
Ilias Skeparnias
@iliasskeparnias
Biologist, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow |
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK, NIH
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16-12-2021 16:46:40
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Thrilled to be part of this amazing collaboration exploring the conformational space and structural dynamics of heterogeneous RNAs - Yun-Tzai Cloud Lee Maximilia Degenhardt Yun-Xing Wang Lab Jinwei Zhang Lab. Excited to see our work published in nature just in time for the holidays!


How does RNA's structural flexibility allow it to perform diverse biological functions while maintaining precision in its catalytic activities? "The conformational space of RNase P RNA in solution"nature National Cancer Institute • A groundbreaking study reveals the first direct visualization





A new paper from Claudia Höbartner and Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg reports the crystal structures of the ribozyme SAMURI, revealing the mechanism of its methyltransferase activity and site-selectivity nature.com/articles/s4158…


How sturdy are base pairs near the ends of #RNA hairpins? Perhaps not as stable as one might think, esp. when there are bulges near and far. Led by Bou-Nader lab in Nature Communications, we describe complete structures of #HIV #TAR RNA and its dynamic excursions.nature.com/articles/s4146…

How does enterovirus protease specifically recognize its viral RNA genome? Hint: It takes two! Happy to share our publication in Science Advances Structure of coxsackievirus cloverleaf RNA and 3C protease dimer establishes its RNA-binding mechanism shorturl.at/xvrh1





We are very excited about our latest work, which just came out The EMBO Journal – embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…. The work Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology UJ was driven by Anna Biela and Ting-Yu Lin in collaboration with Janusz Bujnicki and his team IIMCB, Warsaw, Poland…a short🧵

How to find fantastic new #RNAs? The J2 antibody is the gold standard to detect, map & enrich dsRNAs. Co-led by Bou-Nader lab, Kevin Juma, Ankur Bothra & Steve Leppla’s lab, we visualize how J2 recognizes dsRNA and define its epitope, specificity & bias. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0….


SMDesigner automates the generation of mutations to assess predicted secondary structures and functions of conserved RNA structures based on sequence alignments. #ncRNA #RNA structure Institut national de la recherche scientifique bit.ly/3Fl7yet



The eukaryotic tRNA chaperone La impacts tRNA modification levels (queuosine and others). Interesting because in procaryotes, tRNA modif enzymes themselves are thought to be chaperones. In both cases, there seems to be a link between modif and chaperones. academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…
