Vanderbilt University | School of Medicine – Basic Science

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Week of March 25

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

Oxygen-18 Labeling Reveals a Mixed Fe−O Mechanism in the Last Step of Cytochrome P450 51 Sterol 14α-Demethylation. Angewandte Chemie.
Kevin McCarty*, Yasuhiro Tateishi, Tatiana Hargrove, Galina Lepesheva, F. Peter Guengerich*.

Highlighted in ASBMB Today.
Interactions between Gepotidacin and Escherichia coli Gyrase and Topoisomerase IV: Genetic and Biochemical Evidence for Well-Balanced Dual-Targeting. ACS Infectious Diseases.
Alexandria Oviatt*, Elizabeth Gibson, Neil Osheroff*.
A mechanistic model of primer synthesis from catalytic structures of DNA polymerase α-primase. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
Elwood Mullins, Lauren Salay, Noah Bradley, Walter Chazin*, Brandt Eichman*.

Highlighted on the Basic Sciences website.
Replication Bypass of the N-(2-Deoxy-d-erythro-pentofuranosyl)-urea DNA Lesion by Human DNA Polymerase η. Biochemistry.
Rachana Tomar, Songlin Li, Martin Egli*, Michael Stone*.
Professional Identity Formation of Medical Science Educators: An Imperative for Academic Medicine. Medical Science Educator.
Aviad Haramati* (Georgetown University School of Medicine), Neil Osheroff.

Cell and Developmental Biology

Wounding increases nuclear ploidy in wound-proximal epidermal cells of the Drosophila pupal notum. microPublication Biology.
James White, M. Shane Hutson*, Andrea Page-McCaw*.
Generation and characterization of temperature-sensitive alleles of the glucanosyltransferase Gas1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. microPublication Biology.
Isaac Howard, Bita Tavafoghi, Maya Igarashi, Liping Ren, Alaina Willet, Kathleen Gould*.

Pharmacology

Fatty acids of Helicobacter pylori lipoproteins CagT and Lpp20. Microbiology Spectrum.
Mark McClain*, William Boeglin, Holly Scott Algood, Alan Brash.

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