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Krysten Jones

University of California Irvine
Verified email at uci.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Structure of papain-like protease from SARS-CoV-2 and its complexes with non-covalent inhibitors

…, S Dvorkin, M Endres, R Jedrzejczak, KA Jones… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
continues to expand. Papain-like protease (PLpro) is one of two SARS-CoV-2 proteases …

Masitinib is a broad coronavirus 3CL inhibitor that blocks replication of SARS-CoV-2

N Drayman, JK DeMarco, KA Jones, SA Azizi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
There is an urgent need for antiviral agents that treat severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We screened a library of 1900 clinically safe drugs …

Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication through induction of the host ER stress and innate immune responses

…, A Valdespino, L Stock, E Suárez, KA Jones… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and ongoing
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic underscores the need for new treatments. …

[HTML][HTML] An RNA-targeting CRISPR–Cas13d system alleviates disease-related phenotypes in Huntington's disease models

…, C Zhang, J Chen, RJ Marina, K Lee, KL Jones… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal, dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder
caused by CAG trinucleotide expansion in exon 1 of the huntingtin (HTT) gene. Since the …

[HTML][HTML] RNA-based translation activators for targeted gene upregulation

Y Cao, H Liu, SS Lu, KA Jones, AP Govind… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Technologies capable of programmable translation activation offer strategies to develop
therapeutics for diseases caused by insufficient gene expression. Here, we present “translation-…

Orthogonal luciferase–luciferin pairs for bioluminescence imaging

KA Jones, WB Porterfield, CM Rathbun… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Bioluminescence imaging with luciferase–luciferin pairs is widely used in biomedical
research. Several luciferases have been identified in nature, and many have been adapted for …

Site-selective C–H halogenation using flavin-dependent halogenases identified via family-wide activity profiling

BF Fisher, HM Snodgrass, KA Jones… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Enzymes are powerful catalysts for site-selective C–H bond functionalization. Identifying
suitable enzymes for this task and for biocatalysis in general remains challenging, however, due …

[HTML][HTML] Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication and promotes the host innate immune response

…, A Mohamed, C Dann, D Silva, H Gula, KA Jones… - biorxiv, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The rapid spread of COVID-19 underscores the need for new treatments. Here we report
that cannabidiol (CBD), a compound produced by the cannabis plant, inhibits SARS-CoV-2 …

A “caged” luciferin for imaging cell–cell contacts

WB Porterfield, KA Jones… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Cell–cell interactions underlie fundamental biological processes but remain difficult to
visualize over long times and large distances in tissues and live organisms. Bioluminescence …

Improved cyclopropene reporters for probing protein glycosylation

DM Patterson, KA Jones, JA Prescher - Molecular BioSystems, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Cyclopropenes have emerged as a new class of bioorthogonal chemical reporters. These
strained rings can be metabolically introduced into target biomolecules and covalently …