April 15th, 2016
2016-04-15 – Shannon Ohlemacher (Henderson Lab) – Characterization of YbtT, a Type II Thioesterase in Yersiniabactin Biosynthesis
Author: Nicholas Caito
Mechanosensing by Myosin Molecular Motors
2016-04-12 – Michael Greenberg – Mechanosensing by Myosin Molecular Motors
Bringing Bioactive Compounds into Membranes: The UbiA Superfamily of Intramembrane Aromatic Prenyltransferases.
Weikai Li
Bringing Bioactive Compounds into Membranes: The UbiA Superfamily of Intramembrane Aromatic Prenyltransferases.
Trends Biochem Sci. 41(4):356-70. (2016) (Abstract)
Characterization of parasite-specific indels and their proposed relevance for selective anthelminthic drug targeting.
Wang Q., Heizer E., Rosa B.A., Wildman S.A., Janetka J.W., & Mitreva, M. (2016). “Characterization of parasite-specific indels and their proposed relevance for selective anthelminthic drug targeting.” Infect Genet Evol. 2016 Apr;39:201-211. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.01.025. Epub 2016 Jan 30. (Abstract)
April 1st, 2016
2016-04-01 – Alex Holehouse (Pappu Lab) – Unstructured Self-Assembly: The Biophysics of Membrane-less Organelles
Actin-Regulator Feedback Interactions during Endocytosis.
Wang X., Galletta B.J., Cooper J.A., & Carlsson A.E. (2016). “Actin-Regulator Feedback Interactions during Endocytosis.”
Biophys J. 2016 Mar 29;110(6):1430-43. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.02.018. (Abstract)
Singh, S.P., Koc, K.N., Stodola, J.L. and Galletto, R.
A Monomer of Pif1 Unwinds Double-Stranded DNA and It Is Regulated by the Nature of the Non-Translocating Strand at the 3′-End.
J Mol Biol 428:1053-1067 (2016). (Abstract)
Pharmacological modulation of poly(ADP-ribose) metabolism
March 27th, 2016 – Thomas Ellenberger, DVM, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, along with Darin E. Jones, PhD, assistant professor of organic, pharmaceutical, and biochemistry at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received a new five year grant award from National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their research entitled “Pharmacological modulation of poly(ADP-ribose) metabolism”.
March 25th, 2016
2016-03-25 – Chris Ho – The Development and Application of Novel Ligand Design Methodologies…25 Years in the Making