Publication List

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  1. K. N. Martin, G. Lam, O. Reznichenko, K. E. Brunner, M. J. Zdilla, S. E. McCarthy, A. Granzhan, L. A. Yatsunyk, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202501443. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202501443
  2. Seth, P., Xing, E., Hendrickson, A. D., Li, K., Monsen, R., Chaires, J. B., Neidle, S., Yatsunyk, L. A. Interaction of N-methylmesoporphyrin IX with a hybrid left/right-handed G-quadruplex motif from the promoter of the SLC2A1 gene. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025, 53, gkae1208 (equal contribution of the first two authors), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1208
  3. Chen, E., Trajkovski, M., Lee, H.-K., Nyovanie, S., Dean, W. L., Tahiliani, M., Plavec, J., Yatsunyk, L. A. Structure of native four-repeat satellite III sequence with non-canonical base interactions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024, 52, 3390-3405 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae113
  4. Tran, V. T., Turek-Herman, J., Ferreira, M., Martin, K. N., Beseiso, D., Williams, B. R., Rosu, F., Gabelica, V., Burgmayer, S. J. N., Yatsunyk, L. A. Interactions of ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes with human telomeric DNA. J. Inorg. Biochem., 2023, 249, 112388
  5. Chen, E. V., Nicoludis, J. M., Powell, B. M., Li, K. S., Yatsunyk, L. A. Crystal structure of a three-tetrad, parallel, K+-stabilized human telomeric G-quadruplex at 1.35 Å resolution. Acta, Cryst, F, 2023, F79, 144-150.
  6. Li, K. S., Jordan, D., Lin, L. Y., McCarthy, S. E., Schneekloth, J. S., Yatsunyk, L. A., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202301666; Angew. Chem. 2023, e202302666.
  7. Ye M*.; Chen, E*. C.; Pfeil, S. H.; Martin, K. N.; Atrafi, T.*; Yun, S*.; Martinez, Z*.; Yatsunyk, L. A. Homopurine guanine-rich sequences in complex with N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX form parallel G-quadruplex dimers and display a unique symmetry tetrad Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2023, 77 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2022.117112
  8. Li K.*, Yatsunyk L. A., Neidle S. Machine learning shows torsion angle preferences in left-handed and right-handed quadruplex DNAs, Biophysical J., 2022, doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2022.08.021.
  9. Beseiso, D*.; Chen, E. V*.; McCarthy, S. E.; Martin, K. N.; Gallagher, E. P*.; Miao, J.; and Yatsunyk, L. A. “The First Crystal Structures of Hybrid and Parallel Four-Tetrad Intramolecular G-Quadruplexes” Nucleic Acids Res., 2022, 50, 2959–2972
  10. Li, K.*; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Neidle, S. "Water spines and networks in G-quadruplex structures." Nucleic Acids Res. 2020, 49(11), 519-528
  11. Lin, L. Y*.; McCarthy, S.; Powell, B. M.*; Manurung, Y.*; Xiang I. M.*; Dean, W. D.; Chaires, B.; Yatsunyk, L. A. "Biophysical and X-ray structural studies of the (GGGTT)3GGG G-quadruplex in complex with N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX.” PLOS ONE, 2020, 15(11), e0241513
  12. ​​​​​Yett, A.*; Lin L. Y.*; Beseiso, D.*; Miao, J.*; and Yatsunyk, L. A. "N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX as a highly selective light-up probe for G-quadruplex DNA." J. Porphyr Phthalocya, 2019, 23, 1195-1215. Contribution to Women in Porphyrin Sciences Special Issue. (equal contributions of the authors)
  13. Falabella, X. M.; Kolesar, J. E.; Wallace, C,; de Jesus, D., Sun, L.; Taguchi, Y. V.; C. Wang, C.; Wang, T.; Xiang, I. M.*; Alder, J. K.; Maheshan, R.; Horne, W.; Turek-Herman, J.*; Pagano, P. J.; St. Croix, C. M.; Sondheimer, N; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Johnson F.B.; and Kaufman B. A. "G-quadruplex dynamics contribute to regulation of mitochondrial gene expression." Sci Rep., 2019, 9, 5605-5621.​​​​​
  14. Naeem M. M.; Maheshan R.; Costford S. R.; Wahedi A.; Trajkovski M.; Plavec J.; Yatsunyk L. A.; Ciesielski G. L.; Kaufman B. A.; Sondheimer N. "G-Quadruplex Mediated Reduction of a Pathogenic Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy." Hum. Mol. Genet. 2019 PubMed PMID: 31261379.
  15. Sabharwal, N. C.*; Chen, J.*; Lee, J. H.*; Gangemi, C. M. A., D’Urso, A.; and Yatsunyk, L. A. Interactions between spermine-derivatized tentacle porphyrins and the human telomeric DNA G-quadruplex Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2018, 19, 3686.​​​​​​
  16. Shastri, N.; Tsai, Y-Ch.; Hile, S.; Jordan, D.*; Powell, B.*; Chen, J.*; Maloney, D.; Dose, M.; Lo, Y.; Anastassiadis, T.; Rivera, O.; Kim T.; Shah, S.; Borole, P.; Asija, K.; Wang, X.; Smith, K. D.; Finn, D.; Schug, J.; Casellas, R.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Eckert, K. A.; and Brown, E. J. Genome-wide identification of structure-forming repeats as principal sites of fork collapse upon ATR inhibition .Mol. Cell 2018, 72, 222-238.e21.​​​​​​
  17. Guédin, A.; Lin, Y.*; Armane, S.; Mergny, J. -L.; Thore, S.; Yatsunyk, L. A. Crystal structure of G-rich sequence from the Dictyostelium discoideum genome: a four quartet G-quadruplex. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018, 46(10), 85297-5307 (equal contributions of two first authors)
  18. Kerkour A.; Marquevielle, J.; Ivashchenko, S.; Yatsunyk, L. A.,  Mergny, J.-L.; Salgado, G. “High-resolution 3D NMR structure of the KRAS proto-oncogene promoter reveals key features of a G-quadruplex involved in transcriptional regulation” J. Biol. Chem. 2017, 292(19), 8082-8091
  19. Ruan, T.;* Davis, S.;* Powell, B.;* Harbeck, C.;* Habdas, J.; Habdas, P.; Yatsunyk, L. A. “Lowering the overall charge on TMPyP4 improves its selectivity for G-quadruplex DNA” Biochimie 2017, 132, 121-130.
  20. Boschi, E.; Davis, S.;* Taylor, S.;* Butterworth, A.; Chirayath, L. A.; Purohit, V.; Siegel, L. K.; Buenaventura, J.; Sheriff, A. H.; Jin, R.;* Sheardy, R.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; and Azam, M. Interaction of a Cationic Porphyrin and its Metal Derivatives with G-Quadruplex DNA J. Phys. Chem. B 2016, 120 (50), 12807-12819  (note, equal contribution of two last authors).
  21. Yatsunyk, L. A., Monchaud, D., and Sen, D. "Blending Quadruplexes and Bordeaux: a Grand Cru! The 5th International Meeting on Quadruplex Nucleic Acids, Bordeaux (France)" Cell Chemical Biology 2016, 23(3), 320-329.
  22. Sabharwal, N.C.;* Mendoza, O.; Nicoludis, J. M.;* Ruan, T.;* Mergny, J. -L. Yatsunyk, L. A. “IInvestigation of the interactions between Pt(II) and Pd(II) derivatives of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis (N-methyl-4-pyridyl) porphyrin and G-quadruplex DNA” J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 21, 227-239.
  23. Dong, D. W.; Filipe Pereira, F.; Barrett S. P.;* Kolesar, J. E.; Cao, K.; Damas J. Yatsunyk, L. A.; Johnson F. B.; Kaufman, B. A. “Association of G-quadruplex forming sequences with human mtDNA deletion breakpoints” BMC Genomics 2014, 15, 677. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-677.
  24. Yatsunyk, L. A.; Mendoza, O.; Mergny, J.-L. "Nano-oddities": Unusual nucleic acid assemblies for DNA-based nanostructures and nanodevices Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47, 1836-1844.
  25. Sabharwal, N. C.;* Savikhin, V.; Turek-Herman, J. R.;* Nicoludis, John M.;* Szalai, V. A.; Yatsunyk, L. A. "N-methylmesoporphyrin IX fluorescence as a reporter of strand orientation in guanine quadruplexes" FEBS J. 2014, 281(7), 1726-1737.
  26. Renaud de la Faverie, A.; Guédin, A.; Bedrat, A.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Mergny, J.-L. "Thioflavin T as a fluorescence light-up probe for G4 formation" Nucleic Acids Res. 2014.
  27. Yatsunyk, L. A.; Piétrement, O.; Albrecht, D.; Tran, P. L. T.; Renčiuk, D.; Sugiyama, H.; Arbona, J.-M.; Aimé, J.-P.; Mergny, J.-L. "Guided assembly of tetramolecular G-quadruplexes" ACS Nano 2013, 7, 5701 - 5710.
  28. Nicoludis, J. M.*; Miller, S.; Jeffrey, P.; Barrett, S. P.*; Rablen, P. R.; Lawton, T.; Yatsunyk, L. A. "Optimized end-stacking provides specificity of N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX for human telomeric G-quadruplex DNA" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (50), 20446-20456.
  29. Yatsunyk, L. A.; Bryan, T.; Johnson, F. B. "G-ruption: The third international meeting on G-quadruplex and G-assembly" Biochimie 2012, 94, 2475-2483.
  30. Nicoludis, J. M*.; Barrett, S. P.*; Mergny, J.-L.; Yatsunyk, L. A. "Interaction of human telomeric DNA with N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX, NMM" Nucleic Acids Res. 2012, 40, 5432-5447.
  31. Bhattacharjee, A. J.*; Ahluwalia, K.*; Taylor, S.*; Jin, O.*; Nicoludis, J. M.*, Buscaglia, R.; Chaires, J. B.; Kornfilt, D. J. P.*; Marquardt, D. G. S.*, Yatsunyk, L. A. "Induction of G-quadruplex DNA structure by Zn(II) 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(N-methyl-4-pyridyl)porphyrin" Biochimie 2011, 93, 1297-1309.
  32. Smith, J. S.; Chen, Q.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Nicoludis, J. M.*; Garcia, M. S.; Kranaster, R.; Balasubramanian, S.; Monchaud, D.; Teulade-Fichou, M.-P.; Abramowitz, L.; Schultz, D. C.; and Johnson, F. B. "Rudimentary G-quadruplex-based telomere capping in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 2011, 18, 478-485.
  33. Balasubramanian, R.; Smith, S. M.; Rawat S.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Stemmler, T. L.; Rosenzweig, A. C. "Oxidation of methane by a biological dicopper center" Nature 2010, 465, 115-119.
  34. Banci, L.; Bertini, I.; Cantini, F.; Rosenzweig A. C.; Yatsunyk, L. A. "Solution Structure and Interaction with the Copper(I) Chaperone HAH1 of the Third and Forth Domain of Human ATP7B" Biochemistry 2008, 47, 7423-7429.
  35. Benitez, J. J.; Keller, A. M.; Ochieng, P.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Huffman, D. L.; Rosenzweig, A. C.; Chen, P. "Probing Transient Copper Chaperone-Wilson Disease Protein Interactions at the Single-Molecule Level with Nanovesicle Trapping" J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Communication) 2008, 130, 2446-2447.
  36. Yatsunyk, L. A.; Easton, J. A.; Kim, L. R.; Sugarbaker, S. A.; Bennett, B.; Breece, R. M.; Vorontsov, I. I.; Tierney, D. L.; Crowder, M. W.; Rosenzweig, A. C. "Structure and metal binding properties of ZnuA, a periplasmic zinc transporter from Escherichia coli" J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 13, 271-288.
  37. Yatsunyk, L. A.; Rosenzweig, A. C. "Copper(I) Binding and Transfer by the N-terminus of the Wilson Disease Protein" J. Biol. Chem. 2007, 282, 8622-8631.
  38. Weeler, K.; Nocek, J. M.; Cull, D.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Rosenzweig, A. C.; Hoffman, B. M. "Dynamic Docking of Cytochrome b5 With Myoglobin and a-Hemoglobin: Heme-Neutralization 'Squares' and the Binding of Electron-Transfer-Reactive Configurations" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 3906-3917.
  39. Teschner, T.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Schünemann, V.; Hu, C.; Scheidt, W. R.; Walker, F. A.; Trautwein, A. X. "Low-Spin Ferriheme Models of the Cytochromes: Mössbauer Spectra of Six Crystalline Complexes Having Axial Ligand Plane Dihedral Angles Ranging from 0o to 90o" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 1379-1389.
  40. Yatsunyk, L. A.; Dawson, A.; Carducci, M. D.; Walker, F. A. "Models of the Cytochromes: Crystal Structures and EPR Spectral Characterization of Low-Spin Bis-Imidazole Complexes of (OETPP)FeIII Having Intermediate Ligand Plane Dihedral Angles" Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 5417-5428.
  41. Yatsunyk, L. A.;Walker, F. A. "Synthesis and characterization of the iron(III) complexes of tetra-(b,b'-tetramethylene)tetraphenylporphyrin, (TC6TPP)FeCl and (TC6TPP)FeONO2" J. Porph. Phthal. 2005, 9, 214-228.
  42. Yatsunyk, L. A.;Ogura, H.;Walker, F. A. "Kinetics of Ring Inversion in Strongly Non-Planar Iron(III) Octaalkyltetraphenylporphyrinates" Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 2867-2881.
  43. Yatsunyk, L. A.;Shokhirev, N, V.; Walker, F. A."Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Investigations of the Electronic Ground and Excited States in Strongly Non-Planar Iron(III) Dodecasubstituted Porphyrins" Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 2848-2866.
  44. Cai, S.; Belikova, E.; Yatsunyk, L. A.;Stolzenberg, A. M.; Walker, F. A. "Magnetic Resonance Investigations of Mono-Oxo-Octaethylchlorinatoiron(III) Chloride and Its Bis-Imidazole Complex" Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 1882-1889.
  45. Teschner, T.; Trautwein, A. X.; Schünemann, V.; Yatsunyk, L. A.;Walker, F. A. "Low-Spin Ferriheme Models of the Cytochromes: Correlation of Molecular Structure with EPR and Mossbauer Spectral Parameters" Hyperfine Interactions 2004, 156/157, 285-291.
  46. Abajian, C.; Yatsunyk, L. A.;Ramirez, B. E.; Rosenzweig, A. C. "Solution Structure and Binding of Copper(I) by Yeast Cox17" J. Biol. Chem. 2004, 279, 53584-53592.
  47. Wernimont, A. K; Yatsunyk, L. A.;Rosenzweig, A. C. "Binding of copper(I) by the Wilson disease protein and its copper chaperone"J. Biol. Chem. 2004, 279, 12269-12276.
  48. Yatsunyk, L. A.;Walker, F. A. "NMR and EPR Spectroscopic and Structural Studies of Low-Spin, (dxz,dyz)4(dxy)1 Ground State Fe(III) bis-(tert-Butylisocyanide) Complexes of Dodecasubstituted Porphyrins" Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 4341-4352.
  49. 20. Yatsunyk, L. A.;Walker, F. A. "Structural, NMR, and EPR Studies of S = 1/2 and S = 3/2 Fe(III) Bis(4-Cyanopyridine) Complexes of Dodecasubstituted Porphyrins" Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 757-777.
  50. Yatsunyk, L. A.; Carducci, M. D.; Walker, F. A. "Low-Spin Ferriheme Models of the Cytochromes: Correlation of Molecular Structure with EPR Spectral Type" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 15986-16005.
  51. Yatsunyk, L. A.;Walker, F. A. "19F Isotropic Shifts in Paramagnetic Iron(III) Octaethyltetraphenylporphyrinate and Tetraphenylporhyrinate Complexes of a Variety of Electronic Ground States: Implication for the Electron Configuration of Chloroiron Tri-(pentafluorophenyl)corrlate" Inorg. Chim. Acta 2002, 337, 266-274.
  52. Ogura, H.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Medforth, C. J.; Smith, K. M.; Barkigia, K. M.;Renner, M. W.; Melamed, D.; Walker, F. A. "Molecular Structures and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Investigations of Highly Distorted Six-Coordinate Low-Spin Iron(III) Porphyrinate Complexes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 6564-6578.
  53. Panchuk, O.; Savitsky, A.; Fochuk, P.; Nykonyk, Ye.; Parfenyuk, O.; Shcherbak, L.; Ilashcuk, M.; Yatsunyk, L. A.; Feychuk, P. "IV group dopant compensation effect in CdTe," J. Cryst. Growth 1999, 197, 607-611.
  54. Fochuk, P. M.; Panchuk, O. E.; Kochergan, V. I.; Yatsunyk, L. A. "High-temperature defects equilibria in Cu-doped CdTe" Neorg. Mater. 1996, 32, 1356-1358.