Julianne Caton-Williams

1. Julianne Caton-Williams, Manindar Kaur, Maria Dewendt, and Zhen Huang, Synthesis of
DNA in 3’ to 5’ reversed direction using polymerases. Nature Chemical Biology, in preparation.
2. Huiyan Sun, Sibo Jiang, Julianne Caton-Williams, Hehua Liu, and Zhen Huang*, “2- Seleno-
uridine Triphosphate Synthesis and Se-RNA Transcription”, RNA, 2013, 19, 1309-1314.
3. Manindar Kaur, Abdur Rob, Julianne Caton-Williams, and Zhen Huang*, “Biochemistry of
the nucleic acids functionalized with sulfur, selenium and tellurium: Roles of the single-atom
substitution” (invited and peer reviewed), ACS Books Publisher, 2013, accepted.
4. Julianne Caton-Williams, Rudiona Hoxhaj, Bilal Fiaz and Zhen Huang*, “Use of a novel 5′-
regioselective phosphitylating reagent for one-pot synthesis of nucleoside 5′-triphosphates
from unprotected nucleosides”, Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry (invited and peer
reviewed), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013, Chapter 1:Unit1.30.
5. Julianne Caton-Williams, Bilal Fiaz, Rudiona Hoxaj, Matthew Smith, Zhen Huang, “Convenient
Synthesis of Nucleoside 5’-(α-P-thio)triphosphates and phosphorothioate nucleic acids”, Science
Science China: Chemistry, 2012, 55, 80-89.
6. Julianne Caton-Williams, Matthew Smith, Nicolas Carrasco and Zhen Huang*, “Protection-
free One-pot Synthesis of 2’-Deoxynucleoside 5’-Triphosphates for DNA Polymerization”, Organic Letter, 2011, 13, 4156-4159.
7. Julianne Caton-Williams, Lina Lin, Mathew Smith, and Zhen Huang*, “Convenient Synthesis of Nucleoside 5’-Triphosphates for RNA Transcription”, Chemical Communications, 2011, 47, 8142-8144.
8. Lina Lin, Julianne Caton-Williams, Manindar Kaur, Andres M. Patino, Jia Sheng, Jaya Punetha, and Zhen Huang, “Facile Synthesis of Nucleoside 5’-(alpha-P-seleno)-triphosphates and Phosphoroselenoate RNA Transcription”, RNA, 2011, 17:1932-1938.
9. Khin Lay Maw, Julianne Caton-Williams, Jozef Salon, Zhen Huang, “Simple UV and HPLC Methods for the Evaluation of Sunscreen Efficacy”, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2011, 65, 328-335.
10. Jozef Salon#, Julianne Caton-Williams#, Lina Lin, Zhen Huang*(# the same contribution),
“UV-damage Resistant DNAs and Plasmids Containing TT Dimer Modified by 4-Se- Thymidine”,
2011, submitted to PNAS.
11. Julianne Caton-Williams, Zhen Huang*, “Synthesis and DNA Polymerase Incorporation of
Colored 4-Selenothymidine Triphosphate with a Single Atom Substitution”, Angewandte Chemie
Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 1723-1725.
12. Julianne Caton-Williams and Zhen Huang*, “Biochemistry of Naturally-occurring and Unnatural
Selenium-derivatized Nucleic Acids” (invited and peer reviewed), Chemistry and Biodiversity
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 2008, 5, 396-407.
13. Jozef Salon#, Jia Sheng#, JianSheng Jiang, Guexiong Chen, Julianne Caton-Williams, and
Zhen Huang (# the same contribution), “Oxygen Replacement with Selenium at the Thymidine
4-position for the Se-Base-Paring and Crystal Structure Studies”, Journal of American Chemical
Society, 2007, 129, 4862-4863.
14. Na Lin, Jun Yan, Zhen Huang, Craig Altier, Minyong Li, Nicolas Carrasco, Mitsu Suyemoto,
Lynette Johnston, Siming Wang, Qian Wang, Hao Fang, Julianne Caton-Williams, and Binghe
Wang, “Design and synthesis of boronic acid-labeled thymidine triphosphate for incorporation
into DNA”, Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, 35, 1222-1229.
15. Nicolas Carrasco, Julianne Caton-Williams, Gary Brandt, Siming Wang, and Zhen Huang,
“Efficient Enzymatic Synthesis of Phosphoroselenoate RNA Using Adenosine 5’-(α-P-seleno)
triphosphate”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2006, 45, 94-97.