BALLICORA'S PUBLICATIONS
(Last to First)

1.     Diez, M.D., Ebrecht, A.C., Martinez, L.I., Aleanzi, M.C., Guerrero, S.A., Ballicora, M.A. and Iglesias, A.A. (2013) "A Chimeric UDP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase Produced by Protein Engineering Exhibits Sensitivity to Allosteric Regulators" Int.J.Mol.Sci. 14:9703-9721. [http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms14059703]

2.     Figueroa, C.M., Asencion Diez, M.D., Kuhn, M.L., McEwen, S., Salerno, G.L., Iglesias, A.A. and Ballicora, M.A. (2013) "The unique nucleotide specificity of the sucrose synthase from Thermosynechococcus elongatus" FEBS Lett. 587:165-169. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2012.11.011]

3.     Kuhn, M.L., Figueroa, C.M., Iglesias, A.A. and Ballicora, M.A. (2013) "The ancestral activation promiscuity of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylases from oxygenic photosynthetic organisms" BMC Evol.Biol. 13:51-2148-13-51. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-51]

4.     Machtey, M., Kuhn, M.L., Flasch, D.A., Aleanzi, M., Ballicora, M.A. and Iglesias, A.A. (2012) "Insights into glycogen metabolism in chemolithoautotrophic bacteria from distinctive kinetic and regulatory properties of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Nitrosomonas europaea" J.Bacteriol. 194:6056-6065. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.00810-12]

5.     Figueroa, C.M., Esper, M.C., Bertolo, A., Demonte, A.M., Aleanzi, M., Iglesias, A.A. and Ballicora, M.A. (2011) "Understanding the allosteric trigger for the fructose-1,6-bisphosphate regulation of the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Escherichia coli" Biochimie 93:1816-1823. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biochi.2011.06.029]

6.     Kuhn, M.L., Figueroa, C.M., Aleanzi, M., Olsen, K.W., Iglesias, A.A. and Ballicora, M.A. (2010) "Bi-national and interdisciplinary course in enzyme engineering" Biochem.Mol.Biol.Educ. 38:370-379. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bmb.20438]

7.     Kuhn, M.L., Falaschetti, C.A. and Ballicora, M.A. (2009) "Ostreococcus tauri ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase reveals alternative paths for the evolution of subunit roles" J.Biol.Chem. 284:34092-34102. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M109.037614]

8.     Ziegler, A.J., Florian, J., Ballicora, M.A. and Herlinger, A.W. (2009) "Alkaline phosphatase inhibition by vanadyl-beta-diketone complexes: electron density effects" J.Enzyme Inhib.Med.Chem. 24:22-28. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14756360701841426]

9.     Malarkey, C.S., Wang, G., Ballicora, M.A. and Mota de Freitas, D.E. (2008) "Evidence for two distinct Mg2+ binding sites in G(s alpha) and G(i alpha1) proteins" Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun. 372:866-869. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.05.158]

10.     Ventriglia, T., Kuhn, M.L., Ruiz, M.T., Ribeiro-Pedro, M., Valverde, F., Ballicora, M.A., Preiss, J. and Romero, J.M. (2008) "Two Arabidopsis ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase large subunits (APL1 and APL2) are catalytic" Plant Physiol. 148:65-76. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.108.122846]

11.     Ballicora, M.A., Erben, E.D., Yazaki, T., Bertolo, A.L., Demonte, A.M., Schmidt, J.R., Aleanzi, M., Bejar, C.M., Figueroa, C.M., Fusari, C.M., Iglesias, A.A. and Preiss, J. (2007) "Identification of regions critically affecting kinetics and allosteric regulation of the Escherichia coli ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase by modeling and pentapeptide-scanning mutagenesis" J. Bacteriol. 189:5325-5333. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.00481-07]

12.     Ventriglia, T., Ballicora, M.A., Crevillén, P., Preiss, J. and Romero, J.M. (2007) "Regulatory properties of potato-Arabidopsis hybrid ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase" Plant Cell Physiol. 48:875-880. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcm047]

13.     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]

14.     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]

15.     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]

16.     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]

17.     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]

18.     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]

19.     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]

20.     Bejar, C.M., Ballicora, M.A., Gómez-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]

21.     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]

22.     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]

23.     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]

24.     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]

25.     Crevillén, P., Ballicora, M.A., Mérida, 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]

26.     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]

27.     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]

28.     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]

29.     Frueauf, J.B., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, J. (2002) "Alteration of inhibitor selectivity by site-directed mutagenesis of Arg²⁹⁴ 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]

30.     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]

31.     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]

32.     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]

33.     Ballicora, M.A., D'Alessio, A.C., Mora-García, S., Rodríguez-Suárez , 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]

34.     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]

35.     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]

36.     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]

37.     Mora-García, 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]

38.     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/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=7480324]

39.     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]

40.     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]

41.     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]