Rob Russell's Pre-EMBL Publications

For EMBL publications please click here (note that I am not author on some of these).

    SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals plc, Harlow, UK (Senior Investigator, 1997-2000)

  1. K.K. Koretke, R.B. Russell, A.N. Lupas. Fold Reocognition Without Folds Protein Sci., 11,1575-1579, 2002. PubMed
  2. R.M. Jackson, R.B. Russell, Predicting function from structure: examples of the serine protease inhibitor canonical loop conformation found in extracellular proteins. Comput Chem, 26, 31-39, 2002. PubMed
  3. K.K. Koretke, R.B. Russell, A.N. Lupas. Fold recognition from sequence comparisons, PROTEINS: Struct. Function. Genet., 45 (S5), 68-75, 2001. PubMed
  4. M.J. Robbins, A.R. Calver, A.K. Filippov, W.D. Hirst,R.B. Russell, M.D. Wood, S. Nasir, A. Couve, D.A. Brown, S.J. Moss, M.N. Pangalos. GABAB2 Is Essential for G-Protein Coupling of the GABAB Receptor Heterodimer J. Neurosci., 21, 8043-8052, 2001. PubMed
  5. R.R. Copley, R.B. Russell, C.P. Ponting. Sialidase like Asp-Boxes: Sequence similar structures within different protein folds. Protein Sci. 10, 285-292, 2001. PubMed
  6. A.R. Calver, M.J. Robbins, C. Cosio, S.Q.J. Rice, A.J. Babbs, W.D. Hirst, I. Boyfield, M.D. Wood, R.B. Russell, G.W. Price, A. Couve, S.J. Moss, M.N. Pangalos. The C-terminal domains of the GABAB receptor sub-units mediate intracellular trafficking, but are not required for receptor signalling J. Neurosci. 21, 1203-1210, 2001. PubMed
  7. R.B. Russell, D.S. Eggleston. New roles for structure in biology and drug discovery. Nature Struct. Biol. 7 (suppl), 928-930, 2000. PubMed (Review)
  8. C.P. Ponting, R.B. Russell. Identification of distant homologues of FGFs suggests a common ancestor for all beta-trefoil proteins J.Mol. Biol. 302, 1041-1047, 2000. PubMed
  9. M.J. Telford, E. Herniou, R.B. Russell, D.T.J. Littlewood. Changes in mitochondrial genetic codes as phylogenetic characters: two examples from the flatworms Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 97 11359-11364, 2000. PubMed
  10. S.S. Hannenhalli, R.B. Russell, Analysis and prediction of protein sub-types from multiple sequence alignments J. Mol. Biol. 303, 61-76, 2000. PubMed
  11. R.M. Jackson, R.B. Russell, The serine protease inhibitor canonical loop conformation: examples found in extracellular hydrolases, toxins, cytokines and viral proteins. J. Mol. Biol., 296, 325-334, 2000.
  12. R.B. Russell Classification of protein folds In Methods in Protein Structure Prediction, D. Webster, ed. Humana Press, 2000
    13. PubMed
  13. M.R. Barnes, R.B. Russell. A lipid binding domain in Wnt - A case of mistaken Identity? Curr Biol., 9, R717-R718, 1999. PubMed
  14. K.K. Koretke, R.B. Russell, R.R. Copley, A.N. Lupas. Fold recognition using sequence and secondary structure information, PROTEINS: Struct Funct. Genet., Suppl 3, 141-148, 1999. PubMed
  15. R.B. Russell, C. P. Ponting Protein fold irregularities that hinder sequence analysis Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol., 8, 364-371, 1998. PubMed (Review)
  16. R.B. Russell Detection of protein three-dimensional side chain patterns. New examples of convergent evolution. J. Mol. Biol., 279, 1211-1227, 1998. PubMed

    17. Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London (Post-doc, 1994-1997)

  17. R.M. Katso, R.B. Russell, T. S. Ganesan. Functional analysis of H-Ryk, an atypical member of the receptor tyrosine kinase family, Mol. Cell. Biol., 19, 6427- 6440, 1999. PubMed
  18. M.A.S. Saqi, R.B. Russell, M.J.E. Sternberg. Misleading local sequence alignments. Protein Eng., 11, 627-630, 1998. PubMed
  19. R.B. Russell, P.D. Saseini, M.J.E. Sternberg. Supersites within superfolds: binding site similarity in the absence of homology J. Mol. Biol., 282, 903-918, 1998. PubMed
  20. R.B. Russell, M.A. Saqi, P.A. Bates, R.A. Sayle, M.J.E. Sternberg. Recognition of analogous and homologous protein folds: Assessment of fold recognition success and associated alignment accuracy using empirical substitution matrices. Protein Eng., 11, 1-9, 1998. PubMed
  21. R.B. Russell, M.A. Saqi, R.A. Sayle, P.A. Bates, M.J.E. Sternberg. Recognition of analogous and homologous protein folds: Analysis of sequence and structure conservation. J. Mol. Biol., 269, 423-439, 1997. PubMed
  22. R.B. Russell, M.J.E. Sternberg. Two new examples of protein structural similarities within the structure-function twighlight zone. Protein Eng., 10, 333-338, 1997. PubMed
  23. R.B. Russell, M.J.E. Sternberg. A novel binding site in catalase is suggested by similarity to the calycin superfamily. Protein Eng., 9, 107-111, 1996. PubMed
  24. R.B. Russell, M.J.E. Sternberg. Protein Structure Prediction: How good are we? Curr. Biol., 5, 488-490, 1995. PubMed (Review)
  25. C.P. Ponting, R.B. Russell. Swaposins: circular permutation within genes encoding saposin homologues. Trends. Biochem. Sci., 20, 179-180 (erratum p256), 1995. PubMed
  26. M.J.E. Sternberg, H.Hegyi, S.A. Islam, J.Luo, R.B. Russell. Towards and intelligent system for the automatic assignment of domains in globular proteins. ISMB, 3, 376-383, 1995. PubMed

    27. University of Oxford (DPhil student, 1990-1993; Post-doc 1993-1994)

  27. R.B. Russell, R.R. Copley, G.J. Barton. Protein fold recognition by mapping predicted secondary structures. J. Mol. Biol., 259, 349-365, 1996. PubMed
  28. R.B. Russell, R.R. Copley, G.J. Barton. Protein fold recognition from secondary structure assignments. Proc. 28th Hawaii. Int. Conf. Sys. Sci. IEEE Press, 5, 302- 311, 1995.
  29. R.B. Russell, G.J. Barton. Structural features can be unconserved in proteins with similar folds: An analysis of side-chain to side-chain contacts, secondary structure and accessibilty. J. Mol. Biol., 244, 332-350, 1994. PubMed
  30. S.Matthews, P.Barlow, J.Boyd, G.Barton, R.Russell, H.Mills, M.Cunningham, N.Meyers, N.Burns, N.Clark, S.Kingsman, A.Kingsman, I.Campbell. Structural similarity between the p17 matrix protein of HIV-1 and interferon-gamma. Nature, 370, 666-668, 1994. PubMed
  31. R.B. Russell. Domain insertion. Protein Eng., 7, 1407-1410, 1994. PubMed
  32. R.B. Russell, G.J. Barton. The limits of protein secondary structure prediction accuracy from multiple sequence alignment. J. Mol. Biol., 234, 951-957, 1993.
  33. R.B. Russell, G.J. Barton. An SH2-SH3 domain hybrid Nature, 364, 765, 1993. PubMed
  34. G.J. Barton, R.B. Russell. Protein structure prediction. Nature, 361, 505-506, 1993. PubMed
  35. R.B. Russell, G.J. Barton. Multiple protein sequence alignment from tertiary structure comparison: assignment of global and residue confidence levels. PROTEINS: Struct, Funct, Genet., 14, 309-323, 1992. PubMed
  36. R.B. Russell, J.Breed, G.J. Barton. Conservation analysis and secondary structure prediction of the SH2 family of phosphotyrosine binding domains. FEBS Lett., 304, 15-20, 1992. PubMed

    37. Queen's University & University of Alberta, Canada (BSc & Summer projects, 1989-1990)

  37. E.Renaud, R.B. Russell, S.Fortier, S.J. Brown, M.C. Baird. Synthesis of a new family of water-soluble tertiary phosphine-ligands and of their rhodium(i) complexes - olefin hydrogenation in aqueous and biphasic media. J. Organometallic Chem., 419, 403-415, 1991.
  38. J.D. Baxter, K.Duncan, W.Chu, M.N.G. James, R.B. Russell, M.A. Haidar, F.M. Denoto, W.Hsueh, and T.L. Reudelhuber. Molecular-biology of human renin and its gene. Rec. Prog. Hormone Res., 47, 211-258, 1991. PubMed
  39. R.A. Bank, R.B. Russell, G.Pals, M.N.G. James. Consequences of intramolecular ionic interactions for the activation rate of human pepsinogen-a and pepsinogen-c as revealed by molecular modeling. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol., 306, 101- 105, 1991. PubMed