Publications

Chen, Y. and Dalbey, R. E. (2018) Oxa1 Superfamily: New Members Found in the ER. Trends Biochem. Sci. Jan 12.

 Spann, D., Pross, E., Chen, Y., Dalbey R. E., and Kuhn, A. (2018). Each Protomer of a Dimeric YidC Functions as a Single Membrane Insertase. Sci. Reports. Jan 12, 8:589.

Chen, Y., Capponi, S., Zhu, L., Gellenbeck, P., Freites, J. A., White, S. H., and Dalbey, R.E. (2017). YidC insertase of Escherichia coli: Water Accessibility and Membrane Shaping. Structure, 25, 1403-1414. 

Dalbey, R. E., Pei, D. and Doğan Ekici, Ö (2017). “Signal Peptidase Enzymology and Substrate Specificity Profiling”, pages 35-57 in “Enzymology at the Membrane Interface: Interfacial Enzymology and Protein-Membrane Binding”, Vol 584, Methods in Enzymology, Academic Press.

Kuhn, A. and Dalbey, R. E. (2016). “Protein Translocation: SecA-SecY Conformational Crosstalk Opens Channel”. Current Biology 26, R811.

Rawat, S., Zhu, L., Lindner, E., Dalbey, R. E. and White, S. H. (2015). “SecA Drives Transmembrane Insertion of RodZ, a Novel Single-span Membrane Protein”. J. Mol. Biol., 427, 1023-1037.

Dalbey, R. E. and Kuhn, A. (2015). “Membrane Insertases are Present in All Three Domains of Life”. Structure 23, 1559-1560.

Hennon, S. W., Soman, R., Zhu, L. and and Dalbey, R. E. (2015). “YidC/Alb3/Oxa1 Family of Insertases”. J. Biol. Chem. 290, 14866-14874. 

Chen, Y., Soman, R., Shanmugam, SK, Kuhn, A. and Dalbey, RE (2014). “The Role of the Strictly Conserved Positively Charged Residue Differs among the Gram-positive, Gram-negative, and chloroplast YidC homologs”. J. Biol. Chem. 289, 35656-35667.

Hennon, S. W. and Dalbey, R. E. (2014). “Flexibility and Proximity Relationships Between the Transmembrane Segments of the E. coli YidC”. Biochemistry, 53, 3278-3286.

Dalbey, R. E. and Kuhn, A. (2014). “How YidC Inserts and Folds Proteins Across a Membrane”. Nat Struct. Mol. Biol. 21, 435-436.

Soman, R., Yuan, J., Kuhn, A. and Dalbey, R. E. (2014). “Polarity and Charge of the Periplasmic Loop Determine the YidC and Sec Translocase Requiremets for the M13 Procoat Lep Protein”. J. Biol. Chem. 289, 1023-1032.

Zhu, L., H. Ronald Kaback, and Dalbey, R. E. (2013) YidC- a Molecular Chaperone for LacY Protein Folding via the SecYEG machinery. J. Biol. Chem., 288, 28180-28194.

Zhu, L., Wasey, A., White, S. H. and Dalbey, R. E. (2013) Charge-composition Features of a Model Single-span Membrane Proteins that Determine Selection of YidC and SecYEG Translocase Pathways in Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem., 288, 7704-7716.