O’Donoghue, P., Sheppard, K., Nureki, O., and Söll, D. (2011) Rational design of an evolutionary precursor of glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 20485-20490. Abstract
Park, H-S., Hohn, M., Umehara, T., Guo, L-T., Osborne, E., Benner, J., Noren, C.J., Rinehart, J., and Söll, D. (2011) Expanding the genetic code of Escherichia coli with phosphoserine. Science, 333,1151-1154. Abstract
Hohn, M.J., Palioura, S., Su, D., Yuan, J. and Söll, D. (2011) Genetic analysis of selenocysteine biosynthesis in the archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis. Mol. Microbiol. 81, 249-258. Abstract
Hebecker, S., Arendt, W., Heinemann, I.U., Tiefenau, J., Söll, D. and Moser, J. (2011) Alanyl-phosphatidylglycerol synthase: mechanism of tRNA-dependent lipid modification in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol. Microbiol. 80, 935-950. Abstract
Su, D., Lieberman, A., Lang, B.F., Simonovic, M., Söll, D. and Ling, J. (2011) An unusual tRNAThr derived from tRNAHis reassigns in yeast mitochondria the CUN codons to threonine. Nucl. Acids Res. 39, 4866-4874. Abstract
Miranda, H.V., Nembhard, N., Su, D., Hepowit, N., Krause, D.J., Pritz, J.R., Phillips, C., Söll, D. and Maupin-Furlow, J.A. (2011) E1- and ubiquitin-like proteins provide a direct link between protein conjugation and sulfur transfer in archaea. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 4417-4422. Abstract
Yuan, J., Gogakos, T., Babina, A., Söll, D. and Randau, L. (2011) Change of tRNA identity leads to a divergent orthogonal histidyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNAHis pair. Nucl. Acids Res. 39, 2286-2293. Abstract
Popow, J., Englert, M., Weitzer, S., Schleiffer, A., Mierzwa, B., Mechtler, K., Trowitzsch, S., Will, C.L., Lührmann, R., Söll, D. and Martinez, J. (2011) HSPC117 is the essential subunit of a human tRNA splicing ligase complex. Science, 331, 760-764. Abstract
Sherrer, R.L., Araiso, Y., Aldag, C., Ishitani, R., Ho, J., Söll, D. and Nureki, O. (2011) C-terminal domain of archaeal O-phosphoseryl-tRNA kinase displays large-scale motion to bind the 7 base pair D-stem of archaeal tRNASec. Nucl. Acids Res. 39, 7286-7297. Abstract
Englert, M., Sheppard, K., Aslanian, A., Yates, J.R. III and Söll, D. (2011) Archaeal 3’-phosphate RNA splicing ligase characterization identifies the missing component in tRNA maturation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 1290-1295. Abstract