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Molecular Design and Synthesis Center

The latest updates from the VICB Molecular Design and Synthesis Center. Here you will find highlights of our recent publications, presentations, and scientific contributions that advance the frontiers of chemical biology and drug discovery.

MED Basic Sciences - 2025 Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology
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Posters & Presentations

Kim Kwangho, 7/2024
Kim Kwangho, 07/2024 (MDSC Retreat)
Zachary Austin, 08/2022 (RSK)
Zachary Austin, 08/2022 (RSK)
Jana Somnath 08/2022
Jana Somnath, 08/2022 (Chryso)
Jeon KyuOK 08/2022
Jeon KyuOK, 08/2022 (Crizotinib)
Christov Plamen, 08/2022
Christov Plamen, 08/2022

Publications

  • 2025

    Martinez LA, Imami A, de Jong E, Romaine IM, Zwiebel LJ. Binary mixtures of Vanderbilt University allosteric agonist thermolysis components act as volatile spatial repellents for malaria vector mosquitoes. Pest Manag Sci. 2025 Jan;81(1):185-195. doi:10.1002/ps.8421

    Shealy NG, Baltagulov M, de Brito C, McGovern A, Castro P, Schrimpe-Rutledge AC, Malekshahi C, Condreanu SG, Sherrod SD, Jana S, Jones K, Ribeiro TM, McLean JA, Beiting DP, Byndloss MX. Short-term alterations in dietary amino acids override host genetic susceptibility and reveal mechanisms of Salmonella Typhimurium small intestine colonization. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Mar 25:2025.03.25.645332. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.25.645332
     
    Kim M, Kim K, Lee J, Barny LA, Scaggs TD, Romaine IM, Jeon K, Codreanu SG, Sherrod SD, McLean JA, Naren AP, Sulikowski GA, Plate L. Photoaffinity Ligand of Cystic Fibrosis Corrector VX-445 Identifies SCCPDH as an Off-Target. ACS Chem Biol. 2025 Jul 18;20(7):1560-1573. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.5c00157
    . Epub 2025 Jun 20.

    Cameron C, Clark RM, Metts AM, Jiang RM, Scaggs TD, Kim K, Sulikowski GA, Plate L. Time-Resolved Analysis of Protein-Protein Ensembles Using a Destabilizing Domain to Map Dynamic Interactions of SARS-CoV-2 nsp15. ACS Chem Biol. 2025 Sep 19;20(9):2229-2242. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.5c00377. Epub 2025 Sep 1.

    Tarr JC, Jeon K, Veerasamy N, Aichinger M, Salovich JM, Zhao B, Sensintaffar JL, Arnhof H, Wunberg T, Sgubin D, Arnold A, Vekariya RH, Christov PP, Kim K, Fuchs JE, Karier P, Betzemeier B, Van Meveren M, Miriyala N, Olejniczak ET, Engelhardt H, Lee T, McConnell D, Fesik SW. Discovery of Macrocyclic Myeloid Cell Leukemia 1 (Mcl-1) Inhibitors that Demonstrate Potent Cellular Efficacy and In Vivo Activity in a Mouse Solid Tumor Xenograft Model. J Med Chem. 2025 Sep 11;68(17):18553-18578. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c01376. Epub 2025 Aug 27

  • 2024

    Carvajal-Garcia J, Bracey H, Johnson AE, Hernandez Viera AJ, Egli M, Simsek EN, Jaremba EA, Kim K, Merrikh H. A small molecule that inhibits the evolution of antibiotic resistance. NAR Mol Med. 2024 Jan 23;1(1):ugae001. doi: 10.1093/narmme/ugae001.

    Pastora LE, Namburu NS, Arora K, Christov PP, Wilson JT. STING-Pathway Inhibiting Nanoparticles (SPINs) as a Platform for Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases. ACS Appl Bio Mater. 2024 Aug 19;7(8):4867-4878. doi: 10.1021/acsabm.3c01305. Epub 2024 Apr 2.

    Baljon JJ, Kwiatkowski AJ, Pagendarm HM, Stone PT, Kumar A, Bharti V, Schulman JA, Becker KW, Roth EW, Christov PP, Joyce S, Wilson JT. A Cancer Nanovaccine for Co-Delivery of Peptide Neoantigens and Optimized Combinations of STING and TLR4 Agonists. ACS Nano. 2024 Mar 5;18(9):6845-6862. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c04471. Epub 2024 Feb 22.

     
    Hawes EM, Rahim M, Haratipour Z, Orun AR, O'Rourke ML, Oeser JK, Kim K, Claxton DP, Blind RD, Young JD, O'Brien RM. Biochemical and metabolic characterization of a G6PC2 inhibitor. Biochimie. 2024 Jul;222:109-122. doi: 10.1016/j.biochi.2024.02.012. Epub 2024 Mar 1.

    Won Y, Jang B, Lee SH, Reyzer ML, Presentation KS, Kim H, Caldwell B, Zhang C, Lee HS, Lee C, Trinh VQ, Tan MCB, Kim K, Caprioli RM, Choi E. Oncogenic Fatty Acid Metabolism Rewires Energy Supply Chain in Gastric Carcinogenesis. Gastroenterology. 2024 May;166(5):772-786.e14. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2024.01.027. Epub 2024 Jan 24.

  • 2023

    Fu Y, Christov PP, Kingsley PJ, Richie-Jannetta RM, Marnett LJ, Stone MP. Base-Displaced Intercalated Structure of the 3-(2-Deoxy-β-D-erythropentofuranosyl)-pyrimido[1,2-f]purine-6,10(3H,5H)-dione (6-oxo-M1dG) Lesion in DNA. Chem Res Toxicol. 2023 Dec 18;36(12):1947-1960. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.3c00226. Epub 2023 Nov 21.

    Wang-Bishop L, Kimmel BR, Ngwa VM, Madden MZ, Baljon JJ, Florian DC, Hanna A, Pastora LE, Sheehy TL, Kwiatkowski AJ, Wehbe M, Wen X, Becker KW, Garland KM, Schulman JA, Shae D, Edwards D, Wolf MM, Delapp R, Christov PP, Beckermann KE, Balko JM, Rathmell WK, Rathmell JC, Chen J, Wilson JT. STING-activating nanoparticles normalize the vascular-immune interface to potentiate cancer immunotherapy. Sci Immunol. 2023 May 12;8(83):eadd1153. doi:10.1126/sciimmunol.add1153. Epub 2023 May 5.

    Siricilla S, Hansen CJ, Rogers JH, De D, Simpson CL, Waterson AG, Sulikowski GA, Crockett SL, Boatwright N, Reese J, Paria BC, Newton J, Herington JL. Arrest of mouse preterm labor until term delivery by combination therapy with atosiban and mundulone, a natural product with tocolytic efficacy. Pharmacol Res. 2023 Sep;195:106876. doi:10.1016/j.phrs.2023.106876. Epub 2023 Aug 1
     

    Zarrow JE, Alli-Oluwafuyi AM, Youwakim CM, Kim K, Jenkins AN, Suero IC, Jones MR, Mashhadi Z, Mackie K, Waterson AG, Doran AC, Sulikowski GA, Davies SS. Small Molecule Activation of NAPE-PLD Enhances Efferocytosis by Macrophages. ACS Chem Biol. 2023 Aug 18;18(8):1891-1904. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.3c00401. Epub 2023 Aug 2.

  • 2022

    Prael Iii FJ, Kim K, Du Y, Spitznagel BD, Sulikowski GA, Delpire E, Weaver CD. Discovery of Small Molecule KCC2 Potentiators Which Attenuate In Vitro Seizure-Like Activity in Cultured Neurons. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Jun 24;10:912812. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.912812.

    Kelly KP, Borsetti H, Wenzler ME, Ustione A, Kim K, Christov PP, Ramirez B, Bauer JA, Piston DW, Johnson CH, Sulikowski GA. Screen for Small-Molecule Modulators of Circadian Rhythms Reveals Phenazine as a Redox-State Modifying Clockwork Tuner. ACS Chem Biol. 2022 Jul 15;17(7):1658-1664. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00240. Epub 2022 Jun 9.

    Xu J, Sun X, Kim K, Brand RM, Hartman D, Ma H, Brand RE, Bai M, Liu Y. Ultrastructural visualization of chromatin in cancer pathogenesis using a simple small-molecule fluorescent probe. Sci Adv. 2022 Mar 4;8(9):eabm8293. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm8293. Epub 2022 Mar 4.

    Çakır I, Hadley CK, Pan PL, Bagchi RA, Ghamari-Langroudi M, Porter DT, Wang Q, Litt MJ, Jana S, Hagen S, Lee P, White A, Lin JD, McKinsey TA, Cone RD. Histone deacetylase 6 inhibition restores leptin sensitivity and reduces obesity. Nat Metab. 2022 Jan;4(1):44-59. doi: 10.1038/s42255-021-00515-3. Epub 2022 Jan 17. 

  • 2021

    Zarrow JE, Tian J, Dutter B, Kim K, Doran AC, Sulikowski GA, Davies SS. Selective measurement of NAPE-PLD activity via a PLA1/2-resistant fluorogenic N-acyl-phosphatidylethanolamine analog. J Lipid Res. 2022 Jan;63(1):100156. doi: 10.1016/j.jlr.2021.100156. Epub 2021 Nov 26.

    Christov PP, Richie-Jannetta R, Kingsley PJ, Vemulapalli A, Kim K, Sulikowski GA, Rizzo CJ, Ketkar A, Eoff RL, Rouzer CA, Marnett LJ. Site-Specific Synthesis of Oligonucleotides Containing 6-Oxo-M1dG, the Genomic Metabolite of M1dG, and Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Its In Vitro Bypass by Human Polymerase ι. Chem Res Toxicol. 2021 Dec 20;34(12):2567-2578. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00334. Epub 2021 Dec 3. 

    Kozlyuk N, Gilston BA, Salay LE, Gogliotti RD, Christov PP, Kim K, Ovee M, Waterson AG, Chazin WJ. A fragment-based approach to discovery of Receptor for Advanced Glycation End products inhibitors. Proteins. 2021 Nov;89(11):1399-1412. doi: 10.1002/prot.26162. Epub 2021 Jul 2.

    Christov PP, Kim K, Jana S, Romaine IM, Rai G, Mott BT, Allweil AA, Lamers A, Brimacombe KR, Urban DJ, Lee TD, Hu X, Lukacs CM, Davies DR, Jadhav A, Hall MD, Green N, Moore WJ, Stott GM, Flint AJ, Maloney DJ, Sulikowski GA, Waterson AG. Optimization of ether and aniline based inhibitors of lactate dehydrogenase. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2021 Jun 1;41:127974. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2021.127974. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

    Kim K, Christov PP, Romaine I, Tian J, Jana S, Lamers AP, Dutter BF, Scaggs T, Jeon K, Guttentag B, Weaver CD, Lindsley CW, Waterson AG, Sulikowski GA. Ten-Year Retrospective of the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology Chemical Synthesis Core. ACS Chem Biol. 2021 May 21;16(5):787-793. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00818. Epub 2021 Apr 20.

    Wehbe M, Wang-Bishop L, Becker KW, Shae D, Baljon JJ, He X, Christov P, Boyd KL, Balko JM, Wilson JT. Nanoparticle delivery improves the pharmacokinetic properties of cyclic dinucleotide STING agonists to open a therapeutic window for intravenous administration. J Control Release. 2021 Feb 10;330:1118-1129. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.11.017. Epub 2020 Nov 12.

    Nguyen DC, Shae D, Pagendarm HM, Becker KW, Wehbe M, Kilchrist KV, Pastora LE, Palmer CR, Seber P, Christov PP, Duvall CL, Wilson JT. Amphiphilic Polyelectrolyte Graft Copolymers Enhance the Activity of Cyclic Dinucleotide STING Agonists. Adv Healthc Mater. 2021 Jan;10(2):e2001056. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202001056. Epub 2020 Nov 23.
  • 2020

    Rai G, Urban DJ, Mott BT, Hu X, Yang SM, Benavides GA, Johnson MS, Squadrito GL, Brimacombe KR, Lee TD, Cheff DM, Zhu H, Henderson MJ, Pohida K, Sulikowski GA, Dranow DM, Kabir M, Shah P, Padilha E, Tao D, Fang Y, Christov PP, Kim K, Jana S, Muttil P, Anderson T, Kunda NK, Hathaway HJ, Kusewitt DF, Oshima N, Cherukuri M, Davies DR, Norenberg JP, Sklar LA, Moore WJ, Dang CV, Stott GM, Neckers L, Flint AJ, Darley-Usmar VM, Simeonov A, Waterson AG, Jadhav A, Hall MD, Maloney DJ. Pyrazole-Based Lactate Dehydrogenase Inhibitors with Optimized Cell Activity and Pharmacokinetic Properties. J Med Chem. 2020 Oct 8;63(19):10984-11011. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00916. Epub 2020 Sep 27.

    Juttukonda LJ, Beavers WN, Unsihuay D, Kim K, Pishchany G, Horning KJ, Weiss A, Al-Tameemi H, Boyd JM, Sulikowski GA, Bowman AB, Skaar EP. A Small-Molecule Modulator of Metal Homeostasis in Gram-Positive Pathogens. mBio. 2020 Oct 27;11(5):e02555-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02555-20.
     

    Kimbrough JR, Jana S, Kim K, Allweil A, Oates JA, Milne GL, Sulikowski GA. Synthesis of tetranor-PGE1: a urinary metabolite of prostaglandins E1 and E2. Tetrahedron Lett. 2020 May 28;61(22):151922. doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.151922. Epub 2020 Apr 10. 

    Horning KJ, Joshi P, Nitin R, Balachandran RC, Yanko FM, Kim K, Christov P, Aschner M, Sulikowski GA, Weaver CD, Bowman AB. Identification of a selective manganese ionophore that enables nonlethal quantification of cellular manganese. J Biol Chem. 2020 Mar 20;295(12):3875-3890. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.009781. Epub 2020 Feb 11

    Wang-Bishop L, Wehbe M, Shae D, James J, Hacker BC, Garland K, Chistov PP, Rafat M, Balko JM, Wilson JT. Potent STING activation stimulates immunogenic cell death to enhance antitumor immunity in neuroblastoma. J Immunother Cancer. 2020 Mar;8(1):e000282. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2019-000282.
  • 2019

    Minko IG, Christov PP, Li L, Stone MP, McCullough AK, Lloyd RS. Processing of N5-substituted formamidopyrimidine DNA adducts by DNA glycosylases NEIL1 and NEIL3. DNA Repair (Amst). 2019 Jan;73:49-54. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2018.11.001. Epub 2018 Nov 5.

    Perry E, Mills JJ, Zhao B, Wang F, Sun Q, Christov PP, Tarr JC, Rietz TA, Olejniczak ET, Lee T, Fesik S. Fragment-based screening of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1). Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2019 Mar 15;29(6):786-790. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2019.01.028. Epub 2019 Jan 24. 

    Lee T, Christov PP, Shaw S, Tarr JC, Zhao B, Veerasamy N, Jeon KO, Mills JJ, Bian Z, Sensintaffar JL, Arnold AL, Fogarty SA, Perry E, Ramsey HE, Cook RS, Hollingshead M, Davis Millin M, Lee KM, Koss B, Budhraja A, Opferman JT, Kim K, Arteaga CL, Moore WJ, Olejniczak ET, Savona MR, Fesik SW. Discovery of Potent Myeloid Cell Leukemia-1 (Mcl-1) Inhibitors That Demonstrate in Vivo Activity in Mouse Xenograft Models of Human Cancer. J Med Chem. 2019 Apr 25;62(8):3971-3988. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01991. Epub 2019 Apr 16.

    Shae D, Becker KW, Christov P, Yun DS, Lytton-Jean AKR, Sevimli S, Ascano M, Kelley M, Johnson DB, Balko JM, Wilson JT. Endosomolytic polymersomes increase the activity of cyclic dinucleotide STING agonists to enhance cancer immunotherapy. Nat Nanotechnol. 2019 Mar;14(3):269-278. doi: 10.1038/s41565-018-0342-5. Epub 2019 Jan 21.

    Dumas ME, Chen GY, Kendrick ND, Xu G, Larsen SD, Jana S, Waterson AG, Bauer JA, Hancock W, Sulikowski GA, Ohi R. Dual inhibition of Kif15 by oxindole and quinazolinedione chemical probes. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2019 Jan 15;29(2):148-154. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2018.12.008. Epub 2018 Dec 4.

  • 2018

    Davis RW, Allweil A, Tian J, Brash AR, Sulikowski GA. Stereocontrolled synthesis of four isomeric linoleate triols of relevance to skin barrier formation and function. Tetrahedron Lett. 2018 Dec 26;59(52):4571-4573. doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2018.11.033. Epub 2018 Nov 10.

    Yamanashi H, Boeglin WE, Morisseau C, Davis RW, Sulikowski GA, Hammock BD, Brash AR. Catalytic activities of mammalian epoxide hydrolases with cis and trans fatty acid epoxides relevant to skin barrier function. J Lipid Res. 2018 Apr;59(4):684-695. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M082701. Epub 2018 Feb 19. 

    Abney KK, Ramos-Hunter SJ, Romaine IM, Goodwin JS, Sulikowski GA, Weaver CD. Selective Activation of N,N'-Diacyl Rhodamine Pro-fluorophores Paired with Releasing Enzyme, Porcine Liver Esterase (PLE). Chemistry. 2018 Jun 26;24(36):8985-8988. doi: 10.1002/chem.201801409. Epub 2018 May 25.

    Boer RE, Giménez-Bastida JA, Boutaud O, Jana S, Schneider C, Sulikowski GA. Total Synthesis and Biological Activity of the Arachidonic Acid Metabolite Hemiketal E2. Org Lett. 2018 Jul 6;20(13):4020-4022. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b01578. Epub 2018 Jun 19.

    Dutter BF, Ender A, Sulikowski GA, Weaver CD. Rhodol-based thallium sensors for cellular imaging of potassium channel activity. Org Biomol Chem. 2018 Aug 8;16(31):5575-5579. doi: 10.1039/c8ob01098f.

  • 2017

    Surdel MC, Horvath DJ Jr, Lojek LJ, Fullen AR, Simpson J, Dutter BF, Salleng KJ, Ford JB, Jenkins JL, Nagarajan R, Teixeira PL, Albertolle M, Georgiev IS, Jansen ED, Sulikowski GA, Lacy DB, Dailey HA, Skaar EP. Antibacterial photosensitization through activation of coproporphyrinogen oxidase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Aug 8;114(32):E6652-E6659. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1700469114. Epub 2017 Jul 24.

    Lepesheva G, Christov P, Sulikowski GA, Kim K. A convergent, scalable and stereoselective synthesis of azole CYP51 inhibitors. Tetrahedron Lett. 2017 Nov 8;58(45):4248-4250. doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2017.09.070. Epub 2017 Sep 25.

  • 2016

    Choby JE, Mike LA, Mashruwala AA, Dutter BF, Dunman PM, Sulikowski GA, Boyd JM, Skaar EP. A Small-Molecule Inhibitor of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly Uncovers a Link between Virulence Regulation and Metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus. Cell Chem Biol. 2016 Nov 17;23(11):1351-1361. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2016.09.012. Epub 2016 Oct 20.

    Surdel MC, Dutter BF, Sulikowski GA, Skaar EP. Bacterial Nitric Oxide Synthase Is Required for the Staphylococcus aureus Response to Heme Stress. ACS Infect Dis. 2016 Aug 12;2(8):572-8. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.6b00081. Epub 2016 Jul 7.

    Chong KM, Leelatian N, Deguire SM, Brockman AA, Earl D, Ihrie RA, Irish JM, Bachmann BO, Sulikowski GA. The use of fluorescently-tagged apoptolidins in cellular uptake and response studies. J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2016 Apr;69(4):327-30. doi: 10.1038/ja.2016.22. Epub 2016 Mar 9.

    Dutter BF, Mike LA, Reid PR, Chong KM, Ramos-Hunter SJ, Skaar EP, Sulikowski GA. Decoupling Activation of Heme Biosynthesis from Anaerobic Toxicity in a Molecule Active in Staphylococcus aureus. ACS Chem Biol. 2016 May 20;11(5):1354-61. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.5b00934. Epub 2016 Mar 4.

  • 2015

    Senter TJ, O'Reilly MC, Chong KM, Sulikowski GA, Lindsley CW. A general, enantioselective synthesis of N-alkyl terminal aziridines and C2-functionalized azetidines via organocatalysis. Tetrahedron Lett. 2015 Mar 4;56(10):1276-1279. doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2015.01.140

    Romaine IM, Sulikowski GA. Studies on a biomimetic oxidative dimerization approach to the hibarimicins. Tetrahedron Lett. 2015 Jun 3;56(23):3617-3619. doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2015.01.127

    Williams CH, Hempel JE, Hao J, Frist AY, Williams MM, Fleming JT, Sulikowski GA, Cooper MK, Chiang C, Hong CC. An in vivo chemical genetic screen identifies phosphodiesterase 4 as a pharmacological target for hedgehog signaling inhibition. Cell Rep. 2015 Apr 7;11(1):43-50. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.001. Epub 2015 Mar 26.

  • 2014

    Evans SM, Kim K, Moore CE, Uddin MI, Capozzi ME, Craft JR, Sulikowski GA, Jayagopal A. Molecular probes for imaging of hypoxia in the retina. Bioconjug Chem. 2014 Nov 19;25(11):2030-7. doi: 10.1021/bc500400z. Epub 2014 Oct 9. 

    Romaine IM, Taylor RW, Saidu SP, Kim K, Sulikowski GA, Zwiebel LJ, Waterson AG. Narrow SAR in odorant sensing Orco receptor agonists. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2014 Jun 15;24(12):2613-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.04.081. Epub 2014 Apr 29.

  • 2013

    Thompson MK, Keithly ME, Harp J, Cook PD, Jagessar KL, Sulikowski GA, Armstrong RN. Structural and chemical aspects of resistance to the antibiotic fosfomycin conferred by FosB from Bacillus cereus. Biochemistry. 2013 Oct 15;52(41):7350-62. doi: 10.1021/bi4009648. Epub 2013 Sep 30.

    Wen W, Wu W, Romaine IM, Kaufmann K, Du Y, Sulikowski GA, Weaver CD, Lindsley CW. Discovery of 'molecular switches' within a GIRK activator scaffold that afford selective GIRK inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2013 Aug 15;23(16):4562-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.06.023. Epub 2013 Jun 20.

    Kaufmann K, Romaine I, Days E, Pascual C, Malik A, Yang L, Zou B, Du Y, Sliwoski G, Morrison RD, Denton J, Niswender CM, Daniels JS, Sulikowski GA, Xie XS, Lindsley CW, Weaver CD. ML297 (VU0456810), the first potent and selective activator of the GIRK potassium channel, displays antiepileptic properties in mice. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2013 Sep 18;4(9):1278-86. doi: 10.1021/cn400062a. Epub 2013 Jun 13.
  • 2012

    Hargrove TY, Kim K, de Nazaré Correia Soeiro M, da Silva CF, Batista DD, Batista MM, Yazlovitskaya EM, Waterman MR, Sulikowski GA, Lepesheva GI. CYP51 structures and structure-based development of novel, pathogen-specific inhibitory scaffolds. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2012 Dec;2:178-186. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2012.06.001. Epub 2012 Jun 30.

    Liedtke AJ, Kim K, Stec DF, Sulikowski GA, Marnett LJ. Straightforward protocol for the efficient synthesis of varied N(1)-acylated (aza)indole 2-/3-alkanoic acids and esters: optimization and scale-up. Tetrahedron. 2012 Dec 2;68(48):10049-10058. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2012.08.044.

    Lamers AP, Keithly ME, Kim K, Cook PD, Stec DF, Hines KM, Sulikowski GA, Armstrong RN. Synthesis of bacillithiol and the catalytic selectivity of FosB-type fosfomycin resistance proteins. Org Lett. 2012 Oct 19;14(20):5207-9. doi: 10.1021/ol302327t. Epub 2012 Oct 3. 

    Taylor RW, Romaine IM, Liu C, Murthi P, Jones PL, Waterson AG, Sulikowski GA, Zwiebel LJ. Structure-activity relationship of a broad-spectrum insect odorant receptor agonist. ACS Chem Biol. 2012 Oct 19;7(10):1647-52. doi: 10.1021/cb300331z. Epub 2012 Aug 27. 

    Jones PL, Pask GM, Romaine IM, Taylor RW, Reid PR, Waterson AG, Sulikowski GA, Zwiebel LJ. Allosteric antagonism of insect odorant receptor ion channels. PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e30304. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030304. Epub 2012 Jan 17.

    Melancon BJ, Lamers AP, Bridges TM, Sulikowski GA, Utley TJ, Sheffler DJ, Noetzel MJ, Morrison RD, Daniels JS, Niswender CM, Jones CK, Conn PJ, Lindsley CW, Wood MR. Development of a more highly selective M(1) antagonist from the continued optimization of the MLPCN Probe ML012. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2012 Jan 15;22(2):1044-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2011.11.110. Epub 2011 Dec 6.