Publications

• B.Z. Ring, W.S. Yarnell, and J.W. Roberts (1996). Function of E. coli RNA Polymerase Sigma Factor s70 in Promoter-Proximal Pausing. Cell, 86, 485-493.
• C.W. Roberts and J.W. Roberts (1996). Base Specific Recognition of the Nontemplate Strand of Promoter DNA by E. coli RNA Polymerase. Cell 86, 495-501 (1996)
• M.T. Marr and J.W. Roberts (1997). "Promoter Recognition As Measured by Binding of Polymerase to Nontemplate Strand Oligonucleotide." Science, 276, 1258-1260.
• Ko, D.C., Marr, M.T., Guo, J., and Roberts, J.W. (1998). A Surface of E. coli s70 Required for Promoter Function and Antitermination by Phage Lambda Q Protein. Genes and Development 12, 3276-3285.
• Roberts, J.W., Yarnell, W., Bartlett, E., Guo, J., Marr, M., Ko, D., Sun, H., and Roberts, C.W. (1999). Antitermination by Phage l Q Protein. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 63, 319-325.
• Yarnell, W.S., and Roberts, J.W. (1999). Mechanism of Intrinsic Transcription Termination and Antitermination. Science 284, 611-615.
• Marr, M.T., & J.W. Roberts (2000).  "Function of Transcription Factors GreA and GreB at a Regulatory Pause Site", Molecular Cell, 6, 1275-1285.
• Marr, M.T., Saul A. Datwyler, Claude F. Meares, & Jeffrey W. Roberts (2001).  "Restructuring of an RNA polymerase holoenzyme elongation complex by lambdoid phage Q proteins"  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 98, 8972-8978
• Park, J.-S., M.T. Marr, & J.W. Roberts (2002).  "E. coli Transcription Repair Coupling Factor (Mfd protein) Rescues Arrested Complexes by Promoting Forward Translocation"  Cell  109, 757-767
• Nickels, B.E., Roberts, C.W., Sun, H., Roberts, J.W., & Hochschild, A.  (2002).  "The s⁷⁰ subunit of RNA polymerase is contacted by the lQ antiterminator during early elongation "  Molecular Cell,  10, 611-622
• Adelman, K., La Porta, A., Santangelo, T.J., Lis, J.T., Roberts, J.W., & Wang, M.D. (2002)  "Single Molecule Analysis of RNA Polymerase Elongation Reveals Uniform Kinetic Behavior"  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 13538-13543
• Santangelo, T.J., Mooney, R.A., Landick, R., & Roberts, J.W., (2003).  "RNA Polymerase mutations that impair conversion to a termination resistant complex by Q antiterminator proteins"  Genes & Development, 17, 1281-1292
• Ryder, Andrew M. & Jeffrey W. Roberts (2003).  “Role of the Non-template Strand of the Elongation Bubble in Intrinsic Transcription Termination”.  J. Mol. Biol. 334, 205-213
• Guo, Jingshu and Roberts, Jeffrey W. (2004).  “DNA Binding Regions of Q Proteins of Phages land f80”  J. Bacteriology 186, 3599-3608
• Santangelo, T.J. and Roberts, J.W., (2004).  “Forward Translocation Is the Natural Pathway of RNA Release at an Intrinsic Terminator”.  Mol. Cell 14, 117-126.
• Park, J.-S. & J.W. Roberts (2006).  “Role of DNA Bubble Rewinding in Enzymatic Transcription Termination”  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 4870-4875
• Nickels, B.E., Roberts, C.W., Roberts, J.W., and Hochschild, A. (2006).  “RNA-Mediated Destabilization of the s70 Region 4/b Flap Interaction Facilitates Engagement of RNA Polymerase by the Q Antiterminator”  Mol. Cell. 24, 457-468
• Roberts, J.W. (2006).  “RNA Polymerase, A Scrunching Machine” Science 314, 1097-1098.  [A Perspective]