The Reading List is a newsletter from the School of Medicine Basic Sciences in which we amplify biomedical research from our four departments and campus-wide collaborators.
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Department of Biochemistry |
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FEMA GRAS assessment of natural flavor complexes: Pepper, ginger, coniferous-derived and related flavoring ingredients. Food and Chemical Toxicology.
Stephen Hecht* (Masonic Cancer Center), F. Peter Guengerich. - How Tailored Ribo-Seq Methods Probe Unique Translation Events. RNA.
James Marks*, Sezen Meydan*. -
Structural insights into zinc piracy by Neisseria gonorrhoeae to overcome nutritional immunity. Structure.
Pooneh Tavakoley Gheinani* (Georgia State University), Simone Harrison, Walter Chazin. - Toward community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Molecular Cell.
Ron Kelley* (Thermo Fisher Scientific), Sagar Khavnekar* (Thermo Fisher Scientific), Ricardo Righetto* (University of Basel), Jessica Heebner* (Thermo Fisher Scientific), Martin Obr* (Thermo Fisher Scientific), Xianjun Zhang* (Thermo Fisher Scientific), Saikat Chakraborty* (Thermo Fisher Scientific), Grigory Tagiltsev* (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry), Alicia Michael* (University of Basel), Sofie van Dorst* (University of Basel), William Wan. -
Design and characterization of calprotectin tetramerization variants for probing the role of oligomerization in receptor activation. Protein Science.
Velia Garcia*, Areetha D'Souza, Natalia Kozlyuk, Yasiru Perera, Steven Damo, Walter Chazin*.
Supported by the Center for Structural Biology Labs and Instrumentation Facility. -
Activities of the Novel Bacterial Topoisomerase Inhibitor OSUAB-0284 against the Biothreat Pathogen Bacillus anthracis and Its Type II Topoisomerases. ACS Infectious Diseases.
Chelsea Mann*, Neil Osheroff*. - A reversible feedback mechanism regulating mitochondrial heme synthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Iva Chitrakar*, Alexis Roberson, Pedro Ayres-Galhardo, Breann Brown*.
Supported by the Molecular Design and Synthesis Center and the Labs and Instrumentation Facility. -
DNA binding and lesion recognition by the bacterial interstrand DNA crosslink glycosylase AlkX (preprint). bioRxiv.
Yujuan Cai*, Dillon Kunkle, Marcel Edinbugh, Eric Skaar*, Brandt Eichman*.
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Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
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Functionally diversified Caenorhabditis elegans BiP orthologs control body growth, reproduction, stress resistance, aging, and autophagy. Nature Communications.
Nicholas Urban* (University of Michigan), Eric Donahue, Kristopher Burkewitz. -
Coordinated changes in stromal and hematopoietic cells that define the perinatal to juvenile transition in the mouse thymus. Cell Reports.
Anusha Vasudev* (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center), Colin Moore* (The University of Texas at Austin), Aparna Calindi* (The University of Texas at Austin), Seung Woo Kang* (University of Georgia), Bryan Helm*, Ken Lau, Qi Liu. -
A Human Model of Oligodendrocyte Development Shows MCL-1 Influences Oligodendrocyte Morphogenesis. Glia.
Melanie Gil*, Marina Hanna, Vivian Gama*.
Supported by the Cell Imaging Shared Resource.
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Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
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Integrated approaches for multiscale mitochondrial structure and function analysis. Journal of Microscopy.
Adiba Patel* (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati), Margaret Mungai, Leo Jake Kazma, Antentor Hinton Jr.* - Tiffany Rolle, Zer Vue, Sandra Murray, Salma Ash Shareef, Haysetta Shuler, Heather Beasley, Andrea Marshall, Antentor Hinton Jr.
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Ppid is Necessary for Overnutrition-Induced β-cell Loss. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Brittney Covington*, Zihan Tang, Lisette Maddison, Bingyuan Yang, Wenbiao Chen*.
Supported by the Cell Imaging Shared Resource. -
Sarco/Endoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ ATPase Activation Shifts Cardiac Fuel Preference Without Impairing Cardiac Function in Obese Mice. Journal of the American Heart Association.
Deveena Banerjee*, Clinton Hasenour, Mohsin Rahim, Tomasz Bednarski, Amanda Doran, David Jacobson, Jamey Young*.
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Longitudinal analysis of electronic health records reveals medical conditions associated with subsequent Alzheimer’s disease development. Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy.
Xue Zhong*, Zhijun Yin, Rui Chen, Kerou Cheng, Andrey Rzhetsky, Bingshan Li, Nancy Cox*. - HIV-Induced Apoptosis: Host Defense and Viral Strategy. Biology.
David Chisompola* (Mulungushi University), Phinnoty Mwansa* (Mulungushi University), Annet Kirabo, Antentor Hinton Jr., Sepiso Masenga*.
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Department of Pharmacology |
- Recent Advances in Long-Acting Antiviral Agents: Innovations in Design and Strategies for Extended Duration.
Shuo Wang* (Shandong University), Feiyue Ma* (Shandong University), Craig Lindsley*. -
Nanobodies against Clostridioides difficile CDTb provide a toolkit for potent toxin neutralization and highly sensitive quantitation. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Kateryna Nabukhotna*, Heather Kroh, David Anderson, Rubén Cano Rodríguez, John Shupe, Carla O'Neale, Rebecca Shrem, Brian Wadzinski, Kevin Schey, Benjamin Spiller*, Borden Lacy*.
Supported by the Proteomics Core Laboratory. -
Phenotypic Screening: A Cornerstone Engine for Discovering Original Anti-Infective Drugs. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.
Shujing Xu* (Shandong University), Craig Lindsley*. -
The Functional Role of Gate Loop Residues in Arrestin Binding to GPCRs. International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Sergey Vishnivetskiy*, Eugenia Gurevich, Vsevolod Gurevich*.
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