Publications

Evaluating template-based and template-free protein-protein complex structure prediction.
Vreven T, Hwang H, Pierce BG, Weng Z. 2014. Evaluating template-based and template-free protein-protein complex structure prediction. Briefings in bioinformatics 15(2): 169-76. DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbt047
Purification and Characterization of Biofilm-Associated EPS Exopolysaccharides from ESKAPE Organisms and Other Pathogens.
Bales PM, Renke EM, May SL, Shen Y, Nelson DC. 2013. Purification and Characterization of Biofilm-Associated EPS Exopolysaccharides from ESKAPE Organisms and Other Pathogens. PloS one 8(6): e67950. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067950
Structure of NKp65 bound to its keratinocyte ligand reveals basis for genetically linked recognition in natural killer gene complex.
Li Y, Wang Q, Chen S, Brown PH, Mariuzza RA. 2013. Structure of NKp65 bound to its keratinocyte ligand reveals basis for genetically linked recognition in natural killer gene complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(28): 11505-10. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303300110
Uptake and intracellular trafficking of superantigens in dendritic cells.
Ganem MB, De Marzi MC, Fernández-Lynch MJ, Jancic C, Vermeulen M, Geffner J, Mariuzza RA, Fernández MM, Malchiodi EL. 2013. Uptake and intracellular trafficking of superantigens in dendritic cells. PloS one 8(6): e66244. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066244
Recognition of the Thomsen-Friedenreich pancarcinoma carbohydrate antigen by a lamprey variable lymphocyte receptor.
Luo M, Velikovsky CA, Yang X, Siddiqui MA, Hong X, Barchi JJ, Gildersleeve JC, Pancer Z, Mariuzza RA. 2013. Recognition of the Thomsen-Friedenreich pancarcinoma carbohydrate antigen by a lamprey variable lymphocyte receptor. The Journal of biological chemistry 288(32): 23597-606. DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.480467
Surface mediated assembly of small, metastable gold nanoclusters.
Pettibone JM, Osborn WA, Rykaczewski K, Talin AA, Bonevich JE, Hudgens JW, Allendorf MD. 2013. Surface mediated assembly of small, metastable gold nanoclusters. Nanoscale 5(14): 6558-66. DOI: 10.1039/c3nr01708g
Structure and properties of tethered bilayer lipid membranes with unsaturated anchor molecules.
Budvytyte R, Valincius G, Niaura G, Voiciuk V, Mickevicius M, Chapman H, Goh HZ, Shekhar P, Heinrich F, Shenoy S, et al. 2013. Structure and properties of tethered bilayer lipid membranes with unsaturated anchor molecules. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 29(27): 8645-56. DOI: 10.1021/la401132c
Systematic structure modifications of multitarget prostate cancer drug candidate galeterone to produce novel androgen receptor down-regulating agents as an approach to treatment of advanced prostate cancer.
Purushottamachar P, Godbole AM, Gediya LK, Martin MS, Vasaitis TS, Kwegyir-Afful AK, Ramalingam S, Ates-Alagoz Z, Njar VC. 2013. Systematic structure modifications of multitarget prostate cancer drug candidate galeterone to produce novel androgen receptor down-regulating agents as an approach to treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Journal of medicinal chemistry 56(12): 4880-98. DOI: 10.1021/jm400048v
Flexible interwoven termini determine the thermal stability of thermosomes.
Zhang K, Wang L, Liu Y, Chan KY, Pang X, Schulten K, Dong Z, Sun F. 2013. Flexible interwoven termini determine the thermal stability of thermosomes. Protein & cell 4(6): 432-44. DOI: 10.1007/s13238-013-3026-9
Crystal structures of carbamate kinase from Giardia lamblia bound with citric acid and AMP-PNP.
Lim K, Kulakova L, Galkin A, Herzberg O. 2013. Crystal structures of carbamate kinase from Giardia lamblia bound with citric acid and AMP-PNP. PloS one 8(5): e64004. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064004
The Missing Heritability in T1D and Potential New Targets for Prevention.
Pierce BG, Eberwine R, Noble JA, Habib M, Shulha HP, Weng Z, Blankenhorn EP, Mordes JP. 2013. The Missing Heritability in T1D and Potential New Targets for Prevention. Journal of diabetes research 2013: 737485. DOI: 10.1155/2013/737485
Mass spectrometry assessment of ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 partitioning between soluble and particulate brain homogenate fractions.
Chen J, Huang RY, Turko IV. 2013. Mass spectrometry assessment of ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 partitioning between soluble and particulate brain homogenate fractions. Analytical chemistry 85(12): 6011-7. DOI: 10.1021/ac400831z
The novel BH3 α-helix mimetic JY-1-106 induces apoptosis in a subset of cancer cells (lung cancer, colon cancer and mesothelioma) by disrupting Bcl-xL and Mcl-1 protein-protein interactions with Bak.
Cao X, Yap JL, Newell-Rogers MK, Peddaboina C, Jiang W, Papaconstantinou HT, Jupitor D, Rai A, Jung KY, Tubin RP, et al. 2013. The novel BH3 α-helix mimetic JY-1-106 induces apoptosis in a subset of cancer cells (lung cancer, colon cancer and mesothelioma) by disrupting Bcl-xL and Mcl-1 protein-protein interactions with Bak. Molecular cancer 12(1): 42. DOI: 10.1186/1476-4598-12-42
Phylotastic! Making tree-of-life knowledge accessible, reusable and convenient.
Stoltzfus A, Lapp H, Matasci N, Deus H, Sidlauskas B, Zmasek CM, Vaidya G, Pontelli E, Cranston K, Vos R, et al. 2013. Phylotastic! Making tree-of-life knowledge accessible, reusable and convenient. BMC bioinformatics 14: 158. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-158
Delineating antibody recognition in polyclonal sera from patterns of HIV-1 isolate neutralization.
Georgiev IS, Doria-Rose NA, Zhou T, Kwon YD, Staupe RP, Moquin S, Chuang GY, Louder MK, Schmidt SD, Altae-Tran HR, et al. 2013. Delineating antibody recognition in polyclonal sera from patterns of HIV-1 isolate neutralization. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340(6133): 751-6. DOI: 10.1126/science.1233989