Garland Marshall, Ph.D. Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Research Opportunities Publications (link to PubMed Central)

Office: 436 McMillan, Danforth Campus Phone: 314-935-7911 Email: garland at biochem.wustl.edu

Research

Major focus is molecular recognition – the basis of intermolecular interactions and specificity seen in drug and hormone receptors, antigen-antibody and substrate-enzyme systems.

Most Recent Publications

• Nikiforovich, G.V., Taylor, C.M., Marshall, G.R. and Baranski, T.J. Difference between restoringa nd predicting 3D structures of the loops in G-protein-coupled receptors by molecular modeling. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:E341 (2011). [Abstract]
• Wildman, S.A., Zheng, X., Sept, D., Auletta, J.T., Rosenberry, T.L. and Marshall, G.R. Drug-like leads for steric discrimination between substrate and inhibitors of human acetylcholinesterase. Chem Biol Drug Des. 78:82-89 (2011). [Abstract]
• Tang, Y.T. and Marshall, G.R. Virtual screening for lead discovery. Methods Mol Biol. 716:1-22 (2011). [Abstract]
• Tang, Y.T. and Marshall, G.R. PHOENIX: A scoring function for affinity prediction derived using high-resolution crystal structures and calorimetry measurements. J Chem Inf Model 79:787-802 (2011). [Abstract]
• Feng, J.A. and Marshall, G.R. SKATE: A docking program that decouples systematic sampling from scoring. J Comp Chem 31:2540-2554 (2010). [Abstract]
• Van Eps, N., Anderson, L.L., Kisselev, O.G., Baranski, T.J., Hubbell, W.L. and Marshall, G.R. Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of functionally active, nitroxide spin-labeled peptide analogues of the C-terminus of a G-protein alpha subunit. Biochemistry 49:6877-6886 (2010). [Abstract]
• Bourne, G.T., Kuster, D.J. and Marshall, G.R. Synthesis of the phenylpyridal scaffold as a helical peptide mimetic. Chemistry 16:8439-8445 (2010). [Abstract]
• Yang, R.Y., Yang, K.S.,Pike, L.J. and Marshall, G.R. Targeting the dimerization of epidermal growth factor receptors with small-molecule inhibitors. Chem Biol Drug Des 76:1-9 (2010). [Abstract]
• Nikiforovich, G.V., Taylor, C.M., Marshall, G.R. and Baranski, T.J. Modeling the possible conformations of the extracellular loops in G-protein-coupled receptors. Proteins 78:271-285 (2010). [Abstract]
• Taylor, C.M., Rockweiler, N.B., Liu, C., Rikimaru, L., Tunemalm, A.K., Kisselev, O.G. and Marshall, G.R. Using ligand-based virtual screening to allosterically stabalize the activated state of a GPCR. Chem biol Drug Des 75:325-332 (2010). [Abstract]
• Feng, J.A., Kao, J. and Marshall, G.R. A second look at mini-protein stability: Analysis of FSD-1 using circular dichroism, differential scanning calorimetry, and simulations. Biophys J 97:2803-2810 (2009). [Abstract]