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Department of Biochemistry

FEMA GRAS assessment of natural flavor complexes: Vanilla extract, Bitter almond oil, Wintergreen oil and related flavoring ingredients. Food and Chemical Toxicology.
F. Peter Guengerich*.
Biosynthesis of Peptidic Thiooxazole Metallophores Installed by Multinuclear Nonheme Iron Enzymes. ACS Chemical Biology.
Mayuresh Gadgil*, Shravan Dommaraju, Douglas Mitchell*.
Backbone Thioamidation of a Ribosomal Subunit Protein in Pseudomonadota. Biochemistry.
Andrew Rice*, Yanqing Xue, Salimat Sofela, Douglas Mitchell*.

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

The microtubule GTP-tubulin cap size is modulated during cell division. Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Anna Cassidy*, Dylan Burnette, Marija Zanic*.

Supported by the Cell Imaging Shared Resource.
Microbiome-produced nicotinic acid controls colon regional identity and injury susceptibility. Cell.
Jérémie Rispal* (University of California San Francisco), Seung Woo Kang, Paige Spencer, Ken Lau.

Department of Pharmacology

Cytoplasmic tail diversity determines the effector bias of the adhesion GPCR ADGRL2. Cell Chemical Biology.
Krassimira Garbett*, Chen Zheng, Vsevolod Gurevich, Richard Sando*.
Continued progress and innovation at Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP). Neuropsychopharmacology.
Tony George* (University of Toronto), Lisa Monteggia.

First or corresponding authors are identified with an *. Only Vanderbilt collaborators are listed except for first authors.

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