Students

Yaru Zhang

Graduate Student
Current Rotation Advisor: Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova
B.S., Biotechnology
M.S., Biomedical Engineering
Cohort: 2009-2010
Email: yaruzh@umich.edu

Publications

1. Bao, R., Zhang, Y., Lou, X. C., Zhou, C. Z. and Chen, Y., "Structural and kinetic analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae thioredoxin Trx1: Implications for the catalytic mechanism of GSSG reduced by thioredoxin", Biochim Biophys Acta, 2009, 1794, 1218.[Full Text]

2. Bao, R., Zhang, Y., Zhou, C. Z. and Chen, Y., "Structural and mechanistic analyses of yeast mitochondrial thioredoxin Trx3 reveal putative function of its additional cysteine residues", Biochim Biophys Acta, 2009, 1794, 716. [Full Text]

3. Zhang, Z., Bao, R., Zhang, Y., Yu, J., Zhou, C. Z. and Chen, Y., "Crystal structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cytoplasmic thioredoxin reductase Trr1 reveals the structural basis for species-specific recognition of thioredoxin", Biochim Biophys Acta, 2009, 1794, 124. [Full Text]

4. Lou, X., Zhang, Y., Bao, R., Zhou, C.Z., and Chen, Y., "Purification, Crystallization and Preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of glutathionylated Trx1 C33S mutant from yeast", Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun, 2009, 65, 39-41.[Full Text]

5. Zhang, Y., Bao, R., Zhou, C. Z. and Chen, Y., "Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of thioredoxin Trx1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae", Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun, 2008, 64, 323. [Full Text]

6. Bao, R., Chen, Y.X., Zhang, Y., and Zhou, C.Z., "Expression, purification, Crystallization and preliminary X-Ray diffraction analysis of mitochondrial thioredoxin Trx3 from Sacchromyces cerevisiae", Acta. Crystallogr. Sect. F. Struct. Biol. Cryst. Commun., 2006, 62, 1161-1163. [Full Text]