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List of works by A Maxwell Burroughs

A comprehensive survey of 3' animal miRNA modification events and a possible role for 3' adenylation in modulating miRNA targeting effectiveness

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A novel superfamily containing the beta-grasp fold involved in binding diverse soluble ligands

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Amidoligases with ATP-grasp, glutamine synthetase-like and acetyltransferase-like domains: synthesis of novel metabolites and peptide modifications of proteins

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An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues

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Anatomy of the E2 ligase fold: implications for enzymology and evolution of ubiquitin/Ub-like protein conjugation

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Comparative genomic analyses reveal a vast, novel network of nucleotide-centric systems in biological conflicts, immunity and signaling

scientific article published on 20 November 2015

Computational identification of novel biochemical systems involved in oxidation, glycosylation and other complex modifications of bases in DNA.

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Functional diversification of the RING finger and other binuclear treble clef domains in prokaryotes and the early evolution of the ubiquitin system

scientific article (publication date: July 2011)

Highly-regulated, diversifying NTP-based biological conflict systems with implications for emergence of multicellularity

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Identification of uncharacterized components of prokaryotic immune systems and their diverse eukaryotic reformulations

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Natural history of the E1-like superfamily: implication for adenylation, sulfur transfer, and ubiquitin conjugation

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Nonimmunoglobulin target loci of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) share unique features with immunoglobulin genes

scientific article published on 30 January 2012

Oxidative opening of the aromatic ring: Tracing the natural history of a large superfamily of dioxygenase domains and their relatives

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Polyvalent Proteins, a Pervasive Theme in the Intergenomic Biological Conflicts of Bacteriophages and Conjugative Elements

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Resilience of biochemical activity in protein domains in the face of structural divergence

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Small but versatile: the extraordinary functional and structural diversity of the beta-grasp fold

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Structure and Evolution of Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-Related Domains

The ASCH superfamily: novel domains with a fold related to the PUA domain and a potential role in RNA metabolism

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The Origin and Evolution of Release Factors: Implications for Translation Termination, Ribosome Rescue, and Quality Control Pathways

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

The prokaryotic antecedents of the ubiquitin-signaling system and the early evolution of ubiquitin-like beta-grasp domains

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Transposons to toxins: the provenance, architecture and diversification of a widespread class of eukaryotic effectors

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Two novel PIWI families: roles in inter-genomic conflicts in bacteria and Mediator-dependent modulation of transcription in eukaryotes

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pre-miRNA profiles obtained through application of locked nucleic acids and deep sequencing reveals complex 5'/3' arm variation including concomitant cleavage and polyuridylation patterns

scientific article published on 3 November 2011