Dr. Naga Leelaram Majety

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Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsBiochemistry,Structural Biology,Biophysical Chemistry
KeywordsAlternative spliceosome, cryo-EM, snRNPs, pre-mRNA splicing

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CountryGermany
CityGöttingen
InstitutionMax-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften
InstituteAbteilung für Zelluläre Biochemie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Reinhard LührmannAbteilung für Zelluläre Biochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2014

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2020Townsend C, Leelaram MN, Agafonov DE, Dybkov O, Will CL, Bertram K, Urlaub H, Kastner B, Stark H, Lührmann R.: Mechanism of protein-guided folding of the active site U2/U6 RNA during spliceosome activation. In: Science, 370, 2020, eabc3753
2017Karl Bertram, Dmitry Agafonov, Olexandr Dybkov, David Haselbach, Leelaram Majety, Cindy Will, Henning Urlaub, Berthold Kastner, Reinhard Lührmann, Holger Stark: Cryo-EM Structure of a Pre-catalytic Human Spliceosome Primed for Activation. In: Cell, 2017, 701-713