Journal covers

PUBLICATIONS OF ORIGINAL WORKS

1. Liang Tang, Eddie B. Gilcrease, Sherwood Casjens, John E. Johnson (2006) Highly discriminatory binding of capsid cementing proteins in bacteriophage L. Structure 14, 837-45.

2. Gabriel C. Lander, Liang Tang, Sherwood R. Casjens, Eddie B. Gilcrease, Peter Prevelige, Anton Poliakov, Clinton S. Potter, Bridget Carragher and John E. Johnson. (2006) The structure of an infectious p22 virion shows the signal for headful DNA packaging. Science 312, 1791-5. Epub 2006 May 18. [Featured on the cover]

3. Liang Tang, William R. Marion, Gino Cingolani, Peter E. Prevelige Jr.& John E. Johnson (2005) Three-dimensional structure of the bacteriophage P22 tail machine. EMBO J. 24, 2087-2095. [Featured on the cover]

4. Reza Khayat, Liang Tang, Mark Young, John E. Johnson (2005) Structure of an archaeal virus capsid protein reveals a common ancestry to eukaryotic and bacterial viruses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 102, 18944-9.

5. George Rice, Liang Tang, Kenneth Stedman, Francisco Roberto, Josh Spuhler, Eric Gillitzer, John E. Johnson, Trevor Douglas, and Mark J. Young (2004) The structure of a thermophilic archaeal virus shows a dsDNA viral capsid type that spans all domains of life. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 7716-7720. [Featured in the commentary and highlighted on the cover]

6. Karyn N. Johnson, Liang Tang, L. John E. Johnson & Andrew Ball (2004) Heterologous RNA encapsidated in Pariacoto virus-like particles forms a dodecahedral cage similar to genomic RNA in wild-type virions. J. Virology 78, 11371-8.

7. Brumfield S, Willits D, Tang L, Johnson JE, Douglas T, Young M. (2004) Heterologous expression of the modified coat protein of Cowpea chlorotic mottle bromovirus results in the assembly of protein cages with altered architectures and function. J. Gen. Virol. 85, 1049-53.

8. Liang Tang, Chan-Shing Lin, Neel K. Krishna, Mark Yeager, Anette Schneemann & John E. Johnson (2002) Virus-like particles of a fish nodavirus display a capsid subunit domain organization different from that of insect nodaviruses. J. Virology 76, 6370?375. [Featured on the cover]

9. Qian Wang, Tianwei Lin, Liang Tang, John E. Johnson & M.G. Finn (2002) Icosahedral virus particles as addressable, self-organizing nanoblocks. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 41, 459-462. [Featured on the cover]

10. Tang, L., Johnson, K.N., Ball, L.A., Lin, T., Yeager, M. & Johnson, J.E. (2001) The structure of Pariacoto virus reveals a dodecahedral cage of duplex RNA. Nature Structural Biology 8, 77-83.

11. Lin, C.-S., Lu, M.-W., Tang, L., Liu, W., Chao, C.-B., Lin, C.J., Krishna, N., Schneemann, A. & Johnson, J.E. (2001) Characterization of virus-like-particles assembled in a recombinant baculovirus system expressing the capsid protein of a fish nodavirus. Virology 290, 50-58. [Featured on the cover]

12. Shen, Yue-quan, Tang, Liang, Zhou, Hai-meng & Lin, Zheng-jiong (2001) Crystal structure of human muscle creatine kinase. Acta Crystallographica Section D 57, 1196-1200.

13. Tang, Liang, Zhou, Yuan-cong & Lin, Zheng-jiong (2001) Crystal Structure of Agkistrodotoxin in an R3 crystal form. Acta Chimica Sinica 59, 442-446.

14. Tang, Liang, Zhou, Yuan-Cong & Lin, Zheng-Jiong (1999) Structure of Agkistrodotoxin in an orthorhombic crystal form with six molecules per asymmetric unit. Acta Crystallographica Section D 55, 1986-1996. [Featured on the cover]

15. Tang, Liang, Zhou, Hai-Meng & Lin, Zheng-Jiong (1999) Crystallization and Preliminary X-Ray Analysis of Human Muscle Creatine Kinase. Acta Crystallographica Section D 55, 669-670.

16. Tang, Liang, Zhou, Yuan-cong & Lin, Zheng-jiong (1998) Crystal Structure of Agkistrodotoxin, a Phospholipase A2-Type Presynaptic Neurotoxin from Agkistrodon halys pallas. Journal of Molecular Biology 282, 1-11.

17. Zhao, Haiyan, Tang, Liang, Wang, Xiaoqiang, Zhou, Yuancong & Lin, Zhengjiong (1998) Structure of a snake venom phospholipase A2 modified by p-bromophenacyl-bromide. Toxicon 36, 875-886.

18. Chai, Ji-Jie, He, Cun-Heng, Li, Ming, Tang, Liang & Luo, Ming (1998) Crystal structure of carboxypeptidase A complexed with an inactivator in two crystal forms.  Protein Engineering 11, 841-845.

19. Tang, Liang, Zhou, Yuan-cong & Lin, Zheng-jiong (1997) Structure determination of agkistrodotoxin. Chinese Toxinological Research 4, 1-2.

20. Tang, Liang, Lin, Zheng-jiong & Zhou, Yuan-cong (1997) Studies on the non-crystallographic symmetry of the crystal of neutral phospholipase A2 from Agkistrodon halys Pallas. Science in China Series C 5, 481-487.

REVIEW

1. Liang Tang & John E. Johnson (2002) Structural biology of viruses by the combination of electron cryomicroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Biochemistry 41, 11517-24.

BOOK CHAPTER

1. Lin, Z.-J., Tang, L., Zhao, K.-H., Zhao, H.-Y., Wang, X.-Q., Meng, W.-Y., Gui, L.-L., Song, S.-Y., Chen, Y.-C. & Zhou, Y.-C. (2000) Structures and pharmacological activities of phospholipases A2 from Agkistrodon halys Pallas. In: Natural and Selected Synthetic Toxins: Biological Implication, Chapter 17, 249-261. Editors: Anthony T. Tu & William Gaffield, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. Oxford University Press.