Publications from the Kavran Lab
Tran T, Mitra J, Ha T, Kavran JM. Increasing kinase domain proximity promotes MST2 autophosphorylation during Hippo signaling (2020) J. Biol. Chem. 295(47):16166-16179.
Cairns L, Patterson A, Weingartner KA, Koehler TJ, DeAngelis DR, Tripp KW, Bothner B, Kavran JM. Biophysical characterization of SARAH domain-mediated multimerization of Hippo pathway complexes in Drosophila. (2020) J Biol Chem. 295(18):6202-6213.
Cairns L, Tran T, Fowl BH, Patterson A, Kim YJ, Bothner B, Kavran JM. Salvador has an extended SARAH domain that mediates binding to Hippo kinase. (2018) J Biol Chem. 293(15):5532-5543.
Ingavat N, Kavran JM, Sun Z, Rokita SE. Active Site Binding Is Not Sufficient for Reductive Deiodination by Iodotyrosine Deiodinase. (2017) Biochemistry. 56(8):1130-1139.
Cairns L, Tran T, Kavran JM. Structural insights into the regulation of Hippo signaling. (2017) ACS Chem. Biol. 12:601-610.
Publications as a Post-doctoral Fellow
Marold, JD, Kavran, JM, and Barrick, D. A naturally occurring repeat protein with high internal sequence identity defines a new class of TPR-like proteins. Structure. In press
Werner, R, Merz, H, Strom, T, Birnbaum, W, Marshall, L, Schroder, T, Reiz, B, Kavran, JM, and Hior, O. (2015) Unusual 46,XY Gonadal Dysgenesis due to a homozygous mutation in Desert Hedgehog (DHh) identified by exome-sequencing. J. Clin. Endocrin. Metab. 100: 1022-1029.
Publications as a Graduate Student