Friday Lecture Series
Friday, May 1, 2015
3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium
Ronald Breaker, Ph.D.
Henry Ford II Professor,
Professor, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
Yale University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Prospects for Riboswitch and Ribozyme Discovery
Empirical Articles
Baker, J. L., Sudarsan, N., Weinberg, Z., Roth, A., Stockbridge, R. B., & Breaker, R. R. (2012). Widespread genetic switches and toxicity resistance proteins for fluoride. Science, 335(6065), 233-235. doi:10.1126/science.1215063
Kim, P. B., Nelson, J. W., & Breaker, R. R. (2015). An ancient riboswitch class in bacteria regulates purine biosynthesis and one-carbon metabolism. Molecular Cell, 57(2), 317-328. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2015.01.001
Nelson, J. W., Sudarsan, N., Furukawa, K., Weinberg, Z., Wang, J. X., & Breaker, R. R. (2013). Riboswitches in eubacteria sense the second messenger c-di-AMP. Nature Chemical Biology, 9(12), 834-839. doi:10.1038/nchembio.1363
Roth, A., Weinberg, Z., Chen, A. G., Kim, P. B., Ames, T. D., & Breaker, R. R. (2014). A widespread self-cleaving ribozyme class is revealed by bioinformatics. Nature chemical biology, 10(1), 56-60. doi:10.1038/nchembio.1386
Review Papers
Breaker, R. R. (2012). Riboswitches and the RNA world. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 4(2), a003566. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a003566
Breaker, R. R., & Joyce, G. F. (2014). The expanding view of RNA and DNA function. Chemistry & Biology, 21(9), 1059-1065. doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2014.07.008
