In memoriam

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

• Methods in Enzymology, Volume 705: Chemical and Genomic Methods in Nucleic Acid Biology (book).
  Edited by Brandt Eichman.
  
  
• Chapter Seven - PAR-dCLIP: Enabling detection of RNA binding protein target transcripts bound at 5′ termini through the incorporation of a decapping step (book chapter). Methods in Enzymology, Volume 705: Chemical and Genomic Methods in Nucleic Acid Biology.
  Samantha Lisy*, Katherine Rothamel, Yelena Perevalova-Pinzul, Manuel Ascano*.

Cell and Developmental Biology

• Thermal Denaturation of Fresh Frozen Tissue Enhances Mass Spectrometry Detection of Peptides. Analytical Chemistry.
  Angela Kruse*, Audra Judd, Danielle Gutierrez, Jamie Allen, Martin Dufresne, Melissa Farrow, Alvin Powers, Jeremy Norris, Richard Caprioli, Jeffrey Spraggins*.
  
  
• Uncovering lipid dynamics in Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis using multimodal imaging mass spectrometry. Cell Chemical Biology.
  Christopher Good*, Casey Butrico, Madeline Colley, Lauren Emmerson, Katherine Gibson-Corley, James Cassat, Jeffrey Spraggins*, Richard Caprioli.
  
  
• The DNA Damage Repair Function of Fission Yeast CK1 Involves Targeting Arp8, a Subunit of the INO80 Chromatin Remodeling Complex. Molecular and Cellular Biology.
  Sierra Cullati*, Kazutoshi Akizuki, Yufan Shan, Eric Zhang, Liping Ren, Rodrigo Guillen, Lesley Turner, Jun-Song Chen, Zachary Elmore, Steven Gygi, Kathleen Gould*.
  

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

• Bacteria can anticipate the seasons: Photoperiodism in cyanobacteria. Science.
  Maria Luísa Jabbur*, Benjamin Bratton, Carl Hirschie Johnson*.
  
  Quanta: Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing
  
  
• Lysosomal LRRC8 complex regulates lysosomal pH, morphology and systemic glucose metabolism (preprint). bioRxiv.
  Ashutosh Kumar* (Washington University School of Medicine), Antentor Hinton Jr.
  
  
• Beta cell-specific PAK1 enrichment ameliorates diet-induced glucose intolerance in mice by promoting insulin biogenesis and minimising beta cell apoptosis. Diabetologia.
  Miwon Ahn* (City of Hope), Roland Stein.
  

Pharmacology

• Discovery of VU6007496: Challenges in the Development of an M₁ Positive Allosteric Modulator Backup Candidate. ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
  Julie Engers, Katrina Bollinger, Rory Capstick, Madeline Long, Aaron Bender, Jonathan Dickerson, Weimin Peng, Christopher Presley, Hyekyung Cho, Alice Rodriguez, Colleen Niswender, Sean Moran, Zixiu Xiang, Anna Blobaum, Olivier Boutaud, Jerri Rook, Darren Engers, P. Jeffrey Conn, Craig Lindsley.
  
  Basic Sciences: Drug discovery efforts continue in latest chemical chronicle from the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery
  
  
• Classics in Chemical Neuroscience: Medetomidine. ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
  Pedro de Andrade Horn*, Tomayo Berida, Lauren Parr, Jacob Bouchard, Navoda Jayakodiarachchi, Daniel Schultz, Craig Lindsley, Morgan Crowley*.
  

Other basic biomedical papers

• Vaccination generates functional progenitor tumor-specific CD8 T cells and long-term tumor control. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.
  Carlos Detres Román*, Megan Erwin, Michael Rudloff, Frank Revetta, Kristen Murray, Natalie Favret, Jessica Roetman, Joseph Roland, Mary Washington, Mary Philip*.
  
  VUMC News: Study shows cancer vaccine blocks tumor progression at early lesion stage
  

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