Traci M Tanaka Hall

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Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Poly(A) tail synthesis and regulation: recent structural insights
    Traci M Tanaka Hall
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, PO Box 12233, MDF3 05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Curr Opin Struct Biol 12:82-8. 2002
  2. ncbi Multiple modes of RNA recognition by zinc finger proteins
    Traci M Tanaka Hall
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Curr Opin Struct Biol 15:367-73. 2005
  3. ncbi Structure and function of argonaute proteins
    Traci M Tanaka Hall
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Structure 13:1403-8. 2005
  4. ncbi A 5' cytosine binding pocket in Puf3p specifies regulation of mitochondrial mRNAs
    Deyu Zhu
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:20192-7. 2009
  5. ncbi Divergence of Pumilio/fem-3 mRNA binding factor (PUF) protein specificity through variations in an RNA-binding pocket
    Chen Qiu
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    J Biol Chem 287:6949-57. 2012
  6. ncbi Understanding and engineering RNA sequence specificity of PUF proteins
    Gang Lu
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States of America
    Curr Opin Struct Biol 19:110-5. 2009
  7. ncbi Basis of altered RNA-binding specificity by PUF proteins revealed by crystal structures of yeast Puf4p
    Matthew T Miller
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T W Alexander Drive, Building 101, Room F363, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Nat Struct Mol Biol 15:397-402. 2008
  8. ncbi Alternate modes of cognate RNA recognition by human PUMILIO proteins
    Gang Lu
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Structure 19:361-7. 2011
  9. ncbi Modular recognition of RNA by a human pumilio-homology domain
    Xiaoqiang Wang
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Cell 110:501-12. 2002
  10. ncbi Structural basis for specific recognition of multiple mRNA targets by a PUF regulatory protein
    Yeming Wang
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:20186-91. 2009

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Publications15

  1. ncbi Poly(A) tail synthesis and regulation: recent structural insights
    Traci M Tanaka Hall
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, PO Box 12233, MDF3 05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Curr Opin Struct Biol 12:82-8. 2002
    ..Recently determined structures of poly(A) polymerase, U1A and domains of the poly(A)-binding protein provide a framework for understanding the synthesis and regulation of the poly(A) tail...
  2. ncbi Multiple modes of RNA recognition by zinc finger proteins
    Traci M Tanaka Hall
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Curr Opin Struct Biol 15:367-73. 2005
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  3. ncbi Structure and function of argonaute proteins
    Traci M Tanaka Hall
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Structure 13:1403-8. 2005
    ..Recent structural and biochemical studies have shed new light on the function of this family of proteins. These studies reveal how these proteins recognize and cleave RNA and suggest a function for prokaryotic family members...
  4. ncbi A 5' cytosine binding pocket in Puf3p specifies regulation of mitochondrial mRNAs
    Deyu Zhu
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:20192-7. 2009
    ..Yeast Puf3p binds its own RNAs because they possess a -2C and is excluded from those of Puf4p which contain an additional nucleotide in the core-binding site...
  5. ncbi Divergence of Pumilio/fem-3 mRNA binding factor (PUF) protein specificity through variations in an RNA-binding pocket
    Chen Qiu
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    J Biol Chem 287:6949-57. 2012
    ..Loss of the pocket requires only substitution of one serine, as appears to have occurred during the evolution of certain fungal species...
  6. ncbi Understanding and engineering RNA sequence specificity of PUF proteins
    Gang Lu
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States of America
    Curr Opin Struct Biol 19:110-5. 2009
    ....
  7. ncbi Basis of altered RNA-binding specificity by PUF proteins revealed by crystal structures of yeast Puf4p
    Matthew T Miller
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T W Alexander Drive, Building 101, Room F363, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Nat Struct Mol Biol 15:397-402. 2008
    ..Using structural information and sequence comparisons, we created a mutant Puf4p protein that preferentially binds to an 8-nt target RNA sequence over a 9-nt sequence and restores binding of each protein repeat to one RNA base...
  8. ncbi Alternate modes of cognate RNA recognition by human PUMILIO proteins
    Gang Lu
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Structure 19:361-7. 2011
    ..However, these modes of binding create structurally variable recognition surfaces that suggest a mechanism in vivo for recruitment of downstream effector proteins defined by the PUF:RNA complex...
  9. ncbi Modular recognition of RNA by a human pumilio-homology domain
    Xiaoqiang Wang
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Cell 110:501-12. 2002
    ..We have mutated these three side chains in one repeat, thereby altering the sequence specificity of Pumilio1. Thus, the high affinity and specificity of the PUM-HD for RNA is achieved using multiple copies of a simple repeated motif...
  10. ncbi Structural basis for specific recognition of multiple mRNA targets by a PUF regulatory protein
    Yeming Wang
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:20186-91. 2009
    ..The principles of FBF/RNA recognition suggest a general mechanism by which PUF proteins recognize distinct families of RNAs yet exploit very nearly identical atomic contacts in doing so...
  11. ncbi Solution structure of the Drosha double-stranded RNA-binding domain
    Geoffrey A Mueller
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
    Silence 1:2. 2010
    ..To gain insight into the function of this domain, we determined the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) solution structure...
  12. ncbi Structural basis for an inositol pyrophosphate kinase surmounting phosphate crowding
    Huanchen Wang
    Inositol Signaling Group, Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
    Nat Chem Biol 8:111-6. 2012
    ..We describe the enzyme's conformational dynamics, its unprecedented topological presentation of nucleotide and inositol phosphate, and the charge balance that facilitates partly associative in-line phosphoryl transfer...
  13. ncbi Engineering RNA sequence specificity of Pumilio repeats
    Cheom-Gil Cheong
    Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:13635-9. 2006
    ..These data show that Pumilio1 can be used as a scaffold to engineer RNA-binding proteins with designed sequence specificity...
  14. ncbi SAM breaks its stereotype
    Traci M Tanaka Hall
    Nat Struct Biol 10:677-9. 2003
  15. ncbi Evolution from DNA to RNA recognition by the bI3 LAGLIDADG maturase
    Antonella Longo
    Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, USA
    Nat Struct Mol Biol 12:779-87. 2005
    ..The bI3 maturase nucleic acid recognition saddle interacts at the RNA minor groove; thus, evolution from DNA to RNA function has been mediated by a switch from major to minor groove interaction...