA secondary structures predicts thousands of functional noncoding RNAs in the human genome.
Washietl S, Hofacker IL, …, Hüttenhofer A, Stadler PF
Nat Biotechnol 2005 Nov 23(11):1383-90 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 23 Jan 2006

Crystal structure of the RNA component of bacterial ribonuclease P.
Torres-Larios A, Swinger KK, …, Pan T, Mondragón A
Nature 2005 Sep 22 437(7058):584-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 19 Oct 2005

Crystal structure of a bacterial ribonuclease P RNA.
Kazantsev AV, Krivenko AA, …, Adams PD, Pace NR
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 Sep 20 102(38):13392-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Kathleen Hall / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 19 Oct 2005

RNA secondary structure prediction by centroids in a Boltzmann weighted ensemble.
Ding Y, Chan CY, Lawrence CE
RNA 2005 Aug 11(8):1157-66 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 4 Aug 2005

RNA structure analysis at single nucleotide resolution by selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation and primer extension (SHAPE).
Merino EJ, Wilkinson KA, Coughlan JL, Weeks KM
J Am Chem Soc 2005 Mar 30 127(12):4223-31 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 31 Mar 2005

Basis for structural diversity in homologous RNAs.
Krasilnikov AS, Xiao Y, Pan T, Mondragón A
Science 2004 Oct 1 306(5693):104-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | David M.J. Lilley / Gabriele Varani / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 1 Dec 2004

Crystal structure of a self-splicing group I intron with both exons.
Adams PL, Stahley MR, …, Wang J, Strobel SA
Nature 2004 Jul 1 430(6995):45-50 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner / David M.J. Lilley
Evaluated 9 Jul 2004

Differential helix stabilities and sites pre-organized for tertiary interactions revealed by monitoring local nucleotide flexibility in the bI5 group I intron RNA.
Chamberlin SI, Weeks KM
Biochemistry 2003 Feb 4 42(4):901-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 21 May 2004

A statistical sampling algorithm for RNA secondary structure prediction.
Ding Y, Lawrence CE
Nucleic Acids Res 2003 Dec 15 31(24):7280-301 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Eric Westhof / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 19 Feb 2004

NMR structure of the active conformation of the Varkud satellite ribozyme cleavage site.
Hoffmann B, Mitchell GT, …, Collins RA, Legault P
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 Jun 10 100(12):7003-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 19 Sep 2003

Comparison of X-ray crystal structure of the 30S subunit-antibiotic complex with NMR structure of decoding site oligonucleotide-paromomycin complex.
Lynch SR, Gonzalez RL, Puglisi JD
Structure 2003 Jan 11(1):43-53 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Thorsten Dieckmann / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 6 Aug 2003

Mutations linked to dyskeratosis congenita cause changes in the structural equilibrium in telomerase RNA.
Theimer CA, Finger LD, Trantirek L, Feigon J
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 Jan 21 100(2):449-54 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Samuel Butcher / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 31 Jul 2003

Crystal structure of the specificity domain of ribonuclease P.
Krasilnikov AS, Yang X, Pan T, Mondragón A
Nature 2003 Feb 13 421(6924):760-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Peter Qin / David M.J. Lilley / Oliver Weichenrieder / Gabriele Varani / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 31 Jul 2003

The crystal structure of a 26-nucleotide RNA containing a hook-turn.
Szép S, Wang J, Moore PB
RNA 2003 Jan 9(1):44-51 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 17 Jan 2003

Specificity of RNA-RNA helix recognition.
Battle DJ, Doudna JA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 Sep 3 99(18):11676-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Scott K Silverman / Thorsten Dieckmann / Peter Qin / Douglas Turner
Evaluated 18 Nov 2002

The non-Watson-Crick base pairs and their associated isostericity matrices.
Leontis NB, Stombaugh J, Westhof E
Nucleic Acids Res 2002 Aug 15 30(16):3497-531 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Douglas Turner / Evelyn Jabri
Evaluated 13 Sep 2002

NMR study of 100 kDa HCV IRES RNA using segmental isotope labeling.
Kim I, Lukavsky PJ, Puglisi JD
J Am Chem Soc 2002 Aug 14 124(32):9338-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner / Thorsten Dieckmann / Peter Sarnow
Evaluated 27 Aug 2002

Effects of magnesium ions on the stabilization of RNA oligomers of defined structures.
Serra MJ, Baird JD, …, Retatagos K, Westhof E
RNA 2002 Mar 8(3):307-23 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 28 May 2002

Prediction of proton chemical shifts in RNA. Their use in structure refinement and validation.
Cromsigt JA, Hilbers CW, Wijmenga SS
J Biomol NMR 2001 Sep 21(1):11-29 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Douglas Turner
Evaluated 2 Jan 2002

RNAMotif, an RNA secondary structure definition and search algorithm.
Macke TJ, Ecker DJ, …, Case DA, Sampath R
Nucleic Acids Res 2001 Nov 15 29(22):4724-35 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Douglas Turner / Tina Henkin
Evaluated 2 Jan 2002

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