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Phoebe A. Rice is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. The primary focus of their research is within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions across several subfields including Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, Food Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, notably:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Phoebe A. Rice has published frequently in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nucleic Acids Research, Cell, Nature, and Cell Reports.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "A cryptic plasmid is among the most numerous genetic elements in the human gut," 2024, Cell
  • "Comment on "RNA-guided DNA insertion with CRISPR-associated transposases"," 2020, Science
  • "Dynamic genetic adaptation of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron during murine gut colonization," 2023, Cell Reports
  • "DNA glycosylases provide antiviral defence in prokaryotes," 2024, Nature
  • "Structure of TnsABCD transpososome reveals mechanisms of targeted DNA transposition," 2024, Cell

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Heewhan Shin, Ying Z. Pigli, Femi J. Olorunniji, Karen Lolans, and Eugene B. Chang, with collaboration counts ranging from five to nine publications.

Best Publications

  • Crystal structure at 3.5 A resolution of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase complexed with an inhibitor.

    LA Kohlstaedt;J Wang;JM Friedman;PA Rice

  • Mobile DNA III

    Nancy Lynn Craig;Michael Chandler;Martin Gellert;Alan M. Lambowitz

  • CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF AN IHF-DNA COMPLEX : A PROTEIN-INDUCED DNA U-TURN

    Phoebe A Rice;Shu-wei Yang;Kiyoshi Mizuuchi;Howard A Nash

  • Mechanisms of Site-Specific Recombination*

    Nigel D.F. Grindley;Katrine L. Whiteson;Phoebe A. Rice

  • IHF and HU: flexible architects of bent DNA.

    Kerren K Swinger;Phoebe A Rice

  • Structure of the binding site for nonnucleoside inhibitors of the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1

    S J Smerdon;J Jäger;J Wang;L A Kohlstaedt

  • A G-quadruplex-containing RNA activates fluorescence in a GFP-like fluorophore.

    Hao Huang;Nikolai B Suslov;Nan-Sheng Li;Sandip A Shelke

  • Crystal structure of a Rad51 filament.

    Adam B Conway;Thomas W Lynch;Ying Zhang;Gary S Fortin;Gary S Fortin

  • Flexible DNA bending in HU-DNA cocrystal structures.

    Kerren K. Swinger;Kathryn M. Lemberg;Ying Zhang;Phoebe A. Rice

  • Structure of the bacteriophage Mu transposase core: a common structural motif for DNA transposition and retroviral integration.

    P Rice;K Mizuuchi

  • Retroviral integrases and their cousins.

    Phoebe Rice;Robert Craigie;David R Davies

  • An Oxidation-Sensing Mechanism is Used by the Global Regulator Mgra in Staphylococcus Aureus.

    Peng R Chen;Taeok Bae;Taeok Bae;Wade A Williams;Erica M Duguid

  • Crystal structures of DNA/RNA repair enzymes AlkB and ABH2 bound to dsDNA

    Cai-Guang Yang;Chengqi Yi;Erica M. Duguid;Christopher T. Sullivan

  • The phage Mu transpososome core: DNA requirements for assembly and function.

    H Savilahti;P A Rice;K Mizuuchi

  • Comparative architecture of transposase and integrase complexes

    Phoebe A. Rice;Tania A. Baker

  • Crystal Structure of a Flp Recombinase-Holliday Junction Complex: Assembly of an Active Oligomer by Helix Swapping

    Yu Chen;Umadevi Narendra;Lisa E. Iype;Michael M. Cox

  • STRUCTURAL BASIS OF ASYMMETRY IN THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE 1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE HETERODIMER

    J Wang;S J Smerdon;J Jäger;L A Kohlstaedt

  • The Mu transpososome structure sheds light on DDE recombinase evolution

    Sherwin P. Montaño;Ying Z. Pigli;Phoebe A. Rice

  • The crystal structure of the catalytic domain of the site-specific recombination enzyme γδ resolvase at 2.7 Å resolution

    Mark R. Sanderson;Paul S. Freemont;Phoebe A. Rice;Adrian Goldman

  • Making DNA do a U-turn: IHF and related proteins

    Phoebe A Rice

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Steitz
Thomas A. Steitz Yale University
Jimin Wang
Jimin Wang Yale University
Joseph A. Piccirilli
Joseph A. Piccirilli University of Chicago
Chuan He
Chuan He University of Chicago
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi National Institutes of Health
Nigel D. F. Grindley
Nigel D. F. Grindley Yale University
Nancy L. Craig
Nancy L. Craig Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Stephen J. Smerdon
Stephen J. Smerdon University of Birmingham
Susan Boyle-Vavra
Susan Boyle-Vavra University of Chicago

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