Publications
Christian J. M. Suloway, Justin W. Chartron, Ma'ayan Zaslaver, and William M. Clemons, Jr. “Model for eukaryotic tail-anchored protein binding based on the structure of Get3” (2009) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA PNAS Early Edition PNAS
Suresh Ramasamy and William Clemons, Jr. “Structure of the twin-arginine signal-binding protein DmsD from Escherichia coli” (2009) Acta Crystallographica F Vol F65 Pt 8 pp746-50 IUCr
Margaret Smith, William Clemons, Jr., Catherine DeMars, Ann Flower. “Modeling the effects of prl mutations on the Escherichia coli SecY complex” (2005) Journal of Bacteriology Vol 187 No 18 pp6454-65 PubMed
Kurt Cannon*, Eran Or*, William Clemons, Jr., Yoko Shibata, and Tom Rapoport. “Disulfide bridge formation between SecY and a translocating polypeptide localizes the translocation pore to the center of SecY.” (2005) Journal of Cell Biology Vol 169 No 2 pp219-25 PubMed
William Clemons, Jr., Jean-François Ménétret, Christopher Akey, and Tom Rapoport. “Structural insight into the protein translocation channel (Review).” (2004) Current Opinion in Structural Biology Vol 14 No 4 pp 390-6 PubMed
Andrew Osborne, William Clemons, Jr., Tom Rapoport. “A large conformational change of the translocation ATPase SecA.” (2004) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Vol 101 No 30 pp 10937-42. Epub 15 July 2004 PubMed
Bert van den Berg, Paul Black, William Clemons, Jr., and Tom Rapoport. “Crystal structure of the long-chain fatty acid transporter FadL.” (2004) Science Vol 304 No 5676 pp 1506-9 PubMed
Bert van den Berg*, William Clemons, Jr.*, Ian Collinson, Yorgo Modis, Enno Hartmann, Stephen Harrison, and Tom Rapoport. “X-ray structure of a protein conducting channel.”(2004) Nature Vol 427 No 6969 pp 36-44. Epublished 3 December 2003. See also cover and News and Views PubMed
Ditlev Broderson, William Clemons, Jr., Andrew Carter, Brian Wimberly, and Venki Ramakrishnan. “Phasing the 30S ribosomal subunit structure.” (2003) Acta Crystallographica D Vol D59 Pt 11 pp 2044-50 PubMed
Ditlev Brodersen, William Clemons, Jr., Andrew Carter, Brian Wimberly, and Venki Ramakrishnan. “Crystal Structure of the 30S Ribosomal Subunit from Thermus thermophilus. Structure of the Proteins and their Interactions with 16S RNA.” (2002) Journal of Molecular Biology Vol 316 No 3 pp725-68 PubMed
Ditlev Broderson, Andrew Carter, William Clemons Jr., Robert Morgan-Warren, Frank Murphy 4th, James Ogle, Michael Tarry, Brian Wimberly, and Venki Ramakrishnan. “Atomic structures of the 30S subunit and its complexes with ligands and antibiotics” (2001) Cold Spring Harbour Symposium on Quantitative Biology. Vol 66 pp17-32 PubMed
William Clemons, Jr., Ditlev Brodersen, John McCutcheon, Joanna May, Brian Wimberly, Andrew Carter, Robert Morgan-Warren, and Venki Ramakrishnan. “Crystal structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit from Thermus thermophilus I. Purification, crystallization and structure determination.” (2001) Journal of Molecular Biology Vol 310 No 4 pp827-43 PubMed
James Ogle, Ditlev Brodersen, William Clemons, Jr., Michael Tarry, Andrew Carter, and Venki Ramakrishnan. “Recognition of cognate transfer RNA by the 30S ribosomal subunit.” (2001) Science Vol 292 No 5518 pp897-902 PubMed
Andrew Carter, William Clemons, Jr., Ditlev Brodersen, Robert Morgan-Warren, Thomas Hartsch, Brian Wimberly and Venki Ramakrsihnan. “Crystal structure of an initiation factor bound to the 30S ribosomal subunit.” (2001) Science Vol 291 No 5503 pp498-501 PubMed
Ditlev Brodersen, William Clemons, Jr., Andrew Carter, Robert Morgan-Warren, Brian Wimberly & Venki Ramakrishnan. “The structural basis for the action of the antibiotics tetracycline, pactamycin, and hygromycin B on the 30S ribosomal subunit.”(2000) Cell Vol 103 No 7 pp1143-54 PubMed
Brian Wimberly*, Ditlev Brodersen*, William Clemons, Jr.*, Robert Morgan-Warren*, Andrew Carter*, Clemens Vonrhein, Thomas Hartsch, & Venki Ramakrishnan. "The Structure of the 30S Ribosomal Subunit.” (2000) Nature Vol 407 No 6802 pp327-39. See also cover and News and Views PubMed
Andrew Carter*, William Clemons, Jr.*, Ditlev Brodersen*, Robert Morgan-Warren, Brian Wimberly, &Venki Ramakrishnan. “Functional Insights from the Structure of the 30S Ribosomal Subunit and its Interactions with Antibiotics.” (2000) Nature Vol 407 No 6802 pp340-8. See also cover and News and Views PubMed
Peter Allard, Alexey Rak, Brian Wimberly, William Clemons, Jr., Alexander Kalinin, Magnus Helgstrand, Maria Garber, Venki Ramakrishnan, & Torleif Härd. “Another piece of the ribosome: solution structure of S16 and its location in the 30S subunit.” (2000) Structure with Folding and Design. Vol 8 No 8 pp875-82 PubMed
Venki Ramakrishnan, Malcolm Capel, William Clemons, Jr., Joanna May, Brian Wimberly. “Progress toward the crystal structure of a bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit.” (2000) In Garrett et al (eds). The Ribosome: Structure, Function, Antibiotics and Cellular Interactions. ASM Press, Washington D.C. pp3-10.
Stephen White, William Clemons Jr., Christopher Davies, Venki Ramakrishnan, & Brian Wimberly. “Structures of bacterial ribosomal proteins: High resolution probes of the architecture and mechanism of the ribosome.” (2000) In Garrett et al (eds). The Ribosome: Structure, Function, Antibiotics and Cellular Interactions. ASM Press, Washington D.C. pp66-72.
William Clemons Jr, Krishne Gowda, Shaun Black, Christian Zweib, & Venki Ramakrishnan. “Crystal structure of the conserved subdomain of human protein SRP54m at 2.1Å resolution: Evidence for the mechanism of signal peptide binding.” Journal of Molecular Biology (1999) Vol 292 pp697-705 PubMed
William Clemons Jr.*, Joanna May*, Brian Wimberly*, John McCutcheon, Malcolm Capel, & V Ramakrishnan. “Structure of a bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit at 5.5Å resolution.” (1999) Nature Vol 400 No 6747 pp833-40. See also cover and News and Views PubMed
Krishne Gowda, William Clemons Jr., Shaun Black, & Christian Zweib. “Expression, purification, & crystallography of the conserved methionine-rich domain of human signal recognition particle 54kDa protein.” (1999) Protein Science Vol 8 No 5 pp1144-51 PubMed
John McCutcheon, Rajendra Agrawal, Shibu Philips, Robert Grassucci, Sue Ellen Gerchman, William Clemons Jr., V Ramakrishnan, & Joachim Frank. “Location of translational initiation factor IF3 on the small ribosomal subunit.” (1999) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. Vol 96 No 8 pp4301-6 PubMed
William Clemons Jr., Christopher Davies, Steven White, & Venki Ramakrishnan. “Conformational variability of an N-terminal helix in the structure of ribosomal protein S15”, (1998) Structure Vol 6 No 4 pp429-38 PubMed
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