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  1. Detecting asymmetry in the presence of symmetry with maximum likelihood three-dimensional reconstructions of viruses from electron microscope images

    Article • IET Image Processing, August 2016, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  2. Lysine Addressability and Mammalian Cell Interactions of Bacteriophage λ Procapsids

    Article • Biomacromolecules, November 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  3. A Pseudo-Atomic Model for the Capsid Shell of Bacteriophage Lambda Using Chemical Cross-Linking/Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Modeling

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  4. The Enzymology of a Viral Genome Packaging Motor Is Influenced by the Assembly State of the Motor Subunits

    Article • Biochemistry, November 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  5. Thermodynamic Characterization of Viral Procapsid Expansion into a Functional Capsid Shell

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  6. Assembly of a Genome Packaging Motor on Viral DNA Influences Packaging Mechanism

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  7. Energy Independent Helicase Activity of a Viral Genome Packaging Motor

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  8. Challenging Packaging Limits and Infectivity of Phage

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano, Elmar Nurmemmedov

  9. Challenging Packaging Limits and Infectivity of Phage λ

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  10. Energy-Independent Helicase Activity of a Viral Genome Packaging Motor

    Article • Biochemistry, December 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  11. The Bacteriophage Lambda gpNu3 Scaffolding Protein Is an Intrinsically Disordered and Biologically Functional Procapsid Assembly Catalyst

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  12. Cooperative Assembly of Host and Viral Proteins into a DNA Packaging Motor Complex Analyzed by Fluorescence-Monitored Analytical Ultracentrifugation

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  13. Assembly and Maturation of the Bacteriophage Lambda Procapsid: gpC Is the Viral Protease

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  14. Dissecting Lambda Terminase: A Viral DNA Packaging Motor

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  15. Kinetic Analysis of the Genome Packaging Reaction in Bacteriophage λ

    Article • Biochemistry, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  16. Packaging of a Unit-Length Viral Genome: The Role of Nucleotides and the gpD Decoration Protein in Stable Nucleocapsid Assembly in Bacteriophage λ

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  17. Biophysics of viral infectivity: matching genome length with capsid size

    Article • Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, November 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano, Elmar Nurmemmedov

  18. Measurements of Single DNA Molecule Packaging Dynamics in Bacteriophage λ Reveal High Forces, High Motor Processivity, and Capsid Transformations

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  19. The DNA Maturation Domain of gpA, the DNA Packaging Motor Protein of Bacteriophage Lambda, Contains an ATPase Site Associated with Endonuclease Activity

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  20. Studies of viral DNA packaging motors with optical tweezers: a comparison of motor function in bacteriophages φ29, λ, and T4

    Article • September 2007, SPIE

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  21. Assembly of Bacteriophage Lambda Terminase into a Viral DNA Maturation and Packaging Machine

    Article • Biochemistry, November 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  22. Bacteriophage Lambda gpNu1 and Escherichia coli IHF Proteins Cooperatively Bind and Bend Viral DNA:  Implications for the Assembly of a Genome-Packaging Motor

    Article • Biochemistry, April 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  23. Building a Virus from Scratch: Assembly of an Infectious Virus Using Purified Components in a Rigorously Defined Biochemical Assay System

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  24. Nucleotides Regulate the Conformational State of the Small Terminase Subunit from Bacteriophage Lambda:  Implications for the Assembly of a Viral Genome-Packaging Motor

    Article • Biochemistry, June 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  25. Self-association Properties of the Bacteriophage λ Terminase Holoenzyme: Implications for the DNA Packaging Motor

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, April 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  26. Viral Genome Packaging Machines

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  27. A Minimal Kinetic Model for a Viral DNA Packaging Machine

    Article • Biochemistry, December 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  28. Biochemical Characterization of Bacteriophage Lambda Genome Packaging in Vitro

    Article • Virology, January 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  29. Insights into Specific DNA Recognition during the Assembly of a Viral Genome Packaging Machine

    Article • Molecular Cell, May 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  30. The Functional Asymmetry of cosN, the Nicking Site for Bacteriophage λ DNA Packaging, Is Dependent on the Terminase Binding Site, cosB

    Article • Biochemistry, October 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  31. Kinetic Characterization of the GTPase Activity of Phage λ Terminase:  Evidence for Communication between the Two “NTPase” Catalytic Sites of the Enzyme

    Article • Biochemistry, October 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  32. Domain Structure of gpNu1, a Phage Lambda DNA Packaging Protein

    Article • Biochemistry, October 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  33. Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of a DNA Binding Domain of gpNu1, a Phage λ DNA Packaging Protein

    Article • Biochemistry, December 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  34. The phage lambda terminase enzyme: 1. Reconstitution of the holoenzyme from the individual subunits enhances the thermal stability of the small subunit

    Article • International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, July 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  35. The phage lambda terminase enzyme: 2. Refolding of the gpNu1 subunit from the detergent-denatured and guanidinium hydrochloride-denatured state yields different oligomerization states and altered protein stabilities

    Article • International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, July 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  36. Kinetic Characterization of the Strand Separation (“Helicase”) Activity of the DNA Packaging Enzyme from Bacteriophage λ

    Article • Biochemistry, September 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  37. Kinetic Analysis of the Endonuclease Activity of Phage λ Terminase:  Assembly of a Catalytically Competent Nicking Complex Is Rate-Limiting

    Article • Biochemistry, May 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  38. Assembly of a Nucleoprotein Complex Required for DNA Packaging by Bacteriophage λ

    Article • Biochemistry, March 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  39. Kinetic and Mutational Dissection of the Two ATPase Activities of Terminase, the DNA Packaging Enzyme of Bacteriophage λ

    Article • Biochemistry, January 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  40. Virus DNA packaging: the strategy used by phage λ

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, June 1995, Wiley

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  41. Kinetic characterization of the ATPase activity of the DNA packaging enzyme from bacteriophage .lambda.

    Article • Biochemistry, November 1993, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  42. Interaction of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I with azidoDNA and fluorescent DNA probes: identification of protein-DNA contacts

    Article • Biochemistry, April 1990, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  43. Transition metals in oxidative stress

    Article • Free Radical Biology and Medicine, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  44. Inactivation of DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment) by adenosine 2',3'-epoxide 5'-triphosphate: evidence for the formation of a tight-binding inhibitor

    Article • Biochemistry, May 1989, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  45. Oxene transfer, electron abstraction, and cooxidation in the epoxidation of stilbene and 7,8-dihydroxy-7,8-dihydrobenzo[a]pyrene by hemoglobin

    Article • Biochemistry, December 1987, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano

  46. Bacteriophage Lambda Terminase and the Mechanism of Viral DNA Packaging

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos Enrique Catalano