UVM CHEMISTRY


Publications


Balakrishnan G., Hu Y., Case M.A., Spiro T.G.; Microsecond melting of a folding intermediate in a coiled-coil peptide, monitored by T-jump/UV Raman spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem B, 110 (40): 19877-19883, 2006

Case M.A., Mclendon G.L.; Metal-assembled modular proteins: Toward functional protein design Accounts of Chemical Research 37 (10): 754-762, 2004

Balakrishnan, G.; Tsai, C.-H.; Wu, Q.; Case, M. A.; Pevsner, A.; McLendon, G. L.; Ho, C.; Spiro, T. G. Hemoglobin Site-mutants Reveal Dynamical Role of Interhelical H-bonds in the Allosteric Pathway: Time-resolved UV Resonance Raman Evidence for Intra-dimer Coupling J. Mol. Biol. 2004, 340, 857-868.

Balakrishnan, G.; Case, M. A.; Pevsner, A.; Zhao, X.; Tengroth, C.; McLendon, G. L.; Spiro, T. G. Time-resolved Absorption and UV Resonance Raman Spectra Reveal Stepwise Formation of T Quarternary Contacts in the Allosteric Pathway of Hemoglobin J. Mol. Biol. 2004, 340, 843-856.

Puranik, M.; Nielsen, S. B.; Youn, H.; Hvitved, A. N.; Bourassa, J. L.; Case, M. A.; Tengroth, C.; Balakrishnan, G.; Thorsteinsson, M. V.; Groves, J. T.; McLendon, G. L.; Roberts, G. P.; Olson, J. S.; Spiro, T. G. Dynamics of Carbon Monoxide Binding to CooA J. Biol. Chem. 2004, 279, 21096-21108.

Doerr, A. J.; Case, M. A.; Pelczer, I.; McLendon, G. L. Design of a Functional Protein for Molecular Recognition: Specificity of Ligand Binding in a Metal-Assembled Protein Cavity Probed by 19F NMR J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 4192-4198.

Ren, Y.; Wang, W.-H.; Wang, Y.-H.; Case, M.; Qian, W.; McLendon, G.; Huang, Z.-X. Mapping the Electron Transfer Interface between Cytochrome b5 and Cytochrome c Biochemistry 2004, 43, 3527-3536.

Gochin, M.; Guy, R. K.; Case, M. A. A Metallopeptide Assembly of the HIV-1 gp41 Coiled Coil Is an Ideal Receptor in Fluorescence Detection of Ligand Binding Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 5325-5328.

Zheng, Y.; Case, M. A.; Wishart, J. F.; McLendon, G. L. Do Main Chain Hydrogen Bonds Create Dominant Electron Transfer Pathways? An Investigation in Designed Proteins J. Phys. Chem. B. 2003, 107, 7288-7292.

Cooper, H. J.; Case, M. A.; McLendon, G. L.; Marshall, A. G. Electrospray Ionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Metal-Ion Selected Dynamic Protein Libraries J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 5331-5339.

Case, M. A.; McLendon, G. L.; Hu, Y.; Vanderlick, T. K.; Scoles, G. Using Nanografting to Achieve Directed Assembly of de novo Designed Metalloproteins on Gold Nano Lett. 2003, 3, 425-429.

Gochin, M.; Khorosheva, V.; Case, M. A. Structural Characterization of a Paramagnetic Metal-Ion-Assembled Three-Stranded alpha-Helical Coiled Coil J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11018-11028.

Kipp, R. A.; Case, M. A.; Wist, A. D.; Cresson, C. M.; Carrell, M.; Griner, E.; Wiita, A.; Albiniak, P. A.; Chai, J. J.; Shi, Y. G.; Semmelhack, M. F.; McLendon, G. L. "Molecular Targeting of Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins Based on Small Molecule Mimics of Natural Binding Partners" Biochemistry 2002, 41, 7344-7349.

Wei, Y.; McLendon, G. L.; Hamilton, A. D.; Case, M. A.; Purring, C. B.; Lin, Q.; Park, H. S.; Lee, C.-S.; Yu, T. Disruption of Protein-Protein Interactions: Design of a Synthetic Receptor that Blocks the Binding of Cytochrome c to Cytochrome c Peroxidase Chem. Commun. 2001, 1580-1581.

Moffet, D. D.; Case, M. A.; House, J. C.; Vogel, K.; Williams, R.; Spiro, T. G.; McLendon, G. L.; Hecht, M. H. Carbon Monoxide Binding by de novo Heme Proteins from a Designed Combinatorial Library J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 2109-2115

Case, M. A.; McLendon, G. L.; A Virtual Library Approach to Investigate Protein Folding and Internal Packing J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 8089-8090.

Mutz, M. W.; Case, M. A.; Wishart, J. F.; Ghadiri, M. R.; McLendon, G. L. De Novo Design of Protein Function: Predictable Structure-Function Relationships in Synthetic Redox Proteins J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 858-859.


Presentations

Invited speaker at Nanotech2007, May 20-24, 2007. More information here:
http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2007/symposia/Soft_Nanotechnologies_Applications.html

"Selection of optimally stable proteins by dynamic combinatorial chemistry"
Organic Division, American Chemical Society National Meeting, August 2005

"Self-assembly squared. Nanografting metal-assembled modular proteins into C18 monolayers". Organic Division, American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 2003

"Coupled transition metal ion binding and protein folding: A stability screen for virtual metalloprotein libraries." Inorganic Division, American Chemical Society, National Meeting, April 2001