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  • Multiscale biophysical analysis of nucleolus disassembly during mitosis
    An Pham, Madhav Mani, Xiaozhong Wang, Reza Vafabakhsh
    PNAS, (2024) WEB

  • Structural basis of TFIIIC-dependent RNA polymerase III transcription initiation
    Anna Talyzina, Yan Han, Chiranjib Banerjee, Susan Fishbain, Alexis Reyes, Reza Vafabakhsh, Yuan He
    Molecular Cell, (2023) WEB

  • Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry Reveals Activity-Modifying Phosphorylation Barcode in a Class C G Protein-Coupled Receptor
    Ashley N. Ives, Henry A. Dunn, Hamid Samareh Afsari, Henrique dos Santos Seckler, Max J. Foroutan, Erica Chavez, Rafael D. Melani, Ryan T. Fellers, Richard D. LeDuc, Paul M. Thomas, Kirill A. Martemyanov, Neil L. Kelleher, and Reza Vafabakhsh
    JACS, (2022) WEB

  • Conformational fingerprinting of allosteric modulators in metabotropic glutamate receptor 2
    Brandon Wey-Hung Liauw, Arash Foroutan, Michael R Schamber, Weifeng Lu, Hamid Samareh Afsari, Reza Vafabakhsh
    eLife, e78982 (2022) WEB

  • Mechanism of sensitivity modulation in the calcium-sensing receptor via electrostatic tuning
    Michael R. Schamber & Reza Vafabakhsh
    Nature Communications, 13, 2194 (2022) WEB

  • Conformational rearrangement during activation of a metabotropic glutamate receptor
    Brandon Wey-Hung Liauw, Hamid Samareh Afsari and Reza Vafabakhsh
    Nature Chemical Biology, 17, 291–297 (2021) PDF|WEB

  • Mapping the KRAS proteoform landscape in colorectal cancer identifies truncated KRAS4B that decreases MAPK signaling
    Lauren M. Adams, Caroline J. DeHart, Bryon S. Drown, Lissa C. Anderson, William Bocik, Emily S. Boja, Tara M. Hiltke, Christopher L. Hendrickson, Henry Rodriguez, Michael Caldwell, Reza Vafabakhsh, Neil L. Kelleher
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, 299, 102768 (2022) WEB

  • Visualizing the Conformational Dynamics of Membrane Receptors Using Single-Molecule FRET
    Chiranjib Banerjee, Brandon Wey-Hung Liauw, Reza Vafabakhsh
    JoVE, (2022) WEB

  • DNAcycP: a deep learning tool for DNA cyclizability prediction
    Keren Li, Matthew Carroll, Reza Vafabakhsh, Xiaozhong A Wang, Ji-Ping Wang
    Nucleic Acids Research, 50, 3142–3154, (2022) WEB

  • A viral genome packaging ring-ATPase is a flexibly coordinated pentamer
    Li Dai, Digvijay Singh, Suoang Lu, Vishal I. Kottadiel, Reza Vafabakhsh, Marthandan Mahalingam, Yann R. Chemla, Taekjip Ha & Venigalla B. Rao
    Nature Communications, 12, 6548 (2021) WEB

  • FRET-Based dynamic structural biology: Challenges, perspectives and an appeal for open-science practices
    Elife
    , 10:e60416 (2021) WEB

  • Conformational dynamics of a class C G protein-coupled receptor
    Reza Vafabakhsh, Joshua Levitz, Ehud Isacoff,
    Nature, 524, 497–501 (2015) PDF|WEB

  • Structural dynamics of potassium-channel gating revealed by single-molecule FRET
    Wang S*, Vafabakhsh R*, Borschel WF, Ha T Nichols CG
    Nature Structure and Molecular Biology, 23(1):31-36 (2016) PDF|WEB

  • Distinct mechanisms regulating mechanical force-induced Ca2+ signals at the plasma membrane and the ER in human MSCs
    Kim T, Joo C, Seong J, Vafabakhsh R, Botvinick EL, Berns MW, Palmer AE, Wang N, Ha T, Jakobsson E, Sun J, Wang Y
    Elife, 4:e04876 (2015) WEB

  • Single Molecule Packaging Initiation in Real-time by a Viral DNA Packaging Machine from Bacteriophage T4
    Vafabakhsh R, Kondabagil K, Earnest T, Lee KS, Zhang Z, Dai L, Dahmen KA, Rao VB, Ha T
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(42):15096-15101 (2014) PDF|WEB

  • Designing a nine cysteine-less DNA packaging motor from bacteriophage T4 reveals new insights into ATPase structure and function
    Kondabagil K, Dai L, Vafabakhsh R, Ha T, Draper B, Rao VB
    Virology, 468-470:660-668 (2014) WEB

  • Extreme bendability of DNA less than 100 base pairs long revealed by single-molecule cyclization
    Vafabakhsh R, Ha T
    Science, 337(6098):1097-1101 (2012) PDF|WEB

  • One influenza virus particle packages eight unique viral RNAs as shown by FISH analysis
    Chou YY*, Vafabakhsh R*, Doğanay S, Gao Q, Ha T, Palese P
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(23):9101-9106 (2012) PDF|WEB

  • The influenza A virus PB2, PA, NP, and M segments play a pivotal role during genome packaging
    Gao Q, Chou YY, Doğanay S, Vafabakhsh R, Ha T, Palese P
    Journal of Virology, 86(13):7043-7051 (2012) WEB

  • Antiparallel EmrE exports drugs by exchanging between asymmetric structures
    Morrison EA, DeKoster GT, Dutta S, Vafabakhsh R, Clarkson MW, Bahl A, Kern D, Ha T, Henzler-Wildman KA
    Nature, 481(7379):45-50 (2011) PDF|WEB

  • A promiscuous DNA packaging machine from bacteriophage T4
    Zhang Z, Kottadiel VI, Vafabakhsh R, Dai L, Chemla YR, Ha T, Rao VB
    PLoS Biology, 15;9(2):e1000592 (2011) WEB

  • Self-motile colloidal particles: from directed propulsion to random walk
    Howse JR, Jones RA, Ryan AJ, Gough T, Vafabakhsh R, Golestanian R
    Physical Review Letters, 99:048102 (2007) PDF|WEB