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Lewinson, O., Lee, A. T., and Rees, D. C. “The Funnel Approach to the Precrystallization Production of Membrane Proteins” J. Mol. Biol. 377, 63-73 (2008). doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2007.12.059

Steinbacher, S., Bass, R., Strop, P., and Rees, D. C. “Structures of the Prokaryotic Mechanosensitive Channels MscL and MscS” Current Topics in Membranes in Mechanosensitive Ion Channels, Part A (Hamill, O. P. ed) volume 58, 1-24 (2007). doi:10.1016/S1063-5823(06)58001-9

Einsle, O., Andrade, S. L. A., Dobbek, H., Meyer, J., and Rees, D. C. “Assignment of Individual Metal Redox States in a Metalloprotein by Crystallographic Refinement at Multiple X-ray Wavelengths” J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 129, 2210-2211 (2007). doi:10.1021/ja067562o

Pinkett, H. W., Lee, A. T., Lum, P., Locher, K. P., and Rees, D. C. “An Inward-Facing Conformation of a Metal-Chelate Type ABC Transporter,” Science 315, 373-377 (2007). doi:10.1126/science.1133488

Howard, J. B. and Rees, D. C. “How Many Metals Does it Take to Fix N2? A Mechanistic Overview of Biological Nitrogen Fixation” Prof. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 17088-17093 (2006). doi:10.1073/PNAS.0603978103

Poolman, B., Doeven, M. K., Geertsma, E. R., Biemans-Oldenhinkel, E., Konings, W. N., and Rees, D. C. “Functional Analysis of Detergent-Solubilized and Membrane-Reconstituted ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters” Meth. Enzymol. 40,429-459 (2005). doi:10.1016/S0076-6879(05)00025-X

Borths, E. L., Poolman, B., Hvorup, R. N., Locher, K. P., and Rees, D. C. “In Vitro Functional Characterization of BtuCD-F, the Escherichia coli ABC Transporter for Vitamin B12 Uptake” Biochemistry 44, 16301-16309 (2005). doi:10.1021/bi0513103

Tezcan, F. A., Kaiser, J. T., Mustafi, D., Walton, M. Y., Howard, J. B., and Rees, D. C. “Nitrogenase Complexes: Multiple Docking Sites for a Nucleotide Switch Protein” Science 309, 1377-1380 (2005). doi:10.1126/science.1115653

Andrade, S. L. A., Cruz, F., Drennan, C. L., Ramakrishnan, V., Rees, D. C., Ferry, J. G., and Einsle, O. “Structures of the Iron-Sulfur Flavoproteins from Methanosarcina thermophila and Archaeoglobus fulgidus J. Bacteriol. 187, 3848-3854 (2005). doi:10.1128/JB.187.11.3848-3854.2005

Rees, D. C., Tezcan, F. A., Haynes, C. A., Walton, M. Y., Andrade, S., Einsle, O., and Howard, J. B. “Structural Basis of Biological Nitrogen Fixation” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 363, 971-984 (2005). doi:10.1098/rsta.2004.1539

Corbett, M. C., Tezcan, F. A., Einsle, O., Walton, M. Y., Rees, D. C., Latimer, M. J., Hedman, B., and Hodgson, K. O. “Mo K– and L–edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Study of the ADP•AIF4– -stabilized Nitrogenase Complex: Comparison with MoFe Protein in Solution and Single Crystal” J. Synchrotron Rad. 12, 28-34 (2005). doi:10.1107/S0909049504027827

Becker, C. F. W., Strop, P., Bass, R. B., Hansen, K. C., Locher, K. P., Ren, G., Yaeger, M., Rees, D. C., and Kochendoerfer, G. G. "Conversion of a Mechanosensitive Channel Protein from a Membrane-Embedded to a Water-Soluble form by Covalent Modification with Amphiphiles" J. Mol. Biol. 343, 747-758 (2004). doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2004.08.062

Nikolic-Hughes, I, Rees, D. C., and Herschlag, D. "Do Electrostatic Interactions with Positively Charged Active Site Groups Tighten the Transition State for Enzymatic Phosphoryl Transfer?" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 11814-11819 (2004). doi:10.1021/ja0480421

Ambroggio, X. I., Rees, D. C., and Deshaies, R. "Jamm: A Metalloprotease-Like Zinc Site in the Proteasome and Signalosome" PLOS Biology 2, 113-119 (2004). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020002

Bass, R. B., Locher, K. P., Borths, E., Poon, Y., Strop, P., Lee, A., and Rees, D. C. "The Structures of BtuCD and MscS and their Implications for Transporter and Channel Function" FEBS Lett. 555, 111-115 (2003). doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(03)01126-8

Perozo, E. and Rees, D. C. “Structure and Mechanism in Prokaryotic Mechanosensitive Channels” Curr. Op. Struct. Biol. 13, 432-442 (2003). doi:10.1016/S0959-440X(03)00106-4

Locher, K. P., Bass, R. B., and Rees, D. C. “Breaching the Barrier” Science 301, 603-604 (2003).

Rees, D. C. and Howard, J. B. “The Interface between the Biological and Inorganic Worlds: Iron-Sulfur Metalloclusters” Science 300, 929-931 (2003).

Shapovalov, G., Bass, R., Rees, D. C., and Lester, H. A. “Open-State Disulfide Crosslinking between Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mechanosensitive Channel Subunits” Biophys. J. 84, 2357-2365 (2003).

Strop, P., Bass, R., and Rees, D. C. “Prokaryotic Mechanosensitive Channels” in Advances in Protein Chemistry 63, 117-209 (2003).

Borths, E. L., Locher, K. P., Lee, A. T., and Rees, D. C. "The Structure of Escherichia coli BtuF and Binding to its Cognate ATP Binding Cassette Transporter" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 16642-16647 (2002). doi:10.1073/pnas.262659699

Bass, R. B., Strop, P., Barclay, M., and Rees, D. C. “Crystal Structure of Escherichia coli MscS, a Voltage-Modulated and Mechanosensitive Channel,” Science 298, 1582-1587 (2002).

Schmid. B., Einsle, O., Chiu, H.-J. Willing, A., Yoshida, M., Howard, J. B., and Rees, D. C. "Biochemical and Structural Characterization of the Cross-linked Complex of Nitrogenase: Comparison to the ADP-AIF4- Stabilized Structure" Biochemistry 41, 15557-15565 (2002). doi:10.1021/bi026642b

Einsle, O., Tezcan, A., Andrade, S. L. A., Schmid, B., Yoshida, M., Howard, J. B., and Rees, D. C. “Nitrogenase MoFe-Protein at 1.16 Å Resolution: A Central Ligand in the FeMo-Cofactor” Science 297, 1696-1700 (2002).

Rees, D. C. "Great Metalloclusters in Enzymology" Ann. Rev. Biochem. 71, 221-246 (2002) doi:10.1146/annurev.biochem.71.110601.135406

Yeh, A. P., Ambroggio, X. I., Andrade, S. L. A., Einsle, O., Chatelet, C., Meyer, J., and Rees, D. C. “High Resolution Crystal Structures of the Wild Type and Cys55 -> Ser and Cys59 -> Ser Variants of the Thioredoxin-like [2Fe-2S] Ferredoxin from Aquifex aeolicus” J. Biol. Chem. 277, 3499-34507 (2002). doi:10.1074/jbc.M205096200

Axelrod, H. L., Abresch, E. C., Okamura, M. Y., Yeh, A. P., Rees, D. C., and Feher, G. (2002) “X-ray Structure Determination of the Cytochrome c2-Reaction Center Electron Transfer Complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides” J. Mol. Biol. 319, 501-515 (2002).

Locher, K. P., Lee, A. T., and Rees, D. C. "The E. coli BtuCD Structure: A Framework for ABC Transporter Architecture and Mechanism" Science 296, 1091-1098 (2002).

Schmid, B., Ribbe, M. W., Einsle, O., Yoshida, M., Thomas, L. M., Dean, D. R., Rees, D. C., and Burgess, B. K. "Structure of a Cofactor-Deficient Nitrogenase MoFe Protein" Science 296, 352-356 (2002).

Spencer, R. H. and Rees, D. C. "The alpha-Helix and the Organization and Gating of Channels" Ann. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 31, 207-233 (2002).

Rees, D. C. "Metalloproteins to Membrane Proteins: Biological Energy Transduction Mechanisms" in Structures and Mechanisms: From Ashes to Enzymes (Eaton, G. R., Wiley, D. C., and Jardetzky, O., eds.) ACS Symp. Series 827, Oxford University Press (2002).

Iverson, T. A., Luna-Chavez, C., Croal, L. R., Cecchini, G., and Rees, D. C. "Crystallographic Studies of the Escherichia coli Quinol-Fumerate Reductase with Inhibitors Bound to the Quinol-binding Site" J. Biol. Chem. 277, 16124-16130 (2002).