BALLICORA'S PUBLICATIONS
(Last to First)

1.     Barchiesi, J., Hedin, N., Gomez-Casati, D.F., Ballicora, M.A. and Busi, M.V. (2015) "Functional demonstrations of starch binding domains present in Ostreococcus tauri starch synthases isoforms" BMC Res.Notes 8:613-015-1598-6. [http://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-015-1598-6]

2.     Ebrecht, A.C., Orlof, A.M., Sasoni, N., Figueroa, C.M., Iglesias, A.A. and Ballicora, M.A. (2015) "On the Ancestral UDP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase Activity of GalF from Escherichia coli" Front.Microbiol. 6:1253. [http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01253]

3.     Filippova, E.V., Kuhn, M.L., Osipiuk, J., Kiryukhina, O., Joachimiak, A., Ballicora, M.A. and Anderson, W.F. (2015) "A novel polyamine allosteric site of SpeG from Vibrio cholerae is revealed by its dodecameric structure" J.Mol.Biol. 427:1316-1334. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4355314/]

4.     Hill, B.L., Wong, J., May, B.M., Huerta, F.B., Manley, T.E., Sullivan, P.R., Olsen, K.W. and Ballicora, M.A. (2015) "Conserved residues of the Pro103-Arg115 loop are involved in triggering the allosteric response of the Escherichia coli ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase" Protein Sci. 24:714-728. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420521/]

5.     Wu, R., Asencion Diez, M.D., Figueroa, C.M., Machtey, M., Iglesias, A.A., Ballicora, M.A. and Liu, D. (2015) "The Crystal Structure of Nitrosomonas europaea Sucrose Synthase Reveals Critical Conformational Changes and Insights into Sucrose Metabolism in Prokaryotes" J.Bacteriol. 197:2734-2746. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524045/]

6.     Asencion Diez, M.D., Aleanzi, M.C., Iglesias, A.A. and Ballicora, M.A. (2014) "A Novel Dual Allosteric Activation Mechanism of Escherichia coli ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase: The Role of Pyruvate" PLoS One 9:e103888. [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103888]

7.     Asencion Diez, M.D., Demonte, A.M., Guerrero, S.A., Ballicora, M.A. and Iglesias, A.A. (2013) "The ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Streptococcus mutans provides evidence for the regulation of polysaccharide biosynthesis in Firmicutes" Mol.Microbiol. 90:1011-1027. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24112771]

8.     Asencion 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://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/14/5/9703;]

9.     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]

10.     Figueroa, C.M., Kuhn, M.L., Falaschetti, C.A., Solamen, L., Olsen, K.W., Ballicora, M.A. and Iglesias, A.A. (2013) "Unraveling the activation mechanism of the potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase" PLoS One 8:e66824. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3691274/]

11.     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]

12.     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]

13.     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]

14.     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]

15.     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]

16.     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]

17.     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]

18.     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]

19.     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]

20.     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]

21.     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]

22.     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]

23.     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]

24.     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]

25.     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]

26.     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]

27.     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]

28.     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]

29.     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]

30.     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]

31.     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]

32.     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]

33.     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]

34.     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]

35.     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]

36.     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]

37.     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]

38.     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]

39.     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]

40.     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]

41.     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]

42.     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]

43.     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]

44.     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]

45.     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]

46.     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]

47.     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]

48.     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]

49.     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]