9. Chen J, Szyk A, Roll-Mecak A. Expression, Purification, and Microscopy-Based Assays for Engineered Recombinant Tyrosinated, Detyrosinated, and Δ2 Human Tubulin. Cytoskeleton. 2026 Jan; 10.1002/cm.70089.

8. Spector JO, Chen J, Roll-Mecak A. Multicamera simultaneous total internal reflection and interference reflection microscopy. J Microsc. 2024 Dec; 10.1111/jmi.13375.

7. Chen J, Zehr EA, Gruschus JM, Szyk A, Liu Y, Tanner ME, Tjandra N, Roll-Mecak A. Tubulin code eraser CCP5 binds branch glutamates by substrate deformation. Nature. 2024 Jul; 631(8022):905-912.

Briefed in Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02822-7

6. Chen J. & Roll-Mecak A. Glutamylation is a negative regulator of microtubule growth. Mol Biol Cell. 2023 Jun 1;34(7):ar70.

5. Chen J, Kholina E, Szyk A, Fedorov VA, Kovalenko I, Gudimchuk N, Roll-Mecak A. α-tubulin tail modifications regulate microtubule stability through selective effector recruitment, not changes in intrinsic polymer dynamics. Dev Cell. 2021 Jul 26;56(14):2016-2028.e4.

Previewed by Mani and Subramanian in Dev Cell 56(14):2007-2009.

4. Yao Q, Cao G, Li M, Wu B, Zhang X, Zhang T, Guo J, Yin H, Shi L, Chen J, Yu X, Zheng L, Ma J, Su YQ. Ribonuclease activity of MARF1 controls oocyte RNA homeostasis and genome integrity in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2018 Oct 30;115(44):11250-11255.

3. Chen J, Liu L, You C, Gu J, Ruan W, Zhang L, Gan J, Cao C, Huang Y, Chen X, Ma J. Structural and biochemical insights into small RNA 3’ end trimming by Arabidopsis SDN1. Nat Commun. 2018 Sep 4;9(1):3585.

2. Peng L, Zhang F, Shang R, Wang X, Chen J, Chou JJ, Ma J, Wu L, Huang Y. Identification of substrates of the small RNA methyltransferase Hen1 in mouse spermatogonial stem cells and analysis of its methyl-transfer domain. J Biol Chem. 2018 Jun 29;293(26):9981-9994.

1. Yu Y, Ji L, Le BH, Zhai J, Chen J, Luscher E, Gao L, Liu C, Cao X, Mo X, Ma J, Meyers BC, Chen X. ARGONAUTE10 promotes the degradation of miR165/6 through the SDN1 and SDN2 exonucleases in Arabidopsis. PLoS Biol. 2017 15(2): e2001272.

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