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James Carothers

Post-doc

CURRENT PROJECTS
Controlling metabolic pathways with RNA aptamers
RNA Regulators Project Page

FUNDING
Fellowship from the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund


EDUCATION
Ph.D. Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Szostak lab)
Harvard University

B.S. Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University

PUBLICATIONS

Papers

  • Hazen, R.M., Griffin, P.L., Carothers, J.M. & Szostak, J.W. Functional information and the emergence of biocomplexity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104, 8574-8581.
  • Carothers, J.M., Oestreich, S.C. & Szostak, J.W. Aptamers selected for higher-affinity binding are not more specific for the target ligand. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 7929-7937.
  • Carothers, J.M., Davis, J.H., Chou, J.J. & Szostak, J.W. Solution structure of an informationally-complex high-affinity RNA aptamer to GTP. RNA. 12: 567-579.
  • Plummer, K.A., Carothers, J.M., Yoshimura, M. Szostak, J.W. & Verdine, G.L. In vitro selection of RNA aptamers against a composite small molecule-protein surface. Nucl. Acids Res. 2005, 33: 5602-5610.
  • Carothers, J.M., Oestreich, S.C., Davis, J.H. & Szostak, J.W. Informational complexity and functional activity of RNA structures. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 12: 5130-5137.
  • Kopp, E., Medzhitov, R., Carothers, J., Xiao, C., Douglas, I., Janeway, C.A. & Ghosh, S. ECSIT is an evolutionarily conserved intermediate in the Toll/IL-1 signal transduction pathway. Genes & Development. 1999, 13: 2059-2071.

Book chapter

  • Carothers, J.M. and Szostak, J.W. In vitro selection of functional oligonucleotides and the origins of biochemical activity. In The Aptamer Handbook: Functional Oligonucleotides and Their Applications (ed. S. Klussmann), chapter 1. Springer-Verlag Press, Berlin: 2006, 3-28.




CONTACT
California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research and
Berkeley Center for Synthetic Biology
717 Potter St. MC#3224
Berkeley, CA 94720-3224

phone: (510) 495-2627 fax: (510) 495-2629

jmcarothers@lbl