Department of Internal Medicine

References:
  • Liu J, Lin T, Botkin DJ, McCrum E, Winkler H, Norris SJ: Intact Flagellar Motor of Borrelia burgdorferi Revealed by Cryo-Electron Tomography: Evidence for Stator Ring Curvature and Rotor/C Ring Assembly Flexion, J Bacteriol 2009 191(16):5026-36.
  • Wu S, Liu J, Reedy MC, Winkler H, Reedy MK, Taylor KA: Methods for Identifying and Averaging Variable Molecular Conformations in Tomograms of Actively Contracting Insect Flight Muscle. J Struct Biol 2009 Aug 19. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Sanabria H, Swulius MT, Kolodziej SJ, Liu J, Waxham NM: CaMKII Regulates Actin Assembly and Structure, J Biol Chem 2009 284(15):9770-80.
  • Winkler H, Zhu P, Liu J, Ye F, Roux KH, Taylor KA: Tomographic subvolume alignment and subvolume classification applied to myosin V and SIV envelope spikes. J Struct Biol 2009 165(2):64-77.
  • Liu J, Bartesaghi A, Borgnia M, Sapiro G, Subramaniam S: Molecular architecture of native HIV-1 gp120 trimers. Nature 2008 455:109-113.
  • Hampton CM, Liu J, Taylor DW, DeRosier DJ, Taylor KA: The 3D Structure of Villin as a Unique F-Actin Crosslinker. Structure. 2008 16(12):1882-91.
  • Ye F, Liu J, Winkler H, Taylor KA: Integrin IIba3 in a membrane environment remains the same height after Mn2+ Activation when observed by cryo-electron tomography. J Mol Biol 2008 378:976-86.
  • Miao L, Vanderlinde O, Liu J, Grant R, Wouterse A, Philipse A, Stewart M, Roberts TM: Filament packing constraints generate protrusive force in amoeboid cell motility. PNAS 2008 105:5390-5.
  • Bartesaghi A, Sprechmann P, Liu J, Randall G, Sapiro G, Subramaniam S: Classification and 3D averaging with missing wedge-correction in biological electron tomography. J Struct Biol 2008162:436-50
  • Dai W, Jia Q, Bortz E, Shah S, Liu J, Atanasov I, Li X, Taylor KA, Sun R, Zhou ZH: Unique structures in a tumor herpesvirus revealed by cryo-electron tomography and microscopy. J Struct Biol 2008 161:428-438.
  • Liu J, McBride MJ, Subramaniam S: Cell-surface filaments of the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae revealed by cryo-electron tomography. J Bacteriol 2007 189: 7503-7506.
  • Subramaniam S, Bartesaghi A, Liu J, Bennett AE, and Sougrat R: Electron tomography of viruses. Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2007 5:596-602.
  • Bennett AE, Liu J, Van Ryk D, Bliss D, Arthos J, Henderson R M, Subramaniam S: Cryo electron tomographic analysis of an HIV neutralizing protein and its complex with native viral gp120. J Biol Chem 2007, 282(38): 27754-27759.
  • Liu J, Taylor DW, Krementsova EB, Trybus KM, Taylor KA: Three-dimensional structure of the myosin V inhibited state by cryoelectron tomography. Nature 2006, 442:208-211.
  • Zhu P, Liu J, Bess J, Jr., Chertova E, Lifson JD, Grise H, Ofek GA, Taylor KA, Roux KH: Distribution and three-dimensional structure of AIDS virus envelope spikes. Nature 2006, 441:847-852
  • Liu J, Wu S, Reedy MC, Winkler H, Lucaveche C, Cheng Y, Reedy MK, Taylor KA: Electron tomography of swollen rigor fibers of insect flight muscle reveals a short and variably angled S2 domain. J Mol Biol 2006, 362:844-860
  • Liu J, Reedy MC, Goldman YE, Franzini-Armstrong C, Sasaki H, Tregear RT, Lucaveche C, Winkler H, Baumann BA, Squire JM, Irving TC, Reedy MK, Taylor KA: Electron tomography of fast frozen, stretched rigor fibers reveals elastic distortions in the myosin crossbridges. J Struct Biol 2004, 147:268-282
  • Liu J, Taylor DW, Taylor KA: A 3-D reconstruction of smooth muscle alpha-actinin by CryoEm reveals two different conformations at the actin-binding region. J Mol Biol 2004, 338:115-125
  • Tama F, Feig M, Liu J, Brooks CL, 3rd, Taylor KA: The requirement for mechanical coupling between head and S2 domains in smooth muscle myosin ATPase regulation and its implications for dimeric motor function. J Mol Biol 2005, 345:837-854
  • Liu J, Wendt T, Taylor D, Taylor K: Refined model of the 10S conformation of smooth muscle myosin by cryo-electron microscopy 3D image reconstruction. J Mol Biol 2003, 329:963-972
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  • Book chapter:
    Goldstein SF, Li C, Liu J, Miller M, Motaleb M, Norris SJ, Silversmith RE, Wolgemuth CW, Charon NW: The Chic Motility and Chemotaxis of Borrelia burgdorferi. In: Borrelia: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Edited by D. Scott Samuels, in press.