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Selected Publication List

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  1. Beltr谩n J+,听Steiner PJ^+, Bedewitz M^+, Wei S+, Peterson F, Li Z, Hughes BE, Hartley Z, Robertson NR, Volkman BF, Medina-Cucurella AV^, Baumer ZT^, Leonard AC^, Park SY, Volkman BF, Nusinow DA, Wheeldon I, Cutler SR, Whitehead TA* (2022), 鈥淩apid biosensor development using plant hormone receptors as reprogrammable scaffolds鈥, Nature Biotechnology听https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01364-5
  2. Baumer ZT^, Whitehead TA*听(2021) 鈥淭he inner workings of an enzyme鈥, Science 373(6553):391-392听DOI:10.1126/science.abj8346
    • 厂耻尘尘补谤测:听
    • 搁别辫谤颈苍迟:听
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  3. Klesmith JR^, Bacik JP, Wrenbeck EE^, Michalczyk R, Whitehead TA* (2017) 鈥淭rade-offs between enzyme fitness and solubility illuminated by deep mutational scanning鈥, PNAS 114(9):2265-2270 doi:10.1073/pnas.1614437114

  4. Wrenbeck EE^, Klesmith JR^, Adeniran A, Stapleton JA^, Tyo KJ, Whitehead TA*, (2016) 鈥淧lasmid-based single-pot saturation mutagenesis鈥, Nature Methods 13(11):928-930 doi:10.1038/nmeth.4029

  5. Whitehead TA+, Chevalier A+, Song Y et al. (2012) 鈥淥ptimization of affinity, specificity, and function of designed Influenza inhibitors using deep sequencing鈥, Nature Biotechnology 30(6):543-8. doi: 10.1038/nbt.2214

Complete Publication List

  1. Strawn IK^, Steiner PJ^, Newton MS^, Baumer ZT^, Whitehead TA* (2023), "A method for generating user-defined circular single-stranded DNA from plasmid DNA using Golden Gate intramolecular ligation", Biotechnology and Bioengineering听

  2. Steiner PJ^, Swift SD^, Bedewitz M^, Wheeldon I, Cutler SR, Nusinow DA, Whitehead TA* (2023), "A closed form model for molecular ratchet-type chemically induced dimerization modules", Biochemistry听

  3. Leonard AC^, Whitehead TA* (2022), "Design and engineering of genetically encoded protein biosensors for small molecules", Current Opinion Biotechnology听

  4. Beltr谩n J+,听Steiner PJ^+, Bedewitz M^+, Wei S+, Peterson F, Li Z, Hughes BE, Hartley Z, Robertson NR, Volkman BF, Medina-Cucurella AV^, Baumer ZT^, Leonard AC^, Park SY, Volkman BF, Nusinow DA, Wheeldon I, Cutler SR, Whitehead TA* (2022), 鈥淩apid biosensor development using plant hormone receptors as reprogrammable scaffolds鈥, Nature Biotechnology听https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01364-5

  5. Leonard AC^, Weinstein JJ, Steiner PJ^, Erbse AH, Fleishman SJ, Whitehead TA* (2022), "Stabilization of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain by protein core redesign and deep mutational scanning", Protein Engineering, Design, and Selection 35:gzac002听

  6. Kirby MB^,听Whitehead TA*,听(2022)听鈥淔acile听Assembly听of Combinatorial Mutagenesis Libraries using Nicking Mutagenesis鈥,听Methods in Molecular Biology vol 2461听https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-0716-2152-3_6

  7. Francino-Urdaniz, IM^, Whitehead TA* (2021) "An overview of methods for the structural and functional mapping of epitopes recognized by anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies", RCS Chemical Biology DOI:10.1039/D1CB00169H

  8. Petersen BM^, Ulmer SA&, Rhodes ER^, Gutierrez Gonzalez MF, Dekosky BJ, Sprenger KG*, Whitehead TA* (2021) 鈥淩egulatory approved monoclonal antibodies contain framework mutations predicted from human antibody repertoires鈥,听Frontiers in Immunology 12:3855 DOI:10.3389/fimmu.2021.728694听

    • Full article: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2021.728694 听 听听

  9. Baumer ZT^, Whitehead TA*听(2021) 鈥淭he inner workings of an enzyme鈥, Science 373(6553):391-392听DOI:10.1126/science.abj8346

  10. Kirby MB^, Medina-Cucurella AV^, Baumer ZT^, Whitehead TA*, (2021) 鈥淥ptimization of multi-site nicking mutagenesis for generation of large, user-defined combinatorial libraries鈥,听Protein Engineering, Design, and Selection 34:gzab017 DOI:10.1093/protein/gzab017

    • 鈥嬧赌嬧赌础产蝉迟谤补肠迟:听

    • Full article:听

  11. Francino-Urdaniz I^, Steiner PJ^, Kirby MB^, Zhao F, Haas CM&, Barman S, Rhodes ER^, Leonard AC^, Peng L, Sprenger K, Jardine JG, Whitehead TA* (2021) 鈥淥ne-shot identification of SARS-CoV-2 S RBD escape mutants using yeast screening鈥,听Cell Reports 36(9):109627 doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2021.10962

  12. Bailey B. Banach, Gabriele Cerutti, Ahmed S. Fahad, Chen-Hsiang Shen, Matheus Olivera de Souza, Phinikoula Katsamba, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, Pengfei Wang, Manoj S. Nair, Yaoxing Huang, Irene M. Francino-Urd谩niz^, Paul J. Steiner^, Matias Guti茅rrez-Gonz谩lez, Lihong Liu, Sheila N. Lopez Acevedo, Alexandra F. Nazzari, Jacy R. Wolfe, Yang Luo, Adam S. Olia, I-Ting Teng, Jian Yu, Tongqing Zhou, Eswar R. Reddem, Jude Bimela, Xiaoli Pan, Bharat Madan, Amy D. Laflin, Rajani Madan, Kwok-Yung Yuen,听Timothy A. Whitehead,听David D. Ho, Peter D. Kwong, Lawrence Shapiro & Brandon J. DeKosky, (2021) 鈥淧aired heavy and light chain signatures contribute to potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralization in IGHV3-53/3-66 public antibody responses鈥,听Cell Reports 37(1) 109771听doi:听

  13. Steiner PJ^, Baumer ZT^, Whitehead TA*, (2020) 鈥淎 method for user-defined mutagenesis by integrating oligo pool synthesis technology with nicking mutagenesis鈥,听Bio-protocol听10(15):e3697

  14. Medina-Cucurella A^, Gary F. Bammert, William Dunkle, Christopher Javens, Yaqi Zhu, Veronica T. Mutchler, Janet T. Teel, Caitlin A. Stein^, Steve A. Dunham,听Whitehead TA*听(2020) 听鈥淔eline Interleukin-31 shares overlapping epitopes with Oncostatin M receptor and IL-31RA鈥,听Biochemistry 59(23):2171-2181 doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00176

  15. Timothy A. Whitehead,*, Scott Banta, William E. Bentley, Michael J. Betenbaugh, Christina Chan, Douglas S. Clark, Corinne Hoesli, Michael C. Jewett, Beth Junker, Mattheos Koffas, Rashmi Kshirsagar, Amanda Lewis, Chien-Ting Li, Costas Maranas, E. Terry Papoutsakis, Kris J. Prather, Steffen Schaffer, Laura Segatori,听Ian Wheeldon (2020) 鈥淭he Importance and future of Biochemical Engineering鈥,听Biotechnology & Bioengineering117:听2305鈥2318 doi:10.1002/bit.27364

  16. Faber MS^, Van Leuven JT,听Whitehead TA, Miller CR* 鈥淪aturation mutagenesis genome engineering of infective 桅X174 bacteriophage via unamplified oligo pools and golden gate assembly鈥, (2020)听ACS Synthetic Biology 9(1):125-131doi:10.1021/acssynbio.9b00411

  17. Leman JK, Weitzner BD, Renfrew DP, Lewis SM, Moretti R, Watkins AM, Mulligan VK, Lyskov S, Adolf-Bryfogle J, Labonte JW,听Rosetta Commons Consortium, et al (2020) 鈥淏etter together: Elements of successful scientific software development in a distributed collaborative community鈥,听PLOS Computational Biology 16(5):e1007507听doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007507

  18. Medina-Cucurella A^, Zhu Y, Bowen SJ, Bergeron LM, Whitehead TA* (2018) 鈥淧ro region engineering of nerve growth factor by deep mutational scanning enables a yeast platform for conformational epitope mapping of anti-NGF monoclonal antibodies鈥, Biotechnology & Bioengineering 115(8):1925-1937听DOI:10.1002/bit.26706

  19. Acquaye-Seedah E, Reczek E, Russell H, Sandman SO&, Collins JH&, Stein CA^, DiVenere A, Whitehead TA, Maynard JA (2018) 鈥淐haracterization of Individual Human Antibodies that Bind Pertussis Toxin Stimulated by Acellular Immunization鈥, Infection & Immunity 86(6):e00004-18听DOI:10.1128/IAI.00004-18

  20. Medina-Cucurella A^, Whitehead TA* (2018) 鈥淐haracterizing Protein-Protein Interactions Using Deep Sequencing Coupled to Yeast Surface Display鈥, Methods in Molecular Biology in Protein Complex Assembly, 101-121

  21. Whitehead TA*, (2017) 鈥淎 peptide mimic of an antibody鈥 Science听358(6362):450-451听doi:10.1126/science.aap9608

  22. Whitehead T*, Cutler S, Wheeldon I, (2017) 鈥淧lant Metabolic Engineering for Chemicals, Fuels, and Precursors鈥, Chemical Engineering Progress SBE Supplement (invited)

  23. Wrenbeck EE^, Azouz LR&, Whitehead TA* (2017), 鈥淪ingle-mutation fitness landscapes for an enzyme on multiple substrates reveal specificity is globally encoded鈥, Nature Communications听8:15695听doi:10.1038/ncomms15695

  24. Whitehead TA*, Bandi CK, Berger M, Park J, Chundawat S* (2017) 鈥淣egatively supercharging cellulases render them lignin-resistant鈥, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering in press doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b01202

    1. Cover of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

  25. Wang X, Stapleton JA^, Klesmith JR^, Hewlett E, Whitehead TA, Maynard J (2017) 鈥淔ine epitope mapping of two antibodies neutralizing the Bordetella adenylate cyclase toxin鈥, Biochemistry 56:1324-1336 doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01163

  26. Klesmith JR^, Bacik JP, Wrenbeck EE^, Michalczyk R, Whitehead TA* (2017) 鈥淭rade-offs between enzyme fitness and solubility illuminated by deep mutational scanning鈥, PNAS 114:2265-2270 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1614437114

  27. Wrenbeck EE^, Faber M^, Whitehead TA* (2017) 鈥淒eep sequencing methods for protein engineering and design鈥, Current Opinion in Structural Biology 45:36-44

  28. Haarmeyer C^, Smith MD&, Chundawat S, Sammond D, Whitehead TA*, (2017) 鈥淚nsights into cellulase-lignin non-specific binding revealed by computational redesign of the surface of green fluorescent protein鈥, Biotechnology & Bioengineering 114:740-750 doi:10.1002/bit.26201

  29. Kowalsky CA^, Whitehead TA*, (2016) 鈥淒etermination of binding affinity upon mutation for type I dockerin-cohesin complexes from Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium cellulolyticum using deep sequencing鈥, Proteins 84(12): 1914-1928 doi:10.1002/prot.25175

  30. Wrenbeck EE^, Klesmith JR^, Adeniran A, Stapleton JA^, Tyo KJ, Whitehead TA*, (2016) 鈥淧lasmid-based single-pot saturation mutagenesis鈥, Nature Methods 13(11): 928-930 doi:10.1038/nmeth.4029

    1. Documentation at Nature Protocols Exchange (doi:10.1038/protex.2016.061)

  31. Klesmith JR^, Thorwall S&, Whitehead TA* (2016) 鈥淚nterpreting deep mutational scanning data resulting from plate-based selections鈥, bioRxiv 087072

  32. Stapleton JA^, Kim J, Hamilton JP, Wu M, Irber LC, Maddamsetti R, Briney B, Newton L, Burton DR, Brown CT, Chan C, Buell CR, Whitehead TA* (2016) 鈥淗aplotype-phased synthetic long reads from short-read sequencing鈥, PLoS ONE 11(1):e0147229

  33. Khare S*, Whitehead TA* (2015), 鈥淚ntroduction to RosettaCON Special Collection鈥, PLoS ONE 10(12):e0144326

  34. Klesmith JR^, Whitehead TA* (2015), 鈥淗igh-throughput evaluation of synthetic metabolic pathways鈥, Technology 4(01):9-14

  35. Klesmith JR^, Bacik JP, Michalczyk R, Whitehead TA* (2015) 鈥淗igh-resolution sequence function mapping of a levoglucosan utilization pathway in E. coli鈥, ACS Synthetic Biology 4 (11), 1235-1243 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00131

    1. Selected for 鈥業ntroducing our Authors鈥 feature highlight.

  36. Bacik JP, Klesmith JR^, Whitehead TA, Jarboe LR, Unkefer CJ, Mark BL, Michalczyk R (2015) 鈥淪tructural insights into bioconversion of the biomass pyrolysis product levoglucosan鈥, Journal of Biological Chemistry 290 (44), 26638-26648

  37. Kowalsky CA^, Faber M^, Nath A, Dann H&, Kelly VW&, Liu L, Shanker P, Wagner EK, Maynard J, Chan C, Whitehead TA* (2015) 鈥淩apid fine conformational epitope mapping using comprehensive mutagenesis and deep sequencing鈥, Journal of Biological Chemistry 290 (44), 26457-26470 doi:10.1074/jbc.M115.676635

    1. Top 5 accessed article for J. Biol. Chem., Oct. 2015.

  38. Stapleton JA^, Whitehead TA, Nanda V (2015) 鈥淐omputational redesign of the lipid-facing surface of the outer membrane protein OmpA鈥, PNAS 112(31):9632-9637

  39. Kowalsky CA^, Klesmith JR^, Stapleton JA^, Kelly VW&, Reichkitzer N&, Whitehead TA* (2015) 鈥淗igh-resolution sequence-function mapping of full proteins鈥, PLoS ONE, 10(3): e0118193. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118193

  40. Tomek KJ&, Saldarriaga CRC&, Velasquez FPC, Liu T, Hodge DB, Whitehead TA*, (2015) 鈥淩emoval and upgrading of lignocellulosic fermentation inhibitors by in situ biocatalysis and liquid-liquid extraction鈥, Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 112(3):627-632. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bit.25473/abstract

    1. Selected for B&B video highlight.

  41. Gao D, Haarmeyer C^, Balan V, Whitehead TA, Dale BE, Chundawat SPS (2014) 鈥淟ignin triggers irreversible cellulase loss during pretreated lignocellulosic biomass saccarification鈥, Biotechnology for Biofuels, 7:175

  42. Bienick MS&, Young KW&, Klesmith JR^, Detwiler EE^, Tomek KJ&, Whitehead TA*, (2014) 鈥溾, PLoS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109105

  43. Whitehead TA*, Baker D, Fleishman SJ* (2013) 鈥淐omputational design of novel protein binders and experimental affinity maturation鈥, Methods Enzymology, 523:1-19. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394292-0.00001-1.

  44. Whitehead TA+, Chevalier A+, Song Y et al. (2012) 鈥淥ptimization of affinity, specificity, and function of designed Influenza inhibitors using deep sequencing鈥, Nature Biotechnology 30(6):543-8. doi: 10.1038/nbt.2214 + authors contributed equally

    1. Cover of Nature Biotechnology; Featured in numerous popular press articles and radio interviews, including NPR.

  45. Fleishman SJ, Whitehead TA, Strauch EM et al. (2011) 鈥淐ommunity-wide assessment of protein-interface modeling suggests improvements to design methodology鈥, J Mol Biol 414(2):289

  46. Fleishman SJ, Corn JE, Strauch EM, Whitehead TA, Karanicolas J, Baker D (2011) 鈥淗otspot-centric de novo design of protein binders鈥, J Mol Biol 413(5):1047

  47. Fleishman SJ+, Whitehead TA+, Ekiert D+, Dreyfus C, Corn JE, Strauch EM, Wilson IA, Baker D (2011) 鈥淐omputational design of proteins targeting the conserved stem region of Influenza hemagglutinin鈥, Science 332(6031):816-21 +authors contributed equally

    1. Featured in numerous popular press articles and radio interviews, including NPR.

  48. Fleishman SJ, Corn JE, Strauch EM, Whitehead TA, Andre I, Thompson J, Havranek JJ, Das R, Bradley P, Baker D (2010), 鈥淩osetta in CAPRI rounds 13-19鈥 Proteins 78(15):3212

  49. Whitehead TA, Bergeron LM, Clark DS (2009), 鈥淭ying up the loose ends: circular permutation decreases the proteolytic susceptibility of recombinant proteins鈥 Protein Eng Des Sel 22 (10):607-13

  50. Slocik JM, Kim SN, Whitehead TA, Clark DS, Naik RR (2009), 鈥淏iotemplated metal nanowires using hyperthermophilic protein filaments鈥, Small 5 (18):2038-42

  51. Bruns N, Pustelny K, Bergeron LM, Whitehead TA, Clark DS (2009), 鈥淢echanical nanosensor based on FRET within a thermosome: damage-reporting polymeric materials鈥, Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 48 (31):5666-9

    1. Inside cover of Angew Chem Int Ed Engl;

  52. Whitehead TA, Je E, Clark DS (2009), 鈥淩ational shape engineering of the filamentous protein gamma prefoldin through incremental gene truncation鈥, Biopolymers 91 (6):496-503

  53. Bergeron LM, Gomez L, Whitehead TA, Clark DS (2009), 鈥淪elf-renaturing enzymes: design of an enzyme-chaperone chimera as a new approach to enzyme stabilization鈥, Biotechnol Bioeng 102 (5):1316-22

    1. Spotlight article in Biotechnol Bioeng.

  54. Whitehead TA, Meadows AL, Clark DS (2008), 鈥淐ontrolling the self-assembly of a filamentous hyperthermophilic chaperone by an engineered capping protein鈥, Small 4 (7):956-60

  55. Whitehead TA, Boonyaratanakornkit BB, Hoellrigl V, Clark DS (2007), 鈥淎 filamentous molecular chaperone of the prefoldin family from the deep-sea hyperthermophile Methanocaldococcus jannaschii鈥, Protein Science 16 (4): 626-634

  56. Boonyaratanakornkit BB, Simpson AJ, Whitehead TA, Fraser CM, El-Sayed NMA, Clark DS (2005), 鈥淭ranscriptional profiling of the hyperthermophilic methanarchaeon Methanococcus jannaschii in response to lethal heat and non-lethal cold shock鈥, Environmental Microbiology 7 (6): 789-797

  57. Laksanalamai P, Whitehead TA, Robb FT (2004), 鈥淢inimal protein-folding systems in hyperthermophilic archaea鈥, Nature Reviews Microbiology 2 (4): 315-324