Publications

  • Henares, B.M.; Higgins, K.E.; Boon, E.M.* (2012) Discovery of a nitric oxide-responsive quorum sensing circuit in Vibrio harveyi. ACS Chemical Biology, 1331-1336 (DOI: 10.1021/cb300215t). **Featured in Chemical & Engineering News (http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/05/Nitric-Oxide-Regulates-Group-Behavior.html) and the ACS Chemical Biology podcast (volume 7, episode 8)
  • Arora, D.P.; Boon, E.M.* (2012) Nitric oxide regulated two-component signaling in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 421, 521-526 (DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.04.037).
  • Liu, N.; Xu, Y.; Hossain, S.; Huang, N.; Coursolle, D.; Gralnick, J.; Boon, E.M.* (2012) Nitric oxide regulation of cyclic di-GMP synthesis and hydrolysis in Shewanella woodyi. Biochemistry, 51, 2087-2099 (DOI: 10.1021/bi201753f). **Cited by the Faculty of 1000 (http://f1000.com/714897822).
  • Dai, Z.; Farquhar, E.R.; Arora, D.P.; Boon, E.M.* (2012) Is histidine dissociation a critical component of the NO/H-NOX signaling mechanism? Insights from X-ray absorbance spectroscopy. Dalton Transactions, 41, 7984-7993 (DOI: 10.1039/C2DT30147D). **This was included in a special issue highlighting the work of young scientists.
  • Muralidharan, S.; Boon, E.M.* (2012) Heme flattening is sufficient for signal transduction in the H-NOX family. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, 2044-2046 (DOI: 10.1021/ja211576b).
  • Dai, Z.; Boon, E.M.* (2011) Probing the local electronic and geometric properties of the heme iron center in an O2-binding Heme-Nitric oxide and/or Oxygen binding domain. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 105, 784-792 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2011.03.002).
  • Tran, R.; Weinert, E.E.; Boon, E.M.; Mathies, R.A.; Marletta, M.A. (2011) Determinants of the heme-CO vibrational modes in the H-NOX family. Biochemistry, 50, 6519-6530.
  • Dai, Z.; Boon, E.M.* (2010) Sensitive and selective detection of cyanide using an H-NOX domain. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132, 11496-11503 (DOI: 10.1021/ja101674z).
  • Liu, N.; Pak, T.; Boon, E.M.* (2010) Characterization of a di-guanylate cyclase from Shewanella woodyi with cyclase and phosphodiesterase activities. Molecular BioSystems, 6, 1561-1564 (DOI: 10.1039/c002246b). **This was included in a special issue highlighting the work of emerging investigators.
  • Tran, R.; Boon, E.M.; Marletta, M.A.; Mathies, R.A. (2009) Resonance Raman spectra of an O2-binding H-NOX domain reveals heme relaxation upon mutation. Biochemistry, 48, 8568-8577.
  • Olea, C.; Boon, E.M.; Pellicena, P.; Kuriyan, J.; Marletta, M.A. (2008) Probing the function of heme distortion in the H-NOX family. American Chemical Society Chemical Biology, 3, 703-710.
  • Boon, E.M.; Marletta, M.A. (2006) Sensitive and selective detection of nitric oxide using an H-NOX domain. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 10022-10023.
  • Boon, E.M.; Davis, J.H.; Karow, D.S.; Huang, S.H.; Tran, R.; Miazgowicz, M.M.; Mathies, R.; Marletta, M.A. (2006) Nitric oxide binding to prokaryotic homologs of the soluble guanylate cyclase b1 H-NOX domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281, 21892-21902.
  • Boon, E.M.; Marletta, M.A. (2005) Ligand discrimination in soluble guanylate cyclase and the H-NOX family of heme sensor proteins. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 9, 441-446.
  • Boon, E.M.; Huang, S.H.; Marletta, M.A. (2005) A molecular basis for NO selectivity in soluble guanylate cyclase. Nature Chemical Biology, 1, 53-59.
  • Boon, E.M.; Marletta, M.A. (2005) Ligand specificity of H-NOX domains: From sGC to bacterial NO sensors. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 99, 892-902.
  • Yavin, E.; Boal, A.K.; Stemp, E.D.A.; Boon, E.M.; O’Shea, V.L.; David, S.S.; Barton, J.K. (2005) Protein-DNA charge transport: Redox activation of a DNA repair protein by guanine radical. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 102, 3546-3551.
  • Pellicena, P.; Karow, D.S.; Boon, E.M.; Marletta, M.A.; Kuriyan, J. (2004) Crystal structure of an oxygen-binding heme domain related to soluble guanylate cyclases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 101, 12854-12859. **Cited by the Faculty of 1000 (http://f1000.com/1020824).
  • Boon, E.M.; Barton, J.K. (2003) DNA electrochemistry as a probe of base pair stacking in A-, B-, and Z-form DNA. Bioconjugate Chemistry, 14, 1140-1147.
  • Boon, E.M.; Barton, J.K.; Bhaghat, V.; Nersissian, M.; Wang, W.; Hill, M.G. (2003) Reduction of ferricyanide by methylene blue at a DNA-modified rotating-disk electrode. Langmuir, 19, 9255-9259.
  • Boon, E.M.; Livingston, A.L.; Chmiel, N.H.; David, S.S.; Barton, J.K. (2003) DNA-mediated charge transport for DNA repair. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 100, 12543-12547.
  • Boon, E.M.; Jackson, N.M.; Wightman, M.D.; Kelley, S.O.; Hill, M.G.; Barton, J.K. (2003) Intercalative stacking: A critical feature of DNA charge transport electrochemistry. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107, 11805-11812.
  • Boon, E.M.; Kisko, J.L.; Barton, J.K. (2002) Detection of base mismatches using intercalators. Methods in Enzymology, 353, 506-522.
  • Boon, E.M.; Barton, J.K. (2002) Charge transport in DNA. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 12, 320-329.
  • Boon, E.M.; Barton, J.K.; Pradeepkumar, P.I.; Isaksson, J.; Petit, C.; Chattopadhyaya, J. (2002) An electrochemical probe of DNA stacking in an antisense oligonucleotide containing a C3’-endo locked sugar. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 114, 3552-3555.
  • Boon, E.M.; Pope, M.A.; Williams, S.D.; David, S.S.; Barton, J.K. (2002) DNA-mediated charge transport as a probe of MutY/DNA interaction. Biochemistry, 41, 8464-8470.
  • Boon, E.M.; Salas, J.E.; Barton, J.K. (2002) An electrical probe of DNA-protein interactions on DNA-modified surfaces. Nature Biotechnology, 20, 282-286.
  • Sam, M.†; Boon, E.M.†; Barton, J.K.; Hill M.G.; Spain, M.S. (2001) Morphology of 15-mer duplexes tethered to Au(111) through 3' and 5' linkages via scanning probe microscopy. Langmuir, 17, 5727-5730. †equal authorship
  • Boon, E.M.; Ceres, D.M.; Drummond, T.G.; Hill, M.G.; Barton, J.K. (2000) Mutation detection by electrocatalysis at DNA-modified electrodes. Nature Biotechnology, 18, 1096-1100.
  • Kelley, S.O.; Boon, E.M.; Barton, J.K.; Jackson, N.M.; Hill, M.G. (1999) Single base mismatch detection based on charge transduction through DNA. Nucleic Acids Research, 27, 4830-4837.
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