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NIGMS Acting Director’s Featured Research Advances

During her tenure as acting director of NIGMS, Judith H. Greenberg, Ph.D., selected published findings from NIGMS-funded scientists to feature on the Institute’s home page each month. These selections are archived below.

July 2013

Promoter Directionality Is Controlled by U1 snRNP and Polyadenylation Signals
Nature June 23 2013.

NIGMS-Funded Investigators: Christopher Burge and Phillip Sharp, Masschusetts Institute of Technology

June 2013

Mature HIV-1 Capsid Structure by Cryo-Electron Microscopy and All-Atom Molecular Dynamics
Nature May 30, 2013

NIGMS-Funded Investigators: Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois; Angela Gronenborn and Peijun Zhang, University of Pittsburgh

May 2013

Proteasome Regulation by ADP-Ribosylation
Cell April 25, 2013

NIGMS-Funded Investigator: Hermann Steller, Rockefeller University

April 2013

A Community-Driven Global Reconstruction of Human Metabolism
Nature Biotechnology March 3, 2013

NIGMS-Funded Investigators: Jason Papin, University of Virginia; Michael Hucka, California Institute of Technology; Pedro Mendes, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

March 2013

Structural Visualization of Key Steps in Human Transcription Initiation
Nature February 27, 2013

NIGMS-Funded Investigator: Eva Nogales, UC Berkeley

February 2013

Direct Conversion of Fibroblasts to Neurons by Reprogramming PTB-Regulated MicroRNA Circuits
Cell January 17, 2013

NIGMS-Funded Investigator: Xiang-Dong Fu, UC San Diego

January 2013

An Interdomain Energetic Tug-of-War Creates the Allosterically Active State in Hsp70 Molecular Chaperones
Cell December 7, 2012

NIGMS-Funded Investigator: Lila Gierasch, University of Massachusetts

December 2012

Practical and Innate Carbon-Hydrogen Functionalization of Heterocycles
Nature November 28, 2012 [Epub ahead of print]

NIGMS-Funded Investigator: Phil Baran, The Scripps Research Institute

November 2012

The TEL Patch of Telomere Protein TPP1 Mediates Telomerase Recruitment and Processivity
Nature October 24, 2012 [Epub ahead of print]

NIGMS-Funded Investigators: Thomas Cech and Leslie Leinward, University of Colorado at Boulder


This page last reviewed on August 5, 2013