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Janice Pata

Janice Pata

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Molecular Diagnostics
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences

Postdoctoral training, Yale University
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
B.S., California Institute of Technology

Email: jpata@wadsworth.org

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  • Pata JD, Stirtan WG, Goldstein SW, and Steitz TA (2004) Structure of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase bound to an inhibitor active against mutant reverse transcriptases resistant to other nonnucleoside inhibitors. PNAS 101:10548-10553. PubMed
  • Pata JD, King BR, Steitz TA (2002) Assembly, purification and crystallization of an active HIV-1 reverse transcriptase initiation complex. Nucleic Acids Research 30: 4855-4863. PubMed
  • Zhou BL, Pata JD, Steitz TA (2001) Crystal structure of a DinB lesion bypass DNA polymerase catalytic fragment reveals a classic polymerase catalytic domain. Molecular Cell 8:427-437. PubMed
  • Jäger J, Pata JD (2001) Viral RNA-directed polymerases. In: Structure-function Relationships of Human Pathogenic Viruses. E. Bogner and A. Holzenburg, Editors, Kluwer Academic Press, Plenum Publishers. Chapter 2, pages 53-84.
  • Jäger J, Pata JD (1999) Getting a grip: polymerases and their substrate complexes. Current Opinion in Structural Biology 9:21-28. PubMed
  • Pata JD, Schultz SC, Kirkegaard K (1995) Functional oligomerization of poliovirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. RNA 1:466-477. PubMed

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