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Braun Group Recent Publications


Mantha, A.K., Oezguen, N., Bhakat, K.K., Izumi, T., Braun, W., Mitra, S.  Unusual Role of a Cysteine Residue in Substrate Binding and Activity of Human AP-Endonuclease 1.
J. Mol. Biol., 379(1), 28-37, 2008.
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Navaratnarajah, C.K., Vongpunsawad, S., Oezguen, N., Stehle, T., Braun, W., Hashiguchi, T., Maenaka, K., Yanagi, Y. and Cattaneo, R.  Dynamic interaction of the measles virus hemagglutinin with its receptor SLAM.
J. Biol. Chem., 283(17), 11763-11771, 2008.
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Negi, S.S., Carol, A., Pandya, S., Braun, W. and Anderson, L.  Co-Localization of Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase with Ferredoxin-NADP Reductase in Pea Leaf Chloroplasts.
J. Struct. Biol., 161(1), 18-30, 2008.

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Ivanciuc, O. and Braun, W.  Robust quantitative modeling of peptide binding affinities for MHC molecules using physical-chemical descriptors.
Protein Pept. Lett., 14(9), 903-916, 2007.
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Negi, S., Schein, C.H., Oezguen, N., Power, T.D. and Braun, W.  InterProSurf: a web server for predicting interacting sites on protein surfaces.
Bioinformatics 23(24), 3397-3399, 2007.
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Negi, S. and Braun, W. Statistical analysis of physical-chemical properties and prediction of protein-protein interfaces.
J. Mol. Model., 13(11), 1157-1167, 2007.
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Oezguen, N., Schein, C.H., Peddi, S.R.,  Power, T.D., Izumi, T. and Braun, W.  A "moving metal mechanism" for substrate cleavage by DNA repair endonuclease APE-1.
Proteins, 68(1), 313-323, 2007.
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Chen, D, Menche, G, Power, T.D., Peterson, J.W. and Schein, C.H . Accounting for ligand-bound metal ions in docking small molecules on adenylyl cyclase toxins.
Proteins, 67(3), 593-605, 2007.
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Schein, C.H. Ivanciuc O. and Braun, W.  Bioinformatics approaches to classifying allergens and predicting cross-reactivity.
Immunol. Allergy Clin. North Am., 27(1):1-27 2007.

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Schein, C.H., Ivanciuc, O. and Braun, W.  Structural Database of Allergenic Proteins (SDAP).
Food Allergy
, Edited by S.J. Maleki, © 2006 ASM Press, Washington D.C. 257-283.

Book Chapter


Negi, S.S., Kolokoltsov, A.A., Schein, C.H., Davey, R.A. and Braun, W.  Determining functionally important amino acid residues of the E1 protein of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.
J. Mol. Model. (Online), 12(6):921-929, 2006.
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Schein, C.H., Oezguen, N., Volk, D.E., Garimella, R., Paul, A. and Braun, W. NMR structure of the viral peptide linked to the genome (VPg) of poliovirus.
Peptides,  27(7):1676-1684 2006.
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Muralidhara, B.K., Negi., S., Chin, C.C., Braun, W. and Halpert. J.R. Conformational flexibility of mammalian cytochrome P450 2B4 in binding imidazole inhibitors with different ring chemistry and side chains.
J. Biol. Chem.  281(12):8051-8061, 2006.
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Midoro-Horiuti, T., Schein, C.H., Mathura, V., Braun, W., Czerwinski, E.W., Togawa, A., Kondo, Y., Oka, T., Watanabe, M. and Goldblum, R.M. Structural basis for epitope sharing between group 1 allergens of cedar pollen.
Mol. Immunol
43(6):509-518, 2006.
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Schein, C.H., Ivanciuc, O. and Braun, W. Common physical-chemical properties correlate with similar structure of the IgE epitopes of peanut allergens.
J. Agric. Food Chem.
53(22):8752-8759,
2005.
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Schein, C.H., Zhou, B. and Braun, W. Stereophysicochemical variability plots highlight conserved antigenic areas in Flaviviruses.
Virol. J.
  2(1):40, 2005.
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von Messling, V., Oezguen, N., Zheng, Q., Vongpunsawad, S., Braun, W. and Cattaneo, R. Nearby clusters of hemagglutinin residues sustain SLAM-dependent canine distemper virus entry in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
J. Virol.  79(9):5857-5862, 2005.

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Cummins, S.F., Schein, C.H., Xu, Y., Braun, W. and Nagle, G.T. Molluscan attractins, a family of water-borne protein pheromones with interspecific attractiveness.
Peptides
  26(1):121-129, 2005.
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Schein, C.H., Zhou, B.,
Oezguen, N., Mathura, V.S., and Braun, W. Molego-based definition of the architecture and specificity of metal binding sites.
Proteins 
58(1):200-210, 2005.
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Painter, S.D., Cummins, S.F., Nichols, A.E., Akalal, D.B.G.,
Schein, C.H., Braun, W., Smith, J.S., Susswein, A.J., Levy, M., de Boer, P.A.C.M., ter Maat, A., Miller, M.W., Scanlan, C., Milberg, R.M., Sweedler, J.V. and  Nagle, G.T. Structural and functional analysis of Aplysa attractins, a family of water-borne protein phermones with interspecific attractiveness.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
  101(18):6929-6933, 2004.

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Ivanciuc, O., Oezguen, N.,
Mathura, V.S., Schein, C.H., Xu, Y. and Braun, W.  Using property based sequence motifs and 3D modeling to determine structure and functional regions of proteins. 
Curr. Med. Chem.
  11:583-593, 2004.

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Izumi, T., Schein, C.H., Oezguen, N., Feng, Y. and Braun, W.  Effects of backbone contacts 3' to the abasic site on the cleavage and the product binding by human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE1). 

Biochemistry
   43(3):684-689, 2004.
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Vongpunsawad, S., Oezgun, N., Braun, W. and Cattaneo R.  Selectively receptor-blind measles viruses:  identification of residues necessary for SLAM- or CD46-induced fusion and their localization on a new hemagglutinin structural model. 

J.
Virol.  78(1):302-313, 2004.
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Midoro-Horiuti, T.,
Mathura, V., Schein, C.H., Braun, W., Yu, S., Watanabe, M., Lee, J.C., Brooks, E.G. and Goldblum, R.  Major linear IgE epitopes of mountain cedar pollen allergen Jun a 1 map to the pectate lyase catalytic site. 
Mol. Immunol.
  40(8):555-562, 2003.
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Braun, W.  Developing computational tools for NMR:  the early days of protein NMR.
 
Magn. Res. Chem.  41(S1):S51-S55, 2003.
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Ivanciuc, O.,
Mathura, V., Midoro-Horiuti, T., Braun, W., Goldblum, R. and Schein, C.H.  Detecting potential IgE-reactive sites on food proteins using a sequence and structure database, SDAP-Food. 
J. Agr. Food Chem.
  51(16):4830-4837, 2003.
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Garimella, R., Xu, Y., Schein, C.H., Rajarathnam, K., Painter, S.D., Nagle, G.T. and Braun, W. 
NMR solution structure of attractin, a water-borne protein pheromone from the mollusk Aplysia californica. 
Biochemistry
  42(33):9970-9979, 2003.
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Mathura
, V.S., Soman, K.V., Varma, T.K. and Braun, W.  A multimeric model for murine anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 and structural insights for its regulation by post-translational modification. 
J. Mol. Model.
  9(5):298-303, 2003.

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Ivanciuc, O., Schein, C.H. and Braun, W.  SDAP:  database and computational tools for allergenic proteins. 
N
ucleic Acids Res.  31(1):359-362, 2003.

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Mathura
, M.S., Schein, C.H. and Braun, W.  Identifying property based sequence motifs in protein families and superfamilies:  application to DNase-1 related endonucleases. 
Bioinformatics
  19(11):1381-1390, 2003.

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Schein, C.H., Ozgun, N., Izumi, T. and Braun, W.
  Total sequence decomposition distinguishes functional modules, "molegos" in apurinic/apyrimidinic endonucleases. 
BMC Bioinformatics  3(1):37, 2002.

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Ivanciuc, O.I., Schein, C.H. and Braun, W.  Data mining of sequences and 3D structures of allergenic proteins. 
Bioinformatics
  18
(10):1358-1364, 2002.

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Murtazina, D., Puchkaev, A.V., Schein, C.H., Oezguen, N., Braun, W., Nanavati, A. and Pikuleva, I.A.  Membrane-protein interactions contribute to efficient 27-hydroxylation of cholesterol by mitochondrial cytochrome P450 27A1. 
J. Biol. Chem
.  277(40):37582-37589, 2002.

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Hasan, R.J., Pawelczek, E., Urvil, P.T., Venkatarajan, M.S., Goluszko, P., Kur, J., Selvarangan, R., Nowicki, S., Braun, W. and Nowicki, B.J.
  Structure-function analysis of decay-accelerating factor:  identification of residues important for binding of the escherichia coli Dr adhesin and complement regulation. 
Infect. Immun
.  70(8):4485-4493, 2002.

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Oezguen, N., Adamian, L., Xu, Y., Rajarathnam, K. and Braun, W.  Automated assignment and 3D structure calculations using combinations of 2D homonuclear and 3D heteronuclear NOESY spectra. 
J. Biomol. NMR
  22(3):249-263, 2002.

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Venkatarajan, M.S. and Braun, W.  New quantitative descriptors of amino acids based on multidimensional scaling of a large number of physical-chemical properties. 
J. Mol. Model
.  7(12):445-453, 2001.

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Soman, K.V. and Braun, W.
  Determining the 3D-fold of a protein from approximate constraints:  a simulation study. 
Cell.
Biochem.
Biophys.  34(3):283-304, 2001.

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Schein, C.H., Nagle, G.T., Page, J., Sweedler, J.V., Xu, Y., Painter, S.D. and Braun, W.  Aplysia attractin:  biophysical characterization and modeling of a water-borne pheromone. 
Biophys.
J.  81(1):463-472, 2001.

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Williams, R.M., Obradovi. Z., Mathura, V., Braun, W., Garner, E.C., Young, J., Takayama, S., Brown, C.J., Dunker, A.K.  The protein non-folding problem: amino acid determinants of intrinsic order and disorder. 
Pac. Symp. Biocomput.
  89-100, 2001.
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Soman, K.V., Schein, C.H., Zhu, H. and Braun, W.
  Homology modeling and simulations of nuclease structures. 
Methods Mol. Biol.
  160:263-286, 2001.

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Xu, Y., Jablonsky, M.,
Jackson, P.L., Braun, W. and Krishna, N.R.  Automated assignment of NOESY cross peaks and determination of the protein structure of a new world scorpion neurotoxin using NOAH/DIAMOD. 
J. Mag. Res.
  148(1):35-46, 2001.

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Zhu, H., Schein, C.H. and Braun, W.  MASIA:  recognition of common patterns and properties in multiple aligned protein sequences.  Bioinformatics  16(10):950-951, 2000.

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Soman, K.V., Midoro-Horiuti, T., Chu, J.Y., Goldblum, R.M., Brooks, E.G., Braun, W. and Schein, C.H.  Homology modeling and characterization of IgE binding epitopes of mountain cedar allergen Jun a 3. 
Biophys. J.  79(3):1601-1609, 2000.

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