Alfonso Mondragón - Publications

Affiliations: 
Biochemistry Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 
Area:
structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids
Website:
http://www.molbiosci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/alfonso-mondragon.html

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2022 Osterman A, Mondragón A. Structures of topoisomerase V in complex with DNA reveal unusual DNA binding mode and novel relaxation mechanism. Elife. 11. PMID 35969036 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.72702  0.455
2021 Smith EM, Mondragón A. Basic residues at the C-gate of DNA gyrase are involved in DNA supercoiling. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 101000. PMID 34303706 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101000  0.347
2020 Chan CW, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of an atypical cobalamin riboswitch reveals RNA structural adaptability as basis for promiscuous ligand binding. Nucleic Acids Research. PMID 32544228 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gkaa507  0.438
2020 Chan CW, Badong D, Rajan R, Mondragón A. Crystal structures of an unmodified bacterial tRNA reveal intrinsic structural flexibility and plasticity as general properties of unbound tRNAs. Rna. 26: 278-289. DOI: 10.2210/Pdb6Ugg/Pdb  0.458
2019 Chan CW, Badong D, Rajan R, Mondragon A. Crystal structures of an unmodified bacterial tRNA reveal intrinsic structural flexibility and plasticity as general properties of unbound tRNAs. Rna (New York, N.Y.). PMID 31848215 DOI: 10.1261/rna.073478.119  0.355
2019 Dorsey BW, Huang L, Mondragón A. Structural organization of a Type III-A CRISPR effector subcomplex determined by X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM. Nucleic Acids Research. 47: 3765-3783. DOI: 10.2210/Pdb6Nbt/Pdb  0.386
2018 Soczek KM, Grant T, Rosenthal PB, Mondragon A. CryoEM structures of open dimers of Gyrase A in complex with DNA illuminate mechanism of strand passage. Elife. 7. PMID 30457554 DOI: 10.2210/Pdb6N1Q/Pdb  0.52
2018 Zhang J, Chetnani B, Cormack ED, Alonso D, Liu W, Mondragon A, Fei J. Specific structural elements of the T-box riboswitch drive the two-step binding of the tRNA ligand. Elife. 7. PMID 30251626 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bpj.2018.11.1933  0.366
2018 Chan CW, Kiesel BR, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of human Rpp20/Rpp25 reveals quaternary level adaptation of the Alba scaffold as structural basis for single-stranded RNA binding. Journal of Molecular Biology. PMID 29625199 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2018.03.029  0.487
2018 Gunn KH, Marko JF, Mondragón A. Single-Molecule Magnetic Tweezer Analysis of Topoisomerases. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 1703: 139-152. PMID 29177739 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7459-7_10  0.448
2018 Soczek KM, Grant T, Rosenthal PB, Mondragón A. Author response: CryoEM structures of open dimers of gyrase A in complex with DNA illuminate mechanism of strand passage Elife. DOI: 10.7554/Elife.41215.042  0.475
2018 Zhang J, Chetnani B, Cormack ED, Alonso D, Liu W, Mondragón A, Fei J. Author response: Specific structural elements of the T-box riboswitch drive the two-step binding of the tRNA ligand Elife. DOI: 10.7554/Elife.39518.045  0.322
2017 Brahmachari S, Gunn KH, Giuntoli RD, Mondragón A, Marko JF. Nucleation of Multiple Buckled Structures in Intertwined DNA Double Helices. Physical Review Letters. 119: 188103. PMID 29219598 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.119.188103  0.477
2017 Chetnani B, Mondragón A. Molecular envelope and atomic model of an anti-terminated glyQS T-box regulator in complex with tRNAGly. Nucleic Acids Research. PMID 28531275 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gkx451  0.389
2017 Gunn KH, Marko JF, Mondragón A. An orthogonal single-molecule experiment reveals multiple-attempt dynamics of type IA topoisomerases. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. PMID 28414321 DOI: 10.1038/Nsmb.3401  0.491
2016 Rajan R, Osterman A, Mondragón A. Methanopyrus kandleri topoisomerase V contains three distinct AP lyase active sites in addition to the topoisomerase active site. Nucleic Acids Research. PMID 26908655 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gkw122  0.424
2015 Zhang Y, Rajan R, Seifert HS, Mondragón A, Sontheimer EJ. DNase H Activity of Neisseria meningitidis Cas9. Molecular Cell. 60: 242-55. PMID 26474066 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.09.020  0.318
2015 Philips SJ, Canalizo-Hernandez M, Yildirim I, Schatz GC, Mondragón A, O'Halloran TV. TRANSCRIPTION. Allosteric transcriptional regulation via changes in the overall topology of the core promoter. Science (New York, N.Y.). 349: 877-81. PMID 26293965 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aaa9809  0.473
2015 Clark MD, Marcum R, Graveline R, Chan CW, Xie T, Chen Z, Ding Y, Zhang Y, Mondragón A, David G, Radhakrishnan I. Structural insights into the assembly of the histone deacetylase-associated Sin3L/Rpd3L corepressor complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 26124119 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1504021112  0.444
2014 Gilston BA, Wang S, Marcus MD, Canalizo-Hernández MA, Swindell EP, Xue Y, Mondragón A, O'Halloran TV. Structural and mechanistic basis of zinc regulation across the E. coli Zur regulon. Plos Biology. 12: e1001987. PMID 25369000 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.1001987  0.499
2014 Terekhova K, Marko JF, Mondragón A. Single-molecule analysis uncovers the difference between the kinetics of DNA decatenation by bacterial topoisomerases I and III. Nucleic Acids Research. 42: 11657-67. PMID 25232096 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gku785  0.48
2014 Soczek KM, Gunn KH, Critchelow CJ, Grant T, Rosenthal P, Mondragon A. Elucidation of Mechanistic Details from Structural Studies of DNA Gyrase Biophysical Journal. 106. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bpj.2013.11.336  0.543
2013 Chetnani B, Mondragón A. RNA exerts self-control Nature. 500: 279-280. PMID 23892780 DOI: 10.1038/Nature12460  0.415
2013 Chan CW, Chetnani B, Mondragón A. Structure and function of the T-loop structural motif in noncoding RNAs Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Rna. 4: 507-522. PMID 23754657 DOI: 10.1002/Wrna.1175  0.361
2013 Mondragón A. Structural studies of RNase P Annual Review of Biophysics. 42: 537-557. PMID 23654306 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Biophys-083012-130406  0.352
2013 Terekhova K, Marko JF, Mondragón A. Studies of bacterial topoisomerases I and III at the single-molecule level. Biochemical Society Transactions. 41: 571-5. PMID 23514156 DOI: 10.1042/Bst20120297  0.45
2013 Gunn KH, Soczek KM, Marko JF, Mondragon A. Studies of DNA Gyrase at the Single Molecule Level Biophysical Journal. 106. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bpj.2013.11.477  0.524
2012 Terekhova K, Gunn KH, Marko JF, Mondragón A. Bacterial topoisomerase I and topoisomerase III relax supercoiled DNA via distinct pathways. Nucleic Acids Research. 40: 10432-40. PMID 22923519 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gks780  0.456
2012 Reiter NJ, Osterman AK, Mondragón A. The bacterial ribonuclease P holoenzyme requires specific, conserved residues for efficient catalysis and substrate positioning Nucleic Acids Research. 40: 10384-10393. PMID 22904083 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gks744  0.414
2012 Yasunaga M, Ipsaro JJ, Mondragón A. Structurally similar but functionally diverse ZU5 domains in human erythrocyte ankyrin. Journal of Molecular Biology. 417: 336-50. PMID 22310050 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2012.01.041  0.769
2012 Terekhova K, Marko JF, Mondragón A. Studying the Differences in Relaxation Activity by Topoisomerase I and III at the Single Molecule Level Biophysical Journal. 102: 51a. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bpj.2011.11.308  0.459
2011 Reiter NJ, Chan CW, Mondragón A. Emerging structural themes in large RNA molecules. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 21: 319-26. PMID 21474301 DOI: 10.1016/J.Sbi.2011.03.003  0.421
2011 Godley LA, Mondragón A. Molecular biology. Preference by exclusion. Science (New York, N.Y.). 331: 1017-8. PMID 21350155 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1202090  0.417
2011 Baker NM, Weigand S, Maar-Mathias S, Mondragón A. Solution structures of DNA-bound gyrase. Nucleic Acids Research. 39: 755-66. PMID 20870749 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gkq799  0.752
2010 Reiter NJ, Osterman A, Torres-Larios A, Swinger KK, Pan T, Mondragón A. Structure of a bacterial ribonuclease P holoenzyme in complex with tRNA. Nature. 468: 784-9. PMID 21076397 DOI: 10.1038/Nature09516  0.406
2010 Patel A, Yakovleva L, Shuman S, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of a bacterial topoisomerase IB in complex with DNA reveals a secondary DNA binding site. Structure (London, England : 1993). 18: 725-33. PMID 20541510 DOI: 10.1016/J.Str.2010.03.007  0.516
2010 Ipsaro JJ, Harper SL, Messick TE, Marmorstein R, Mondragón A, Speicher DW. Crystal structure and functional interpretation of the erythrocyte spectrin tetramerization domain complex. Blood. 115: 4843-52. PMID 20197550 DOI: 10.1182/Blood-2010-01-261396  0.773
2010 Ipsaro JJ, Mondragón A. Structural basis for spectrin recognition by ankyrin. Blood. 115: 4093-101. PMID 20101027 DOI: 10.1182/Blood-2009-11-255604  0.772
2009 Ipsaro JJ, Huang L, Mondragón A. Structures of the spectrin-ankyrin interaction binding domains. Blood. 113: 5385-93. PMID 19141864 DOI: 10.1182/Blood-2008-10-184358  0.769
2009 Mondragon A. Doing Magic with DNA Science. 325: 1626-1626. DOI: 10.1126/Science.1177945  0.429
2007 Taneja B, Schnurr B, Slesarev A, Marko JF, Mondragón A. Topoisomerase V relaxes supercoiled DNA by a constrained swiveling mechanism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 14670-5. PMID 17804808 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0701989104  0.447
2007 Changela A, DiGate RJ, Mondragón A. Structural studies of E. coli topoisomerase III-DNA complexes reveal a novel type IA topoisomerase-DNA conformational intermediate. Journal of Molecular Biology. 368: 105-18. PMID 17331537 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2007.01.065  0.762
2006 Torres-Larios A, Swinger KK, Pan T, Mondragón A. Structure of ribonuclease P--a universal ribozyme. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 16: 327-35. PMID 16650980 DOI: 10.1016/J.Sbi.2006.04.002  0.402
2006 Baird NJ, Srividya N, Krasilnikov AS, Mondragón A, Sosnick TR, Pan T. Structural basis for altering the stability of homologous RNAs from a mesophilic and a thermophilic bacterium. Rna (New York, N.Y.). 12: 598-606. PMID 16581805 DOI: 10.1261/Rna.2186506  0.43
2006 Taneja B, Patel A, Slesarev A, Mondragón A. Structure of the N-terminal fragment of topoisomerase V reveals a new family of topoisomerases. The Embo Journal. 25: 398-408. PMID 16395333 DOI: 10.1038/Sj.Emboj.7600922  0.459
2006 Patel A, Shuman S, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of a bacterial type IB DNA topoisomerase reveals a preassembled active site in the absence of DNA. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281: 6030-7. PMID 16368685 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M512332200  0.543
2005 Torres-Larios A, Swinger KK, Krasilnikov AS, Pan T, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of the RNA component of bacterial ribonuclease P. Nature. 437: 584-7. PMID 16113684 DOI: 10.1038/Nature04074  0.379
2005 Changela A, Martins A, Shuman S, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of baculovirus RNA triphosphatase complexed with phosphate. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280: 17848-56. PMID 15713658 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M500885200  0.723
2004 Kusunoki H, Minasov G, Macdonald RI, Mondragón A. Independent movement, dimerization and stability of tandem repeats of chicken brain alpha-spectrin. Journal of Molecular Biology. 344: 495-511. PMID 15522301 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2004.09.019  0.376
2004 Krasilnikov AS, Xiao Y, Pan T, Mondragón A. Basis for structural diversity in homologous RNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.). 306: 104-7. PMID 15459389 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1101489  0.466
2004 Kusunoki H, MacDonald RI, Mondragón A. Structural insights into the stability and flexibility of unusual erythroid spectrin repeats. Structure (London, England : 1993). 12: 645-56. PMID 15062087 DOI: 10.1016/J.Str.2004.02.022  0.405
2003 Taneja B, Maar S, Shuvalova L, Collart F, Anderson W, Mondragón A. Structure of the bacillus subtilis YYCN protein: a putative N-acetyltransferase. Proteins. 53: 950-2. PMID 14635137 DOI: 10.1002/Prot.10561  0.351
2003 Perry K, Mondragón A. Structure of a complex between E. coli DNA topoisomerase I and single-stranded DNA. Structure (London, England : 1993). 11: 1349-58. PMID 14604525 DOI: 10.1016/J.Str.2003.09.013  0.534
2003 Changela A, Chen K, Xue Y, Holschen J, Outten CE, O'Halloran TV, Mondragón A. Molecular basis of metal-ion selectivity and zeptomolar sensitivity by CueR. Science (New York, N.Y.). 301: 1383-7. PMID 12958362 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1085950  0.671
2003 Krasilnikov AS, Mondragón A. On the occurrence of the T-loop RNA folding motif in large RNA molecules. Rna (New York, N.Y.). 9: 640-3. PMID 12756321 DOI: 10.1261/Rna.2202703  0.394
2003 Krasilnikov AS, Yang X, Pan T, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of the specificity domain of ribonuclease P. Nature. 421: 760-4. PMID 12610630 DOI: 10.1038/Nature01386  0.526
2003 Changela A, Perry K, Taneja B, Mondragón A. DNA manipulators: caught in the act. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 13: 15-22. PMID 12581655 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(02)00006-4  0.746
2002 Perry K, Mondragón A. Biochemical characterization of an invariant histidine involved in Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase I catalysis. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277: 13237-45. PMID 11809772 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M112019200  0.459
2001 Changela A, DiGate RJ, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of a complex of a type IA DNA topoisomerase with a single-stranded DNA molecule. Nature. 411: 1077-81. PMID 11429611 DOI: 10.1038/35082615  0.755
2001 Changela A, Ho CK, Martins A, Shuman S, Mondragón A. Structure and mechanism of the RNA triphosphatase component of mammalian mRNA capping enzyme. The Embo Journal. 20: 2575-86. PMID 11350947 DOI: 10.1093/Emboj/20.10.2575  0.707
2001 Li Z, Mondragón A, DiGate RJ. The mechanism of type IA topoisomerase-mediated DNA topological transformations. Molecular Cell. 7: 301-7. PMID 11239459 DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(01)00178-2  0.5
2000 Li Z, Mondragón A, Hiasa H, Marians KJ, DiGate RJ. Identification of a unique domain essential for Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase III-catalysed decatenation of replication intermediates. Molecular Microbiology. 35: 888-95. PMID 10692165 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-2958.2000.01763.X  0.49
1999 Mondragón A, DiGate R. The structure of Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase III. Structure (London, England : 1993). 7: 1373-83. PMID 10574789 DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(00)80027-1  0.477
1999 Feinberg H, Changela A, Mondragón A. Protein-nucleotide interactions in E. coli DNA topoisomerase I. Nature Structural Biology. 6: 961-8. PMID 10504732 DOI: 10.1038/13333  0.762
1999 Feinberg H, Lima CD, Mondragón A. Conformational changes in E. coli DNA topoisomerase I. Nature Structural Biology. 6: 918-22. PMID 10504724 DOI: 10.1038/13283  0.505
1999 Grum VL, Li D, MacDonald RI, Mondragón A. Structures of two repeats of spectrin suggest models of flexibility. Cell. 98: 523-35. PMID 10481916 DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81980-7  0.405
1997 Mondragón A. Solving the cis/trans paradox in the Int family of recombinases. Nature Structural Biology. 4: 427-9. PMID 9187646 DOI: 10.1038/Nsb0697-427  0.322
1996 Mondragón A, Lima C, Lue N, Patera A, Sharma A. Structural studies of type I DNA topoisomerases Acta Crystallographica Section a Foundations of Crystallography. 52: C153-C153. DOI: 10.1107/S0108767396093117  0.365
1995 Lue N, Sharma A, Mondragón A, Wang JC. A 26 kDa yeast DNA topoisomerase I fragment: crystallographic structure and mechanistic implications. Structure (London, England : 1993). 3: 1315-22. PMID 8747458 DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00269-6  0.524
1995 Sharma A, Mondragón A. DNA topoisomerases. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 5: 39-47. PMID 7773745 DOI: 10.1016/0959-440X(95)80007-N  0.334
1995 Mondragón A. Unraveling transposition: gamma delta resolvase in complex with DNA. Structure (London, England : 1993). 3: 755-8. PMID 7582892 DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00210-6  0.469
1994 Lima CD, Wang JC, Mondragón A. Three-dimensional structure of the 67K N-terminal fragment of E. coli DNA topoisomerase I. Nature. 367: 138-46. PMID 8114910 DOI: 10.1038/367138A0  0.515
1994 Sharma A, Hanai R, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of the amino-terminal fragment of vaccinia virus DNA topoisomerase I at 1.6 A resolution. Structure (London, England : 1993). 2: 767-77. PMID 7994576 DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(94)00077-8  0.445
1994 Lima CD, Mondragón A. Mechanism of type II DNA topoisomerases: a tale of two gates. Structure (London, England : 1993). 2: 559-60. PMID 7922032 DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(00)00055-1  0.499
1993 Lima CD, Wang JC, Mondragón A. Crystallization of a 67 kDa fragment of Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase I. Journal of Molecular Biology. 232: 1213-6. PMID 8396651 DOI: 10.1006/Jmbi.1993.1474  0.483
1991 Mondragón A, Harrison SC. The phage 434 Cro/OR1 complex at 2.5 A resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 219: 321-34. PMID 2038059 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(91)90568-Q  0.707
1989 Mondragón A, Subbiah S, Almo SC, Drottar M, Harrison SC. Structure of the amino-terminal domain of phage 434 repressor at 2.0 A resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 205: 189-200. PMID 2926803 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(89)90375-6  0.67
1989 Mondragón A, Wolberger C, Harrison SC. Structure of phage 434 Cro protein at 2.35 A resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 205: 179-88. PMID 2647998 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(89)90374-4  0.721
1988 Harrison SC, Anderson JE, Koudelka GB, Mondragon A, Subbiah S, Wharton RP, Wolberger C, Ptashne M. Recognition of DNA sequences by the repressor of bacteriophage 434. Biophysical Chemistry. 29: 31-7. PMID 3359001 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(88)87022-4  0.768
1984 Westhof E, Altschuh D, Moras D, Bloomer AC, Mondragon A, Klug A, Van Regenmortel MH. Correlation between segmental mobility and the location of antigenic determinants in proteins. Nature. 311: 123-6. PMID 6206398 DOI: 10.1038/311123A0  0.454
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