Recent Publications

Chyan, J., Strauss, P. R., Wood, T. and Wilson, S. 1996. Identification of novel mRNA isoforms for human DNA polymerase ß. DNA and Cell Biology 15: 653-659.

Strauss, P. R., Beard, W., Patterson, T.A. and Wilson, S. H. 1997. Substrate binding by human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease indicates a Briggs-Haldane mechanism. J. Biol. Chem. 272: 1302-1307. PDF

Strauss, P. R. and Holt, C. M. 1998. Domain mapping of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease: Structural and functional evidence for a disordered amino terminus and a tight globular carboxyl domain. J. Biol. Chem. 273: 14435-14441. PDF

Prasad, R., Beard, W.A., Strauss, P.R. and Wilson, S.H. 1998. Human DNA polymerase ß deoxyribose phosphate lyase: substrate specificity and catalytic mechanism. J. Biol. Chem. 273: 15263-15270.

Lucas, J.A., Masuda, Y., Bennett, R.A.O., Strauss, N.S. and Strauss, P.R. 1999. Single turnover analysis of mutant human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease. Biochemistry 38, 4958-4964. PDF

Budil, D.E., Kolaczkowski, S.V., Perry, A., Varaprasad, C., Johnson, F. and Strauss, P.R. 1999. Anisotropic dynamics and local ordering in a spin-labeled oligonucleotide observed by 220 GHz EPR spectroscopy. Biophys. J. 78, 430-438.

Carey, D. and Strauss, P.R. 1999. Human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease is processive. Biochemistry 38, 16553-16560. PDF

Wiesel, P., Foster, L.C., Pellacani, A., Layne, M.D., Hsieh, C.-M., Huggins, G.S., Strauss, P.R., Yet, S.-F. and Perrella, M.A. 2000. Thioredoxin facilitates the induction of heme oxygenase 1 in response to inflammatory mediators. J. Biol. Chem. 275, 4840-4846.

Strauss, P.R. and O’Regan. N.O. 2001. Abasic site repair in higher eukaryotes. In: DNA Damage and Repair vol 3 Ed. Nickoloff, J.A. and Hoekstra, M.F. Humana Press, Totowa NJ pp. 43 - 86. PDF

Mckenzie, A.J. and Strauss, P.R. 2001. Oligonucleotides with bistranded abasic sites interfere with substrate binding and catalysis by human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease. Biochemistry 40, 13254-13261. PDF

Kolaczkowski,  S.V., Perry, A., Mckenzie, A., Johnson, F., Budil, D.E.  and Strauss, P.R. 2001. A spin-labeled abasic DNA substrate for AP endonuclease.  Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.. 288, 722-726. PDF

Mckenzie, A.J. and Strauss, P.R. 2003. A quantitative method for measuring protein phosphorylation Analyt. Biochem. 313, 9-16. PDF

Mundle, S.T., Fattal, M.H., Melo, L.F., Coriolan, J.D. and Strauss, P.R. 2004. Novel role of tyrosine in catalysis by human AP endonuclease 1. DNA Repair 3, 1447-1455. PDF

 


 

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