Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Annual Report for 2014
Scholarship
Total of 41 Publications:
1. B. Du2, S. P. Haddad, A. Leuk, W. C. Scott, G. N. Saari, L. A. Kristofco, K. A. Connors, C. Rash1, J. B. Rasmussen, C. K. Chambliss, and B. W. Brooks*, “Bioaccumulation and trophic dilution of human pharmaceuticals across trophic levels of an effluent-dependent wadeable stream,” Philosophical Trans. B 2014 369 (1656), article no. 20140058.
2. D. Olaitan, B. Zekavat, B. Dhungana1, W. C. Hockaday, C. K. Chambliss, and T. Solouki*, “Analysis of volatile organic compound mixtures using radio-frequency ionization/mass spectrometry,” Analytical Methods 2014, 6, 4982-4987.
3. D. Watkins*, K. O. Winemiller, M. A. Mora, B. Du2, C. K. Chambliss, B. W. Brooks, and D. Phalen, “Assessment of mosquitofish, Gambusia affins, health indicators in relation to domestic wastewater discharges in suburbs of Houston, USA,” Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 2014, 93, 13-18.
4. P. D. Hazelton, B. Du2, S. P. Haddad, A. K. Fritts, C. K. Chambliss, B. W. Brooks, and R. B. Bringolf, “Chronic fluoxetine exposure alters movement and burrowing in adult freshwater mussels,” Aquatic Toxicol. 2014, 151, 27-35.
5. S. Franzellitti*, S. Buratti, M. Capolupo, B. Du2, S. P. Haddad, C. K. Chambliss, B. W. Brooks, and E. Fabbri, “An exploratory investigation of various modes of action and potential adverse outcomes of fluoxetine in marine mussels,” Aquatic Toxicol. 2014, 151, 14-26.
6. B. Du2*, A. E. Price, W. C. Scott, L. A. Kristofco, A. J. Ramirez, C. K. Chambliss, J. C. Yelderman, and B. W. Brooks, “Comparison of contaminants of emerging concern removal, discharge, and water quality hazards among centralized and on-site wastewater treatment system effluents receiving common wastewater influent,” Sci. Total Environ. 2014, 466-467, 976-984.
7. “Viewpoint: Amyloids, Melanins and Oxidative Stress in Melanomagenesis” Liu-Smith, F.; Poe, C.; Farmer, P.J.; Meyskens, F.L., Jr. Exper. Dermatol. 2014 online 2014/10/1.
8. “Ligand-based Photooxidations of [Ru(bpy)2(ttma)]+ and Zn(ttma)2” Bruner, B.; Walker, M. B.; Zhang, D.; Selke, M.; Ghimire, M. M. M.; Omary, M. A.; Klausmeyer, K.; Farmer, P J. Dalton Trans. 2014, 43,11548-11557.
9. Dana A. Horgen, Charles M. Garner; “Influence of the azulene ring on the enantioseparation of 1,5-diols.”, Chromatography 2014, 1, 65-74.
10. Dana A. Horgen, Kevin K. Klausmeyer, Cody Carson, Harry Shen and Charles M. Garner, “Remarkably large remote-stereocenter-induced chromatographic differences: azulenyl 1,5-diols.”, Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 128-132.
11. Facile syntheses of functionalized toll-like receptor 7 agonists”, Babatope Akinbobuyi, Matthew R. Byrd, Charles A. Chang, Mysa Nguyen, Zacharie J. Seifert, Anne-Laure Flamar, Gerard Zurawski, Katherine C. Upchurch, SangKon Oh, Stephen H. Dempsey, Thomas J Enke, John Le, Hunter J. Winstead, Jose R. Boquin, and Robert R. Kane Tetrahedron Letters, 2015, 56(2), 458-460, Published online 12/4/2014 (doi 10.1016/jtetlet.2014.11.126)
12. “Comparison of surface modification chemistries in mouse, porcine, and human islets”, Jeffrey A. SoRelle, Mazhar A. Kanak, Takeshi Itoh, Joshua M. Horton, Bashoo Naziruddin, Robert R. Kane, J. Biomed. Mater. Res. Part A 2015. Published online 5/24/14 (doi 10.1002/jbm.a.35229)
13. Kim S. J.*, Chang J., and Singh M. (2015) Peptidoglycan architecture of Gram-positive bacteria by solid-state NMR. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, Vol. 1848 (1): 350-362.
14. Singh M., Kim S. J. Sharif S., Preobrazhenskaya M., and Schaefer J. (2015) REDOR constraints on the peptidoglycan lattice architecture of Staphylococcus aureus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, Vol. 1848 (1): 363-368.
15. Kim S. J., Singh M., Sharif S., and Schaefer J. (2014) Cross-link formation and peptidoglycan lattice assembly in the FemA mutant of Staphylococcus aureus. Biochemistry, Vol. 53 (9): 1420-1427.
16. H. Diez-y-Riega, D. Camejo, A. E. Rodriguez, and C. E. Manzanares, "Unsaturated hydrocarbons in the lakes of Titan: Benzene solubility in liquid ethane and methane at cryogenic temperatures " Planetary and Space Science, 99 (2014) 28-35.
17. H. Diez-y-Riega, D. Camejo, and C. E. Manzanares, "Thermal lens detection of one and two-color excitation of benzene in cryogenic liquid solutions", J. Raman Spectroscopy (accepted -under revision) (2014).
18. “Investigating the Ring Expansion Reaction of Pentaphenylborole and an Azide” Shannon A. Couchman, Trevor K. Thompson, David J. D. Wilson, Jason L. Dutton and Caleb D. Martin*, Chem. Commun., 2014, 11724-11726.
19. “Cross-Coupling Reactions Between Stable Carbenes” Cory M. Weinstein, Caleb D. Martin, Liu Liu and Guy Bertrand, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 6550-6553.
20. Heling Zhou, Rami R. Hallac, Ramona Lopez, Rebecca Denney, Matthew T. MacDonough, Li Li, Li Liu, Edward E. Graves, Mary Lynn Trawick, Kevin G. Pinney, and Ralph P. Mason, Evaluation of tumor ischemia in response to an indole-based vascular disrupting agent using BLI and 19F MRI, American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Accepted for publication on Monday November 24, 2014.
21. Protein charge ladders reveal that the net charge of ALS-linked superoxide dismutase can be different in sign and magnitude from predicted values. Shi Y, Abdolvahabi A, Shaw BF. Protein Sci. 2014 Oct 23(10):1417-33.
22. Metal-ion-specific screening of charge effects in protein amide H/D exchange and the Hofmeister series. Abdolvahabi A, Gober JL, Mowery RA, Shi Y, Shaw BF. Anal. Chem. 2014 Oct 21;86(20):10303-10.
23. Detection of leukocoria using a soft fusion of expert classifiers under non-clinical settings. Rivas-Perea P, Baker E, Hamerly G, Shaw BF. BMC Ophthalmol. 2014 Sep 9;14:110.
24. Insights into the Role of the Unusual Disulfide Bond in Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase. Sea K, Sohn SH, Durazo A, Sheng Y, Shaw BF, Cao X, Taylor AB, Whitson LJ, Holloway SP, Hart PJ, Cabelli DE, Gralla EB, Valentine JS. J. Biol. Chem. 2014 Nov 28. [Epub ahead of print]
25. Hee-Jeong Jang, Songyi Ham, Jesus A. I. Acapulco Jr., Yookyung Song, Soonchang Hong, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Fabrication of 2D Au Nanorings with Pt Framework,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 17674-17680 (2014).
26. Paul A. Brown, Chengyong Xu, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Periodic Trends of Pnictogen Substitution into a Graphene Monovacancy: A First Principles Investigation,” Chem. Mater. 26, 5735-5744 (2014).
27. Hee-Jeong Jang, Soonchang Hong, Songyi Ham, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Site-Specific Growth of a Pt Shell on Au Nanoplates: Tailoring their Surface Plasmonic Behavior,” Nanoscale 6, 7339-7345 (2014).
28. Kevin L. Shuford, “Modeling Nanoparticle Optics and Surface Enhanced Emission,” Invited Paper, AIP Conf. Proc. 1590, 168-177 (2014).
29. Harper, B., Miladi, M., Solouki, T.: Loss of Internal Backbone Carbonyls: Additional Evidence for Sequence-scrambling in Collision-induced Dissociation of y-Type Ions. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 25(10) 1716-1729 (2014) (Impact Factor: 3.594, 2012)
30. Brantley, M., Zekavat, B., Harper, B., Mason, R., Solouki, T.: Automated Deconvolution of Overlapped Ion Mobility Profiles. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 25(10) 1810-1819 (2014) (Impact Factor: 3.594, 2012)
31. Zekavat, B., Szulejko, J. E., LaBrecque, D., Olaitan, A. D., and Solouki, T.: Efficient Injection of Low Mass Ions into High Magnetic Field FTICR Mass Spectrometers. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 28(2) 230-8 (2014) (Impact Factor: 1.94, 2014) (Impact Factor: 2.64, 2014)
32. Birendra Dhungana, Christopher Becker, Behrooz Zekavat, Touradj Solouki, William C Hockaday, C Kevin Chambliss.: Characterization of Slow-Pyrolysis Bio-Oils by High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry, 12/22/2014 in press (Impact Factor: 2.73, 2014)
33. Zekavat, B., Miladi, M., Alfdeilat, A., Somogyi, A., and Solouki, T.: Evidence for Sequence Scrambling and Divergent H/D Exchange Reactions of Doubly-Charged Isobaric b Type Fragment ions. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 25(2) 226-36 (2014) (Impact Factor: 3.594)
34. AlAsiri, S., Basit, S., Wood-Trageser, M.A., Yatsenko, S.A., Jeffries, E.P., Surti, U., Ketterer, D.M., Afzal, S., Ramzan, R., Faiyaz-Ul Haque, M., Jiang, H, Trakselis, M.A., Rajkovic, A. (2015) Exome sequencing reveals MCM8 mutation underlies ovarian failure and chromosomal instability. J. Clin. Invest., 125 (1), 258-262.
35. Wood-Trageser, M.A., Gurbuz, F., Yatsenko, S.A., Jeffries, E.P., Kotan, L.D., Surti, U., Ketterer, D.M., Matic, J., Chipkin, J., Jiang, H, Trakselis, M.A., Topaloglu, A.K., Rajkovic, A. (2014) Exome sequencing identifies MCM9 mutations in ovarian failure, short stature and chromosomal instability. Am. J. Hum. Genetics, 95 (6) 754-762.
36. Nucleic Acid Polymerases, Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology Series, Vol. 30, Murakami, K.S. and Trakselis, M.A. (Eds.), Berlin, Germany, Springer, 2014
37. Trakselis, M.A. and Murakami, K.S. (2014) Introduction to Nucleic Acid Polymerases: Families, Themes, and Mechanisms, Nucleic Acid Polymerases, Murakami, K.S. and Trakselis, M.A. (Eds.), Berlin, Germany, Springer, Chapter 1.
38. Trakselis, M.A. and Bauer, R.J. (2014) Archaeal DNA Polymerases: Enzymatic Abilities, Coordination, and Unique Properties, Nucleic Acid Polymerases, Murakami, K.S. and Trakselis, M.A. (Eds.), Berlin, Germany, Springer, Chapter 7.
39. “Metformin Suppresses Gluconeogenesis by Inhibiting Mitochondrial Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase” Madiraju, A. K.; Erion, D. M.; Rahimi, Y.; Zhang, X.-M.; Braddock, D. T.; Albright, R. A.; Prigaro, B. J.;Wood, J. L.; Bhanot, S.; MacDonald, M. J.; Jurczak, M. J.; Camporez, J.-P.; Lee, H.-Y.; Cline, G. W.;Samuel, V. T.; Kibbey R. G.; Shulman, G. I. Nature 2014, 510, 542.
40. “Synthetic Studies Toward the Citrinadins: Enantioselective Preparation of an Advanced Spirooxindole Intermediate” Matsumaru, T.; McCallum, M. E.; Enquist Jr., J. A.; Smith, G. M., Kong, K., Wood, J. L.Tetrahedron 2014, 70, 4089-4093.
41. “Collaborative Synthesis” Wood, J. L. Nature 2014, 509, 203 (News and Views)
Presentations
Dr. Darrin J Bellert
1. 03/01-03/04: Invited talk at the Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics at Dallas
Dr. C. Kevin Chambliss
Invited Talks:
2. C. K. Chambliss*. “Bioaccumulation of Pharmaceuticals in Fish – What We Know and What We Don’t,” Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain, September 9, 2014.
3. C. K. Chambliss*, B. Du2, C. Rash1, A. Leuk, J. B. Rasmussen, and B.W. Brooks. “Bioaccumulation and Trophic Dilution of Human Pharmaceuticals in an Aquatic Food Web,” 34th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants, Madrid, Spain, September 4, 2014.
Additional Presentations:
4. R. S. King*, R. A. Brain, J. A. Back, C. Becker1, M. V. Wright, V. Toteu Djomte1, W. C. Scott, S. R. Virgil1, B. W. Brooks, A. J. Hosmer, and C. K. Chambliss, “Effects of pulsed atrazine exposures on autotrophic community structure, biomass, and production in field-based stream mesocosms,” SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 10, 2014 (oral).
5. K. A. Connors*, B. Du2, P. Fitzsimmons, C. K. Chambliss, J. W. Nichols, and B. W. Brooks, “Method optimization for fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) liver S9 isolation,” SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 13, 2014 (poster).
6. B. Du2*, S. P. Haddad, W. C. Scott, S. R. Burket, C. Breed, M. Kelly, L. Broach, B. W. Brooks, and C. K. Chambliss, “Differential trophic position accumulation of select contaminants of emerging concern in an urban bayou, Houston, Texas, USA,” SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 11, 2014 (poster).
7. S. R. Burket*, M. V. Wright, L. F. Baker, C. K. Chambliss, R. S. King, C. W. Matson, and B. W. Brooks, “Uptake of pharmaceuticals by Corbicula fluminea in an effluent-dependent experimental stream mesocosm study,” SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 11, 2014 (poster).
8. G. N. Saari*, B. Du2, S. P. Haddad, C. K. Chambliss, J. Corrales, and B. W. Brooks, “Influence of diltiazem on fathead minnow responses across dissolved oxygen gradients,” SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 11, 2014 (poster).
9. J. W. Nichols*, B. Du2, J. P. Berninger, K. A. Connors, C. K. Chambliss, R. J. Erickson, A. D. Hoffman, and B. W. Brooks, “Observed and modeled effects of pH on bioconcentration of diphenhydramine, a weakly basic pharmaceutical, in fathead minnows,” SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 11, 2014 (oral).
Dr. Patrick J Farmer
10. “The bioinorganic chemistry of HNO: the value of a different point of view” West Texas A&M University, March 6, 2014
Poster and oral presentations by research students:
11. “Organometallic reactivity of nitroxyl donors with transition metal complexes” Del Homme, Michelle E.; Farmer, Patrick J. Abstracts of Papers, 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, TX, United States, March 16-20, 2014, INOR-281.
12. “Is HNO produced from the reaction of H2S with GSNO or HNSO?” Kumar, Murugaeson; Clover, Tara; Farmer, Patrick J. Abstracts of Papers, 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, TX, United States, March 16-20, 2014, INOR-226.
13. “Catalyzing the copolymerization of CO2 and cyclohexene oxide by employing a dinuclear cobalt complex” Keim, Jonathan H.; Poe, Carrie; Farmer, Patrick Abstracts of Papers, 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, TX, United States, March 16-20, 2014, CHED-855.
Dr. Charles M Garner
14. American Scientific Affiliation meeting, Baylor University, November 17, 2014, “The current status of origin-of-life chemistry”.
Poster and oral presentations by research students:
15. "Novel C2-asymmetric bis-camphor phosphinine and bis-camphor phosphabarrelene ligands for asymmetric hydroformylation.", Dana A. Horgen, Charles M. Garner, Jason Bell and Kevin Klausmeyer, 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Dallas TX, March 17, 2014.
16. "Azulene-modified polysiloxane for use as a gas chromatography stationary phase", Matthew Jackson, Jason Schaffer, and Charles M. Garner, 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Dallas TX, March 17, 2014.
Dr. Bob Kane
17. Oral presentation at Keystone Conference “The Modes of Action of Vaccine Adjuvants”, October 8, Seattle WA: “Synthesis and Protein Conjugation of TLR Agonists”
Dr. Sung Joon Kim
18. The 4th International conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts. Talk titled “Acetate metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by solution-state NMR” Santa Fe NM (16-19 June, 2014).
19. Texas Christian University, Department of Chemistry, “Lipoglycopeptide antibiotic mode of action by solid-state NMR “Fort Worth TX (April 22, 2014).
20. Poster and oral presentations by research students:
21. Chang JD, and Kim SJ.*, “Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan tertiary structure by REDOR NMR” Gordon Research Conference (Bacterial Cell Surface), West Dover, VT (June, 2014).
22. Chang JD, Van der Veld NA, Nguyen A, Goodenough U, and Kim SJ.*, “Acetate metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii” The 4th International conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts, Santa Fe, NM (June, 2014).
23. Chang JD, Van der Veld NA, Nguyen A, Singh M, Goodson C, Goodenough U, and Kim SJ.*, “Acetate and carbonate metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii” The 16th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Santa Fe, NM (June, 2014).
24. Singh M, Goodson C, Goodenough U, and Kim SJ.*, “Carbonate metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii” The 4th International conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts, Santa Fe, NM (June, 2014).