Publications
Yi Ren*, Philip Schmiege, and Günter Blobel*. Structural analysis of helicase-mediated remodeling of nuclear mRNP prior to nuclear export. Elife, accepted for publication. (* communicating authors)
Beili Quan, Hyuk-Soo Seo, Günter Blobel*, and Yi Ren*. (2014) Vesicular matrix (M) protein occupies nucleic acid binding site at nucleoporin pair (Rae1•Nup98). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 111(25), 9127-9132. PMCID: PMC4078809. (* communicating authors)
Yi Ren, Hyuk-Soo Seo, Gunter Blobel, and Andre Hoelz. (2010) Structural and functional analysis of the interaction between the nucleoporin Nup98 and the mRNA export factor Rae1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107(23), 10406-10411. PMCID: PMC2890840.
Qiansheng Ren, Christian Wimmer, Michael C. Chicka, Shaojing Ye, Yi Ren, Frederick M. Hughson, and Sidney W. Whiteheart. (2010) Munc13-4 is a limiting factor in the pathway required for platelet granule release and hemostasis. Blood, 116(6), 869-877. PMCID: PMC2924225.
Yi Ren, Calvin K. Yip, Arati Tripathi, David Huie, Philip D. Jeffrey, Thomas Walz, and Frederick M. Hughson. (2009) A structure-based mechanism for vesicle capture by the multisubunit tethering complex Dsl1. Cell, 139(6), 1119-1129. PMCID: PMC2806190.
Arati Tripathi*, Yi Ren*, Philip D. Jeffrey, and Frederick M. Hughson. (2009) Structural characterization of Tip20p and Dsl1p, subunits of the Dsl1p vesicle tethering complex. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 16(2), 114-123. PMCID: PMC2635920. (* equal contributions)
Yi Ren, Wenhu Wang, Yunhua Wang, Martin Case, Wen Qian, George McLendon, and Zhongxian Huang. (2004) Mapping the electron transfer interface between cytochrome b5 and cytochrome c. Biochemistry, 43(12), 3527-3536. PMID: 15035623.
Yunhua Wang, Yi Ren, Wenhu Wang, Yi Xie, and Zhongxian Huang. (2001) The regulation of surface charged residues on the properties of cytochrome b5. J Protein Chem. 20(6), 487-493. PMID: 11760123.