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2008
1. Nelson, S. W., Kumar, R., and Benkovic, S. J. (2008) RNA Primer Handoff in Bacteriophage T4 DNA Replication: The Role of Single-stranded DNA-binding Protein and Polymerase Accessory Proteins, J. Biol. Chem. 283 (33) 22838-22846.
2. Goodey, N. M. and Benkovic, S. J. (2008) Allosteric Regulation and Catalysis Emerge Via a Common Route, Nat. Chem. Biol. 4 (8) 474-482.
3. Zhuang, Z., Johnson, R. E., Haracska, L., Prakash, L., Prakash, S., and Benkovic, S. J. (2008) Regulation of Polymerase Exchange Between Polη and Polδ by Monoubiquitination of PCNA and the Movement of DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105 (14) 5361-5366
4 An, S., Kumar, R., Sheets, E. D., and Benkovic, S. J. (2008) Reversible Compartmentalization of de Novo Purine Biosynthetic Complexes in Living Cells, Science 320, 103.
5. Benkovic, S. J., Hammes, G. G., and Hammes-Schiffer, S. (2008) Free-Energy Landscape of Enzyme Catalysis, Biochemistry 47 (11) 3317-3321.
6. Tomsho, J. W. and Benkovic, S. J. (2008) Unnatural Translation Initiation, ACS Chem. Biol. 3 (2) 87-88.
7. Naumann, T. A., Tavassoli, A., and Benkovic, S. J. (2008) Genetic Selection of Cyclic Peptide Dam Methyltransferase Inhibitors, Chembiochem 25 (9) 194-197.
 

2007

1. Lionnet, T., Spiering, M. M., Benkovic, S. J., Bensimon, D., Croquette, V. (2007) Real-time Observation of Bacteriophage T4 gp41 Helicase Reveals an Unwinding Mechanism, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104 (50) 19790-19795.
2. Cheng, L., Naumann, T. A., Horswill, A. R., Hong, S.-J., Venters, B. J., Tomsho, J. W., Benkovic, S. J., Keiler, K. C. (2007) Discovery of Antibacterial Cyclic Peptides That Inhibit the ClpXP Protease, Protein Science 16, 1-8.

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Rock, F. L., Mao, W., Yaremchuk, A., Tukalo, M., Crepin, T., Zhou, Zhang, Y.-K., Hernandez, V., Akama, T., Baker, S. J., Plattner, J. J., Shapiro, L., Martinis, S. A., Benkovic, S. J., Cusack, S., Alley, M. R. K. (2007) An Antifungal Agent Inhibits an Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase by Trapping tRNA in the Editing Site, Science 316 (5832) 1759-1761.

4. Tavassoli, A. and Benkovic, S. J. (2007) Split-intein Mediated Circular Ligation Used in the Synthesis of Cyclic Peptide Libraries in E. coli, Nature Protocols 2 (5) 1126-1133.
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Nelson, S. W. and Benkovic, S. J. (2007) The T4 Phage UvsW Protein Contains Both DNA Unwinding and Strand Annealing Activities, J. Biol. Chem. 282 (1) 407-416.

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Benkovic, S. J. and Hammes-Schiffer, S. (2007) Dihydrofolate Reductase: Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Hydrogen-Transfer Reactions, Vol. 4 (Schowen, R. L., Klinman, J. P., Hynes, J. T., and Limbach, H. -H. (Eds), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. Weinheim, pp. 1439-1454.

 
2006
1. Horswill, A. R. and Benkovic, S. J. (2006)
Identifying Small-Molecule Modulators of Protein-Protein Interactions, in Current Protocols in Protein Science, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 19.15.1-19.15.19.
2. Baker, S. J., Akama, T., Zhang, Y.-K., Sauro, V., Pandit, C., Singh, R., Kully, M., Khan, J., Plattner, J. J., Benkovic, S. J., Lee, V., and Maples, K. R. (2006)
Identification of A Novel Boron-containing Antibacterial Agent (AN0128) With Anti-inflammatory Activity, for the Potential Treatment of Cutaneous Diseases, Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 16, 5963-5967.
3. Wang, L., Goodey, N. M., Benkovic, S. J., and Kohen, A. (2006)
Coordinated Effects of Distal Mutations on Environmentally Coupled Tunneling in Dihydrofolate Reductase, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 (43) 15753-15758.
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Saraf, M. C., Moore, G. L., Goodey, N. M., Cao, V. Y., Benkovic, S. J., and Maranas, C. D. (2006) IPRO:
An Iterative Computational Protein Library Redesign and Optimization Procedure, Biophys. J. 90 (11) 4167-4180.

5. Wang, L., Goodey, N. M., Benkovic, S. J., and Kohen, A. (2006)
The Role of Enzyme Dynamics and Tunneling in Catalysing Hydride Transfer: Studies of Distal Mutants of Dihydrofolate Reductase, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 361, 1307-1315.
6. Hammes-Schiffer, S. and Benkovic, S. J. (2006)
Relating Protein Motion to Catalysis, Annu. Rev. Biochem. 75, 519-541.
7. Smiley, R. D., Zhuang, Z., Benkovic, S. J., and Hammes, G. G. (2006)
Single-Molecule Investigation of the T4 Bacteriophage DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme: Multiple Pathways of Holoenzyme Formation, Biochemistry 45, 7990-7997.
8. Zhuang, Berdis, A. J., and Benkovic, S. J. (2006)
An Alternative Clamp Loading Pathway via the T4 Clamp Loader, Biochemistry 45, 7976-7989.
9. Benkovic, S. J. and Hammes-Schiffer, S. (2006)
Enzyme Motions Inside and Out, Science 312, 208-209.
10. Nelson, S. W., Yang, J., and Benkovic, S. J. (2006)
Site-directed Mutations of T4 Helicase Loading Protein (gp59) Reveal Multiple Modes of DNA Polymerase Inhibition and the Mechanism of Unlocking by gp41 Helicase, J. Biol. Chem. 281 (13) 8697-8706.
11. A.R. Horswill and S.J. Benkovic
Cyclic Peptides, A Chemical Genetics Tool for Biologists,Cellcycle 4 (4) 552-555 (2006).
12. Z. Zhuang, B.L. Yoder, P.M.J. Burgers, and S.J. Benkovic
The Structure of a Ring-opened Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen-Replication Factor C Complex Revealed by Fluorescence Energy Transfer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 103 (8) 2546-2551 (2006).
13. H-S. Park, S-H. Nam, J.K. Lee, C.N. Yoon, B. Mannervik, S.J. Benkovic, and H-S. Kim,
Design and Evolution of New Catalytic Activity with an Existing Protein Scaffold," Science 311 (5760) 535-538 (2006).
14. L. Wang, S. Tharp, T. Selzer, S.J. Benkovic, and A. Kohen
Effects of A distal Mutation on Active Site Chemistry. Biochemistry 45 (5) 1383-1392 (2006).
15. J. Yang, S.W. Nelson, and S.J. Benkovic
The Control Mechanism for Lagging Strand Polymerase Recycling during Bacteriophage T4 DNA Replication, Mol. Cell 27, 153-164 (2006).
  2005
1. Cheng, H., Hwang, I., Chong, Y., Tavassoli, A., Webb, M. E., Zhang, Y., Wilson, I. A., Benkovic, S. J., and Boger, D. L. (2005)
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of N-[4-[5-(2,4-diamino-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidin-5-yl) -2-(2,2,2-trifluoroacetyl)pentyl]benzoyl]-L-glutamic Acid As A Potential Inhibitor of GAR Tfase and the De novo Purine Biosynthetic Pathway, Bioorg. Med. Chem. 13 (10) 3593-3599.
2. Tavassoli, A., Naumann, T. A., and Benkovic, S. J. (2005)
Production of Cyclic Proteins and Peptides, in Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, Vol. 16, Homing Endonucleases and Inteins (Marlene Belfort et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 293-305.
3. T.A. Naumann, S.N. Savinov, and S.J. Benkovic
Engineering an Affinity Tag for Genetically Encoded Cyclic Peptides, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 7, 820-830 (2005).
4. N.M. Antikainen, R.D. Smiley, S.J. Benkovic, and G.G. Hammes
Conformation Coupled Enzyme Catalysis: Single-Molecule and Transient Kinetics Investigation of Dihydrofolate Reductase," Biochemistry 44, 16835-16843 (2005).
5. S.J. Benkovic, S.J. Baker, M.R.K. Alley, Y-H. Woo, Y-K. Zhang, T. Akama, W. Mao, J. Baboval, P.T.R. Rajagopalan, M. Wall, L.S. Kahng, A. Tavassoli, and L. Shapiro
Identification of Borinic Esters as Inhibitors of Bacterial Cell Growth and Bacterial Methyltransferases, CcrM and MenH," J. Med. Chem. 48, 7468-7476, 2005.
6. K.E. Griswold, Y. Kawarasaki, N. Ghoneim, S.J. Benkovic, B.L. Iverson, and G. Georgiou
Evolution of Highly Active Enzymes by Homology-Independent Recombination, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102 (29) 10082-10087 (2005).
7. J. Yang, J. Xi, Z. Zhuang, and S.J. Benkovic
The Oligomeric T4 Primase Is the Functional Form During Replication,J. Biol. Chem. 280 (27) 25416-25423 (2005).
8. J. Xi, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhuang, J. Yang, M.M. Spiering, G.G. Hammes, and S.J. Benkovic
Interaction between the T4 Helicase Loading Protein (gp59) and the DNA Polymerase (gp43): Unlocking of the gp59--gp43--DNA Complex to Initiate Assembly of A Fully Functional Replisome, Biochemistry 44, 7747-7756 (2005).
9. K.F.Wong, T. Selzer, S.J. Benkovic, and S. Hammes-Schiffer
Impact of Distal Mutations on the Network of Coupled Motions Correlated to Hydride Transfer in Dihydrofolate Reductase," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102 (19) 6807-6812 (2005).
10. A. Tavassoli and S.J. Benkovic
Genetically Selected Cyclic-Peptide Inhibitors of AICAR Transformylase Homodimerization, Angew. Chem. 117, 2820-2823 (2005).
11. Y.H. Woo, P.T.R. Rajagopalan, S.J. Benkovic
A Nonradioactive DNA Methyltransferase Assay Adaptable to High-Throughput Screening, Anal. Biochem. 304 (2) 336-340 (2005).
12. M.T. Norcum, J.A. Warrington, M.M. Spiering, F.T. Ishmael, M.A. Trakselis, and S.J. Benkovic
Architecture of the Bacteriophage T4 Primosome: Electron Microscopy Studies of Helicase (gp41) and Primase (gp61), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102 (10) 3623-3626 (2005).
13. Z. Zhang, M.M. Spiering, M.A. Trakselis, F.T. Ishmael, J.Xi, S.J. Benkovic, and G.G. Hammes
Assembly of the Bacteriophage T4 Primosome: Single-molecule and Ensemble Studies, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102 (9) 3254-3259
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14. J. Xi, Z. Zhuang, Z. Zhang, T. Selzer, M.M. Spiering, G.G. Hammes, and S.J. Benkovic
Interaction Between the T4 Helicase-loading Protein (gp59) and The DNA Polymerase (gp43): A Locking Mechanism To Delay Replication During Replisome Assembly, Biochemistry 44 (7) 2305-2318 (2005).
15. Horswill AR, Benkovic SJ.
Cyclic peptides, a chemical genetics tool for biologists.
Cell Cycle. 2005 Apr;4(4):552-5. Epub 2005 Apr 5. Review.
  2004
1. R.P. Venkitakrishnan, E. Zaborowski , D. McElheny, S.J. Benkovic, H.J. Dyson, and P.E. Wright
“Conformational Changes in the Active Site Loops of Dihydrofolate Reductase During the Catalytic Cycle,” Biochemistry 43, 16046-16055 (2004).
2. C.M. Joyce and S.J. Benkovic
"DNA Polymerase Fidelity: Kinetics, Structure, and Checkpoints," Biochemistry 43 (45) 2004.
3. A.R. Horswill, S.N. Savinov, and S.J. Benkovic
"A Systematic Method for Identifying Small-Molecule Modulators of Protein-Protein Interactions," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101 (44) 15591-15596 (2004).
4. D. Millar, M.A. Trakselis, and S.J. Benkovic
"On the Solution Structure of the T4 Sliding Clamp (gp45)", Biochemistry 43, 12723-12727 (2004).
5. A.R. Horswill, T.A. Naumann, and S.J. Benkovic
"Using Incremental Truncation to Create Libraries of Hybrid Enzymes," in Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 388, Protein Engineering, Chapter 6 (D.E. Robertson, J.P. Noel, Eds) Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA pp. 50-60 (2004).
6. Z. Zhuang, M.M. Spiering, A.J. Berdis, M.A. Trakselis, and S.J. Benkovic
"Screw-cap Clamp Loader Proteins That Thread", Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 11 (7) 580-581 (2004).
7. J. Yang, Z. Zhuang, R. Roccasecca, M.A. Trakselis, and S.J. Benkovic
“The Dynamic Processivity of the T4 DNA Polymerase During Replication,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101 (22) 8289-8294 (2004).
8. R.S. Sikorski, L. Wang, K.A. Markham, P.T.R. Rajagopalan, S.J. Benkovic, and A. Kohen
"Tunneling and Coupled Motion in the Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 4778-4779 (2004).
9. M.C. Saraf, A.R. Horswill, S.J. Benkovic, and C.D. Maranas
“FamClash: A Method for Ranking the Activity of Engineered Enzymes,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101 (12) 4142-4147 (2004).
10. Z. Zhang, P.T.R. Rajagoplan, T. Selzer, S.J. Benkovic, and G.G. Hammes
"Single-Molecule and Transient Kinetics Investigation of the Interaction of Dihydrofolate Reductase with NADPH and Dihydrofolate," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101 (9) 2764-2769 (2004).
  2003
1. M.A. Trakselis, R.M. Roccasecca, J. Yang, A.M. Valentine, and S.J. Benkovic
"Dissociative Properties of the Proteins within the Bacteriophage T4 Replisome," J. Biol. Chem. 278 (50) 49839-49849 (2003).
2. J. Yang, M.A. Trakselis, R.M. Roccasecca, and S.J. Benkovic
"The Application of a Minicircle Substrate in the Study of the Coordinated T4 DNA Replication," J. Biol. Chem. 278 (50) 49829-49838 (2003).
3. Y. Kawarasaki, Griswold, K.E., Stevenson, J.D., Selzer, T., Benkovic, S.J., Iverson, B.L., and Georgiou, G.
“Enhanced Crossover SCRATCHY: Construction and High-throughput Screening of a Combinatorial Library Containing Multiple Non-homologous Crossovers,” Nucleic Acids Res. 31, 1-8 (2003).
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4. D.W. Wolan, S.E. Greasley, M.J. Wall, S.J. Benkovic, and I.A. Wilson
"Structure of Avian AICAR Transformylase with a Multisubstrate Adduct Inhibitor b-DADF Identifies the Folate Binding Site," Biochemistry 42, 10904-10914 (2003).
5. S.G. Lee, S. Lutz, and S.J. Benkovic
"On the Structural and Functional Modularity of Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Formyltrasferases," Protein Science 12, 2206-2214 (2003).
6. J. Desharnais, I. Hwang, Y. Zhang, A. Tavassoli, J. Baboval, S.J. Benkovic, I.A. Wilson, and D.L. Boger
“Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 10-CF3-CO-DDACTHF Analogues and Derivatives as Inhibitors of GAR Tfase and the De Novo Purine Biosynthetic Pathway,” Bioorg. Med. Chem. 11, 4511-4521 (2003).
7. T.H. Marsilje, M.P. Hedrick, J. Desharnais, K. Capps, A. Tavassoli, Y. Zhang, I.A. Wilson, S.J. Benkovic, and D.L. Boger
“10-(2-Benzoxazolcarbonyl)-5,10-dideaza-acyclic-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolic Acid: A Potential Inhibitor of GAR Transformylase and AICAR Transformylase,” Bioorg. Med. Chem. 11, 4503-4509 (2003).
8. T.H. Marsilje, M.P. Hedrick, J. Desharnais, A. Tavassoli, Y. Zhang, I.A. Wilson, S.J. Benkovic, and D.L. Boger
“Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Simplified a-Keto Heterocycle, Trifluoromethyl Ketone, and Formyl Substituted Folate Analogues as Potential Inhibitors of GAR Transformylase and AICAR Transformylase,” Bioorg. Med. Chem. 11, 4487-4501 (2003).
9. S.J. Benkovic and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
"A Perspective on Enzyme Catalysis," Science 301 (5637) 1196-1202 (2003)
10. J.J.A. Huntley, W. Fast, S.J. Benkovic, P.E. Wright, and H. Jane Dyson
"Role of a Solvent-Exposed Tryptophan in the Recognition and Binding of Antibiotic Substrates for a Metallo-b-Lactamase," Protein Science 12, 1368-1375 (2003).
11. P. Pineda, A. Kanter, R.S. McIvor, S.J. Benkovic, A. Rosowsky, and C.R. Wagner
"Dihydrofolate Reductase Mutant with Exceptional Resistance to Methotrexate but Not to Trimetrexate," J.Med. Chem. 46 (14) 2816-2818 (2003).
12. Y. Zhang, J. Desharnais, T.H. Marsilje, C. Li, M.P. Hedrick, L.T. Gooljarsingh, A. Tavassoli, S.J. Benkovic, A.J. Olson, D.L. Boger, and I.A. Wilson
"Rational Design, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Crystal Structure of a Potent Inhibitor of Human GAR Tfase: 10-(Trifluoroacetyl)-5,10-dideazaacyclic-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolic Acid," Biochemistry 42 (20) 6043-6056 (2003).
13. S.N. Savinov, R. Hirschmann, S.J. Benkovic, and A.B. Smith, III
"Investigation of an Antibody-Ligase. Evidence for Strain-Induced Catalysis," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 13, 1321-1324 (2003).
14. M.A. Trakselis, A.J. Berdis, and S.J. Benkovic
"Examination of the Role of the Clamp-loader and ATP Hydrolysis in the Formation of the Bacteriophage T4 Polymerase Holoenzyme," J. Mol. Biol. 326 (2), 435-451 (2003).
15. F.T Ishmael, M.A. Trakselis, and S.J. Benkovic
"Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bacteriophage T4 Replisome. The Leading Strand Holoenzyme is Physically Linked to the Lagging Strand Holoenzyme and the Primosome," J. Biol. Chem. 278 (5), 3145-3152 (2003).
  2002
1. S. Lutz, W. Fast, and S.J. Benkovic
"A University, Vector-Based System for Nucleic Acid Reading-Frame Selection," Protein Eng. 15 (12) 1025-1030 (2002).
2. M. Wall and S.J. Benkovic
"Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 9-Thia-5,10-dideazafolic Acid," J. Heterocyclic Chem., 39, 1097-1099 (2002).
3. S.M. Firestine, F. Salinas, and S.J. Benkovic
"Using Transcriptional-Based Systems for In Vivo Enzyme Screening," in Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 205, E.coli Gene Expression Protocols, Chapter 22 (P.E. Vaillancourt, Ed.) Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ pp. 315-327 (2002).
4. E. Abel-Santos, C.P. Scott, and S.J. Benkovic
"Use of Inteins for the In Vivo Production of Stable Cyclic Peptide Libraries in E.coli," in Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 205, E.coli Gene Expression Protocols, Chapter 19 (P.E. Vaillancourt, Ed.) Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ pp. 281-294 (2002).
5. P.T.R. Rajagopalan, S. Lutz, and S.J. Benkovic
"Coupling Interactions of Distal Residues Enhance Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalysis: Mutational Effects on Hydride Transfer Rates," Biochemistry 41, 12618-12628 (2002).
6. P.T.R. Rajagopalan, Z. Zhang, L. McCourt, M. Dwyer, S.J. Benkovic, and G.G. Hammes
"Interaction of Dihydrofolate Reductase With Methotrexate: Ensemble and Single-molecule Kinetics," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 (21) 13481-13486 (2002).
7.. J.D. Stevenson and S.J. Benkovic
"Combinatorial Approaches to Engineering Hybrid Enzymes," J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2 (9) 1483-1493 (2002).
8. J.B. Thoden, S.M. Firestine, S.J. Benkovic, and H.M. Holden
“PurT-encoded Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase. Accommodation of Adenosine Nucleotide Analogs Within the Active Site,” J. Biol. Chem. 277(26) 23898-23908 (2002).
9. T.H. Marsilje, M.A. Labroli, M.P. Hedrick, Q. Jin, J. Desharnais, S.J. Baker, L.T. Gooljarsingh, J. Ramcharan, A. Tavassoli, Y. Zhang, I.A. Wilson, G.P. Beardsley, S.J. Benkovic, and D.L. Boger
"10-Formyl-5,10-dideaza-acyclic-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolic Acid (10-Formyl-DDACTHF): A Potent Cytotoxic Agent Acting by Selective Inhibition of Human GAR Tfase and the De Novo Purine Biosynthetic Pathway," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 10, 2739-2749 (2002).
10. F.T. Ishmael, S.C. Alley, and S.J. Benkovic
"Assembly of the Bacteriophage T4 Helicase," J. Biol. Chem. 277 (23) 20555-20562 (2002).
11. S. Lutz and S.J. Benkovic
"Engineering Protein Evolution" in Directed Molecular Evolution of Proteins, Chapter 9 (S. Brakmann and K. Johnsson, Eds.) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Germany pp. 177-214 (2002).
12. P.K. Agarwal, S.R. Billeter, P.T. Ravi Rajagopalan, S.J. Benkovic, and S. Hammes-Schiffer
"Network of Coupled Promoting Motions in Enzyme Catalysis," Proc. Natl. Acad. USA 99 (5), 2794-2799 (2002).
13. P.T. Ravi Rajagopalan and S.J. Benkovic
"Preorganization and Protein Dynamics in Enzyme Catalysis," The Chemical Record 2, 24-36 (2002).
14. M. Ostermeier, S. Lutz, and S.J. Benkovic
"Generation of Protein Fragment Libraries by Incremental Truncation," in Protein-Protein Interactions, Section 4, Chapter 28 (E. Golemis, Ed.) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York pp. 507-522 (2002).
15. A.M. Valentine and S.J. Benkovic
"Enzyme Mechanisms," in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Third Edition, Volume 5 (R.A. Meyers, Ed.) Academic Press, San Diego pp. 627-639 (2002).
  2001
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3. A.M. Valentine, F.T. Ishmael, V.K. Shier, and S.J. Benkovic
"A Zinc Ribbon Protein in DNA Replication: Primer Synthesis and Macromolecular Interactions by the Bacteriophage T4 Primase," Biochemistry 40 (50), 15074-15085 (2001).
4. S.E. Greasley, T.H. Marsilje, H. Cai, S. Baker, S.J. Benkovic, D.L. Boger, and I.A. Wilson
"Unexpected Formation of an Epoxide-Derived Multisubstrate Adduct Inhibitor on the Active Site of GAR Transformylase," Biochemistry 40, 13538-13547 (2001).
5. Trakselis, M. A. and Benkovic, S. J.
"Intricacies in ATP-Dependent Clamp Loading: Variations Across Replication Systems," Structure 9, 999-1004 (2001).
6. S.C. Alley, M.A. Trakselis, M.U. Mayer, F.T. Ishmael, A.D. Jones, and S.J. Benkovic
"Building a Replisome Solution Structure by Elucidation of Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme," J. Biol. Chem. 276 (42) 39340-39349 (2001).
7. S. Lutz, M. Ostermeier, G.L. Moore, C.D. Maranas, and S.J. Benkovic
"Creating Multiple-Crossover DNA Libraries Independent of Sequence Identity," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 (20) 11248-11253 (2001).
8. M.A. Trakselis, M.U. Mayer, F.T. Ishmael, R.M. Roccasecca, and S.J. Benkovic
"Dynamic Protein Interactions in the Bacteriophage T4 Replisome," TIBS, 26, 566-572 (2001).
9. F.T. Ishmael, S.C. Alley, and S.J. Benkovic
"Identification and Mapping of Protein-Protein Interactions between gp32 and gp59 by Cross-linking," J. Biol. Chem. 276, 25236-25242 (2001).
10. J.H. Shim, M. Wall, S.J. Benkovic, N. Diaz, D. Suarez, and K.M. Merz.Jr.
"Evaluation of the Catalytic Mechanism of AICAR Transformylase by pH-Dependent Kinetics, Mutagenesis, and Quantum Chemical Calculations," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 4687-4696 (2001).
11. M.J. Osborne, J. Schnell, S.J. Benkovic, H.J. Dyson, and P.E. Wright
"Backbone Dynamics in Dihydrofolate Reductase Complexes: Role of Loop Flexibility in the Catalytic Mechanism," Biochemistry 40, 9846-9859 (2001).
12. C.P. Scott, E. Abel-Santos, A.D. Jones, and S.J. Benkovic
"Structural Requirements for the Biosynthesis of Backbone Cyclic Peptide Libraries," Chem. Biol. 8, 801-815 (2001).
13. F.T. Ishmael, M.T. Norcum, S.J. Benkovic, and J.S. Bond
"Multimeric Structure of the Secreted Meprin A Metalloproteinase and Characterization of the Functional Protomer," J. Biol. Chem. 276 (25), 23207-23211 (2001).
14. M.A. Trakselis, S.C. Alley, E. Abel-Santos, and S.J. Benkovic
"Creating a Dynamic Picture of the Sliding Clamp During T4 DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme Assembly by Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 (15) 8368-8375 (2001).
15. S.J. Benkovic, A.M. Valentine, and F. Salinas
"Replisome-Mediated DNA Replication," Annu. Rev. Biochem., 70, 181-208 (2001).
16. J.D. Stevenson, S. Lutz, and S.J. Benkovic
"Retracing Enzyme Evolution in the (Ba)8-Barrel Scaffold," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 40, 1854-1856 (2001).
17. L.T. Gooljarsingh, J. Ramcharan, S. Gilroy, and S.J. Benkovic
"Localization of GAR Transformylase in Escherichia coli and Mammalian Cells," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 6565-6570 (2001).
18. V.K. Shier, C.J. Hancey, and S.J. Benkovic
"Identification of the Active Oligomeric State of an Essential Adenine DNA Methyltransferase from Caulobacter crescentus," J. Mol. Biol. 276, 14744-14751 (2001).
19. S.E. Greasley, P. Horton, J. Ramcharan, G.P. Beardsley, S.J. Benkovic, and I.A. Wilson
"Crystal Structure of a Bifunctional Transformylase and Cyclohydrolase Enzyme in Purine Biosynthesis," Nature Struct. Biol. 8, 402-406 (2001).
20. G.L. Moore, C.D. Maranas, S. Lutz, and S.J. Benkovic
"Predicting Crossover Generation in DNA Shuffling," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 3226-3231 (2001).
21. M. Ostermeier and S.J. Benkovic
"Construction of Hybrid Gene Libraries Involving the Circular Permutation of DNA," Biotech. Lett. 23, 303-310 (2001).
22. W. Fast, Z. Wang, S.J. Benkovic
"Familial Mutations and Zinc Stoichiometry Determine the Rate-Limiting Step of Nitrocefin Hydrolysis by Metallo-b-lactamase from Bacterioides fragilis," Biochemistry 40, 1640-1650 (2001).
23. S. Lutz, M. Ostermeier, and S.J. Benkovic
"Rapid Generation of Incremental Truncation Libraries for Protein Engineering Using a-Phosphothioate," Nucleic Acids Res. 29, 1-7 (2001).
24. D.C. Wahnon, V.K. Shier, and S.J. Benkovic
"Mechanism-Based Inhibition of an Essential Bacterial Adenine DnA Methyltransferase: Rationally Designed Antibiotics," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 976-977 (2001).
25. G.P. Miller, D.C. Wahnon, and S.J. Benkovic
"Interloop Contacts Modulate Ligand Cycling during Catalysis by Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase," Biochemistry 40, 867-875 (2001).
  2000
1. C. Liu, J.H. Shim, and S.J. Benkovic
"The Unexpected Catalytic Properties of a Heterodimer of GAR Transformylase," Bioorg. Chem. 28, 316-323 (2000).
2.

M. Ostermeier and S.J. Benkovic

"Evolution of Protein Function by Domain Swapping' in Advances in Protein Chemistry (Vol. 55) Evolutionary Protein Design (F.H. Arnold, Ed.) Academic Press, San Diego pp. 29-77 (2000).

3. S.J. Baker, S.M. Firestine, D. Smithrud, F. Salinas, and S.J. Benkovic
"Synthesis of Two Bi-functional Ligands for the QUEST Three-hybrid System," Tetrahedron Lett. 41, 7009-7012 (2000).
4. M. Wall, J.-H. Shim, and S.J. Benkovic
"Role of the 4-Carboxamide of AICAR in Binding and Catalysis," Biochemistry 39, 11301-11311 (2000).
5. S.C. Alley, F.T. Ishmael, A.D. Jones, and S.J. Benkovic
"Mapping Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme Using a Novel Trifunctional Photo-cross-linking and Affinity Reagent," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 6126-6127 (2000).
6. J.B. Thoden, S. Firestine, A. Nixon, S.J. Benkovic, and H.M. Holden
"Molecular Structure of Escherichia coli PurT-Encoded Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase," Biochemistry 39, 8791-8802 (2000).
7. S. Lutz and S.J. Benkovic
"Homology-Independent Protein Engineering," Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 11, 319-324 (2000).
8. F. Salinas and S.J. Benkovic
"Characterization of Bacteriophage T4-coordinated Leading- and Lagging-strand Synthesis on a Minicircle Substrate," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 7196-7201 (2000).
9. D.L. Boger, T.H. Marsilje, R.A. Castro, M.P. Hedrick, Q. Jin, S.J. Baker, J.H. Shim, and S.J. Benkovic
"Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Fluoronitrophenyl Substituted Folate Analogues as Potential Inhibitors of GAR Transformylase and AICAR Transformylase," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 10, 1471-1475 (2000).
10. D.L. Boger, M.A. Labroli, T.H. Marsilje, Q. Jin, M.P. Hedrick, S.J. Baker, J.H. Shim, and S.J. Benkovic
"Conformationallly Restricted Analogues Designed for Selective Inhibition of GAR Tfase Versus Thymidylate Synthase or Dihydrofolate Reductase," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 8, 1075-1086 (2000).
11. T.C. Bruice and S.J. Benkovic
"Chemical Basis for Enzyme Catalysis," Biochemistry 39, 6267-6274 (2000).
12. A.E. Nixon and S.J. Benkovic
"Improvement in the Efficiency of Formyl Transfer of a GAR Transformylase Hybrid Enzyme," Protein Engineering 13, 323-327 (2000).
13. S.M. Firestine, F. Salinas, A.E. Nixon, S.J. Baker, and S.J. Benkovic
"Using an AraC-based three-hybrid System to Detect Biocatalysts in vivo," Nat. Biotechnol. 18, 544-547 (2000).
14. D.B. Smithrud, P.A. Benkovic, S.J. Benkovic, V. Roberts, J. Liu, I. Neagu, S. Iwama, B.W. Phillips. A.B. Smith III, and R. Hirschmann
"Cyclic Peptide Formation Catalyzed by an Antibody Ligase," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 97, 1953-1958 (2000).
15. M. Ostermeier and S.J. Benkovic
"A Two-phagemid System for the Creation of Non-phage Displayed Antibody Libraries Approaching One Trillion Members," J. of Immunological Methods 237, 175-186 (2000).
16. S.C. Alley, E. Abel-Santos, and S.J. Benkovic
"Tracking Sliding Clamp Opening and Closing during Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme Assembly," Biochemistry 39, 3076-3090 (2000).
  1999
1. S.E.Greasley, M.M. Yamashita, H. Cai, S.J. Benkovic, D.L. Boger, and I.A. Wilson
"New Insights into Inhibitor Design from the Crystal Structure and NMR of Escherichia coli GAR Transformylase in Complex with ß-GAR and 10-Formyl-5,8,10-trideazafolic Acid," Biochemistry 38, 16783-16793 (1999).
2. M. Ostermeier, J.-H. Shim, and S.J. Benkovic
"A Combinatorial Approach to Hybrid Enzymes Independent of DNA Homology," Nat. Biotechnol. 17, 1205-1209
(1999).
3. C.P. Scott, E. Abel-Santos, M. Wall, D.C. Wahnon, and S.J. Benkovic
"Production of Cyclic Peptides and Proteins In vivo," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 13638-13643 (1999).
4. S.D.B. Scrofani, J. Chung, J.J.A. Huntley, S.J. Benkovic, P.E. Wright, and H.J. Dyson
"NMR Characterization of the Metallo-B-lactamase from Bacterioides fragilis and Its Interaction with a Tight-Binding Inhibitor: Role of an Active-Stie Loop," Biochemistry 38, 14507-14514 (1999).
5.
6. M. Ostermeier, A.E. Nixon, and S.J. Benkovic
"Incremental Truncation as a Strategy in the Engineering of Novel Biocatalysts," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 7, 2139-2144 (1999).
7. M.M. Thayer, E.H. Olender, A.S. Arvai, C.K. Koike, I.L. Canestrelli, J.D. Stewart, S.J. Benkovic, E.D. Getzoff, and V.A. Roberts
"Structural Basis for Amide Hydrolysis Catalyzed by the 43C9 Antibody," J. Mol. Biol. 291, 329-345 (1999).
8. Z. Wang, W. Fast, A.M. Valentine, and S.J. Benkovic
"Metallo-ß-lactamase: Structure and Mechanism," Curr. Opin. in Chem. Biol. 3, 614-622 (1999).
9.
10. M. Wall, J.H. Shim, and S.J. Benkovic
"A Multisubstrate Adduct Inhibitor of AICAR Transformylase," J. Med. Chem. 42, 3421-3424 (1999).
11. S.C. Alley, A.D. Jones, P. Soumillion, and S.J. Benkovic
"The Carboxyl Terminus of the Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerse Contacts Its Sliding Clamp at the Subunit Interface," J. Biol. Chem. 274, 24485-24489 (1999).
12. J.H. Shim and S.J. Benkovic
"Catalytic Mechanism of Escherichia coli Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase Probed by Site-Directed Mutagenesis and pH-Dependent Studies," Biochemistry 38, 10024-10031 (1999).
13. Z. Wang, W. Fast, and S.J. Benkovic
"On the Mechanism of the Metallo-beta-lactamase from Bacteroides fragilis," Biochemistry 38, 10013-10023 (1999).
14. M. Ostermeier and S.J. Benkovic
"Finding Cinderellaís SlipperóProteins That Fit," Nature Biotechnology 17, 639-640 (1999).
15. S.C. Alley, V.K. Shier, E. Abel-Santos, D.J. Sexton, P. Soumillion, and S.J. Benkovic
"Sliding Clamp of the Bacteriophage T4 Polymerase Has Open and Closed
Subunit Interfaces in Solution," Biochemistry 38, 7686-7709 (1999).
16. A.E. Nixon, S.M. Firestine, F.G. Salinas, and S.J. Benkovic
"Rational Design of a Scytalone Dehydratase-like Enzyme Using a Structurally Homologous Protein Scaffold," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 3568-3571 (1999).
17. M. Ostermeier, A.E. Nixon, J.-H. Shim, and S.J. Benkovic
"Combinatorial Protein Engineering by Incremental Truncation," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 3562-3567 (1999).
  1998
1.
2. S. De Lauzon, R. Quilez, L. Lion, B. Desfosses, B. Desfosses, I. Lee, M.A. Sari, S.J. Benkovic, D. Mansuy, and J.P. Mahy, "Active Site Topology of Artificial Peroxidase-like Hemoproteins Based On Antibodies Constructed from a Specifically Designed Ortho-carboxy-substituted Tetraarylporphyrin," Eur. J. Biochem. 257, 121-130
(1998).
3. Y. Su, M.M. Yamashita, S.E. Greasley, C.A. Mullen, J.H. Shim, P.A. Jennings, S.J. Benkovic, and I.A. Wilson
"A Ph-dependent Stabilization of an Active Site Loop Observed from Low and High Ph Crystal Structures of Mutant Monomeric Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase at 1.8 to 1.9 A", J. Mol. Biol. 281, 485-499 (1998).
4. W.R. Cannon and S.J. Benkovic
"Solvation, Reorganization Energy, and Biological Catalysis," J. Biol. Chem. 273, 26257-26260 (1998).
5. P. Wu, N. Nossal, and S.J. Benkovic
"Kinetic Characterization of a Bacteriophage T4 Antimutator DNA Polymerase," Biochemistry 37, 14748-14755 (1998).
6.
7. A.J. Berdis and S.J. Benkovic
"Simultaneous Formation of Functional Leading and Lagging Strand Holoenzyme Complexes on a Small, Defined DNA Substrate,"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 11128-11133 (1998).
8.
9. Z. Wang and S.J. Benkovic
"Purification, Characterization, and Kinetic Studies of a Soluble Bacteroides fragilis Metallo-?-lactamase That Provides Multiple Antiobiotic Resistance," J. Biol. Chem. 273, 22402-22408 (1998).
10. D.L. Boger, M.J. Kochanny, H. Cai, D. Wyatt, P.A. Kitos, M.S. Warren, J. Ramcharan, L.T. Gooljarsingh, and S.J. Benkovic
"Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Potential GAR and AICAR Transformylase Inhibitors," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 6, 643-659 (1998).
11. J. H. Shim and S.J. Benkovic
"Evaluation of the Kinetic Mechanism of Escherichia coli Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase," Biochemistry 37, 8776-8782 (1998).
12. D.J. Sexton, B.F. Kaboord, A.J. Berdis, T.E. Carver, and S.J. Benkovic
"Dissecting the Order of Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme Assembly,"
Biochemistry 37, 7749-7756 (1998).
13. G.P. Miller and S.J. Benkovic
"Stretching Exercises-Flexibility in Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalysis," Chemistry & Biology 5, R105-R113 (1998).
14. A.E. Nixon, M. Ostermeier, and S.J. Benkovic
"Hybrid Enzymes: Manipulating Enzyme Design," Trends Biotechnol. 16, 258-264 (1998).
15. G.P. Miller and S.J. Benkovic
"Strength of an Interloop Hydrogen Bond Determines the Kinetic Pathway in Catalysis by Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase," Biochemistry 37, 6336-6342 (1998).
16. G.P. Miller and S.J. Benkovic
"Deletion of a Highly Motional Residue Affects Formation of the Michaelis Complex for Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase," Biochemistry 37, 6327-6335 (1998).
17. L.C. Kroutil, M.W. Frey, B.F. Kaboord, T.A. Kunkel, and S.J. Benkovic
"Effect of Accessory Proteins on T4 DNA Polymerase Replication Fidelity," J. Mol. Biol. 278, 135-146 (1998).
18. A.J. Berdis, I. Lee, J.K. Coward, C. Stephens, R. Wright, L. Shapiro, and S.J. Benkovic
"A Cell Cycle-Regulated Adenine DNA Methyltransferase from Caulobacter crescentus Processively Methylates GANTC Sites on Hemimethylated DNA," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95, 2874-2879 (1998).
19. P. Soumillion, D.J. Sexton, and S.J. Benkovic
"Clamp Subunit Dissociation Dictates Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme Disassembly," Biochemistry 37, 1819-1827 (1998).
20. W. Zhong and S.J. Benkovic
"Development of an Internally Quenched Fluorescent Substrate for Escherichia coli Leader Peptidase," Anal. Biochem. 255, 66-73 (1998).
  1997
1. C.E. Cameron and S.J. Benkovic
"Evidence for a Functional Role of the Dynamics of Glycine-121 of Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase Obtained from Kinetic Analysis of a Site-Directed Mutant," Biochemistry 36, 15792-15800 (1997).
2. T.E. Carver, Jr., D.J. Sexton, and S.J. Benkovic
"Dissociation of Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase and Its Processivity Clamp after Completion of Okazaki Fragment Synthesis," Biochemistry 36, 14409-14417 (1997).
3. D.L. Boger, N.-E. Haynes, M.S. Warren, J. Ramcharan, P.A. Kitos, and S.J. Benkovic
"Multisubstrate Analogue Based on 5,8,10-Trideazafolate," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 5, 1853-1857 (1997).
4. D.L. Boger, N.-E. Haynes, M.S. Warren, J. Ramcharan, A.E. Marolewski, P.A. Kitos, and S.J. Benkovic
"Abenzyl 10-Formyl-trideazafolic Acid (Abenzyl 10-Formyl-TDAF): An Effective Inhibitor of Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 5, 1847-1852 (1997).
5. D.L. Boger, N-E. Haynes, M.S. Warren, J. Ramcharan, P.A. Kitos, and S.J. Benkovic
"Functionalized Analogues of 5,8,10-Trideazafolate: Development of an Enzyme-Assembled Tight Binding Inhibitor of GAR Tfase and a Potential Irreversible Inhibitor of AICAR Tfase," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 5, 1839-1846 (1997).
6. D.L. Boger, N.-E. Haynes, M.S. Warren, L.T. Gooljarsingh, J. Ramcharan, P.A. Kitos, and S.J. Benkovic
"Functionalized Analogues of 5,8,10-Trideazafolate as Potential Inhibitors of GAR Tfase or AICAR Tfase," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 5, 1831-1838 (1997).
7. D.L. Boger, N.-E. Haynes, P.A. Kitos, M.S. Warren, J. Ramcharan, A.E. Marolewski, and S.J. Benkovic
"10-Formyl-5,8,10-trideazafolic Acid (10-Formyl-TDAF): A Potent Inhibitor of Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 5, 1817-1830 (1997).
8. D.J. Sexton, A.J. Berdis, and S.J. Benkovic
"Assembly and Disassembly of DNA Polymerase Holoenzyme," Curr. Opin. in Chem. Biol. 1, 316-322 (1997).
9. D.B. Smithrud and S.J. Benkovic
"The State of Antibody Catalysis," Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 8, 459-466 (1997).
10. W.R. Cannon, B.J. Garrison, and S.J. Benkovic
"Consideration of the pH-dependent Inhibition of Dihydrofolate Reductase by Methotrexate," J. Mol. Biol. 271, 656-668 (1997).
11. C.E. Cameron, M. Ghosh, S.F.J. Le Grice, and S.J. Benkovic
"Mutations in HIV Reverse Transcriptase which Alter RNase H Activity and Decrease Strand Transfer
Efficiency are Suppressed by HIV Nucleocapsid Protein," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 6700-6705 (1997).
12. A.E. Marolewski, K.M. Mattia, M.S. Warren, and S.J. Benkovic
"Formyl Phosphate: A Proposed Intermediate in the Reaction Catalyzed by Escherichia coli PurT GAR Transformylase," Biochemistry 36, 6709-6716 (1997).
13. G.P. Miller, B.A. Posner, and S.J. Benkovic
"Expanding the 43C9 Class of Catalytic Antibodies Using a Chain-Shuffling Approach," Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 5, 581-590 (1997).
14.
15. W.R. Cannon, B.J. Garrison, and S.J. Benkovic
"Electrostatic Characterization of Enzyme Complexes: Evaluation of the Mechanism of Catalysis of Dihydrofolate Reductase", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119, 2386-2395 (1997).
16. A.J. Berdis and S.J. Benkovic
"Mechanism of Bacteriophage T4 DNA Holoenzyme Assembly: The 44/62 Protein Acts as a Molecular Motor", Biochemistry 36, 2733-2743 (1997).
17. M.S. Warren and S.J. Benkovic
"Combinatorial Manipulation of Three Key Active Site Residues in Glycinbamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase", Protein Engineering 10, 63-68 (1997).
18. A.E. Nixon and S.J. Benkovic
"Assembly of An Active Enzyme by the Linkage of Two Protein Modules", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 1069-1073 (1997).
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  1996
1. D.J. Sexton, T.E. Carver, A.J. Berdis, and S.J. Benkovic
"Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interactions at the Bacteriophage T4 DNA Replication Fork", J. Biol. Chem. 271, 28045-28051 (1996).
2. A.J. Berdis, P. Soumillion, and S.J. Benkovic
"The Carboxyl Terminus of the Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase is Required for Holoenzyme Complex Formation",
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93, 12822-12827 (1996).
3. S.M. Firestine, A.E. Nixon, and S.J. Benkovic
"Threading Your Way to Protein Function", Chemistry & Biology 3, 779-783 (1996).
4. M.S. Warren, K.M. Mattia, A.E. Marolewski, and S.J. Benkovic
"The Transformylase Enzymes of de novo Purine Biosynthesis", Pure & Appl. Chem. 68, 2029-2036 (1996).
5. W.R. Cannon, S.F. Singleton, and S.J. Benkovic
"A Perspective on Biological Catalysis", Nature Structural Biology 3, 821-833 (1996).
6. M.W. Crowder, Z. Wang, S.L. Franklin, E.P. Zovinka, and S.J. Benkovic
"Characterization of the Metal-Binding Sites of the beta-Lactamase from Bacterioides fragilis",
Biochemistry 35, 12126-12132 (1996).
7. S.J. Benkovic
"The Key is in the Pocket", Nature 383, 23-24 (1996).
8. M.S. Warren, A.E. Marolewski, and S.J. Benkovic
"A Rapid Screen of Active Site Mutants in Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase", Biochemistry 35, 8855-8862 (1996).
9. A.J. Berdis and S.J. Benkovic
"Role of Adenosine 5í-Triphosphate Hydrolysis in the Assembly of the Bacteriophage T4 DNA Replication Holoenzyme Complex", Biochemistry 35, 9253-9265 (1996).
10. K.D. Raney, T.E. Carver, and S.J. Benkovic
"Stoichiometry and DNA Unwinding by the Bacteriophage T4 41:59 Helicase", J. Biol. Chem. 271, 14074-14081 (1996).
11. M.W. Frey, S.T. Frey, W.D. Horrocks, Jr., B.F. Kaboord, and S.J. Benkovic
"Elucidation of the Metal-binding Properties of the Klenow Fragment of E.coli Polymerase I and Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase by Lanthanide(III) Luminescence Spectroscopy", Chemistry & Biology 3, 393-403 (1996).
12. C.L. Brummel, J.C. Vickerman, S.A. Carr, M.E. Hemling, G.D. Roberts, W. Johnson, J. Weinstock, D. Gaintanopoulos, S.J. Benkovic, and N. Winograd.
"Evaluation of Mass Spectrometric Methods Applicable to the Direct Analysis of Non-Peptide Bead-Bound Combinatorial Libraries", Analytical Biochemistry 68, 237-242 (1996).
13. G.T. Anderson, M.D. Alexander, S.D. Taylor, D.B. Smithrud, S.J. Benkovic, and S.M. Weinreb
"Catalytic Antibodies in Synthesis: Design and Synthesis of a Hapten for Application to the Preparation of a Scalemic Pyrrolidine Ring Synthon for Ptilomycalin A", J. Org. Chem. 61, 125-132 (1996).
14. B.A. Posner, L. Li, R. Bethell, T. Tsuji, and S.J. Benkovic
" Engineering Specificity for Folate into Dihydrofolate Reductase from Escherichia coli", Biochemistry 35, 1653-1663 (1996).
15. B.F. Kaboord and S.J. Benkovic
"Dual Role of the 44/62 Protein as a Matchmaker Protein and DNA Polymerase Chaperone During Assembly of the Bacteriophage T4 Holoenzyme Complex", Biochemistry 35, 1084-1092 (1996).
  1995
1. C.R. Wagner, Z. Huang, S.F. Singleton, and S.J. Benkovic
"Molecular Basis for Nonadditive Mutational Effects in Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase",
Biochemistry 34, 15671-15680 (1995).
2. T.L. Capson, S.J. Benkovic, and N.G. Nossal
"Photochemical Cross-Linking of DNA Replication Proteins at Primer Terminus", in Methods of Enzymology Vol. 249,
DNA Replication, Section V. Polymerase Accessory Functions, Replication Proteins, Multienzyme Replication Complexes (J.L. Campbell, ed.) Academic Press, San Diego, pp 449-456 (1995). </