Dr. Michael J. Hohn

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Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsBiochemistry,Microbial Ecology and Applied Microbiology
KeywordsCysteinyl-tRNA-Synthetase, Hyperthermophile, Methanogene, Archaeen

Current contact address

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dieter G. SöllDepartment of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2004

Programme(s)

2004Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2007S. Kamtekar, Michael J. Hohn, H. S. Park, M. Schnitzbauer, A. Sauerwald, D. Söll, T. A. Steitz: Towards understanding phosphoseryl-tRNACys formation: the crystal structue of Methanococcus maripaludis phosphoseryl tRNA synthetase. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2007, 2620-2625
2006Michael J. Hohn, H. S. Park, P. O'Donoghue, M. Schnitzbauer, D. Söll: Emergence of the universal genetic code imprinted in an RNA record. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2006, 18095-18100
2006J. Yuan, S. Palioura, J. C. Salazar, D. Su, P. O'Donoghue, Michael J. Hohn, A. M. Cardoso, W. B. Whitman, D. Söll: RNA-dependent conversion of phosphoserine forms selenocysteine in eukaryotes and archaea. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2006, 18923-18927