publications

 
 

• Putnam C.D., Hammel M., Hura, G.L., Tainer, J. A. 2007. Modeling flexible and disordered molecular assemblies using X-ray crystallography and small-angle X-ray scattering. Quart. Rev. Biophysics. In press.
  
  
  
• Kolodner, R.D., Mendillo, M. L., Putnam, C.D. 2007. Coupling distant sites in DNA during DNA mismatch repair. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 104, 12953-12954.
  
  
  
• Shell, S., Putnam, C.D., and Kolodner, R.D. 2007. Biochemical and genetic analysis of an Msh6 derivative with the mispair recognition specificity of Msh3. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 104: 10956-10961.
  
  
  
• Mendillo M.*, Putnam, C.D.*, and Kolodner, R.D. 2007. Escherichia coli MutS tetramer solution structure and crystal structure of tetramerization domain reveals that tetramerization is not required for mismatch repair. J. Biol. Chem. 282, 16345-16354. (*Equal contribution.)
  
  
  
• Shell, S.*, Putnam, C.D.*, and Kolodner, R.D. 2007. The N-terminus of yeast Msh6 is an unstructured tether to PCNA. Molecular Cell. 26, 565-578. (*Equal contribution)
  
  
  
• Aksentijevich, I.*, Putnam, C.D.*, Remmers, E.F., Mueller, J.L., Le, J., Kolodner, R.D., Moak, Z., Chuang, M., Austin, F., Goldbach-Mansky, R., Hoffman, H.M., and Kastner, D.L. 2006. The clinical continuum of cryopyrinopathies: novel CIAS1 mutations in the North American cohort of patients and a new cryopyrin model. Arthritis Rheumatology 56, 1273-1285. (*Equal contribution.)
  
  
  
• KH Schmidt, V Pennaneach, CD Putnam, RD Kolodner. 2006. Analysis of gross chromosomal rearrangements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods in Enzymology 409: 462-476.
  
  
  
• V Pennaneach, CD Putnam, RD Kolodner. 2006. Chromosomal healing by de novo telomere addition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Microbiology 59: 1357-1368.
  
  
  
• CD Putnam, JA Tainer. 2005. Protein mimicry of DNA and pathway regulation. DNA Repair 4: 1410-1420.
  
  
  
• CD Putnam, V Pennaneach, RD Kolodner. 2005. Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system to define the chromosomal instability phenotype. Molecular and Cellular Biology 25: 7226-7238.
  
  
  
• Y Wang, CD Putnam, MF Kane, W Zhang, L Edelmann, R Russell, DV Carrion, L Chin, R Kucherlapati, RD Kolodner. 2005. Mutation in Rpa1 results in defective DNA double-strand break repair, chromosomal instability and cancer in mice. Nature Genetics 37: 750-755.
  
  
  
• CD Putnam, V Pennaneach, RD Kolodner. 2004. Chromosome healing through terminal deletions generated by de novo telomere additions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101: 13262-13267.
  
  
  
• DP Barondeau, CD Putnam, CJ Kassmann, JA Tainer, ED Getzoff. 2003. Mechanism and energetics of green fluorescent protein chromophore synthesis revealed by trapped intermediate structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100: 12111-12116.
  
  
  
• RD Kolodner, CD Putnam, K Myung. 2002. Maintenance of genome stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 297: 552-557.
  
  
  
• D Balicki, CD Putnam, PV Scaria, and E Beuter. 2002. Structure and function correlation in histone H2A peptide-mediated gene transfer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99: 7467-7471.
  
  
  
• KP Hopfner, CD Putnam, and JA Tainer. 2002. DNA double-strand break repair from head to tail. Current Opinions in Structural Biology 12: 115-122.
  
  
  
• CD Putnam, SB Clancy, H Tsuruta, JG Wetmur, and JA Tainer. 2001. Structure and mechanism of the RuvB Holliday junction branch migration motor. Journal of Molecular Biology 311: 297-310.
  
  
  
• DJ Hosfield, CD Mol, SS Parikh, CD Putnam, and JA Tainer. 2001. DNA damage recognition and repair pathway coordination revealed by the structural biochemistry of DNA repair enzymes. Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology 68: 315-347.
  
  
  
• CD Putnam, AS Arvai, Y. Bourne, and JA Tainer. 2000. Active and inhibited human catalase structures: ligand and NADPH binding and catalytic mechanism. Journal of Molecular Biology 296: 295-309. [Abstract] [Full Article - PDF]
  
  
  
• SS Parikh, CD Putnam, and JA Tainer. 2000. Lessons learned from structural results from uracil-DNA glycosylase. Mutation Research 460: 183-199.
  
  
  
• CD Putnam and JA Tainer. 2000. The food of sweet and bitter fancy. Nature Structural Biology. 7: 17-18. [Full Article - HTML] [Full Article - PDF]
  
  
  
• S Han, JA Craig, CD Putnam, NB Carozzi, and JA Tainer. 1999. Evolution and mechanism from structures of an ADP-ribosylating toxin and NAD complex. Nature Structural Biology 6: 932-936. [Abstract] [Full Article - HTML] [Full Article - PDF]
  
  
  
• CD Putnam, MJN Shroyer, AJ Lundquist, CD Mol, AS Arvai, DW Mosbaugh, and JA Tainer. 1999. Protein mimicry of DNA from crystal structures of the uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor protein and its complex with Escherichia coli uracil-DNA glycosylase. Journal of Molecular Biology 287: 331-346. [Abstract] [Full Article - PDF (1047 Kb)]
  
  
  
• MJN Shroyer, SE Bennett, CD Putnam, JA Tainer, and DW Mosbaugh. 1999. Mutation of an active site residue in Escherichia coli uracil-DNA glycosylase: Effect on DNA-binding, uracil inhibition and catalysis. Biochemistry 38: 4834-4845. [Abstract] [Full Text - HTML] [Full Article - PDF (215 Kb)]
  
  
  
• CD Mol, SS Parikh, CD Putnam, TP Lo, and JA Tainer. 1999. DNA repair mechanisms for the recognition and removal of damaged DNA bases. Annual Reviews of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 28: 101-128. [Abstract] [Full Text - HTML] [Full Article - PDF (493 Kb)]
  
  
  
• SK Wilcox, CD Putnam, M Sastry, J Blankenship, WJ Chazin, and DB Goodin. 1998. Rational design of a functional metalloenzyme: introduction of a site for manganese binding and oxidation into a heme peroxidase. Biochemisty 37: 16853-62. [Abstract] [Full Text - HTML] [Full Article - PDF (182 Kb)]
  
  
  
• MJ Donlin, RF Frey, CD Putnam, J Proctor, and JK Bashkin. 1998. Analysis of iron in ferritin, the iron-storage protein: A general chemistry experiment. Journal of Chemical Education 75: 437-41. [Abstract].
  
  
  
• CS Pikaard, GP Copenhaver, CD Putnam, ML Denton. 1994. UBF-nucleic acid interactions and the molecular evolution of ribosomal gene enhancers. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry Suppl 18 C: 69.
  
  
  
• CD Putnam, GP Copenhaver, ML Denton, and CS Pikaard. 1994. The RNA polymerase I transactivator upstream binding factor requires its dimerization domain and high-mobility-group (HMG) box 1 to bend, wrap, and positively supercoil enhancer DNA. Molecular and Cellular Biology 14: 6476-88. [Abstract]
  
  
  
• GP Copenhaver, CD Putnam, ML Denton, and CS Pikaard. 1994. The RNA polymerase I transcription factor UBF is a sequence-tolerant HMG-box protein that can recognize structured nucleic acids. Nucleic Acids Research 22: 2651-7. [Abstract]
  
  
  
• CD Putnam and CS Pikaard. 1992. Cooperative binding of the Xenopus RNA polymerase I transcription factor xUBF to repetitive ribosomal gene enhancers. Molecular and Cellular Biology 12: 4970-80. [Abstract]
  
  
  

Christopher Putnam, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute
http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/pubs.html


Last Updated: August 20, 2007