Paper 1: entitled “Cryo-Electron Microscopy Visualization of a Large Insertion in the 5S ribosomal RNA of the Extremely Halophilic Archaeon Halococcus morrhuae”,
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2211-5463.12962
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32865340/
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/22115463
This is the first cryo electron microscopy structure of ribosomes from Halococcus (Archaea) and related species, obtained at subnanometer resolution of 6.4 angstroms.
Research support: NASA Exobiology Grants NNX14AK36G, NNX14AK16G and NASA Contract 80NSSC18K1139 under the Center for Origin of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology to Prof. George E. Fox.
Paper 2: “Further Characterization of the Pseudo-Symmetrical Ribosomal Region” - accepted, in press.
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/9/201/htm
Research support: appointment of Dr. Mario Rivas Medrano to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, administered by Universities Space Research Association under contract with NASA.
NASA Grant NNX14AK16G and NASA Contract 80NSSC18K1139 under the Center for Origin of Life, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, to Prof. George E. Fox.
Paper 3: “Expansion Segments in Bacterial and Archaeal 5S Ribosomal RNAs”- pre print.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.02.233163v1.full
Research support: NASA Exobiology Grant NNX14AK36G and NASA Contract 80NSSC18K1139 under the Center for Origin of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology to Prof. George E. Fox.