Eric Westhof#

Publications: 295 publications in PubMed (13 229 citations, h-index=62).

Some representative publications

WESTHOF E, SUNDARALINGAM M, X-Ray structure of a Cytidilyl-3',5'-Adenosine-proflavine complex : A self-paired parallel-chain double helical dimer with an intercalated acridine dye, Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A. 77, 1852-1856 (1980).

WESTHOF E, ALTSCHUH D, MORAS D, BLOOMER AC, MONDRAGON A, KLUG A, VAN REGENMORTEL MHV, Correlation between Segmental Mobility and the Location of Antigenic Determinants in Proteins, Nature, 311, 123-126 (1984).

WESTHOF E, DUMAS P, MORAS D, Crystallographic Refinement of Yeast Aspartic Transfer RNA J. Mol. Biol., 184, 119-145 (1985).

MICHEL F, WESTHOF E, Modelling of the Three-dimensional Architecture of Group I Catalytic Introns Based on Comparative Sequence Analysis, J. Mol. Biol., 216, 585-610 (1990).

VICENS Q, WESTHOF E, Crystal structure of paromomycin docked into the eubacterial ribosomal decoding A site, Structure, 9, 647-658 (2001).

LEONTIS NB, WESTHOF E, Geometric nomenclature and classification of RNA base pairs, RNA, 7, 499-512 (2001).

Chosen in the last five years

BECKERT B, NIELSEN H, EINVIK C, JOHANSEN SD, WESTHOF E, MASQUIDA B, Molecular modelling of the GIR1 branching ribozyme gives new insight into evolution of structurally related ribozymes. EMBO J, 27, 667-678 (2008).

KONDO J, WESTHOF, E, The bacterial and mitochondrial ribosomal A-site molecular switches possess different conformational substates. Nucleic acids research 36, 2654-2666 (2008). HAMMANN C, WESTHOF E, Searching genomes for ribozymes and riboswitches. Genome biology, 8, 210-210.11 (2007).

LESCOUTE A, WESTHOF E, Topology of three-way junctions in folded RNAs, RNA, 12, 83-93 (2006). NIELSEN H, WESTHOF E, JOHANSEN S, An mRNA is capped by a 2', 5' lariat catalyzed by a group I-like ribozyme. Science, 309, 1584-1587 (2005).

ZHANG H, KOLB FA, JASKIEWICZ L, WESTHOF E, FILIPOWICZ W, Single processing center models for human Dicer and bacterial RNase III. Cell, 118, 57-68 (2004).

DUJON B, SHERMAN D, FISCHER G, DURRENS P, CASAREGOLA S, LAFONTAINE I, DE MONTIGNY J, MARCK C, NEUVEGLISE C, TALLA E et al: Genome evolution in yeasts. Nature, 430, 35-44 (2004).

Books edited

E. WESTHOF
Water and Biological Macromolecules
Ed. McMillan, London (1993)


E. WESTHOF, N. HARDY
Folding and Self-assembly of Biological Macromolecules
Ed. World Scientific, Singapore (2004)


N. NIIMURA, H. MIZUNO, J.R. HELLIWELL, E. WESTHOF
Hydrogen- and Hydration-sensitive Structural Biology
Ed. KubaPro, Tokyo (2005)


R.K. HARTMANN, A. BINDEREIF, A. SCHÖN, E. WESTHOF
Handbook of RNA Biochemistry
Ed. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (2005)