David Shub

Professor

Department of Biological Sciences

SUNY Albany


Research Interests

Origin, evolution and function of self-splicing introns, exon shuffling, and genetic analysis of intron structure and function. More information on SUNY Biological Sciences page

Selected Publications

A free-standing homing endonuclease targets an intron insertion site in the psbA gene of cyanophages (2009), Q. Zeng, R. P. Bonocora, D. A. Shub Curr. Biol., 19, 218-222 (more ...)

A likely pathway for formation of mobile group I introns (2009), R. P. Bonocora, D. A. Shub, Curr. Biol., 19, 223-228 (more ...)

I-BasI and I-HmuI: two phage intron-encoded endonucleases with homologous DNA recognition sequences but distinct DNA specificities (2006), M. Landthaler, B. W. Shen, B. L. Stoddard, and D. A. Shub, J. Mol. Biol., 358, 1137-1151 (more ...)

A self-splicing group I intron in DNA polymerase genes of T7-like bacteriophages (2004), R. P. Bonocora, D. A. Shub, J. Bacteriol., 186, 8153-8155 (more ...)

Group I intron homing in Bacillus phages SPO1 and SP82: a gene conversion event initiated by a nicking homing endonuclease (2004), M. Landthaler, N. C. Lau, D. A. Shub, J. Bacteriol., 186, 4307-4314 (more ...)