我的實驗室專注核糖體的逆向工程,並探索核酸分子在生物所扮演的功能與角色。
我們專注於各類核酸分子的研究,及核酸分子與金屬之間的關係。另外,我們使用類病毒粒子包裝各種不同大小的核酸分子,作為癌症免疫療法的應用。
Evolution of the ribosome at atomic resolution.
A. S. Petrov, C. R. Bernier, C. Hsiao, A. M. Norris, N. A. Kovacs, C. C. Waterbury, V. G. Stepanov, S. C. Harvey, G. E. Fox, R. M. Wartell, N. V. Hud and L. D. Williams
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014)
RiboVision suite for visualization and analysis of ribosomes.
C. R. Bernier, A. S. Petrov, C. C. Waterbury, J. Jett, F. Li, L. E. Freil, X. Xiong, L. Wang, B. L. Migliozzi, E. Hershkovits, Y. Xue, C. Hsiao, C., Bowman, S. C. Harvey, M. A. Grover, Z. J. Wartell and L. D. Williams
Faraday Discuss (2014)
Secondary Structures of rRNAs from All Three Domains of Life.
A. S. Petrov, C. R. Bernier, B. Gulen, C. C. Waterbury, E. Hershkovits, C. Hsiao, S. C. Harvey, N. V. Hud, G. E. Fox, R. M. Wartell and L. D. Williams.
PLoS One (2014)
Molecular paleontology: a biochemical model of the ancestral ribosome.
Hsiao, C., Lenz, T.K., Peters, J.K., Fang, P.Y., Schneider, D.M., Anderson, E.J., Preeprem, T., Bowman, J.C., O'Neill, E.B., Lie, L., Athavale, S. S., Gossett, J.J., Trippe, C., Murray, J., Petrov, A.S., Wartell, R.M., Harvey, S.C., Hud, N.V., Williams, L.D.
Nucleic Acids Res. (2013)
RNA with iron(II) as a cofactor catalyses electron transfer.
Hsiao, C., Chou, I.C., Okafor, C.D., Bowman, J.C., O'Neill, E.B., Athavale, S.S., Petrov, A.S., Hud, N.V., Wartell, R.M., Harvey, S.C., Williams, L.D.
Nature Chemistry (2013)
Secondary structure and domain architecture of the 23S and 5S rRNAs.
Petrov, A.S., Bernier, C.R., Hershkovits, E., Xue, Y., Waterbury, C.C., Hsiao, C., Stepanov, V.G., Gaucher, E.A., Grover, M.A., Harvey, S.C., Hud, N.V., Wartell, R.M., Fox, G.E., Williams, L.D.
Nucleic Acids Res. (2013)
B-DNA structure is intrinsically polymorphic: even at the level of base pair positions.
Maehigashi T., Hsiao, C., Woods, K.K., Moulaei, T., and Williams, L.D.
Nucleic Acids Res. (2012)
Domain III of the T. thermophilus 23S rRNA Folds Independently to a near-Native State.
Athavale, S.S., Gossett, J.J., Hsiao, C., Bowman, J.C., O'Neill, E., Hershkovitz, E., Preeprem, T., Hud, N.V., Wartell, R.M., Harvey, S.C., and Williams, L.D.
RNA (2012)
RNA Folding and Catalysis Mediated by Iron (II).
Athavale, S.S., Petrov, A.S., Hsiao, C., Watkins, D., Prickett, C.D., Gossett, J.J., Lie, L., Bowman, J.C., O'Neill, E., Bernier, C.R., Hud, N.V., Wartell, R., Harvey, S.C., and Williams, L.D.
PLoS ONE (2012)
RNA-Magnesium-Protein Interactions in Large Ribosomal Subunit.
Petrov, A.S., Bernier, C., Hsiao, C.; Okafor, C.D., Tannenbaum, E, Stern, J., Gaucher, E., Schneider, D., Hud, N.V, Harvey, S.C.; Williams, L.D.
J. Phys. Chem. B (2012)