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Garforth S.J., Parniak M.A. and Prasad V.R. (2008) Utilization of a deoxynucleoside diphosphate substrate by HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. PLoS ONE. 3 e2074.
Silverman A.P., Garforth S.J., Prasad V.R., Kool E.T. (2008) Probing the active site steric flexibility of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: Different constraints for DNA- versus RNA-templated synthesis. Biochemistry. 47 4800-7.
Garforth S.J., Kim T.W., Parniak M.A., Kool E.T. and Prasad V.R. (2007) Site-directed mutagenesis in the fingers subdomain of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase reveals a specific role for the beta3-beta4 hairpin loop in dNTP selection. J. Mol. Biol. 365 38-49.
Glover R.T., Kriakov J., Garforth S.J., Baughn A.D. and Jacobs W.R. (2007) The two-component regulatory system senX3-regX3 regulates phosphate-dependent gene expression in Mycobacteria smegmatis. J. Bacteriol. 189 5495-5503.
Garforth S.J., Wu Y.Y. and Prasad V.R. (2006) Structural features of mouse telomerase RNA are responsible for the lower activity of mouse telomerase versus human telomerase. Biochem. J. 397 399-406.