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Group Publications

Dorrestein, P.C.; Van Lanen, S.G.; Li, W.; Zhao, C.; Deng, Z.; Shen, B.; Kelleher, N.L. “The Bifunctional Glyceryl Transferase/Phosphatase OzmB Belonging to the HAD Superfamily That Diverts 1,3-Bisphosphoglycerate into Polyketide Biosynthesis.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, submitted.

Chan, Y.A.; Boyne, M.; Podevels, A.; Klimowicz, A.K.; Handelsman, J.; Kelleher, N.L.; Thomas, M.T. “Formation of Two Unusual Polyketide Synthase Extender Units: Hydroxymalonyl-Acyl Carrier Protein and Aminomalonyl-Acyl Carrier Protein”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2006, submitted.

Pesavento, J.P.; Kelleher, N.L.; Mizzen C.A. “Histone H4 from Normal and Cancer Cells.” Nature Genetics, under review.

Garcia, B.A.; Siuti, N.; Thomas, C.E.; Mizzen, C.A.; Kelleher, N.L. “Characterization of Neurohistone Variants and Post-translational Modifications by Electron Capture Dissociation Mass Spectrometry,” Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 2006, accepted. (Special issue honoring Donald F. Hunt on his 65th Birthday.)

Garcia, B.A.; Joshi, S.; Thomas, C.E.; Chitta, R.K.; Diaz, R.L.; Busby, S.A.; Andrews, P.C.; Ogorzalek Loo, R.R.; Shabanowitz, J.; Kelleher, N.L.; Mizzen, C.A.; Allis, C.D.; Hunt, D.F. “Comprehensive Phosphoprotein Analysis of Linker Histone H1 from Tetrahymena thermophila,” Mol. Cell. Proteomics, 2006, in press.

Dorrestein, P.C. and Kelleher, N.L., “Dissecting non-ribosomal and polyketide biosynthetic machineries using electrospray ionization Fourier-Transform mass spectrometry.” Natural Product Reports, 2006, invited review in press.

Hicks, L.M.; Moffitt, M.C.; Beer, L.L.; Moore, B.S.; Kelleher, N.L., “Structural Characterization of In Vitro and In Vivo Intermediates on the Loading Module of Microcystin Synthetase”, ACS Chem. Biol., 2005, in press.

Hicks, L.M., Walsh, C.T.; Kelleher, N.L.; Hilson, N., “Probing intra vs interchain kinetic preferences of L-Thr acylation on dimeric VibF with mass spectrometry”, Biophys. J., 2006, 91, 000-000.

Romero-Guss, M.C.; Shoemaker, N.B.; Boyne, M.T.; Kelleher, N.L.; Salyers, A.A., “Identification of a novel host factor necessary for in vitro integration of the Bacteroides conjugative transposon, CTnDOT”, in press.

Romanova, E. V.; Roth, M. J.; Rubakhin, S.S.; Jakubowski, J.A.; Kelley, W.P.; Kirk, M. D.; Kelleher, N.L.; Sweedler, J.V., "Homologues of Vertebrate Beta-Thymosin Expressed in the Aplysia Central Nervous System Modulate Neurite Growth in Cultured Neurons", J. Mass. Spectrom., 2006, accepted.

Calderone CT, Kowtoniuk WE, Kelleher NL, Walsh CT, Dorrestein PC. Related Articles, Links Convergence of isoprene and polyketide biosynthetic machinery: Isoprenyl-S-carrier proteins in the pksX pathway of Bacillus subtilis.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2006, Jun. 6, Epub ahead of print.

Hicks, L.M.; Mazur, M.T.; Miller, L.M.; Dorrestein, P.C.; Schnarr, N.A.; Khosla; C.; Kelleher, N.L., “Investigating Nonribosomal Peptide and Polyketide Biosynthesis by Direct Detection of Intermediates on >70 kDa Polypeptides using Fourier-Transform Mass Spectrometry”, ChemBioChem., 2006, 7(6), 904-907.

Zhang, Z.; An, X.; Yang, K.; Perlstein, D. L.; Hicks, L.M.; Kelleher, N.L.; Stubbe, J.; and Huang, M., “Nuclear Localization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ribonucleotide Reductase Small Subunit Requires a Karyopherin and a WD40 Repeat Protein”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2006, 103, 1422-1427.

Howarth, M.; Chinnapen, D.; Gerrow, K.; Dorrestein, P.C; Grandy, M.; Kelleher, N.L.; Alaa El-Husseini, A.; Ting, A. “A monovalent streptavidin with a single femtomolar biotin binding site”, Nat. Methods, 2006, 3, 267-273.

Gatto G.J. Jr.; Boyne, M.; Kelleher, N.L.; Walsh, C.T. “Biosynthesis of Pipecolic Acid by RapL, a Lysine Cyclodeaminase Encoded in the Rapamycin Gene Cluster” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 3838-3347.

Dorrestein, P.C.; Blackhall, J.; Straight, P. D., Fischbach, M.A.; Garneau- Tsodikova, S.; Edwards, D.J.; McLaughlin, S.M.; Lin, M.; Gerwick, W.H.; Kolter, R.; Walsh, C.T.; Kelleher, N.L. “Activity Screening of Carrier Domains within Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases Using Complex Substrate Mixtures and Large Molecule Mass Spectrometry”, Biochemistry, 2006, 45(6), 1537-1546. Published as an Accelerated Article.

Pesavento, J. J.; Mizzen, C. A.; Kelleher, N. L. “Quantitative Analysis of Modified Proteins and Their Positional Isomers by Tandem Mas Spectrometry: Human Histone H4.” Anal. Chem., Epub ahead of press.

Siuti, N.; Roth, M.; Mizzen, C. A.; Kelleher, N. L.; Pesavento, J. J. “Gene-Specific Characterization of Human Histone H2B by Electron Capture Dissociation.” J. Proteome Res., 2006, 5, 233-239.

Thomas, C. E.; Mizzen, C. A.; Kelleher, N. L. “Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Human Histone H3: A Bird's Eye View.” J. Proteome Res., 2006, 5, 240-247.

Boyne, M. T.; Pesavento, J. J.; Mizzen, C. A.; Kelleher, N. L. “Precise Characterization of Human Histones in the H2A Gene Family by Top Down Mass Spectrometry.” J. Proteome Res., 2006, 5, 248-253.

Du, Y.; Parks, B.A.; Sohn, S.; Kwast, K.E.; Kelleher, N.L. “Top Down Approaches for Measuring Expression Ratios of Intact Yeast Proteins using Fourier-Transform Mass Spectrometry,” Anal. Chem., 2006, 78, 686--694.

Miller, L.M.; Chatterjee, C.; van der Donk, W.A.; Kelleher, N.L.; “The Dehydratase Activity of Lacticin 481 Synthetase is Highly Processive”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 128, 1420-1421.

Yin, J.; Straight, P.D.; McLaughlin, S.M.; Zhou, Z.; Lin, A.J.; Golan, D.E.; Kelleher, N.L.; Kolter, R.; Walsh, C.T. “Genetically encoded short peptide tag for versatile protein labeling by Sfp phosphopantetheinyl transferase”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2005, 102, 15815-15820.

Chatterjee, C.; Miller, L.M.; Leung, Y.L.; Xie, L.; Yi, M.; Kelleher, N.L.; van der Donk, W.A. "Lacticin 481 Synthetase Phosphorylates its Substrate during Lantibiotic Production", J. Am. Chem. Sco., 2005, 127, 15332-15333.

Patrie, S.M.; Ferguson, J.T.; Robinson, D.E.; Rother, M.; Metcalf, W.; Kelleher, N.L., "Top Down Mass Spectrometry of <60 kDa Proteins from Methanosarcina Acetivorans by Automated Octupole Collisionally Activated Dissociation", Mol. Cell Proteomics, 2005, Oct 18, Epub ahead of print.

Yin, J.; Straight, P.D.; McLaughlin, S.M.; Zhou, Z.; Lin, A.J.; Golan, D.E.; Kelleher, N.L.; Kolter, R.; Walsh, C.T. "Genetically encoded short peptide tag for versatile protein labeling by Sfp phosphopantetheinyl transferase", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2005, 102, 15815-15820.

Aron, Z.D.; Dorrestein, P.C.; Blackhall, J.R.; Kelleher, N.L; Walsh, C.L., "Characterization of a New Tailoring Domain in Polyketide Biogenesis: The Amine Transferase Domain of MycA in the Mycosubtilin Gene Cluster", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 14986-14987.

McLoughlin, S. M. and Kelleher, N. L., " Monitoring Multiple Active Sites on Thiotemplate Enzymes in Parallel: A Molecular Movie of Yersiniabactin Bioassembly", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 14984--14985.

Kelleher, N.L. and Hicks, L. M., "Contemporary Mass Spectrometry for Direct Detection of Enzyme Intermediates", Invited Review for Critical Rev. Chem. Biol. (guest Editors, Rowena Matthews and Chris Walsh), 2005, 9, 424-430.  

Zubrouskov, V.; Senko, M.W.; Du, Y.; Leduc, R.D.; Kelleher, N.L., “New and Automated MS(n) Approaches for Top-Down Identification of Modified Proteins,” J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 2005, 16, 2027-2038.

McLoughlin, S. M.; Mazur, M. T.; Miller, L. M.; Yin, J.; Liu, F.; Walsh, C. T.; Kelleher, N. L., "Chemoenzymatic Approaches for Streamlined Detection of Active Site Modifications on Thiotemplate Assembly Lines Using Mass Spectrometry", Biochemistry, 2005, 44, 14159-14169.

Dorrestein PC, Yeh E, Garneau-Tsodikova S, Kelleher NL, Walsh CT “Dichlorination of a pyrrolyl-S-carrier protein by FADH2-dependent halogenase PltA during pyoluteorin biosynthesis”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2005, 102, 13843-13848.

Van Lanen, S.G.; Dorrestein, P.C.; Christenson, S.D.; Liu, W.; Ju, J.; Kelleher, N.L.; Shen, B. “Biosynthesis of the beta-amino acid moiety of the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027 featuring beta-amino acyl-S-carrier protein intermediates”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 11594-11595.

Frankel; B.A.; Kruger, R.G.; Robinson, D.E.; Kelleher, N.L.; McCafferty, D.G., "Staphylococcus aureus sortase transpeptidase SrtA: Insight into the kinetic mechanism and evidence for a reverse protonation catalytic mechanism", Biochemistry, 2005, 44, 11188-11200.

Roth, M. J.; Forbes, A. J.; Boyne, M. T.; Robinson, D. E.; Kelleher, N. L. , "Precise Characterization of Coding Polymorphisms, Alternative Splice Variants, and Modifications in Human Proteins by Top Down Mass Spectrometry", Mol. Cell. Proteomics, 2005, 4, 1002-1008.

Miller, L. M.; Mazur, M.T.; McLoughlin, S.M.; Kelleher, N. L., "Parallel interrogation of covalent intermediates in the biosynthesis of gramicidin S using high resolution mass spectrometry", Protein Science, 2005, 14, 2702-2712.

Gatto G.J. Jr; McLoughlin, S.M.; Kelleher ,N.L.; Walsh C.T., "Elucidating the Substrate Specificity and Condensation Domain Activity of FkbP, the FK520 Pipecolate-Incorporating Enzyme", Biochemistry, 2005, 44, 5993-6002.

Garneau S, ; Dorrestein, P.C.; Kelleher, N.L.; Walsh, C.T. , "Characterization of the formation of the pyrrole moiety during clorobiocin and coumermycin A1 biosynthesis", Biochemistry, 2005, 44, 2770-80.

Meng, F.; Forbes, A. J.; Miller, L.M.; Kelleher, N.L. "Detection and Localization of Protein Modifications by High-Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry", Mass Spectrom. Rev., 2005, 24, 126-134.

McLoughlin, S. and Kelleher, N. L. "Kinetic and Regiospecific Interrogation of Covalent Intermediates in the Biosynthesis of Yersiniabactin", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 13265-13275.

Du, Y.; Meng, F.; Patrie, S.M.; Miller, L.M.; Kelleher, N.L. "Improved molecular weight-based processing of intact proteins for interrogation by quadrupole-enhanced FT MS/MS" ,J. Proteome Res., 2004, 3, 801-806.

Pesavento, J.P.; Taylor, G.K.; Kim, Y.B.; Kelleher, N.L. "Shotgun Annotation of Histone Modifications: A New Approach for Streamlined Characterization of Proteins by Top Down Mass Spectrometry", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 3386-3387.

Leduc, R.; Taylor, G.K.; Kim, Y.B.; Januszyk, T.; Bynum, L.; Sola, J.; Garavelli, J. S.; Kelleher, N.L., "ProSight PTM: an integrated environment for protein identification and characterization by top-down mass spectrometry", Nucleic Acids Res., 2004, 32, W340-W345.

Meng, F.; Du, Y.; Miller, L.M.; Patrie, S.M.; Robinson, D.E.; Taylor, G.K.; Kim, Y.B.; Kelleher, N.L., "Molecular-Level Description of Proteins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae using Q-FT Mass Spectrometry for Top Down Proteomics", Anal. Chem., 2004, 76, 2852-2858.

Patrie, S.M.; Robinson, D.E.; Meng, F.; Kelleher, N.L., "Strategies for Automating Top Down Proteomics with Q-FT ICR MS",Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 2004, 234, 175-184 .

Forbes, A.J.; Patrie, S.M.; Taylor, G.K.; Kim, Y.B.; Kelleher, N.L., "Targeted Analysis and Discovery of Post-Translational Modifications in Proteins from Methanogenic Archaea by Top Down Mass Spectrometry, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA, 2004, 101 (9), 2678-2683.

Patrie, S.M.; Charlebois, J.P.; Whipple D, Hendrickson CL, Quinn JP, Marshall AG, Mukhopadhyay B. Kelleher, N.L., "Construction of a Hybrid Quadrupole/Fourier-Transform Mass Spectrometer for Versatile MS/MS Above 10 kDa", J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 2004, 15, 1099-1108.

Kelleher, N.L., "Top Down Proteomics", Anal. Chem., 2004, 76, 197A-203A. (A Peer-reviewed perspective.)

Xie, L.; Miller, L. M.; Averin, O.; Chatterjee, C.; Kelleher, N.L.; van der Donk, W. A., "Lacticin 481: in vitro reconstitution of lantibiotic synthetase activity", Science, 2004, 303, 679-681.

Tseng, C.C.; McLoughlin, S.M.; Kelleher, N.L.; Walsh, C.T., "Role of the active site cysteine of DpgA, a bacterial type III polyketide synthase", Biochemistry, 2004, 43, 970-980.

Hicks, L.M; O'Connor, S.E.; Mazur, M.T.; Walsh, C.T.; Kelleher, N.L., "Mass spectrometric interrogation of thioester-bound intermediates in the initial stages of epothilone biosynthesis", Chem. & Biol., 2004, 11, 327-335. (Featured on the Cover).

Mazur, M.T.; Walsh, C.T.; Kelleher, N.L., "Site-Specific Observation of Acyl-Intermediate Processing in Thiotemplate Biosynthesis by Fourier-Transform Mass Spectrometry: The Polyketide Module of Yersiniabactin Synthetase", Biochemistry, 2003, 42, 13393-13400 (Printed as an Accelerated Article).

He, S.; Bauman, D.; Davis, J.S.; Loyola, A.; Nishioka, K.; Gronlund, J.; Reinberg, D.; Meng, F.; Kelleher, N. L.; McCafferty, D.G., "Facile synthesis of site-specifically acetylated and methylated histone proteins: reagents for evaluation of the histone code hypothesis", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2003, 100, 12033-12038.

Taylor, G. K.; Kim, Y-B; Forbes, A.J.; Meng, F.; McCarthy, R; Kelleher, N.L. "Web and Database Software for Analysis of Intact Proteins By Top Down Mass Spectrometry," Anal. Chem., 2003, 75, 4081-4086.

Charlebois, J. P.; Patrie, S. M.; Kelleher, N. L., "Electron Capture Dissociation and 13C/15N Depletion for Improved Deuterium Localization for Intact Proteins after Solution Phase Exchange", Anal. Chem., 2003, 75, 3263-3266.

Hicks, L.M.; Weinreb, P. H.; Konz, D.; Marahiel, M.; Walsh, C. T. ; Kelleher, N. L., "FT Mass Spectrometry for Detection of Thioester-Bound Intermediates in Unfractionated Proteolytic Mixtures of 80 and 191 kDa Portions of Bacitracin A Synthetase", Anal. Chim. Acta, 2003, 496, 217-224. (Special Issue for North American Young Faculty.)

Johnson, J.R. ; Cargile, B. J. ;Meng, F. ; Forbes, A. J. ; Kelleher, N. L. ,"FT Mass Spectrometry for Automated Fragmentation and Identification of 5-20 Proteins in Mixtures", Electrophoresis, 2002, 23 (18), 3217-3223.

Meng, F.; Cargile, B. J.; Patrie, S. M.; Johnson, J. R.; McLoughlin, S. M.; Kelleher, N. L. "Processing Complex Mixtures of Intact Proteins for Direct Analysis by Mass Spectrometry", Anal. Chem., 2002, 74, 2923-2929.

Valaskovic,G. A. and Kelleher,N. L. "Miniaturized Formats for Efficient Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Therapeutic Development", Curr. Topics Med. Chem. (Review), 2002, 2 (1), 1-12.

Meng, F. ; Cargile, B. J. ; Miller, L.M.; Johnson, J. R. ; Kelleher, N. L. , "Informatics and Multiplexing of Intact Protein Identification in Bacteria and The Archaea", Nat. Biotechnol., 2001, 19, 952-956.

Forbes, A. J.;Mazur, M. ; Patel, H. M.; Walsh, C. T.; Kelleher, N.L., "Toward Efficient Analysis of >70 kDa Proteins with 100% Sequence Coverage,@ Proteomics, 2001, 1 (8), 927-933 and Eur. J. Mass Spectrom. (a joint issue), 2001, 7, 81-87.

N. L. Kelleher, "A Newcomer Ponders the Chemical Sciences", Chem. & Eng. News, 2001, March 26 (Issue Celebrating The ACS on its 125th Anniversary), 252.

Kelleher, N. L. "From Primary Structure to Function: Biological Insights from Large Molecule Mass Spectra", Chem. & Biol., 2000, 7, R37-R45.

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