Hergenrother Group Publications


63.

Peterson, Q. P.; Goode, D. R.; West, D. C.; Ramsey, K. N.; Lee, J. J.; Hergenrother, P. J. "PAC-1 Activates Procaspase-3 in vitro Through Relief of Zinc-Mediated Inhibition" J. Mol. Biol. 2009, 388, 144-158.
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62. 

Rosenthal, A. S.; Chen, X.; Liu, J.; West, D. C.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Shapiro, T. A; Posner, G. H. "Malaria-Infected Mice Are Cured by a Single Oral Dose of New Dimeric Trioxane Sulfones Having Also Selective and Powerful Anticancer Activity" J. Med. Chem. 2009, 52, 1198-1203.
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61. 

Thompson, C. M.; Quinn, C. A.; Hergenrother, P. J. "The Total Synthesis and Cytoprotective Properties of Dykellic Acid" J. Med. Chem. 2009, 52, 117-125.
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60. 

Palchaudhuri, R.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Structure-Activity-Relationship of Triphenylmethylamides, Compounds that Potently Induce Apoptosis in Melanoma Cell Lines" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2008, 18, 5888-5891.
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59. 

Williams, J. J.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Exposing Plasmids as the Achilles' Heel of Drug-Resistant Bacteria" Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2008, 12, 389-399.
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58. 

Palchaudhuri, R.; Nesterenko, V.; Hergenrother, P. J. "The Complex Role of the Triphenylmethyl Motif in Anti-Cancer Compounds" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 10274-10274.
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57. 

Chan, L. C.; Pineda, M.; Heeres, J. T.; Hergenrother, P. J., Cunningham, B. T. "A General Method for Discovering Inhibitors of Protein-DNA Interactions Using Photonic Crystal Biosensors" ACS Chem. Biol. 2008, 3, 437-448.
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56. 

Leslie, B. J.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Identification of the Cellular Targets of Bioactive Small Organic Molecules Using Affinity Reagents" Chem. Soc. Rev. 2008, 37, 1347-1360.
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55. 

Goode, D. R.; Totten, R. K.; Heeres, J. T.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Identification of Promiscuous Small Molecule Activators in High-Throughput Enzyme Activation Screens" J. Med. Chem. 2008, 51, 2346-2349.
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54. 

Mao, C.; Patterson, N.; Cherian, M.; Aninye, I.; Zhang, C.; Patterson, N.; Cheng, J.; Putt; K. S.; Hergenrother, P.J.; Wilson, E.; Nordeen, S. K.; Shapiro, D. J. "A Small Molecule, Identified as an Inhibitor of the Binding of Estrogen Receptor a to Estrogen Response Elements Blocks the Estrogen-dependent Growth of Cancer Cells" J. Biol. Chem. 2008, 283, 12819-12830.
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53. 

Thomas, J. R.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Targeting RNA with Small Molecules" Chem. Rev. 2008, 108, 1171-1224.
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52. 

Musk, D. J.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Chelated Iron Sources are Inhibitors of Psudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms and Distribute Efficiently in an in vitro Model of Drug Delivery to the Human Lung" J. Applied Microbiol. 2008, 105, 380-388.
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51. 

Nottbohm, A. C.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Replacing the Irreplaceable: Cyclic compounds as Novel Phosphate Mimics" The Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology, 2008, in press.

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50. 

Palchaudhuri, R.; Hergenrother, P. J. "DNA as a Target for Anti-Cancer Compounds: Methods to Determine the Mode of Binding and the Mechanism of Action" Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 2007, 18, 497-503.
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49. 

Heeres, J. T.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Poly(ADP-Ribose) Makes a Date with Death" Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2007, 11, 644-653.
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48. 

Wang, N. R.; Hergenrother, P. J. "A Continuous Fluorometric Assay for the Assessment of MazF Ribonuclease Activity" Anal. Biochem. 2007, 371, 173-183
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47. 

Skarda, D. E.; Putt, K. S.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Mulier, K. E.; Beilman, G. J. "Increased Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Activity During Porcine Hemorrhagic Shock is Transient and Predictive of Mortality" Resuscitation 2007, 75, 135-144.


46. 

Yu, K. N.; Lee, S.-M.; Han, J. Y.; Park, H.; Woo, M.-A.; Noh, M. S.; Hwang, S.-K.; Kwon, J.-T.; Jin, H.; Kim, Y.-K.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Jeong, D. H.; Lee, Y.-S.; Cho, M.-H. "Multiplex Targeting, Tracking and Imaging of Apoptosis by Fluorescent Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Dots" Bioconjugate Chem. 2007, 18, 1155-1162.


45. 

Nottbohm, A. C.; Dothager, R. S.; Putt, K. S.; Hoyt, M. T.; Hergenrother, P. J. "A Novel Colorimetric Substrate for Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 (PARP-1), VPARP, and Tankyrase-1" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 2066-2069.
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44. 

Nottbohm, A. C.; Hergenrother, P. J. "The Promises and Pitfalls of Small-Molecule Inhibition of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Glycohydrolase (PARG)" Book Chapter in: Drug Discovery Research: New Frontiers in the Post-Genomic Era; Wiley & Sons, 2007, 163-185.
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43. 

Sienkiewicz, P.; Ciolino, H.; Leslie, B. J.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Singletary, K.; Yeh, G. C. "A Novel Synthetic Analogue of a Constituent of Isodon excisus Inhibits Transcription of CYP1A1, -1A2, and -1B1 by Preventing Activation of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor" Carcinogenesis 2007, 28, 1052-1057.

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42. 

Moritz, E. M.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Toxin-Antitoxin System are Ubiquitous and Plasmid Encoded in Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE)" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2007, 104, 311-316.
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41. 

Moritz, E. M.; Hergenrother, P. J. “The Prevalence of Plasmids and Other Mobile Genetic Elements in Clinically Important Drug-Resistant Bacteria” Book Chapter in: Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria; Horizon Scientific Press, 2007, 25-53.
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40. 

Putt, K. S.; Chen, G. W.; Pearson, J. M.; Sandhorst, J. S.; Hoagland, M. S.; Kwon, J.-T.; Hwang, S.-K.; Jin, H.; Churchwell, M. I.; Cho, M.-H.; Doerge, D. R.; Helferich, W. G.; Hergenrother, P. J. “Small-Molecule Activation of Procaspase-3 to Caspase-3 as a Personalized Anticancer Strategy” Nature Chemical Biology 2006, 2, 543-50.
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BBC News Highlight (#1 Most emailed story on website worldwide on Monday, August 28 3:20 pm)
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Nature Podcast 7 September 2006; description of our work starts ~19 minutes in (move slider 75% of the way to the right)


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39. 

Putt, K. S.; Nesterenko, V.; Dothager, R. S.; Hergenrother, P. J. “The Compound 13-D Selectively Induces Apoptosis in White Blood Cancers Versus Other Cancer Cell Types” ChemBioChem 2006, 7, 1916-1922.
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38. 

Thomas, J. R.; Liu, X.; Hergenrother, P. J. “Biochemical and Thermodynamic Characterization of Compounds that Bind to RNA Hairpin Loops: Toward an Understanding of Selectivity” Biochemistry 2006, 45, 10928 -10938.
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37. 

Musk, D. J.; Hergenrother, P. J. “Chemical Countermeasures for the Control of Bacterial Biofilms: Effective Compounds and Promising Targets” Curr. Med. Chem. 2006, 13, 2163-2177 (review).
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36. 

Hergenrother, P. J. “Obtaining and screening compound collections: A user’s guide and a call to chemists” Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2006, 10(3), 213-218.
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35. 

Silverman, S. K.; Hergenrother, P. J. “Tools for Molecular Diversification and Their Applications to Chemical Biology” Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2006, 10, 185-187 (Editorial Overview).


34. 

Hergenrother, P. J. “DNA Binders and Related Subjects: Topics in Current Chemistry 253” (Book Review) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 3469-3470.


33. 

Thomas, J.R.; Liu, X.; Hergenrother, P.J. "Size-Specific Ligands for RNA Hairpin Loops." JACS, 2005, 127, 12434-12435.
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32. 

Goode, D.R.; Sharma, A.K.; Hergenrother, P.J. "Using Peptidic Inhibitors to Systematically Probe the S1' Site of Caspases-3 and -7." Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 3529-3532.
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31. 

Musk, D.J.; Banko, D.A.; Hergenrother, P.J. "Iron Salts Perturb Biofilm Formation and Disrupt Existing Biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa." Chem. Biol., 2005, 12, 789-796.
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30. 

Dothager, R.S.; Putt, K.S.; Allen, B.J.; Leslie, B.J.; Nesterenko, V.; Hergenrother, P.J. "Synthesis and Identification of Small Molecules that Potently Induce Apoptosis in Melanoma Cell Through G1 Cell Cycle Arrest." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 8686-8696.
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Chemical & Engineering News Highlight

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29. 

Thomas, J.R.; DeNap, J.C.B.; Wong, M.; Hergenrother, P.J. "The Relationship Between Aminoglycosides' RNA Binding Proclivity and Their Antiplasmid Effect on an IncB Plasmid." Biochemistry, 2005, 44(18), 6800-6808.
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28. 

Baudry, J.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Structure-based Design and In-Silico Virtual Screening of Combinatorial Libraries. A Combined Chemical/Computational Laboratory Assignment" J. Chem. Ed. 2005, 82, 890-894.
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27. 

DeNap, J. C. B.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Bacterial Death comes Full Circle: Targeting Plasmid Replication in Drug-Resistant Bacteria" (Perspective) Org. Biomol. Chem. 2005, 3, 959 966.
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26. 

Putt, K.S.; Beilman, G.J.; Hergenrother, P.J. "Direct Quantitation of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP) Activity as a Method to Distinguish Necrotic and Apoptotic Death in Cell and Tissue Samples" ChemBioChem. 2005, 6, 53-55.
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25. 

DeNap, J. B.; Thomas, J. R.; Musk, D. J.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Combating Drug-Resistant Bacteria: Small Molecule Mimics of Plasmid Incompatibility as Antiplasmid Compounds" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 15402-15404.
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C & E News Highlight
Drug Researcher.com
Drug Discovery Today Highlight

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24. 

Liu, X.; Thomas, J. R.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Deoxystreptamine Dimers bind to RNA Hairpin Loops" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9196-9197.
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23. 

Hergenrother, P. J.  "Medicinal Chemistry -- An Introduction" (Book review) Synthesis. 2004, 13, 2248.


22. 

Putt, K. S.; Hergenrother, P. J. "A non-radiometric, high-throughput assay for poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG): Application to inhibitor identification and evaluation." Anal. Biochem. 2004, 333, 256-264.
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21. 

Putt, K. S.; Hergenrother, P. J. "An Enzymatic Assay for Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP-1) via the Chemical Quantitation of NAD+: Application to the High-Throughput Screening of Small Molecules as Potential Inhibitors." Anal. Biochem. 2004, 326, 78-86.
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20. 

Nesterenko, V.; Putt, K. S.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Identification from a Combinatorial Library of a Small Molecule that Selectively Induces Apoptosis in Cancer Cells." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 14672-14673.
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UIUC Press Release

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19. 

Sharma, A. K.; Hergenrother, P. J. "An Efficient Synthesis of Enantiopure b-Amino-g-Keto Acids from L-Homoserine" Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 2107-2109.
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18. 

Nesterenko, V.; Byers, J. T.; Hergenrother, P. J. "The Use of pH to Influence Regio- and Chemoselectivity in the Asymmetric Aminohydroxylation of Styrenes" Org. Lett 2003, 5, 281-284.
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From Harvard
17. 

Kuruvilla, F. G.; Shamji, A. F.; Sternson, S. M.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Schreiber, S. L. "Dissecting Glucose Signaling with Diversity-Oriented Synthesis and Small Molecule Microarrays" Nature, 2002, 416, 653-657.


16. 

Hergenrother, P. J.; Depew, K. M.; Schreiber, S. L. "Small-Molecule Microarrays: Covalent Attachment and Screening of Alcohol Containing Small Molecules on Glass Slides" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 7849-7850.


From Texas
15. 

Breton, P.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Hida, T.; Hodgson, A.; Judd, A. S.; Kraynack, E.; Kym, P. R.; Lee, W.-C.; Loft, M. S.; Yamashita, M.; Martin, S. F. "Total Synthesis of Erythromycin B" Tetrahedron 2007, 63, 5709-5729.


14. 

Hergenrother, P. J.; Hodgson, A.; Judd, A. S.; Lee, W.-C.; Martin, S. F. "An Abiotic Strategy for the Enantioselective Synthesis of Erythromycin B" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 2003, 42, 3278-3281.


13. 

Antikainen, N. M.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Harris, M. M.; Corbett, B.; Martin, S. F. "Altering Substrate Specificity of Phosphatidylcholine-Preferring Phospholipase C of Bacillus cereus by Random Mutagenesis of the Headgroup Binding Site" Biochemistry 2003, 42, 1603-1610


12. 

Crowe, M. C.; Brodbelt, J. S.; Goolsby, B. J.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Characterization of Erythromycin Analogs by Collisional Activated Dissociation and Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation in a Quadrupole Ion Trap" J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 2002, 13, 630-649


11. 

Hergenrother, P. J.; Martin, S. F. "Phosphatidylcholine-Preferring Phospholipase C from B. cereus. Function, Structure, and Mechanism. Topics in Current Chemistry 2000, 211, 131-167.


10. 

Martin, S. F.; Follows, B. C.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Franklin, C. L. "A Novel Class of Zinc Binding Inhibitors for the Phosphatidylcholine-Preferring Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus" J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 4509-4514.


9. 

Martin, S. F.; Follows, B. C.; Hergenrother, P. J.; Trotter, B. K. "The Choline Binding site of Phospholipase C: Investigations into Substrate Specificity" Biochemistry 2000, 39, 3410-3415


8.

Martin, S. F.; DeBlanc, R. L.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Determination of the Substrate Specificity of the Phospholipase D from Streptomyces chromofuscus via an Inorganic Phosphate Quantitation Assay" Anal. Biochem. 2000, 278, 106-110.


7.

Martin, S. F., Hergenrother, P. J. "The Catalytic Cycle of the Phosphatidylcholine-Preferring Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus. Solvent Viscosity, Deuterium Isotope Effects, Proton Inventory, and Product Inhibition Studies" Biochemistry 1999, 38, 4403-4408.


6. 

Martin, S. F.; Hergenrother, P. J. "General Base Catalysis by Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus: the Role of Glu4 and Asp55" Biochemistry 1998, 37, 5755-5760.


5.

Martin, S. F.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Enzymatic Synthesis of a Modified Phospholipid and its Evaluation as a Substrate for B. cereus Phospholipase C" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 1998, 8, 593-596.


4.

Hergenrother, P. J.; Martin, S. F. "Determination of the Kinetic Parameters for Phospholipase C (Bacillus cereus) on Different Phospholipid Substrates Using a Chromogenic Assay Based on the Quantitation of Inorganic Phosphate" Anal. Biochem. 1997, 251, 45-49.


3. 

Hergenrother, P. J.; Martin, S. F.; Haas, M. K. "Chromogenic Assay for Phospholipase D from Streptomyces chromofuscus: Application to the Evaluation of Substrate Analogues" Lipids 1997, 32, 783-788.


2. 

Martin, S. F.; Spaller, M. R.; Hergenrother, P. J. "Expression and Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the Phosphatidylcholine-Preferring Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus: Probing the Role of Active Site Glu146" Biochemistry 1996, 35, 12970-12977.


1. 

Hergenrother, P. J.; Spaller, M. R.; Haas, M. K., Martin, S. F. "Chromogenic Assay for Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus" Anal. Biochem. 1995, 229, 313-316


 

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