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Masud AA, Ibnat N, Medina Hernandez A, Lee KM, Li S, Marion R, Feola DJ, Venditto VJ. Systematic development and optimization of a microfluidic formulation protocol for liposomal azithromycin. RSC Pharm. 2026 Jan 27;3(1):198-208. doi: 10.1039/d4pm00275j. eCollection 2026 Jan 27. PubMed PMID: 41280506; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12633639.
Madden PJ, Marina-Zárate E, Rodrigues KA, Steichen JM, Shil M, Ni K, Michaels KK, Maiorino L, Upadhyay AA, Saha S, Pradhan A, Kalyuzhiny O, Liguori A, Lopez PG, Phung I, Flynn C, Zhou A, Melo MB, Lemnios A, Phelps N, Georgeson E, Alavi N, Kubitz M, Lu D, Eskandarzadeh S, Metz A, Rodriguez OL, Shields K, Schultze S, Smith ML, Healy BS, Lim D, Lewis VR, Ben-Akiva E, Pinney W 3rd, Gregory J, Xiao S, Carnathan DG, Pai Kasturi S, Watson CT, Bosinger SE, Silvestri G, Schief WR, Irvine DJ, Crotty S. Diverse priming outcomes under conditions of very rare precursor B cells. Immunity. 2025 Apr 8;58(4):997-1014.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.03.003. Epub 2025 Mar 31. PubMed PMID: 40168992; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12060733.
Engelbrecht E, Rodriguez OL, Shields K, Schultze S, Tieri D, Jana U, Yaari G, Lees WD, Smith ML, Watson CT. Resolving haplotype variation and complex genetic architecture in the human immunoglobulin kappa chain locus in individuals of diverse ancestry. Genes Immun. 2024 Aug;25(4):297-306. doi: 10.1038/s41435-024-00279-2. Epub 2024 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 38844673; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11327106.
Schiffner T, Phung I, Ray R, Irimia A, Tian M, Swanson O, Lee JH, Lee CD, Marina-Zárate E, Cho SY, Huang J, Ozorowski G, Skog PD, Serra AM, Rantalainen K, Allen JD, Baboo S, Rodriguez OL, Himansu S, Zhou J, Hurtado J, Flynn CT, McKenney K, Havenar-Daughton C, Saha S, Shields K, Schultze S, Smith ML, Liang CH, Toy L, Pecetta S, Lin YC, Willis JR, Sesterhenn F, Kulp DW, Hu X, Cottrell CA, Zhou X, Ruiz J, Wang X, Nair U, Kirsch KH, Cheng HL, Davis J, Kalyuzhniy O, Liguori A, Diedrich JK, Ngo JT, Lewis V, Phelps N, Tingle RD, Spencer S, Georgeson E, Adachi Y, Kubitz M, Eskandarzadeh S, Elsliger MA, Amara RR, Landais E, Briney B, Burton DR, Carnathan DG, Silvestri G, Watson CT, Yates JR 3rd, Paulson JC, Crispin M, Grigoryan G, Ward AB, Sok D, Alt FW, Wilson IA, Batista FD, Crotty S, Schief WR. Vaccination induces broadly neutralizing antibody precursors to HIV gp41. Nat Immunol. 2024 Jun;25(6):1073-1082. doi: 10.1038/s41590-024-01833-w. Epub 2024 May 30. PubMed PMID: 38816615; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11147780.
Steichen JM, Phung I, Salcedo E, Ozorowski G, Willis JR, Baboo S, Liguori A, Cottrell CA, Torres JL, Madden PJ, Ma KM, Sutton HJ, Lee JH, Kalyuzhniy O, Allen JD, Rodriguez OL, Adachi Y, Mullen TM, Georgeson E, Kubitz M, Burns A, Barman S, Mopuri R, Metz A, Altheide TK, Diedrich JK, Saha S, Shields K, Schultze SE, Smith ML, Schiffner T, Burton DR, Watson CT, Bosinger SE, Crispin M, Yates JR 3rd, Paulson JC, Ward AB, Sok D, Crotty S, Schief WR. Vaccine priming of rare HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors in nonhuman primates. Science. 2024 May 17;384(6697):eadj8321. doi: 10.1126/science.adj8321. Epub 2024 May 17. PubMed PMID: 38753769; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11309785.
Lidani KCF, Buscaglia R, Trainor PJ, Tomar S, Kaliappan A, DeFilippis AP, Garbett NC. Characterization of myocardial injury phenotype by thermal liquid biopsy. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2024;11:1342255. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1342255. eCollection 2024. PubMed PMID: 38638880; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11024444.
Zhao J, Adiele N, Gomes D, Malovichko M, Conklin DJ, Ekuban A, Luo J, Gripshover T, Watson WH, Banerjee M, Smith ML, Rouchka EC, Xu R, Zhang X, Gondim DD, Cave MC, O'Toole TE. Obesogenic polystyrene microplastic exposures disrupt the gut-liver-adipose axis. Toxicol Sci. 2024 Mar 26;198(2):210-220. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfae013. PubMed PMID: 38291899; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10964747.
Weaver LM, Stewart MJ, Ding K, Loftin CD, Zheng F, Zhan CG. A highly selective mPGES-1 inhibitor to block abdominal aortic aneurysm progression in the angiotensin mouse model. Sci Rep. 2024 Mar 23;14(1):6959. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-57437-9. PubMed PMID: 38521811; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10960802.
Watson CT, Rodriguez OL, Engelbrecht E, Safonova Y, Marasco WA, Smith ML. Looking to the future of antibody genetics: resolving the roles of immunoglobulin diversity in gene regulation, function, and immunity. Genes Immun. 2024 Feb;25(1):92-94. doi: 10.1038/s41435-023-00238-3. Epub 2023 Dec 14. PubMed PMID: 38097744.
Ndinguri M, Middleton L, Unrine J, Lui S, Rollins J, Nienaber E, Spease C, Williams A, Cormier L. Therapeutic dosing and targeting efficacy of Pt-Mal-LHRH towards triple negative breast cancer. PLoS One. 2023;18(10):e0287151. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287151. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 37816015; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10564129.
Bajaj K, Andres SA, Hofsommer DT, Michael OC, Mashuta MS, Bates PJ, Buchanan RM, Grapperhaus CA. Ligand and Linkage Isomers of Bis(ethylthiocarbamato) Copper Complexes with Cyclic C(6)H(8) Backbone Substituents: Synthesis, Characterization, and Antiproliferation Activity. Eur J Inorg Chem. 2023 Dec 1;26(34). doi: 10.1002/ejic.202300447. Epub 2023 Sep 14. PubMed PMID: 38584911; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10997340.
Rodriguez OL, Safonova Y, Silver CA, Shields K, Gibson WS, Kos JT, Tieri D, Ke H, Jackson KJL, Boyd SD, Smith ML, Marasco WA, Watson CT. Genetic variation in the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus shapes the human antibody repertoire. Nat Commun. 2023 Jul 21;14(1):4419. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40070-x. PubMed PMID: 37479682; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10362067.
Bajaj K, Andres SA, Hofsommer DT, Greene AF, Hietsoi O, Mashuta MS, Weis T, Beverly LJ, Bates PJ, Buchanan RM, Grapperhaus CA. Physical structure of constitutional isomers influences antiproliferation activity of thiosemicarbazone-alkylthiocarbamate copper complexes. J Inorg Biochem. 2023 Sep;246:112288. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112288. Epub 2023 Jun 7. PubMed PMID: 37320890.
Stewart MJ, Weaver LM, Ding K, Kyomuhangi A, Loftin CD, Zheng F, Zhan CG. Analgesic effects of a highly selective mPGES-1 inhibitor. Sci Rep. 2023 Feb 27;13(1):3326. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-30164-3. PubMed PMID: 36849491; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9971260.
El-Baz N, Nunn BM, Bates PJ, O'Toole MG. The Impact of PEGylation on Cellular Uptake and In Vivo Biodistribution of Gold Nanoparticle MRI Contrast Agents. Bioengineering (Basel). 2022 Dec 4;9(12). doi: 10.3390/bioengineering9120766. PubMed PMID: 36550972; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9774698.
Allen NC, Chauhan R, Bates PJ, O'Toole MG. Optimization of Tumor Targeting Gold Nanoparticles for Glioblastoma Applications. Nanomaterials (Basel). 2022 Nov 2;12(21). doi: 10.3390/nano12213869. PubMed PMID: 36364644; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9653665.
Centner CS, Moore JT, Baxter ME, Yaddanapudi K, Bates PJ, Kopechek JA. Comparison of Acoustofluidic and Static Systems for Ultrasound-Mediated Molecular Delivery to T Lymphocytes. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2023 Jan;49(1):90-105. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.08.005. Epub 2022 Oct 12. PubMed PMID: 36241589.
Masud AA, Alsharif FM, Creameans JW, Perdeh J, Feola DJ, Venditto VJ. Optimization and Characterization of a Liposomal Azithromycin Formulation for Alternative Macrophage Activation. Front Drug Deliv. 2022;2. doi: 10.3389/fddev.2022.908709. Epub 2022 Jul 5. PubMed PMID: 36407498; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9670256.
Bajaj K, Andres SA, Hofsommer DT, Galib M, Mashuta MS, Bennett B, Narayanan B, Buchanan RM, Bates PJ, Grapperhaus CA. Investigations of Bis(alkylthiocarbamato)copper Linkage Isomers. Inorg Chem. 2022 May 23;61(20):7715-7719. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00371. Epub 2022 May 12. PubMed PMID: 35549215.
Venditto VJ, Feola DJ. Delivering macrolide antibiotics to heal a broken heart - And other inflammatory conditions. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2022 May;184:114252. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2022.114252. Epub 2022 Mar 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 35367307; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9063468.
Centner CS, Moore JT, Baxter ME, Long ZT, Miller JM, Kovatsenko ES, Xie B, Menze MA, Berson RE, Bates PJ, Yaddanapudi K, Kopechek JA. Acoustofluidic-mediated molecular delivery to human T cells with a three-dimensional-printed flow chamber. J Acoust Soc Am. 2021 Dec;150(6):4534. doi: 10.1121/10.0009054. PubMed PMID: 34972278.
McMasters A, McMasters KM, Hao H. Exosome to Promote Cancer Progression via Its Bioactive Cargoes. Arch Cancer Biol Ther. 2021 Jun;2(2):29-34. PubMed PMID: 34263260; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8277159.
Venditto VJ, Haydar D, Abdel-Latif A, Gensel JC, Anstead MI, Pitts MG, Creameans J, Kopper TJ, Peng C, Feola DJ. Immunomodulatory Effects of Azithromycin Revisited: Potential Applications to COVID-19. Front Immunol. 2021;12:574425. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.574425. eCollection 2021. Review. PubMed PMID: 33643308; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7906979.
Centner CS, Murphy EM, Stamp BF, Priddy MC, Moore JT, Bates PJ, Menze MA, Yaddanapudi K, Kopechek JA. Assembly and Operation of an Acoustofluidic Device for Enhanced Delivery of Molecular Compounds to Cells. J Vis Exp. 2021 Jan 21;(167). doi: 10.3791/62035. PubMed PMID: 33554963.
Murphy EM, Centner CS, Bates PJ, Malik MT, Kopechek JA. Delivery of thymoquinone to cancer cells with as1411-conjugated nanodroplets. PLoS One. 2020;15(5):e0233466. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233466. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32437399; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7241745.
Andres SA, Bajaj K, Vishnosky NS, Peterson MA, Mashuta MS, Buchanan RM, Bates PJ, Grapperhaus CA. Synthesis, Characterization, and Biological Activity of Hybrid Thiosemicarbazone-Alkylthiocarbamate Metal Complexes. Inorg Chem. 2020 Apr 6;59(7):4924-4935. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00182. Epub 2020 Mar 11. PubMed PMID: 32159342.
Vivanco-Rojas O, García-Bermúdez MY, Iturriaga-Goyon E, Rebollo W, Buentello-Volante B, Magaña-Guerrero FS, Bates P, Pérez-Torres A, Garfias Y. Corneal neovascularization is inhibited with nucleolin-binding aptamer, AS1411. Exp Eye Res. 2020 Apr;193:107977. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2020.107977. Epub 2020 Feb 17. PubMed PMID: 32081668.
Reyes-Reyes EM, Bates PJ. Characterizing Oligonucleotide Uptake in Cultured Cells: A Case Study Using AS1411 Aptamer. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;2036:173-186. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9670-4_10. PubMed PMID: 31410797.
Chauhan R, El-Baz N, Keynton RS, James KT, Malik DA, Zhu M, El-Baz A, Ng CK, Bates PJ, Malik MT, O'Toole MG. Targeted Gold Nanoparticle⁻Oligonucleotide Contrast Agents in Combination with a New Local Voxel-Wise MRI Analysis Algorithm for In Vitro Imaging of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Nanomaterials (Basel). 2019 May 7;9(5). doi: 10.3390/nano9050709. PubMed PMID: 31067749; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6566234.
Stivers NS, Islam A, Reyes-Reyes EM, Casson LK, Aponte JC, Vaisberg AJ, Hammond GB, Bates PJ. Plagiochiline A Inhibits Cytokinetic Abscission and Induces Cell Death. Molecules. 2018 Jun 12;23(6). doi: 10.3390/molecules23061418. PubMed PMID: 29895732; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6099941.
Bates PJ, Reyes-Reyes EM, Malik MT, Murphy EM, O'Toole MG, Trent JO. G-quadruplex oligonucleotide AS1411 as a cancer-targeting agent: Uses and mechanisms. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj. 2017 May;1861(5 Pt B):1414-1428. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.12.015. Epub 2016 Dec 20. Review. PubMed PMID: 28007579.
Malik MT, O'Toole MG, Casson LK, Thomas SD, Bardi GT, Reyes-Reyes EM, Ng CK, Kang KA, Bates PJ. AS1411-conjugated gold nanospheres and their potential for breast cancer therapy. Oncotarget. 2015 Sep 8;6(26):22270-81. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.4207. PubMed PMID: 26045302; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4673162.
Reyes-Reyes EM, Šalipur FR, Shams M, Forsthoefel MK, Bates PJ. Mechanistic studies of anticancer aptamer AS1411 reveal a novel role for nucleolin in regulating Rac1 activation. Mol Oncol. 2015 Aug;9(7):1392-405. doi: 10.1016/j.molonc.2015.03.012. Epub 2015 Apr 9. PubMed PMID: 25911416; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4523413.
Šalipur FR, Reyes-Reyes EM, Xu B, Hammond GB, Bates PJ. A novel small molecule that induces oxidative stress and selectively kills malignant cells. Free Radic Biol Med. 2014 Mar;68:110-21. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.12.002. Epub 2013 Dec 7. PubMed PMID: 24321317.
Li J, Zheng H, Bates PJ, Malik T, Li XF, Trent JO, Ng CK. Aptamer imaging with Cu-64 labeled AS1411: preliminary assessment in lung cancer. Nucl Med Biol. 2014 Feb;41(2):179-85. doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2013.10.008. Epub 2013 Oct 29. PubMed PMID: 24373858.
Reyes-Reyes EM, Jin Z, Vaisberg AJ, Hammond GB, Bates PJ. Physangulidine A, a withanolide from Physalis angulata, perturbs the cell cycle and induces cell death by apoptosis in prostate cancer cells. J Nat Prod. 2013 Jan 25;76(1):2-7. doi: 10.1021/np300457g. Epub 2012 Dec 27. PubMed PMID: 23270478.
Litchfield LM, Riggs KA, Hockenberry AM, Oliver LD, Barnhart KG, Cai J, Pierce WM Jr, Ivanova MM, Bates PJ, Appana SN, Datta S, Kulesza P, McBryan J, Young LS, Klinge CM. Identification and characterization of nucleolin as a COUP-TFII coactivator of retinoic acid receptor β transcription in breast cancer cells. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e38278. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038278. Epub 2012 May 31. PubMed PMID: 22693611; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3365040.
Jin Z, Mashuta MS, Stolowich NJ, Vaisberg AJ, Stivers NS, Bates PJ, Lewis WH, Hammond GB. Physangulidines A, B, and C: three new antiproliferative withanolides from Physalis angulata L. Org Lett. 2012 Mar 2;14(5):1230-3. doi: 10.1021/ol203498a. Epub 2012 Feb 13. PubMed PMID: 22329497.
Farin K, Schokoroy S, Haklai R, Cohen-Or I, Elad-Sfadia G, Reyes-Reyes ME, Bates PJ, Cox AD, Kloog Y, Pinkas-Kramarski R. Oncogenic synergism between ErbB1, nucleolin, and mutant Ras. Cancer Res. 2011 Mar 15;71(6):2140-51. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-2887. Epub 2011 Jan 21. PubMed PMID: 21257709.
Reyes-Reyes EM, Teng Y, Bates PJ. A new paradigm for aptamer therapeutic AS1411 action: uptake by macropinocytosis and its stimulation by a nucleolin-dependent mechanism. Cancer Res. 2010 Nov 1;70(21):8617-29. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-0920. Epub 2010 Sep 21. PubMed PMID: 20861190; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2970734.
Arumugam S, Miller MC, Maliekal J, Bates PJ, Trent JO, Lane AN. Solution structure of the RBD1,2 domains from human nucleolin. J Biomol NMR. 2010 May;47(1):79-83. doi: 10.1007/s10858-010-9412-1. Epub 2010 Apr 8. PubMed PMID: 20376532.
Dailey MM, Miller MC, Bates PJ, Lane AN, Trent JO. Resolution and characterization of the structural polymorphism of a single quadruplex-forming sequence. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Aug;38(14):4877-88. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq166. Epub 2010 Mar 25. PubMed PMID: 20348136; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2919704.
Bates PJ, Choi EW, Nayak LV. G-rich oligonucleotides for cancer treatment. Methods Mol Biol. 2009;542:379-92. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-561-9_21. PubMed PMID: 19565914.
Choi EW, Nayak LV, Bates PJ. Cancer-selective antiproliferative activity is a general property of some G-rich oligodeoxynucleotides. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Mar;38(5):1623-35. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp1088. Epub 2009 Dec 11. PubMed PMID: 20008101; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2836550.
Aponte JC, Yang H, Vaisberg AJ, Castillo D, Málaga E, Verástegui M, Casson LK, Stivers N, Bates PJ, Rojas R, Fernandez I, Lewis WH, Sarasara C, Sauvain M, Gilman RH, Hammond GB. Cytotoxic and anti-infective sesquiterpenes present in Plagiochila disticha (Plagiochilaceae) and Ambrosia peruviana (Asteraceae). Planta Med. 2010 May;76(7):705-7. doi: 10.1055/s-0029-1240681. Epub 2009 Dec 3. PubMed PMID: 19960415.
Bates PJ, Laber DA, Miller DM, Thomas SD, Trent JO. Discovery and development of the G-rich oligonucleotide AS1411 as a novel treatment for cancer. Exp Mol Pathol. 2009 Jun;86(3):151-64. doi: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2009.01.004. Epub 2009 Jan 20. Review. PubMed PMID: 19454272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2716701.
Teng Y, Girvan AC, Casson LK, Pierce WM Jr, Qian M, Thomas SD, Bates PJ. AS1411 alters the localization of a complex containing protein arginine methyltransferase 5 and nucleolin. Cancer Res. 2007 Nov 1;67(21):10491-500. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-4206. PubMed PMID: 17974993.
Girvan AC, Teng Y, Casson LK, Thomas SD, Jüliger S, Ball MW, Klein JB, Pierce WM Jr, Barve SS, Bates PJ. AGRO100 inhibits activation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) by forming a complex with NF-kappaB essential modulator (NEMO) and nucleolin. Mol Cancer Ther. 2006 Jul;5(7):1790-9. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-05-0361. PubMed PMID: 16891465.
Kutsch O, Levy DN, Bates PJ, Decker J, Kosloff BR, Shaw GM, Priebe W, Benveniste EN. Bis-anthracycline antibiotics inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transcription. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 May;48(5):1652-63. doi: 10.1128/AAC.48.5.1652-1663.2004. PubMed PMID: 15105117; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC400550.
McMicken HW, Bates PJ, Chen Y. Antiproliferative activity of G-quartet-containing oligonucleotides generated by a novel single-stranded DNA expression system. Cancer Gene Ther. 2003 Dec;10(12):867-9. doi: 10.1038/sj.cgt.7700652. PubMed PMID: 14712312.
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