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Laboratory of Microbes and Biochemistry
at Brandeis University 

Select Publications

Johnson, AG; Mayer, ML; Schaefer, S; McNamara-Bordewick, N; Hummer, G; Kranzusch, PJ “Structure and assembly of a bacterial gasdermin pore,” Nature, 2024, 628: 657–663.

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Boys, IN; Johnson, AG; Quinlan, M; Kranzusch, PJ; Elde, N “Structural homology screens reveal poxvirus-encoded proteins impacting inflammasome-mediated defenses,” Cell Reports, 2023, 42(8): 112878.

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Johnson, AG & Kranzusch, PJ “What bacterial cell death teaches us about life,” PLOS Pathogens, 2022, 18(10): e1010879.

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Johnson, AG; Wein, T; Mayer, ML; Duncan-Lowey, B; Yirmiya, E; Amitai, G; Sorek, R; Kranzusch, PJ “Bacterial gasdermins reveal an ancient mechanism of cell death,” Science, 2022, 375: 221–225.

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Wang, J; Johnson, AG; Lapointe, CP; Choi, J; Prabhakar, A; Petrov, AN; Puglisi, JD “eIF5B gates the transition from translation initiation into elongation,” Nature, 2019, 573: 605–608.

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Johnson, AG; Lapointe, CP; Wang, J; Corsepius, N; Choi, J; Fuchs, G; Puglisi, JD “RACK1 on and off the ribosome,” RNA, 2019, 25: 881–895.

Contact and Prinicipal Investigator

Alex Johnson, Ph.D.

alexj at brandeis.edu

(781) 736-2345

Address

Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Room 404
Department of Biochemistry

Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453-2728

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