Dieter G Soll PhD
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Microbiology: Molecular Genetics | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: RNA Catalysis and Ribonucleoprotein Machines
Center for RNA Science and Medicine, Yale
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry: RNA Biology
Research Interests
Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthesis; Functional Genomics; Life Science Biological; Mechanism of Translation more...
Education
- Ph.D., Stuttgart Technical University, 1962
Selected Publications
- Palioura, S., Sherrer, R.L., Steitz. T.A., Söll, D. and Simonovic, M. (2009) Catalytic complex of human SepSecS-tRNASec reveals mechanism of selenocysteine formation. Science 325, 321-325.
- Randau, L., Stanley, B.J., Kohlway, A., Mechta, S., Xiong, Y. and Söll, D. (2009) A unique cytidine deaminase edits C-to-U in transfer RNAs in archaea. Science 324, 657-659.
- Nozawa, K., O’Donoghue, P., Gundllapalli, S., Araiso, Y., Ishitani, R., Umehara, T., Söll, D. and Nureki, O. (2009) Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase–tRNAPyl structure reveals the molecular basis of orthogonality. Nature 457, 1163-1167.
