BALLICORA'S PUBLICATIONS

1. Bejar, C.M., Ballicora, M.A., Iglesias, A.A. and Preiss, J. (2006) "ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase's N-terminus: structural role in allosteric regulation" Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun. 343:216-221. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.02.123]

2. Bejar, C.M., Jin, X., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (2006) "Molecular architecture of the glucose 1-phosphate site in ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylases" J.Biol.Chem. 281:40473-40484. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M607088200]

3. Iglesias, A.A., Ballicora, M.A., Sesma, J.I. and Preiss, J. (2006) "Domain swapping between a cyanobacterial and a plant subunit ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase" Plant Cell Physiol. 47:523-530. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcj021]

4. Yep, A., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (2006) "The ADP-glucose binding site of the Escherichia coli glycogen synthase" Arch.Biochem.Biophys. 453:188-196. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2006.07.003]

5. Ballicora, M.A., Dubay, J.R., Devillers, C.H. and Preiss, J. (2005) "Resurrecting the ancestral enzymatic role of a modulatory subunit" J.Biol.Chem. 280:10189-10195. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M413540200]

6. Jin, X., Ballicora, M.A., Preiss, J. and Geiger, J.H. (2005) "Crystal structure of potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase" EMBO J. 24:694-704. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.emboj.7600551]

7. Ballicora, M.A., Iglesias, A.A. and Preiss, J. (2004) "ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase: A Regulatory Enzyme for Plant Starch Synthesis" Photosynth Res. 79:1-24. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:PRES.0000011916.67519.58]

8. Bejar, C.M., Ballicora, M.A., Gomez-Casati, D.F., Iglesias, A.A. and Preiss, J. (2004) "The ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Escherichia coli comprises two tightly bound distinct domains" FEBS Lett. 573:99-104. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2004.07.060]

9. Yep, A., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (2004) "The active site of the Escherichia coli glycogen synthase is similar to the active site of retaining GT-B glycosyltransferases" Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun. 316:960-966. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.02.136]

10. Yep, A., Ballicora, M.A., Sivak, M.N. and Preiss, J. (2004) "Identification and characterization of a critical region in the glycogen synthase from Escherichia coli" J.Biol.Chem. 279:8359-8367. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M312686200]

11. Yep, A., Bejar, C.M., Ballicora, M.A., Dubay, J.R., Iglesias, A.A. and Preiss, J. (2004) "An assay for adenosine 5'-diphosphate (ADP)-glucose pyrophosphorylase that measures the synthesis of radioactive ADP-glucose with glycogen synthase" Anal.Biochem. 324:52-59. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2003.09.024]

12. Ballicora, M.A., Iglesias, A.A. and Preiss, J. (2003) "ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, a regulatory enzyme for bacterial glycogen synthesis" Microbiol.Mol.Biol.Rev. 67:213-25, table of contents. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.67.2.213-225.2003]

13. Crevillen, P., Ballicora, M.A., Merida, A., Preiss, J. and Romero, J.M. (2003) "The different large subunit isoforms of Arabidopsis thaliana ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase confer distinct kinetic and regulatory properties to the heterotetrameric enzyme" J.Biol.Chem. 278:28508-28515. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M304280200]

14. Devillers, C.H., Piper, M.E., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (2003) "Characterization of the branching patterns of glycogen branching enzyme truncated on the N-terminus" Arch.Biochem.Biophys. 418:34-38. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0003-9861(03)00341-2]

15. Frueauf, J.B., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (2003) "ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from potato tuber: site-directed mutagenesis of homologous aspartic acid residues in the small and large subunits" Plant J. 33:503-511. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01643.x]

16. Ballicora, M.A., Sesma, J.I., Iglesias, A.A. and Preiss, J. (2002) "Characterization of chimeric ADPglucose pyrophosphorylases of Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Importance of the C-terminus on the selectivity for allosteric regulators" Biochemistry 41:9431-9437. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi025793b]

17. Frueauf, J.B., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (2002) "Alteration of inhibitor selectivity by site-directed mutagenesis of Arg(294) in the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Anabaena PCC 7120" Arch.Biochem.Biophys. 400:208-214. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0003-9861(02)00015-2]

18. Frueauf, J.B., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (2001) "Aspartate residue 142 is important for catalysis by ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Escherichia coli" J.Biol.Chem. 276:46319-46325. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M107408200]

19. Ballicora, M.A., Frueauf, J.B., Fu, Y., Schurmann, P. and Preiss, J. (2000) "Activation of the potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase by thioredoxin" J.Biol.Chem. 275:1315-1320. [http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/275/2/1315]

20. Ballicora, M.A., Fu, Y., Frueauf, J.B. and Preiss, J. (1999) "Heat stability of the potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase: role of Cys residue 12 in the small subunit" Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun. 257:782-786. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.1999.0469]

21. Ballicora, M.A., D'Alessio, A.C., Mora-Garcia, S., Rodriguez-Suarez, R.J. and Wolosiuk, R.A. (1998) "The reductive modulation of chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase by tributylphosphine and sodium borohydride" Cell.Mol.Biol.(Noisy-le-grand) 44:431-437. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=9620438&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_DocSum]

22. Ballicora, M.A., Fu, Y., Nesbitt, N.M. and Preiss, J. (1998) "ADP-Glucose pyrophosphorylase from potato tubers. Site-directed mutagenesis studies of the regulatory sites" Plant Physiol. 118:265-274. [http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/118/1/265]

23. Fu, Y., Ballicora, M.A., Leykam, J.F. and Preiss, J. (1998) "Mechanism of reductive activation of potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase" J.Biol.Chem. 273:25045-25052. [http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/273/39/25045]

24. Fu, Y., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (1998) "Mutagenesis of the glucose-1-phosphate-binding site of potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase" Plant Physiol. 117:989-996. [http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/117/3/989]

25. Mora-Garcia, S., Ballicora, M.A. and Wolosiuk, R.A. (1996) "Chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase: modification of non-covalent interactions promote the activation by chimeric Escherichia coli thioredoxins" FEBS Lett. 380:123-126. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(96)00022-1]

26. Ballicora, M.A., Laughlin, M.J., Fu, Y., Okita, T.W., Barry, G.F. and Preiss, J. (1995) "Adenosine 5'-diphosphate-glucose pyrophosphorylase from potato tuber. Significance of the N terminus of the small subunit for catalytic properties and heat stability" Plant Physiol. 109:245-251. [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov.flagship.luc.edu/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=7480324]

27. Ballicora, M.A. and Wolosiuk, R.A. (1994) "Enhancement of the reductive activation of chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase by modulators and protein perturbants" Eur.J.Biochem. 222:467-474. [http://content.febsjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/222/2/467]

28. Wolosiuk, R.A., Ballicora, M.A. and Hagelin, K. (1993) "The reductive pentose phosphate cycle for photosynthetic CO₂ assimilation: enzyme modulation" FASEB J. 7:622-637. [http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/reprint/7/8/622]

29. Ballicora, M.A. and Wolosiuk, R.A. (1990) "Effect of alkaline pH on the activity and the structure of chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase" Plant Science 70:35-41. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-9452(90)90029-N]