Publications (co-)authored by Zucai Suo with students in the Biophysics program

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E John Tokarsky, Petra C Wallenmeyer, Kenneth K Phi, and Zucai Suo
"Significant impact of divalent metal ions on the fidelity, sugar selectivity, and drug incorporation efficiency of human PrimPol."
DNA Repair Amst. 49, 51-59 (2017).

[2] 

Amritraj Patra, Dustin A Politica, Arindom Chatterjee, E John Tokarsky, Zucai Suo, Ashis K Basu, Michael P Stone, and Martin Egli
"Mechanism of Error-Free Bypass of the Environmental Carcinogen N-2-Deoxyguanosin-8-yl-3-aminobenzanthrone Adduct by Human DNA Polymerase η."
Chembiochem 17, 2033-2037 (2016).

[3] 

E John Tokarsky, Varun V Gadkari, Walter J Zahurancik, Chanchal K Malik, Ashis K Basu, and Zucai Suo
"Pre-steady-state kinetic investigation of bypass of a bulky guanine lesion by human Y-family DNA polymerases."
DNA Repair Amst. 46, 20-28 (2016).

[4] 

Rajan Vyas, Andrew J Reed, E John Tokarsky, and Zucai Suo
"Viewing Human DNA Polymerase β Faithfully and Unfaithfully Bypass an Oxidative Lesion by Time-Dependent Crystallography."
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 5225-30 (2015).

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Xiakun Chu, Fei Liu, Brian A Maxwell, Yong Wang, Zucai Suo, Haijun Wang, Wei Han, and Jin Wang
"Dynamic Conformational Change Regulates the Protein-DNA Recognition: An Investigation on Binding of a Y-Family Polymerase to Its Target DNA."
PLoS Comput. Biol. 10, e1003804 (2014).

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Varun V Gadkari, E John Tokarsky, Chanchal K Malik, Ashis K Basu, and Zucai Suo
"Mechanistic investigation of the bypass of a bulky aromatic DNA adduct catalyzed by a Y-family DNA polymerase."
DNA Repair Amst. 21, 65-77 (2014).

[7] 

Cuiling Xu, Brian A Maxwell, and Zucai Suo
"Conformational Dynamics of Thermus aquaticus DNA Polymerase I during Catalysis."
J. Mol. Biol. 426, 2901-17 (2014).

[8] 

Brian A Maxwell and Zucai Suo
"Recent insight into the kinetic mechanisms and conformational dynamics of y-family DNA polymerases."
Biochemistry 53, 2804-14 (2014).

[9] 

Brian A Maxwell, Cuiling Xu, and Zucai Suo
"Conformational Dynamics of a Y-Family DNA Polymerase during Substrate Binding and Catalysis As Revealed by Interdomain Förster Resonance Energy Transfer."
Biochemistry 53, 1768-78 (2014).

[10] 

Brian A Maxwell and Zucai Suo
"Single-molecule investigation of substrate binding kinetics and protein conformational dynamics of a B-family replicative DNA polymerase."
J. Biol. Chem. 288, 11590-600 (2013).

[11] 

David J Taggart, Terry L Camerlengo, Jason K Harrison, Shanen M Sherrer, Ajay K Kshetry, John-Stephen Taylor, Kun Huang, and Zucai Suo
"A high-throughput and quantitative method to assess the mutagenic potential of translesion DNA synthesis."
Nucleic Acids Res. 41, e96 (2013).

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Shanen M Sherrer, Brian A Maxwell, Lindsey R Pack, Kevin A Fiala, Jason D Fowler, Jun Zhang, and Zucai Suo
"Identification of an unfolding intermediate for a DNA lesion bypass polymerase."
Chem. Res. Toxicol. 25, 1531-40 (2012).

[13] 

Brian A Maxwell and Zucai Suo
"Kinetic basis for the differing response to an oxidative lesion by a replicative and a lesion bypass DNA polymerase from Sulfolobus solfataricus."
Biochemistry 51, 3485-96 (2012).

[14] 

Brian A Maxwell, Cuiling Xu, and Zucai Suo
"DNA lesion alters global conformational dynamics of Y-family DNA polymerase during catalysis."
J. Biol. Chem. 287, 13040-7 (2012).

[15] 

Cuiling Xu, Brian A Maxwell, Jessica A Brown, Likui Zhang, and Zucai Suo
"Global conformational dynamics of a Y-family DNA polymerase during catalysis."
PLoS Biol. 7, e1000225 (2009).

[16] 

Michelle P Roettger, Kevin A Fiala, Susmitha Sompalli, Yuxia Dong, and Zucai Suo
"Pre-steady-state kinetic studies of the fidelity of human DNA polymerase mu."
Biochemistry 43, 13827-38 (2004).