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Research Interests

  • Fragment screening library
  • Novel Targets for Structure Determination

Selected Publications

  • X-ray structure of the Staphylococcus aureus putative ATPase subunit of an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter (2007) to be submitted.
  • Robert Lam, Vladimir Romanov, Kathy Johns, Kevin Battaile, Jean Wu-Brown, Robert P. Hausinger, Emil Pai, and Nickolay Y. Chirgadze. Structure of the Helicobacter pylori Urease Accessory Protein UreF 2010 PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics
  • Cardarelli, L., Lam, R. Tuite, A., Baker, L. A., Sadowski, P. D., Radford, D. R., Rubinstein, J. L., Battaile, K. P., Chirgadze, N., Maxwell, K. L., and Davidson, A. R. 2009. The X-Ray Crystal Structure of Bacteriophage HK97 gp6: Defining a Large Family of Head-Tail Connector Proteins. J Mol Biol [epub ahead of print].
  • Singer AU, Rohde JR, Lam R, Skarina T, Kagan O, Dileo R, Chirgadze NY, Cuff ME, Joachimiak A, Tyers M, Sansonetti PJ, Parsot C, Savchenko A. Structure of the Shigella T3SS effector IpaH defines a new class of E3 ubiquitin ligases. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2008 15, 1293 - 1301
  • Savchenko A, Michael, Tatiana Skarina, Alexander Singer, Olga Litvinova, Ruslan Sanishvili, Greg Brown, Chirgadze NY, Alexander F. Yakunin Molecular Basis of the Antimutagenic Activity of the House-Cleaning Inosine Triphosphate Pyrophosphatase RdgB from Escherichia coli J Mol Biol. 2007 Dec 7;374(4):1091-103
  • Mochalkin I, Lightle S, Zhu Y, Ohren J, Spessard C, Chirgadze NY, Banotai C, Melnik M, McDowell L. Characterization of substrate binding and catalysis in the potential antibacterial target N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GlmU) Protein Science 2007, 16: 2657-2666
  • Klimkowski VJ, Watson BM, Wiley MR, Liebeschuetz J, Franciskovich JB, Marimuthu J, Bastian JA, Sall DJ, Smallwood JK, Chirgadze NY, Smith GF, Foster RS, Craft T, Sipes P, Chastain M, Sheehan SM. D-phenylglycinol-derived non-covalent factor Xa inhibitors: effect of non-peptidic S4 linkage elements on affinity and anticoagulant activity. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2007 Nov 1;17(21):5801-5. Epub 2007 Aug 28.
  • Wang Y, Chirgadze NY, Briggs SL, Khan S, Jensen EV, Burris TP. Related A second binding site for hydroxytamoxifen within the coactivator-binding groove of estrogen receptor beta. PNAS 2006 Jun 27; 103(26), 9908-11


    Selected Abstracts

  • Roni Gordon, Robert Lam, Jakub Vodsedalek, Kevin Battaile, Vladimir Romanov, Kim Lam, Irina Beletskaya, Andrew Scotter, Robert Rottapel, Emil Pai, and Nickolay Chirgadze. Zinc-binding catalytic PARP domain of human tankyrase 2. P-T110 American Crystallographic Association Meeting July 25-30, 2009, Toronto, Canada
  • Robert Lam, Vladimir Romanov, Kathy Johns, Kevin Battaile, Jean Wu-Brown, Jennifer Guthrie, Robert P. Hausinger, Emil Pai, and Nickolay Chirgadze. Structure of the Helicobacter pylori Urease Accessory Protein UreF. P-M008 American Crystallographic Association Meeting July 25-30, 2009, Toronto, Canada
  • Kevin P. Battaile, Robert Lam, Tara Davis, Lisa Keefe, Emil F. Pai, Nickolay Y. Chirgadze. Studying the Feasibility of Sulfur Phasing for de novo Structure Solution at the Highly Automated Facilities of the IMCA-CAT Beamline. P-T062 American Crystallographic Association Meeting July 25-30, 2009, Toronto, Canada
  • Nickolay Chirgadze, Robert Lam, Kevin Battaile, Roni Gordon, Gera Kisselman, Jennifer Artz, Raymond Hui, Lisa Keefe, Cheryl Arrowsmith, Emil Pai. Identification of novel fragment-based hits for Plasmodium berghei orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase IUCr 2008, Osaka, Japan XXI Congress of international Union of Crystallographers, Abstract No. 90792
  • Robert Lam, Kevin Battaile, Roni Gordon, Gera Kisselman, Jennifer Artz, Raymond Hui, Cheryl Arrowsmith, Emil Pai, and Nickolay Chirgadze Identification of a Novel Class of Nitropyrazole Hits for Plasmodium berghei Orotidine 5'-Monophosphate Decarboxylase using Fragment-Based Screening by X-ray Crystallography Approach Fragment-based Lead Discovery 2008 San Diego February 17-20, 2008


    Patents/Patent Applications

  • Chirgadze NY, Miller J, Lam R, Johns K. Crystallization Device for High-Thoughput Visual inspection and X-ray Diffraction Analysis. WO 2009/073972 A1 International Publication Date 18: June 2009


    Structure Gallery

    2IHY
    2IHY -
    Structure of the Staphylococcus aureus putative ATPase subunit of an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter

    6-pyruvoyl tetrahydrobiopterin synthase

    2OBA - Crystal structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (probable) 6-pyruvoyl tetrahydrobiopterin synthase determined at 2.4 Å resolution

    Short chain dehydrogenase
    2NWQ - Crystal structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa short chain dehydrogenase of unknown function at
    2.3 Å resolution

    Aspartate aminotransferase
    2O1B - Crystal structure of Staphylococcus aureus aspartate aminotransferase
    at 1.95 Å resolution

    PA0268
    2O4D - Crystal structure of a hypothetical protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa solved by SAD at 1.85 Å resolution

    MEIS2
    3K2A - Crystal structure of the homeobox domain of human homeobox protein Meis2

    SA2107
    3KBY - Crystal structure of hypothetical protein from Staphylococcus aureus

    SA1114
    3KOR - Crystal structure of a putative Trp repressor from Staphylococcus aureus

    HP0468
    3KWL - Crystal structure of a hypothetical protein from Helicobacter pylori

    SA0722
    3L5A - Crystal structure of a probable NADH-dependent flavin oxidoreductase from Staphylococcus aureus

    SA0856
    3L20 - Crystal structure of a hypothetical protein from Staphylococcus aureus







  • updated May 13, 2010