Publications

• Chandrasekar, S., Chartron, J., Jaru-Ampornpan, P. and Shan, S. (2008) J. Mol. Biol. 375 , 425-436. “Structure of the chloroplast signal recognition particle (SRP) receptor: domain arrangement modulates SRP-receptor interaction.”
• Shan, S., Chandrasekar, S. and Walter, P. (2007) J. Cell Biol. 178 , 611-620. “Conformational Changes in the GTPase Modules of the Signal Recognition Particle and Its Receptor Drive Initiation of Protein Translocation.” highlighted in Faculty of 1000 www.f1000biology.com
• Jaru-Ampornpan, P., Chandrasekar, S. and Shan, S. (2007) Mol. Biol. Cell 18 , 2636-2645. “Efficient Interaction between Two GTPases Allows the Chloroplast SRP Pathway to Bypass the Requirement for an SRP RNA”. highlighted in InCyte from MBC InCyte
• Shan, S. and Walter, P. (2005) Biochemistry 44 , 6214-6222. “Molecular Crosstalk between the nucleotide specificity determinant of the SRP GTPase and the SRP Receptor”.
• Shan, S. and Walter, P. (2005) FEBS Letters 579 , 921-926. “Co-translational protein targeting by the signal recognition particle”.
• Chu, F., Shan, S., Moustakas, D.T., Alber, F., Egea, F., Stroud, R.M., Walter, P., and Burlingame, A.L. (2004) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 101 . 16454-16459. “Unraveling the interface of signal recognition particle and its receptor by using chemical cross-linking and tandem mass-spectrometry’.
• Shan, S. Stroud. R.M., and Walter, P. (2004) PLoS Biology 2 , e320. “Mechanism of Association and Activation between Two GTPases”. highlighted in Faculty of 1000 www.f1000biology.com
• Egea, P.F., Shan, S., Napetschnig, J., Savage, D.F., Walter, P., and Stroud, R.M. (2004) Nature 427 , 215-221. “Substrate twinning activates the signal recognition particle and its receptor”. highlighted in Faculty of 1000 www.f1000biology.com
• Shan, S. and Walter, P. (2003) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 100 , 4480 – 4485. “Induced Nucleotide Specificity in a GTPase”
• Peluso, P., Shan, S., Nock, S. Herschlag, D., and Walter, P. (2001) Biochemistry 40 , 15224-15233. “Role of SRP RNA in the GTPase Cycles of Ffh and FtsY” highlighted in Faculty of 1000 www.f1000biology.com