James Ofengand

Overview

Best Publications

• Four newly located pseudouridylate residues in Escherichia coli 23S ribosomal RNA are all at the peptidyltransferase center: analysis by the application of a new sequencing technique.

  Andrey Bakin;James Ofengand

  448
  Citations

• Mapping to nucleotide resolution of pseudouridine residues in large subunit ribosomal RNAs from representative eukaryotes, prokaryotes, archaebacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts.

  James Ofengand;Andrey Bakin

  327
  Citations

• Ribosomal RNA pseudouridines and pseudouridine synthases

  James Ofengand

  264
  Citations

• Covalent crosslinking of tRNA1Val to 16S RNA at the ribosomal P site: identification of crosslinked residues.

  Jeffrey B. Prince;Brian H. Taylor;David L. Thurlow;James Ofengand

  247
  Citations

• In vitro synthesis of 16S ribosomal RNA containing single base changes and assembly into a functional 30S ribosome

  W. Krzyzosiak;R. Denman;K. Nurse;W. Hellmann

  205
  Citations

• A pseudouridine synthase required for the formation of two universally conserved pseudouridines in ribosomal RNA is essential for normal growth of Escherichia coli.

  Saumya Raychaudhuri;Joel Conrad;Barry G. Hall;James Ofengand

  187
  Citations

• Purification, cloning, and properties of the tRNA psi 55 synthase from Escherichia coli.

  K Nurse;J Wrzesinski;A Bakin;B G Lane

  187
  Citations

• Deletion of the Escherichia coli pseudouridine synthase gene truB blocks formation of pseudouridine 55 in tRNA in vivo, does not affect exponential growth, but confers a strong selective disadvantage in competition with wild-type cells.

  Nancy Gutgsell;Nathan Englund;Linghao Niu;Yusuf Kaya

  155
  Citations

• A novel unanticipated type of pseudouridine synthase with homologs in bacteria, archaea, and eukarya.

  Yusuf Kaya;James Ofengand

  144
  Citations

• Clustering of Pseudouridine Residues Around the Peptidyltransferase Center of Yeast Cytoplasmic and Mitochondrial Ribosomes

  Andrey Bakin;Byron G. Lane;James Ofengand

  142
  Citations

• High resolution localization of the tRNA anticodon interaction site on the Escherichia coli 30 S ribosomal subunit.

  P Gornicki;K Nurse;W Hellmann;M Boublik

  136
  Citations

• The pseudouridine synthase RluD is required for normal ribosome assembly and function in Escherichia coli

  Nancy S. Gutgsell;Murray P. Deutscher;James Ofengand

  135
  Citations

• A dual-specificity pseudouridine synthase: an Escherichia coli synthase purified and cloned on the basis of its specificity for psi 746 in 23S RNA is also specific for psi 32 in tRNA(phe).

  J Wrzesinski;K Nurse;A Bakin;B G Lane

  134
  Citations

• Functional Effect of Deletion and Mutation of the Escherichia coli Ribosomal RNA and tRNA Pseudouridine Synthase RluA

  Saumya Raychaudhuri;Linghao Niu;Joel Conrad;Byron G. Lane

  129
  Citations

• The rluC Gene of Escherichia coli Codes for a Pseudouridine Synthase That Is Solely Responsible for Synthesis of Pseudouridine at Positions 955, 2504, and 2580 in 23 S Ribosomal RNA

  Joel Conrad;Danhui Sun;Nathan Englund;James Ofengand

  126
  Citations

• Identification and site of action of the remaining four putative pseudouridine synthases in Escherichia coli.

  M Del Campo;Y Kaya;J Ofengand

  123
  Citations

• Juvenile hormone-induced biosynthesis of vitellogenin in Leucophaea maderae

  John Koeppe;James Ofengand

  118
  Citations

• The Pseudouridine Residues of rRNA: Number, Location, Biosynthesis, and Function

  James Ofengand;Maurille J. Fournier

  117
  Citations

• Mapping pseudouridines in RNA molecules.

  James Ofengand;Mark Del Campo;Yusuf Kaya

  117
  Citations

• Pseudouridine and O2-methylated nucleosides. Significance of their selective occurrence in rRNA domains that function in ribosome-catalyzed synthesis of the peptide bonds in proteins

  B.G Lane;J Ofengand;M.W Gray

  116
  Citations

• THE PSEUDOURIDINE RESIDUES OF RIBOSOMAL RNA

  James Ofengand;Andrei Bakin;Jan Wrzesinski;Kelvin Nurse

  114
  Citations