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April Research Round-Up

Congratulations to our amazing research teams here in the Department of Chemistry for their publications this month!

Bowman Group

Qu, C., & Bowman, J. M. (2019). A fragmented, permutationally invariant polynomial approach for potential energy surfaces of large molecules: Application to N-methyl acetamide. The Journal of chemical physics, 150(14), 141101.

Yang, B., Zhang, P., Qu, C., Stancil, P., Bowman, J., Balakrishnan, N., & Forrey, R. (2019). Full-dimensional quantum rovibrational scattering of SO with H2*. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.

Dunham Group

Srinivas, P., Goralski, T. D., Keiler, K. C., & Dunham, C. M. (2019). Alternative mechanisms of ribosome stalling rescue in the gram-negative bacterium Francisella tularensis. The FASEB Journal, 33(1_supplement), 628-3.

Hoffer, E. D., Maehigashi, T., Fredrick, K., & Dunham, C. M. (2019). Ribosomal am biguity (ram) mutations promote 30S domain closure and thereby increase miscoding. The FASEB Journal, 33(1_supplement), 628-2.

Dunham, C. M., Hoffer, E. D., Nguyen, H. A., Subramanian, S., Hong, S., & Maehigashi, T. (2019). RNA-mediated Mechanisms of Translation Control. The FASEB Journal, 33(1_supplement), 100-1.

Zaldana, K. S., Pavelich, I., Moller, A., & Dunham, C. M. (2019). Dissecting the gene regulation of Proteus vulgaris Rts1 HigB-HigA toxin-antitoxin system. The FASEB Journal, 33(1_supplement), 458-20.

Pavelich, I., & Dunham, C. M. (2019). Mechanism and stability of type II bacterial toxin-antitoxin complexes and the role of regulated antitoxin proteolysis that releases toxin. The FASEB Journal, 33(1_supplement), 463-8.

Nguyen, H. A., & Dunham, C. M. (2019). Importance of the m1G37 modification and 32–38 pairing in tRNAPro (CCG) on decoding and tRNA stability. The FASEB Journal, 33(1_supplement), 630-6.

Dyer Group

Sanchez, M. K., Wu, C. H., Adams, M. W., & Dyer, R. B. (2019). Optimizing electron transfer from CdSe QDs to hydrogenase for photocatalytic H 2 production. Chemical Communications.

Deng, H., Dyer, R. B., & Callender, R. (2019). Active Site Glu165 Activation in Triosephosphate Isomerase and its Deprotonation Kinetics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Evangelista Group

Zhang, T., Li, C., & Evangelista, F. A. (2019). Improving the efficiency of the multireference driven similarity renormalization group via sequential transformation, density fitting, and the non-interacting virtual orbital approximation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.11637.

Li, C., Lindh, R., & Evangelista, F. A. (2019). Dynamically weighted multireference perturbation theory: Combining the advantages of multi-state and state-averaged methods. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(14), 144107.

Heemstra Group

Lackey, H., Peterson, E. M., Chen, Z., Harris, J. M., & Heemstra, J. M. (2019). Thermostability Trends of TNA: DNA Duplexes Reveal Strong Purine Dependence. ACS synthetic biology.

Ayele, T., Knutson, S. D., Ellipilli, S., Hwang, H., & Heemstra, J. M. (2019). Fluorogenic Photoaffinity Labeling of Proteins in Living Cells. Bioconjugate Chemistry.

Heaven Group

Le, A. T., Nakhate, S. G., Nguyen, D. T., Steimle, T. C., & Heaven, M. C. (2019). Characterization of gas-phase thorium nitride. The Journal of chemical physics, 150(14), 144304.

Hill Group

Tao, M., Li, Y., Geletii, Y. V., Hill, C. L., & Wang, X. (2019). Aerobic oxidation of glycerol catalyzed by M salts of PMo12O403-(M= K+, Zn2+, Cu2+, Al3+, Cr3+, Fe3+). Applied Catalysis A: General.

Tian, Y., Plonka, A. M., Ebrahim, A. M., Palomino, R. M., Senanayake, S. D., Balboa, A., … & Mitchell, M. B. (2019). A Correlated Multimodal Approach Reveals Key Details of Nerve-Agent Decomposition by Single Site Zr-Based Polyoxometalates. The journal of physical chemistry letters.

Ke Group

Wang, W., Chen, S., An, B., Huang, K., Bai, T., Xu, M., … & Wei, B. (2019). Complex wireframe DNA nanostructures from simple building blocks. Nature communications, 10(1), 1067.

Musaev Group

McLarney, B. D., Hanna, S. R., Musaev, D. G., & France, S. (2019). A Predictive Model for the [Rh2 (esp) 2]-catalyzed Intermolecular C (sp3)-H Bond Insertion of β-carbonyl Ester Carbenes: Interplay Between Theory and Experiment. ACS Catalysis.

Tian, Y., Plonka, A. M., Ebrahim, A. M., Palomino, R. M., Senanayake, S. D., Balboa, A., … & Mitchell, M. B. (2019). A Correlated Multimodal Approach Reveals Key Details of Nerve-Agent Decomposition by Single Site Zr-Based Polyoxometalates. The journal of physical chemistry letters.

Wuest Group

Zhao, W., Cross, A. R., Crowe-McAuliffe, C., Weigert-Munoz, A., Csatary, E. E., Solinski, A., … & Wuest, W. (2019). The natural product elegaphenone potentiates antibiotic effects against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Angewandte Chemie.

Cheng, A. V., & Wuest, W. M. (2019). Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Conjugate and Prodrug Strategies as Targeted Delivery Vectors for Antibiotics. ACS infectious diseases.

Wilt, I. K., Hari, T. P. A., & Wuest, W. M. (2019). Hijacking the Bacterial Circuitry of Biofilm Processes via Chemical” Hot-Wiring”: An Under-explored Avenue for Therapeutic Development. ACS infectious diseases.

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March Research Round-Up

Congratulations to our amazing research teams here in the Department of Chemistry for their publications this month!

Bowman Group

Nandi, A., Qu, C., & Bowman, J. M. (2019). Using Gradients in Permutationally Invariant Polynomial Potential fitting: A Demonstration for CH4 Using as Few as 100 Configurations. Journal of chemical theory and computation.

Davies Group

Davies, H.M.L., Chennamadhavuni, S., Martin, T.J., Childers, S.R. (2019). U.S. Patent Application No. 15 /145,323

Evangelista Group

Li, C., & Evangelista, F. A. (2019). Multireference Theories of Electron Correlation Based on the Driven Similarity Renormalization Group. Annual review of physical chemistry, 70.

Hill Group

Kaledin, A. L., Hill, C. L., Lian, T., & Musaev, D. G. (2019). Modulating electronic coupling at the quantum dot/molecule interface by wavefunction engineering. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(12), 124704.

Lian Group

Li, Q., Liu, Q., Schaller, R. D., & Lian, T. (2019). Reducing Optical Gain Threshold in Two-Dimensional CdSe Nanoplatelets by Giant Oscillator Strength Transition Effect. The journal of physical chemistry letters.

Kaledin, A. L., Hill, C. L., Lian, T., & Musaev, D. G. (2019). Modulating electronic coupling at the quantum dot/molecule interface by wavefunction engineering. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(12), 124704.

Lynn Group

Taran, O., Patel, V., & Lynn, D. (2019). Small Molecules Reaction Network That Models ROS Dynamic of the Rhizosphere. Chemical Communications.

Musaev Group

Kaledin, A. L., Hill, C. L., Lian, T., & Musaev, D. G. (2019). Modulating electronic coupling at the quantum dot/molecule interface by wavefunction engineering. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(12), 124704.

Salaita Group

Sylber, C., Petree, J., Baker, N., Salaita, K., & Wongtrakool, C. (2019). 3582 Scavenger Receptor Expression is Differentially Affected by DNAzyme-Gold Nanoparticle Conjugates. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 3(s1), 20-21.

Wuest Group

Scharnow, A. M., Solinski, A. E., & Wuest, W. M. (2019). Targeting S. mutans biofilms: a perspective on preventing dental caries. MedChemComm.

Post, S., Shapiro, J., & Wuest, W. (2019). Connecting iron acquisition and biofilm formation in the ESKAPE pathogens as a strategy for combatting antibiotic resistance. MedChemComm.

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February Research Round-Up

Congratulations to our amazing research teams here in the Department of Chemistry for their publications this month!

Conticello Group

Kreutzberger, M. A., Hughes, S., Conticello, V., & Egelman, E. H. (2019). Structural Studies of the T-and RP4-Pili using Cryo-EM. Biophysical Journal, 116(3), 573a.

Dunham Group

Mehrani, A., Hoffer, E. D., Goralski, T. D., Keiler, K. C., Dunham, C. M., & Stagg, S. (2019). Investigating the Structural Mechanism of the Stalled Bacterial Ribosome Bound to a Drug that Targets Trans-Translation. Biophysical Journal, 116(3), 573a-574a.

Nguyen, H. A., Hoffer, E. D., & Dunham, C. M. (2019). Importance of tRNA anticodon loop modification and a conserved, noncanonical anticodon stem pairing in tRNAProCGG for decoding. Journal of Biological Chemistry, jbc-RA119.

Schureck, M. A., Meisner, J., Hoffer, E. D., Wang, D., Onuoha, N., Ei Cho, S., … & Dunham, C. M. (2019). Structural basis of transcriptional regulation by the HigA antitoxin. Molecular microbiology.

Heaven Group

Khvatov, N. A., Zagidullin, M. V., Tolstov, G. I., Medvedkov, I. A., Mebel, A. M., Heaven, M. C., & Azyazov, V. N. (2019). Product Channels of the reactions of O2 (b1Σg+). Chemical Physics.

Hill Group

Hill, C., & Sullivan, K. (2019). U.S. Patent Application No. 16/061,327.

Lian Group

Lian, T., Koper, M. T., Reuter, K., & Subotnik, J. E. (2019). Special Topic on Interfacial Electrochemistry and Photo (electro) catalysis.

Musaev Group

Gair, J., Haines, B. E., Filatov, A. S., Musaev, D. G., & Lewis, J. C. (2019). Di-Palladium Complexes are Active Catalysts for Mono-N-Protected Amino Acid Accelerated Enantioselective CH Functionalization.

Salaita Group

Brockman, J. M., & Salaita, K. (2019). Mechanical Proofreading: A General Mechanism to Enhance the Fidelity of Information Transfer Between Cells.  Phys. 7: 14. doi: 10.3389/fphy.

Blanchard, A., & Salaita, K. (2019). Autochemophoretic DNA Motors Generate 100+ Piconewton Forces. Biophysical Journal, 116(3), 292a-293a.

Rao, T. C., Ma, V. P. Y., Urner, T. M., Grandhi, S., Salaita, K., & Mattheyses, A. L. (2019). EGFR Activation Enables Increased Integrin Forces and Organization of Mature Focal Adhesions. Biophysical Journal, 116(3), 413a.

Quach, M. E., Combs, D., Salaita, K., & Li, R. (2019). Force-Induced Unfolding of a Mechanosensory Domain in Platelet Glycoprotein (Gp) Ib-IX under Solution and Adherent Conditions. Biophysical Journal, 116(3), 376a.

Weinert Group

Cary, S. P., Boon, E. M., Weinert, E., Winger, J. A., & Marletta, M. A. (2019). U.S. Patent Application No. 10/202,428.

 

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December Research Round-Up

Congratulations to our amazing research teams here in the Department of Chemistry for their publications this month!

Bowman Group

Babikov, D., Benoit, D., Bowman, J., Burd, T., Clary, D., Donovan, R., … & Kirrander, A. (2018). Quantum dynamics of isolated molecules: general discussion. Faraday discussions.

Ban, L., Bowman, J., Bradforth, S., Chambaud, G., Dracinsky, M., Fischer, I., … & McCoy, A. B. (2018). Molecules in confinement in liquid solvents: general discussion. Faraday discussions.

Qu, C., & Bowman, J. M. (2018). Assessing the Importance of the H2 (H2O) 2 3-Body Interaction on the Vibrational Frequency Shift of H2 in the sII Clathrate Hydrate and Comparison with Experiment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.

Davies Group

Fu, J., Ren, Z., Bacsa, J., Musaev, D. G., & Davies, H. M. (2018). Desymmetrization of cyclohexanes by site-and stereoselective C–H functionalization. Nature, 564(7736), 395.

Dyer Group

Zhao, J., Su, H., Vansuch, G. E., Liu, Z., Salaita, K., & Dyer, R. B. (2018). Localized Nanoscale Heating Leads to Ultrafast Hydrogel Volume-Phase Transition. ACS nano.

Heaven Group

Kaledin, L. A., Kaledin, A. L., & Heaven, M. C. (2019). The electronic structure of thorium monoxide: Ligand field assignment of states in the range 0–5 eV. Journal of computational chemistry, 40(2), 430-446.

Kindt Group

Zhang, X., Arce, J. G., & Kindt, J. T. (2018). Derivation of micelle size-dependent free energies of aggregation for octyl phosphocholine from molecular dynamics simulation. Fluid Phase Equilibria.

Lynn Group

McGill, T. L., Williams, L. C., Mulford, D. R., Blakey, S. B., Harris, R. J., Kindt, J. T., … & Powell, N. L. (2018). Chemistry Unbound: Designing a New Four-Year Undergraduate Curriculum. Journal of Chemical Education.

Musaev Group

Fu, J., Ren, Z., Bacsa, J., Musaev, D. G., & Davies, H. M. (2018). Desymmetrization of cyclohexanes by site-and stereoselective C–H functionalization. Nature, 564(7736), 395.

Salaita Group

Zhao, J., Su, H., Vansuch, G. E., Liu, Z., Salaita, K., & Dyer, R. B. (2018). Localized Nanoscale Heating Leads to Ultrafast Hydrogel Volume-Phase Transition. ACS nano.

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November Research Round-Up

Congratulations to our amazing research teams here in the Department of Chemistry for their publications this month!

Bowman Group:

Chen, Q., & Bowman, J. M. (2018). Quantum approaches to vibrational dynamics and spectroscopy: is ease of interpretation sacrificed as rigor increases?. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Yang, B., Zhang, P., Chen, Q., Stancil, P., Bowman, J. M., Naduvalath, B., & Forrey, R. C. (2018). Inelastic Vibrational Dynamics of CS in Collision with H2 Using a Full-dimensional Potential Energy Surface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Dunham Group:

Hong, S., Sunita, S., Maehigashi, T., Hoffer, E. D., Dunkle, J. A., & Dunham, C. M. (2018). Mechanism of tRNA-mediated+ 1 ribosomal frameshifting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(44), 11226-11231.

Rivera, S., Young, P. G., Hoffer, E. D., Vansuch, G. E., Metzler, C. L., Dunham, C. M., & Weinert, E. E. (2018). Structural Insights into Oxygen-Dependent Signal Transduction within Globin Coupled Sensors. Inorganic chemistry.

Hoffer, E. D., Maehigashi, T., Fredrick, K., & Dunham, C. M. (2018). Ribosomal ambiguity (ram) mutations promote the open (off) to closed (on) transition and thereby increase miscoding. Nucleic Acids Research.

Hill Group:

Sullivan, K. P., Wieliczko, M., Kim, M., Yin, Q., Collins-Wildman, D. L., Mehta, A. K., … & Hill, C. L. (2018). Speciation and Dynamics in the [Co4V2W18O68] 10-/Co (II) aq/CoOx Catalytic Water Oxidation System. ACS Catalysis.

Kaledin, A. L., Troya, D., Karwacki, C. J., Balboa, A., Gordon, W. O., Morris, J. R., … & Musaev, D. G. (2018). Key Mechanistic Details of Paraoxon Decomposition by Polyoxometalates: Critical Role of Para-Nitro Substitution. Chemical Physics.

Lian Group:

Clark, M. L., Ge, A., Videla, P. E., Rudshteyn, B., Miller, C. J., Song, J., … & Kubiak, C. P. (2018). CO2 Reduction Catalysts on Gold Electrode Surfaces Influenced by Large Electric Fields. Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Lutz Group:

Williams, E., Jung, S. M., Coffman, J. L., & Lutz, S. (2018). Pore engineering for enhanced mass transport in encapsulin nano-compartments. ACS synthetic biology.

Musaev Group:

Kaledin, A. L., Troya, D., Karwacki, C. J., Balboa, A., Gordon, W. O., Morris, J. R., … & Musaev, D. G. (2018). Key Mechanistic Details of Paraoxon Decomposition by Polyoxometalates: Critical Role of Para-Nitro Substitution. Chemical Physics.

Salaita Group:

Hong, J., Ge, C., Jothikumar, P., Yuan, Z., Liu, B., Bai, K., … & Palin, A. (2018). A TCR mechanotransduction signaling loop induces negative selection in the thymus. Nature Immunology, 1.

Weinert Group

Rivera, S., Young, P. G., Hoffer, E. D., Vansuch, G. E., Metzler, C. L., Dunham, C. M., & Weinert, E. E. (2018). Structural Insights into Oxygen-Dependent Signal Transduction within Globin Coupled Sensors. Inorganic chemistry.

Fontaine, B. M., Duggal, Y., & Weinert, E. E. (2018). Exploring the Links Between Nucleotide Signaling and Quorum Sensing Pathways in Regulating Bacterial Virulence. ACS infectious diseases.

Wuest Group:

Kontos, R. C., Schallenhammer, S. A., Bentley, B. S., Morrison, K. R., Feliciano, J. A., Tasca, J. A., … & Minbiole, K. P. (2018). An Investigation Into Rigidity‐Activity Relationships in bisQAC Amphiphilic Antiseptics. ChemMedChem.

Shapiro, J. A., Varga, J. J., Parsonage, D., Walton, W., Redinbo, M. R., Ross, L. J., … & Goldberg, J. B. (2018). Identification of Specific and Non‐specific Inhibitors of Bacillus anthracis Type III Pantothenate Kinase (PanK). ChemMedChem.

Kilgore, M. B., Morrison, K. R., Wuest, W. M., & Chandler, J. D. (2018). Influence of pH on the reactions of heme peroxidase-derived oxidants with R19S. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 128, S101-S102.

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October Research Round-Up

Congratulations to our amazing research teams here in the Department of Chemistry for their publications this month!

Bowman Group:

Nandi, A., Qu, C., & Bowman, J. M. (2018). Diffusion Monte Carlo Calculations of Zero‐Point Energies of Methanol and Deuterated Methanol. Journal of computational chemistry.

Davies Group:

Davies, H. M., Itami, K., & Stoltz, B. M. (2018). New directions in natural product synthesis. Chemical Society Reviews.

Evangelista Group:

Huang, Y., Xu, Z., Jin, S., Li, C., Warncke, K., Evangelista, F. A., … & Egap, E. (2018). Conjugated Oligomers with Stable Radical Substituents: Synthesis, Single Crystal Structures, Electronic Structure and Excited State Dynamics. Chemistry of Materials.

Heaven Group

Torbin, A., Pershin, A., Zagidullin, M., Heaven, M., Mebel, A., & Azyazov, V. (2018). Ozone recovery in the presence of CO and N2O. In MATEC Web of Conferences(Vol. 209, p. 00016). EDP Sciences.

Tolstov, G. I., Zagidullin, M. V., Khvatov, N. A., Medvedkov, I. A., Mebel, A. M., Heaven, M. C., & Azyazov, V. N. (2018). Measurements of rate constants of O2 (b) quenching by CH4, NO, N2O at temperatures 300-800 K. In MATEC Web of Conferences(Vol. 209, p. 00006). EDP Sciences.

Heaven, M. C. (2018, October). Optically pumped rare gas lasers (Conference Presentation). In High-Power Lasers: Technology and Systems, Platforms, and Effects II(Vol. 10798, p. 1079806). International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Heemstra Group

Wilson, C. J., Bommarius, A. S., Champion, J. A., Chernoff, Y. O., Lynn, D. G., Paravastu, A. K., … & Heemstra, J. M. (2018). Biomolecular Assemblies: Moving from Observation to Predictive Design. Chemical reviews.

Morris, F. D., Peterson, E. M., Heemstra, J. M., & Harris, J. M. (2018). Single-Molecule Kinetic Investigation of Cocaine-Dependent Split-Aptamer Assembly. Analytical chemistry.

Hill Group

Kaledin, A. L., Hill, C. L., Lian, T., & Musaev, D. G. (2018). A bulk adjusted linear combination of atomic orbitals (BA‐LCAO) approach for nanoparticles. Journal of computational chemistry.

Ke Group

Wang, P., & Ke, Y. (2018). Attack on the Cell Membrane: The Pointy Ends of DNA Nanostructures Lead the Way.

Wang, D., Song, J., Wang, P., Pan, V., Zhang, Y., Cui, D., & Ke, Y. (2018). Design and operation of reconfigurable two-dimensional DNA molecular arrays. Nature protocols, 1.

Kindt Group

Patel, L. A., & Kindt, J. T. (2018). Simulations of NaCl Aggregation from Solution: Solvent Determines Topography of Free Energy Landscape. Journal of computational chemistry.

Guo, Z., & Kindt, J. T. (2018). Partitioning of Size-mismatched Impurities to Grain Boundaries in 2-d Solid Hard Sphere Monolayers. Langmuir.

Lian Group

Kaledin, A. L., Hill, C. L., Lian, T., & Musaev, D. G. (2018). A bulk adjusted linear combination of atomic orbitals (BA‐LCAO) approach for nanoparticles. Journal of computational chemistry.

Huang, Y., Xu, Z., Jin, S., Li, C., Warncke, K., Evangelista, F. A., … & Egap, E. (2018). Conjugated Oligomers with Stable Radical Substituents: Synthesis, Single Crystal Structures, Electronic Structure and Excited State Dynamics. Chemistry of Materials.

Lynn Group

Wilson, C. J., Bommarius, A. S., Champion, J. A., Chernoff, Y. O., Lynn, D. G., Paravastu, A. K., … & Heemstra, J. M. (2018). Biomolecular Assemblies: Moving from Observation to Predictive Design. Chemical reviews.

Musaev Group

Kaledin, A. L., Hill, C. L., Lian, T., & Musaev, D. G. (2018). A bulk adjusted linear combination of atomic orbitals (BA‐LCAO) approach for nanoparticles. Journal of computational chemistry.

Haines, B. E., Nelson, B. M., Grandner, J. M., Kim, J., Houk, K. N., Movassaghi, M., & Musaev, D. G. (2018). Mechanism of Permanganate-Promoted Dihydroxylation of Complex Diketopiperazines: Critical Roles of Counter-cation and Ion-Pairing. Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Wuest Group

Ernouf, G., Wilt, I., Zahim, S., & Wuest, W. M. (2018). Epoxy isonitriles, a unique class of antibiotics–Synthesis of their metabolites and biological investigations. ChemBioChem.