| BIOL | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | ||
5:00 PM-7:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Hall A, Poster | |||
Poster Session | |||
| Sponsored by: | BIOL | ||
| Organizer: | Tadhg P. Begley | ||
| 161 | Biophysical characterization of DNA quadruplexes Caleb Cline, Krystal Scott, Cosimo Antonacci, Jonathan B. Chaires, Richard D. Sheardy | ||
| 162 | Study on the catalytic mechanism of nitro compound using horseradish peroxidase Rongji Dai, Jie Lin | ||
| 163 | Paper Withdrawn | ||
| 164 | A new ELISA utilizing alcohol oxidase and a latent fluorophore J. Thomas Ippoliti, Katherine A Leehy, Katherine Olson, Allison J. Johnson | ||
| 165 | Activating mutations in the human Glucokinase gene revealed by genetic selection Priya Pal, Brian G. Miller | ||
| 166 | Adenylate-forming enzyme 4-chlorobenzoate CoA ligase/synthetase performs two unique half-reactions using a 140o C-terminal domain alternation Albert S. Reger, Rui Wu, Debra Dunaway-Mariano, Andrew M. Gulick | ||
| 167 | Aggregation behavior of sodium taurocholate at submicellar concentrations using a fluorescent phospholipid probe Rebekah L. Baskin, Laura D. Frost | ||
| 168 | Antitumor studies of metal chelates of curcumin Miao D. Wang, Xu Cheng, Ping Wang, Wei K. Su, Hai Feng | ||
| 169 | Approaches to mimicking the OB-fold using WW domains as scaffolds Marcey L. Waters, Amanda L. Stewart | ||
| 170 | Asymmetric reduction catalyzed by immobilized yeast cells in ionic liquids Jianping Wu, Guohua Shen, Gang Xu, Lirong Yang | ||
| 171 | Biochemical studies on the protein complexes that assemble lipopolysaccharide and membrane proteins in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli Luisa S. Gronenberg, Daniel E. Kahne | ||
| 172 | Biosynthetic pathway of primary fatty acid amides Emma Farrell Morgan, David J. Merkler | ||
| 173 | Biotransformation of steroids by Exophiala jeanselmei var. lecanii corni Kayanne P. McCook, Paul B. Reese | ||
| 174 | Biotransformation of steroids by Thielaviopsis paradoxa Floyd Alexander Russell, Paul B. Reese | ||
| 175 | Paper Withdrawn | ||
| 176 | Characterization of nanometer-scale complexes formed by peptidomimetic transfection reagents and siRNA oligonucleotides Yeliz Utku, Ronald N. Zuckermann, Kent Kirshenbaum | ||
| 177 | Characterization of spin labeled estradiol as a probe for Estrogen Receptor binding interactions Stefano V Gulla, David E. Budil, K. Hideg | ||
| 178 | Characterizing the behavior of tryptophan-containing amphiphiles at the air-water interface Megan Michele Daschbach, Elizabeth K. Elliott, George W. Gokel | ||
| 179 | Chemical modulation of telomerase Joana P. R. Soares | ||
| 180 | Chemoenzymatic synthesis of sialylated sugar units on glycoprotein Shengshu Huang, Hai Yu, Xi Chen | ||
| 181 | Cofactor free decarboxylases, mechanism and specificity of aryl malonate decarboxylation Krzysztof Okrasa, Jason Micklefield | ||
| 182 | Computational study of conformational switching of s-box riboswitch Wei Huang, Fareed Aboul-ela, Shantenu Jha, Vamsi Boyapati | ||
| 183 | Conformational changes of full-length HIV-1 gp120 upon binding the soluble domains of the CD4 receptor Christopher D. Boone, Fnu Ashish, Joanna Krueger | ||
| 184 | Design of an intercalator-peptide conjugate for molecular recognition of RNA using cooperative binding Lauren L. Cline, Marcey L. Waters | ||
| 185 | Design of RNA binding small molecule compound library: An in silico approach Vamsi Krishna Boyapati, Aboul-Ela Fareed, Vikram Kumar Gopu | ||
| 186 | Determination of pKa of heparin using FTIR-ATR spectroscopy Flávio A. Rodrigues, Patrícia Mayumi Matukawa, Ivarne Luis Santos Tersariol | ||
| 187 | Determination of strain and virulence markers in Staphylococcus aureus using Raman spectroscopy David I. Ward, James P. Luba | ||
| 188 | Determination of the crystal structure of EntC, an isochorismate synthase from Escherichia coli Jesse A. Sundlov, Jill M. Carney, Andrew M. Gulick | ||
| 189 | Determining the organization of bacterial serine sensing receptor by unnatural amino acid incorporation Jennifer C. Peeler, John R. Weinstein, Ryan A. Mehl | ||
| 190 | Develop a dietary supplement of gangliosides to rescue the GM3 synthase genetic mutation Jenna L. Walck, Ryan A. Mehl | ||
| 191 | Development of recombinant bacterial based protein expression system for properly folded prorenin Jamie Laura Kear, Justin Hewlett, Gail E. Fanucci | ||
| 192 | Direct diazo-transfer reaction on β-lactam: Synthesis and preliminary biological activities of 6-triazolylpenicillanic acids Po C Chen, Rebekah E. Wharton, Pratiq A. Patel, Adegboyega K Oyelere | ||
| 193 | Direct spectrophotometric quantification of incorporated biotin and digoxigenin on proteins and nucleic acids David Schwartz, Candice Miller, Jim Williams, Jamie McDonald, Leopoldo Mendoza | ||
| 194 | Directed evolution of the KDPG and KDPGal aldolases Matthew J. Walters, Eric J. Toone | ||
| 195 | Discovering E. coli methionyl-tRNA synthetase variants that activate azidonorleucine via library screening in vivo and in silico I Caglar Tanrikulu, William A. Goddard III, David A. Tirrell | ||
| 196 | Electrochemical signaling in mesoscale neuronal networks Alexander Shalek | ||
| 197 | Energy changes during the catabolism of the amino acid leucine Harold C. Arvidson III | ||
| 198 | Evaluation of slide chemistries for use in ELISA microarrays Shannon Servoss | ||
| 199 | Evaluation of the role of EphA2 activation in breast cancer therapeutics using adenoviral vectors Eythan Morenu, Shalini Mittal, Soo-Hyun Yoo, Elizabeth Clark, Anurag Sharma, Suresh Mittal | ||
| 200 | Exploring cooperative domain dynamics in Thermus thermophilus leucyl-tRNA synthetase using low-frequency normal mode calculations and statistical coupling analysis Kristina Weimer, Michael Brunetto, Sudeep Bhattacharyay, Sanchita Hati | ||
| 201 | Paper Withdrawn | ||
| 202 | Expression, refolding and characterization of predicted beta-barrel proteins from Salmonella typhimurium LT2 Thomas C. Freeman Jr., William C. Wimley | ||
| 203 | Fluorescent DNA nanotags based on tetrahedron nanostructures Hayriye Ozhalici Unal, Bruce A. Armitage | ||
| 204 | Fluorescent reporter assays for histone acetyltransferases Jiang Wu, Yujun George Zheng | ||
| 205 | Fluorescent studies of labeled transmembrane helices reveal a lack of interaction despite apparent dimerization on SDS-PAGE gels William F. Walkenhorst, William C. Wimley, Laura Thomas, Elena Batista | ||
| 206 | Formation of a labeled thialysine to study the pKa of a lysine residue using NMR Montserrat Rabago-Smith, Laci Beltz, Sarah N. Yoon, David Obdronair, Babak Borhan | ||
| 207 | Fragile X mental retardation protein interactions with human semaphorin mRNA Medhavi Bole, Lakshmi Menon, Mihaela Rita Mihailescu | ||
| 208 | Getting the stain in: An investigation into the cresyl violet staining of nucleic acid molecules in PAGE Amber Flynn Charlebois, Anita Brandolini, Rebecca Rene, Priyal Patel | ||
| 209 | Hepatitis C Virus RNA dimerization is mediated by kissing interactions Kailey A. Ruszkowski, Sumangala Shetty, Mihaela Rita Mihailescu | ||
| 210 | Identification of the indanomycin biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces antibioticus Wendy L. Kelly, Kathryn E. Roege | ||
| 211 | Immobilization of antibody on a quartz crystal microbalance for detection of Pseudomonas Amy J. Denson, Scott A. Walper, Sarah Sullivan, Kristina Clarke, Sabine Heinhorst, Gordon C. Cannon, Jeffrey A. Evans | ||
| 212 | In vitro, high-throughput detection of protein-protein interactions Benjamin W. Jester, Jason R Porter, Cliff I Stains, Indraneel Ghosh | ||
| 213 | Paper Withdrawn | ||
| 214 | Intrinsic selectivity in binding of Matrix Metalloproteinase-7 to differently charged lipid membranes Bratati Ganguly, Adekunle Elegbede, Donald Klocke, Manas Haldar, Sanku Mallik, D. K. Srivastava | ||
| 215 | Investigation into high temperature transposition of Ty1 in the yeast mutants rfx1Δ and sml1Δ Brian W. Sykes, Jill B. Keeney | ||
| 216 | Investigation of oligomeric structure formation in phycocyanin Karen E. Murray, Laura Bochner, Yvonne M. Gindt | ||
| 217 | Investigation of the mechanism of FlhB autocleavage Natalia M. Kyriacou, Jonathan L. McMurry | ||
| 218 | Investigation of the spectroscopy and reduction potential chemistry of VcCry1 cryptochrome Jaryd T. Freedman, Bradley M. Wertheim, Frank Cortazar, Johannes Schelvis, Yvonne M. Gindt | ||
| 219 | Kinetic analysis of N-acylethanolamine-hydrolyzing acid amidase toward a novel class of anti-inflammatory drugs Lindsey P. Pattison, Robert E. East III, Victoria L. Mariani | ||
| 220 | Kinetic analysis of acetylation-dependent Pb1 bromodomain-histone interactions Christopher Kupitz | ||
| 221 | Kinetic mechanism and characterization of arylamine N-acetyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Alison L. Sikora, John S. Blanchard | ||
| 222 | Kinetic mechanism of the 70 kDa 40S ribosomal protein S6 kinase-1 (S6K1) Malik M Keshwani, Thomas K Harris | ||
| 223 | Kinetic model of lipase-catalyzed asymmetric alcoholysis of a-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl acetate in organic media Jianping Wu, Gang Xu, Lirong Yang | ||
| 224 | Kinetic study on lipase-catalyzed ammonolysis of CHBE in organic solvent Jianping Wu, Yong Jin, Gang Xu, Lirong Yang | ||
| 225 | Kinetics of calcium-prothrombin binding as a function of temperature Joel M. Schrock, John Hedstrom, Whyte G. Owen | ||
| 226 | Mechanism and selectivity of the MceIJ-catalyzed posttranslational modification of Microcin E492: ATP-dependent linkage of ribosomal and nonribosomal peptide scaffolds Elizabeth M. Nolan, Christopher T. Walsh | ||
| 227 | Mechanism of calcium-induced electron transfer in NADPH oxidase 5 and dual oxidase Lindsey N. Hamilton, Stephen Bux, Tremylla Johnson, Chin-Chuan Wei, Dawn Powell | ||
| 228 | Paper Withdrawn | ||
| 229 | Mechanisms of the structural stability and metal-dissociation properties of the eptide deformylase from E. coli Alexander K. Berg, Sumathra Manokaran, Joel A Kooren, Daniel R Eiler, Sanku Mallik, D. K. Srivastava | ||
| 230 | Membrane binding and dissociation kinetics of GM2 activator protein Yong Ran, Gail E. Fanucci | ||
| 231 | Microwave enhanced enzymatic digestion Grace S. Vanier | ||
| 232 | Multiple unnatural amino acid incorporation in vivo: Development of improved suppressor tRNAs Erik A. Rodriguez, Dennis A Dougherty | ||
| 233 | N-Acylethanolamines as substrates for ADH3 Milena Ivkovic, David J. Merkler | ||
| 234 | Novel chemotherapeutics against lung and colon cancer Elizabeth Keller, Irwin Becker, Christine A. Martey-Ochola | ||
| 235 | Organization of the flagellar export apparatus: Analysis of a FliO-FliP fusion protein Martha Ivett Kyriacou, Jonathan L. McMurry | ||
| 236 | Paper Withdrawn | ||
| 237 | Polybromo-1 bromodomains bind histone H3 at specific acetyl-lysine positions Martin Thompson | ||
| 238 | Probing O-linked glycosylation using small molecule inhibitors of glycosyltransferases Jonathan G. Swoboda, Benjamin J. Gross, Suzanne Walker | ||
| 239 | Probing the significance of a hydrogen bond interaction in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors Nyssa L Puskar, Xinan Xiu, Dennis A. Dougherty | ||
| 240 | Proposed role of the chitinase insertion domain in chitinase function Hai Li, Lesley Greene | ||
| 241 | Protein erectile dysfunction: Loss of structural rigidity in a Hsp40 J-domain mutant correlates with loss of Hsp70 activation Neil Andrew Bascos, Samuel J. Landry | ||
| 242 | Regulation of pyrimidine biosynthesis in Pseudomonas fulva Thomas P. West | ||
| 243 | RNA polymerase binds to specific nonpromoter DNA sequences Stephen Winkle, Dillon Arango, Alex Landera, Jesse Pulido, Ala Shaqra, Lamar Wedderburn, Richard D. Sheardy | ||
| 244 | Role of agonist:protein interactions in the allosteric mechanism of activation in AMPA receptors Kimberly A. Mankiewicz, Vasanthi Jayaraman | ||
| 245 | Screening of natural compounds for antimycobacterial activity using a novel high-throughput assay for antigen 85C Julie Boucau, Miles P. Hacker, Donald R. Ronning | ||
| 246 | Self-inflicted oxidative damage in redox metalloproteins Francisco Gasteazoro, Paloma Gil-Rodriguez, Guadalupe Paredes, Gustavo Rodriguez-Alonso, Brenda Valderrama | ||
| 247 | Simocyclinone D8: Chemical biology of a new type-II topoisomerase inhibitor Keith C. Ellis, Hiroshi Hiasa | ||
| 248 | Site-directed mutagenesis of nucleoside hydrolase from Escherichia coli Brock Arivett, Paul C. Kline, Mary Farone, Anthony Farone, Terrance Quinn, Abdul Khaliq, Zachariah Sinkala | ||
| 249 | Site-directed spin labeling EPR studies for structural elucidation of the yeast proteinase A inhibitor IA3 Natasha L. Hurst, Luis Galiano, Justin Hewlett, Gail E. Fanucci | ||
| 250 | Site-specific incorporation and photo-crosslinking of benzophenone amino-acid derivatives at protein interface Duy Nguyen, Ryan A. Mehl | ||
| 251 | Solid state NMR structural analysis of the membrane associated influenza fusion protein Jaime L. Curtis-Fisk, David P. Weliky | ||
| 252 | Spatial fluctuations affect the dynamics of motor proteins Rahul Kumar Das | ||
| 253 | Spectroscopic characterization of a metal bound by Arginine: Glyoxalase 2-1 from Arabidopsis thaliana Pattraranee Limphong, Michael W Crowder, Brian Bennett, Christopher A Makaroff | ||
| 254 | Spectroscopic studies of the inhibition of the Bacillus cereus 5/B/6 metallo-ß-lactamase Cynthe L. Sims, Sung-Kun Kim, Mitchel L. Cottenoir, Kyu-Me Kim, Dustin Whitson, William K. Myers, Andrew J. Fisher, David L Tierney, Robert W. Shaw | ||
| 255 | Staphylococcus aureus response to cell wall stress involves a novel penicillin-binding protein Dasantila Golemi-Kotra, Xin Fan, Yuhong Liu, Daryl Smith, Lars Konermann, KW. Michael Siu | ||
| 256 | Stopped flow studies of hexamer formation and dissociation in phycocyanin Margaret Tammaro, Sarah Sykes, David Shellhamer, Yvonne M. Gindt | ||
| 257 | Strategy for selecting synergistic antibody pairs for sandwich immunoassays Elizabeth R. Abboud, Robert C. Blake II, Diane A. Blake | ||
| 258 | Structural and thermodynamic effects of halogen bonds in proteins Shigeki Miyake-Stoner, Ryan A. Mehl | ||
| 259 | Paper Withdrawn | ||
| 260 | Structure of Acyl adenylate synthetase: A novel enzyme in the "wrong" conformation Manish Shah, Cheryl Ingram-Smith, Kerry Smith, Andrew M. Gulick | ||
| 261 | Structure-based design and synthesis of peptides inhibitors for Factor VII-a Cristina C. Clement, Sheuli Zakia, Lisa Gingold, Manfred Philipp | ||
| 262 | Study the activity of the proteolytic enzymes Nodira Davronova | ||
| 263 | Synthesis of biotinylated azido adenine ribose derivative analogs: Potential activity based protein profiling probes Shikha Mahajan, David J. Merkler, Roman Manetsch | ||
| 264 | Synthesis of metabolic pathways using thermodynamic constraints: The Astrocyte-Neuron Lactate Shuttle in mammalian brain tissue Frank P. Marealle, Lisa S. McFadden, Jorge E. Gatica | ||
| 265 | Terbium luminescence quenching for bioswitch applications Bobe Michelle, Bruce S. Hudson | ||
| 266 | Testing the shifting specificity model for enzyme catalysis B. Mark Britt | ||
| 267 | Tetrahymena telomerase RNA structure Michael Jarstfer, Jason D. Legassie | ||
| 268 | Thermodynamic analysis of acetylation-dependent Pb1 bromodomain - histone H3 interactions Katrina Bugielski | ||
| 269 | Thermodynamic parameters for 2x3 internal loops found in RNA Nina Zulic, Brent M. Znosko | ||
| 270 | Toxicity of functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes on cyanobacteria Sandra N Rodriguez, Yvonne M. Gindt, Tina H. Huang | ||
| 271 | Use of posttranslational modifications to control peptide structure: Insights into the “histone code” Alexander J. Riemen, Marcey L. Waters | ||
| 272 | Utilization of low molecular weight thiols by Staphylococcus aureus for protection against reactive oxygen species Mathew T Lancaster, Sarah Taylor, James P. Luba | ||
Symposium Grid -- Division of Biological Chemistry -- Session Listing
The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008