• Upekala De Silva N, Fargason T, Zhang Z, Wang T, Zhang J. Inter-domain Flexibility of Human Ser/Arg-Rich Splicing Factor 1 Allows Variable Spacer Length in Cognate RNA’s Bipartite Motifs. Biochemistry. 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00565
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  • Davis K, Zhang Z, Karpova E, Zhang J. Application of tyrosine-tryptophan fluorescence resonance energy transfer in monitoring protein size changes. Anal. Biochem. 2018; 557: 142-150.
  • Skrajna A, Yang XC, Bucholc K, Zhang J, Hall TM, Dadlez M, Marzluff WF, Dominski Z. U7 snRNP is recruited to histone pre-mRNA in a FLASH-dependent manner by two separate regions of the Stem-Loop Binding Protein. RNA. 2017; 23(6): 938-951
  • Law AB, Sapienza PJ, Zhang J, Zuo X, Petit CM. Native state volume fluctuations in proteins as a mechanism for dynamic allostery. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b12058.
  • Zhang J, Gonzalez LE, Hall TMT. Structural analysis reveals the flexible C-terminus of Nop15 undergoes rearrangement to recognize a pre-ribosomal RNA folding intermediate. Nucleic Acid Research. 2017, 45(5), 2829-2837.
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  • Zhou X, Liu Z, Zhang J, Adelsberger JW, Yang J, Burton GF. Alpha-1-antitrypsin interacts with gp41 to block HIV-1 entry into CD4+ Y lymphocytes. BMC Microbiol. 2016, 16:172.
  • McCann KL, Teramoto T, Zhang J, Hall TMT, Baserga SJ. The molecular basis for ANE syndrome revealed by the large ribosomal subunit processome interactome. eLife. 2016, 5:e16381.
  • Baserga SJ, McCann KL, Teramoto T, Zhang J, Hall TMT. When Good Ribosomes Go Bad. The FASEB Journal. 2016, 30: 387.1-387.1.
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  • Zhang J, Lewis S, Kuhlman B, Lee AL. Supertertiary structure of the MAGUK core from PSD-95. Structure. 2013, 21 (3):402-413.
  • Zhang J, Petit CM, King DS, Lee AL. Phosphorylation of a PDZ domain extension modulates binding affinity and interdomain interactions in postsynaptic density-95 (PSD-95) protein, a membrane-associated guanylate kinase (MAGUK). J. Biol. Chem. 2011, 286(48):41776-85.
  • Zhang J, Sapienza PJ, Ke HM, Chang A, Hengel SR, Wang HC, Philips GN, Lee AL. Crystallographic and NMR evaluation of the impact of peptide binding to the second PDZ domain of PTP1E. Biochemistry. 2010, 49 (43), 9280-9291.
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  • Whitley MJ, Zhang J, Lee AL. Hydrophobic core mutations in CI2 globally perturb fast side-chain dynamics similarly without regard to position. Biochemistry. 2008;47(33):8566-76.
  • Zhang J, Yan YB. Oligomerization and aggregation of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A: backbone hydration probed by infrared band-shift. Protein. Pept. Lett. 2008;15(7):650-7.
  • Jiang Y, Su JT, Zhang J, Wei X, Yan YB, Zhou HM. Reshaping the folding energy landscape of human carbonic anhydrase II by a single point genetic mutation Pro237His. Int. J. Biochem. Cell. Biol. 2008;40(4):776-88.
  • Kim SH, Zhang J, Jiang Y, Zhou HM, Yan YB. Assisting the reactivation of guanidine hydrochloride-denatured aminoacylase by hydroxypropyl cyclodextrins. Biophys. J. 2006;91(2):686-93.
  • Zhang J, He HW, Wang Q, Yan YB. Sequential events in ribonuclease A thermal unfolding characterized by two-dimensional infrared correlation spectroscopy. Protein. Pept. Lett. 2006;13(1):33-40.
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  • He HW, Zhang J, Zhou HM, Yan YB. Conformational change in the C-terminal domain is responsible for the initiation of creatine kinase thermal aggregation. Biophys. J. 2005;89(4):2650-8.
  • Zhang J, Yan YB. Probing conformational changes of proteins by quantitative second-derivative infrared spectroscopy. Anal. Biochem. 2005;340(1):89-98.