Recent Journal Publications of MARC U*STAR Trainees

E. Berdugo and E. R. T. Tiekink, catena-Poly[[bis(O,O'-diisopropyl dithiophosphato-²S,S')nickel(II)]--bis(4-pyridylmethylene)diazane-²N:N'].  Acta Cryst. (2009). E65, m1444-m1445. [doi:10.1107/S1600536809043505] 

E. Berdugo, E. R. T. Tiekink, Bis(O,O’-diisopropyldithiophosphato-k2S,S)(1,10-phenanthroline)nickel(II). Acta Crystallographica E63 (2007) m2688.  doi:10.1107/S1600536807048659

E. Berdugo and E. R. T. Tiekink. catena-Poly[[[bis(O,O'-diisobutyldithiophosphato-κ²,S,S')nickel(II)]-μ-1,2-bis(4-pyridinemethylene)hydrazine-κ²,N:N')] toluene disolvate].  Acta Crystallographica E64 (2008) m911. doi:10.1107/S1600536808017121

Chen LY, Bastien DA, Espejel H, "Determination of equilibrium free-energy from nonequilibrium work measurements."  Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2010 May 12.

Childers BM, Weber GG, Prouty MG, Castaneda MM, Peng F, Klose KE.  Identification of residues critical for the function of the Vibrio cholerae virulence regulator ToxT by scanning alanine mutagenesis. J Mol Biol. 2007 Apr 13;367(5):1413-30. Epub 2007 Jan 27.  PMID: 17320105  

Nicholas F. Fernandez, Samuel Sansone, Alberto Mazzini and Lorenzo Brancaleon.  Irradiation of the Porphyrin Causes Unfolding of the Protein in the Protoporphyrin IX/β-Lactoglobulin Noncovalent Complex.  J. Phys. Chem. B, 2008, 112 (25), pp 7592–7600.  

Fernandez NF, Sansone S, Belcher J, Haskins WE, Brancaleon L.  Photoinduced unfolding of beta-lactoglobulin mediated by a water-soluble porphyrin.  J Phys Chem B. 2009 Apr 30;113(17):6020-30  PMC2735475

Jianying Gu, Jennifer L. Neary, Audrey Moshfeghian, Hong Cai, Sos S. Agaian, Timothy G. Lilburn, Yufeng Wang.  Lineage Specific Expansion in Vibrio species.  BioComp'07: 540-544. 

Gu J, Neary J, Cai H, Moshfeghian A, Rodriguez SA, Lilburn TG, Wang Y. Genomic and systems evolution in Vibrionaceae species.  Biomedical Central Genomics. 2009 Jul 7;10 Suppl 1:S11.   PMC2709254

Gu J, Neary JL, Sanchez M, Yu J, Lilburn TG, Wang Y. Genome evolution and functional divergence in Yersinia.   J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2007 Jan 15;308(1):37-49.

Sandip Kundu, Mathew P.D. Mahindaratne, Maritza Quintero, and George R. Negrete. One-pot Lewis acid catalyzed reductive N-heterocyclization approach to antitumor quinazoline precursors.  ARKIVOC, 2008, (ii), 33-42. ISSN 1551-7012

Muniz A, Betts BS, Trevino AR, Buddavarapu K, Roman R, Ma JX, Tsin AT. Evidence for two retinoid cycles in the cone-dominated chicken eye.  Biochemistry. 2009 Jul 28;48(29):6854-63. PMC2733357

Koichi Nishijo, Tohru Hosoyama, Christopher R. R. Bjornson, Beverly S. Schaffer, Suresh I. Prajapati, Ali N. Bahadur, Mark S. Hansen, Mary C. Blandford, Amanda T. McCleish, Brian P. Rubin, Jonathan A. Epstein, Thomas A. Rando, Mario R. Capecchi, and Charles Keller.  “Biomarker system for studying muscle, stem cells, and cancer in vivo.” FASEB J. 2009. 23:2681-2690. doi: 10.1096/fj.08-128116.  PMC2717773

Nishijo K, Chen QR, Zhang L, McCleish AT, Rodriguez A, Cho MJ, Prajapati SI, Gelfond JA, Chisholm GB, Michalek JE, Aronow BJ, Barr FG, Randall RL, Ladanyi M, Qualman SJ, Rubin BP, LeGallo RD, Wang C, Khan J, Keller C. “Credentialing a preclinical mouse model of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.” Cancer Res. 2009 Apr 1;69(7):2902-11.  PMC2789740

Penick MA, Mahindaratne MP, Gutierrez RD, Smith TD, Tiekink ER, Negrete GR. Tandem Friedel−Crafts Annulation to Novel Perylene Analogues.  J. Org. Chem., 73, 16, 6378 - 6381, 2008 

Suresh I. Prajapati, Carlo O. Martinez, Jinu Abraham, Amanda T. McCleish, Joel E. Michalek, Brian P. Rubin, Paula K. Shireman, Charles Keller.  Crimson Carrier, A Long-Acting Contrast Agent for In Vivo Near-Infrared Imaging of Injured and Diseased Muscle.  Muscle and Nerve, epub April 14, 2010 NIHMSID #207740

Taniguchi E, Nishijo K, McCleish AT, Michalek JE, Grayson MH, Infante AJ, Abboud HE, Legallo RD, Qualman SJ, Rubin BP, Keller C.  PDGFR-A is a therapeutic target in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma  Oncogene. 2008 Nov 20;27(51):6550-60. Epub 2008 Aug 4.  PMC2813858

Tian, F., Johnson, E.M., Zamarripa, M., Sansone, S., Brancaleon, L., Binding of porphyrins to tubulin heterodimers.  Biomacromolecules. 2007 Dec; 8 (12):3767-78. Epub 2007 Nov 19.  

Taniguchi E, Cho MJ, Arenkiel BR, Hansen MS, Rivera OJ, McCleish AT, Qualman SJ, Guttridge DC, Scott MP, Capecchi MR, Keller C. “Bortezomib reverses a post-translational mechanism of tumorigenesis for patched1 haploinsufficiency in medulloblastoma.” Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Aug;53(2):136-44.  PMC2850215 

Valdez, CM, Smith MA, Perry G., Phelix CF, and Santamaria F. Cholesterol homeostasis markers are localized to mouse hippocampal pyramidal and granule cell layers.  Hippocampus. 2010 Jan 6. [Epub ahead of print]  NIHMS# 157445

 Valdez R, Johnson EM, Belcher JA, Fuini JF 3rd, Brancaleon L.  Porphyrins affect the self-assembly of tubulin in solution.  Biophys Chem. 2009 Dec;145(2-3):98-104. Epub 2009 Sep 29.