Publications

  1. Kimble AD, Dawson OCO, Liu L, Subramanian S, Cooper A, Battaile K, Craig J, Harmon E, Myler P, Lovell S, Asojo OA. (2024) "Crystal structure of N-terminally hexahistidine-tagged Onchocerca volvulus macrophage migration inhibitory factor-1." Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. PMID: 39503735

  2. Andrade Meirelles M, Almeida VM, Sullivan JR, de Toledo I, Dos Reis CV, Cunha MR, Zigweid R, Shim A, Sankaran B, Woodward EL, Seibold S, Liu L, Mian MR, Battaile KP, Riley J, Duncan C, Simeons FRC, Ferguson L, Joji H, Read KD, Lovell S, Staker BL, Behr MA, Pilli RA, Counago RM. (2024) "Rational Exploration of 2,4-Diaminopyrimidines as DHFR Inhibitors Active against Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium avium, Two Emerging Human Pathogens." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. PMID: 39468773

  3. Myers MJ, Xu Z, Ryan BJ, DeMars ZR, Ridder MJ, Johnson DK, Krute CN, Flynn TS, Kashipathy MM, Battaile KP, Schnicker N, Lovell S, Freudenthal BD, Bose JL. (2024) "Molecular insights into the structure and function of the Staphylococcus aureus fatty acid kinase." Journal of Biological Chemistry. 107920. PMID: 39454961.

  4. Jezewski AJ, Esan TE, Propp J, Fuller AJ, Daraji DG, Lail Cr, Staker BL, Woodward EL, Liu L, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Hagen TJ, Krysan DJ. (2024) "A single Leishmania adenylate forming enzyme of the ANL superfamily generates both acetyl- and acetoacetyl-CoA." Journal of Biological Chemistry. 107879. PMID: 39395803.

  5. Yao H, Alli S, Liu L, Soldano A, Cooper A, Fontenot L, Verdin D, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Rivera M. (2024) "The crystal structure of Acinetobacter baumannii bacterioferritin reveals a heteropolymer of bacterioferritin and ferritin subunits." Scientific Reports. 14(1):18242. PMID: 39107474.

  6. Mahoney MW, Helander J, Kooner AS, Norman M, Damalanka VC, De Bona P, Kasperkiewicz P, Rut W, Poreba M, Kashipathy MM, Battaile KP, Lovell S, O'Donoghue AJ, Craik CS, Drag M, Janetka JW. (2024) "Use of protease substrate specificity screening in the rational design of selective protease inhibitors with unnatural amino acids: Application to HGFA, matriptase, and hepsin." Protein Science. 33(8):e5110. PMID: 39073183.

  7. Kancherla AD, Liu L, Tillery L, Shek R, Craig JK, Machen AJ, Seibold S, Battaile KP, Fradi S, Barrett LK, Subramanian S, Myler P, Van Voorhis WC, Lovell S. (2024) "Crystal structures of NAD(P)H nitroreductases from Klebsiella pneumoniae." Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. PMID: 38990055.

  8. Dampalla CS, Kim Y, Zabiegala A, Howard DJ, Nguyen HN, Madden TK, Thurman HA, Cooper A, Liu L, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang KO, Groutas WC. (2024) "Structure-Guided Design of Potent Coronavirus Inhibitors with a 2-Pyrrolidone Scaffold: Biochemical, Crystallographic, and Virological Studies." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(14):11937-56. PMID: 38953866.

  9. Sharma H, Mondal S, Urquiza U, Esparza C, Bartlett S, Santa-Pinter L, Hill H, White M, Sharma P, Luckett-Chastain L, Cooper A, Rasel M, Gao P, Battaile KP, Shukla SK, Lovell S, Ihnat MA. (2024) "Synthesis and biological characterization of an orally bioavailable lactate dehydrogenase-A inhibitor against pancreatic cancer." European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 275:116598. PMID: 38925013.

  10. Rajapaksha N, Yao H, Cook A, Seibold S, Liu L, Battaile KP, Fontenot L, Donnarumma F, Lovell S, Rivera M. (2024) "Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene PA4880 encodes a Dps-like protein with a Dps fold, bacterioferritin-type ferroxidase centers, and endonuclease activity." Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 11:1390745. PMID: 38841187.

  11. Kim Y, Pool E, Kim E, Dampalla CS, Nguyen HN, Johnson DK, Lovell S, Groutas WC, Chang KO. (2024) "Potent small molecule inhibitors against the 3C protease of foot-and-mouth disease virus." Microbiology Spectrum. 12(4):e0337223. PMID: 38466127.

  12. Damalanka VC, Banas V, De Bona P, Kashipathy MM, Battaile K, Lovell S, Janetka JW. (2024) "Mechanism-Based Macrocyclic Inhibitors of Serine Proteases." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(6):4833-54. PMID: 38477709.

  13. St Peter C, Hossain WA, Lovell S, Rafi SK, Butler MG. (2024) "Mowat-Wilson Syndrome: Case Report and Review of ZEB2 Gene Variant Types, Protein Defects and Molecular Interactions." International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(5):2838. PMID: 38474085.

  14. Li P, Kim Y, Dampalla CS, Nhat Nguyen H, Meyerholz DK, Johnson DK, Lovell S, Groutas WC, Perlman S, Chang K-O. (2024) "Potent 3CLpro inhibitors effective against SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV in animal models by therapeutic treatment." mBio. 15(2):e0287823. PMID: 38126789.

  15. McCloskey E, Kashipathy M, Cooper A, Gao P, Johnson DK, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Davido DJ. (2024) "HSV-1 ICP0 dimer domain adopts a novel beta-barrel fold." Proteins. 1-12. PMID: 38372168.

  16. Samanta S, Akhter F, Roy A, Chen D, Turner B, Wang Y, Clemente N, Wang C, Swerdlow RH, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Yan SF, Yan SS. (2023) "New cyclophilin D inhibitor rescues mitochondrial and cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease." Brain. PMID: 38146639.

  17. Benson DR, Deng B, Kashipathy MM, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Cooper A, Gao P, Fenton AW, Zhu H. (2023) "The N-terminal intrinsically disordered region of Ncb5or docks with the cytochrome b(5) core to form a helical motif that is of ancient origin." Proteins. PMID: 38041394.

  18. Rodnin MV, Vasques-Montes V, Kyrychenko A, Oliveira NFB, Kashipathy MM, Battaile KP, Douglas J, Lovell S, Machuqueiro M, Ladokhin AS. (2023) "Histidine Protonation and Conformational Switching in Diphtheria Toxin Translocation Domain." Toxins (Basel). 15(7):410. PMID: 37505680.

  19. Indeglia A, Leung JC, Miller SA, Leu JI, Dougherty JF, Clarke NL, Kirven NA, Shao C, Ke L, Lovell S, Barnoud T, Lu DY, Lin C, Kannan T, Battaile KP, Yang THL, Batista Oliva I, Claiborne DT, Vogel P, Liu L, Liu Q, Nefedova Y, Cassel J, Auslander N, Kossenkov AV, Karanicolas J, Murphy ME. (2023) "An African-specific variant of TP53 reveals PADI4 as a regulator of p53-mediated tumor suppression." Cancer Discovery. 13(7):1696-719. PMID: 37140445.

  20. Goyal P, Deay D, 3rd, Seibold S, Candido ACL, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Wilson GS, Richter ML, Petillo PA. (2023) "Structure of Rhizobium sp. 4-9 histamine dehydrogenase and analysis of the electron transfer pathway to an abiological electron acceptor." Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.742:109612. PMID: 37146865.

  21. Dampalla CS, Miller MJ, Kim Y, Zabiegala A, Nguyen HN, Madden TK, Thurman HA, Machen AJ, Cooper A, Liu L, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2023) "Structure-guided design of direct-acting antivirals that exploit the gem-dimethyl effect and potently inhibit 3CL proteases of severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)." European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 254:115376. PMID: 37080108.

  22. Rajapaksha N, Soldano A, Yao H, Donnarumma F, Kashipathy MM, Seibold S, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Rivera M. (2023) "Pseudomonas aeruginosa Dps (PA0962) Functions in H(2)O(2) Mediated Oxidative Stress Defense and Exhibits In Vitro DNA Cleaving Activity." International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(5). PMID: 36902100.

  23. Meier A, Mian MR, Ou S, Lovell S, Mure M. (2023) "Crystal structures of di-[mu]-chlorido-bis({(E)-5-(ethylamino)-4-methyl-2-[(pyridin-2-yl)diazenyl]phenolato}copper(II)) and chloridobis(1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II) chloride tetrahydrate." Acta Crystallographica Section E. 79(3):201-6.

  24. Dampalla CS, Nguyen HN, Rathnayake AD, Kim Y, Perera KD, Madden TK, Thurman HA, Machen AJ, Kashipathy MM, Liu L, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang KO, Groutas WC. (2023) "Broad-Spectrum Cyclopropane-Based Inhibitors of Coronavirus 3C-like Proteases: Biochemical, Structural, and Virological Studies." ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science. 6(1):181-94. PMID: 36654747.

  25. van Neer RHP, Dranchak PK, Liu L, Aitha M, Queme B, Kimura H, Katoh T, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Inglese J, Suga H. (2022) "Serum-Stable and Selective Backbone-N-Methylated Cyclic Peptides That Inhibit Prokaryotic Glycolytic Mutases." ACS Chemical Biology. 17(8):2284-2295. PMID: 35904259.

  26. Perera KD, Johnson D, Lovell S, Groutas WC, Chang K-O, Kim Y. (2022) "Potent Protease Inhibitors of Highly Pathogenic Lagoviruses: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus and European Brown Hare Syndrome Virus." Microbiology Spectrum.e0014222. PMID: 35766511.

  27. Dampalla CS, Rathnayake AD, Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Kim Y, Perera KD, Nguyen HN, Miller MJ, Madden TK, Picard HR, Thurman HA, Kashipathy MM, Liu L, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2022) "Structure-Guided Design of Potent Spirocyclic Inhibitors of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 3C-like Protease." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(11):7818-32. PMID: 35638577.

  28. Yao H, Soldano A, Fontenot L, Donnarumma F, Lovell S, Chandler JR, Rivera M. (2022) "Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacterioferritin Is Assembled from FtnA and BfrB Subunits with the Relative Proportions Dependent on the Environmental Oxygen Availability." Biomolecules. 12(3). PMID: 35327558.

  29. Scott H, Huang W, Andra K, Mamillapalli S, Gonti S, Day A, Zhang K, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Raju A, Lovell S, Bann JG, Taylor DJ. (2022) "Structure of the anthrax protective antigen D425A dominant negative mutant reveals a stalled intermediate state of pore maturation." Journal of Molecular Biology.167548. PMID: 35304125.

  30. Deay DO, 3rd, Seibold S, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Richter ML, Petillo PA. (2022) "Improving the kinetic parameters of nicotine oxidizing enzymes by homologous structure comparison and rational design." Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 718:109122. PMID: 35063417.

  31. Dietrich J, Lovell S, Veatch OJ, Butler MG. (2022) "PHIP gene variants with protein modeling, interactions, and clinical phenotypes." American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 188(2):579-89. PMID: 34773373.

  32. Dampalla CS, Kim Y, Bickmeier N, Rathnayake AD, Nguyen HN, Zheng J, Kashipathy MM, Baird MA, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Perlman S, Chang KO, Groutas WC. (2021) "Structure-Guided Design of Conformationally Constrained Cyclohexane Inhibitors of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 3CL Protease." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 64(14):10047-58. PMID: 34213885.

  33. Dampalla CS, Rathnayake AD, Perera KD, Jesri A-RM, Nguyen HN, Miller MJ, Thurman HA, Zheng J, Kashipathy MM, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Perlman S, Kim Y, Groutas WC, Chang K-O. (2021) "Structure-Guided Design of Potent Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 3CL Protease: Structural, Biochemical, and Cell-Based Studies." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 64(24):17846-65. PMID: 34865476.

  34. Dampalla CS, Zheng J, Perera KD, Wong LR, Meyerholz DK, Nguyen HN, Kashipathy MM, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Kim Y, Perlman S, Groutas WC, Chang KO. (2021) "Postinfection treatment with a protease inhibitor increases survival of mice with a fatal SARS-CoV-2 infection." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118(29). PMID: 34210738.

  35. Wiedmann M, Dranchak PK, Aitha M, Queme B, Collmus CD, Kashipathy MM, Kanter L, Lamy L, Rogers JM, Tao D, Battaile KP, Rai G, Lovell S, Suga H, Inglese J. (2021) "Structure-activity relationship of ipglycermide binding to phosphoglycerate mutases." Journal of Biological Chemistry.100628. PMID: 33812994.

  36. Steinle J, Hossain WA, Lovell S, Veatch OJ, Butler MG. (2021) "ADAMTSL2 gene variant in patients with features of autosomal dominant connective tissue disorders." American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 185(3):743-52. PMID: 33369194.

  37. Alhammad YMO, Kashipathy MM, Roy A, Gagne J-P, McDonald P, Gao P, Nonfoux L, Battaile KP, Johnson DK, Holmstrom ED, Poirier GG, Lovell S, Fehr AR. (2021) "The SARS-CoV-2 Conserved Macrodomain Is a Mono-ADP-Ribosylhydrolase." Journal of Virology. 95(3):e01969-20. PMID: 33158944.

  38. Weber JJ, Kashipathy MM, Battaile KP, Go E, Desaire H, Kanost MR, Lovell S, Gorman MJ. (2021) "Structural insight into the novel iron-coordination and domain interactions of transferrin-1 from a model insect, Manduca sexta." Protein Science. 30(2):408-22. PMID: 33197096.

  39. Soldano A, Yao H, Punchi Hewage AND, Meraz K, Annor-Gyamfi JK, Bunce RA, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Rivera M. (2021) "Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Bacterioferritin (BfrB)-Ferredoxin (Bfd) Complex Kill Biofilm-Embedded Pseudomonas aeruginosa Cells." ACS Infectious Diseases. 7(1):123-40. PMID: 33269912.

  40. Rodnin MV, Kashipathy MM, Kyrychenko A, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Ladokhin AS. (2020) "Structure of the Diphtheria Toxin at Acidic pH: Implications for the Conformational Switching of the Translocation Domain." Toxins (Basel). 12(11). PMID: 33171806.

  41. Bawa S, Gameros S, Baumann K, Brooks DS, Kollhoff JA, Zolkiewski M, David Re Cecconi A, Panini N, Russo M, Piccirillo R, Johnson DK, Kashipathy MM, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Bouyain SEA, Kawakami J, Geisbrecht ER. (2020) "Costameric Integrin and Sarcoglycan protein levels are altered in a Drosophila model for Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy type 2H." Molecular Biology of the Cell.mbcE20070453. PMID: 33296226.

  42. Rathnayake AD, Kim Y, Dampalla CS, Nguyen HN, Jesri A-RM, Kashipathy MM, Lushington GH, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2020) "Structure-Guided Optimization of Dipeptidyl Inhibitors of Norovirus 3CL Protease." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 63(20):11945-63. PMID: 32945669.

  43. Rathnayake AD, Zheng J, Kim Y, Perera KD, Mackin S, Meyerholz DK, Kashipathy MM, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Perlman S, Groutas WC, Chang K-O. (2020) "3C-like protease inhibitors block coronavirus replication in vitro and improve survival in MERS-CoV-infected mice." Science Translational Medicine. 12(557):abc5332 PMID: 32747425.

  44. Soules KR, Dmitriev A, LaBrie SD, Dimond ZE, May BH, Johnson DK, Zhang Y, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Hefty PS. (2020) "Structural and ligand binding analyses of the periplasmic sensor domain of RsbU in Chlamydia trachomatis support a role in TCA cycle regulation." Molecular Microbiology. 113(1):68-88. PMID: 31637787.

  45. Muthuramalingam M, Whittier SK, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Tachiyama S, Johnson DK, Picking WL, Picking WD. (2020) "The Structures of SctK and SctD from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Reveal the Interface of the Type III Secretion System Basal Body and Sorting Platform." Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(24):166693. PMID: 33122003.

  46. Lan L, Xing M, Kashipathy M, Douglas J, Gao P, Battaile K, Hanzlik R, Lovell S, Xu L. (2020) "Crystal and solution structures of human oncoprotein Musashi-2 N-terminal RNA recognition motif 1." Proteins. 88(4):573-83. PMID: 31603583.

  47. Benson DR, Lovell S, Mehzabeen N, Galeva N, Cooper A, Gao P, Battaile KP, Zhu H. (2019) "Crystal structures of the naturally fused CS and cytochrome b5 reductase (b5R) domains of Ncb5or reveal an expanded CS fold, extensive CS-b5R interactions and productive binding of the NAD(P)(+) nicotinamide ring." Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 75(Pt 7):628-38. PMID: 31282472.

  48. Chang K-O, Kim Y, Lovell S, Rathnayake AD, Groutas WC. (2019) "Antiviral Drug Discovery: Norovirus Proteases and Development of Inhibitors." Viruses. 11(2):197. PMID: 30823509.

  49. Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Weerawarna PM, Rathnayake AD, Kim Y, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2019) "Putative structural rearrangements associated with the interaction of macrocyclic inhibitors with norovirus 3CL protease." Proteins. 87(7):579-87. PMID: 30883881./p>

  50. Molinaro AL, Kashipathy MM, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Coussens NP, Shen M, Daines DA. (2019) "Crystal Structure of VapBC-1 from Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and the Effect of PIN Domain Mutations on Survival during Infection." Journal of Bacteriology. 201(12). PMID: 30936373.

  51. Punchi Hewage AND, Yao H, Nammalwar B, Gnanasekaran KK, Lovell S, Bunce RA, Eshelman K, Phaniraj SM, Lee MM, Peterson BR, Battaile KP, Reitz AB, Rivera M. (2019) "Small Molecule Inhibitors of the BfrB-Bfd Interaction Decrease Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fitness and Potentiate Fluoroquinolone Activity." Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(20):8171-84. PMID: 31038945.

  52. Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Kim Y, Damalanka VC, Rathnayake AD, Fehr AR, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Lushington GH, Perlman S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2018) "Structure-guided design of potent and permeable inhibitors of MERS coronavirus 3CL protease that utilize a piperidine moiety as a novel design element." European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 150:334-46. PMID: 29544147.

  53. Barta ML, Tachiyama S, Muthuramalingam M, Arizmendi O, Villanueva CE, Ramyar KX, Geisbrecht BV, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Picking WL, Picking WD. (2018) "Using disruptive insertional mutagenesis to identify the in situ structure-function landscape of the Shigella translocator protein IpaB." Protein Science. 27(8):1392-406. PMID: 29672980.

  54. Damalanka VC, Kim Y, Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Rathnayake AD, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Nguyen HN, Lushington GH, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2018) "Structure-guided design, synthesis and evaluation of oxazolidinone-based inhibitors of norovirus 3CL protease." European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 143:881-90. PMID: 29227928.

  55. Wijerathne H, Yao H, Wang Y, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Rivera M. (2018) "Bfd, a New Class of [2Fe-2S] Protein That Functions in Bacterial Iron Homeostasis, Requires a Structural Anion Binding Site." Biochemistry. 57(38):5533-43. PMID: 30183257.

  56. Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Kim Y, Rathnayake AD, Damalanka VC, Weerawarna PM, Doyle ST, Alsoudi AF, Dissanayake DMP, Lushington GH, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2017) "Structure-based exploration and exploitation of the S4 subsite of norovirus 3CL protease in the design of potent and permeable inhibitors." European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 126:502-16. PMID: 27914364.

  57. Damalanka VC, Kim Y, Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Lushington GH, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2017) "Design, synthesis, and evaluation of a novel series of macrocyclic inhibitors of norovirus 3CL protease." European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 127:41-61. PMID: 28038326.

  58. Yu H, Dranchak P, Li Z, MacArthur R, Munson MS, Mehzabeen N, Baird NJ, Battalie KP, Ross D, Lovell S, Carlow CKS, Suga H, Inglese J. (2017) "Macrocycle peptides delineate locked-open inhibition mechanism for microorganism phosphoglycerate mutases." Nature Communications. 8:14932. PMID: 28368002.

  59. Barta ML, Shearer JP, Arizmendi O, Tremblay JM, Mehzabeen N, Zheng Q, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Tzipori S, Picking WD, Shoemaker CB, Picking WL. (2017) "Single-domain antibodies pinpoint potential targets within Shigella invasion plasmid antigen D of the needle tip complex for inhibition of type III secretion." Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(40):16677-87. PMID: 28842484.

  60. Shah IS, Lovell S, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Tolbert TJ. (2017) "Structural characterization of the Man5 glycoform of human IgG3 Fc." Molecular Immunology. 92:28-37. PMID: 29031045.

  61. Budiardjo SJ, Licknack TJ, Cory MB, Kapros D, Roy A, Lovell S, Douglas J, Karanicolas J. (2016) "Full and Partial Agonism of a Designed Enzyme Switch." ACS Synthetic Biology. 5(12):1475-84. PMID: 27389009.

  62. Kumar R, Qi Y, Matsumura H, Lovell S, Yao H, Battaile KP, Im W, Moenne-Loccoz P, Rivera M. (2016) "Replacing Arginine 33 for Alanine in the Hemophore HasA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Causes Closure of the H32 Loop in the Apo-Protein." Biochemistry. 55(18):2622-31. PMID: 27074415.

  63. O'Neil P, Lovell S, Mehzabeen N, Battaile K, Biswas I. (2016) "Crystal structure of histone-like protein from Streptococcus mutans refined to 1.9 A resolution." Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 72(Pt 4):257-62. PMID: 27050257.

  64. Damalanka VC, Kim Y, Alliston KR, Weerawarna PM, Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Lushington GH, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2016) "Oxadiazole-Based Cell Permeable Macrocyclic Transition State Inhibitors of Norovirus 3CL Protease." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 59(5):1899-913. PMID: 26823007.

  65. Weerawarna PM, Kim Y, Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Damalanka VC, Lushington GH, Alliston KR, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2016) "Structure-based design and synthesis of triazole-based macrocyclic inhibitors of norovirus protease: Structural, biochemical, spectroscopic, and antiviral studies." European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 119:300-18. PMID: 27235842.

  66. Meekins DA, Zhang X, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Michel K. (2016) "1.45 A resolution structure of SRPN18 from the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae." Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 72(Pt 12):853-62. PMID: 27917832.

  67. Li J, Wehmeyer G, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Egan SM. (2016) "1.65 A resolution structure of the AraC-family transcriptional activator ToxT from Vibrio cholerae." Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 72(Pt 9):726-31. PMID: 27599865.

  68. Yao H, Rui H, Kumar R, Eshelman K, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Im W, Rivera M. (2015) "Concerted motions networking pores and distant ferroxidase centers enable bacterioferritin function and iron traffic." Biochemistry. 54(8):1611-27. PMID: 25640193.

  69. Zhang X, Meekins DA, An C, Zolkiewski M, Battaile KP, Kanost MR, Lovell S, Michel K. (2015) "Structural and inhibitory effects of hinge loop mutagenesis in serpin-2 from the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae." Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(5):2946-56. PMID: 25525260.

  70. Kemege KE, Hickey JM, Barta ML, Wickstrum J, Balwalli N, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Hefty PS. (2015) "Chlamydia trachomatis protein CT009 is a structural and functional homolog to the key morphogenesis component RodZ and interacts with division septal plane localized MreB." Molecular Microbiology. 95(3):365-82. PMID: 25382739.

  71. Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Kim Y, Weerawarna PM, Uy RAZ, Damalanka VC, Mandadapu SR, Alliston KR, Mehzabeen N, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Chang K-O, Groutas WC. (2015) "Structure-Guided Design and Optimization of Dipeptidyl Inhibitors of Norovirus 3CL Protease. Structure-Activity Relationships and Biochemical, X-ray Crystallographic, Cell-Based, and In Vivo Studies." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 58(7):3144-55. PMID: 25761614.

  72. Wang Y, Yao H, Cheng Y, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Middaugh CR, Rivera M. (2015) "Characterization of the Bacterioferritin/Bacterioferritin Associated Ferredoxin (BfrB:Bfd) Protein-Protein Interaction in Solution and Determination of Binding Energy Hot Spots." Biochemistry. 54(40):6162-75. PMID: 26368531.

  73. Barta ML, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Hefty PS. (2015) "Hypothetical Protein CT398 (CdsZ) Interacts with sigma (RpoN)-Holoenzyme and the Type III Secretion Export Apparatus in Chlamydia trachomatis." Protein Science. 24(10):1617-32. PMID: 26173998.

  74. Chadegani F, Lovell S, Mullangi V, Miyagi M, Battaile KP, Bann JG. (2014) "(19)F nuclear magnetic resonance and crystallographic studies of 5-fluorotryptophan-labeled anthrax protective antigen and effects of the receptor on stability." Biochemistry. 53(4):690-701. PMID: 24387629./p>

  75. Kumar R, Matsumura H, Lovell S, Yao H, Rodriguez JC, Battaile KP, Moenne-Loccoz P, Rivera M. (2014) "Replacing the axial ligand tyrosine 75 or its hydrogen bond partner histidine 83 minimally affects hemin acquisition by the Hemophore HasAp from Pseudomonas aeruginosa." Biochemistry. 53(13):2112-25. PMID: 24625274.

  76. Valasani KR, Carlson EA, Battaile KP, Bisson A, Wang C, Lovell S, ShiDu Yan S. (2014) "High-resolution crystal structures of two crystal forms of human cyclophilin D in complex with PEG 400 molecules." Acta crystallographica Section F, Structural biology communications. 70(Pt 6):717-22. PMID: 24915078.

  77. Barta ML, Lovell S, Sinclair AN, Battaile KP, Hefty PS. (2014) "Chlamydia trachomatis CT771 (nudH) is an asymmetric Ap4A hydrolase." Biochemistry. 53(1):214-24. PMID: 24354275.

  78. Borrego-Diaz E, Powers BC, Azizov V, Lovell S, Reyes R, Chapman B, Tawfik O, McGregor D, Diaz FJ, Wang X, Van Veldhuizen PV. (2014) "A potential regulatory loop between Lin28B:miR212 in androgen-independent prostate cancer." International Journal of Oncology. 45(6):2421-9. PMID: 25201220.

  79. Singh CR, Lovell S, Mehzabeen N, Chowdhury WQ, Geanes ES, Battaile KP, Roelofs J. (2014) "1.15 A resolution structure of the proteasome-assembly chaperone Nas2 PDZ domain." Acta crystallographica Section F, Structural biology communications. 70(Pt 4):418-23. PMID: 24699731.

  80. Barta ML, Thomas K, Yuan H, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Schramm VL, Hefty PS. (2014) "Structural and Biochemical Characterization of Chlamydia trachomatis Hypothetical Protein CT263 Supports That Menaquinone Synthesis Occurs through the Futalosine Pathway." The Journal of biological chemistry. 289(46):32214-29. PMID: 25253688.

  81. Vitale A, Thorne N, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Hu X, Shen M, D'Auria S, Auld DS. (2013) "Physicochemical characterization of a thermostable alcohol dehydrogenase from Pyrobaculum aerophilum." PloS One. 8(6):e63828. PMID: 23755111.

  82. Chaudhury S, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Plano GV, De Guzman RN. (2013) "Structure of the Yersinia pestis tip protein LcrV refined to 1.65 A resolution." Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 69(Pt 5):477-81. PMID: 23695558.

  83. Kumar R, Lovell S, Matsumura H, Battaile KP, Moenne-Loccoz P, Rivera M. (2013) "The hemophore HasA from Yersinia pestis (HasAyp) coordinates hemin with a single residue, Tyr75, and with minimal conformational change." Biochemistry. 52(16):2705-7. PMID: 23578210.

  84. Xia Y, DiPrimio N, Keppel TR, Vo B, Fraser K, Battaile KP, Egan C, Bystroff C, Lovell S, Weis DD, Anderson JC, Karanicolas J. (2013) "The designability of protein switches by chemical rescue of structure: mechanisms of inactivation and reactivation." Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(50):18840-9. PMID: 24313858.

  85. Barta ML, Hickey J, Kemege KE, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Hefty PS. (2013) "Structure of CT584 from Chlamydia trachomatis refined to 3.05 A resolution." Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 69(Pt 11):1196-201. PMID: 24192348.

  86. Takahashi D, Kim Y, Lovell S, Prakash O, Groutas WC, Chang K-O. (2013) "Structural and inhibitor studies of norovirus 3C-like proteases." Virus Research. 178(2):437-44. PMID: 24055466.

  87. Park S, Li X, Kim HM, Singh CR, Tian G, Hoyt MA, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Zolkiewski M, Coffino P, Roelofs J, Cheng Y, Finley D. (2013) "Reconfiguration of the proteasome during chaperone-mediated assembly." Nature. 497(7450):512-6. PMID: 23644457.

  88. Pang X-Y, Cao J, Addington L, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Zhang N, Rao JLUM, Dennis EA, Moise AR. (2012) "Structure/Function relationships of adipose phospholipase A2 containing a cys-his-his catalytic triad." Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(42):35260-74. PMID: 22923616.

  89. Thorne N, Shen M, Lea WA, Simeonov A, Lovell S, Auld DS, Inglese J. (2012) "Firefly luciferase in chemical biology: a compendium of inhibitors, mechanistic evaluation of chemotypes, and suggested use as a reporter." Chemistry and Biology. 19(8):1060-72. PMID: 22921073.

  90. Kim Y, Lovell S, Tiew K-C, Mandadapu SR, Alliston KR, Battaile KP, Groutas WC, Chang K-O. (2012) "Broad-Spectrum Antivirals against 3C or 3C-Like Proteases of Picornaviruses, Noroviruses, and Coronaviruses." Journal of Virology. 86(21):11754-62. PMID: 22915796.

  91. Rajapaksha M, Lovell S, Janowiak BE, Andra KK, Battaile KP, Bann JG. (2012) "pH effects on binding between the anthrax protective antigen and the host cellular receptor CMG2." Protein Science. 21(10):1467-80. PMID: 22855243.

  92. Deckert K, Budiardjo SJ, Brunner LC, Lovell S, Karanicolas J. (2012) "Designing allosteric control into enzymes by chemical rescue of structure." Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(24):10055-60. PMID: 22655749.

  93. Park K-T, Wu W, Lovell S, Lutkenhaus J. (2012) "Mechanism of the asymmetric activation of the MinD ATPase by MinE." Molecular Microbiology. 85(2):271-81. PMID: 22651575.

  94. An C, Hiromasa Y, Zhang X, Lovell S, Zolkiewski M, Tomich JM, Michel K. (2012) "Biochemical Characterization of Anopheles gambiae SRPN6, a Malaria Parasite Invasion Marker in Mosquitoes." PloS One. 7(11):e48689. PMID: 23152794.

  95. Yao H, Wang Y, Lovell S, Kumar R, Ruvinsky AM, Battaile KP, Vakser IA, Rivera M. (2012) "The structure of the BfrB-Bfd complex reveals protein-protein interactions enabling iron release from bacterioferritin." Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(32):13470-81. PMID: 22812654.

  96. Chatterjee S, Zhong D, Nordhues BA, Battaile KP, Lovell S, De Guzman RN. (2011) "The crystal structures of the Salmonella type III secretion system tip protein SipD in complex with deoxycholate and chenodeoxycholate." Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society. 20(1):75-86. PMID: 21031487.

  97. An C, Lovell S, Kanost MR, Battaile KP, Michel K. (2011) "Crystal structure of native Anopheles gambiae serpin-2, a negative regulator of melanization in mosquitoes." Proteins. 79(6):1999-2003. PMID: 21465556.

  98. Hickey JM, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Hu L, Middaugh CR, Hefty PS. (2011) "The atypical response regulator protein ChxR has structural characteristics and dimer interface interactions that are unique within the OmpR/PhoB subfamily." The Journal of biological chemistry. 286(37):32606-16. PMID: 21775428.

  99. Park K-T, Wu W, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Holyoak T, Lutkenhaus J. (2011) "The Min Oscillator Uses MinD-Dependent Conformational Changes in MinE to Spatially Regulate Cytokinesis." Cell. 146(3):396-407. PMID: 21816275.

  100. Kemege KE, Hickey JM, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Zhang Y, Hefty PS. (2011) "Ab Initio Structural Modeling of and Experimental Validation for Chlamydia trachomatis Protein CT296 Reveal Structural Similarity to Fe(II) 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Enzymes." Journal of Bacteriology. 193(23):6517-28. PMID: 21965559.

  101. Yao H, Jepkorir G, Lovell S, Nama PV, Weeratunga S, Battaile KP, Rivera M. (2011) "Two distinct ferritin-like molecules in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: the product of the bfrA gene is a bacterial ferritin (FtnA) and not a bacterioferritin (Bfr)." Biochemistry. 50(23):5236-48. PMID: 21574546.

  102. Cruz PG, Auld DS, Schultz PJ, Lovell S, Battaile KP, MacArthur R, Shen M, Tamayo-Castillo G, Inglese J, Sherman DH. (2011) "Titration-based screening for evaluation of natural product extracts: identification of an aspulvinone family of luciferase inhibitors." Chemistry and Biology. 18(11):1442-52. PMID: 22118678.

  103. Jepkorir G, Rodriguez JC, Rui H, Im W, Lovell S, Battaile KP, Alontaga AY, Yukl ET, Moenne-Loccoz P, Rivera M. (2010) "Structural, NMR spectroscopic, and computational investigation of hemin loading in the hemophore HasAp from Pseudomonas aeruginosa." Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(28):9857-72. PMID: 20572666.

  104. Wimalasena DS, Janowiak BE, Lovell S, Miyagi M, Sun J, Zhou H, Hajduch J, Pooput C, Kirk KL, Battaile KP, Bann JG. (2010) "Evidence that histidine protonation of receptor-bound anthrax protective antigen is a trigger for pore formation." Biochemistry. 49(33):6973-83. PMID: 20672855.

  105. Deng B, Parthasarathy S, Wang W, Gibney BR, Battaile KP, Lovell S, Benson DR, Zhu H. (2010) "Study of the individual cytochrome b5 and cytochrome b5 reductase domains of Ncb5or reveals a unique heme pocket and a possible role of the CS domain." The Journal of biological chemistry. 285(39):30181-91. PMID: 20630863.

  106. Auld DS, Lovell S, Thorne N, Lea WA, Maloney DJ, Shen M, Rai G, Battaile KP, Thomas CJ, Simeonov A, Hanzlik RP, Inglese J. (2010) "Molecular basis for the high-affinity binding and stabilization of firefly luciferase by PTC124." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107(11):4878-83. PMID: 20194791.

  107. Weeratunga SK, Lovell S, Yao H, Battaile KP, Fischer CJ, Gee CE, Rivera M. (2010) "Structural studies of bacterioferritin B from Pseudomonas aeruginosa suggest a gating mechanism for iron uptake via the ferroxidase center." Biochemistry. 49(6):1160-75. PMID: 20067302.

  108. Williams AS, Lovell S, Anbanandam A, El-Chami R, Bann JG. (2009) "Domain 4 of the anthrax protective antigen maintains structure and binding to the host receptor CMG2 at low pH." Protein Science. 18(11):2277-86. PMID: 19722284.

  109. Weeratunga SK, Gee CE, Lovell S, Zeng Y, Woodin CL, Rivera M. (2009) "Binding of Pseudomonas aeruginosa apobacterioferritin-associated ferredoxin to bacterioferritin B promotes heme mediation of electron delivery and mobilization of core mineral iron." Biochemistry. 48(31):7420-31. PMID: 19575528.