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  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Juli Feigon is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

Their research focuses strongly on Molecular Biology and related subfields such as Physiology, Materials Chemistry, Ecology, and Oncology. Key topics addressed in their work include Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence; DNA Repair Mechanisms; RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms; RNA modifications and cancer; Mitochondrial Function and Pathology; RNA Research and Splicing; and Enzyme Structure and Function.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Yaqiang Wang, Yuan Yang, Yao He, Z. Hong Zhou, and He Song.

Feigon has published extensively, with numerous articles appearing in several scientific journals. The most common venues for their research include Biophysical Journal, Nature, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Molecular Biology, and UNC Libraries.

Some of their recent papers are as follows:

  • Structure of active human telomerase with telomere shelterin protein TPP1, 2022, Nature
  • Structures of telomerase at several steps of telomere repeat synthesis, 2021, Nature
  • Structure of Tetrahymena telomerase-bound CST with polymerase α-primase, 2022, Nature
  • Structural basis of RNA conformational switching in the transcriptional regulator 7SK RNP, 2022, Molecular Cell
  • A structurally conserved human and Tetrahymena telomerase catalytic core, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Throughout their career, Juli Feigon has received recognition including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Thrombin-binding DNA aptamer forms a unimolecular quadruplex structure in solution.

    Roman F. Macaya;Peter Schultze;Flint W. Smith;James A. Roe

  • Quadruplex structure of Oxytricha telomeric DNA oligonucleotides.

    Flint W. Smith;Juli Feigon

  • Three-dimensional solution structure of the thrombin-binding DNA aptamer d(GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG).

    Peter Schultze;Román F. Macaya;Juli Feigon

  • The Selectivity for K+ versus Na+ in DNA Quadruplexes Is Dominated by Relative Free Energies of Hydration: A Thermodynamic Analysis by 1H NMR†

    Nicholas V. Hud;Flint W. Smith;Frank A. L. Anet;Juli Feigon

  • Structure of the human telomerase RNA pseudoknot reveals conserved tertiary interactions essential for function.

    Carla A. Theimer;Craig A. Blois;Juli Feigon

  • Interactions of antitumor drugs with natural DNA: 1H NMR study of binding mode and kinetics.

    Juli Feigon;William A. Denny;Werner Leupin;David R. Kearns

  • Multistranded DNA structures.

    Dara E Gilbert;Juli Feigon

  • Solution structure of protegrin-1, a broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptide from porcine leukocytes.

    Richard L. Fahrner;Thorsten Dieckmann;Sylvia S.L. Harwig;Robert I. Lehrer

  • Triple-strand formation in the homopurine:homopyrimidine DNA oligonucleotides d(G-A)4 and d(T-C)4.

    Ponni Rajagopal;Juli Feigon

  • Solution structure of an ATP-binding RNA aptamer reveals a novel fold.

    T Dieckmann;E Suzuki;G K Nakamura;J Feigon

  • Internucleotide Scalar Couplings Across Hydrogen Bonds in Watson−Crick and Hoogsteen Base Pairs of a DNA Triplex

    Andrew J. Dingley;James E. Masse;Robert D. Peterson;Michael Barfield

  • Two-dimensional proton nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of the synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid decamer d(ATATCGATAT)2.

    Juli Feigon;Werner Leupin;William A. Denny;David R. Kearns

  • Structure and function of telomerase RNA

    Carla A Theimer;Juli Feigon

  • Molecular basis of sequence-specific recognition of pre-ribosomal RNA by nucleolin.

    Frédéric H.-T. Allain;Philippe Bouvet;Thorsten Dieckmann;Thorsten Dieckmann;Juli Feigon

  • The effect of sodium, potassium and ammonium ions on the conformation of the dimeric quadruplex formed by the Oxytricha nova telomere repeat oligonucleotide d(G 4 T 4 G 4 )

    Peter Schultze;Nicholas V. Hud;Flint W. Smith;Juli Feigon

  • Reconciliation of the X-ray and NMR structures of the thrombin-binding aptamer d(GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG).

    Jennifer A. Kelly;Juli Feigon;Todd O. Yeates

  • Solution structures of UBA domains reveal a conserved hydrophobic surface for protein-protein interactions.

    Thomas D. Mueller;Juli Feigon

  • Localization of ammonium ions in the minor groove of DNA duplexes in solution and the origin of DNA A-tract bending.

    Nicholas V Hud;Vladimir Sklenář;Juli Feigon

  • Mutations linked to dyskeratosis congenita cause changes in the structural equilibrium in telomerase RNA

    Carla A. Theimer;L. David Finger;Lukas Trantirek;Juli Feigon

  • High-affinity ssDNA inhibitors of the reverse transcriptase of type 1 human immunodeficiency virus.

    Daniel J. Schneider;Juli Feigon;Zdenek Hostomsky;Larry Gold

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimír Sklenář
Vladimír Sklenář Masaryk University
Samuel E. Butcher
Samuel E. Butcher University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Collins University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas V. Hud
Nicholas V. Hud Georgia Institute of Technology
Duilio Cascio
Duilio Cascio University of California, Los Angeles
Philippe Bouvet
Philippe Bouvet École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Reid C. Johnson
Reid C. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Irvin S. Y. Chen
Irvin S. Y. Chen University of California, Los Angeles
Z. Hong Zhou
Z. Hong Zhou University of California, Los Angeles

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