Publications
Abey Research Group
1 . GC,    K.,    Gyawali,    P.,    Balci,    H.,    and    Abeysirigunawardena,    S.    (2020) Ribosomal   RNA   methyltransferase   enzyme   RsmC   moonlights   as   an   RNA chaperone. Chembiochem PMID: 31972066. 2 . GC,    K.,    To,    D. * ,    Jayalath,    K.,    and    Abeysirigunawardena,    S.    (2020) Discovery   of   a   novel   small   molecular   peptide   that   disrupts   helix   34   of bacterial ribosomal RNA. RSC Advances   9 : 40268-40276. 3 . Jayalath,   K.,   Frisbie,   S. * ,   To,   M. * ,   and   Abeysirigunawardena,   S.   (2020) Pseudouridine   Synthase   RsuA   Captures   an   Assembly   Intermediate   that   is Stabilized by Ribosomal Protein S17. Biomolecules   10 : 841-856. 4 . Abedeera,   S.M.,      Hawkins,   C.M. * ,   and   Sanjaya   C.   Abeysirigunawardena (2020)   RsmG   forms   stable   complexes   with   premature   small   subunit   rRNA during bacterial ribosome biogenesis RSC Adv.   10 : 22361-22369. 5 . Dey,    S.,    Eisa,    A.,    Kline,    D.,    Wagner,    F.    F.,    Abeysirigunawardena,    S., Vijayaraghavan   S.   (2020)   Roles   of   glycogen   synthase   kinase   3   alpha   and calcineurin   in   regulating   the   ability   of   sperm   to   fertilize   eggs.   FASEB   J.   34 :1247-1269. PMID: 31914663. 6 . Gyawali,   P.,   GC,   K.,   Ma,   Y.,   Abeysirigunawardena   S.,   Nagasawa,   K.,   and Balci,    H.    (2019)    Impact    of    Small    Molecules    on    Intermolecular    G- Quadruplex Formation. Molecules   24 : 1570.  7 . Sharma,    I.M.,    Rappé,    M.C.,    Addepalli,    B.,    Grabow,    W.W.,    Zhuang,    Z., Abeysirigunawardena,   S.C.,   Limbach,   P.A.,   Jaeger,   L.,   and   Woodson,   S.A. (2018) Nucleic Acids Res.   46 :5182-5194. 8 . Abeysirigunawardena,   S.,   Kim,   H.,   Lai,   J.,   Ragunathan,   K.,   Rappé   M.   C., Luthey-Schulten,   Z.,   Ha,   T.,   &   Woodson,   S.   (2017)   Assembly   hierarchy   of ribosomal    complexes    depends    on    protein-coupled    RNA    dynamics.    Nat. Commun . 8 : 492. PMC5591316  9 . Abeysirigunawardena,   S.   C.   &   Woodson,   S.   A.   (2015)   Differential   effects   of ribosomal   proteins   and   Mg 2+    ions   on   a   conformational   switch   during   30S ribosome 5’-domain assembly RNA   21 : 1859-65. PMC4604426
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Abey research group