Education
2018-2023 Harvard University and MIT
2012-2018 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2008-2012 Peking University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Recent Publications
Westmoreland, D. E., Feliciano, P. R., Kang, G., Cui, C., Kim, A., Stubbe, J. A., Nocera, D. G., & Drennan, C. L. (2024). 2.6-Å resolution cryo-EM structure of a class Ia ribonucleotide reductase trapped with mechanism-based inhibitor N3CDP. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(45), Article e2417157121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417157121
Cui, C., Song, D. Y., Drennan, C. L., Stubbe, J. A., & Nocera, D. G. (2023). Radical Transport Facilitated by a Proton Transfer Network at the Subunit Interface of Ribonucleotide Reductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(9), 5145-5154. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c11483
Wang, J. X., Vilbert, A. C., Cui, C., Mirts, E. N., Williams, L. H., Kim, W., Jessie Zhang, Y., & Lu, Y. (2023). Increasing Reduction Potentials of Type 1 Copper Center and Catalytic Efficiency of Small Laccase from Streptomyces coelicolor through Secondary Coordination Sphere Mutations. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 62(52), Article e202314019. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202314019
Meyer, A., Kehl, A., Cui, C., Reichardt, F. A. K., Hecker, F., Funk, L. M., Ghosh, M. K., Pan, K. T., Urlaub, H., Tittmann, K., Stubbe, J. A., & Bennati, M. (2022). 19F Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance Reveals Interaction between Redox-Active Tyrosines across the α/β Interface of E. coli Ribonucleotide Reductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(25), 11270-11282. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c02906
Narasimhan, J., Letinski, S., Jung, S. P., Gerasyuto, A., Wang, J., Arnold, M., Chen, G., Hedrick, J., Dumble, M., Ravichandran, K., Levitz, T., Cui, C., Drennan, C. L., Stubbe, J., Karp, G., & Branstrom, A. (2022). Ribonucleotide reductase, a novel drug target for gonorrhea. eLife, 11, Article e67447. https://doi.org/10.7554/ELIFE.67447
