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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

PUBLICATIONS WITH UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS

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  1. Yang, X.; Dai, C.; *Calderon-Molina, A. D.; Wang, B. Boronic Acid-modified DNA that Changes Fluorescent Properties upon Carbohydrate Binding. Chem. Commun. 2010, in press.
  2. Farahat, A. A.; Kumar A.; Say, M.; Barghash; A. E.; Goda, F. E.; Eisa, H. M.; Wenzler, T.; Brun, R.; Liu, Y.; *Mickelson, L.; Wilson, W. D.; Boykin, D. W. Synthesis, DNA Binding, Fluorescence Measurements And Antiparasitic Activity Of DAPI Related Diamidines. Bioorganic Med. Chem. 2010, 18, 557-566.
  3. *Tevis, D. S.; Kumar, A.; Stephens, C. E.; Boykin, D. W.; Wilson, W. D. Large, Sequence-Dependent Effects On DNA Conformation By Minor Groove Binding Compounds. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009, 37, 5550-5558.
  4. Kamio, M.; Ko, C.; Zheng, S.; Wang, B.; *Collins, S. L.; Gadda, G.; Tai, P.C.; Derby, C.D. The Chemistry of Escapin: Identification and Quantification of the Components in the Complex Mixture Generated by an L-Amino Acid Oxidase in the Defensive Secretion of the Sea Snail Aplysia californica, Chemistry 2009, 15, 1597-1603.
  5. Quaye, O.; *Cowins, S.; Gadda, G. Contribution of Flavin Covalent Linkage with Histidine 99 to the Reaction Catalyzed by Choline Oxidase, J. Biol. Chem. 2009 284, 16990-16997.
  6. Jin, S.; Li, M.; Zhu, C.; *Tran, V.; Wang, B. Computer-based De Novo Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Boronic Acid-based Artificial Receptors for Selective Recognition of Dopamine. ChemBioChem. 2008, 9, 1431-1438.
  7. *Mijatovic, S.; Gadda, G. Oxidation of Alkyl Nitronates Catalyzed by 2-Nitropropane Dioxygenase from Hansenula mrakii, Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 2008 473, 61-68.
  8. Wilson, W. D.; Tanious, F. A.; Mathis, A.; *Tevis, D.; Hall, J. E.; Boykin, D. W. Antiparasitic Compounds That Target DNA. Biochimie 2008, 90, 999.
  9. Zhang, Y.; Ballard, C. E.; Zheng, S.; Gao, X.; Ko, K. C.; Yang, H.; *Brandt, G.; Lou, X.; Tai, P.C.; Lu, C-D.; Wang, B. Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Efflux Substrate-Metal Chelator Conjugates as Potential Anti-Microbial Agents" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2007, 17, 707-711.
  10. Winkeljohn, W. R.; Leggett-Robinson, P.; *Peets, M. R.; Strekowski, L.; Vasquez, P. C.; Baumstark, A.L. N-Oxidation of 2-Substituted Pyridines and Quinolines by Dimethyl-dioxirane: Kinetics and Steric Effects. Heterocyclic Communications 2007, 13, 25.
  11. Gadda, G.; Francis, K.; *Belaineh, M. The mechanism of 2-nitropropane dioxygenase: A model for flavin semiquinone intermediates in enzymatic catalysis. FASEB Journal 2007, 21, A272-A272.
  12. *Hoang, J. V.; Gadda, G. Trapping choline oxidase in a nonfunctional conformation by freezing at low pH. Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics 2007, 66, 611-620.
  13. Xin, Y.; *Mitchell, H.; *Cameron, H.; Allison, S. A. Modeling the electrophoretic mobility and diffusion of weakly charged peptides. J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 1038-1045.
  14. Xin, Y.; *Hess, R.; *Ho, N.; Allison, S. A. Modeling the Electrophoresis of Peptides and Proteins: Improvements in the "Bead Method: to Include Ion Relaxation and Finite Size Effects. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2006, 110, 250330-225044.
  15. Maniccia, A. W.; Yang, W.; Li, S. Y.; *Johnson, J. A.; Yang, J. J. Using protein design to dissect the effect of charged residues on metal binding and protein stability. Biochemistry 2006, 45, 5848-5856.
  16. Logan, G.; *Igunbor, C.; Chen, G.; Davis, H.; Simon, A.; Salon, J.; Huang, Z. A Novel and Simple Strategy for Incorporation, Protection, and Deprotection of Selenium Functionality. Syn. Lett, 2006, 10, 1554-1558.
  17. Gadda, G.; Fan, F.; *Hoang, J. V. On the Contribution of the Positively Charged Headgroup of Choline to Substrate Binding and Catalysis in the Reaction Catalyzed by 2-Nitroproprane Dioxygenase with Solvent Viscosity, pH, and Substrate Kinetic Isotope Effects. Biochemistry 2006, 45, 13889-13898.
  18. **Flores, L. V.; Staples, A. M.; Mackay, H.; *Howard, C. M.; *Uthe, P. B.; Sexton, J. S.; Buchmueller, K. L.; Wilson, W. D.; O'Hare, C.; Kluza, J.; Hochhauser, D.; Hartley, J. A.; Lee, M. Synthesis and evaluation of an intercalator-polyamide hairpin designed to target the inverted CCAAT box 2 in the topoisomerase II alpha promoter. Chembiochem 2006, 7, 1722-1729.
  19. **Carroll, A.; Yang, W.; Ye, Y. M.; Simmons, R.; Yang, J. J. Amyloid fibril formation by a domain of rat cell adhesion molecule. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics 2006, 44, 241-249.
  20. Carrasco, N.; Canton-Williams, J.; *Brandt, G.; Wang, S.; Huang, Z. Efficient Enzymatic Synthesis of Phosphoroselenoate RNA Using Adenosine 5’-(-P-seleno)triphosphate. Angew. Chem. 2006, 118, 100-103; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 94-97.
  21. **Brandt, G.; Carrasco, N.; Huang, Z. RNA Substrate Cleavage Catalyzed by Phosphoroselenoate Hammerhead Ribozymes Transcribed Using 5’-(α-P-Seleno)Triphosphates. Biochemistry, 2006, 45, 8972-8977.
  22. Zheng, Y. J.; Balasubramanyam, K.; Cebrat, M.; *Buck, D.; Guidez, F.; Zelent, A.; Alani, R. M.; Cole, P. A. Synthesis and evaluation of a potent and selective cell-permeable p300 histone acetyltransferase inhibitor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 17182-17183.
  23. Ray, G. B.; *Cook, J. W. Molecular Modeling of Heme Proteins using MOE: Bio-Inorganic and Structure-Function Activity for Undergraduates. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ. 2005, 33, 194-201.
  24. Buchmueller, K. L.; Staples, A. M.; *Uthe, P. B.; *Howard, C. M.; Pacheco, K. A. O.; *Cox, K. K.; Henry, J. A.; Bailey, S. L.; *Horick, S. M.; Nguyen, B.; Wilson, W. D.; Lee, M. Molecular recognition of DNA base pairs by the formamido/pyrrole and formamido/imidazole pairings in stacked polyamides. Nucleic Acids Research 2005, 33, 912-921.
  25. Buchmueller, K. L.; Staples, A. M.; *Howard, C. M.; *Horick, S. M.; *Uthe, P. B.; *Le, N. M.; *Cox, K. K.’ Nguyen, B.; *Pacheco, K. A. O.; Wilson, W. D.; Lee, M. Extending the language of DNA molecular recognition by polyamides: Unexpected influence of imidazole and pyrrole arrangment on binding affinity and specificity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 742-750.
  26. Buchmueller, K. L.; *Taherbhai, Z.; *Howard, C. M.; *Bailey, S. L.; Nguyen, B.; O'Hare, C.; Hochhauser, D.; Hartley, J. A.; Wilson, W. D.; Lee, M. Design of a hairpin polyamide, ZT65B, for targeting the inverted CCAAT box (ICB) site in the multildrug resistant (MDR1) gene. Chembiochem 2005, 6, 2305-2311.
  27. Allison, S. A.; Xin, Y.; *Mitchell, H. Electrophoresis of Weakly Charged Macroions Modeled as Bead Arrays. Recent Research Developments in Macromolecules, Research Signpost Publishers. 2005, 8, 25-46.
  28. **Francis, K.; *Russell, B.; Gadda, G. Involvement of a Flavosemiquinone in the Enzymatic Oxidation of Nitroalkanes Catalyzed by 2-Nitropropane Dioxygenase. J. Biol. Chem 2005, 280, 5195-5204.
  29. Zheng, Y. J.; Thomposon, P. R.; Cebrat, M.; Wang, L.; *Devlin, M. K.; Alani, R. M.; Cole, P. A. Selective HAT inhibitors as mechanistic tools for protein acetylation. . Methods Enzymol. 2004, 376, 188-199.
  30. Lacy, E. R.; Nguyen, B.; *Le, M.; *Cox, K. K.; O'Hare, C.; Hartley, J. A.; Lee, M.; Wilson, W. D. Energetic basis for selective recognition of T• G mismatched base pairs in DNA by imidazole-rich polyamides. Nucleic Acids Research 2004, 32, 2000-2007.
  31. Henry, J. A.; *Le, N. M.; Nguyen, B.; *Howard, C. M.; *Bailey, S. L.; *Horick, S. M.; Buchmueller, K. L.; Kotecha, M.; Hochhauser, D.; Hartley, J. A.; Wilson, W. D.; Lee, M. Targeting the inverted CCAAT box 2 in the topoisomerase II alpha promoter by JH-37, an imidazole-pyrrole polyamide hairpin: Design, synthesis, molecular biology, and biophysical studies. Biochemistry 2004, 43, 12249-12257.
  32. Yang, W.; Jones, L. M.; Isley, L.; Ye, Y. M.; *Lee, H. W.; *Wilkins, A.; Liu, Z. R.; Hellinga, H. W.; Malchow, R.; Ghazi, M.; Yang, J. J. Rational design of a calcium-binding protein. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 6165-6171.
  33. Yang, J. J.; *Gawthrop, A.; Ye, Y. Y. Obtaining site-specific calcium-binding affinities of calmodulin. Protein and Peptide Letters 2003, 10, 331-345.
  34. Ghanem, M.; Fan, F.; *Francis, K.; Gadda, G. Spectroscopic and Kinetic Properties of Recombinant Choline Oxidase from Arthrobacter globiformis. Biochemistry 2003, 42, 15179-15188.
  35. Gattas-Asufra, K. M.; Zheng, Y. J.; Micic, M.; *Snedaker, M. J.; Ji, X. J.; Sui, G. D.; Orbulescu, J.; Andreopoulos, F. M.; Pham, S. M.; Wang, C. M.; Leblanc, R. M. Immobilization of quatum dots in the photo-cross-linked ploy(ethylene glycol)-based hydrogel. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2003, 107, 10464-10469.
  36. Gadda, G.; *McAllister-Wilkins, E. E. Cloning, Expression, and Purification of Choline Dehydrogenese From the Moderate Halphile Halomonas elongata. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2003, 64, 2126-2132.
  37. **Wilkins, A. L.; Yang, W.; Yang, J. J. Structural biology of the cell adhesion protein CD2: From molecular recognition to protein folding and design. Current Protein & Peptide Science 2003, 4, 367-373.
  38. Yang, W.; *Lee, H.; Hellinga, H.; Yang, J. J. Identification and Design of Metal-Binding Proteins. Proteins 2002, 47, 344-356.
  39. **Lee, H. W.; Yang, W.; Ye, Y. M.; Liu, Z. R.; Glushka, J.; Yang, J. J. Isolated EF-loop III of calmodulin in a scaffold protein remains unpaired in solution using pulsed-field-gradient NMR spectroscopy. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics 2002, 1598, 80-87.
  40. **Ellis, A. L.; Mason, J. C.; Lee, H. W.; Strekowski, L.; Patonay, G.; Choi, H.; Yang, J. J. Design, synthesis, and characterization of a calcium-sensitive near infrared dye. Talanta 2002, 56, 1099-1107.
  41. Ye, Y. M.; *Lee, H. W.; Yang, W.; Shealy, S. J.; *Wilkins, A. L.; Liu, Z. R.; Yang, J. J. Metal binding affinity and structural properties of an isolated EF-loop in a scaffold protein. Protein Engineering 2001, 14, 1001-1013.
  42. Parrill, A. L.; Ray, G. B.; *Abu-Khudeir, M.; *Hirsh, A.; *Jolly, A. HIV Integrase Inhibitor Interactions with Active Site Metal Ions: Fact or Fiction? In Computational Organometallic Chemistry; Cundari, T. R. Ed.; Marcel Dekker: New York, 2001; pp 185-203.
  43. Baumstark, A. L.; *Anderson, S. L.; *Sapp, C. J.; Vasquez, P. C. Thermolysis of 3-alkyl-3-methyl-1,2-dioxetanes: Activation parameters and chemiexcitation yields. Heteroatom Chemistry 2001, 12, 176-179.
  44. Yang, W.; Tsai, T.; *Kats, M.; Yang, J. J. Peptide analogs from E-cadherin with different calcium-binding affinities. Journal of Peptide Research 2000, 55, 203-215.
  45. Yang, W.; *Lee, H.; Hellinga, H.; Pu, M.; Yang, J. J. Design Calcium Binding Sites by Computer Algorithm; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers., 2000; 127-138.
  46. Yang, J. J.; *Carroll, A. R.; Yang, W.; Ye, Y. M.; *Nguyen, C. N. Nonnative intermediate state of acid-stable beta-sheet protein. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics 2000, 33, 253-273.
  47. Strekowski, L.; Mason, J. C.; *Britton, J. E.; Lee, H.; Van Aken, K.; Patonay, G. The addition reaction of hydroxide or ethoxide ion with benzindolium heptamethine cyanine dyes. Dyes and Pigments 2000, 46, 163-168.