10 Key Publications

1.

Computationally reconstructing cotranscriptional RNA folding from experimental data reveals rearrangement of non-native folding intermediates.
A. M. Yu, P. M. Gasper, L. Cheng, L. B. Lai#, S. Kaur#, V. Gopalan, A. A. Chen, J. B. Lucks*. Molecular Cell (2021) doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.12.017 # = Equal contribution
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2.

Cell-free biosensors for rapid detection of water contaminants.
J. K. Jung#, K. K. Alam#, M. S. Verosloff, D. A. Capdevila, M. Desmau, P. R. Clauer, J. W. Lee, P. Q. Nguyen, P. A. Pasten, S. J. Matiasek, J.-F. Gaillard, D. P. Giedroc, J. J. Collins, J. B. Lucks*. Nature Biotechnology (2020) doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0571-7 # = Equal contribution
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3.

Point-of-use detection of environmental fluoride via a cell-free riboswitch-based biosensor.
W. Thavarajah, A. D. Silverman, M. S. Verosloff, N. Kelley-Loughnane, M. C. Jewett, J. B. Lucks*. ACS Synthetic Biology.(2019)
Links: Journal, BioRxiv, PDF

4.

A ligand-gated strand displacement mechanism for ZTP riboswitch transcription control.
E. J. Strobel*, L. Cheng, K. E. Berman, P. D. Carlson, J. B. Lucks*. Nature Chemical Biology. (2019).
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5.

DUETT quantitatively identifies known and novel events in nascent RNA structural dynamics from chemical probing data.
A. Y Xu, A. M Yu, J. B. Lucks, N. Bagheri.* Bioinformatics. (2019).
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6.

High-throughput determination of RNA structures.
E. J. Strobel#, A. M Yu#, J. B. Lucks. Nature Reviews Genetics. (2018). # = These authors contributed equally
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7.

Cotranscriptional folding of a riboswitch at nucleotide resolution.
K. E. Watters#, E. J. Strobel#, A. M. Yu, J. T. Lis, J. B. Lucks. Nature Structure and Molecular Biology. (2016). # = Equal contribution
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8.

Simultaneous characterization of cellular RNA structure and function with in-cell SHAPE-Seq. K. E. Watters, Timothy R. Abbott, J. B. Lucks. Nucleic Acids Research. (2015).
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9.

Creating Small Transcription Activating RNAs.
J. Chappell, M. K. Takahashi, J. B. Lucks. Nature Chemical Biology. (2015).
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10.

Rapidly characterizing the fast dynamics of RNA genetic circuitry with cell-free transcription-translation (TX-TL) systems.
M. K. Takahashi, J. Chappell, C. A. Hayes, Z. Z. Sun, J. Kim, V. Singhal, K. J. Spring, S. Al-Khabouri, C. P. Fall, V. Noireaux, R. M. Murray, J. B. Lucks. ACS Synthetic Biology. (2014). doi: 10.1021/sb400206c
Links: Journal, PDF, BioRxiv (Open Access)