2021

A. Roth, Weinberg, Z., Vanderschuren, K., Murdock, M. H., and Breaker, R. R., “Natural circularly permuted group II introns in bacteria produce RNA circles”, iScience, vol. 24, no. 12, 2021. [Link]
K. I. Brewer, Gaffield, G. J., Puri, M., and Breaker, R. R., “DIMPL: a bioinformatics pipeline for the discovery of structured noncoding RNA motifs in bacteria”, Bioinformatics, 2021. [Link]
K. I. Brewer, Greenlee, E. B., Higgs, G., Yu, D., G Arachchilage, M., Chen, X., King, N., White, N., and Breaker, R. R., “Comprehensive discovery of novel structured noncoding RNAs in 26 bacterial genomes”, RNA Biol, 2021. [Link]
Y. Yang, Harris, K. A., Widner, D., and Breaker, R. R., “Structure of a bacterial OapB protein with its OLE RNA target gives insights into the architecture of the OLE ribonucleoprotein complex”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 118(9), 2021. [Link]
S. S. S. Panchapakesan and Breaker, R. R., “The case of the missing allosteric ribozymes”, Nat Chem Biol, 2021. [Link]

2020

H. Salvail, Balaji, A., Yu, D., Roth, A., and Breaker, R., “Biochemical Validation of a Fourth Guanidine Riboswitch Class in Bacteria”, Biochemistry, 2020. [Link]
S. S. S. Panchapakesan, Corey, L., Malkowski, S. N., Higgs, G., and Breaker, R. R., “A Second Riboswitch Class for the Enzyme Cofactor NAD”, RNA, 2020. [Link]
D. Yu and Breaker, R. R., “A bacterial riboswitch class senses xanthine and uric acid to regulate genes associated with purine oxidation”, RNA, vol. 26, no. 8, p. 960, 2020. [Link]
R. R. Breaker, “Imaginary Ribozymes”, ACS Chem Biol, vol. 15, no. 8, p. 2020, 2020. [Link]
S. N. Malkowski, Atilho, R. M., Greenlee, E. B., weinberg, C., and Breaker, R. R., “A rare bacterial RNA motif is implicated in the regulation of the purF gene whose encoded enzyme synthesizes phosphoribosylamine”, RNA, 2020. [Link]
M. E. Sherlock and Breaker, R. R., “Former orphan riboswitches reveal unexplored areas of bacterial metabolism, signaling, and gene control processes”, RNA, vol. 26, no. 6, p. 675, 2020. [Link]
D. Widner, Harris, K. A., Corey, L., and Breaker, R. R., “Bacillus halodurans OapB forms a high-affinity complex with the P13 region of the noncoding RNA OLE”, J Biol Chem, vol. 295, no. 28, p. 9326, 2020. [Link]

2019

K. Perkins, Atilho, R. M., Moon, M. H., and Breaker, R. R., “Employing a ZTP Riboswitch to Detect Bacterial Folate Biosynthesis Inhibitors in a Small Molecule High-Throughput Screen”, ACS Chem. Biol., vol. 14, p. 9, 2019. [Link]
S. N. Malkowski, TCJ, S., and Breaker, R. R., “Evidence that the nadA Motif is a Bacterial Riboswitch for the Ubiquitous Enzyme Cofactor NAD”, RNA, 2019. [Link]
K. A. Harris, Odzer, N., and Breaker, R. R., “Disruption of the OLE ribonucleoprotein complex causes magnesium toxicity in Bacillus halodurans”, Molecular Microbiology, 2019. [Link]
X. Chen, G Arachchilage, M., and Breaker, R. R., “Biochemical validation of a second class of tetrahydrofolate riboswitches in bacteria”, RNA, 2019. [Link]
R. M. Atilho, G Arachchilage, M., Greenlee, E. B., Knecht, K. M., and Breaker, R. R., “A bacterial riboswitch class for the thiamin precursor HMP-PP employs a terminator-embedded aptamer”, eLife, 2019. [Link]
M. G Arachchilage, Atilho, R. M., Stav, S., Higgs, G., and Breaker, R. R., “Genome-wide Discovery of Rare Riboswitches in Bacteria”, FASEB, vol. 33, 2019. [Link]
S. Stav, Atilho, R. M., G Arachchilage, M., Nguyen, G., Higgs, G., and Breaker, R. R., “Genome-wide discovery of structured noncoding RNAs in bacteria”, BMC Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 66, 2019. [Link]

2018

R. M. Atilho, Perkins, K., and Breaker, R. R., “Rare variants of the FMN riboswitch class in Clostridium difficile and other bacteria exhibit altered ligand specificity.”, RNA, 2018. [Link]

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