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Anna Blumental-Perry
Mathuram TL, Townsend DM, Lynch VJ, Bederman I, Ye ZW, Zhang J, Sigurdson WJ, Prendergast E, Jobava R, Ferruzza JP, D'Angelo MR, Hatzoglou M, Perry Y, Blumental-Perry A. (2022)
A Synthetic Small RNA Homologous to the D-Loop Transcript of mtDNA Enhances Mitochondrial Bioenergetics.
Frontiers in physiology (Jan), 13: 772313. doi:10.3389/fphys.2022.772313
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Michael Buck, PhD
Maley SJ, Yue Y, Burns KF, Hovey KM, Wactawski-Wende J, Freudenheim JL, McSkimming DI, LaMonte MJ, Andrews CA, Sun Y, Buck M, Millen AE. (2023)
Alcohol Consumption and the Diversity of the Oral Microbiome in Postmenopausal Women.
The Journal of nutrition (Oct).
Oyelakin A, Sosa J, Nayak KB, Glathar A, Gluck C, Sethi I, Tsompana M, Nowak N, Buck M, Romano RA, Sinha S. (2023)
An integrated genomic approach identifies follistatin as a target of the p63-epidermal growth factor receptor oncogenic network in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
NAR cancer (Sep), 5(3): zcad038. doi:10.1093/narcan/zcad038
Ramalingam V, Yu X, Slaughter BD, Unruh JR, Brennan KJ, Onyshchenko A, Lange JJ, Natarajan M, Buck M, Zeitlinger J. (2023)
Lola-I is a promoter pioneer factor that establishes de novo Pol II pausing during development.
Nature communications (Sep), 14(1): 5862. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41408-1
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Rebekah Charney, PhD
Charney RM, Prasad MS, Juan-Sing C, Patel LJ, Hernandez JC, Wu J, García-Castro MI. (2023)
Mowat-Wilson syndrome factor ZEB2 controls early formation of human neural crest through BMP signaling modulation.
Stem cell reports (Nov), 18(11): 2254-2267.
Jansen C, Paraiso KD, Zhou JJ, Blitz IL, Fish MB, Charney RM, Cho JS, Yasuoka Y, Sudou N, Bright AR, Wlizla M, Veenstra GJC, Taira M, Zorn AM, Mortazavi A, Cho KWY. (2022)
Uncovering the mesendoderm gene regulatory network through multi-omic data integration.
Cell reports (Feb), 38(7): 110364. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110364
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Dahong Chen, PhD
Li Q, Chen D, Wang S. (2023)
Character displacement of egg colors during tinamou speciation.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution (Jul), 77(8): 1874-1881.
Rosin LF, Chen D, Chen Y, Lei EP. (2022)
Dosage compensation in Bombyx mori is achieved by partial repression of both Z chromosomes in males.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Mar), 119(10): e2113374119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2113374119
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D. Fernando Estrada, PhD
Alaina M Richard, D Fernando Estrada, Liam Flynn, Susan Sondej Pochapsky, Emily E Scott, Thomas C Pochapsky. (2024)
Tracking protein-protein interactions by NMR: conformational selection in human steroidogenic cytochrome P450 CYP17A1 induced by cytochrome b5.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Jun), 24(26): 16980-16988.
Christopher S Campomizzi, Patil Pranita Uttamrao, Jack J Stallone, Thenmalarchelvi Rathinavelan, D Fernando Estrada. (2024)
Asparagine-85 Stabilizes a Structural Active Site Water Network in CYP121A1 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Biochemistry (Feb)(Online ahead of print) doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00555
Jay N, McGlohon JE, Estrada DF. (2023)
Interactions of human mitochondrial Ferredoxin 1 (Adrenodoxin) by NMR; modulation by cytochrome P450 substrate and by truncation of the C-terminal tail.
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (Dec), 249: 112370. doi:10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112370
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Lee Ann Garrett-Sinha, PhD
Kim N, Ju IG, Jeon SH, Lee Y, Jung MJ, Gee MS, Cho JS, Inn KS, Garrett-Sinha LA, Oh MS, Lee JK. (2023)
Inhibition of microfold cells ameliorates early pathological phenotypes by modulating microglial functions in Alzheimer's disease mouse model.
Journal of neuroinflammation (Nov), 20(1): 282. doi:10.1186/s12974-023-02966-9
Battaglia M, Garrett-Sinha LA. (2023)
Staphylococcus xylosus and Staphylococcus aureus as commensals and pathogens on murine skin.
Laboratory animal research (Aug), 39(1): 18. doi:10.1186/s42826-023-00169-0
Garrett-Sinha LA. (2023)
An update on the roles of transcription factor Ets1 in autoimmune diseases.
WIREs mechanisms of disease (Jan), 15(6): e1627.
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Marc Halfon, PhD
Dyer NA, Lucas ER, Nagi SC, McDermott D, Brenas JH, Miles A, Clarkson CS, Mawejje HD, Wilding CS, Halfon MS, Asma H, Heinz E, Donnelly MJ. (2023)
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in Anopheles gambiae revealed by allele specific expression.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (Nov). doi:10.1101/2023.11.22.568226
Garza AB, Garcia R, Halfon MS, Girgis HZ. (2023)
Evaluation of metric and representation learning approaches: Effects of representations driven by relative distance on the performance.
2023 Intelligent Methods, Systems, and Applications (Jul), 2023: 545-550. doi:10.1109/imsa58542.2023.10217475
Weinstein ML, Jaenke CM, Asma H, Spangler M, Kohnen KA, Konys CC, Williams ME, Williams AV, Rebeiz M, Halfon MS, Williams TM. (2023)
A novel role for trithorax in the gene regulatory network for a rapidly evolving fruit fly pigmentation trait.
PLoS genetics (Feb), 19(2): e1010653.
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Daniel Kosman, PhD
Singha A, Sekretareva A, Tao L, Lim H, Ha Y, Braun A, Jones SM, Hedman B, Hodgson KO, Britt RD, Kosman DJ, Solomon EI. (2023)
Tuning the Type 1 Reduction Potential of Multicopper Oxidases: Uncoupling the Effects of Electrostatics and H-Bonding to Histidine Ligands.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (Jun), 145(24): 13284-13301. doi:10.1021/jacs.3c03241
Smith FM, Kosman DJ. (2023)
Loss of filamentous actin, tight junction protein expression, and paracellular barrier integrity in frataxin-deficient human brain microvascular endothelial cells-implications for blood-brain barrier physiology in Friedreich's ataxia.
Frontiers in molecular biosciences (Jan), 10: 1299201. doi:10.3389/fmolb.2023.1299201
Steimle BL, Bailey DK, Smith FM, Rosenblum SL, Kosman DJ. (2022)
Calcium and the Ca-ATPase SPCA1 modulate plasma membrane abundance of ZIP8 and ZIP14 to regulate Mn(II) uptake in brain microvascular endothelial cells.
The Journal of biological chemistry (Aug), 298(8): 102211. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102211
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Techung Lee, PhD
Sabatini C, Ayenew L, Khan T, Hall R, Lee T. (2022)
Dental Pulp Cell Conditioning through Polyinosinic-Polycytidylic Acid Activation of Toll-like Receptor 3 for Amplification of Trophic Factors.
Journal of endodontics (Jul), 48(7): 872-879.
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Andrew Lombardo, Ph.D.
Miller MR, McDermitt DJ, Sauvanet C, Lombardo AT, Zaman R, Bretscher A. (2022)
The RabGAPs EPI64A and EPI64B regulate the apical structure of epithelial cells †.
Molecular biology of the cell (Jan), 33(1): ar8. doi:10.1091/mbc.E21-05-0268
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Norma Nowak, PhD
Oyelakin A, Sosa J, Nayak KB, Glathar A, Gluck C, Sethi I, Tsompana M, Nowak N, Buck M, Romano RA, Sinha S. NAR Cancer. 2023 Jul 24;5(3):zcad038. doi: 10.1093/narcan/zcad038. PMID: 37492374; PMCID: PMC10365026. (2023)
An integrated genomic approach identifies follistatin as a target of the p63-epidermal growth factor receptor oncogenic network in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Nucleic Acids Research Cancer (Sep), 5(3) doi:10.1093/narcan/zcad038
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Mark O‘Brian, PhD
Wu P, Ong A, O'Brian MR. (2024)
Bradyrhizobium japonicum HmuP is an RNA-binding protein that positively controls hmuR operon expression by suppression of a negative regulatory RNA element in the 5' untranslated region.
Molecular microbiology (May).
Ong A, O'Brian MR. (2024)
Bradyrhizobium japonicum (diazoefficiens).
Trends in microbiology (Apr).
Ong A, O'Brian MR. (2024)
The Bradyrhizobium japonicum exporter ExsFGH is involved in efflux of ferric xenosiderophores from the periplasm.
PloS one (Jan), 19(1): e0296306.
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Yungki Park, PhD
Fan C, An H, Kim D, Park Y. (2023)
Uncovering oligodendrocyte enhancers that control Cnp expression.
Human Molecular Genetics (Nov)(32): 3225-3236.
Fan C, Kim D, An H, Park Y. (2023)
Identifying an oligodendrocyte enhancer that regulates Olig2 expression.
Human Molecular Genetics (Feb)(32): 835-846.
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Mulchand Patel, PhD
Rideout TC, Andreani GA, Pembroke J, Choudhary D, Browne RW, Mahmood S, Patel MS. (2023)
Maternal Pea Protein Intake Provides Sex-Specific Protection against Dyslipidemia in Offspring from Obese Pregnancies.
Nutrients (Feb), 15(4). doi:10.3390/nu15040867
Dumolt JH, Patel MS, Rideout TC. (2022)
Gestational hypercholesterolemia programs hepatic steatosis in a sex-specific manner in ApoE-deficient mice.
The Journal of nutritional biochemistry (Mar), 101: 108945.
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Gabriela Popescu, PhD
Iacobucci GJ, Popescu GK. (2023)
Calcium- and calmodulin-dependent inhibition of NMDA receptor currents.
Biophysical journal (Dec), 123(3): 277-293. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2023.12.018
Kumar J, Popescu GK, Gantz SC. (2023)
GluD receptors are functional ion channels.
Biophysical journal (Jun), 122(12): 2383-2395. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2023.05.012
Iacobucci GJ, Liu B, Wen H, Sincox B, Zheng W, Popescu GK. (2022)
Complex functional phenotypes of NMDA receptor disease variants.
Molecular psychiatry (Sep).
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Christine Schaner Tooley, PhD
Catlin JP, Schaner Tooley CE. (2024)
Exploring potential developmental origins of common neurodegenerative disorders.
Biochemical Society transactions (Apr).
Hobble HV, Schaner Tooley CE. (2024)
Intrafamily heterooligomerization as an emerging mechanism of methyltransferase regulation.
Epigenetics & chromatin (Mar), 17(1): 5. doi:10.1186/s13072-024-00530-0
Schaner Tooley CE. (2024)
Reframing the relationship between motherhood and academic science.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences (Jan), 1(49): 1-4. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2023.08.008
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Satrajit Sinha, PhD
Oyelakin A, Sosa J, Nayak KB, Glathar A, Gluck C, Sethi I, Tsompana M, Nowak N, Buck M, Romano RA, Sinha S. (2023)
An integrated genomic approach identifies follistatin as a target of the p63-epidermal growth factor receptor oncogenic network in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
NAR cancer (Sep), 5(3): zcad038. doi:10.1093/narcan/zcad038
Song EC, Che M, Osinski J, Smalley K, Horeth E, Sinha S, Romano RA. (2023)
?Np63 maintains the fidelity of the myoepithelial cell lineage and directs cell differentiation programs in the murine salivary gland.
Cell death and differentiation (Feb), 30(2): 515-526. doi:10.1038/s41418-022-01101-0
Glathar AR, Oyelakin A, Nayak KB, Sosa J, Romano RA, Sinha S. (2023)
A Systemic and Integrated Analysis of p63-Driven Regulatory Networks in Mouse Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Cancers (Jan), 15(2). doi:10.3390/cancers15020446
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Jennifer Surtees, PhD
Medina-Rivera M, Phelps S, Sridharan M, Becker J, Lamb NA, Kumar C, Sutton MD, Bielinsky A, Balakrishnan L, Surtees JA. (2023)
Elevated MSH2 MSH3 expression interferes with DNA metabolism in vivo.
Nucleic acids research (Dec), 51(22): 12185-12206. doi:10.1093/nar/gkad934
Segelhurst E, Bard JE, Pillsbury AN, Alam MM, Lamb NA, Zhu C, Pohlman A, Boccolucci A, Emerson J, Marzullo BJ, Yergeau DA, Nowak NJ, Bradley IM, Surtees JA, Ye Y. (2023)
Robust Performance of SARS-CoV-2 Whole-Genome Sequencing from Wastewater with a Nonselective Virus Concentration Method.
ACS ES&T water (Apr), 3(4): 954-962. doi:10.1021/acsestwater.2c00456
Lamb NA, Bard JE, Loll-Krippleber R, Brown GW, Surtees JA. (2022)
Complex mutation profiles in mismatch repair and ribonucleotide reductase mutants reveal novel repair substrate specificity of MutS homolog (MSH) complexes.
Genetics (Jul), 221(4). doi:10.1093/genetics/iyac092
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Mark Sutton, PhD
Medina-Rivera M, Phelps S, Sridharan M, Becker J, Lamb NA, Kumar C, Sutton MD, Bielinsky A, Balakrishnan L, Surtees JA. (2023)
Elevated MSH2 MSH3 expression interferes with DNA metabolism in vivo.
Nucleic acids research (Dec), 51(22): 12185-12206. doi:10.1093/nar/gkad934
Scotland MK, Homiski C, Sutton MD. (2022)
During Translesion Synthesis, Escherichia coli DinB89 (T120P) Alters Interactions of DinB (Pol IV) with Pol III Subunit Assemblies and SSB, but Not with the ß Clamp.
Journal of bacteriology (Mar)e0061121.
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Mary Taub, Ph.D.
Taub M, Mahmoudzadeh NH, Tennessen JM, Sudarshan S. (2022)
Renal oncometabolite L-2-hydroxyglutarate imposes a block in kidney tubulogenesis: Evidence for an epigenetic basis for the L-2HG-induced impairment of differentiation.
Frontiers in endocrinology (Jan), 13: 932286. doi:10.3389/fendo.2022.932286
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