Magnus Johansson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Molecular Systems Biology
- Telephone:
- +46 70 648 54 18
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 999 92 36
- E-mail:
- m.johansson@icm.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Husargatan 3
752 37 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 596
751 24 UPPSALA
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Johansson lab: http://www.icm.uu.se/molecular-systems-biology/johansson-lab/

Publications
Recent publications
Part of RSC Chemical Biology, 2026
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025
- DOI for Dynamic binding of the bacterial chaperone Trigger factor to translating ribosomes in Escherichia coli
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A complex between IF2 and NusA suggests early coupling of transcription-translation
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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A Microfluidic Platform for In Situ Studies of Bacteria Electroporation
Part of Advanced Materials Technologies, 2025
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Real-time single-molecule 3D tracking in E. coli based on cross-entropy minimization
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of RSC Chemical Biology, 2026
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025
- DOI for Dynamic binding of the bacterial chaperone Trigger factor to translating ribosomes in Escherichia coli
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A complex between IF2 and NusA suggests early coupling of transcription-translation
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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A Microfluidic Platform for In Situ Studies of Bacteria Electroporation
Part of Advanced Materials Technologies, 2025
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Real-time single-molecule 3D tracking in E. coli based on cross-entropy minimization
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
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Direct measurements of mRNA translation kinetics in living cells
Part of Nature Communications, 2022
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Spatiotemporal kinetics of the SRP pathway in live E. coil cells
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
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Direct measurements of erythromycin’s effect on protein synthesis kinetics in living bacterial cells
Part of Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021
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Real-time measurements of aminoglycoside effects on protein synthesis in live cells
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
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DNA surface exploration and operator bypassing during target search
Part of Nature, p. 858-+, 2020
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Tracking of single tRNAs for translation kinetics measurements in chloramphenicol treated bacteria
Part of Methods, p. 23-30, 2019
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Single-Molecule Tracking Approaches to Protein Synthesis Kinetics in Living Cells
Part of Biochemistry, p. 7-14, 2019
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tRNA tracking for direct measurements of protein synthesis kinetics in live cells
Part of Nature Chemical Biology, p. 618-626, 2018
Part of Biophysical Journal, 2017
Real- Time Single Protein Tracking with Polarization Readout using a Confocal Microscope
Part of Biophysical Journal, 2017
In Vivo Measurements of Protein Synthesis Kinetics using Single-Molecule Tracking of E.Coli tRNAS
Part of Biophysical Journal, 2016
Cotranslational Protein Folding inside the Ribosome Exit Tunnel
Part of Cell Reports, p. 1533-1540, 2015
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Accuracy of initial codon selection by aminoacyl-tRNAs on the mRNA-programmed bacterial ribosome
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 9602-9607, 2015
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The Impact of Aminoglycosides on the Dynamics of Translation Elongation
Part of Cell Reports, p. 497-508, 2013
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 131-136, 2012
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 79-84, 2011
The kinetics of ribosomal peptidyl transfer revisited
Part of Molecular Cell, p. 589-598, 2008
Articles, review/survey
Rate and accuracy of bacterial protein synthesis revisited
Part of Current Opinion in Microbiology, p. 141-147, 2008
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
Rate and accuracy of ribosomal peptidyl transfer
Part of Ribosomes, p. 225-235, 2011
Manuscripts (preprints)
Real-time measurements of aminoglycoside effects on protein synthesis in live cells
Using 3D tracking to detect membrane interaction kinetics of single molecules
Outer-membrane protein folding assessed by live-cell single-molecule FRET
Single-molecule tracking of Elongation factor G in re-coded E. coli