Markey Center for Structural Biology




Publications

Cynthia Stauffacher

Journal

Steussy, C. N., Robison, A. D., Tetrick, A. M., Knight, J. T., Rodwell, V. W., Stauffacher, C. V., Sutherlin, A. L. 2006. A structural limitation on enzyme activity: the case of HMG-CoA synthase. Biochemistry. 45: 14407-14414.

Zabell, A. P., Schroff, A. D., Jr., Bain, B. E., Van Etten, R. L., Wiest, O., Stauffacher, C. V. 2006. Crystal structure of the human B-form low molecular weight phosphotyrosyl phosphatase at 1.6-A resolution. J Biol Chem. 281: 6520-6527.

Zabell, K. M., Laurence, J. S., Kinch, M. S., Knapp, D. W., Stauffacher, C. V. 2006. Expression and purification of the intact cytoplasmic domain of the human ephrin receptor A2 tyrosine kinase in Escherichia coli. Protein Expr Purif. 47: 210-216.

Gustafson, C. L., Stauffacher, C. V., Hallenga, K., Van Etten, R. L. 2005. Solution structure of the low-molecular-weight protein tyrosine phosphatase from Tritrichomonas foetus reveals a flexible phosphate binding loop. Protein Sci. 14: 2515-2525.

Steussy, C. N., Vartia, A. A., Burgner, J. W., 2nd, Sutherlin, A., Rodwell, V. W., Stauffacher, C. V. 2005. X-ray crystal structures of HMG-CoA synthase from Enterococcus faecalis and a complex with its second substrate/inhibitor acetoacetyl-CoA. Biochemistry. 44: 14256-14267.

Hedl, M., Tabernero, L., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 2004. Class II 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductases. J Bacteriol. 186: 1927-1932.

Laurence, J. S., Hallenga, K., Stauffacher, C. V. 2004. 1H, 15N, 13C resonance assignments of the human protein tyrosine phosphatase PRL-1. J Biomol NMR. 29: 417-418.

Zabell, A. P., Corden, S., Helquist, P., Stauffacher, C. V., Wiest, O. 2004. Inhibition studies with rationally designed inhibitors of the human low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase. Bioorg Med Chem. 12: 1867-1880.

Fujita, T., Maggio, A., Garcia-Rios, M., Stauffacher, C., Bressan, R. A., Csonka, L. N. 2003. Identification of regions of the tomato gamma-glutamyl kinase that are involved in allosteric regulation by proline. J Biol Chem. 278: 14203-14210.

Tabernero, L., Rodwell, V. W., Stauffacher, C. V. 2003. Crystal structure of a statin bound to a class II hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase. J Biol Chem. 278: 19933-19938.

Chi, Y. I., Sadler, I., Jablonski, L. M., Callantine, S. D., Deobald, C. F., Stauffacher, C. V., Bohach, G. A. 2002. Zinc-mediated dimerization and its effect on activity and conformation of staphylococcal enterotoxin type C. J Biol Chem. 277: 22839-22846.

Hedl, M., Sutherlin, A., Wilding, E. I., Mazzulla, M., McDevitt, D., Lane, P., Burgner, J. W., 2nd, Lehnbeuter, K. R., Stauffacher, C. V., Gwynn, M. N., Rodwell, V. W. 2002. Enterococcus faecalis acetoacetyl-coenzyme A thiolase/3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, a dual-function protein of isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthesis. J Bacteriol. 184: 2116-2122.

Sutherlin, A., Hedl, M., Sanchez-Neri, B., Burgner, J. W., 2nd, Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 2002. Enterococcus faecalis 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A synthase, an enzyme of isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthesis. J Bacteriol. 184: 4065-4070.

Kim, D. Y., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 2000. Dual coenzyme specificity of Archaeoglobus fulgidus HMG-CoA reductase. Protein Sci. 9: 1226-1234.

Kim, D. Y., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 2000. Engineering of Sulfolobus solfataricus HMG-CoA reductase to a form whose activity is regulated by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. Biochemistry. 39: 2269-2275.

Wang, S., Stauffacher, C. V., Van Etten, R. L. 2000. Structural and mechanistic basis for the activation of a low-molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase by adenine. Biochemistry. 39: 1234-1242.

Wang, S., Tabernero, L., Zhang, M., Harms, E., Van Etten, R. L., Stauffacher, C. V. 2000. Crystal structures of a low-molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its complex with the substrate p-nitrophenyl phosphate. Biochemistry. 39: 1903-1914.

Wilding, E. I., Kim, D. Y., Bryant, A. P., Gwynn, M. N., Lunsford, R. D., McDevitt, D., Myers, J. E., Jr., Rosenberg, M., Sylvester, D., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 2000. Essentiality, expression, and characterization of the class II 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase of Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol. 182: 5147-5152.

Bochar, D. A., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 1999. Investigation of the conserved lysines of Syrian hamster 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase. Biochemistry. 38: 15848-15852.

Bochar, D. A., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 1999. Sequence comparisons reveal two classes of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase. Mol Genet Metab. 66: 122-127.

Bochar, D. A., Tabernero, L., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 1999. Aminoethylcysteine can replace the function of the essential active site lysine of Pseudomonas mevalonii 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase. Biochemistry. 38: 8879-8883.

Kim, D. Y., Bochar, D. A., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 1999. Expression and characterization of the HMG-CoA reductase of the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. Protein Expr Purif. 17: 435-442.

Lin, T., Chen, Z., Usha, R., Stauffacher, C. V., Dai, J. B., Schmidt, T., Johnson, J. E. 1999. The refined crystal structure of cowpea mosaic virus at 2.8 A resolution. Virology. 265: 20-34.

Tabernero, L., Bochar, D. A., Rodwell, V. W., Stauffacher, C. V. 1999. Substrate-induced closure of the flap domain in the ternary complex structures provides insights into the mechanism of catalysis by 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 96: 7167-7171.

Tabernero, L., Evans, B. N., Tishmack, P. A., Van Etten, R. L., Stauffacher, C. V. 1999. The structure of the bovine protein tyrosine phosphatase dimer reveals a potential self-regulation mechanism. Biochemistry. 38: 11651-11658.

Zhang, M., Stauffacher, C. V., Lin, D., Van Etten, R. L. 1998. Crystal structure of a human low molecular weight phosphotyrosyl phosphatase. Implications for substrate specificity. J Biol Chem. 273: 21714-21720.

Bochar, D. A., Brown, J. R., Doolittle, W. F., Klenk, H. P., Lam, W., Schenk, M. E., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 1997. 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase of Sulfolobus solfataricus: DNA sequence, phylogeny, expression in Escherichia coli of the hmgA gene, and purification and kinetic characterization of the gene product. J Bacteriol. 179: 3632-3638.

Deringer, J. R., Ely, R. J., Monday, S. R., Stauffacher, C. V., Bohach, G. A. 1997. Vbeta-dependent stimulation of bovine and human T cells by host-specific staphylococcal enterotoxins. Infect Immun. 65: 4048-4054.

Edwards, V. M., Deringer, J. R., Callantine, S. D., Deobald, C. F., Berger, P. H., Kapur, V., Stauffacher, C. V., Bohach, G. A. 1997. Characterization of the canine type C enterotoxin produced by Staphylococcus intermedius pyoderma isolates. Infect Immun. 65: 2346-2352.

Elkins, P., Bunker, A., Cramer, W. A., Stauffacher, C. V. 1997. A mechanism for toxin insertion into membranes is suggested by the crystal structure of the channel-forming domain of colicin E1. Structure. 5: 443-458.

Zhang, M., Zhou, M., Van Etten, R. L., Stauffacher, C. V. 1997. Crystal structure of bovine low molecular weight phosphotyrosyl phosphatase complexed with the transition state analog vanadate. Biochemistry. 36: 15-23.

Bohach, G. A., Stauffacher, C. V., Ohlendorf, D. H., Chi, Y. I., Vath, G. M., Schlievert, P. M. 1996. The staphylococcal and streptococcal pyrogenic toxin family. Adv Exp Med Biol. 391: 131-154.

Deringer, J. R., Ely, R. J., Stauffacher, C. V., Bohach, G. A. 1996. Subtype-specific interactions of type C staphylococcal enterotoxins with the T-cell receptor. Mol Microbiol. 22: 523-534.

Fields, B. A., Malchiodi, E. L., Li, H., Ysern, X., Stauffacher, C. V., Schlievert, P. M., Karjalainen, K., Mariuzza, R. A. 1996. Crystal structure of a T-cell receptor beta-chain complexed with a superantigen. Nature. 384: 188-192.

Friesen, J. A., Lawrence, C. M., Stauffacher, C. V., Rodwell, V. W. 1996. Structural determinants of nucleotide coenzyme specificity in the distinctive dinucleotide binding fold of HMG-CoA reductase from Pseudomonas mevalonii. Biochemistry. 35: 11945-11950.

Cramer, W. A., Heymann, J. B., Schendel, S. L., Deriy, B. N., Cohen, F. S., Elkins, P. A., Stauffacher, C. V. 1995. Structure-function of the channel-forming colicins. Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct. 24: 611-641.

Lawrence, C. M., Chi, Y. I., Rodwell, V. W., Stauffacher, C. V. 1995. Crystallization of HMG-CoA reductase from Pseudomonas mevalonii. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 51: 386-389.

Lawrence, C. M., Rodwell, V. W., Stauffacher, C. V. 1995. Crystal structure of Pseudomonas mevalonii HMG-CoA reductase at 3.0 angstrom resolution. Science. 268: 1758-1762.

Schlievert, P. M., Bohach, G. A., Ohlendorf, D. H., Stauffacher, C. V., Leung, D. Y., Murray, D. L., Prasad, G. S., Earhart, C. A., Jablonski, L. M., Hoffmann, M. L., Chi, Y. I. 1995. Molecular structure of staphylococcus and streptococcus superantigens. J Clin Immunol. 15: 4S-10S.

Elkins, P. A., Song, H. Y., Cramer, W. A., Stauffacher, C. V. 1994. Crystallization and characterization of colicin E1 channel-forming polypeptides. Proteins. 19: 150-157.

Hoffmann, M. L., Jablonski, L. M., Crum, K. K., Hackett, S. P., Chi, Y. I., Stauffacher, C. V., Stevens, D. L., Bohach, G. A. 1994. Predictions of T-cell receptor- and major histocompatibility complex-binding sites on staphylococcal enterotoxin C1. Infect Immun. 62: 3396-3407.

Hovde, C. J., Marr, J. C., Hoffmann, M. L., Hackett, S. P., Chi, Y. I., Crum, K. K., Stevens, D. L., Stauffacher, C. V., Bohach, G. A. 1994. Investigation of the role of the disulphide bond in the activity and structure of staphylococcal enterotoxin C1. Mol Microbiol. 13: 897-909.

Jardetzky, T. S., Brown, J. H., Gorga, J. C., Stern, L. J., Urban, R. G., Chi, Y. I., Stauffacher, C., Strominger, J. L., Wiley, D. C. 1994. Three-dimensional structure of a human class II histocompatibility molecule complexed with superantigen. Nature. 368: 711-718.

Zhang, M., Van Etten, R. L., Lawrence, C. M., Stauffacher, C. V. 1994. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the low molecular weight phosphotyrosyl protein phosphatase from bovine heart. J Mol Biol. 238: 281-283.

Zhang, M., Van Etten, R. L., Stauffacher, C. V. 1994. Crystal structure of bovine heart phosphotyrosyl phosphatase at 2.2-A resolution. Biochemistry. 33: 11097-11105.

Bohach, G. A., Chi, Y. I., Stauffacher, C. V. 1992. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of staphylococcal enterotoxin type C. Proteins. 13: 152-157.

Cramer, W. A., Zhang, Y. L., Schendel, S., Merrill, A. R., Song, H. Y., Stauffacher, C. V., Cohen, F. S. 1992. Dynamic properties of the colicin E1 ion channel. FEMS Microbiol Immunol. 5: 71-81.

Chen, Z, Stauffacher, C. V., Johnson, J. E. 1990. Capsid structure and RNA packaging in comoviruses. Seminars in Virology. 1: 453-466.

Chen, Z. G., Stauffacher, C., Li, Y., Schmidt, T., Bomu, W., Kamer, G., Shanks, M., Lomonossoff, G., Johnson, J. E. 1989. Protein-RNA interactions in an icosahedral virus at 3.0 A resolution. Science. 245: 154-159.

Weisel, J. W., Stauffacher, C. V., Bullitt, E., Cohen, C. 1985. A model for fibrinogen: domains and sequence. Science. 230: 1388-1391.

Cohen, C., Weisel, J. W., Phillips, G. N., Jr., Stauffacher, C. V., Fillers, J. P., Daub, E. 1983. The structure of fibrinogen and fibrin: I. Electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography of fibrinogen. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 408: 194-213.

Stubbs, G., Stauffacher, C. 1981. Structure of the RNA in tobacco mosaic virus. J Mol Biol. 152: 387-396.