Research

Publications (since 2006):

  • Reynaert, N. L., van der Vliet, A., Guala, A. S., McGovern, T., Hristova, M., Pantano, C., Heintz, N. H., Heim, J., Ho, Y. S., Matthews, D. E., Wouters, E. F., and Janssen-Heininger, Y. M. (2006) Dynamic redox control of NF-kappaB through glutaredoxin-regulated S-glutathionylation of inhibitory kappaB kinase beta. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, 13086-13091
  • Zappaterra, M. D., Lisgo, S. N., Lindsay, S., Gygi, S. P., Walsh, C. A., and Ballif, B. A. (2007) A comparative proteomic analysis of human and rat embryonic cerebrospinal fluid. Journal of proteome research 6, 3537-3548
  • Ballif, B. A., Carey, G. R., Sunyaev, S. R., and Gygi, S. P. (2008) Large-scale identification and evolution indexing of tyrosine phosphorylation sites from murine brain. Journal of proteome research 7, 311-318
  • Connors, E. C., Ballif, B. A., and Morielli, A. D. (2008) Homeostatic regulation of Kv1.2 potassium channel trafficking by cyclic AMP. The Journal of biological chemistry 283, 3445-3453
  • McCarthy, S. M., Bove, P. F., Matthews, D. E., Akaike, T., and van der Vliet, A. (2008) Nitric oxide regulation of MMP-9 activation and its relationship to modifications of the cysteine switch. Biochemistry 47, 5832-5840
  • Thornton, T. M., Pedraza-Alva, G., Deng, B., Wood, C. D., Aronshtam, A., Clements, J. L., Sabio, G., Davis, R. J., Matthews, D. E., Doble, B., and Rincon, M. (2008) Phosphorylation by p38 MAPK as an alternative pathway for GSK3beta inactivation. Science 320, 667-670
  • Young, B. A., Girard, B. M., and Parsons, R. L. (2008) Neurturin suppresses injury-induced neuronal activating transcription factor 3 expression in cultured guinea pig cardiac ganglia. The Journal of comparative neurology 508, 795-805
  • Gallant, C. V., Sedic, M., Chicoine, E. A., Ruiz, T., and Mintz, K. P. (2008) Membrane morphology and leukotoxin secretion are associated with a novel membrane protein of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans. Journal of bacteriology 190, 5972-5980
  • Miller, M. S., Lekkas, P., Braddock, J. M., Farman, G. P., Ballif, B. A., Irving, T. C., Maughan, D. W., and Vigoreaux, J. O. (2008) Aging enhances indirect flight muscle fiber performance yet decreases flight ability in Drosophila. Biophysical journal 95, 2391-2401
  • Previs, M. J., VanBuren, P., Begin, K. J., Vigoreaux, J. O., LeWinter, M. M., and Matthews, D. E. (2008) Quantification of protein phosphorylation by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Analytical chemistry 80, 5864-5872
  • Acosta-Jaquez, H. A., Keller, J. A., Foster, K. G., Ekim, B., Soliman, G. A., Feener, E. P., Ballif, B. A., and Fingar, D. C. (2009) Site-specific mTOR phosphorylation promotes mTORC1-mediated signaling and cell growth. Molecular and cellular biology 29, 4308-4324
  • Krudysz-Amblo, J., Parhami-Seren, B., Butenas, S., Brummel-Ziedins, K. E., Gomperts, E. D., Rivard, G. E., and Mann, K. G. (2009) Quantitation of anti-factor VIII antibodies in human plasma. Blood 113, 2587-2594
  • Lechtreck, K. F., Johnson, E. C., Sakai, T., Cochran, D., Ballif, B. A., Rush, J., Pazour, G. J., Ikebe, M., and Witman, G. B. (2009) The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii BBSome is an IFT cargo required for export of specific signaling proteins from flagella. The Journal of cell biology 187, 1117-1132
  • Foster, K. G., Acosta-Jaquez, H. A., Romeo, Y., Ekim, B., Soliman, G. A., Carriere, A., Roux, P. P., Ballif, B. A., and Fingar, D. C. (2010) Regulation of mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) by raptor Ser863 and multisite phosphorylation. The Journal of biological chemistry 285, 80-94
  • Heaslip, A. T., Leung, J. M., Carey, K. L., Catti, F., Warshaw, D. M., Westwood, N. J., Ballif, B. A., and Ward, G. E. (2010) A small-molecule inhibitor of T. gondii motility induces the posttranslational modification of myosin light chain-1 and inhibits myosin motor activity. PLoS pathogens 6, e1000720
  • Tang, G., and Mintz, K. P. (2010) Glycosylation of the collagen adhesin EmaA of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is dependent upon the lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic pathway. Journal of bacteriology 192, 1395-1404
  • Buel, G. R., Rush, J., and Ballif, B. A. (2010) Fyn promotes phosphorylation of collapsin response mediator protein 1 at tyrosine 504, a novel, isoform-specific regulatory site. Journal of cellular biochemistry 111, 20-28
  • Knowlton, M. L., Selfors, L. M., Wrobel, C. N., Gu, T. L., Ballif, B. A., Gygi, S. P., Polakiewicz, R., and Brugge, J. S. (2010) Profiling Y561-dependent and -independent substrates of CSF-1R in epithelial cells. PloS one 5, e13587
  • Krudysz-Amblo, J., Jennings, M. E., 2nd, Mann, K. G., and Butenas, S. (2010) Carbohydrates and activity of natural and recombinant tissue factor. The Journal of biological chemistry 285, 3371-3382
  • -Galbraith, R. H., Ohi, M. D., Ballif, B. A., Chen, J. S., McLeod, I., McDonald, W. H., Gygi, S. P., Yates, J. R., 3rd, and Gould, K. L. (2010) Dephosphorylation of F-BAR protein Cdc15 modulates its conformation and stimulates its scaffolding activity at the cell division site. Molecular cell 39, 86-99
  • Roskens, V. A., Carpenter, J. M., Pickett, K. M., and Ballif, B. A. (2010) Preservation of field samples for enzymatic and proteomic characterization: analysis of proteins from the trophallactic fluid of hornets and yellowjackets. Journal of proteome research 9, 5484-5491
  • Rumora, A. E., Steere, A. N., Ramsey, J. E., Knapp, A. M., Ballif, B. A., and Kelm, R. J., Jr. (2010) Isolation and characterization of the core single-stranded DNA-binding domain of purine-rich element binding protein B (Purbeta). Biochemical and biophysical research communications 400, 340-345
  • Schalm, S. S., Ballif, B. A., Buchanan, S. M., Phillips, G. R., and Maniatis, T. (2010) Phosphorylation of protocadherin proteins by the receptor tyrosine kinase Ret. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, 13894-13899
  • Mendoza, M. C., Er, E. E., Zhang, W., Ballif, B. A., Elliott, H. L., Danuser, G., and Blenis, J. (2011) ERK-MAPK drives lamellipodia protrusion by activating the WAVE2 regulatory complex. Molecular cell 41, 661-671
  • Minajigi, A., Deng, B., and Francklyn, C. S. (2011) Fidelity escape by the unnatural amino acid beta-hydroxynorvaline: an efficient substrate for Escherichia coli threonyl-tRNA synthetase with toxic effects on growth. Biochemistry 50, 1101-1109
  • Purmessur, D., Schek, R. M., Abbott, R. D., Ballif, B. A., Godburn, K. E., and Iatridis, J. C. (2011) Notochordal conditioned media from tissue increases proteoglycan accumulation and promotes a healthy nucleus pulposus phenotype in human mesenchymal stem cells. Arthritis research & therapy 13, R81
  • Bokiej, M., Livermore, A. T., Harris, A. W., Onishi, A. C., and Sandwick, R. K. (2011) Ribose sugars generate internal glycation cross-links in horse heart myoglobin. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 407, 191-196
  • Echeverria, P. C., Figueras, M. J., Vogler, M., Kriehuber, T., de Miguel, N., Deng, B., Dalmasso, M. C., Matthews, D. E., Matrajt, M., Haslbeck, M., Buchner, J., and Angel, S. O. (2010) The Hsp90 co-chaperone p23 of Toxoplasma gondii: Identification, functional analysis and dynamic interactome determination. Molecular and biochemical parasitology 172, 129-140
  • Cheerathodi, M., and Ballif, B. A. (2011) Identification of CrkL-SH3 binding proteins from embryonic murine brain: implications for Reelin signaling during brain development. Journal of proteome research 10, 4453-4462
  • Gotelli, N. J., Smith, A. M., Ellison, A. M., and Ballif, B. A. (2011) Proteomic characterization of the major arthropod associates of the carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Proteomics 11, 2354-2358
  • Palmer, B. M., Sadayappan, S., Wang, Y., Weith, A. E., Previs, M. J., Bekyarova, T., Irving, T. C., Robbins, J., and Maughan, D. W. (2011) Roles for cardiac MyBP-C in maintaining myofilament lattice rigidity and prolonging myosin cross-bridge lifetime. Biophysical journal 101, 1661-1669
  • Spiess, P. C., Deng, B., Hondal, R. J., Matthews, D. E., and van der Vliet, A. (2011) Proteomic profiling of acrolein adducts in human lung epithelial cells. Journal of proteomics 74, 2380-2394
  • Caldwell, G. B., Howe, A. K., Nickl, C. K., Dostmann, W. R., Ballif, B. A., and Deming, P. B. (2012) Direct modulation of the protein kinase A catalytic subunit alpha by growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases. Journal of cellular biochemistry 113, 39-48
  • Daly, A. B., Wallis, J. M., Borg, Z. D., Bonvillain, R. W., Deng, B., Ballif, B. A., Jaworski, D. M., Allen, G. B., and Weiss, D. J. (2012) Initial binding and recellularization of decellularized mouse lung scaffolds with bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells. Tissue engineering. Part A 18, 1-16
  • Helias, V., Saison, C., Ballif, B. A., Peyrard, T., Takahashi, J., Takahashi, H., Tanaka, M., Deybach, J. C., Puy, H., Le Gall, M., Sureau, C., Pham, B. N., Le Pennec, P. Y., Tani, Y., Cartron, J. P., and Arnaud, L. (2012) ABCB6 is dispensable for erythropoiesis and specifies the new blood group system Langereis. Nature genetics 44, 170-173
  • Hristova, M., Spiess, P. C., Kasahara, D. I., Randall, M. J., Deng, B., and van der Vliet, A. (2012) The tobacco smoke component, acrolein, suppresses innate macrophage responses by direct alkylation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase. American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 46, 23-33
  • Saison, C., Helias, V., Ballif, B. A., Peyrard, T., Puy, H., Miyazaki, T., Perrot, S., Vayssier-Taussat, M., Waldner, M., Le Pennec, P. Y., Cartron, J. P., and Arnaud, L. (2012) Null alleles of ABCG2 encoding the breast cancer resistance protein define the new blood group system Junior. Nature genetics 44, 174-177
  • Saison, C., Peyrard, T., Landre, C., Ballif, B. A., Schlosser, K. A., Dettori, I., Chicheportiche, C., Nemeth, P., Cartron, J. P., and Arnaud, L. (2012) A new AQP1 null allele identified in a Gypsy woman who developed an anti-CO3 during her first pregnancy. Vox sanguinis 103, 137-144
  • Tang, G., Kawai, T., Komatsuzawa, H., and Mintz, K. P. (2012) Lipopolysaccharides mediate leukotoxin secretion in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans. Molecular oral microbiology 27, 70-82
  • Wallis, J. M., Borg, Z. D., Daly, A. B., Deng, B., Ballif, B. A., Allen, G. B., Jaworski, D. M., and Weiss, D. J. (2012) Comparative assessment of detergent-based protocols for mouse lung de-cellularization and re-cellularization. Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods 18, 420-432
  • Weith, A., Sadayappan, S., Gulick, J., Previs, M. J., Vanburen, P., Robbins, J., and Warshaw, D. M. (2012) Unique single molecule binding of cardiac myosin binding protein-C to actin and phosphorylation-dependent inhibition of actomyosin motility requires 17 amino acids of the motif domain. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology 52, 219-227
  • Previs, M. J., Beck Previs, S., Gulick, J., Robbins, J., and Warshaw, D. M. (2012) Molecular mechanics of cardiac myosin-binding protein C in native thick filaments. Science 337, 1215-1218
  • Jabre, N. D., and Brewer, M. (2012) Stereoelectronic effects in the fragmentation of gamma-silyloxy-beta-hydroxy-alpha-diazocarbonyl compounds. The Journal of organic chemistry 77, 9910-9914
  • Goswami, T., Li, X., Smith, A. M., Luderowski, E. M., Vincent, J. J., Rush, J., and Ballif, B. A. (2012) Comparative phosphoproteomic analysis of neonatal and adult murine brain. Proteomics 12, 2185-2189
  • Valentine, M. S., Rajendran, A., Yano, J., Weeraratne, S. D., Beisson, J., Cohen, J., Koll, F., and Van Houten, J. (2012) Paramecium BBS genes are key to presence of channels in Cilia. Cilia 1, 16
  • Yano, J., Rajendran, A., Valentine, M. S., Saha, M., Ballif, B. A., and Van Houten, J. L. (2013) Proteomic analysis of the cilia membrane of Paramecium tetraurelia. Journal of proteomics 78, 113-122
  • Saha, M., Carriere, A., Cheerathodi, M., Zhang, X., Lavoie, G., Rush, J., Roux, P. P., and Ballif, B. A. (2012) RSK phosphorylates SOS1 creating 14-3-3-docking sites and negatively regulating MAPK activation. The Biochemical journal 447, 159-166
  • Anjum, R., Pae, E., Blenis, J., and Ballif, B. A. (2012) TPCK inhibits AGC kinases by direct activation loop adduction at phenylalanine-directed cysteine residues. FEBS letters 586, 3471-3476
  • Bior, B. K., and Ballif, B. A. (2013) Dab1 stabilizes its interaction with Cin85 by suppressing Cin85 phosphorylation at serine 587. FEBS letters 587, 60-66
  • Tang, G., Ruiz, T., and Mintz, K. P. (2012) O-polysaccharide glycosylation is required for stability and function of the collagen adhesin EmaA of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans. Infection and immunity 80, 2868-2877
  • Gotelli, N. J., Ellison, A. M., and Ballif, B. A. (2012) Environmental proteomics, biodiversity statistics and food-web structure. Trends in ecology & evolution 27, 436-442
  • Bonenfant, N. R., Sokocevic, D., Wagner, D. E., Borg, Z. D., Lathrop, M. J., Lam, Y. W., Deng, B., Desarno, M. J., Ashikaga, T., Loi, R., and Weiss, D. J. (2013) The effects of storage and sterilization on de-cellularized and re-cellularized whole lung. Biomaterials 34, 3231-45
  • Sokocevic, D., Bonenfant, N. R., Wagner, D. E., Borg, Z. D., Lathrop, M. J., Lam, Y. W., Deng, B., Desarno, M. J., Ashikaga, T., Loi, R., Hoffman, A. M., and Weiss, D. J. (2013) The effect of age and emphysematous and fibrotic injury on the re-cellularization of de-cellularized lungs. Biomaterials 34, 3256-69
  • Syed, K., Porollo, A., Lam, Y. W., Grimmett, P. E., and Yadav, J. S. (2013) A catalytically versatile fungal P450 monooxygenase (CYP63A2) capable of oxidizing higher polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, alkylphenols, and alkanes. Applied and environmental microbiology

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