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Cameron Mura

Cameron Mura

Senior Scientist, Chemistry

Primary Location
PO Box 400319
McCormick Rd.
Primary Phone Number
478.24.
Email
[email protected]
Website
http://muralab.org

Bio & Overview

Chemistry

Academic Information

Department
Chemistry
Academic Title
Assistant Professor

Primary Education

  • BS, Chemistry/Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technologynull
  • PhD, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California, Los Angelesnull

Other Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, SCBB

Other Affiliations

  • Member, Chemical and Structural Biology Program
  • BIMS
  • BIMS
  • Assistant Professor, BIMS

Research Interests

Chemistry

Research Disciplines

  • Biochemistry
  • Bioinformatics and Genomics
  • Computational Biology

Research Opportunities

  • Biochemistry
  • Bioinformatics & Genomics
  • Computational Biology

Selected Publications

2018

Youkharibache, P., Veretnik, S., Li, Q., Stanek, K. A., Mura, C., & Bourne, P. E. (2019). The Small β-Barrel Domain: A Survey-Based Structural Analysis. STRUCTURE, 27(1), 6-26. doi:10.1016/j.str.2018.09.012

Mura, C., Draizen, E. J., & Bourne, P. E. (2018). Structural biology meets data science: does anything change?. CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, 52, 95-102. doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2018.09.003

Stanek, K. A., & Mura, C. (2018). Producing Hfq/Sm Proteins and sRNAs for Structural and Biophysical Studies of Ribonucleoprotein Assembly. BACTERIAL REGULATORY RNA: METHODS AND PROTOCOLS, 1737, 273-299. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7634-8_16

2017

Stanek, K. A., Patterson-West, J., Randolph, P. S., & Mura, C. (2017). Crystal structure and RNA-binding properties of an Hfq homolog from the deep-branching Aquificae: conservation of the lateral RNA-binding mode. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, 73, 294-315. doi:10.1107/S2059798317000031

2016

Tang, J. D., McAnany, C. E., Mura, C., & Lampe, K. J. (2016). Toward a Designable Extracellular Matrix: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of an Engineered Laminin-Mimetic, Elastin-Like Fusion Protein. BIOMACROMOLECULES, 17(10), 3222-3233. doi:10.1021/acs.biomac.6b00951

McAnany, C. E., & Mura, C. (2016). Claws, Disorder, and Conformational Dynamics of the C-Terminal Region of Human Desmoplakin. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 120(33), 8654-8667. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b03261

Ekmekci, B., McAnany, C. E., & Mura, C. (2016). An Introduction to Programming for Bioscientists: A Python-Based Primer. PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 12(6). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004867

2015

Gray, C., Price, C. W., Lee, C. T., Dewald, A. H., Cline, M. A., McAnany, C. E., . . . Mura, C. (2015). Known structure, unknown function: An inquiry-based undergraduate biochemistry laboratory course. BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY EDUCATION, 43(4), 245-262. doi:10.1002/bmb.20873

2014

Mura, C., & McAnany, C. E. (2014). An introduction to biomolecular simulations and docking. MOLECULAR SIMULATION, 40(10-11), 732-764. doi:10.1080/08927022.2014.935372

Panecka, J., Mura, C., & Trylska, J. (2014). Interplay of the Bacterial Ribosomal A-Site, S12 Protein Mutations and Paromomycin Binding: A Molecular Dynamics Study. PLOS ONE, 9(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111811

2013

Mura, C., Randolph, P. S., Patterson, J., & Cozen, A. E. (2013). Archaeal and eukaryotic homologs of Hfq: A structural and evolutionary perspective on Sm function. RNA BIOLOGY, 10(4), 636-651. doi:10.4161/rna.24538

Patterson, J., & Mura, C. (2013). Rapid Colorimetric Assays to Qualitatively Distinguish RNA and DNA in Biomolecular Samples. JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS, (72). doi:10.3791/50225

2011

Cieslik, M., & Mura, C. (2011). A lightweight, flow-based toolkit for parallel and distributed bioinformatics pipelines. BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 12. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-61

Cieslik, M., Derewenda, Z. S., & Mura, C. (2011). Abstractions, algorithms and data structures for structural bioinformatics in PyCogent. JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 44, 424-428. doi:10.1107/S0021889811004481

2010

Panecka, J., Mura, C., & Trylska, J. (2011). Molecular Dynamics of Potential rRNA Binders: Single-Stranded Nucleic Acids and Some Analogues. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 115(3), 532-546. doi:10.1021/jp106404u

Mura, C., McCrimmon, C. M., Vertrees, J., & Sawaya, M. R. (2010). An Introduction to Biomolecular Graphics. PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 6(8). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000918