Biology

Roger Wartell, Professor

Ph.D., Physics, University of Rochester, 1971
roger.wartell@biology.gatech.edu
Phone: 404-894-8421
Fax: (404) 894-0519
Office: (IBB) 1307/1205

Recent Publications

Sun, X. and R.M. Wartell 2006. E coli Hfq Binds A18 and DsrA-domain II with Similar 2 Hfq6:1 RNA Stoichiometry Using Different Surface Sites Biochemistry. in press 

B. N. Bourdelat-Parks, B. N. and R.M. Wartell 2005. Thermodynamics of RNA Duplexes with Tandem Mismatches Containing a Uracil-Uracil Pair Flanked by CG/GC or GC/AU Closing Base Pairs Biochemistry 44, 16710-16717. 

B. N. Bourdelat-Parks, B. N. and R.M. Wartell 2004. Thermodynamic Stability of DNA Tandem Mismatches Biochemistry 43: 9918-9925  

Li J,  Bourdelat-Parks B, Boatright JH, and R. M. Wartell 2003 Targeting degradation of RNA by RNase H using DNA hairpins Biochemistry 42, 10945-54.   

D.Y. Lando, A. Friedman, and R.M. Wartell 2003. Thermodynamics of DNA containing very stable modified base pairs J. Biomolecular Ster. Dynamics 20, 519-530.  

A.S. Fridman,  V. Brabec,  R. M. Wartell and D. Y. Lando 2003. Melting of Cross-Linked DNA;

Effects of locally stabilized cross-links J. Biomolecular Ster. Dynamics 20, 531-538.

Sun, X., I. Zhulin, and R. M. Wartell. 2002. Predicted structure and phyletic distribution of the RNA binding protein Hfq. Nuc. Acids Res. 30:3693-3700.

Powell, S., and Wartell, R. M. 2001. Different characteristics distinguish early versus late arising adaptive mutations in Escherichia coli FC40. Mutation Research 473, 219-228.

Whitney, J.B. 3rd, Mills, T.M., Lewis, R.W., Wartell, R.M., and Abney, T.O. 2000. A single genetic determinant that prevents sex reversal in C57BL-YPOS congenic mice. Biochem Genet. 38, 119-137.

Zhu, J., and Wartell, R.M. 1999. The Effect of Base Sequence on the Stability of RNA and DNA Single Base Bulges. Biochemistry 38, 15986-15993.

Li, J. and Wartell, R. M. 1998. RNase H1 can catalyse RNA/DNA hybrid formation and cleavage with stable hairpin or duplex DNA oligomers. Biochemistry 37, 5154-5161.

Wartell, R. M., Hosseini, S., Powell, S. and Zhu, J. 1998. Detecting single base substitutions, mismatches and bulges in DNA by Temerpature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and related methods. J. of Chromatography A, 806, 169-190