Protein Chemistry Core - Selected Publications

1) Ball, H.L., King, D., Cohen, F.E., Prusiner, S.B. and Baldwin, M.A. (2001) "Engineering the prion protein using chemical synthesis" J. Peptide Res.58, 357-388.

2) Shah, S., Lee, S. F., Tabuchi, K., Hao, Y. H., Yu, C., LaPlant, Q., Ball, H., Dann, C. E., Sudhof, T. and Yu, G. (2005) "Nicastrin functions as a gamma-secretase substrate receptor." Cell, 122, 435-447.

3) Mukherjee, S., Keitany, G., Wang, Y., Li, Y., Ball, H. L., Goldsmith, E. J. and Orth, K. (2006) "Yersinia YopJ acetylates critical Ser/Thr residues on MKKs and IKKb blocking the innate immune response." Science, 312, 1211-1214.

4) Chen, Y., Sprung, R., Tang, Y., Ball, H. L., Sangras, B., Falck, J. R., Peng, J., Gu, W and Zhao, Y., (2007) "Lysine propionylation and butyrylation are novel post-translational modifications in histones" Submittted to PNAS.

5) Jalili, P. R., Sharma, D and Ball, H. L., (2007) "Enhancement of ionization efficiency and selective enrichment of phosphorylated peptides using a reversible poly-histidine tag." J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 18, 1007-1017.

6) Jalili, P. R. and Ball, H. L., (2008) "Reversible biotinylated probe for the selective enrichment of phosphopeptides from complex biological mixtures" J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 19, 741-750.

7) Yarbrough, M.L. Li, Y., Kinch, L.N., Ball, H.L. and Orth, K., (2009) "Ampylation of Rho GTPase by Vibrio VopS disrupts effector binding and downstream signaling" Science, 323, 269-272.

8) Li, Y. and Ball, H.L. (2009) "Post-translational modifications corresponding to 42 Da - Study of acetylation on Ser/Thr/Tyr/Lys and trimethylation on Lys using electrospray tandem mass spectrometry" Int J. of Mass Spectrometry, 281, 24-30.