Publications

Wilson C, Lewis KA, Fitzkee NC, Hough LE, Whitten ST. (2023) “ParSe 2.0: A web tool to identify drivers of protein phase separation at the proteome level.” Protein Science, 32(9):e4756. PMID 37574757, PMCID PMC10464302, doi.org/10.1002/pro.4756

Ibrahim AY, Khaodeuanepheng NP, Amarasekara DL, Correia JJ, Lewis KA, Fitzkee NC, Hough LE, Whitten ST. (2023) “Intrinsically disordered regions that drive phase separation form a robustly distinct protein class.” J. Biol. Chem., 299(1):102801. PMID 36528065, PMCID PMC9860499, doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102801

Paiz EA, Lewis KA, Whitten ST*. (2021) Structural and Energetic Characterization of the Denatured State from the Perspectives of Peptides, the Coil Library, and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. Molecules, 26:634. doi.org/10.3390/molecules26030634

Lewis KA and Luxford CJ*. (2020) “Integrating Manipulatives and Animations to Visualize Holliday Junctions.” CourseSource, doi 10.24918/cs.2020.37

Dock-Bregeon AC, Lewis KA, Conte MR*. (2019) “The La-related proteins: structures and interactions of a versatile superfamily of RNA-binding proteins.” RNA Biol, 18:178-193. PMID 31752575, PMCID: PMC7928045,  doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2019.1695712

Lewis KA, Altschuler SE, Wuttke DS*. (2018) “Measuring Low-Picomolar Apparent Binding Affinities by Minigel Electrophoretic Mobility Shift.” Meth Mol Biol, 1855:341-354. PMID 30426430, PMCID PMC6557633, doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8793-1_29

Ream JA, Lewis LK, Lewis KA*. (2018) “Horizontal Agarose Gel Mobility Shift Assay for Protein-RNA Complexes.” Meth Mol Biol, 1855:363-370. PMID 30426432, PMCID PMC10636705, doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8793-1_31

Castro JM, Horn DA, Pu X, Lewis KA*. (2017) “Recombinant expression and purification of the RNA-binding LARP6 proteins from fish genetic model organisms.” Protein Exp Purif, 134:147-153. PMID 28400296, PMCID: PMC5546403, doi.org/10.1016/j.pep.2017.04.004

Villarreal MA, Biediger NM, Bonner NA, Miller JN, Zepeda SK, Ricard BJ, García DM, Lewis KA*. (2017) “Determining zebrafish epitope reactivity to commercially available antibodies.” Zebrafish, 14(4): 390-392. PMID 28318435, doi.org/10.1089/zeb.2016.1401

Ream JA, Lewis LK, Lewis KA*. (2016) “Rapid agarose gel electrophoretic mobility shift assay for quantitating protein:RNA interactions.” Anal Biochem, 511:36-41. PMID 27495142, doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2016.07.027

Lewis KA, Pfaff DA, Earley JN, Altschuler SE, Wuttke DS. (2014) “The tenacious recognition of yeast telomere sequence by Cdc13 is fully exerted by a single OB-fold domain.” Nucleic Acids Res. 42(1):475. PMID 24057216, doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt843

Altschuler SE#, Lewis KA#, and Wuttke DS. (2013) “Practical strategies for the evaluation of high-affinity protein/nucleic acid interactions.” J. Nucleic Acids Invest. 4(1):e3.  PMID 25197549, doi.org/10.4081/jnai.2013.e3 #authors contributed equally

Lewis KA and Wuttke DS. (2012) “Telomerase and telomere-associated proteins: structural insights into mechanism and evolution.” Structure 20(1):28. PMID 22244753, doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2011.10.017

Lewis KA, Su Y, Jou O, Ritchie C, Foong C, Hynan LS, White CL, Thomas PJ, Hatanpaa KJ. (2010) “Abnormal neurites containing C-terminally truncated α-synuclein are present in Alzheimer’s Disease without conventional Lewy body pathology.” Am. J. Pathol. 177(6):3037. PMID 21056999, doi.org/10.2353/ajpath.2010.100552

Lewis KA, Yaeger A, DeMartino GN, Thomas PJ. (2010) “Accelerated formation of α-synuclein oligomers by concerted action of the 20S proteasome and familial Parkinson’s mutations.” J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 42(1):85. PMID:20148295, doi.org/10.1007/s10863-009-9258-y

Chen Z#, Lewis KA#, Shultzaberger RK, Lyakhov IG, Zheng M, Doan B, Storz G, Schneider TD. (2007) “Discovery of Fur binding site clusters in Escherichia coli by information theory models.” Nucleic Acids Res. 35(20):6762.  PMID 17921503, doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm631 #authors contributed equally

Shultzaberger RK, Chen Z, Lewis KA, Schneider TD. (2007) “Anatomy of Escherichia coli sigma70 promoters.” Nucleic Acids Res. 35(3):771. PMID 17189297, doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl956

Liu CW, Giasson BI, Lewis KA, Lee VM, DeMartino GN, Thomas PJ. (2005) “A precipitating role for truncated alpha-synuclein and the proteasome in alpha-synuclein aggregation: implications for pathogenesis of Parkinson disease.” J. Biol. Chem. 280(24):22670. PMID 15840579, doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M501508200

Zheng M, Wang X, Doan B, Lewis KA, Schneider TD, Storz G. (2001) “Computation-directed identification of OxyR DNA binding sites in Escherichia coli.” J. Bacteriol. 183(15):4571. PMID 11443092, doi.org/10.1128/JB.183.15.4571-4579.2001

 

† Texas State graduate student

‡ Texas State undergraduate student

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