List of Publications

2012

Aeschbacher T., Schubert M., Allain F.H.-T. (2012)
"A procedure to validate and correct the 13C chemical shift calibration of RNA datasets."
J. Biomol. NMR, Epub ahead of print.
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Barraud P., Allain F.H.
"ADAR Proteins: Double-stranded RNA and Z-DNA Binding Domains."
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology V. 353, 35-60
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2011

Loughlin F.E., Gebert L.F., Towbin H., Brunschweiger A., Hall J., Allain F.H.
"Structural basis of pre-let-7 miRNA recognition by the zinc knuckles of pluripotency factor Lin28."
Nat Struct Mol Biol 19(1), 84-9
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Barraud P., Heale B.S., O'Connell M.A., Allain F.H.
"Solution structure of the N-terminal dsRBD of Drosophila ADAR and interaction studies with RNA."
Biochimie , Epub ahead of print
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Santelia D., Kötting O., Seung D., Schubert M., Thalmann M., Bischof S., Meekins D.A., Lutz A., Patron N., Gentry M.S., Allain F.H., Zeeman S.C.
"The Phosphoglucan Phosphatase Like Sex Four2 Dephosphorylates Starch at the C3-Position in Arabidopsis."
Plant Cell 23(11), 4096-111
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Barraud P., Emmerth S., Shimada Y., Hotz H.R., Allain F.H, Bühler M.
"An extended dsRBD with a novel zinc-binding motif mediates nuclear retention of fission yeast Dicer."
The EMBO Journal 30(20), 4223-35
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Daubner G.M., Cléry A., Jayne S., Stevenin J., Allain F.H.
"A syn–anti conformational difference allows SRSF2 to recognize guanines and cytosines equally well."
The EMBO Journal 31(1), 162-74
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Cléry A., Jayne S., Benderska N., Dominguez C., Stamm S., Allain F.H.
"Molecular basis of purine-rich RNA recognition by the human SR-like protein Tra2-β1."
Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 18(4), 443-450
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Ranjan N., Damberger F.F., Sutter M., Allain F.H., Weber-Ban E. (2011)
"Solution Structure and Activation Mechanism of Ubiquitin-Like Small Archaeal Modifier Proteins."
J. Mol. Biol. 405(4), 1040-1055
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Sharma S., Maris C., Allain F.H., Black D.L. (2011)
"U1 snRNA directly interacts with polypyrimidine tract-binding protein during splicing repression."
Mol. Cell. 41(5), 579-588
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Dominguez C., Schubert M., Duss O., Ravindranathan S., Allain F. H.-T.
"Structure determination and dynamics of protein-RNA complexes by NMR spectroscopy."
Prog. NMR Spectrosc. 58(1-2), 1-61
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2010

Stefl R., Oberstrass F.C., Hood J.L., Jourdan M., Zimmermann M., Skrisovska L., Maris C., Peng L., Hofr C., Emeson R.B., Allain F.H. (2010)
"The solution structure of the ADAR2 dsRBM-RNA complex reveals a sequence-specific readout of the minor groove."
Cell 143(2), 225-237
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Duss O., Maris C., von Schroetter C., Allain F.H. (2010)
"A fast, efficient and sequence-independent method for flexible multiple segmental isotope labeling of RNA using ribozyme and RNase H cleavage."
Nucleic Acids Res. 38(20), e188
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Dominguez C., Fisette J.F., Chabot B., Allain F.H.-T. (2010)
"Structural basis of G-tract recognition and encaging by hnRNP F quasi-RRMs"
Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 17, 853-61
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Sutter M., Damberger F.F., Imkamp F., Allain F.H.-T., Weber-Ban E. (2010)
"Prokaryotic Ubiquitin-like Protein (Pup) Is Coupled to Substrates via the Side Chain of Its C-Terminal Glutamate."
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132(16), 5610-5612
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Zhang Z., Theler D., Kaminska K.H., Hiller M., Grange P.D., Pudimat R., Rafalska I., Heinrich B., Bujnicki J.M., Allain F.H.-T., Stamm S. (2010)
"The YTH domain is a novel RNA binding domain"
J. Biol. Chem., 385, 14701-10
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Lamichhane R., Daubner G.M., Thomas-Crusells J., Auweter S.D., Manatschal C., Austin K.S., Valniuk O., Allain F.H.-T., Rueda D. (2010)
"RNA looping by PTB: Evidence using FRET and NMR spectroscopy for a role in splicing repression"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 107, 4105-10
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Ravindranathan S., Oberstrass F.C., Allain F.H.-T. (2010)
"Increase in backbone mobility of the VTS1p-SAM domain on binding to SRE-RNA"
J. Mol. Biol., 396, 732-46
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Skrisovska L., Schubert M., Allain F.H.-T. (2009)
"Recent advances in segmental isotope labeling of proteins: NMR applications to large proteins and glycoproteins."
J. Biomol. NMR, 46, 51-65
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2009

Sutter M., Striebel F., Damberger F.F., Allain F.H.-T., Weber-Ban E. (2009)
"A distinct structural region of the prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein (Pup) is recognized by the N-terminal domain of the proteasomal ATPase Mpa."
FEBS Letters, 583, 3151-57
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Maris C., Allain F.H.‑T. (2009)
"Structure of RNA Editing Substrates and Their Recognition by RNA Base Deaminase"
Contribution of DNA and RNA Modification Enzymes: Structure, Mechanism, Function and Evolution, Landes Bioscience, Chapter 17

Slynko V., Schubert M., Numao S., Kowarik M., Aebi M., Allain FH.-T. (2009)
"NMR structure determination of a segmentally labeled glycoprotein using in vitro glycosylation."
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 1274-81
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2008

Oberstrass F., Allain F.H.-T., Ravindranathan S. (2008)
"Changes in Dynamics of SRE-RNA on Binding to the VTS1p-SAM Domain Studied by 13C NMR Relaxation"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 12007–20
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Cléry A., Blatter M., Allain F.H.-T. (2008)
"RNA recognition motifs: boring? Not quite"
Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol., 18, 290-298
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Morillas M., Eberl H., Allain F.H.-T., Glockshuber R., Kuennemann E. (2008)
"Novel enzymatic activity derived from the Semliki Forest virus capsid protein"
J. Mol. Biol., 376, 721-35
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Auweter S.D., Allain F.H.-T. (2008)
"Structure-function relationships of the polypyrimidine tract binding protein"
Cell. Mol. Life Sci., 65, 516-27
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Lapouge K., Schubert M,. Allain F.H.-T., Haas D. (2008)
"Gac/Rsm signal transduction pathway of gamma-proteobacteria: from RNA recognition to regulation of social behaviour"
Mol. Microbiol., 67, 241-253
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Skrisovska L., Allain F.H.-T. (2008)
"Improved Segmental Isotope Labeling Methods for the NMR Study of Multidomain or Large Proteins: application to the RRMs of Npl3p and hnRNP L"
J. Mol. Biol., 375, 151-164
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2007

Schubert M., Lapouge K., Duss O., Oberstrass F.C., Jelesarov I., Haas D., Allain F. H.-T. (2007)
Molecular Basis of mRNA Recognition by the Specific Bacterial Repressing Clamp RsmA/CsrA.
Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 14, 807-813
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Skrisovska L., Bourgeois C.F., Stefl R., Grellscheid S.N., Kister L., Wenter P., Elliott D.J., Stevenin J., Allain F.H.-T. (2007)
"The testis-specific human protein RBMY recognizes RNA through a novel mode of interaction"
EMBO Rep., 8, 372-379
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Auweter S.D., Oberstrass F.C., Allain F.H.-T. (2007)
"Solving the Structure of PTB in Complex with Pyrimidine Tracts: An NMR Study of Protein–RNA Complexes of Weak Affinities"
J. Mol. Biol., 367, 174-86
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2006

Hargous Y., Hautbergue G.M. , Tintaru A.M. , Skrisovska L. , Golovanov A.P., Stevenin J. , Lian L.Y., Wilson S.A. and Allain F.H.-T. (2006)
"Molecular basis of RNA recognition and TAP binding by the SR proteins SRp20 and 9G8"
The EMBO Journal, 25, 5126-5137
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Auweter S.D., Oberstrass F.C., Allain F.H.-T. (2006)
"Sequence-specific binding of single-stranded RNA: is there a code for recognition?"
Nucleic Acids Res., 34, 4943-4959
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Dominguez C. and Allain F.H.-T. (2006)
"NMR structure of the three quasi RNA Recognition Motifs (qRRMs) of human hnRNP F and interaction studies with Bcl-x G-tract RNA: A novel mode of RNA recognition"
Nucleic Acids Res., 34, 3634-3645
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Petoukhov M.V., Monie T. P.., Allain F.H.-T. , Matthews S., Curry S., Svergun D.I. (2006)
"Conformation of polypyrimidine tract binding protein in solution"
Structure, 14, 1021-7
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Wenter P., Reymond L., Auweter S.D., Allain F.H.-T. and Pitsch S. (2006)
"Short, synthetic, selectively-13C-labeled RNAs for the NMR structure determination of protein-RNA complexes"
Nucleic Acids Res., 34, e79
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Chowdhury S., Maris C., Allain F.H.-T. and Narberhaus F. (2006)
"Molecular basis for temperature sensing by an RNA thermometer"
The EMBO Journal, 25, 2487-97
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Oberstrass F.C., Lee A., Stefl R., Janis M., Chanfreau G. and Allain F.H.-T. (2006)
"Shape-specific recognition in the structure of the Vts1p SAM domain with RNA"
Nat. Struc. Mol. Biol., 13, 160-167
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Auweter S.D., Fasan R., Reymond L., Underwood J.G., Black D.L., Pitsch S. and Allain F. H.T. (2006)
"Molecular basis of RNA recognition by the human alternative splicing factor Fox-1"
The EMBO Journal, 25, 163-173
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Vitali F., Henning A., Oberstrass F.C., Hargous Y., Auweter S. D., Erat M. and Allain F.H.-T. (2006)
"Structure of the two most C-terminal RNA Recognition Motifs of PTB using segmental isotope labeling"
The EMBO Journal, 25, 150-162
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Stefl R., Xu M., Skrisovska L., Emeson R.B. and Allain F.H.-T. (2006)
"Structure and specific RNA-binding of ADAR2 double-stranded RNA-binding motifs"
Structure, 14, 345-355
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2005

Dominguez C. and Allain F.H.-T. (2005)
"Resonance assignments of the N-terminal RNA recognition motifs (RRM) of the human heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein F (HnRNP F)"
J. Biomol. NMR, 33, 282
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Oberstrass F.C., Auweter S.D., Erat M., Hargous Y., Henning A., Wenter P., Reymond L., Amir-Ahmady B., Pitsch S., Black D. and Allain F.H.-T. (2005)
"Structure of PTB Bound to RNA: Specific Binding and Implications for Splicing Regulation"
Science, 309(5743), 2054-2057
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Maris C., Dominguez C. and Allain F.H.-T. (2005)
"The RNA Recognition Motif, a modulable RNA binding platform to regulate posttranscriptional gene expression"
FEBS Journal, 272, 2118-2131
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Stefl R. and Allain F.H.-T. (2005)
"A novel RNA pentaloop fold involved in targeting ADAR2"
RNA, 11, 592-597
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Stefl R., Skrisovska L., Xu M., Emeson R.B. and Allain F.H.-T (2005)
"Resonance assignment of the double-stranded RNA-binding domains of adenosine deaminase acting of RNA 2 (ADAR2)"
J. Biomol. NMR, 31, 71-72
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Maris C., Masse J., Chester A., Navaratnam N. and Allain F.H.-T. (2005)
"NMR structure of the apoB mRNA stem-loop and its interaction with the C to U editing APOBEC1 complementary factor"
RNA, 11, 173-186
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Stefl R., Skrisovska L. and Allain, F.H.-T (2005)
"RNA sequence- and shape-dependant recognition by proteins in the ribonucleoprotein particle"
EMBO Reports, 6, 33-8
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