John McCutcheon

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
jmccutch@email.arizona.edu
Ph: (520) 626-8661
Fax: (520) 621-3709
Mailing address: P.O. Box 210088, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0088

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PUBLICATIONS

McCutcheon, J.P., McDonald, B.R., and Moran, N.A. 2009. Convergent evolution of metabolic roles in bacterial co-symbionts of insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 15394-15399.

McCutcheon, J.P., McDonald, B.R., and Moran, N.A. 2009. Origin of an alternative genetic code in the extremely small and GC-rich genome of a bacterial symbiont. PLoS Genetics 5(7):e1000565.

Moran, N.A., McCutcheon, J.P., and Nakabachi, A. 2008. Genomics and evolution of heritable bacterial symbionts. Annual Review of Genetics 42: 165-190.

McCutcheon, J.P. and Moran, N.A. 2007. Parallel genomic evolution and metabolic interdependence in an ancient symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 19392-19397.

Shendure, J., Porreca, G.J., Reppas, N.B., Lin, X., McCutcheon, J.P., Rosenbaum, A.M., Wang, M.D., Zhang, K., Mitra, R.D., and Church, G.M. 2005. Accurate multiplex polony sequencing of an evolved bacterial genome. Science 309: 1728-1732.

McCutcheon, J.P. and Eddy, S.R. 2003. Computational identification of non-coding RNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by comparative genomics. Nucleic Acids Research 31: 4119-4128.

Clemons, W.M.Jr., Broderson, D.E., McCutcheon, J.P., May, J.L., Carter, A.P., Morgan-Warren, R.J., Wimberly, B.T., and Ramakrishnan, V. 2001. Crystal structure of the 30 S ribosomal subunit from Thermus thermophilus: purification, crystallization and structure determination. Journal of Molecular Biology 310: 827-843.

Clemons, W.M.Jr., Wimberly, B.T., May, J.L., McCutcheon, J.P., Capel, M.S., and Ramakrishnan, V. 1999. Structure of a bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit at 5.5 Angstrom resolution. Nature 400: 833-840.

Wimberly, B.T., Guymon, R., McCutcheon, J.P., White, S.W., and Ramakrishnan, V. 1999. A detailed view of a ribosomal active site: the structure of the L11-RNA complex. Cell 97: 491-502.

McCutcheon, J.P., Agrawal, R.K., Philips, S.M., Grassucci, R.A., Gerchman, S.E., Clemons, W.M.Jr., Ramakrishnan, V., and Frank, J. 1999. Location of translational initiation factor IF3 on the small ribosomal subunit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96: 4301-4306.

Gamble, T.R., Yoo, S., Vajdos, F.F., von Schwedler, U.K., Worthylake, D.K., Wang, H., McCutcheon, J.P., Sundquist, W.I., and Hill, C.P. 1997. Structure of the carboxyl-terminal dimerization domain of the HIV-1 capsid protein. Science 278: 849-853.

Felden, B., Himeno, H., Muto, A., McCutcheon, J.P., Atkins, J.F., and Gesteland, R.F. 1997. Probing the structure of the Escherichia coli 10Sa RNA (tmRNA). RNA 3: 89-103.