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2012

Cyclic Peptide Inhibitors of HIV-1 Capsid-Human Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase Interaction. Dewan V, Liu T, Chen KM, Qian Z, Niu M, Kleiman L, Mahasenan K, Li C, Matsuo H, Pei D, Musier-Forsyth K. ACS Chem Biol. 2012 Jan 25. [Epub ahead of print]

Substrate Specificity of Bacterial Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase Editing Domain Is Controlled by a Tunable Hydrophobic Pocket. Kumar S, Das M, Hadad CM, Musier-Forsyth K. J Biol Chem. 2012 Jan 27;287(5):3175-84. Epub 2011 Nov 29

2011

FRET analysis reveals distinct conformations of IN tetramers in the presence of viral DNA or LEDGF/p75. Kessl JJ, Li M, Ignatov M, Shkriabai N, Eidahl JO, Feng L, Musier-Forsyth K, Craigie R, Kvaratskhelia M. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Nov 1;39(20):9009-22. Epub 2011 Jul 19                                    
                
Substrate-mediated fidelity mechanism ensures accurate decoding of proline codons. So BR, An S, Kumar S, Das M, Turner DA, Hadad CM, Musier-Forsyth K. J Biol Chem. 2011 Sep 9;286(36):31810-20. Epub 2011 Jul 18.

Diverse interactions of retroviral Gag proteins with RNAs. Rein A, Datta SA, Jones CP, Musier-Forsyth K.Trends Biochem Sci (2011). Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 36, 373-380 

HIV-integrase aptamer folds into a parallel quadruplex: a thermodynamic study. Kelley S, Boroda S, Musier-Forsyth K, Kankia BI. Biophys Chem. 2011 May;155(2-3):82-8

Matrix domain modulates HIV-1 Gag’s nucleic acid chaperone activity via inositol phosphate binding. Jones CP, Datta SA, Rein A, Rouzina I, Musier-Forsyth K. J Virol 2011; 85(4):1594-603 

Features of double-stranded RNA-binding domains of RNA helicase A are necessary for selective recognition and translation of complex mRNAs. Ranji A, Shkriabai N, Kvaratskhelia M, Musier-Forsyth K, Boris-Lawrie K. J Biol Chem. 2011 Feb 18;286(7):5328-37.

2010

RNA remodeling by chaperones and helicases. Musier-Forsyth K. RNA Biol. 2010 Nov-Dec;7(6):632-3

Role of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein in HIV-1 reverse transcription. Levin JG, Mitra M, Mascarenhas A, Musier-Forsyth K. RNA Biol. 2010 Nov-Dec;7(6):754-74

Comparative analysis of RNA/protein dynamics for the arginine-rich-binding motif and zinc-finger-binding motif proteins encoded by HIV-1. Wang H, Ma X, Yeh YS, Zhu Y, Daugherty MD, Frankel AD, Musier-Forsyth K, Barbara PF. Biophys J. 2010 Nov 17;99(10):3454-62.

Formation of the tRNALys packaging complex in HIV-1. Lawrence Kleiman, Christopher Jones,  and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2010) FEBS Letters 584, 359-365

C-terminal domain regulates the nucleic acid chaperone activity of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) nucleocapsid protein (NC) via an electrostatic mechanism. Dominic F. Qualley, Kristen M. Stewart-Maynard, Fei Wang, Mithun Mitra, Robert J. Gorelick, Ioulia Rouzina, Mark C. Williams and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2010) J. Biol. Chem. 285, 295-307.


2009

The capsid protein of human immunodeficiency virus: interactions of HIV-1 capsid with host  protein factors
, Anjali P. Mascarenhas and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2009) FEBS Journal, 276,  6118-6127.

Fidelity of plus-strand priming requires the nucleic acid chaperone activity of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein, Klara Post, Besik Kankia, Swathi Gopalakrishnan, Victoria Yang, Elizabeth Cramer, Pilar Saladores, Robert J. Gorelick, Jianhui Guo, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Judith G. Levin, (2009) Nucleic Acids Res. 37, 1755-66.

HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Switches the Pathway of TAR RNA/DNA Annealing. My-Nuong Vo, George Barany, Ioulia Rouzina, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2009) J. Mol. Biol. 386, 789-801.

Effect of Mg2+ and Na+ on the Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid protein: Implications for Reverse Transcription. My-Nuong Vo, George Barany, Ioulia Rouzina, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2009) J. Mol. Biol. 386, 773-788.

Resampling and editing of mischarged tRNA prior to translation elongation. Jiqiang Ling, Byung-Ran So, Srujana S. Yadavalli, Herve Roy, Shinichiro Shoji, Kurt Fredrick, Karin Musier-Forsyth and Michael Ibba (2009) Molecular Cell 33, 654-660.

Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy on Viral-Like Particles Reveals Variable Gag Stoichiometry. Yan Chen, Bin Wu, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Louis M. Mansky, and Joachim D. Mueller (2009), Biophys. J., 96, 1961-69.

2008


Inability of HIV-1 Produced in Murine Cells to Selectively Incorporate Primer tRNALys,3. Min Wei, Yilang Yang, Meijuan Niu, Laurie Desfosse, Robert Kennedy, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Lawrence Kleiman (2008) J. Virol. 82, 12049-59.

Retroviral Nucleocapsid Proteins Display Non-equivalent Levels of Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity. Kristen M. Stewart-Maynard, Margareta Cruceanu, Fei Wang, My-Nuong Vo, Robert J. Gorelick, Mark C. Williams, Ioulia Rouzina, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2008), J. Virol., 82, 10129-42

Functional Guanine-Arginine Interaction Between tRNA
Pro and Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase that Couples Binding and Catalysis. Brian Burke, Songon An and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2008) Biochemica Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics.

Transfer RNA Modulates The Editing Mechanism Used By Class II Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase.
Kathryn E. Splan, Michael Ignatov and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2008) J. Biol. Chem.  283, 7128-34.

Crystal structure of novel tetrameric form of human lysyl-tRNA synthetase: Implications for multi-synthetase complex and new synthetase functions. Min Guo, Michael Ignatov, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Paul Schimmel and Xiang-Lei Yang (2008) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 2331-36

Evolution of Acceptor Stem tRNA Recognition by Class II Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase. Songon An, George Barany and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2008) Nucleic Acids Res. 36, 2514-2521.

2007

Insights on the Role of Nucleic Acid/Protein Interactions in Chaperoned Nucleic Acid Rearrangements of HIV-1 Reverse Transcription. Hsiao-Wei Liu, Yining Zeng, Christy F. Landes, Yoen Joo Kim, Yongjin Zhu, Xiaojing Ma, My-Nuong Vo, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Paul F. Barbara (2007) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 5261-5267.

Probing Nucleation, Reverse Annealing, and Chaperone Function along the Reaction Path of HIV-1 Single Strand Transfer. Yining Zeng, Hsiao-Wei Liu, Christy F. Landes, Yoen Joo Kim, Xiaojing Ma, Yongjin Zhu, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Paul F. Barbara (2007) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 12651-12656.

Single Molecule Study of the Inhibition of HIV-1 Transactivation Response Region DNA:DNA Annealing by Argininamide. Christy F. Landes, Yining Zeng, Hsiao-Wei Liu, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Paul F. Barbara (2007) J. Am Chem. Soc. 129(33), 10181-88.

Deaminase-independent inhibition of HIV-1 reverse transcription by APOBEC3G. Yasumasa Iwatani, Denise S.B. Chan, F. Wang, Kristen Stewart Maynard, Wataru Sugiura, Angela Gronenborn, Ioulia Rouzina, Mark C. Williams, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Judith G. Levin. (2007) Nucleic Acids Res. 35, 7096-7108.

Critical Role of Helix 4 of HIV-1 Capsid C-terminal Domain in Interactions with Human Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase. Brandie J. Kovaleski, Robert Kennedy, Ahmad Khorchid, Lawrence Kleiman, Hiroshi Matsuo, and Karin Musier-Forsyth. (2007). J. Biol. Chem.  282, 32274 – 32279.

The HIV-1 Central DNA Flap Region Contains a “Flapping” Third Strand. Besik I. Kankia and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2007) Biophysical Chemistry127, 64-68 (2007).

Restoring species-specific posttransfer editing activity to a synthetase with a defunct editing domain. Julius SternJohn, Sanchita Hati, Paul G. Siliciano and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2007) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 2127-2132.

2006

Rapid kinetics of protein-nucleic acid interaction is a major component of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein's nucleic acid chaperone function. Margareta Cruceanu, Robert J. Gorelick, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C. Williams (2006) J. Mol. Biol., 363(5), 867-77.

Mechanistic studies of mini-TAR RNA/DNA annealing in the absence and presence of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein. My-Nuong Vo, George Barany, Ioulia Rouzina, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2006) J. Mol. Biol., 363, 244-61.

Pre-transfer Editing by Class II Escherichia coli Prolyl-tRNA Synthetases: Role of Aminoacylation Active Site in “Selective Release” of Noncognate Amino Acids. Sanchita Hati, Brigitte Ziervogel, Julius SternJohn, Fai-Chu Wong, Maria C. Nagan, Abbey E. Rosen, Paul G. Siliciano, Joe Chihade and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2006) J. Biol. Chem., 281, 27862 - 27872.

In vitro characterization of the interaction between HIV-1 Gag and human lysyl-tRNA synthetase. Brandie J. Kovaleski, Robert Kennedy, Minh K. Hong, Siddhartha A. Datta, Lawrence kleiman, Alan Rein, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2006) J. Biol. Chem., 281 (28): 19449-56.

Evolutionary conservation of a functionally important backbone phosphate group critical for aminoacylation of histidine tRNAs. Abbey E. Rosen, Bonnie S. Brooks, Ethan Guth, Christopher S. Francklyn, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2006) RNA,12 (7):1315-22.

Evidence for Non-Two-State Kinetics in the Nucleocapsid Protein Chaperoned Opening of DNA Hairpins. Cosa, G.; Zeng, Y.; Liu, H.W.; Landes, C.F.; Musier-Forsyth, K.; Barbara, P. (2006) J. Phys. Chem. B., 110 (5), 2419.

2005

Sequence-encoded Self-Assembly of Multiple Nanocomponent Arrays by 2D DNA scaffolding. Yariv Pinto, John D. Le, Nadrian C. Seeman, Karin Musier-Forsyth, T. Andrew Taton, and Richard A. Kiehl (2005) Nano Lett. 5, 2399-2402.

Single-Molecule FRET Studies of Important Intermediates in the Nucleocapsid Protein Chaperoned Minus-Strand Transfer Step in HIV-1 Reverse Transcription. Hsiao-Wei Liu, Gonzalo Cosa, Christy F. Landes, Yining Zeng, Brandie J. Kovaleski, Daniel G. Mullen, George Barany, Karin Musier-Forsyth and Paul F. Barbara (2005) Biophysical Journal, 89 (5):3470-9.

Cys-tRNA(Pro) editing by Haemophilus influenzae YbaK via a novel synthetase/YbaK/tRNA ternary complex. Songon An and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2005) J. Biol. Chem., 280(41):34465-72.

Unfolding of DNA Quadruplexes Induced by the HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein. Besik Kankia, George Barany and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2005) Nucleic Acids Res. 33, 4395-4403.

2004

DNA-Templated Self-Assembly of Metallic Nanocomponent Arrays on a Surface.  John D. Le, Yariv Pinto, Nadrian C. Seeman, Karin Musier-Forsyth, T. Andrew Taton, Richard A. Kiehl (2004) Nano Lett., 4 (12), 2343 -2347.

"Secondary Structure and Secondary Structure Dynamics of DNA Hairpins Complexed with HIV-1 NC Protein" Gonzalo Cosa, Elizabeth J. Harbron, Yining Zeng, Hsiao-Wei Liu, Donald B. O'Connor, Chie Eta-Hosokawa, Karin Musier-Forsyth and Paul F. Barbara (2004) Biophysical Journal, 87, 2759-2767.

"Trans-editing of Cys-tRNAPro by Haemophilus influenzae YbaK protein" Songon An and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2004) J. Biol. Chem., 279, 42359-42362. (Accelerated Publication).

"Nuclear Localization of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases Using Single-Cell Capillary Electrophoresis Laser-Induced Fluorescence Analysis." Nilhan Gunasekera, Sang Won Lee, Sunghoon Kim, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Edgar Arriaga (2004) Analytical Chemistry, 76, 4741-4746.

Single Molecule Observation of Transactivation Response Region DNA Melting Induced by HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein. Gonzalo Cosa, Elizabeth J. Harbron, Donald B. O’Connor, Chie Eta, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Paul F. Barbara (2004) Biophys. J. 87, 2759-2767.

"A capillary electrophoretic method for monitoring the presence of small alpha, Greek-tubulin in nuclear preparations." Nilhan Gunasekera, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Edgar Arriaga (2004) Analytical Biochemistry, 330, 1-9.

"Mechanistic Insights into the Kinetics of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein-facilitated tRNA Annealing to the Primer Binding Site." Michele R. S. Hargittai, Robert J. Gorelick, Ioulia Rouzina, Karin Musier-Forsyth (2004) Journal of Molecular Biology, 337, 951-968.

"Capillary Electrophoretic Separation of Nuclei Released from Single Cells." Nilhan Gunasekera, Karen J. Olson, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Edgar A. Arriaga (2004) Analytical Chemistry, 76, 655-662.

"Recognition of G-1:C73 Atomic Groups by Escherichia coli Histidyl-tRNA Synthetase." Abbey E. Rosen and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2004) Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, 64-65.

2003

"G-1:C73 Recognition by an Arginine Cluster in the Active Site of Escherichia coli Histidyl-tRNA Synthetase." Susan A. Connolly, Abbey E. Rosen, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Christopher S. Francklyn (2003) Biochemistry, 43, 962-969.

"Effect of G-1 on Histidine tRNA Microhelix Conformation." Mahadevan Seetharaman, Caroline Williams, Christopher J. Cramer and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2003) Nucleic Acids Research, 31, 7311-7321.

"An Isolated Class II Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Insertion Domain Is Functional in Amino Acid Editing." Fai-Chu Wong, Penny J. Beuning, Carmen Silvers and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2003) J. Biological Chemistry, 278, 52857-52864.

"Zinc Finger-Dependent HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein-TAR RNA Interactions." Nick Lee, Robert J. Gorelick, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2003) Nucleic Acids Research, 31, 4847-4855.

"Insights into the regioselective reactivity and RNA binding affinity of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein from novel applications of linear-scaling semiempirical methods." Jana Khandogin, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Darrin M. York (2003) J. Molecular Biology, 330, 993-1004.

"The Interaction Between HIV-1 Gag and Human Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase During Viral Assembly." Hassan Javanbakht, Rabih Halwani, Shan Cen, Jenan Sadaatmand, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Heinrich Gottlinger, and Lawrence Kleiman (2003) J. Biological Chemistry, 278, 27644-27651.

"Efficient Initiation of HIV-1 Reverse Transcription In Vitro: Requirement for RNA Sequences Downstream of the Primer Binding Site Abrogated by Nucleocapsid Protein-dependent Primer-Template Interactions." Yasumasa Iwatani, Abbey E. Rosen, Jianhui Guo, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Judith G. Levin (2003) J. Biological Chemistry, 278, 14185-14195.

"Does active learning through an antisense jigsaw make sense?" Mahadevan Seetharaman and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2003) Journal of Chemical Education, 80, 1404.

"Nucleic acid conformational changes essential for HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein-mediated inhibition of self-priming in minus-strand transfer." Minh Hong, Elizabeth Harbron, Donald O'Connor, Jianhui Guo, Paul Barbara, Judith G. Levin and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2003) J. Molecular Biology, 325, 1-10.

2002

"Retrovirus-specific packaging of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases with cognate primer tRNAs." Shan Cen, Hassan Javanbakht, Sunghoon Kim, Kiyotaka Shiba, Rebecca Craven, Alan Rein, Karla Ewalt, Paul Schimmel, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Lawrence Kleiman (2002) J. Virol, 76, 13111-13115.

"Discrimination of C1:G72 microhelixAla by AlaRS is based on specific atomic groups rather than conformational effects: An NMR and MD analysis. "Deborah A. Kallick, Maria C. Nagan, Penny J. Beuning, Stephanie Kerimo, Michael R. Tessmer, Christopher J. Cramer, and Karin Musier-Forsyth, (2002), Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 106, 8878-8884.

"Self-Assembly of Metallic Nanoparticle Arrays by DNA Scaffolding." Shoujun Xiao, Furong Liu, Abbey E. Rosen, James F. Hainfeld, Nadrian C. Seeman, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Richard A. Kiehl (2002) Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 4, 313-317.

"Correlation Between tRNALys3 Aminoacylation and Its Incorporation into HIV-1." Hassan Javanbakht, Shan Cen, Juliana Gabor, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Lawrence Kleiman (2002) J. Biol. Chem., 277, 17389-96.

"Specific zinc finger architecture required for HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein's nucleic acid chaperone function." Mark C. Williams, Robert J. Gorelick, Karin Musier-Forsyth (2002) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 8614-19.

"Efficient Aminoacylation of the tRNAAla Acceptor Stem: Dependence on 2:71 Base Pair." Penny J. Beuning, Maria C. Nagan, Christopher J. Cramer, and Karin Musier-Forsyth, Josep-Lluis Gelp, Donald Bashford, (2002) RNA, 8, 1-12.

"Functional Role of the Prokaryotic Proline-tRNA Synthetase Insertion Domain in Amino Acid Editing." Fai-Chu Wong, Penny Beuning, Maria Nagan, Kiyotaka Shiba, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2002) Biochemistry, 41, 7108-7115.

"Amino Acid Activation of a Dual-Specificity tRNA Synthetase Is Independent of tRNA" Richard S.A. Lipman, Penny J. Beuning, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Ya-Ming Hou. (2002) J. Mol. Biol., 316 421-427.

"Electrophoretic behavior of individual nuclear species isolated from cultured mammalian cells." Nilhan Gunasekera, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Edgar Arriaga. (2002) Electrophoresis, 23, 2110-2116.

2001

"HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein zinc finger structures induce tRNALys,3 tertiary structural changes but are not critical for primer/template annealing." Michele R. S. Hargittai, Anil T. Mangla, Robert J. Gorelick, and Karin Musier-Forsyth J. Mol. Biol., 312 985-997 (2001).

"Species-specific differences in amino acid editing by class II prolyl-tRNA synthetase." Penny J. Beuning and Karin Musier-Forsyth J. Biol. Chem. 276 30779-30785 (2001).

"Divergent Adaptation of tRNA Recognition by Methanococcus jannaschii Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase" Brian Burke, Richard S. A. Lipman, Kiyotaka Shiba, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Ya-Ming Hou J. Biol. Chem 276 20286-20291 (2001).

"Incorporation of Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase into Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1." Shan Cen, Ahmad Khorchid, Hassan Javanbakht, Juliana Gabor, Timothy Stello, Kiyotaka Shiba, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Lawrence Kleiman (2001) J. Virol., 75, 5043-5048.

"Mechanism for nucleic acid chaperone activity of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein revealed by single molecule stretching" Mark C. Williams, Ioulia Rouzina, Jay R. Wenner, Robert J. Gorelick, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Victor A. Bloomfield Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 6121-6126(2001).

2000

"Evolutionary Co-adaptation of the Motif 2-Acceptor Stem Interaction in the Class II Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase System" B. Burke, F. Yang, F. Chen, C. Stehlin, B. Chan and K. Musier-Forsyth Biochemistry 39 15540-15547 (2000).

"Use of Terbium as a Probe of tRNA Tertiary Structure and Folding" M. R. Seffernick Hargittai and K. Musier-Forsyth RNA 6 1672-1680 (2000).

"Hydrolytic Editing by a Class II Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase" P. Beuning and K. Musier-Forsyth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97 8916-8920 (2000).

"Importance of Discriminator-Base Stacking Interactions: Molecular Dynamics Analysis of A73 MicrohelixAla Variants" M. C. Nagan, P. Beuning, K. Musier-Forsyth, and C. J. Cramer Nucleic Acids Research 28 2527-2534 (2000).

1999

"Identification of Discriminator Base Atomic Groups That Modulate the Alanine Aminoacylation Reaction" A. Fischer, P. Beuning, and K. Musier-Forsyth Journal of Biological Chemistry 274 37093-37096 (1999).

"Efficient aminoacylation of tRNALys,3 by human lysyl-tRNA synthetase is dependent on covalent continuity between acceptor stem and the anticodon domain" T. Stello, M. Hong and K. Musier-Forsyth Nucleic Acids Research 27 4823-4829 (1999).

"Sequence-Dependent Conformational Differences of Small RNAs Revealed by Native Gel Electrophoresis" P. Beuning, M. Tessmer, C. Baumann, D. Kallick, and K. Musier-Forsyth Analytical Biochemistry 273 284-290 (1999).

"Intra-tRNA Distance Measurements for Nucleocapsid Protein-Dependent tRNA Unwinding During Priming of HIV Reverse Transcription" B. Chan, K. Weidemaier, W.-T. Yip, P. F. Barbara, and K. Musier-Forsyth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 459-464 (1999)

1998

"Subtle Functional Interactions in the RNA Minor Groove at a Nonessential Base Pair" B. Henderson, P. Beuning, J.-P. Shi, R. Bald, J.P. Fuerste, V.A. Erdmann, K. Musier-Forsyth, and P. Schimmel Journal of the American Chemical Society 120 9110-9111 (1998)

"Species-Specific Differences in the Operational RNA Code for Aminoacylation of tRNAPro" C. Stehlin, B. Burke, F. Yang, H. Liu, K. Shiba, and K. Musier-Forsyth Biochemistry 37 8605-8613 (1998)

1997

"The nucleocapsid protein specifically anneals tRNALys,3 onto a noncomplementary primer binding site within the HIV-1 RNA genome in vitro" B. Chan and K. Musier-Forsyth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94 13530-13535 (1997)

"Specific Atomic Groups and RNA Helix Geometry in Acceptor Stem Recognition by a tRNA Synthetase" P. J. Beuning, Fan Yang, P. Schimmel, and K. Musier-Forsyth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94 10150-10154 (1997)

"Atomic Group 'Mutagenesis' Reveals Major Groove Fine Interactions of a tRNA Synthetase with an RNA Helix" P. J. Beuning, M. Gulotta, and K. Musier-Forsyth Journal of the American Chemical Society 119 8397-8402 (1997)

"Human Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase Accepts N73 Variants and Rescues E. coli Double-Defective Mutant" K. Shiba, T. Stello, H. Motegi, T. Noda, K. Musier-Forsyth, and P. Schimmel Journal of Biological Chemistry 272 22809-22816 (1997)

"Chemical Modification and Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the Single Cysteine in Motif 3 of Class II E. coli Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase" C. Stehlin, D. Heacock, H. Liu, and K. Musier-Forsyth Biochemistry 36 2932-2938 (1997)

1996

"Synthesis and Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibitory Activity of Prolyl Adenylate Analogs" C.J. Forsyth, D. Heacock, K. Shiba, and K. Musier-Forsyth Bioorganic Chemistry 24 273-289 (1996)

"'Distorted' RNA Helix Recognition" P. Schimmel, and K. Musier-Forsyth Nature 384 422 (1996)

"Efficient introduction of phosphorothioates into RNA oligonucleotides by 3-ethoxy-1,2,4-dithiazoline-5-one (EDITH)" Q. Xu, G. Barany, R. Hammer, and K. Musier-Forsyth Nucleic Acids Research 24 3643-3644 (1996)

"Use of 1,2,4-dithiazolidine-3,5-dione (DtsNH) and 3-ethoxy-1,2,4-dithiazoline-5-one (EDITH) for Synthesis of Phosphorothioate-Containing Oligodeoxyribonucleotides" Q. Xu, K. Musier-Forsyth, R. Hammer, and G. Barany Nucleic Acids Research 24 1602-1607 (1996)

"Single Atomic Group in RNA Helix Needed for Positive and Negative tRNA Synthtase Discrimination" H. Liu, L.-P. Yap, and K. Musier-Forsyth Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 2523-2524 (1996)

1995

"Use of Semi-Synthetic Transfer RNAs to Probe Molecular Recognition by Escherichia coli Proline-tRNA Synthetase" L.-P. Yap, C. Stehlin, and K. Musier-Forsyth Chemistry and Biology 2 661-666 (1995)

"Evidence for Class-Specific Discrimination of a Semi-Conserved Base Pair by tRNA Synthetases" H. Liu, R. Peterson, J. Kessler, and K. Musier-Forsyth Biochemistry 34 9795-9800 (1995)

"Transfer RNA Aminoacylation: Identification of a Critical Ribose 2'-hydroxyl-base Interaction" L. Yap and K. Musier-Forsyth RNA 1 418-424 (1995)

"Base Analog-Induced Aminoacylation of an RNA Helix by a tRNA Synthetase" K. Musier-Forsyth, J.-P. Shi, B. Henderson, R. Bald, J. Fuerste, V. Erdman, and P. SchimmelJournal of the American Chemical Society 117 7253-7254 (1995)

"Evidence for Class-Specific Discrimination of a Semi-Conserved Base Pair by tRNA Synthetases" H. Liu, R. Peterson, J. Kessler, and K. Musier-Forsyth Biochemistry 34 9795-9800 (1995)

"Molecular Recognition by Pro by Escherichia coli Proline tRNA Synthetase in vitro" H. Liu, R. Peterson, J. Kessler, and K. Musier-Forsyth Nucleic Acids Research 23 165-169 (1995)

1994

"Escherichia coli Proline tRNA Synthetase is Sensitive to Changes in the Core Region of tRNAPro" H. Liu, and K. Musier-Forsyth Biochemistry 33 12708-12714 (1994)

"Region of a Conserved Sequence Motif in a Class II tRNA Synthetase Needed for Transfer of an Activated Amino Acid to an RNA Substrate" JP. Shi, K. Musier-Forsyth, and P. Schimmel Biochemistry 33 5312-5318 (1994)

"Acceptor Helix Interactions in a Class II tRNA Synthetase: Photoaffinity Cross-linking of an RNA Miniduplex Substrate" K. Musier-Forsyth, and P. Schimmel Biochemistry 33 773-779 (1994)

1992

"Functional Contacts of a Transfer RNA Synthetase with 2'-Hydroxyl Groups in the RNA Minor Groove" K. Musier-Forsyth and P. Schimmel Nature 357 513-515 (1992)

"Preferential Interaction of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Reverse Transcriptase with Two Regions of Primer tRNALys as Evidenced by Footprinting Studies and Inhibition with Synthetic Oligoribonucleotides" L. Sarih-Cottin, B. Bordier, K. Musier-Forsyth, M Andreola, P. Barr and S. Litvak Journal of Molecular Biology 226 1-6 (1992)

1991

"Specificity for Aminoacylation of an RNA Helix: An Unpaired, Exocyclic Amino Group in the Minor Groove" K. Musier-Forsyth, N. Usman, S. Scaringe, J. Doudna, R. Green and P. Schimmel Science 253 784-786 (1991)

"Enzymatic Aminoacylation of Single-Stranded RNA with an RNA Cofactor" K. Musier-Forsyth, S. Scaringe, N. Usman and P. Schimmel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 88 209-213 (1991)

1990

"Rotational Dynamics of Chloroplast ATP Synthase" K. Musier-Forsyth and G.G. Hammes Biochemistry 29 3236-3241 (1990)

1988

"Assessment of the Number of Nucleotide Binding Sites in Chloroplast Coupling Factor 1 by the Continuous Variation Method" K. Musier and G.G. Hammes Biochemistry 27 7015-7020 (1988)

1987

"Rotation of Nucleotide Sites is Not Required for the Enzymatic Activity of Chloroplast Coupling Factor 1" K. Musier and G.G. Hammes Biochemistry 26 5982-5988 (1987)

1984

"Doubly Charged Ion Mass Spectra of Terpenes" J. Appling, K. Musier, L. Abbey and T. Moran Organic Mass Spectrometry 19 524-527 (1984)

"Doubly Charged Ion Mass Spectra: 8-Alkenes" J. Appling, K. Musier and T. Moran Organic Mass Spectrometry 19 412-422 (1984)

Reviews, Commentaries, and Book Chapters:

2009

Interactions of HIV-1 Capsid with Host Protein Factors. Anjali P. Mascarenhas and Karin Musier-Forsyth (2009) FEBS Journal, submitted.

2008

The Return of Pretransfer Editing in Protein Synthesis. Srujana S. Yadavalli, Karin Musier-Forsyth,  and Michael Ibba (2008) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 19031-19032. (Commentary)

In vitro Assays for the Determination of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Editing Activity. Kathryn Splan,   Michal T. Boniecki, Susan A. Martinis, and Karin Musier-Forsyth (Ed. Michael Ibba) (2008) Methods, 44, 119-128.

Fidelity Mechanisms of the Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases. Anjali Mascarenhas, Susan A. Martinis, Songon An, Abbey E. Rosen, and Karin Musier-Forsyth in Protein Engineering (Eds. Uttam RajBhandary and Caroline Koehrer) (2008) Springer Verlag, pp 153-200.

2005

Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein: Critical Role in Reverse Transcription and Molecular Mechanism. Judith G. Levin, Jianhui Guo, Ioulia Rouzina, Karin Musier-Forsyth (2005) Prog. Nucleic Acid Res. Mol. Biol., 80, 217-286.

Alanyl-tRNA Synthetase. Lluis Ribas de Pouplana, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Paul Schimmel, in Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases (Eds. C. Francklyn, S. Cusack, M. Ibba), 2005, Landes Biosciences, pp 241-149.

Class II Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase. Karin Musier-Forsyth, Brian Burke, and Stephen Cusack, in Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases (Eds. C. Francklyn, S. Cusack, M. Ibba), 2005, Landes Biosciences, pp 149-161.

2000

Role of Zinc Ion in Translational Accuracy Becomes Crystal Clear. Karin Musier-Forsyth and Penny J. Beuning (2000) Nature Structural Biology, 7, 435-436. (invited News and Views).

1999

Transfer RNA Recognition by Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases.  K. Musier-Forsyth and P. Beuning (1999) Biopolymers, 52, 1-28.

Atomic Determinants for Aminoacylation of RNA Minihelices and Relationship to Genetic Code. Karin Musier-Forsyth and Paul Schimmel (1999) Accounts of Chemical Research, 32, 368-375.

1998

 Transfer RNA Acceptor Stem Determinants for Specific Aminoacylation by Class II Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases. Karin Musier-Forsyth (1998) J. Biochem. and Mol. Biol. 31, 525-535.

1997

 Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in Biology and Disease:  New Evidence for Structural and Functional Diversity in an Ancient Family of Enzymes.  Francklyn, C., Musier-Forsyth, K., and Martinis, S. A. (1997) RNA, 3, 954-960.

1993

 Aminoacylation of RNA Oligonucleotides:  Minimalist Structures and Origin of Specificity.  Musier-Forsyth, K., and Schimmel, P. (1993) FASEB J., 7, 282-289.

1992

Small RNA Helices as Substrates for Aminoacylation and their Relationship to Charging of Transfer RNAs.  Francklyn, C., Musier-Forsyth, K., and Schimmel, P. (1992) Eur. J. Biochem., 206, 315-321.

 

 

The Ohio State University

Joint appointment with the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry