Publications

Selected Publications by SCSB Faculty

Last Updated February 2024

 

2016

  • A Conserved Structural Signature of the Homeobox Coding DNA in HOX genes. Fongang B, Kong F, Negi S, Braun W, Kudlicki A. Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 14;6:35415. doi: 10.1038/srep35415.
  • Conformational IgE epitopes of peanut allergens Ara h 2 and Ara h 6. Chen X, Negi SS, Liao S, Gao V, Braun W, Dreskin SC. Clin Exp Allergy. 2016 Aug;46(8):1120-8. doi: 10.1111/cea.12764.
  • Pestivirus Npro Directly Interacts with Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 Monomer and Dimer. Gottipati K, Holthauzen LM, Ruggli N, Choi KH. J Virol. 2016 Aug 12;90(17):7740-7. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00318-16.
  • Dengue Virus Nonstructural Protein 5 (NS5) Assembles into a Dimer with a Unique Methyltransferase and Polymerase Interface. Klema VJ, Ye M, Hindupur A, Teramoto T, Gottipati K, Padmanabhan R, Choi KH. PLoS Pathog. 2016 Feb 19;12(2):e1005451. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005451.
  • Allosteric inhibitors of Coxsackie virus A24 RNA polymerase. Schein CH, Rowold D, Choi KH. Bioorg Med Chem. 2016 Feb 15;24(4):570-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2015.12.023.
  • The ability of human nuclear DNA to cause false positive low-abundance heteroplasmy calls varies across the mitochondrial genome. Albayrak L, Khanipov K, Pimenova M, Golovko G, Rojas M, Pavlidis I, Chumakov S, Aguilar G, Chávez A, Widger WR, Fofanov Y. BMC Genomics. 2016 Dec 12;17(1):1017.
  • Small Regulatory RNAs of Rickettsia conorii. Narra HP, Schroeder CL, Sahni A, Rojas M, Khanipov K, Fofanov Y, Sahni SK. Sci Rep. 2016 Nov 11;6:36728. doi: 10.1038/srep36728.
  • Identification and Characterization of Novel Small RNAs in Rickettsia prowazekii. Schroeder CL, Narra HP, Sahni A, Rojas M, Khanipov K, Patel J, Shah R, Fofanov Y, Sahni SK. Front Microbiol. 2016 Jun 8;7:859. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00859.
  • Bartonella melophagi in blood of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and sheep keds (Melophagus ovinus) from the southwestern US: Cultures, genetic characterization, and ecological connections. Kosoy M, Bai Y, Enscore R, Rizzo MR, Bender S, Popov V, Albayrak L, Fofanov Y, Chomel B. Vet Microbiol. 2016 Jul 15;190:43-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2016.05.009.
  • Thermodynamic Additivity for Impacts of Base-Pair Substitutions on Association of the Egr-1 Zinc-Finger Protein with DNA. Chattopadhyay A, Zandarashvili L, Luu RH, Iwahara J. Biochemistry. 2016 Nov 29;55(47):6467-6474.
  • NMR Scalar Couplings across Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonds between Zinc-Finger Histidine Side Chains and DNA Phosphate Groups. Chattopadhyay A, Esadze A, Roy S, Iwahara J. J Phys Chem B. 2016 Oct 10. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Regulation of transcription factors via natural decoys in genomic DNA. Kemme CA, Nguyen D, Chattopadhyay A, Iwahara J. Transcription. 2016 Aug 7;7(4):115-20. doi: 10.1080/21541264.2016.1188873.
  • Changes in conformational dynamics of basic side chains upon protein-DNA association. Esadze A, Chen C, Zandarashvili L, Roy S, Pettitt BM, Iwahara J. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Aug 19;44(14):6961-70. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw531.
  • Stereospecific Effects of Oxygen-to-Sulfur Substitution in DNA Phosphate on Ion Pair Dynamics and Protein-DNA Affinity. Nguyen D, Zandarashvili L, White MA, Iwahara J. Chembiochem. 2016 Sep 2;17(17):1636-42. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201600265.
  • Residence Times of Molecular Complexes in Solution from NMR Data of Intermolecular Hydrogen-Bond Scalar Coupling. Zandarashvili L, Esadze A, Kemme CA, Chattopadhyay A, Nguyen D, Iwahara J. J Phys Chem Lett. 2016 Mar 3;7(5):820-4. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00019.
  • Breaking the symmetry of a viral capsid. Morais MC. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Oct 11;113(41):11390-11392.
  • Structural and Molecular Basis for Coordination in a Viral DNA Packaging Motor. Mao H, Saha M, Reyes-Aldrete E, Sherman MB, Woodson M, Atz R, Grimes S, Jardine PJ, Morais MC. Cell Rep. 2016 Mar 1;14(8):2017-29. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.01.058.
  • Nonpolar Solvation Free Energy from Proximal Distribution Functions. Ou S, Drake JA, Pettitt BM. J Phys Chem B. 2016 Dec 19. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Importance of disentanglement and entanglement during DNA replication and segregation: Comment on: "Disentangling DNA molecules" by Alexander Vologodskii. Bates D, Pettitt BM, Buck GR, Zechiedrich L. Phys Life Rev. 2016 Sep;18:160-164. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2016.09.004.
  • Solvation Thermodynamics of Oligoglycine with Respect to Chain Length and Flexibility. Drake JA, Harris RC, Pettitt BM. Biophys J. 2016 Aug 23;111(4):756-67. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.07.013.
  • Dielectric behavior for saline solutions from renormalized diagrammatically proper interaction site model theory. Dyer KM, Perkyns JS, Pettitt BM. J Phys Condens Matter. 2016 Oct 19;28(41):414006. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/41/414006.
  • Accelerating the weighted histogram analysis method by direct inversion in the iterative subspace. Zhang C, Lai CL, Pettitt BM. Mol Simul. 2016;42(13):1079-1089.
  • Erratum: "Computation of virial coefficients from integral equations" [J. Chem. Phys. 142, 214110 (2015)]. Zhang C, Lai CL, Pettitt BM. J Chem Phys. 2016 Jun 14;144(22):229901. doi: 10.1063/1.4953659.
  • Solute-Solvent Energetics Based on Proximal Distribution Functions. Ou SC, Pettitt BM. J Phys Chem B. 2016 Aug 25;120(33):8230-7. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b01898.
  • Sequence Affects the Cyclization of DNA Minicircles. Wang Q, Pettitt BM. J Phys Chem Lett. 2016 Mar 17;7(6):1042-6. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00246.
  • DNA Shape versus Sequence Variations in the Protein Binding Process. Chen C, Pettitt BM. Biophys J. 2016 Feb 2;110(3):534-44. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.3527.
  • Reconciling the understanding of 'hydrophobicity' with physics-based models of proteins. Harris RC, Pettitt BM. J Phys Condens Matter. 2016 Mar 2;28(8):083003. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/8/083003.
  • Importance of Hydrophilic Hydration and Intramolecular Interactions in the Thermodynamics of Helix-Coil Transition and Helix-Helix Assembly in a Deca-Alanine Peptide. Tomar DS, Weber V, Pettitt BM, Asthagiri D. J Phys Chem B. 2016 Jan 14;120(1):69-76. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09881.
  • Chemokine CXCL1 mediated neutrophil recruitment: Role of glycosaminoglycan interactions. Sawant KV, Poluri KM, Dutta AK, Sepuru KM, Troshkina A, Garofalo RP, Rajarathnam K. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 14;6:33123. doi: 10.1038/srep33123.
  • Molecular Basis of Chemokine CXCL5-Glycosaminoglycan Interactions. Sepuru KM, Nagarajan B, Desai UR, Rajarathnam K. J Biol Chem. 2016 Sep 23;291(39):20539-50. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.745265.
  • CXCL1/MGSA Is a Novel Glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-binding Chemokine: STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE FOR TWO DISTINCT NON-OVERLAPPING BINDING DOMAINS. Sepuru KM, Rajarathnam K. J Biol Chem. 2016 Feb 19;291(8):4247-55. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.697888.
  • A Screen of FDA-Approved Drugs for Inhibitors of Zika Virus Infection. Barrows NJ, Campos RK, Powell ST, Prasanth KR, Schott-Lerner G, Soto-Acosta R, Galarza-Muñoz G, McGrath EL, Urrabaz-Garza R, Gao J, Wu P, Menon R, Saade G, Fernandez-Salas I, Rossi SL, Vasilakis N, Routh A, Bradrick SS, Garcia-Blanco MA. Cell Host Microbe. 2016 Aug 10;20(2):259-70. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.07.004.
  • Molecular Architecture of Contactin-associated Protein-like 2 (CNTNAP2) and Its Interaction with Contactin 2 (CNTN2). Lu Z, Reddy MV, Liu J, Kalichava A, Liu J, Zhang L, Chen F, Wang Y, Holthauzen LM, White MA, Seshadrinathan S, Zhong X, Ren G, Rudenko G. J Biol Chem. 2016 Nov 11;291(46):24133-24147.
  • Functional analysis of rare variants found in schizophrenia implicates a critical role for GIT1-PAK3 signaling in neuroplasticity. Kim MJ, Biag J, Fass DM, Lewis MC, Zhang Q, Fleishman M, Gangwar SP, Machius M, Fromer M, Purcell SM, McCarroll SA, Rudenko G, Premont RT, Scolnick EM, Haggarty SJ. Mol Psychiatry. 2016 Jul 26. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.98. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Data publication with the structural biology data grid supports live analysis. Meyer PA, Socias S, Key J, Ransey E, Tjon EC, Buschiazzo A, Lei M, Botka C, Withrow J, Neau D, Rajashankar K, Anderson KS, Baxter RH, Blacklow SC, Boggon TJ, Bonvin AM, Borek D, Brett TJ, Caflisch A, Chang CI, Chazin WJ, Corbett KD, Cosgrove MS, Crosson S, Dhe-Paganon S, Di Cera E, Drennan CL, Eck MJ, Eichman BF, Fan QR, Ferré-D'Amaré AR, Fromme JC, Garcia KC, Gaudet R, Gong P, Harrison SC, Heldwein EE, Jia Z, Keenan RJ, Kruse AC, Kvansakul M, McLellan JS, Modis Y, Nam Y, Otwinowski Z, Pai EF, Pereira PJ, Petosa C, Raman CS, Rapoport TA, Roll-Mecak A, Rosen MK, Rudenko G, Schlessinger J, Schwartz TU, Shamoo Y, Sondermann H, Tao YJ, Tolia NH, Tsodikov OV, Westover KD, Wu H, Foster I, Fraser JS, Maia FR, Gonen T, Kirchhausen T, Diederichs K, Crosas M, Sliz P. Nat Commun. 2016 Mar 7;7:10882. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10882.
  • RPLP1 and RPLP2 are essential flavivirus host factors that promote early viral protein accumulation. Campos RK, Wong B, Xie X, Lu YF, Shi PY, Pompon J, Garcia-Blanco MA, Bradrick SS. J Virol. 2016 Dec 14. pii: JVI.01706-16. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Zika virus produces noncoding RNAs using a multi-pseudoknot structure that confounds a cellular exonuclease. Akiyama BM, Laurence HM, Massey AR, Costantino DA, Xie X, Yang Y, Shi PY, Nix JC, Beckham JD, Kieft JS. Science. 2016 Dec 2;354(6316):1148-1152.
  • Zika virus epidemic in Brazil. I. Fatal disease in adults: Clinical and laboratorial aspects. Azevedo RS, Araujo MT, Martins Filho AJ, Oliveira CS, Nunes BT, Cruz AC, Nascimento AG, Medeiros RC, Caldas CA, Araujo FC, Quaresma JA, Vasconcelos BC, Queiroz MG, da Rosa ES, Henriques DF, Silva EV, Chiang JO, Martins LC, Medeiros DB, Lima JA, Nunes MR, Cardoso JF, Silva SP, Shi PY, Tesh RB, Rodrigues SG, Vasconcelos PF. J Clin Virol. 2016 Dec;85:56-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2016.10.024.
  • Characterization of a 2016 Clinical Isolate of Zika Virus in Non-human Primates. Li XF, Dong HL, Huang XY, Qiu YF, Wang HJ, Deng YQ, Zhang NN, Ye Q, Zhao H, Liu ZY, Fan H, An XP, Sun SH, Gao B, Fa YZ, Tong YG, Zhang FC, Gao GF, Cao WC, Shi PY, Qin CF. EBioMedicine. 2016 Oct;12:170-177. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.09.022.
  • Zika Virus Replicons for Drug Discovery. Xie X, Zou J, Shan C, Yang Y, Kum DB, Dallmeier K, Neyts J, Shi PY. EBioMedicine. 2016 Oct;12:156-160. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.09.013.
  • Adenosine Analog NITD008 Is a Potent Inhibitor of Zika Virus. Deng YQ, Zhang NN, Li CF, Tian M, Hao JN, Xie XP, Shi PY, Qin CF. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016 Aug 30;3(4):ofw175.
  • Evasion of early innate immune response by 2'-O-methylation of dengue genomic RNA. Chang DC, Hoang LT, Mohamed Naim AN, Dong H, Schreiber MJ, Hibberd ML, Tan MJ, Shi PY. Virology. 2016 Dec;499:259-266. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.09.022.
  • Therapeutic Potential of Spirooxindoles as Antiviral Agents. Ye N, Chen H, Wold EA, Shi PY, Zhou J. ACS Infect Dis. 2016 Jun 10;2(6):382-92. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.6b00041.
  • Zika Virus: Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Vaccine. Shan C, Xie X, Barrett AD, Garcia-Blanco MA, Tesh RB, Vasconcelos PF, Vasilakis N, Weaver SC, Shi PY. ACS Infect Dis. 2016 Mar 11;2(3):170-2. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.6b00030.
  • Identification of a Novel Activator of Mammalian Glutamate Dehydrogenase. Smith HQ, Smith TJ. Biochemistry. 2016 Nov 29;55(47):6568-6576.
  • Development of a stretch-induced neurotrauma model for medium-throughput screening in vitro: identification of rifampicin as a neuroprotectant. López-García I, GeröD, Szczesny B, Szoleczky P, Olah G, Módis K, Zhang K, Gao J, Wu P, Sowers LC, DeWitt D, Prough DS, Szabo C. Br J Pharmacol. 2016 Oct 9. doi: 10.1111/bph.13642. [Epub ahead of print]
  • The Polarization of M2b Monocytes in Cultures of Burn Patient Peripheral CD14+ Cells Treated with a Selected Human CCL1 Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide. Ito I, Bhopale KK, Nishiguchi T, Lee JO, Herndon DN, Suzuki S, Sowers LC, Suzuki F, Kobayashi M. Nucleic Acid Ther. 2016 Oct;26(5):269-276.
  • Measurement of Histone Methylation Dynamics by One-Carbon Metabolic Isotope Labeling and High-energy Collisional Dissociation Methylation Signature Ion Detection. Tang H, Tian B, Brasier AR, Sowers LC, Zhang K. Sci Rep. 2016 Aug 17;6:31537. doi: 10.1038/srep31537.
  • In vivo triglyceride synthesis in subcutaneous adipose tissue of humans correlates with plasma HDL parameters. Tuvdendorj D, Munoz AO, Ruiz-Barros V, Schwarz JM, Montalto G, Chandalia M, Sowers LC, Rizzo M, Murphy EJ, Abate N. Atherosclerosis. 2016 Aug;251:147-52. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2016.06.024.
  • CRISPR-Cas9 mediated genetic engineering for the purification of the endogenous integrator complex from mammalian cells. Baillat D, Russell WK, Wagner EJ. Protein Expr Purif. 2016 Dec;128:101-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pep.2016.08.011.
  • Discovery and characterization of a novel CCND1/MRCK gene fusion in mantle cell lymphoma. Masamha CP, Albrecht TR, Wagner EJ. J Hematol Oncol. 2016 Mar 29;9:30. doi: 10.1186/s13045-016-0260-7.
  • Gain-of-function reporters for analysis of mRNA 3'-end formation: Design and optimization. Peart N, Wagner EJ. Biotechniques. 2016 Mar 1;60(3):137-40. doi: 10.2144/000114390.
  • Drug search for leishmaniasis: a virtual screening approach by grid computing. Ochoa R, Watowich SJ, Flórez A, Mesa CV, Robledo SM, Muskus C. J Comput Aided Mol Des. 2016 Jul;30(7):541-52. doi: 10.1007/s10822-016-9921-4.
  • Molecular Virologic and Clinical Characteristics of a Chikungunya Fever Outbreak in La Romana, Dominican Republic, 2014. Langsjoen RM, Rubinstein RJ, Kautz TF, Auguste AJ, Erasmus JH, Kiaty-Figueroa L, Gerhardt R, Lin D, Hari KL, Jain R, Ruiz N, Muruato AE, Silfa J, Bido F, Dacso M, Weaver SC. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Dec 28;10(12):e0005189. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005189.
  • Epidemic arboviral diseases: priorities for research and public health. Wilder-Smith A, Gubler DJ, Weaver SC, Monath TP, Heymann DL, Scott TW. Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Dec 20. pii: S1473-3099(16)30518-7. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30518-7. [Epub ahead of print]
  • A chikungunya fever vaccine utilizing an insect-specific virus platform. Erasmus JH, Auguste AJ, Kaelber JT, Luo H, Rossi SL, Fenton K, Leal G, Kim DY, Chiu W, Wang T, Frolov I, Nasar F, Weaver SC. Nat Med. 2016 Dec 19. doi: 10.1038/nm.4253. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Potential for Zika Virus to Establish a Sylvatic Transmission Cycle in the Americas. Althouse BM, Vasilakis N, Sall AA, Diallo M, Weaver SC, Hanley KA. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Dec 15;10(12):e0005055. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005055.
  • Flavivirus transmission focusing on Zika. Vasilakis N, Weaver SC. Curr Opin Virol. 2016 Dec 6;22:30-35. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.11.007. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Rapid, Affordable and Portable Medium-Throughput Molecular Device for Zika Virus. Chan K, Weaver SC, Wong PY, Lie S, Wang E, Guerbois M, Vayugundla SP, Wong S. Sci Rep. 2016 Dec 9;6:38223. doi: 10.1038/srep38223.
  • Development of Vaccines for Chikungunya Fever. Erasmus JH, Rossi SL, Weaver SC. J Infect Dis. 2016 Dec 15;214(suppl 5):S488-S496.
  • Genetic Characterization of Spondweni and Zika Viruses and Susceptibility of Geographically Distinct Strains of Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) to Spondweni Virus. Haddow AD, Nasar F, Guzman H, Ponlawat A, Jarman RG, Tesh RB, Weaver SC. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Oct 26;10(10):e0005083. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005083.
  • Comprehensive Genome Scale Phylogenetic Study Provides New Insights on the Global Expansion of Chikungunya Virus. Chen R, Puri V, Fedorova N, Lin D, Hari KL, Jain R, Rodas JD, Das SR, Shabman RS, Weaver SC. J Virol. 2016 Nov 14;90(23):10600-10611.
  • A Multicomponent Animal Virus Isolated from Mosquitoes. Ladner JT, Wiley MR, Beitzel B, Auguste AJ, Dupuis AP 2nd, Lindquist ME, Sibley SD, Kota KP, Fetterer D, Eastwood G, Kimmel D, Prieto K, Guzman H, Aliota MT, Reyes D, Brueggemann EE, St John L, Hyeroba D, Lauck M, Friedrich TC, O'Connor DH, Gestole MC, Cazares LH, Popov VL, Castro-Llanos F, Kochel TJ, Kenny T, White B, Ward MD, Loaiza JR, Goldberg TL, Weaver SC, Kramer LD, Tesh RB, Palacios G. Cell Host Microbe. 2016 Sep 14;20(3):357-67. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.07.011.
  • SEROSURVEY OF SELECTED ARBOVIRAL PATHOGENS IN FREE-RANGING, TWO-TOED SLOTHS (CHOLOEPUS HOFFMANNI) AND THREE-TOED SLOTHS (BRADYPUS VARIEGATUS) IN COSTA RICA, 2005-07. Medlin S, Deardorff ER, Hanley CS, Vergneau-Grosset C, Siudak-Campfield A, Dallwig R, da Rosa AT, Tesh RB, Martin MP, Weaver SC, Vaughan C, Ramirez O, Sladky KK, Paul-Murphy J. J Wildl Dis. 2016 Oct;52(4):883-892.
  • Outbreak of Zika Virus Infection, Chiapas State, Mexico, 2015, and First Confirmed Transmission by Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes in the Americas. Guerbois M, Fernandez-Salas I, Azar SR, Danis-Lozano R, Alpuche-Aranda CM, Leal G, Garcia-Malo IR, Diaz-Gonzalez EE, Casas-Martinez M, Rossi SL, Del Río-Galván SL, Sanchez-Casas RM, Roundy CM, Wood TG, Widen SG, Vasilakis N, Weaver SC. J Infect Dis. 2016 Nov 1;214(9):1349-1356.
  • Genetic Characterization of Northwestern Colombian Chikungunya Virus Strains from the 2014-2015 Epidemic. Rodas JD, Kautz T, Camacho E, Paternina L, Guzmán H, Díaz FJ, Blanco P, Tesh R, Weaver SC. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Sep 7;95(3):639-46. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0091.
  • Isolation of Madre de Dios Virus (Orthobunyavirus; Bunyaviridae), an Oropouche Virus Species Reassortant, from a Monkey in Venezuela. Navarro JC, Giambalvo D, Hernandez R, Auguste AJ, Tesh RB, Weaver SC, Montañez H, Liria J, Lima A, Travassos da Rosa JF, da Silva SP, Vasconcelos JM, Oliveira R, Vianez JL Jr, Nunes MR. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Aug 3;95(2):328-38. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0679.
  • An Infectious cDNA Clone of Zika Virus to Study Viral Virulence, Mosquito Transmission, and Antiviral Inhibitors. Shan C, Xie X, Muruato AE, Rossi SL, Roundy CM, Azar SR, Yang Y, Tesh RB, Bourne N, Barrett AD, Vasilakis N, Weaver SC, Shi PY. Cell Host Microbe. 2016 Jun 8;19(6):891-900. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.05.004.
  • Complete Genome Sequences of Five Zika Virus Isolates. Ladner JT, Wiley MR, Prieto K, Yasuda CY, Nagle E, Kasper MR, Reyes D, Vasilakis N, Heang V, Weaver SC, Haddow A, Tesh RB, Sovann L, Palacios G. Genome Announc. 2016 May 12;4(3). pii: e00377-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00377-16.
  • Widespread Detection of Antibodies to Eastern Equine Encephalitis, West Nile, St. Louis Encephalitis, and Turlock Viruses in Various Species of Wild Birds from Across the United States. Pedersen K, Marks DR, Wang E, Eastwood G, Weaver SC, Goldstein SM, Sinnett DR, DeLiberto TJ. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Jul 6;95(1):206-11. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0840.
  • Epidemiology of Emergent Madariaga Encephalitis in a Region with Endemic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis: Initial Host Studies and Human Cross-Sectional Study in Darien, Panama. Vittor AY, Armien B, Gonzalez P, Carrera JP, Dominguez C, Valderrama A, Glass GE, Beltran D, Cisneros J, Wang E, Castillo A, Moreno B, Weaver SC. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Apr 21;10(4):e0004554. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004554.
  • DNA-launched live-attenuated vaccines for biodefense applications. Pushko P, Lukashevich IS, Weaver SC, Tretyakova I. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2016 Sep;15(9):1223-34. doi: 10.1080/14760584.2016.1175943.Characterization of a Novel Murine Model to Study Zika Virus. Rossi SL, Tesh RB, Azar SR, Muruato AE, Hanley KA, Auguste AJ, Langsjoen RM, Paessler S, Vasilakis N, Weaver SC. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Jun 1;94(6):1362-9. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0111.
  • Alignment algorithms and per-particle CTF correction for single particle cryo-electron tomography. Galaz-Montoya JG, Hecksel CW, Baldwin PR, Wang E, Weaver SC, Schmid MF, Ludtke SJ, Chiu W. J Struct Biol. 2016 Jun;194(3):383-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2016.03.018.
  • Interspecies transmission and chikungunya virus emergence. Tsetsarkin KA, Chen R, Weaver SC. Curr Opin Virol. 2016 Feb;16:143-50. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.02.007.
  • Concurrent malaria and arbovirus infections in Kedougou, southeastern Senegal. Sow A, Loucoubar C, Diallo D, Faye O, Ndiaye Y, Senghor CS, Dia AT, Faye O, Weaver SC, Diallo M, Malvy D, Sall AA. Malar J. 2016 Jan 28;15:47. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1100-5.
  • The DNA Polymerase Gamma R953C Mutant Is Associated with Antiretroviral Therapy-Induced Mitochondrial Toxicity. Li M, Mislak AC, Foli Y, Agbosu E, Bose V, Bhandari S, Szymanski MR, Shumate CK, Yin YW, Anderson KS, Paintsil E. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016 Aug 22;60(9):5608-11. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00976-16.
  • The Yeast Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase and Transcription Factor Complex Catalyzes Efficient Priming of DNA Synthesis on Single-stranded DNA. Ramachandran A, Nandakumar D, Deshpande AP, Lucas TP, R-Bhojappa R, Tang GQ, Raney K, Yin YW, Patel SS. J Biol Chem. 2016 Aug 5;291(32):16828-39. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.740282.
  • Selective Inhibition of Bacterial Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetases by Indolmycin Is Mechanism-based. Williams TL, Yin YW, Carter CW Jr. J Biol Chem. 2016 Jan 1;291(1):255-65. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.690321.