Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences

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March 2013

Alvaro Estevez

Franco, M.C., Ye, Y.-Z., Refakis, C.A., Feldman, J., Stockes, A.L., Basso, M., Melero Fernandez de Mera, R.M., Calingasan, N.Y., Kiaei, M., Rhoads, T.W., Ma, T.C., Grumet, M., Barnes, S., Beal, M.F., Joseph S. Beckman, Mehl, R., Estévez, A.G. (2013). Nitration of Hsp90 induces cell death. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 110(12):E1102-11.

Victor Davidson

Yukl, E.T., Liu, F., Krzystekc, J., Shin, S., Jensen, L.M.R., Davidson, V.L., Wilmot, C.M. & Liu, A. (2013) A di-radical intermediate within the context of tryptophan tryptophylquinone biosynthesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110, 4569-4573.

February 2013

Alexander Cole

Wood MP, Cole AL, Ruchala P, Waring AJ, Rohan LC, Marx P, Tarwater PM, Gupta P, Cole AM. A Compensatory Mutation Provides Resistance to Disparate HIV Fusion Inhibitor Peptides and Enhances Membrane Fusion. PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e55478. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055478. Epub 2013 Feb 5

Victor Davidson

Davidson, V.L. (2013) Coupled electron transfer. In Encyclopedia of Biophysics (Roberts, G.C.K., ed), Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 379-380.

Davidson, V.L. (2013) Electron transfer theory. In Encyclopedia of Biophysics (Roberts, G.C.K., ed), Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 621-625.

Davidson, V.L. (2013) Quinone cofactors. In Encyclopedia of Biophysics (Roberts, G.C.K., ed), Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 2166-2168.

Davidson, V.L. (2013) Gated electron transfer. In Encyclopedia of Biophysics (Roberts, G.C.K., ed), Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 886-888.

William Self

Bouillaut L, Self WT, Sonenshein AL. Proline-Dependent Regulation of Clostridium difficile Stickland Metabolism. J Bacteriol 2013 Feb;195(4):844-54. doi: 10.1128/JB.01492-12. Epub 2012 Dec 7.

Shadab Siddiqi

Samata Tiwari, Shaila Siddiqi and Shadab A. Siddiqi. CideB is Required for the Biogenesis of Very Low-density Lipoprotein Vesicle. J Biol Chem. 2013 Feb 15;288(7):5157-65. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.434258.

January 2013

Alvaro Estevez

Liliana Viera, Milka Radmilovich, Marcelo R. Vargas, Cassandra N. Dennys, Landon Wilson, Stephen Barnes, Maria Clara Franco, Joseph S. Beckman, Alvaro G. Estevez. Temporal patterns of tyrosine nitration in embryo heart development Free radical biology and medicine 55 (2013) 101-108.

Mollie Jewett

Halpern MD, Jain S and Jewett MW.  Enhanced detection of host response antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi using immuno-PCR. Clin Vaccine Immunol, 9 Jan 2013 doi:10.1128/CVI.00630-12 [epub ahead of print].

Yoon Seong Kim

Lee KW, Im JY, Woo JM, Grosso H, Kim YS, Cristovao AC, Sonsalla PK, Schuster DS, Jalbut MM, Fernandez JR, Voronkov M, Junn E, Braithwaite SP, Stock JB, Mouradian MM. Neuroprotective and Anti-inflammatory Properties of a Coffee Component in the MPTP Model of Parkinson’s Disease. Neurotherapeutics. 2013 Jan;10(1):143-53. doi: 10.1007/s13311-012-0165-2.

December 2012

Kyle H. Rohde

Kaori Sakamoto, Mi Jeong Kim, Elizabeth R. Rhoades, Rachel E. Allavena, Sabine Ehrt, Helen C. Wainwright, David G. Russell, and Kyle H. Rohde. Mycobacterial Trehalose Dimycolate Reprograms Macrophage Global Gene Expression and Activates Matrix Metalloproteinases.  Infect. Immun. published ahead of print 21 December 2012 , doi:10.1128/IAI.00906-12

November 2012

Alexander Cole

Eade CR, Diaz C, Wood MP, Anastos K, Patterson BK, Gupta P, Cole AL, Cole AM. Identification and characterization of bacterial vaginosis-associated pathogens using a comprehensive cervical-vaginal epithelial coculture assay. PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e50106. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050106. Epub 2012 Nov 15.

Eade CR, Cole AL, Diaz C, Rohan LC, Parniak MA, Marx P, Tarwater PM, Gupta P, Cole AM. The Anti-HIV Microbicide Candidate RC-101 Inhibits Pathogenic Vaginal Bacteria Without Harming Endogenous Flora or Mucosa. Am J Reprod Immunol. 2012 Nov 20. doi: 10.1111/aji.12036. [Epub ahead of print]

Ella Bossy-Wetzel

Kushnareva YE, Gerencser AA, Bossy B, Ju WK, White AD, Waggoner J, Ellisman MH, Perkins G, Bossy-Wetzel E. Loss of OPA1 disturbs cellular calcium homeostasis and sensitizes for excitotoxicity. Cell Death Differ. 2012 Nov 9. doi: 10.1038/cdd.2012.128. [Epub ahead of print]

Victor Davidson

Abu Tarboush, N., Shin, S., Geng, J., Liu, A. & Davidson, V.L. (2012) Effects of the loss of the axial tyrosine ligand of the low-spin heme of MauG on its physical properties and reactivity. FEBS Lett. 586, 4339-4343.

Travis Jewett

Jiwani S, Alvarado S, Ohr RJ, Romero A, Nguyen B, Jewett TJ. Chlamydia trachomatis Tarp harbors distinct G and F actin binding domains which bundle actin filaments. J. Bacteriol. 2012 Nov30. [Epub ahead of print]

Michal Masternak

Gesing A, Masternak MM, Lewinski A, Karbownik-Lewinska M, Kopchick JJ, Bartke A. Decreased Levels of Proapoptotic Factors and Increased Key Regulators of Mitochondrial Biogenesis Constitute New Potential Beneficial Features of Long-lived Growth Hormone Receptor Gene-Disrupted Mice. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2012 Nov 29. [Epub ahead of print]

October 2012

Alexander Cole

Gupta P, Lackman-Smith C, Snyder B, Ratner D, Rohan LC, Patton D, Ramratnam B, Cole AM. 4. Antiviral Activity of Retrocyclin RC-101, a Candidate Microbicide Against Cell-Associated HIV-1. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2012 Oct 10. [Epub ahead of print]

Ella Bossy-Wetzel

Klinglmayr E, Wenger J, Mayr S, Bossy-Wetzel E, Puehringer S. Purification, crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of human dynamin-related protein 1 GTPase-GED fusion protein. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2012 Oct 1;68(Pt 10):1217-21. doi: 10.1107/S174430911203607X.

Victor Davidson

Jensen, L.M.R., Meharenna, Y.T., Davidson, V.L., Poulos, T., Hedman, B., Wilmot, C.M. & Sarangi, R. (2012) Geometric and electronic structures of the His-Fe(IV)=O and His-Fe(IV)-Tyr hemes of MauG. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem.17, 1241-1255.

Herve Roy

Lorber B, Fischer F, Bailly M, Roy H, and Kern D, Protein analysis by dynamic light scattering: Methods and techniques for students. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2012. 40(6): 372-382.