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Yawen Bai, Ph.D.

Selected Publications
1)  Kato H, Jiang J, Zhou B, Rozendaal M, Feng H, Ghirlando R, Xiao T, Straight A, Bai Y.
A conserved mechanism for centromeric nucleosome recognition by centromere protein CENP-C.
Science. 2013. In Press. [Journal]
2)  Hong J, Feng H, Zhou Z, Ghirlando R, Bai Y.
Identification of functionally conserved regions in the structure of the chaperone/CenH3/H4 complex.
J. Mol. Biol. 425: 536-45, 2013. [Journal]
3)  Zhou BR, Feng H, Ghirlando R, Kato H, Gruschus J, Bai Y.
Histone H4 K16Q mutation, an acetylation mimic, causes structural disorder of its N-terminal basic patch in the nucleosome.
J. Mol. Biol. 421: 30-7, 2012. [Journal]
4)  Chu X, Wang Y, Gan L, Bai Y, Han W, Wang E, Wang J.
Importance of electrostatic interactions in the association of intrinsically disordered histone chaperone Chz1 and histone H2A.Z-H2B.
PLoS Comput. Biol. 8: e1002608, 2012. [Journal]
5)  Kato H, van Ingen H, Zhou B, Feng H, Bustin M, Kay LE, Bai Y.
Architecture of the high mobility group nucleosomal protein 2-nucleosome complex as revealed by methyl-based NMR.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108: 12283-8, 2011. [Journal]
6)  Bai Y, Zhou Z, Feng H, Zhou B.
Recognition of centromeric histone variant CenH3s by their chaperones-Structurally conserved or not.
Cell Cycle. 10: 3217-3218, 2011. [Journal]
7)  Zhou Z, Feng H, Zhou B, Ghirlando R, Hu K, Zwolak A, Jenkins LM, Xiao H, Tjandra N, Wu C, Bai Y.
Structural basis for recognition of centromeric histone variant CenH3 by the Scm3 chaperone.
Nature. 472: 234-237, 2011. Full Text Article. [Journal]
8)  Feng H, Zhou Z, Zhou B, Bai Y.
Structure of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae centromeric histones Cse4-H4 complexed with the chaperone Scm3.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108: E596, 2011. [Journal]
9)  Hansen DF, Zhou Z, Feng H, Miller Jenkins LM, Bai Y, Kay LE.
Binding kinetics of histone chaperone Chz1 and variant histone H2A.Z-H2B by relaxation dispersion NMR spectroscopy.
J. Mol. Biol. 387: 1-9, 2009. [Journal]
10)  Kato H, Gruschus J, Ghirlando R, Tjandra N, Bai Y.
Characterization of the N-terminal domain of histone H3 in condensed nucleosome arrays by hydrogen exchange and NMR.
J Am Chem Soc. 131: 15104-5, 2009. [Journal]
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