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Jeffrey K. Myers - Publications

Myers, J. K.; Mobley, C. K.; Sanders, C.R. The peripheral neuropathy-linked trembler and trember-J mutant forms of peripheral myelin protein 22 are folding-destabilized. Biochemistry, 2008, 47, 10620-29.

Mobley, C. K.; Myers, J. K.; Hadziselimovic, A.; Ellis, C. D.; Sanders, C. R. Purification and initiation of structural characterization of human peripheral myelin protein 22, an integral membrane protein linked to peripheral neuropathies. Biochemistry 2007, 46, 11185-95.

Myers, J. K. The origin and measurement of protein conformational stability. In Methods in Protein Structure and Stability Analysis, Part C; Uversky, V. N., Permyakov, E. A., Eds.; Nova Science Publishers: Hauppage, NY, 2006.

Myers, J. K.; Beihoffer, L.; Sanders, C. R. Phenotology of disease-linked proteins. Hum. Mutat. 2005, 25, 90-97.

Sanders, C. R.; Myers, J. K. Disease-related misassembly of membrane proteins. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struc. 2004, 33, 25-51.

Dimitriadis, G.; Drysdale, A.;  Myers, J. K.;  Arora, P.; Radford, S. E.; Oas, T. G.; Smith, D. A. Microsecond folding dynamics of the F13W/G29A variant of the B-domain of protein A by laser-induced temperature jump. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2004, 101, 3809-3814.

Arora, P.; Oas, T. G.; Myers J. K. Fast and faster: A designed variant of the B-domain of protein A folds in three microseconds. Prot. Sci. 2004, 13, 847-853.

Vu, D. M.; Myers, J. K.; Oas, T. G.; Dyer, R. B. Probing the folding and unfolding dynamics of secondary and tertiary structures in a three helix bundle protein. Biochemistry. 2004, 43, 3582-3589.

Aono, M.; Bennett, E. R.; Kim, K. S.,; Lynch, J. R.; Myers. J. K.; Pearlstein, R. D.; Warner, D. S.; Laskowitz, D. T. Protective effect of apolipoprotein E-mimetic peptides on N-methyl-D-aspartate excitotoxicity in primary rat neuronal-glial cell cultures. Neuroscience. 2003, 116, 437-445. 

Myers, J. K.; Oas, T. G. Mechanisms of fast protein folding. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 2002 71, 783-815.

Myers, J. K.; Morris, D. P.; Greenleaf, A. R.; Oas, T. G. Phosphorylation of RNApol II CTD fragments results in tight binding to the WW domain of the yeast prolyl isomerase Ess1. Biochemistry. 2001, 40, 8479-8486.

Myers, J. K.; Oas, T. G. Pre-organized secondary structure as an important determinant of fast protein folding. Nature Struct. Biol. 2001, 8, 552-558.

Laskowitz, D. T.; Thekdi, S. D.; Myers, J. K.; Han, S. K. D.; Thekdi, A. D.; Bennett, E. R.; Vitek, M. P. Downregulation of glial activation by apolipoprotein E and apoE-mimetic peptides. Exp. Neurol. 2001, 167, 74-85.

Myers, J. K.; Scholtz, J. M. 1999. Entries on "a-Helix Formation", "Helix/Coil Theory", "Lifson/Roig Theory", "Zimm/Bragg Theory", and "Trifluoroethanol". In Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology; Creighton, T. E., Ed.; John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, 1999.

Myers, J. K.; Oas, T. G. Reinterpretation of GCN4-p1 folding kinetics: Partial helix formation precedes dimerization in coiled coil folding. J. Mol. Biol. 1999, 289, 205-209.

Myers, J. K.; Oas, T. G. Contribution of a buried hydrogen bond to lambda repressor folding kinetics. Biochemistry. 1999, 38, 6761-6768.

Burton, R. E.; Myers, J. K.; Oas, T. G. Protein folding dynamics: Quantitative comparison between theory and experiment. Biochemistry. 1998, 37, 5337-5343.

Myers, J. K.; Pace, C. N.; Scholtz, J. M. Trifluoroethanol effects on helix propensity and electrostatic interactions in the helical peptide from ribonuclease T1. Prot. Sci. 1998, 7, 383-388.

Myers, J. K.; Pace, C. N.; Scholtz, J. M. Helix propensities are identical in proteins and peptides. Biochemistry. 1997, 36, 10923-10929.

Myers, J. K.; Pace, C. N.; Scholtz, J. M. A direct comparison of helix propensity in proteins and peptides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 1997, 94, 2833-2837.

Myers, J. K.; Smith, J. S.; Pace, C. N.; Scholtz. J. M. The a-helix of ribonuclease T1 as an independent stability unit: direct comparison of peptide and protein stability. J. Mol. Biol. 1996, 263, 390-395.

Myers, J. K.; Pace, C. N. Hydrogen bonding stabilizes globular proteins. Biophys. J. 1996, 71, 2033-2039.

Myers, J. K.; Pace, C. N.; Scholtz, J.M. Denaturant m values and heat capacity changes: relation to changes in accessible surface areas of protein unfolding. Prot. Sci. 1995, 4, 2138-2148.

Bruzik, K. S.; Myers, J. K.; Tsai, M-D. Practical synthesis of enantiomerically pure myo-inositol derivatives. Tetrahedron Lett. 199233, 1009-1012.